The Pride of the Du Brothers and the Strong People (Guo Zhangli)

In our Zaoqiang, when it comes to the history of red culture, we cannot but think of the Du brothers. His brothers and sisters have made indelible contributions to the cause of the liberation of the people of Zaoqiang County. They were Du Guanwu and Du Jingyun, who were born in The village of Duyako in Encha Town.

Du Guanwu was born in 1903 in a relatively wealthy farming family and worked as a primary school teacher after graduating from primary school. In 1934, he was admitted to the Hebei Provincial Police Academy. After graduating in 1936, he successively served as the mayor of Jili District and Wangjun District of BenXian County. During his term of office, he punished a number of goons and hooligans and purified the local social air.

Under the influence of his brother Du Jingyun, he actively participated in the anti-Japanese salvation movement. In 1937, he became the district chief of Daying District and the chief of the police. Actively publicize the anti-Japanese struggle to save the dead, and mobilize the rich to pay for the anti-Japanese salvation. Yang Zheru, then governor of Zaoqiang County, colluded with the Nangong reactionary forces to arrest Li Youxian, a member of the CPC Ji'nan District Special Committee, and sent someone to escort Li to the camp. After he knew about it, he talked to Li Chang for one night and then let Li go. Soon Feng Huaxuan and Fan Zhenting, members of the Ji'nan Special Committee, went to the camp one after another, and under the influence of Feng and Li, Du Guanwu began to join the anti-Japanese movement of Zaoqiang.

At the beginning of 1938, bandits from all counties in southern Hebei traveled all over the place, each dominating one side. On January 31, the Jingxian bandit Ge Guizhai came to Zaoqiang and attempted to capture the county seat of Zaoqiang County. Yang Zheru, who was the self-proclaimed county magistrate at that time, led the militia group not only did not resist the enemy who came to attack, but fled to the camp, and Du Guanwu reprimanded Yang for his bad behavior in person. Advocating internal rectification and a decisive battle with the enemy, Yang continued to flee south. Du Guanwu then gathered the team and raised the banner of "Zaoqiang Anti-Japanese Brigade Headquarters", with Liu Qifeng as commander and chief of staff and military judge. A circular was issued to the south-fleeing personnel: "Whoever is willing to lead the team back will be given a prominent official Houlu." Those who abscond with guns are disarmed and engaged in military law. Yang Zheru fled back to his hometown with only a few of his cronies in the case of rebellion. In this struggle, Fan Zhenting, member of the CPC Ji'nan Special Committee, gave great support. Du reorganized the militia group and brought it to Zaoqiang County, after which he served as the director of the Zaoqiang County Public Security Bureau.

In May 1938, the Ji'nan Military and Political Committee was established, and he was elected as a delegate from all walks of life. After arriving at his post, he became the chief of the administrative section, and during the difficult years of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he also did a lot of anti-Japanese work as a teacher and contributed to his hometown.

Du Jingyun, born in 1908, Du Guanwu's younger brother, was admitted to the Provincial Baoding Second Normal School in 1925. During his time at the school, he was active in his thinking and actively pursued progress, and in November 1925 he joined the Communist Party of China through the introduction of He Changhai, a member of the Communist Party.

In 1927, Chiang Kai-shek rebelled against the revolution and arrested many progressive students. He actively organized classmates, rescued arrested classmates, and expelled reactionary principals.

In 1931 he returned to his hometown and worked as a county teacher. He took advantage of the favorable conditions of serving as a teacher of chinese literature and party doctrine to conduct revolutionary enlightenment education for students, lectured on the works of writers such as Lu Xun and Gorky, and introduced left-wing writers from the Creation Society and the Sun Society. At that time, the compulsory course stipulated the Three People's Principles, and he used the method of innuendo to expose Chiang Kai-shek's betrayal of Sun Yat-sen, the loss of power and humiliation of the country externally, and the suppression of the masses of the people at home.

In 1935, the then county government forced the school to make Bible reading a compulsory subject, stipulating that the hole should be sacrificed every year, and he led the students to resolutely resist.

In the autumn of 1936, zhu Xun'an, then the county magistrate, presided over the confucius sacrifice at the Temple of Literature, allowing all teachers and students to participate, forcing the students to sing the song of the sacrifice of the kong, and the students of Zaoqiang Normal School were silent, and Zhu Was violent, on the grounds that "the communist suspects instigated students to make trouble", surrounded Zaoqiang Normal School, and arrested Du Jingyun, because he was not in school at that time and thus escaped a disaster. After that, he became a teacher in the Old City Normal School.

In the spring of 1938, the Eighth Route Army marched eastward into Ji'nan, and through Li Li, he found Liu Tiezhi, who was in charge of the work of the democracy movement of the Ji'nan Special Committee. In accordance with the instructions of the Ji'nan Special Committee, he actively contacted the former progressive teachers in Zaoqiang Normal School and Zaoqiang High school and mobilized them to go to the Nangong to participate in the anti-Japanese military and political cadre school. He was appointed Head of Organization, and in August of the same year, he was transferred to the Post of Chief of the Democracy Movement Section of the Third Specialized Bureau.

In 1939, he was appointed minister of the prefectural committee democracy movement, a member of the prefectural committee, and the director of the regional war committee.

In 1942, he attended the Party School of the Northern Bureau, and in 1943, he returned to the six places in southern Hebei to appoint the Minister of Armed Forces, the Secretary and Director of the Special Office, the Acting Commissioner, the Propaganda Minister, and the Minister of democracy movement.

In 1947, he went to Xibaipo on behalf of the prefectural committee to attend the Central Land Reform Conference, and in the winter of that year he was transferred to the Third Column as the political commissar of the column.

On June 5, 2019, Sun Fenglai and Du Hongzhao, grandson of Du Jingyun, took a group photo in front of the village committee in Duyake (now Jianguo Village) in Encha Town

In 1948, he went south to work in the Central and Southern Bureau, during which he was well-governed by the army and was also commended by Liu Bocheng. After that, he served as the secretary of the Tongbai Hannan Working Committee, in 1944 he was appointed deputy secretary and commissioner of the Xiangyang Prefectural Committee, in 1951 he was appointed deputy director of the Policy Research Office of the Hubei Provincial Party Committee, secretary of the Xiaogan Prefectural Committee, deputy political commissar and director of the Political Department of the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge Engineering Bureau of the Ministry of Railways, and secretary of the Wuhan Yangtze River Engineering Bureau.

Source: Yaoyu Lake City Literary Public Account

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