Ye Ting, a famous general of the Northern Expedition, his image of being brave and good at war is deeply praised in the hearts of the people, and his dramatic life of ups and downs has attracted infinite lamentation.
His revolutionary love with his wife Li Xiuwen "could not be born on the same day of the same month of the same year, but died on the same day of the same month of the same year" has touched countless people.
Mr. and Mrs. Ye Ting had a total of 9 children, of which 7 were men and 2 women.
In addition to the premature death of the third son, the eldest daughter Ye Yangmei and the youngest son Ah Jiu and their parents, there are still 6 left.
The 6 children have achieved great achievements in the future, which is inseparable from the education of Ye Ting and his wife.
Perhaps it has a lot to do with the difficulty of flying opportunities for his parents, three of Ye Ting's five sons have chosen to major in aviation and have formed an indissoluble relationship with airplanes.
The eldest son, Ye Zhengda, has an aviation complex since he was a child, and when he was a teenager, he often told his parents that he would become an aircraft manufacturer when he grew up, so that everyone could have an airplane.
Years later, Ye Zhengda fulfilled his childhood dream and studied aircraft manufacturing.
He was one of 21 students selected to study in the Soviet Union in 1948, including his younger brother Ye Zhengming. Both brothers studied at the Moscow Aircraft Manufacturing Institute, but with different specialties.
In 1955, Ye Zhengda graduated and returned to China to serve as vice president of the Sixth Research Institute of the Ministry of National Defense, deputy director of the National Defense Industry Office of the State Council, and deputy director of the Science and Technology Committee of the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense. He was awarded the rank of Lieutenant General in 1988.
Lieutenant General Ye Zhengda
Compared with his brother, Ye Ting's second son Ye Zhengming and fourth son Ye Huaming spent much more time with their father.
After the Anhui Incident, Ye Ting was detained by the Kuomintang, and while imprisoned in Guilin and Enshi, Ye Zhengming, Ye Huaming, and his sister Ye Yangmei were all with their father.
In the article "My Father General Ye Ting", Ye Zhengming talked about the scene when he first met his father in Guilin, who had not been seen for four years:
The chubby face had become thin, and the jet-black hair had floated a trace of whiteness. Who gave this to my lovely father? We learn to hate. ”
At that time, Ye Zhengming was only 11 years old, and in the eyes of a child, the originally healthy and young father had become vicissitudes, which was a very painful thing.
In Guilin, the Ye Ting family was not free, and their every move was closely monitored by secret agents:
They first moved from the hotel to a house on the outskirts of the Seven Star Rock Road, and with the birth of their young son Ah Jiu, Ye Ting's burden became heavier, so the family moved to an air raid shelter in Guanyin Mountain in the eastern suburbs.
Those spies were always around him, and some of them were not very smart, and they followed Ye Ting's every inch, causing Ye Ting to be angry and often roar at them:
"Dog, what do you always do with me?"
"Dog, you come up, I'll punch you in the mouth!"
Although the agents did not dare to return their mouths, they still carried out the task of surveillance with a dead face.
Ye Ting usually boldly interacted with some patriotic democrats, such as Liao Zhongkai's widow He Xiangning, Qian Jiaju and Liu Yazi. These people also often gave the Ye Ting family some help within their ability.
In addition, he also bought more than ten sheep and brought his children to plough the land and herd sheep.
From left to right: Ye Ting, Ye Zhengda, Ye Zhengming, Ye Huaming, Ye Yangmei, Ye Jianmei, Li Xiuwen, Ye Zhengguang
Unexpectedly, not long after such a hard but peaceful life, Ye Ting was suddenly kidnapped! It was December 25, 1943.
A secret agent hurriedly ran to Ye Ting's house and reported to Ye Ting: "Ye Gaoshan, your sheep were taken away by a thief in the back mountain. Ye Ting didn't think much of it, so he put on his coat and went up the mountain to chase the sheep.
When he ran up the hill, he found the sheep well and grazing.
Suddenly, more than 20 armed agents who had been ambushed in advance rushed up, surrounded By Ye, and got on a truck that was already prepared on the back hillside, and escorted him to the headquarters of the Fifth Gendarmerie Regiment in Guilin City.
There, Ye Ting hurriedly wrote a letter to his family, and was immediately escorted to Hengyang.
Ye Ting and his wife
Li Xiuwen did not wait for her husband at home, and was anxious to inquire everywhere, until she received the letter the next day, and the stone in her heart fell to the ground.
In the letter, Ye Ting informed his wife that he was under house arrest somewhere and that his life was not in danger, and in order to reduce his wife's burden, he asked Zhengming, Huaming, and Yangmei to go with him, and let Li Xiuwen live in Guilin with his relatives and remaining children.
So Li Xiuwen packed his bags for the three children and returned a letter. That night, the three children were taken away by the agents to Hengyang. The next day, the children met their father.
Then, under the close surveillance of secret agents and gendarmes, Ye Ting and his party arrived in Enshi on the eve of the Spring Festival in 1944 after 18 days and nights of turbulence.
Ye Ting and his wife embraced Ye Zhengming in Germany
Ye Ting and his 3 children lived in the "thatched villa" near the Zhujiahe River in the western suburbs, where he had lived before.
At that time, the Kuomintang authorities found that the method of "softening" could not make Ye Ting surrender, so they switched to a tough method, imposing a blockade economically, isolating politically, and restricting his movements.
But none of this frightened Ye Ting, and in the face of the harsh living environment, he began to cultivate land, planting corn, sweet potatoes and other miscellaneous grains, as well as cabbage, radish and other vegetables.
In addition, he bought a few piglets and goats to come back to breed, and hatched some chickens and ducklings.
Ye Ting never spoiled children, but took them with him to work together, such as cooking, growing vegetables, breeding, collecting firewood, and playing straw shoes.
When recalling their father, the children said: "Dad is like this, from the actual conditions to try all kinds of ways, do their own work, to solve the family's living problems." Take the lead in setting an example ourselves, and cultivate our habit of loving labor from an early age. ”
In addition, under the education of Ye Ting, the children also understood a lot of revolutionary principles and broadened their horizons.
Ye Zhengming was attending the best middle school in Enshi at that time. But on the first day, he was accused of being a "little communist."
One day, Ye Zhengming was called by the principal to lecture and asked him to write a "letter of repentance" because he was walking among his classmates about the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army, but Ye Zhengming did not write it.
At the end of the semester, despite his excellent grades, Ye Zhengming received a notice of repetition. After Ye Ting knew the reason for the incident, he not only did not criticize his son, but praised him for having a backbone.
In 1945, with the improvement of the situation of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was very concerned about Ye Ting's release and the safety of his children. However, on August 28, Ye Ting's father and son were escorted to Chongqing by the Kuomintang.
After his release from prison, Ye Ting took the last group photo with his wife, Yang Mei and Ah Jiu under the plum tree
Ye Ting thought all the way about how to let the children escape the clutches of the devil.
On the evening of September 14, when they arrived at Chongqing's Chaotianmen Wharf, they were arranged to stay in a small hotel by the river. Ye Ting took the opportunity to arrange the children's escape plan and let them go to Uncle Zhou Enlai.
Early the next morning, the three brothers and sisters took a letter and some money written by their father to Zhou Enlai and sneaked away while the gendarmes and secret agents were not paying attention to them.
According to the address given by their father, they found Zhou Enlai's residence, the "Zhou Mansion" at No. 50 Zengjiayan. And successfully hid in Uncle Zhou's house.
During that time, the Kuomintang repeatedly sent spies to knock on the door, falsely claiming that Ye Ting had asked the three children to go back. But Zhou Enlai's family gave the children strict protection.
Zhou Enlai and Ye raised eyebrows
Two months later, Zhou Enlai sent his children to school in Yan'an until Ye Ting was released from prison in March 1946.
April 8 of that year was a day of sorrow and a day that Ye Ting's children would never forget.
Mr. and Mrs. Ye Ting flew from Chongqing to Yan'an with Yang Mei (who went from Yan'an to Chongqing to meet their father) and Xiao Ajiu from Chongqing.
Ye Zhengming and Ye Huaming, who were studying in Yan'an at that time, were also arranged to go to the airport to meet them, who knows, they will never see their dear parents and younger siblings...
On April 19, the memorial service for Ye Ting and other martyrs who died in the crash was held in Yan'an and Chongqing, and the Ye Zhengming brothers also stood in the crowd, tears flowing uncontrollably.
The night before, Ye Zhengming woke up crying several times and wrote an article "To the Dead Father and Mother", which was full of sincere and simple emotions, and the readers were all moved...
Ye Zhengming
After that, Ye Zhengming and Ye Huaming brothers went to Zhangjiakou in North China and lived in the home of their father's old friend, Marshal Nie Rongzhen, and after the liberation of Guangzhou in 1950, Ye Huaming brought his younger brother Ye Zhengguang to live with him, and Nie Shuai treated them like his own son.
In 1948, Ye Zhengming was sent to study at the Moscow Aircraft Manufacturing Institute with his brother Ye Zhengda, who studied aircraft design.
After graduating and returning to China, he served as a scientific and technological adviser of the General Armament Department of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, the director of the China Association for the Promotion of Foreign Applied Technology Exchanges, and an expert who enjoys special government allowances.
Following in the footsteps of his two older brothers, Ye Huaming, at the suggestion of Nie Shuai, graduated from middle school in 1953 and went to Kazakhstan to study aero-engines for half a year under the hands of General Chen Geng of the Kazakh Military Industry, and in the same year, he was selected to continue his studies at the Moscow Military Aeronautical Engineering Institute.
After returning to China in 1959, he was assigned to work at the Fifth Research Institute of the Ministry of National Defense and became one of the first experts in the development of surface-to-air missiles in New China.
On January 16, 1992, when Deng Xiaoping was touring the south, he inspected the Xianke Company led by Ye Huaming and talked with Ye Huaming
In addition, it is worth mentioning Ye Ting's grandson, Ye Zhengming's son Ye Daying. He was born in Changchun in 1958, 12 years after Ye Ting's death.
Ye Daying's mother, Anqi, is an actor in the Bayi Film Studio and played a landlord's wife in the movie "Watershed".
Before the age of ten, Ye Daying grew up in the compound of the Bayi Factory. The mother's work, coupled with the environment in which she grew up, let the seed of "movie" be sown in the heart of the eagle early on.
"The adults I know who make movies, so I feel that people in this world have a relationship with movies," Mr. Ye said in an interview.
In 1969, Daying moved with his father from Beijing to Songjiang, Shanghai, where he attended a primary school in a rural commune near an aerospace research institute where his father worked. This stay is seven years.
Leaf Big Eagle
Ye Daying never thought he would become a director. After resuming the college entrance examination in 1978, he once helped his mother hand over the admission brochure of the film school to her friend, and suddenly moved the heart of the directing department.
After failing to pass the Beijing Film Academy, he chose to go to the actor class of xi'an Film Studio first, and coincidentally, one of the exam questions was poetry recitation. Ye Daying chose his grandfather's famous "Prisoner Song" because he could recite it since he was a child.
He was admitted. However, Ye Daying wanted to be a director, so in 1984, he was admitted to the Beijing Film Academy's director's training class.
The following year, he met wang shuo, an important person in his life. The two became friends after a meal and continued friendship for decades.
Ye Daying changed Wang Shuo's famous novel "Half Seawater and Half Flame" into a screenplay, and directed by Xia Gang into a movie in 1989.
In 1987, Ye Daying made his first film, "The Great Gasp", adapted from Wang Shuo's novel "Rubber Man".
What really made Ye Daying proud was his 1994-1995 red-themed film "Red Cherry".
It also won the 1996 Chinese Film Golden Rooster, Hundred Flowers Award for Best Feature Film, Best Actress Award, 1996 Houston International Film Festival Jury Special Gold Award, 1996 Pyongyang International Film Festival Best Feature Film Award, Best Actress Award and many other awards.
Immediately afterward, Ye Daying made another work with the same theme, "Red Lovers", which won the silver medal of the Pyramid Award at the 22nd Cairo International Film Festival.
In addition, Ye Daying also directed the TV series "General Chen Geng" in 2005 and the National Day tribute film "Tiananmen" in 2009.
But what Ye Daying most wanted to make was a movie about his grandfather, a willingness he had confided in an interview with Zhou Haibin in 2009. We look forward to that day, and it will be so exciting to see Ye Ting, directed by the general's grandson himself, on the big screen!
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