From Shikumen to Tiananmen, from Xingye Road to Fuxing Road, from standing up and getting rich to becoming strong, the CPC has kept pace with the times and shared the fate with the people, crossed one ditch after another, and won one brilliant victory after another. In the red land of Hunan, a large number of revolutionary heroines and martyrs did not let their eyebrows be shaved, and with their blood and lives, they forged a spiritual monument that will never fade, leaving behind many touching stories that can be sung and wept. In order to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Cpc, Changsha Radio and Television launched a large-scale media-based audio-visual program "Striving for a Hundred Years and Setting Sail for a New Journey · Bloody Xiang Girl", a tribute to the hero.
In 1961, the Beijing Film Studio produced a drama film "Revolutionary Family", which mainly tells the story of a communist family that is indomitable in the underground struggle against the enemy after the defeat of the Great Revolution in 1927, and the prototype of the heroine in the film is Tao Cheng, a communist party member born in Jinggang. Tao Cheng's life was devoted to the revolutionary cause, and she was known as the "revolutionary mother".
In 1932, Tao Cheng's family, the third from the left was Tao Cheng
In an alley in Jinggang Town, Wangcheng, Changsha, an old-fashioned adobe house is hidden among the pine maple trees, which is the former residence of Tao Cheng. Tao Cheng's former residence is warm and quiet, just like the embrace of this "revolutionary mother".
Tao Cheng, whose original name was Liu Taoying, was born in 1893 in Jinggang, Wangcheng, lost her parents at the age of 2, and was raised by a simple and kind dry lady.
Tao Cheng's life was very bitter since childhood, and when she was two years old, her parents died one after another, she was at the neighbor's house, and she grew up with the neighbor as a dry mother. When she was 18 years old, she was in charge of her mother-in-law and married Ouyang Meisheng, who was eager to treat her illness with Chong Xi.
- Bell Iron Ball
Expert of Fangzhi Expert Database of Hunan Province
Former deputy director of the Wangcheng Shizhi Archives Bureau
In 1911, at the age of 18, Tao Cheng married a person she had never met before, Ouyang Meisheng. This unexpected marriage became an important turning point in her life.
In 1913, Ouyang Meisheng was admitted to the Hunan First Normal School, and was a classmate of Mao Zedong, who was the first to accept the advanced theories of Western Marxism. After Ouyang Meisheng came into contact with these people, he often carried out relevant studies and participated in various societies, and after he returned from school, he shared these advanced Marxisms he had contacted at school with Tao Cheng. Slowly Tao Cheng also accepted Marxist ideas.
After marriage, Ouyang Meisheng left home with a few friends to run a school in Xiangxi, and then he and Guo Liang and others were busy in Changsha day and night to prepare for the establishment of the Hunan Federation of Trade Unions, while Tao Cheng stayed at home to take care of the children, so that her husband could carry out revolutionary work with peace of mind. At this time, Tao Cheng did not know what the revolution was, but after the "Ma-Ri Incident" in 1927, she had a new understanding.
In 1927, after the Ma-Ri Incident, Ouyang Meisheng was wanted by the Kuomintang reactionaries and had to flee his hometown and go out to hide. After Ouyang Meisheng left, Tao Cheng stood firm in Changsha alone. Changsha fell into the shadow of the bloody massacre under the white terror, and Tao Cheng saw this to know what a revolution was and why it was a revolution. At this time, when the party organization provided economic support to Tao Cheng, she refused the help of the organization. She said, I don't want money, I want to go to Mei Sheng and fight with him in the revolution.
In November of the same year, Tao Cheng led his children to follow the past, when Tao Cheng had the "revolutionary task" for the first time, that is, to protect the Hanyang county party committee organs under the cover of "living at home".
At this time, Tao Cheng did some confidential work for the county party committee, the work is actually very simple, that is, to keep documents, wash and cook for the cadres and leaders of the county party committee, and when the leaders meet, she will send a sentry. After doing all this work, Tao Cheng felt very meaningful and felt that from now on, I was also a member of the revolutionary team.
The revolutionary spirit of Tao Cheng and Ouyang Meisheng deeply infected their children, and the eldest son, Ouyang Li'an, actively participated in the revolution and became a witty and brave little traffic officer. Not long after the reunion day, Ouyang Meisheng unfortunately died of overwork.
After Ouyang Meisheng's sacrifice, Tao Cheng refused the organization's support for her, and asked to inherit Meisheng's cause, "You should arrange work for me, don't think of me as a family member of the revolution, and see me as a member of the revolution." ”
In 1929, Tao Cheng went to Shanghai with his children and covered the organ as a "home-dwelling" woman at the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Shanghai Communist Youth League. Tao Cheng's external identity was the wife of Gu Zhutong's aide-de-camp of the Kuomintang Ninth Army, who was usually responsible for collecting and distributing documents and serving as a guard during meetings. In February 1931, his son Ouyang Li'an was arrested by the reactionary military police and bravely defended himself in Longhua Prison. Under the grief of forbearing the loss of his loved ones, Tao Cheng still insisted on revolutionary work.
During the two years that she was in charge of the central organs of the regiment, although the white terror in Shanghai was very serious, and many other organs were found to have been exposed one after another, the central organs of the regiment have not been exposed, and have not been exposed for two years. It can be said that it was a miracle for Shanghai at that time, and considering the successful experience of the security organs, the central government transferred Tao Cheng to the international affairs group two years later.
Tao Cheng was transferred to the International Affairs Group of the CPC Central Committee in charge of the cover organ, and his external identity was the wife of Lin Shareholder of the Commercial Press. At the beginning of the following year, due to the arrest of the traffic officer and the destruction of the organ, Tao Cheng lost contact with the party.
In order to find the party, Tao Cheng took his children around, making a living by doing handyman work along the way, and after 5 years of suffering, he finally saw the party news in an old newspaper. After sending his son Zhihe to Yan'an through the Hankou Eighth Route Army Office, Tao Cheng obeyed the organization's assignment and went to Chongqing alone. In 1938, Tao Cheng engaged in confidential work in the Office of the Eighth Route Army in Chongqing, and was later transferred to the Fifth Children's Nursery School in Bishan, Sichuan Province, to be responsible for the upbringing of refugee children. No matter how harsh and harsh the environment is, Tao Cheng closely follows the party and trains his children to become reliable successors.
After Tao Cheng arrived at the nurseryman, she raised the difficult children as her own children, first of all, she considered improving the living conditions of the difficult children, she led the staff of the nursery to open up the wilderness and grow vegetables, for a period of time, the lives of these difficult children have been fundamentally improved, after improving the living conditions, she considered their ideological education, first of all, she taught the difficult children to learn culture and learn to sing revolutionary songs.
In June 1943, Tao Cheng arrived in Yan'an and learned that her youngest son, ZhiHe, had died heroically on the battlefield of Tongpu in the War of Resistance Against Japan, and she turned her grief into strength and continued to hold on to the revolutionary front. After the founding of New China, Tao Cheng successively served as confidential secretary of the State Council, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the Southwest Branch of the Supreme People's Court. On July 11, 1986, Tao Cheng died of illness in Changsha at the age of 93.
Tao Cheng
Tao Cheng's former residence is located in Jinggang Ancient Town Health Care Street, is an old-fashioned adobe house, officially opened to the public in 2008, next, Tao Cheng's former residence will be comprehensively upgraded and transformed.
Our purpose is to recreate history and story through plot-based, storytelling, and interactive means, to create a patriotic platform, to make party building work deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and to popularize patriotic education.
——Liu Xia
Jinggang Ancient Town Company scenic operation
In the war years of blood and fire, Tao Chengqiang bravely shouldered the burden of taking care of the "small family" and "everyone" with her thin shoulders, and she handed over everything to the party, and it was because of them that thousands of families did not need to be separated and did not need to endure the pain of losing their loved ones.
Reporter: Lin Fulei, Fan Lin Editor: Moonlight