There is a kind of nostalgia that has become more mellow through the wind and rain of the times, and there is a spirit that has passed through the clouds of history that has lasted for a long time.
In the revolutionary era, countless examples of our ancestors went forward to succeed the patriotism and faith in their hearts, and threw their heads and spilled their blood for the revolutionary cause of the motherland.
Comrade Fang Zhimin was one of them; he was born in the old China, where the disasters were severe, and he heard and heard about the filth and decay of the old China, and in order to seek the truth of saving the country and the people, he threw himself into the revolution and did not fear the struggle of power!
But it was such a person who cherished his homeland that he was persecuted by the enemy at the age of 36 and unfortunately died.
And after Comrade Fang Zhimin's sacrifice, he still left four sons and one daughter in this world, so where did his children go after he was glorious and righteous?
Throw yourself into the revolution
Comrade Fang Zhimin, one of the leaders of the early revolution in the mainland, was born on August 21, 1899 in Yiyang County, Shangrao City, Jiangxi Province.
Fang Zhimin was born in a family of farmers, although the family has lived on farming for generations, but his parents are very clear- and know that they cannot suffer children in education, so when Fang Zhimin was eight years old, his parents saved money and sent him to a local private school to study.
Fang Zhimin, who was born in poverty, naturally knows that it is not easy for his parents to provide for his own education, so he is diligent and diligent in his studies, and his grades have always been among the best in the class.
Because of his excellent academics, Fang Zhimin was famous for his intelligence from an early age.
But the day is not as good as people wish, because of natural disasters and man-made disasters, the family's harvest is not as good as a year, and Fang Zhimin was also forced to drop out of school when he was 12 years old because he could not pay the tuition fees, and helped the family farm to reduce the burden on the family.
Despite his poor family, Fang Zhimin's positive heart has never been hindered by poverty - during his farming career, Fang Zhimin will always seize every minute and every second to study on his own in addition to farming.
For his efforts, the villagers have always looked in the eyes, and everyone knows that Fang Zhimin, a child, has a positive heart.
In order to allow Fang Zhimin to return to the school, the villagers spontaneously raised tuition fees for Fang Zhimin.
Fang Zhimin naturally did not live up to the expectations of the villagers, and in 1916, he was successfully admitted to yiyang county higher primary school with excellent results.
Fang Zhimin knew that it was all the hard-earned money of the villagers, and he also cherished this hard-won learning opportunity.
At that time, during the period of the New Culture Movement, Fang Zhimin was influenced by a large number of progressive ideas, and his thinking and vision began to undergo earth-shaking changes.
He began to realize the importance of democracy and equality, and under the leadership of his friends, gradually participated in the anti-imperialist patriotic struggle.
After graduating from Yiyang County Higher Primary School, Fang Zhimin entered the Jiangxi Provincial Grade A Industrial School, because of his outstanding performance in the anti-imperialist struggle, and soon Fang Zhimin became the head of the school's student self-government.
Because in the demonstration leading the students to oppose the school's corrupt education and demand educational reform, Fang Zhimin offended the leadership of the school, and the school expelled Fang Zhimin, who took the lead, in order to successfully suppress the students in the parade.
But this did not hinder Fang Zhimin's determination to revolution, he rushed from Jiujiang to Shanghai in July 1922, and under the introduction of a friend, Fang Zhimin went to the Republic of China Daily as a proofreader, and also obtained the qualification of an auditor at Shanghai University.
While in Shanghai, Fang Zhimin joined the Chinese Socialist Youth League, during which time he wrote the vernacular novel "Plotting Things", and successfully published it in the supplement of "Enlightenment".
It is precisely because of this time in Shanghai that Fang Zhimin's life has undergone an important turn!
While in Shanghai, Fang Zhimin successfully found the party organization and the leading body of the Cpc Central Committee, and also became acquainted with famous CCP leaders such as Chen Duxiu, Qu Qiubai, and Xiang Jingyu.
Under their influence, Fang Zhimin strengthened his revolutionary ideals and beliefs.
In August 1922, under the arrangement of the party organization, Fang Zhimin left Shanghai and returned to Nanchang, Jiangxi, where he founded the "Cultural Book Club" and published the weekly newspaper "Voice of Youth" to carry out Marxist propaganda.
Fang Zhimin's performance in all aspects has always been very good, and his belief in the Communist Party is also very firm, so in March 1924, the Party Central Committee agreed to Comrade Fang Zhimin's application to join the Party, and he officially became a glorious Communist Party member.
After joining the Communist Party of China, Comrade Fang Zhimin joined the Party Central Committee in the building of party and league organizations in Jiangxi Province, and he braved hardships in his work and went deep into some remote areas of Jiangxi Province to carry out propaganda and mobilization work related to the revolution, making considerable contributions to the building of party and league organizations.
After the outbreak of the Nanchang Uprising, Fang Zhimin returned to Yiyang and led the people of Yiyang and Hengfeng, as well as some progressive people, to launch the Yiheng Uprising, although the uprising did not succeed in the end, but it also made the enemy see our determination to fight!
In 1928, Fang Zhimin led the establishment of the Yiyang and Hengfeng County Soviet Governments in Yiyang County, and under the support of the people, he was successfully elected as the chairman of the Yiyang County Soviet Government.
The enemy naturally will not sit idly by and ignore the relevant revolutionary movement led by Comrade Fang Zhimin, and for this reason the Kuomintang reactionaries have organized many "encirclement and suppression" operations.
In the face of the "encirclement and suppression" of the Kuomintang reactionaries, Comrade Fang Zhimin calmly led the rebels to launch an armed guerrilla war in the face of danger, and repelled the Kuomintang's four "encirclement and suppression" in one year.
Tragic sacrifice
Because his leaders created the revolutionary base areas in northeastern Jiangxi and Fujian, Zhejiang, and Gansu, and repelled many "encirclement and suppression" by the enemy, Comrade Fang Zhimin naturally became a thorn in the eye and a thorn in the flesh of the Kuomintang reactionaries headed by Chiang Kai-shek.
Later, Chiang Kai-shek also sent troops to "encircle and suppress" Fang Zhimin many times, but without exception, he was ruthlessly repelled by the soldiers led by Comrade Fang Zhimin.
In November 1934, Comrade Fang Zhimin served as the chairman of the Military and Political Committee of the Red Tenth Army, and led the Red Tenth Army all the way north from the Central Soviet Region, going deep into the heartland of the Kuomintang rule in Zhejiang, Anhui and other areas.
Along the way, Fang Zhimin led the fighters to propagate the anti-Japanese resistance and revolution, and launched many bloody battles with the Kuomintang army.
When Chiang Kai-shek learned that Comrade Fang Zhimin was also in the north to advance the anti-Japanese army, he was furious and ordered the Kuomintang troops to seize Comrade Fang Zhimin at all costs.
Due to the disparity between the enemy and our forces, after two months of bloody battles with the Kuomintang troops, the Red Tenth Army led by Fang Zhimin was surrounded by the Kuomintang general Wang Yaowu in the Huaiyu Mountains of Yushan County, Jiangxi Province, in January 1935.
Although besieged by the enemy, Fang Zhimin did not have any discouragement, he made up his mind to fight the enemy to the end, so he led the fighters to fight a guerrilla war with the enemy in the mountains.
The enemy knew that he would not have the advantage in guerrilla warfare, so he adopted a policy of sealing the mountain, and in the face of the enemy's rogue policy, Fang Zhimin had to lead the soldiers to find a cave and hide.
There is a shortage of medical treatment on the mountain, there is nowhere to find food, and many wounded soldiers cannot get timely medical treatment, and Comrade Fang Zhimin is also very worried about such a situation, so he convened a relevant meeting to discuss a solution.
It was also at this time that Wei Changfa, the guard next to Fang Zhimin, thought that his sister lived at the foot of the mountain, and she would definitely be able to solve the dilemma for the soldiers.
Driven by this idea, Wei Changfa germinated the idea of going down the mountain to his sister's house for help.
At that time, Fang Zhimin was in a meeting, and Wei Changfa thought that he would not need much time to go back and forth, so he went down the mountain alone without comrade Fang Zhimin's consent.
However, what Wei Changfa did not expect was that shortly after he had just walked out of the cave, he was captured by the Kuomintang troops who were ambushed in the mountains.
After his arrest, the Kuomintang side tortured Wei Changfa, thinking that Wei Changfa was a hard bone, but the punishment was not used up, and Wei Changfa confessed that he was Fang Zhimin's personal guard.
The Kuomintang was naturally excited to learn that Wei Changfa was Fang Zhimin's personal guard, and immediately revoked the torture inflicted on Wei Changfa.
The enemy told Wei Changfa that as long as he was willing to reveal Fang Zhimin's whereabouts, they would arrange a beautiful daughter-in-law for him and give him a hundred pieces of ocean.
Wei Long Hair did not have a very firm revolutionary conviction, and under the torture of flesh and skin and the temptation of huge amounts of money, Wei Long Hair was shaken.
After some thought, he chose to betray the Party Central Committee and the revolution, and confessed to the enemy the cave where Comrade Fang Zhimin and the soldiers were hiding.
In accordance with Wei Changfa's instructions, the enemy quickly found the cave where Comrade Fang Zhimin was hiding, and in the face of this sudden enemy situation, Comrade Fang Zhimin did not hesitate and led the soldiers to carry out a tenacious struggle.
However, because the enemy was outnumbered, after a fierce battle, Comrade Fang Zhimin fell into the clutches of the Kuomintang reactionaries.
When Chiang Kai-shek learned that Fang Zhimin had been successfully arrested, he was very happy and immediately ordered the other side to torture Zhimin, hoping to get some useful information about our party from his mouth.
However, Comrade Fang Zhimin is not a soft bone, and in the face of the enemy's threats and inducements, he has never revealed half of the information related to our party.
In this regard, the Kuomintang reactionaries were also very helpless and had no choice but to use more torture devices, but these failed to make Comrade Fang Zhimin have the slightest motivation and compromise.
In the enemy's prison, Comrade Fang Zhimin used his pen as a pen to express his chest directly, and in less than seven months he wrote about 140,000 words of manuscripts such as "A Brief Description of My Revolutionary Struggle" and "Lovely China."
In those articles, Comrade Fang Zhimin systematically summarized and analyzed his revolutionary experience over the years and the revolutionary experience gained from it, and also fully expressed his patriotic enthusiasm and unswerving revolutionary will.
On August 6, 1935, when the enemy saw that Comrade Fang Zhimin was soft and hard, he was furious and secretly killed Comrade Fang Zhimin in Xiashawo, Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province, and Comrade Fang Zhimin was only 36 years old when he died!
After his sacrifice, the manuscripts he created in prison went through several twists and turns, and finally they were successfully sent to the Party Central Committee and became the precious spiritual wealth of our Party!
To this day, several of Fang Zhimin's works are still praised and studied by the Chinese people!
Descendants of heroes
And when Fang Zhimin sacrificed his life for the country, he and his wife already had four sons and a daughter, so what kind of life did his children live later?
All along, in Fang Zhimin's heart, there have been three loves and four things, of which three loves are Comrade Fang Zhimin's love for the history and culture of the motherland and the products of mountains and rivers.
And the four things are the green pine and green bamboo white meilan - these four things represent Comrade Fang Zhimin's strong yearning for high purity and personality!
Fang Zhimin and his wife Miao Min married in 1929, and after the marriage they gave birth to four sons and a daughter.
In order to express the yearning in his heart, he named his five children Song, Cypress, Bamboo, Plum and Orchid, hoping that his children would make a difference when they grew up.
After Fang Zhimin was killed, the Kuomintang reactionaries sent a large number of spies to start searching for Fang Zhimin's descendants in order to cut the grass and remove the roots, and in order to avoid the enemy's search, most of his children were later forced to change their names.
At the time of Fang Zhimin's death, his eldest son Fang Song was only 12 years old, while the youngest son, Fang Lan, was only 3 years old.
After learning of Comrade Fang Zhimin's sacrifice, the Party Central Committee was also very sad and regretful, and for this reason, the Party Central Committee gave Fang Zhimin's widow Miao Min a lot of help in life.
And Miao Min did not give up on herself in addition to her grief, and she bravely took up the burden of raising several children.
Fang Zhimin's eldest son, Fang Song, was born in 1923, and since his birth, Fang Song has been living with her grandmother in Yiyang.
After the death of Comrade Fang Zhimin, he was also arrested by the Kuomintang reactionaries to serve as a strong man, and suffered hardships and humiliations, but fortunately, the villagers later tried all kinds of methods to rescue him from the clutches of the devil.
He inherited Fang Zhimin's quality of not being afraid of hard work, and after being rescued by the villagers, he went to work in the Hongdu Machinery Factory, but because of his poor physical condition and years of excessive labor, during the Spring Festival in 1950, he unfortunately died of illness at the age of 27.
After Fang Zhimin's sacrifice, Miao Min took her second and third sons to Yan'an, and sent both sons to the Yan'an Nursery, and later changed his name to Fang Ying to avoid the pursuit and killing of the spies, and the third son was also renamed Fang Ming.
Fang Ying also entered the Hongdu Machinery Factory after growing up, working diligently in it for more than thirty years, and finally died of illness in 1988 at the age of 60.
Fang Ming, on the other hand, was sent to study in the Soviet Union when he was old, where he studied for several years at the Baumann Technical University in Moscow.
After returning to China, he worked quietly in a tractor factory for nearly 25 years, and then was transferred by the Party Central Committee to Nanchang City as a member of the Standing Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and died of illness in 2005 at the age of 75.
Fang Zhimin's youngest daughter, fang mei, was born in November 1932, the fourth oldest of Fang Zhimin's children.
Fang Mei lived in the countryside since she was a child, and did not stay with her parents until after the founding of New China, when she was able to reunite with her long-lost mother.
Fang Mei is a very strong person, until the age of 18, she has not been able to go to school to study, can only do farm work in the countryside.
It was not until the founding of New China and Miao Min found her that she was sent to the Jiangxi Martyrs' Children's School to study, although the enrollment was relatively late, but Fang Mei was not much worse than others in learning.
After graduating from the School for the Children of Martyrs in 1954, Fang Mei entered the Jiangxi Provincial Shipping Administration with excellent results and worked for 32 years until 1986.
Fang Mei has a very deep affection for her father, and after retiring, she has been writing non-stop and publishing many books related to her father, such as "Fang Zhimin's Life" and "Fang Zhimin and His Relatives".
Today, Fang Mei still serves as a director and honorary president of the Fang Zhimin Research Society in Jiangxi Province!
Among the five brothers and sisters, the one who suffered the most was Fang Zhimin's younger son, Fang Lan.
He was born in Jiangxi Province in 1933, when the Kuomintang army was "encircling and suppressing" the northeastern Jiangsu region, and Fang Lan was separated from his parents by the enemy's sweeping.
Until after liberation, Wang Dongxing, vice minister of public security, attached great importance to this when he learned that Comrade Fang Zhimin still had a child left abroad, and sent many people to look for him.
In the end, under the unremitting efforts of Wang Dongxing, Fang Lan was able to return to the side of his mother Miao Min.
In May 1977, the Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee held a standing committee meeting, one of which was to discuss the burial ceremony of the remains of martyr Fang Zhimin in the film and television work "Fang Zhimin", at which Fang Lan was designated as one of the members of the creative team.
After that, Fang Lan also edited a work that reflected his father Fang Zhimin's indomitable revolutionary will - "Blood Fertile China", in which the iron bones of the martyr Fang Zhimin can be said to be vividly displayed!
In addition, Fang Lan also prepared for the establishment of the Nanchang Municipal Government Office in Beijing, and under the arrangement of the Party Central Committee, he served as the director of the Nanchang Municipal People's Government Office in Beijing, and was a county-level cadre in the mainland.
On November 22, 2018, Comrade Fang Lan, the youngest son of martyr Fang Zhimin, died of illness in Nanchang at the age of 85.
Comrade Fang Zhimin unfortunately sacrificed himself in the course of the revolutionary struggle, but his children did not disappoint him, although they suffered some hardships, but they all inherited their father's selfless dedication and contributed their own strength to the construction of the motherland!
Then again, Wei Changfa, the guard who came out of Comrade Zhimin, fled with a hundred pieces of ocean and a "beautiful" wife sent by the Kuomintang reactionaries after Comrade Fang Zhimin was killed.
After the founding of New China, with the efforts of the staff, in 1950, Wei Changfa, who had been at large for 15 years, was also successfully arrested and arrested by the Party Central Committee, and was sentenced to shooting at the 10,000-person public trial meeting, and got the punishment he deserved!
Although justice will be late, justice will never be absent, and it is absolutely impossible for a traitor of the party like Wei Changfa to go unpunished all the time, and the punishment that belongs to him will eventually come!
We are so happy to live in the era of peace, we have a safe, stable and happy childhood, we do not have to worry about life, we do not have to worry about war, this is the life that the revolutionary ancestors could not hope for.
And this kind of life is bought by countless revolutionary martyrs like Comrade Fang Zhimin with their fresh lives.
And the only thing we can do is to remember history, keep in mind the mission, and use our meager strength to contribute to the prosperity of the motherland!
Bibliography:
"Fang Zhimin: An Immortal Monument Cast in a Black Prison" Chinese Military Network
"Forever Monument: The Great Communist Fighter - Fang Zhimin" China Net
"Fang Zhimin and His Family" Guangming Network