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Meng Chun (1901-1963), also known as Xiga, was born into a wealthy Mongolian family in Bikchi Village, Zuoqi Commune of Tumut (now Bikchi Township, Zuoqi of Tumut), and was a well-known large family in Bikqi, so he received a good education from an early age.
In 1921, he was admitted to Guisui Middle School, and in January 1924, he joined the Chinese Socialist Youth League; In June of the same year, he became a member of the Communist Party of China. In 1927, Meng Chun was admitted to the Republic of China University in Beijing to study law. In 1931, after graduating from university, he returned to Guisui and carried out underground work with Leeson and others. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Meng Chun successively served as a member and deputy director of the Office of the Ethnic Affairs Committee of Suiyuan Province, deputy director of the Communication Department of the People's Government of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, and manager of the Hohhot Hotel. In 1963, Meng Chun died of illness at the age of 62.
He practiced the oath that "the communist cause is our lifelong cause" all his life, and until the last years of his life, he still adhered to his original intention: "A revolutionary, born as a revolutionary, dies forever for the communist cause, and remains unchanged." ”
With his unswerving perseverance and struggle throughout his life, Meng Chun interpreted the true meaning of the Chinese Communists "never forget their original intention, remember their mission", and his revolutionary deeds were widely spread under the Daqing Mountain in Inner Mongolia and on the Tumut Plain...
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Born in 1901 to a wealthy Mongolian family. At that time, his family had more than 170 acres of watered land, and he was a well-known family in Bikzi, so he received a good education from an early age.
In 1921, Meng Chun was admitted to Guisui Middle School (the predecessor of today's Hohhot No. 1 Middle School), where he and his classmates Ji Yatai, Li Yuzhi and others organized a book club, read a large number of progressive books and periodicals, actively participated in patriotic activities, and also got acquainted with progressive young people such as Duo Songnian, Wulanfu, Yunrun, Zhao Cheng, Kuibi, Foding, Gao Buzebo, and Kang Gencheng of Tumut Higher Primary School.
Make a big fuss about the anti-imperialist and patriotic struggle of foreign countries
When commemorating the "National Shame Day" in May 1923, the Suiyuan Student Federation gathered hundreds of students from various schools in Guisui Middle School to hold a meeting to commemorate the fourth anniversary of the May Fourth Movement, and then organized a huge anti-imperialist and patriotic parade. Shengxing Shi Yosho (referred to as Sheng Kee Yosho) on Da Nan Street was the largest daily department store at the time, selling the most Japanese goods. When the student team came to the door of Sheng Kee Foreign Bank, the boss heard that Japanese goods were not allowed to be sold, and said in a high spirit: "Lao Tzu can sell any domestic product he wants." You guys don't study well as students, and dogs are nosy with rats, so get out of my way!" The boss's words angered the students, and everyone reported to the Suiyuan Student Federation. The next morning, the Suiyuan Student Federation organized another student assembly, and Meng Chun, the person in charge of the student federation, described yesterday's situation and asked for everyone's opinions: "Students, what do you say about this kind of foreign business that is oblivious to profit?" The students said in unison: "Smashed the foreign bank!" Subsequently, Meng Chun led the student team to Sheng Kee Foreign Bank, and the boss's attitude was still tough. The students couldn't bear it anymore and rushed into the foreign company, throwing all the goods bearing the Japanese logo on the ground and smashing it. This is the famous anti-imperialist and patriotic struggle in Hohhot's history. Meng Chun was also expelled from school because of this.
In the fall of 1923, Meng Chun and 39 Mongolian youths, including Duo Songnian, Wulanfu, Yunrun, Kuibi, Ji Yatai, Li Yuzhi, and Fo Ding, were admitted to the Beijing Mongolian-Tibetan School. Li Dazhao, one of the main founders of the Communist Party of China, personally went to Mongolian and Tibetan schools to learn about the situation of the Mongolian people and educate them in revolutionary enlightenment. From the winter of 1923 to the spring of 1924, Meng Chun and Duo Songnian, Wulanfu, Yunrun, Li Yuzhi, Ji Yatai, Kui Bi, Zhao Cheng, Fo Ding, Gao Buzebo, Kang Gencheng, Ren Dianbang, Yunlin and others successively joined the Chinese Socialist Youth League (the predecessor of the Communist Youth League). Beginning in the second half of 1924, Meng Chun and Duo Songnian, Wulanfu, Yunrun, Li Yuzhi, Kui Bi, Ji Yatai, Fo Ding, Zhao Cheng, Gao Buzebo and others successively became members of the Communist Party of China. Since then, the first communist fighters have appeared in Inner Mongolia.
Joined the Inner Mongolia Agriculture, Workers and Soldiers Alliance
Although Meng Chun came from a rich family, he had no nobility, he was generous, helpful, and often helped poor students, as long as he heard that any classmate had a difficult life or had no travel expenses back home, he helped and was very popular with his classmates. After Meng Chun joined the party, he participated more actively in the student movement in Beijing and served as a member of the Standing Committee of the Beijing Federation of Students.
In 1925, students from various schools in Beijing supported the Five Swords Movement, and Meng Chun was one of the main organizers of the Mongolian-Tibetan School in Beijing, not only participating in the inaugural meeting of the Inner Mongolian Agriculture, Workers and Soldiers League held by Li Dazhao in Zhangjiakou, but also serving as Li Dazhao's underground traffic officer in the Rehe, Chahar, and Suiyuan areas.
In 1925, he attended the inaugural meeting of the Inner Mongolia Agriculture, Engineer and Soldier League in Zhangjiakou. In 1926, when eight students, including Jia Ligeng, Gao Buzebo, and Wang Jiangong, who graduated from the Guangzhou Peasant Movement Seminar, were detained by the Fengjun army in Beiping, Meng Chunkai's classmates from the Mongolian-Tibetan School managed to rescue them and were finally released.
He led the struggle against Qingzhang land and won victory
In 1927, Meng Chun was admitted to the law faculty of the Republic of China University in Beijing. Soon, Li Dazhao was killed by the warlord, and Meng Chun was also followed by secret agents, and returned to his hometown several times. He, Jia Ligeng and others led the struggle of the Bikeqi peasants against Qingzhang land and won victory.
In 1929, Meng Chun returned to his hometown during the summer vacation, was arrested and imprisoned by the Kuomintang authorities for being a traitor, and was released six months later because there was no evidence, after which he lost contact with the party organization.
In 1931, Meng Chun got in touch with Ulanfu and Lisen. In the autumn, Wang Ruofei returned from the Soviet Union to carry out revolutionary work, was arrested by the enemy in Baotou and detained in Suiyuan No. 1 Model Prison. Wulanfu and others tried their best to rescue Wang Ruofei, but it was very difficult, and through Meng Chun, they found Ren Zihua, Meng Chun's brother-in-law, who was the head of the second section in prison, and asked him to take care of Wang Ruofei.
In February 1936, after the Bailing Temple military riot, Meng Chun served as a colonel, counselor, and director of the quartermaster department of the Mongolian Banner Security Corps (later renamed the Mongolian Banner Mixed Brigade, Mongolian Banner Independent Brigade, and the newly organized Third Division of the National Revolutionary Army) controlled by CCP members Bai Haifeng, Wulanfu and others.
Stand up to help Comrade Ulanfu get out of trouble
After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War in 1937, the Mongolian Banner Independent Brigade was reorganized into the newly organized Third Army Division of the National Revolutionary Army (referred to as the New Third Division), and an underground party committee of the Communist Party of China was established, with Ulanfu as the party secretary and Meng Chun as the organizing member.
After the Southern Anhui Incident in 1941, the Kuomintang launched a second anti-communist upsurge. The central authorities instructed Wulanfu, Keligeng, Hanfeng, and others, who had already revealed their identities as communists, to leave the New Third Division and return to Yan'an, while Meng Chun, Yun Wei, and Yun Feiyang, who had not revealed their identities, remained in the New Third Division. Just as Ulanfu was taking leave to withdraw to Yan'an, Bao Qinghua, chief of staff, offered to agree to Ulanfu's departure unless someone guaranteed it. Meng Chun stepped forward at a critical moment and vouched for Ulanfu as a fellow countryman, and Ulanfu finally left the new third division smoothly. Soon, Meng Chun, Yun Wei, Yun Feiyang and others were transferred to Gansu with the New Third Division for rectification and training, and since then they have lost contact with the party organization.
Died of illness and left a history of youth
In 1945, after the New Third Division was controlled by Kuomintang diehards, Meng Chun and Yun Wei were forced to leave the New Third Division and retire and return home. Meng Chun served as a councilor of the Mongolian Banner Consolation Embassy, in 1946 as a member of the Tumut Banner Government Construction Committee, and in 1947 as the secretary and acting chief of the Tumut Banner Government.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Meng Chun successively served as a member and deputy director of the Office of the Ethnic Affairs Committee of Suiyuan Province, deputy director of the Communication Department of the People's Government of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, and manager of the Hohhot Hotel.
In 1963, Meng Chun died of illness at the age of 62.