"It doesn't matter if you cut off your head, as long as Allah righteousness." Kill Xia Minghan, and the people who came after him! ”
This is a righteous poem written by Xia Minghan, a member of the Communist Party of China, before being killed by the Kuomintang reactionaries, which vividly portrays the excellent qualities of the Chinese Communist Party and the revolutionary martyrs in the revolutionary years and the heroic heroism of the Communist Party of China and the revolutionary martyrs. This magnificent poem has also been written into primary school textbooks and has been praised by people.
Figure | Xia Minghan
Born into a family of eunuchs, Xia Minghan lived a life of fine clothes and food from an early age, and he chose to give up everything and devote himself to the revolution, mainly under the influence of his mother Chen Yunfeng.
Chen Yunfeng's family background is prominent, and he is the pearl in the palm of Chen Jiayan, the "Iron Mask Imperial History". She was a man of truth, erudite, upright and courageous, and had a good godson, and her 6 children participated in the revolution under her education, four of whom became martyrs, and she was once named "Lady of the Commandments", a legendary Xiaoxiang female master.
In February 1870, Chen Yunfeng was born in a family of eunuchs in Heqiao Village, Jinghua Township, Hengshan County, her father Chen Jiayan was born as a jinshi, and had served as the head of the engineering department, the prefect of Zhangzhou, Fujian, etc. After the founding of New China, he served as a member of the Third National Assembly of the Republic of China.
Chen Yunfeng is the eldest daughter in the family, and it can be said that she grew up in the palm of her parents' hands. Influenced by the family atmosphere, Chen Yunfeng has loved reading since she was a child, but she does not like to read the Four Books and Five Classics, but read historical stories, especially Wang Fuzhi's books.
When she was thirteen or fourteen years old, her father, Chen Jiayan, was transferred to a foreign government, leaving her and her mother in their hometown. In old China, many women did not have the opportunity to study, but Chen Yunfeng was different, believing that girls should also receive education equally, and by relying on a clever mouth, she persuaded her mother to enter the school run by Mr. Liu Yanzhai as she wished.
No one expected that soon after this, she would do an earth-shattering thing.
Figure | Wang Fuzhi
"She is Chen Jiayan's daughter"
Liu Yanzhai was an honest reader, gentle and elegant, full of economy, and participated in the election examinations for most of his life, but he never had a chance with his name. Others have advised him to abandon this road, Liu Yanzhai although unwilling but also had to accept the reality, in his later years, he spent all his savings to run a school at home to teach knowledge to the children.
In 1884, there was a drought in Heqiao Village, Jinghua Township, Hengshan County, and there was not a single drop of rain for several months, and the crops in the fields were not well harvested. Some peasants surnamed Liu rented and planted the public land of the Liu Ancestral Hall, but because there was no grain to pay the rent, they approached Liu Yanzhai and asked him to help draft a report and ask the clan to reduce the rent fee.
Liu Yanzhai knew that it was not easy for the peasants, so he agreed with his mouth, thinking that this was a good thing to help others, but he unexpectedly offended the patriarch.
The patriarch Liu Bozhao was a domineering and iron-hearted man, and without saying a word, he tied up Liu Yanzhai and escorted him into a solemn ancestral hall, causing him to kneel under the ancestral tablet.
Liu Bozhao did not care at all about the harvest of the victims, only about the grain rent they paid, in his eyes, Liu Yanzhai was a nerd who did not know the current affairs. He sat majestically on the Taishi chair, lengthened his tone, and said in an official tone: "Since the ancient way, debt repayment, righteousness, you Liu Yanzhai, after reading the sages, should have kept to yourself, but danced and inked, took the lead in rebellion, and instigated tenants to pay rent!" Today, I want to punish you, a great rebel, in the presence of the patriarchs! ”
Liu Yanzhai did not expect that his good intentions had been unjustly rebelled, he raised his head and vigorously defended: "Patriarch, I did not mean so, the disaster is serious, the people do not talk about life, you can't see death and not save it!" ”
Liu Zhaobo had a black face, and after listening to these words, he suddenly jumped like thunder, he pointed at Liu Yanzhai's nose and scolded: "Good you Liu Yanzhai, not only do not know repentance, but also teach me a lesson, I want to see today, whether your mouth is hard or my board is hard, come on!" Drag him down for me and hit the fifty boards again! ”
"Stop!"
Figure | ancestral temple
Suddenly, a clear and loud voice came, and everyone followed the prestige, only to see a thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl standing in the middle of the ancestral hall with her head held high, this little girl was no one else, it was Liu Yanzhai's student Chen Yunfeng.
Early this morning, she heard that her husband had been arrested by the patriarch and went to the ancestral hall for questioning, so she came to the outside of the ancestral hall early, quietly observed the situation inside, and when she saw that the teacher was about to suffer from flesh and skin, she quickly stood up.
"Patriarch, if you flout the royal law, set up a private punishment hall, and abuse your authority, are you not afraid of lawsuits?" Chen Yunfeng said unashamedly.
Liu Zhaobo did not put the little girl in front of him in his eyes at all, he said impatiently: "Where is the yellow haired girl, go up to play elsewhere, don't disturb my work here, go out!" ”
Chen Yunfeng smiled coldly and continued, "Since I came today, if you don't let anyone go today, I won't leave." As the local leader surnamed Liu, you not only do not sympathize with the people's feelings, but also disregard the life and death of tenants. Mr. Liu Yanzhai only said a few fair words, which heavenly rule was committed, and you wanted to make such a big move, or even put him to death? ”
Chen Yunfeng's words made Liu Zhaobo dumbfounded, he was self-conscious, angry, and just when he wanted to clean up this yellow lady, a squire next to him came over and whispered in his ear: "Elder Of the clan, the person who came is not an idle person." ”
Liu Zhaobo was puzzled, and the squire continued, "She is Liu Jiayan's daughter."
This can scare Liu Zhaobo out of a cold sweat, the other party is hand-picked Hanlin Qianjin, how dare he move one of her fingers?
He slumped down in his chair, and Chen Yunfeng plucked his hair, walked over to Liu Zhaobo, and said in a commanding tone: "Patriarch, I now make two demands on you: First, immediately and unconditionally release Liu Yanzhai and apologize to him; second, according to the disaster situation, reduce the grain rent for the tenants." ”
Chen Yunfeng saw that Liu Zhaobo was indifferent, so he continued: "Elder Patriarch, human life is at stake, it is not a child's play, if you insist on going your own way, you will definitely be unable to get rid of the fate of people in the future!" ”
Before Liu Zhaobo could make any statement, Chen Yunfeng helped Liu Yanzhai untie the rope on his body and helped him out of the ancestral hall.
Liu Zhaobo couldn't have imagined that he was so mighty that today he had lost at the hands of a yellow-haired man who had not dried up, and even if he had all the resentment in his heart, he could only break his teeth and swallow it into his stomach.
The fate of the parents, the words of the matchmaker
Although Chen Yunfeng grew up under the love of her parents, she still did not get rid of the old custom of arranged marriage in the old society, and when she was 10 years old, her father promised her to Xia Shiji's son Xia Shaofan.
Figure | Chen Yunfeng
At that time, Chen Jiayan and Xia Shiji went to Beijing together to take the exam, entered the army together, and were hand-picked together, so the two formed a deep friendship. In addition to small talk, Xia Shiji proposed that Chen Jiayan give his daughter Xu to his son Xia Shaofan, which can be said to be the right door, and Chen Jiayan gladly agreed.
Soon, Chen Yunfeng became a chuchu and moving big girl, born in the Shuxiang family, she was proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and in her spare time, she would often go into the water with her companions to catch shrimp and help her companions do farm work.
One night, her mother walked into her boudoir and pretended to be serious: "Feng'er, you don't want to go out crazy every day, you see you, where is the appearance of a big girl." ”
Chen Yunfeng replied, "Mother, I have finished reading the book, so don't talk about me." ”
Mother Chen suddenly changed her tone, took out a piece of red paper, and said while unfolding: "A few days ago, the Xia family sent a post and a bride price, saying that the Mid-Autumn Festival will marry you, this is the dowry list that the mother helped you open, you take a closer look, is there anything you want?" ”
Chen Yunfeng replied while cleaning up: "My good mother, you don't have to worry about it, I am not rare these things, a set of futons and two sets of changing fashions are enough, but the daughter has a request, that is, the books in my father's study I want to take some away, I don't know if my mother agrees?" ”
Mother Chen couldn't help her daughter, and said dotingly: "You child, you don't want gold and silver satin, you want to bring some books, your mother promised you, in a moment I will open your father's study door, you go in and pick it." ”
Chen Yunfeng hid in his father's study, carefully selected, and after a while he picked out two large boxes full of good books such as "Book of Poetry", "Three Hundred Poems of Tang Dynasty", "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Dream of the Red Chamber", and "Water Margin".
Figure | The Four Masterpieces
After the Mid-Autumn Festival, Chen Yunfeng took these books as a dowry and married into the Xia family.
"I, Xia Jia'erlang, will become a great instrument in the future, and I will be under Wu Peifu!"
Chen Yunfeng's husband Xia Shaofan was young and promising, and at the age of 18, he was appointed senior doctor at the age of 31, acting as an agent to manage Zhizhou, and Chen Yunfeng was also given the title of Lady of the Commandments.
Xia Fanshao, like Chen Yunfeng, was more advanced in his thinking, so the married life of the two was very harmonious, and they gave birth to seven children successively.
Xia Shaofan was sent to Japan to investigate government affairs, and after returning to China, he brought new ideas such as scientific democracy and restoration and reform, which opened his eyes and was also dissatisfied with the feudal and corrupt system of the late Qing government, so he entered the road of revolution.
Chen Yunfeng is a new type of woman with clear love and hatred, influenced by her husband, silently supporting his reforms and becoming a follower of the new revolution.
However, the days of the two together did not last long. In 1914, when Xia Shaofan died of illness at the age of 45, Chen Yunfeng endured grief and returned to the east bank of the Hengyang River in Hunan with seven children to live with his father-in-law Xia Shiji.
After the fall of the Qing government, he refused to join the new government after the Xinhai Revolution and returned to his hometown of Hengyang, Hunan, all day guarding the old paper pile and writing some articles on "Zhi Hu Ye".
Therefore, in terms of educating children, Chen Yunfeng and her father-in-law have a disagreement, Chen Yunfeng is open-minded, she hopes that children will learn more about the stories of patriots, and become people like them in the future, loyal to the country.
Xia Shiji's thinking was conservative, and often let them die of the Four Books and Five Classics, learn the Eight Strands of Literature, and in the future, guangzong yaozu.
On this day, Xia Shiji called Xia Minghan and Xia Mingzhen's brothers and sisters to him, shook his head and told them some profound and incomprehensible texts, and before he could speak for a few minutes, the children all fell asleep on the table.
Figure | Xia Mingzhen
Xia Shiji spoke intently, looked up, several children were sleeping soundly, he did not hit a single breath, the guy hit everyone's palm 20 times, and scolded while hitting: It is really rotten wood that cannot be carved. ”
The children's cries reached Chen Yunfeng's ears, and she knew that the children had been trained again, and she was very distressed. She kindly advised her father-in-law: "Your old man is also tired, go back to rest, I will teach them." ”
After Xia Shiji left, Chen Yunfeng told the children about the ancients' allusions to reading hard, such as "hanging beam thorn strands", "chiseling walls to borrow light", "Cheng Men Lixue" and so on, and the children heard these stories for the first time and listened to them with relish.
Since then, Chen Yunfeng will tell the children the stories of ancient patriots and national heroes every day, cultivate their righteous and patriotic hearts, and hope that they will bear the rise and fall of the world in the future. Under her seductive teaching, several children gradually grew into adults.
In the spring of 1918, the Beiyang warlord Wu Peifu attacked hengyang city, wanted to win over Xia Shiji, and personally visited the door, and also pretended to be Sven, and wrote eight big characters on a piece of rice paper " Degai Hengyue, reputation full of steaming Xiang" to him. Xia Shiji felt that Wu Peifu was also a figure with a head and a face, and he was respectful and respectful to him, and even more took the 8 big characters he gave as a treasure, and immediately asked someone to frame it and hang it under the main hall.
At that time, Xia Minghan was 18 years old, educated in school, he hated the murderous Wu Peifu, this day when he came home from school, he saw the words that Wu Peifu gave to his grandfather, and he did not hit a single place, pulled the word screen down, tore it into several pieces, and threw it into a stinky ditch.
Unaccustomed to his grandfather's sour behavior, he returned home and wrote a satirical poem:
The eyes are good at watching the wind and the color, and the mouth is wide and will brag.
The long hand can make more fame and fortune, and the short body is good to bend the knee and kowtow.
When Xia Shiji learned that the beloved character screen had been destroyed by Xia Minghan, he angrily pointed at him and scolded: "You, a rebellious beast, dare to destroy the ink treasure that Mr. Wu gave me, and tell me how to explain to Mr. Wu, see if I can't teach you a good lesson today!" After saying this, he grabbed a wooden stick with a thick arm and rushed straight to Xia Minghan.
Figure | Historical allusions to "Cheng Men Lixue"
Chen Yunfeng saw the situation and hurried to protect his son.
"Father-in-law, why are you angry about this little thing, don't you also teach your children to be sensible and distinguish between faithfulness and adultery?" That Wu Peifu is just a warrior, a judge of the Qing Dynasty, who shows off his crooked words like a water reptile and a toad in front of you, isn't it a banmen axe? Besides, this is where the ancestral heroes and saints are placed, and hanging up the word Wu Peifu is not insulting the ancestors and defiling the sages? You're not afraid to laugh at Rulin? I, Xia Jia Erlang, will become a great instrument in the future, and I will be under Wu Peifu! ”
Chen Yunfeng's words made Xia Shiji dumbfounded, and he was powerless to refute it, and went to his room to drink in frustration.
"The world rises and falls, and the pirate is responsible"
Xia Minghan was deeply influenced by his mother and embarked on the road of revolution.
In 1919, when the May Fourth Movement broke out, Xia Minghan and his sister Xia Mingheng responded positively, organizing students to march and demonstrate and boycott Japanese goods. During this period, Xia Minghan was elected as the head of the Shonan Student Movement Federation and also founded the "Weekly Magazine of the Shonan Student Movement Federation" to carry out patriotic and anti-imperialist propaganda.
On this day, Xia Minghan and his sister had just seized Japanese goods, and on the way home, he said with a serious face: "Leather Japanese goods should be made from home." ”
Xia Mingheng echoed: "Grandpa's treasures have a lot of Japanese goods, brother, do you dare to burn Grandpa's Japanese goods?" ”
"What's not to dare, let's go home and find out Grandpa's Japanese goods and burn it!" Xia Minghan replied.
The brothers and sisters returned home in a furious manner and carefully searched every place in the house, but they never saw a trace of foreign goods.
Xia Mingheng whispered, "Grandpa must have smelled some wind and hid it." ”
Figure | Xia Mingheng
Just when the brothers and sisters were at a loss, Chen Yunfeng happened to return from the street, and Xia Mingheng said in surprise: "Find your mother!" ”
The brothers and sisters stepped forward and asked Chen Yunfeng about the whereabouts of the Japanese goods at home: "Mom, do you know where Grandpa hid the Japanese goods?" ”
Chen Yunfeng was very surprised, and at the same time wanted to test the courage of the brothers and sisters, so he pretended to be serious; "These Japanese goods are Grandpa's heart and liver treasures, can't move, if you smash and burn, Grandpa will never spare you."
But what she did not expect was that the brothers and sisters not only did not flinch, but said with vigor and words: "Mother, the world rises and falls, the pirates are responsible, the Japanese bandits are too hateful, boycotting and burning Japanese goods is resisting the Japanese devils, even if Grandpa wants to put us under the oil pot, cut off the brain shell, and cut the corpse into ten thousand pieces, he can't care so much." Mom, tell us where Grandpa's Japanese goods are hidden? ”
Chen Yunfeng pondered for a while, took the brothers and sisters in his arms, and said firmly: "Children, you have done the right thing. Then, she took the two children to the East Wing, pointed to the sandwich wall, and said: "Grandpa's Japanese goods are hidden inside, you move quickly, and your mother will go to the door to let you wind." ”
In this way, the brothers and sisters cooperated one after the other, and burned all the Japanese antiques that Xia Shiji treasured.
Soon, Xia Shiji, who was going to a banquet outside, learned the news of the fire in the backyard, and he felt that something was wrong and hurried back home. Only to see that the sandwich wall was pried open, the backyard was in a mess, and the foreign goods treasured by generations had been reduced to nothing, and he suddenly lost his breath, and he was full of excitement and shouted hysterically: "We must get rid of this evil obstacle!" ”
Xia Shiji completely disregarded the flesh and blood affection, put Xia Minghan in a big prison, and arrested him to "sink the pond".
Her son was about to face the disaster of extinction, Chen Yunfeng's heart was dripping blood, and she tried every means to rescue Xia Minghan and let him fly away.
Figure | Xia Minghan
Chen Yunfeng thought about going and found two helpers, one was Li Xiangshen, a good friend of her husband's life, and the other was xia Mingzhen, a son who was still in elementary school.
"I know what the way forward is"
On this day, Li Xiangshen set up a banquet and personally invited Xia Shiji to the banquet. Xia Shiji liked to listen to polite words, and in a burst of compliments, he smiled and squinted and got into Li Xiangshen's Bupeng car.
Xia Shiji was not at ease with Xia Minghan, who was locked up in a private prison, and before leaving, he also deliberately inspected the area around the private prison, and when he left, he did not forget to instruct old man Deng who was guarding the prison: "We must strictly guard it, and we must not make mistakes." ”
Old Man Deng was lonely and lonely all his life, and he had been a subordinate in xia fu for many years, but he had always been unpopular, eating leftovers on weekdays and taking a meager salary. Up and down the Xia Mansion, only Chen Yunfeng and the children would pity him, and often gave him some change to buy wine to relieve his hunger.
After Xia Shiji left, Chen Yunfeng and Xia Mingzhen came in with wine jugs and several plates of stir-fried vegetables.
"Dumber, hungry, huh?" Come, have a few drinks. ”
Old Man Deng's greatest hobby was drinking, and as soon as he smelled the aroma of rice wine, he couldn't restrain it, cup after cup, and soon drank drunkenly and passed out.
Xia Ming was shocked to see this, and quickly unlocked the key from Old Man Deng's waist, opened the cell door, and rescued Xia Minghan.
Chen Yunfeng hugged her scarred son tightly, as if she was afraid that others would snatch it up, and suddenly, she pushed hard: "Child, this place is not suitable for staying for a long time, I have prepared a boat for you, you go quickly." ”
Chen Yunfeng and Xia Mingzhen had been sending Xia Minghan to the Xiang River, and when they were separated, Chen Yunfeng handed his son a few hard-boiled eggs and a duffel bag, and repeatedly instructed: "Child, you must remember what I said to you in your daily life, you must take the right path, set an example for your younger brothers and sisters, go alone, you must cherish." ”
Xia Minghan wiped his tears and said firmly, "Mom, you can rest assured, I will definitely remember your teachings, and I know how to go in the future."
Chen Yunfeng watched as the boat carrying Xia Minghan gradually drifted away until it disappeared from sight.
"My husband is dead and ominous. And it has been a long time, and it is about to be wooded. Jun and other Qingyun developed, or far away from me as well! ”
Later, Chen Yunfeng left the Xia family with several children, lived in another house outside, and took on the burden of the family alone.
Under her education and influence, her four children joined the Chinese Communist Party and became advanced elements of the working class.
Chen Yunfeng taught by example and stood at the forefront of the revolutionary struggle. In the spring of 1922, she was elected as a member of the Hengyang County Council, becoming the first female councilor in the county to participate in politics, and she once said in her inaugural speech: "Today's foreign insults are blazing, the country is weak, corruption is rampant, life is ruined, and there is no cure for non-communism!" "This incident became the explosive news of the time, and the impact was extremely great.
In May 1923, the Japanese merchant ship Wuling entered the port of Changsha and shot at the workers and students who had seized Japanese goods. Despite his asthma attack, Chen Yunfeng took to the streets with his illness and used his identity to cover his children and Communists for revolutionary activities.
In 1928, it was an extremely sad year for Chen Yunfeng, and in just two months, she lost four children - Ming Pera, Ming Zhen, Ming Heng, and Ming Han all died heroically.
Figure | Chen Yunfeng
She dried her tears, returned to Li Zishan, her hometown in the west of Hengyang City, took out all her savings, built a school, and continued to do the work of cultivating revolutionary "later generations."
Chen Yunfeng's evening scene was very bleak, but she still maintained a noble revolutionary sentiment, did not accept anyone's financial support, nor accepted to become an official, she proudly said: "My husband died and died, and it is extremely ominous." And it has been a long time, and it is about to be wooded. Jun and other Qingyun developed, or far away from me as well! ”
Chen Yunfeng persevered in order to Chinese the cause of liberation of the people, struggled all her life, and sacrificed 4 outstanding sons and daughters without complaint or regret, but unfortunately, she could not see the five-star red flag rising in the Tiananmen Tower.
In October 1946, Chen Yunfeng completed this life alone with regrets, at the age of 76.