Some time ago, Dalian, a beautiful coastal city, because of the opening of a Japanese style street, caused an uproar on the Internet, netizens were excited, and today, although this storm has gradually dissipated, but looking back at the suffering process of Dalian city for nearly half a century, it still makes people feel mixed, and what is unknown is that in 1937, when Dalian was still under the cruel rule of the Japanese invaders, there was a legendary figure of the "Jingke" style, who used his thunder to strike a blow to make the Japanese Kou shudder. It also makes the spirit of Chinese in this city invigorate, and people's hearts seem to hear a voice, China will not die!!
The childhood of a hero who was influenced by the Red Revolution
This brave man, whom we know very little, was named Zha Zixiang, whose original name was Quan Bao, and whose nickname was Sanla, and was born in 1912 in an ordinary peasant family in Meichuan Town, Guangji County, Hubei Province, with seven brothers and three sisters. Cha Zixiang has been talented since childhood, but because of his family's poverty and only four years of reading books, he dropped out of school to work as a farmer at home, but he still studied hard, he did not want to spend this life in a confused way, he was full of hope for the future, he ran back to the school to ask the teacher for advice, in 1928, the Red Fifteenth Army came to Zha Zixiang's hometown, the teenager Zha Zixiang actively and enthusiastically participated in the agrarian revolution, he became the leader of the children's regiment, leading his friends to join the revolutionary tide of fighting the local tycoons and dividing the land.
Unfortunately, due to the great counterattack of the Kuomintang reactionary forces, the Red Fifteenth Army was forced to withdraw into the hinterland of Dabie Mountain, and the revolutionary years of wind and fire were gone forever, and Zha Zixiang felt extremely depressed about this, but during this period, the Red Revolutionary contingent heard about him and had a subtle effect on his future feats.
Children's Regiment of the Red Army
After that, Zha Zixiang left home to come to the county to learn to weave, but the woven cloth could not be sold because of the bad market, it was difficult to maintain his livelihood, and it happened that at this time he met Wu Qingye, the barber shop owner who returned to his hometown to recruit apprentices, as early as the last year of the Qing Dynasty, guangji area had the tradition of relying on barber skills to go out to make a living, and to this day there are many barbers in Guangji (now Wuxue City) who make a living in this industry throughout the country.
Wu Qingye, who has been working hard for many years, has already opened a Renhexuan Barber Shop in Nanshan District of Dalian City (now the junction of Kunming Street and Huachang Street in Zhongshan District), specializing in haircuts for Japanese people, and the business is very good, this time he traveled thousands of miles back to his hometown to recruit workers, he took a look at the clever and clever Zha Zixiang, Zha Zixiang was bold, and he also wanted to break into the outside world, and he could also learn a subsistence craft, so in October 1934, Zha Zixiang came to Dalian with Wu Qingye and began his three-year barber apprenticeship.
Barber in the Republic of China period
An apprenticeship life that has been bullied
At that time, in the Nanshan District of Dalian City, most of them were residential areas of Japanese dignitaries and dignitaries, and most of the people who came to get haircuts were Japanese, and Wu Qingye's "Renhexuan Barbershop" was mainly engaged in haircuts for Japanese people. The reason why Wu's barber shop is doing well is also because this traitor is good at dealing with the Japanese, and Wu Qingye's flattering attitude of bowing down in front of the Japanese makes Cha Zixiang feel extremely disgusted from time to time. Although the Chinese masters in the barbershop are well-served and have good craftsmanship, some Japanese people still deliberately find trouble, and even some people deliberately cut their hair without giving money, especially Cha Zixiang, who is doing apprenticeships, who is fed up with the humiliation of the Japanese and suffers from the slaves of the country.
The stubborn and young and vigorous Cha Zixiang was very angry about this, and he tried several times to use his fists to teach these unreasonable Japanese people, but he was stopped by the boss Wu Qingye, who was accustomed to the Japanese people's low eyebrows and obedient faces, and Wu Qingye, who was accustomed to the low-brow and obedient face of the Japanese, repeatedly reprimanded him for being patient, never to fall out with the Japanese, cut off the financial road in the store, and on several occasions even threatened to go to the police station to sue him because of Cha Zixiang's anti-Japanese remarks.
Barbershop during the Republic of China period
After the "July 7 Incident", Cha Zixiang, who had already learned Japanese, heard a lot about the Japanese invading army occupying our territory and slaughtering our people at that time, so that he often said privately to his fellow villagers: "The Oriental dwarf is really hateful, I don't kill him, even if I am not a Chinese!" ”
Fellow villagers did not take it seriously, thinking that he was just talking about venting his anger, plus during these three years of apprenticeship, Zha Zixiang was exploited by the boss with various means, not only did he have no salary, but he was also called to drink, and when the apprenticeship expired, he did not let him leave, and he had to serve Ren hexuan for another year with a meager salary, which made Zha Zixiang even more angry, he attributed these angers to the Japanese, and angrily denounced his boss as a traitor, one day, the han traitor Wu Treasurer scolded him in public, and Zha Zixiang angrily scolded: "I really want to kill you traitor." Treasurer Wu sneered, "What is it to kill me, you have the ability to kill the Japanese." ”
Since then, this hot-blooded young man from Chudi, who has suffered from the insults and insults of the Japanese, has the idea of killing the Japanese in his heart!
Dalian Shrine during the Japanese occupation
Zha Zixiang's original goal was those Japanese who came to the barbershop for haircuts, so it may be easier to get started, after all, the razor is in the hand, a small Japanese neck will return to the west, but later felt that it is not cost-effective, to kill the Japanese devils leaders, to kill those Who owe countless Chinese blood debts of the Japanese fascist leaders, the greater the movement, the better, so that the Chinese Japanese in Dalian City know the best, so after this, Zha Zixiang tried to restrain his feelings, and the service attitude in the barbershop also changed greatly. Not only do they not talk back with the boss, they obey the boss's words, and they are extremely attentive and thoughtful to Japanese guests. Zha Zixiang's practice made Wu Hantou have the illusion that after Zha Zixiang's reprimand, his temper had improved, so he also began to be careless with Zha Zixiang.
Unbeknownst to Wu Lao's traitors, Cha Zixiang was so attentive to the Japanese that he had a purpose, and soon after he got a set of half-used Japanese suits from his guests, and then he went to the souk of Hashidate Town (present-day Bo'ai Street) in Xiaogangzi (present-day Xigang District, Dalian), quietly bought a sharp Japanese axe, and prepared to assassinate the leading figure of the Japanese colonial authorities.
Sharp Japanese small short axe
Japan's brutal colonial rule over Dalian
On December 13, 1937, the Japanese army invaded Nanjing, the Nationalist government announced the relocation of the capital to Chongqing, and in order to celebrate this "major victory", the Japanese fascists held a huge victory celebration meeting on the Japanese mainland and in the major occupied areas!
At this time, Dalian, which had been brutally ruled by Tsarist Russia for 7 years since 1898, and Dalian, which had been a Japanese colony for 32 years since the Russo-Japanese War in 1905, were increasingly required to carry out such a ceremony. At this time, Dalian was no longer called Dalian, but was called "Kanto Prefecture" by the Japanese, and was regarded as a Japanese mainland like Taiwan, and after japan invaded the Dalian region and northeast China, it not only practiced cruel political oppression, but also frantically plundered local resources to transport to Japan. The Japanese colonial authorities also frantically plundered Dalian's land, embezzled salt pans, occupied fishing grounds, and increased the taxes of the Dalian people.
What is even more insidious and vicious is that in order to completely eliminate the national consciousness of the Chinese and achieve the goal of occupying Dalian for a long time, the Japanese colonial authorities have vigorously cultivated colonial culture in the Dalian area, vigorously engaged in ethnic discrimination, and promoted enslavement education.
Due to the Japanese authorities' policy of tight sealing and assimilation, coupled with the backwardness of communications in that era, before the "May Fourth Movement", most Dalian people only knew "Emperor" and "Kwantung Prefecture", and did not know that there was also the existence of "Republic of China" and "Sun Yat-sen", the father of the country.
Dalian school during the Japanese occupation
Cha Zi Xiang angrily split the Japanese Daisa, threatening to shake the city of Dalian
At 8:00 a.m. on December 13, 1937, the Japanese in Dalian gathered in Central Park (now Dalian Labor Park) to participate in the "Celebration of the Fall of Nanjing, the capital of China". Zha Zixiang realized that the opportunity had come, and the small man, wearing the Japanese suit, hid the small short axe in his arms, and went into the park with the crowd.
Why can Cha Zixiang be mixed in? First of all, he spoke Japanese very well, coupled with the fact that he often dealt with Japanese people, imitated the demeanor of these people very similarly, and wore a Japanese suit, so he was taken for granted by the doorman as a Japanese; secondly, as a local Chinese, he himself was extremely disgusted with this celebration, plus there were a large number of fierce and evil Japanese military police at the door, and there would be no Chinese to get closer; third, this celebratory light ghost soldiers came more than a thousand, plus the local people from all walks of life, all walks of life, all walks of life, all walks of life, the Japanese people, hundreds of secrets are inevitable Nor is it possible for the guards to scrutinize and interrogate everyone.
The building in the distance is the "Zhongling Pagoda" built by the Japanese invaders in Dalian.
In 1925, in order to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the end of the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese invaders built the "Zhongling Pagoda" in Dalian to enshrine the ashes of 4,000 Japanese soldiers who died in the Russo-Japanese War.
The main purpose of this congress was, on the one hand, to publicize the so-called "invincible and outstanding military achievements" of the Imperial Japanese Army, and on the other hand, to mourn the fallen personnel of the Japanese army, so on the main altar in front of the Zhongling Pagoda, there was a red cloth dragged all the way to the ground, and on the red cloth was placed the spiritual seat of the dead devil. The first event of the conference was the sacrifice, the Japanese soldiers and civilians in the venue all bowed their heads and did not say a word, no one looked around, as the bustling crowd crowded to the front of the Zha Zixiang looked at the surrounding devils are very focused, no one paid attention to him, he took advantage of the lack of preparation, quickly sneaked under the big red table cloth of the altar, hid inside and waited for the opportunity to start.
The Japanese people at the scene of the Czech Congress
At about 9:00 a.m., the memorial ceremony officially began, the president of the Japanese Soldiers' Association in the first row, the commander of the Lushun Fortress and the representative of the Kwantung Army Headquarters, and the governor of the "Kanto Prefecture" as the chief priest, leading the entire audience to mourn in silence, the memorial began, the whole audience was full of sorrow, the Japanese present all bowed at ninety degrees and bowed deeply, some chanted words, some silently mourned, some secretly wept, but all had a common characteristic, all of them stretched their necks long...
Just when the Japanese were in a state of mourning, Cha Zixiang, who was hiding under the big red tablecloth, jumped up, because he had already chosen the target, that is, the chief priest in the middle of the first row, this devil's hat had a red edge on it, and his body was full of medals, while the devils were focused on mourning, Cha Zixiang aimed at the head of this old devil, and used all his strength to be an axe, and this fell down without a word, returning to the west, and then the second axe cut to the officer next to him, and the officer turned his head away and avoided his head. But the arm could not be avoided. The quality of the Japanese axe is really good, all at once cut off the left arm, the screams issued by the devils shook the whole field, for a time the venue was in chaos, the Japanese present panicked and ran around, Zha Zixiang took advantage of the chaos with a sharp axe to take the road to break through, because the venue was crowded, coupled with no foreign aid, Zha Zixiang was trapped in the venue, the Japanese police rushed up, with two long wooden ladders to clamp him, and finally Zha Zixiang was outnumbered and was escorted to the Dalian Japanese Police Station.
Film and television stills
At first, the Japanese police tried to block the control of the news, but there is no wall in the world that does not leak the wind, the news was soon spread out, according to the news later revealed within the Japanese army, the chief priest of the congress who was hacked to death by Cha Zixiang, the president of the Dalian Japanese Soldiers' Association in the countryside (retired army Daisa), the one who was cut off by Sheng Sheng was the representative of the Japanese Kwantung Army Command, and also the army Daisa, and the devil was originally a memorial to those cannon fodder soldiers who died in the war of aggression against China. Unexpectedly, the Chinese righteous soldier Zha Zixiang sacrificed his own human head and blood to those Chinese soldiers and civilians who heroically sacrificed themselves for the War of Resistance Against Japan.
Soon a mysterious sign appeared on the streets of Dalian, "Celebrate the fall of Nanjing, cheer for the fall of the head." Informed Chinese also rushed to tell this exciting news. Later, the Japanese also celebrated the fall of Wuhan and Hong Kong and Singapore, but they all ended in a sloppy end, and they no longer dared to hold any victory celebrations with great fanfare.
The Japanese colonial authorities, who were embarrassed and angry, then carried out a frenzied search, not only were all arrested and tortured by Zha Zixiang's fellow countrymen and friends, but even Wu Qingye, an old traitor of Renhexuan Barbershop, was also imprisoned, and for a time almost all the Hubei Guangji barbers in Dalian were repeatedly summoned by the Japanese gendarmes to confess Zha Zixiang's fellow party members and conspirators. Poor Boss Wu has been a traitor for so long, and in the end he was beaten to death at the hands of the Japanese, and he could not die.
The Japanese did not want to kill Cha Zixiang soon, they first served Cha Zixiang good wine and good food, saying that as long as they found out the same party, they would be spared death, Zha Zixiang scolded the enemy, the Japanese police were angry and ashamed, and used torture such as tiger stools, bamboo sticks to nail fingers, and pepper water to force him to confess to the same party, and Zha Zixiang said coldly:
"It seems that if you don't talk about the same party, you are not dead-hearted, let me tell you honestly!" All the Chinese citizens of Dalian, 40,000,000 compatriots in China, are my party, go and arrest and kill! You Japanese are all robbers! Invade china, kill my compatriots, rape my sisters, rob me of my belongings, burn down my house, and occupy my Nanjing! Chinese is not good to bully, see if you can kill the Chinese, today you killed me Cha Zixiang, I also earned half of it!" I didn't lose money! If you want to ask me if I have any party, there is only Lao Tzu and I, and no one else. If you want to kill, you have to ask, why ask more! ”
A Japanese prison that kills countless people
After such torture for a long time, the Japanese colonial authorities, who had no choice but to do anything, sent him to Lushun Yuanbaofang Prison, where countless Chinese, resistance fighters and Communists were brutally killed. In 1936 alone, more than 150 people died on the spot under heavy sentences. Sasaki, a Japanese guard who kills people without blinking an eye, even threatens: "If you don't fight Chinese for a day, you won't have a taste when you eat." The Korean hero Ahn Jung-geun, who killed former Japanese Prime Minister Itō Hirobumi in Harbin, China, and was hailed as a Korean national hero, finally died heroically in this prison.
In the last days of his life, Zha Zixiang, a wandering son in Hubei province, who was in prison, deeply missed his father and elder in his hometown in Guangji, and successively entrusted people to bring back four family letters, in which he hoped that his brothers and sisters in the family would honor his parents more for him, so as to make up for the lack of filial piety in his heart!
One night in September 1939, Cha Zixiang was secretly killed by the Japanese army in Lushun Prison, where he was righteous with the Korean hero Ahn Jung-geun, who was also regarded by the Japanese colonial authorities as the second Ahn Jung-geun and became one of the most feared people of the Japanese invaders.
After the liberation of the whole country in 1949, the people's government of Guangji County (now Wuxue City) in Hubei Province posthumously recognized the righteous soldier Cha Zixiang, who died generously, as an anti-Japanese martyr.
From 1931 to 1945, in the fourteen-year-long War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, there were countless benevolent men like Zha Zixiang who threw their heads and spilled their blood and exchanged their lives for the final great victory of the Chinese nation, let us always remember them and remember their heroic feats!
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