It's another year of Qingming,
Remembrance of the heroes and martyrs.
Today, we salute the heroes,
Remembering the great ideals for which they shed their blood and sacrificed;
Today, we think, long remember,
Greetings, cherishes, wishes,
We all hope that all people will be safe!
Today
Please give them a flower!
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In the red hot land of Zhaoqing,
Some people have paid for their youth and spilled their blood
Even gave his life.
On this special day,
Let us remember together
Those great revolutionary martyrs!
Zhou Qijian
Zhou Qijian, a native of Xinlou Village, Guangning County, was born on April 6, 1893 in a poor family of scholars. In 1918, Zhou Qijian went to Guangzhou and entered the Textile Department of the First Grade A Industrial School of Guangdong Province.
△ Zhou Qijian, the first secretary of the Xijiang Prefectural Committee of the Communist Party of China.
In 1921, Zhou Qijian became one of the first ccp members of the Guangdong branch and was one of the early party members in Guangdong. In the autumn of 1922, zhou qi, in view of the fact that after graduating from the Jiazhong industrial school, his fifth brother Zhou Qisong was in Guangzhou in an attempt to expand the operation of his weaving factory, and asked him to take charge of the factory. However, he was resolutely rejected by Zhou Qijian and devoted himself to the practice of the workers' revolutionary movement.
△ The entrance to Zhou Qijian's former residence
In early April 1924, the Guangdong District Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Guangdong District Committee of the Communist Party of China instructed Zhou Qijian, as a commissioner of the Central Peasant Department, to lead a team of more than 30 people composed of Communist Party members, members of the Socialist Youth League, employees and workers of the Oil Industry Trade Union, and rushed to Quang Ninh to carry out the peasant movement. On April 10, Zhou Qijian returned to Jiangtun Wei, Guangning County, and decided to set up a "Guangning Farmers' Association Preparatory Office" in Jiangtun, with Zhou Qijian as the director of the Preparatory Office. In November 1924, Li Ai and 8 others became the first batch of CCP members to develop in Zhaoqing, and then established the first CCP organization in Zhaoqing, the Guangning Branch of the CPC, and served as the secretary of the branch. In January 1926, he became the secretary of the Xijiang Prefectural Committee.
In 1927, Zhou Qijian participated in the Nanchang Uprising and the Guangzhou Uprising. After the failure of the Guangzhou Uprising, Zhou Qijian was sent to the Beijiang area by the party. On January 22, 1928, Zhou Qijian secretly went to Hululing in Qingyuan County to carry out activities, but was arrested by Pan Boliang, the reactionary leader of the Qingyuan County militia. At this time, Zhou Qijian showed the strong integrity of a Communist Party member and the awe-inspiring sentiment of righteousness. On January 26, the enemy was afraid that our party organized the masses to rob the prison to rescue Zhou Qijian, that is, secretly kill him in Ximengang, the county seat of Qingyuan County. Zhou Qijian was only 35 years old when he died.
△ Former residence of Zhou Qijian. Image source Guangning released
Chen Bozhong
Chen Bozhong was born in February 1901 in Jiangtou Township, Guangning County (now part of Sihui Huangtian). In the second half of 1923, he joined the Communist Party of China. In July of the following year, Chen Bozhong entered the first peasant movement training center opened by the Peasant Department of the Kuomintang Central Committee in Guangzhou. In August, he graduated from the Agricultural Institute and was appointed as the commissioner of the Central Peasant Department in Quang Ninh.
△ Chen Bozhong, commander of the brave Peasant Self-Defense Army
After Chen Bozhong returned to Guangning, he attended the county peasant movement leaders' meeting presided over by Zhou Qijian in Daidong. After the meeting, he returned to his hometown, the Huangtian area, to carry out the peasant movement.
After Chen Bozhong's in-depth propaganda and mobilization, the peasants in Jiangtou Township demanded the organization of peasant associations. Farmers who signed up to join the farmers' association accounted for more than 80 percent of the total number of farmers in the township. The establishment of the Jiangtou Township Peasants' Association and Chen Bozhong's revolutionary actions greatly encouraged the peasants in the nearby townships, and they asked Chen Bozhong to help them organize the peasant associations.
△ Portrait of Chen Bozhong martyr. Photo by Wu Weihao, all-media reporter of Xijiang Daily
In September 1925, as a commissioner of the Central Peasant Department, he went to Sihui County to carry out the peasant movement. At the same time, Chen Bozhong's leadership of the workers' and peasants' movement was also strongly opposed by the landlords and gentry. They began to intimidate Chen Bozhong, and then organized a pseudo-peasant association to fight. Later, the enemy actually bribed the murderers, and at the end of October 1926, when Chen Bozhong met with the CCP member Lai Xizuo at Xuankou, he killed them at Longzangkou. Chen Bozhong was only 25 years old when he died.
△ Sihui City Patriotism Education Base. Photo by Wu Weihao, all-media reporter of Xijiang Daily
Dumbache
Deng Baqi, also known as Deng Gang, is a native of Gansa, Huaiji County. One of the early organizers and leaders of the CCP in Guangxi.
In the autumn of 1922, Deng Baqi was admitted to the law department of Xiamen University. In July 1924, Deng Baqi suspended his studies and went to Guangzhou, organized the "Huaiji Liusui Alumni Association", compiled and printed the "Huaiji Youth", joined the propaganda team of the All-China Federation of Students, and soon joined the Chinese Socialist Youth League, and became a member of the Communist Party of China at the end of the year.
△ Deng Baqi
In May 1927, Deng Baqi and Liao Mengqiao went to Wuzhou, Guangxi, to establish the Guangxi Prefectural Committee of the Communist Party of China, serving as a member and secretary of the Guangxi Prefectural Committee of the Communist Party of China, and participated in leading the restoration of party organizations in various parts of Guangxi. In October of the same year, he served as the secretary of the Guangxi Prefectural Committee of the COMMUNIST Party of China, and in January 1928, the prefectural committee was changed to a special committee, and he was appointed as the secretary of the special committee, and a number of county committees such as the Huaiji County Committee of the CPC were formed. Recruit hundreds of Party members, secretly organize peasant armed forces, and organize peasant army riots.
In September 1930, Deng Baqi served as a special commissioner of the CPC Central Committee and went to the Youjiang Revolutionary Base Area in Guangxi to convey the instructions of the Central Committee to the Former Committee of the Seventh Red Army, and worked with Deng Xiaoping for nearly half a year. In February of the following year, he was appointed Secretary-General of the CPC Guangdong Provincial Committee, and at the end of March, he was appointed as a member of the Liangguang Provincial Party Committee. He often traveled to and from Wuzhou, Guixian, Nanning, and Baise to guide the work, and presided over the publication of the weekly newspaper "Guangxi Red Flag".
In the spring of 1932, he went to the Dongjiang Special Committee to participate in armed struggle. On October 10 of the same year, when an enlarged meeting of the Standing Committee of the Dongjiang Special Committee was held in the Dananshan base area, it was surrounded on all sides by the Kuomintang reactionary troops, and was heroically sacrificed during the breakthrough.
△ Deng Baqi's former residence. Image source Release by Huaiji
The light of ideals does not extinguish,
The light of faith does not extinguish,
We must remember,
The last wishes of the martyrs.
Never forget,
The great ideal for which they shed their blood and sacrificed!
Source: CPC Zhaoqing Municipal Committee Party History Research Official Website Sihui Release Huaiji Release Xijiang Daily Civilization Zhaoqing South + Client