Xinhua News Agency, Nanning, 4 April Title: The Great Sacrifice Behind a Row of Family Tombstones -- The Story of the Pursuit of "Brother Pulling" at the Time of the Qingming Dynasty
Xinhua News Agency reporters Huang Haoming and Huang Kaiying
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In the northwest mountains of Guizhou in early April, the drizzle and mist, the peaks are verdant. Wei Baqun's former residence is lined with pines and cypresses, and not far in front of him stands a row of tombstones of sacrificed relatives. The leader of China's early peasant movement, known as "Brother Bao," was killed by reactionaries in 17 of his family members for the revolution, and he himself died in a cave near his hometown in 1932.
Zhou Yafeng, assistant secretary of the party branch of Dongli Village, Wuzhuo Town, Donglan County, Guangxi Province, where Wei Baqun's former residence is located, said: "During this time, many cadres and masses came here every day to visit, and the parking lot was often full of cars. ”
The tombstone of Wei Baqun's relatives. (Photo by Xinhua news agency reporter Qin Guanghua)
Next to the monument where Wei Baqun's deeds are recorded, bouquets of flowers offered by the masses are neatly arranged to commemorate the revolutionary martyrs. Against the backdrop of green water and green mountains, the former residence on the mountainside is like a huge monument, telling the thrilling, heroic and tragic history.
Wei Baqun was born in 1894 in Donglan Wuzhuo to a wealthy peasant family, he went to the legal and political school to train reactionary old judges, participated in the crusade against Yuan Shikai's national defense army, and later joined the progressive organization "Reform Guangxi Comrades Association", began a real revolutionary career, and returned to his hometown of Donglan to carry out the armed struggle of peasants against exploitation and oppression and overthrow of feudal rule.
The spark of a spark can ignite the plains. The revolutionary seeds cultivated here were scattered on the land of the Right River, gradually becoming a trend of burning the plains, laying a solid foundation for the successful holding of the Baise Uprising, the establishment of the Red Seventh Army, and the establishment of the Youjiang Revolutionary Base Area. In the winter of 1926, Wei Baqun joined the Communist Party of China.
Aerial photo of The Former Residence of Wei Baqun. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Qin Guanghua)
On December 11, 1929, Deng Xiaoping, Zhang Yunyi, Wei Baqun and other proletarian revolutionaries of the older generation led the Baise Uprising and created the Seventh Red Army. In the early morning of October 19, 1932, Wei Baqun was killed by traitors at the age of 38.
Along the stone paved path winding up the mountain, the reporter came to the place where Wei Baqun sacrificed- The Xiang brush cave in Xishan Township, Bama Yao Autonomous County, Guangxi.
Wei Yuwei, director of the Bama Yao Autonomous County Party Member Education Center, said: Wei Baqun represents not only the three words "Wei Baqun," but also the original intention and conviction of the Chinese communists.
Accompanied by the guide's explanation, tourists follow his story in the hometown of "Brother Bao". "What impressed me most was that Wei Baqun successively named the names of his three sons 'Wei Revolution', 'Wei Persistence' and 'Wei To the End', expressing revolutionary determination, what a precious spirit!" Tourist He Zhongming said.
The stone stele in front of Wei Baqun's former residence. (Photo by Xinhua news agency reporter Qin Guanghua)
In front of Wei Baqun's former residence, there is a stone stele that reads: "Seek benefits for the peasants." Nearly a hundred years later, the story of "Brother Ba" is still being sung, and the "Spirit of Wei Baqun" is alive and well in this red land.