More than 90 years ago, Chen Duxiu's two sons, who fought for the party's construction all their lives, were not yet 30 years old when they died. Eight years later, Chen Duxiu suffered in prison, and while drinking with his cousin who took care of him, he paid homage to the martyrs who had sacrificed their lives for communism over the years, and when he thought of his two sons who had sacrificed, his heart was both proud and sad, and he could not help but cry out in pain.
In 1942, Chen Duxiu died in Jiangjin after accumulating labor and illness for his career. From the turmoil at that time to today's prosperous and prosperous world, the deeds of the Chen family father and son are still remembered by us, which makes people tear up when they mention it.
Chen Duxiu father and son (film and television scene)
Chen Yannian and Chen Qiaonian were killed one after another, changing the fate of many family members. Chen QiaoNian's sister Chen Yuying was devastated and died of an acute illness, leaving only the younger brother of the four brothers and sisters.
After Chen Qiao's death, his youngest son died of illness. Most regrettably, at the time of his death, his only daughter had not yet been born. The youngest daughter Chen Hong lost the protection of her father as soon as she was born, and her mother was unable to protect her safety in the turmoil, and she had a bad fate not long after her birth, living a poor and turbulent life at an early age, being sent to be raised several times, and was once forgotten by everyone.
It was not until her mother returned home that she found that she had lost track of herself in the turmoil. Since then, the Chen family has been searching for many years, but there has been no result. What happened in that? Can Chen Qiao Nian's daughter be found? And listen to the author.
Chen Qiaonian's daughter (first from the left)
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="8" > Chen Qiao died of illness, and Chen Duxiu originally had only one of his four sons</h1>
Chen Duxiu had three wives in his lifetime, and his original wife Gao Xiaolan gave birth to three sons and two daughters, one of whom died tragically, they were the eldest son Chen Yannian, the eldest daughter Chen Yuying, the second son Chen Qiaonian and the younger son Chen Songnian.
After Chen Duxiu was admitted to Xiucai, he married Gao Xiaolan and at first fell in love with him, but later because of the difference in values, Gao Xiaolan very much disagreed with Chen Duxiu's advanced ideas and revolutionary behavior. After Chen Duxiu left home to study, Gao Xiaolan lived with her four children. Because my father was not around since I was a child, the feelings of the four people were very good.
Chen Duxiu's original wife, Gao Xiaolan
Later, Chen Duxiu married a second wife and brought Chen Yannian and Chen Qiaonian to Shanghai. Due to their mother's plight, the two brothers were also very dissatisfied with their father's marriage to their aunt, and soon moved out of Chen Duxiu's house. Chen Duxiu only gave them ten oceans a month as living expenses, and after paying the tuition fee, there was not much left.
The brothers depend on each other, studying and working at the same time. Under difficult conditions, often even the rice is not enough, the two people often share a piece of cake, a bowl of rice, Chen Yannian will always give the extra part to his brother. However, under such difficult conditions, Chen Qiaonian often made fun of himself and did not complain about the world.
At one point, his belt was broken, but he was not depressed, picked up a hemp rope and tied it to his waist, laughing and saying that it was stronger than a belt. In this way, the two brothers studied together, lived together, and had deep feelings.
Chen Yannian (film and television scene)
In 1927, Chen Yannian was hacked to death by the reactionaries' indiscriminate knife and sacrificed heroically, at the age of 29, until the last moment, he was still straight and refused to fall easily. Chiang Kai-shek personally ordered that no collection of the body should be collected, and also threw Chen Yannian's body into the Huangpu River. Chen Yannian's grandmother and mother immediately fainted when they heard the news, and the three younger siblings were also deeply sad.
At this time, Chen Duxiu's side was full of dangers, and Chen Yuying had to take her still young brother to deal with her brother's affairs. However, he did not even see the last side of his brother, and could only secretly hide by the Huangpu River to pay tribute.
Chen Qiaonian was very sad, but he thought of his father Chen Duxiu, who was still in Shanghai but could not reveal his identity, and in order to comfort him, he and his wife Shi Jingyi took his youngest son Chen Hongwu to visit his father many times. Chen QiaoNian, with grief for his brother and concern for his father, quickly threw himself into party building.
Portrait of Chen Qiaonian
The grandmother and mother dissuaded Chen Qiao more because of Chen Yannian's sacrifice, but Chen Qiaonian did not give up. Thanks to the efforts of Comrades Chen Qiaonian and others, the party organizations in Shanghai and Jiangsu that were hit were rebuilt to a certain extent.
The last time he met his father was when he brought his wife to visit his father on one occasion, and Chen Qiaonian disagreed with his father, Chen Duxiu, who pointed out that his father Chen Duxiu's thinking was markedly right-leaning and his views on the nature of Chinese society were also deviated. Chen Duxiu insisted on his point of view, the two blew their beards and stared, and finally dispersed unhappily, chen Qiao left without eating the New Year meal. And they didn't expect that after this meeting, they would never say goodbye.
In 1928, Chen Qiaonian organized a meeting of the organization ministers of the district committees, but because of the whistle-blowing of the traitor Tang Ruilin, more than ten comrades including Chen Qiaonian were arrested, and the Jiangsu party organization suffered another blow.
Traitor Tang Ruilin (film and television scene)
Fortunately, things did not reach the worst time, Chen Qiaonian responded under a pseudonym, and the Kuomintang could not determine his identity. The party organizations, as well as the arrested comrades, were secretly planning to rescue Chen QiaoNian. Everyone is ready to temporarily replace Chen Qiaonian as Comrade Zhou Zhichu, who is unknown to the traitor, and secretly redeem Chen Qiaonian with money.
Zhou Zhichu was sentenced to death at that time, but what everyone did not expect was that his father loved his son and was eager to rescue Zhou Zhichu outside. Zhou Zhichu's identity was exposed, and Chen Qiaonian was also in danger. He was well aware of his identity, and as Chen Duxiu's son, he also held an important position, and it was absolutely impossible for him to survive. So the trustee relayed to the party organization that was still trying to rescue him, expressed his gratitude, and advised the organization to abandon the rescue of him.
Chen Qiaonian was tortured in prison, and on June 6, 1928, he walked heroically on the blood-covered land with heavy shackles and full of wounds, and was only 26 years old.
Chen Qiao Nian
When such news came, Chen Yuying and Chen Songnian's siblings once again went to Shanghai. Hearing that her brother's body was also thrown into the Huangpu River, it was still difficult to see on one side, and Chen Yuying was sad in her heart. After losing two brothers in succession, Chen Yuying was devastated, fell ill in Shanghai, and died soon after.
The 18-year-old Chen Songnian was forced to grow a lot in an instant while dealing with the aftermath of his brother and sister, while also writing letters to hide his mother and grandmother. However, the news was not hidden, and the mother Gao Xiaolan learned that the second son had also died, and the daughter died of illness in Shanghai, and her heart was sad, and she died not long after.
At this point, of chen Duxiu's original four children, only Chen Songnian was left. Chen Duxiu was not without grief, but at that time he could only endure the pain and concealment of the cause of communism, until he was in prison eight years later, he could not help but cry out in pain, proud of his two sons, and sad for their early death.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="77" > to protect their daughters and raise them, and as a result, they lost contact</h1>
Chen Yannian was unmarried all his life, childless and childless, and devoted his whole life's energy to the party. The sacrifice of his younger brother Chen Qiaonian caused an almost devastating blow to Chen Qiaonian and Shi Jingyi's small family.
Shi Jingyi
Chen Qiaonian and Shi Jingyi had feelings for each other at work, and after getting married, they gave birth to their youngest son, Chen Hongwu. After Chen Qiaonian was arrested and imprisoned, Shi Jingyi rushed around to rescue Chen Qiaonian while taking care of her young son, who had just turned one year old, and was weak for a while, and under negligence, her younger son Chen Hongwu unfortunately died. Just when Shi Jingyi was grieving, she found herself pregnant again, and soon after Qiao Nian's death, she gave birth to Qiao Nian's only daughter, Chen Hong.
As early as the time of Chen Qiao's sacrifice, Shi Jingyi was also in a dangerous environment, she forced herself to give birth to her daughter, but she had no spare strength to take care of her. What's more, Shanghai was not safe at that time, and in the turbulent period of integrity, in order to protect her young daughter, so that she could be better cared for. Organizationally, he consulted with Shi Jingyi and sent his daughter Chen Hongxian to the Shanghai Mutual Aid Association at that time to raise her, and she went to the Soviet Union to study under the arrangement.
Initially, Chen Hong was sent to a family surnamed Miao, when the daughter of the Couple surnamed Miao had just died, which would not arouse the suspicion of people with hearts, and the Couple surnamed Miao returned to their hometown with the young Chen Hong. At first, the Miao family and his wife took care of Chen Hong as their own daughter, but unfortunately the good times did not last long, the Miao family couple fell seriously ill, coupled with their own family poverty, they had no choice but to send Chen Hong.
A few years later, shi Jingyi returned from studying in the Soviet Union, and the first thing she did was to look for her daughter Chen Hong. Unfortunately, at that time, the Shanghai Party organization was destroyed many times, and the information in all aspects was not clear enough. After several twists and turns, chen hong's news had long been lost.
Shi Jingyi has not been able to let go of Chen Hong's daughter, and has been looking for it for many years, until he was seriously ill in 1969, still thinking about it, and before he died, he asked Chen Qiao Nian's old subordinate and Shi Jingyi's brother-in-law Yang Qianru to continue to help find it. Yang Qianru has been working hard for this matter, and has paid countless painstaking efforts, but he has not been able to find Chen Hong.
In 1989, Yang Qianru published an article in the newspaper, hoping to use the strength of people from all walks of life to find, but at that time, the environment was limited, Chen Duxiu's identity was special, although he received many letters calling himself "Chen Hong", but they were not Chen Hong.
At the same time, Chen Qiaonian's younger brother Chen Songnian has also been looking for Chen Hong. When Shi Jingyi returned to China, Chen Songnian also went to visit the former second sister-in-law, and after learning that the little niece had lost contact, he ran around looking for it. At that time, Chen Songnian also constantly reflected to the party organization that after Yang Qianru's search, Chen Songnian also found several "Chen Hong" before and after, but they could not match his niece's experience, nor could they find any similarities with the Chen family.
Chen Qiaonian's younger brother Chen Songnian
It was not until 1994 that a reporter from the Fuzhou Military Research Association wrote a letter saying that a retired cadre named Miao Yu in Fuzhou had an early experience very similar to Chen Hong's.
Miao Yu was 66 years old at the time, born in Wuwei County, Anhui Province, her adoptive father's surname was Miao, and after her death due to illness, Miao Yu was also sent to the Chen family to raise. Not long after coming to the Chen family, his adoptive father was captured by the Kuomintang. The young Miao Yu lost the protection of her adoptive father, and the family was gone. She and her grandmother lived in this small village, there was no place to live, they could only beg the local people, sleeping in the landlord's cattle shed, barely resisting the wind and rain; there was nothing to eat, Xiao Miaoyu and grandmother could only beg for a living, and the older Miao yu would do what they could in exchange for food.
In such a difficult environment, Miao Yu gradually grew up and developed a strong and hard-working personality. At the age of 13, my grandmother died of illness, and the already poor family was even poorer. In order to relieve the pressure on the family, she remembered that her grandmother had said that she was not the daughter of the Chen family or the daughter of the Miao family, and she was determined to find her own biological parents.
Chen Hong (Miao Yu)
When Miao Yu was 16 years old, the New Fourth Army came to Wuwei County, Anhui Province, and Miao Yu, who had a difficult family, resolutely chose to work as a washer in the army, and from then on joined the revolutionary team, and during the anti-Japanese period, he went south to Fujian with the team.
The Miao family's sister died soon after joining the revolution. Miao Yu was diligent and studious in the army, and was not afraid of tiredness, and soon became a nurse from a washman and soon became a squad leader. Later, he was transferred to the Huaye 10th Corps, and after the Liberation War, he worked in the local public security bureau in Fuzhou until his retirement.
Thinking that Chen Hong's family name was Miao at the beginning of the foster care, Yang Qianru rekindled his hopes, and when he saw Miao Yu's photo, he found that the shadows of Chen Qiaonian and Shi Jingyi could not be seen between his eyebrows.
Yang Qianru was not disappointed, he thought that Miao Yu was most likely Chen Qiaonian's daughter, and wanted to meet her in person. At that time, Miao Yu claimed that her real name was Chen Hong, everything needed to be examined, although Yang Qianru wanted to see Miao Yu's demeanor and movements, and whether her accent could match Chen Hong, but it still needed to wait for a while.
Chen Hong (first from right)
Yang Qianru's body was already weakening at that time, and he died before he could see Miao Yu. Before dying, Yang Qianru entrusted Chen Songnian's classmate And Comrade Chen Yi, then deputy secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee, to receive Miao Yu. Chen Yi personally met with Miao Yu, and after the two talked, he introduced Comrade Ye Shangzhi, director of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee Organization, to Miao Yu. Ye Shangzhi introduced Miao Yu to the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee.
In the face of the questions of the Central Organization Department, Miao Yuyi answered them one by one, but due to its long age, the existing information was difficult to find and could not be confirmed for a long time. Ye Shangzhi is also actively contacting Chen Songnian's children Chen Changpu and Chen Changqi, hoping that they can meet with Miao Yu.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="84" > years of searching for final results, Chen Hong's sister and brother recognized each other</h1>
At the end of 1994, Miao Yu and Shi Jingyi met with Li Wen, the son born to her husband, and Li Wen and his wife saw that Miao Yu's posture and body shape were very similar to those of her mother Shi Jingyi, and finally the half-siblings recognized each other.
At that time, Chen Songnian had died, and Chen Changpu also met with Miao Yu many times after that, confirming her identity, and the two were as close as a family, conveying his father's thoughts and search for Miao Yu, and did not give up for many years.
Mr. and Mrs. Levin
So how did Miao Yu determine that she was Chen Qiao Nian's daughter? How did she get in touch with Yang Qianru?
As early as when Shi Jingyi had just given birth to Chen Hong, Miao's mother was working as a maid in a family in Shanghai, when the family was in difficulty, and Miao's daughter had just died. At that time, Miao's mother worked with the surname Kong, and Mr. Kong had a friend surnamed Wu. When Mr. Wu learned that Miao's mother had just lost a daughter, he proposed to her that a little girl needed to be adopted, promised to pay monthly child support, and asked her if she would like to. Mr. Kong also advised her, and Miao's mother thought that she could also make money when she returned home, so she agreed.
In September of that year, Mr. Kong and Mr. Wu personally took Miao's mother to the dock with a young woman, and the young woman held a small baby girl, which was Chen Hong, later Miao Yu.
The young woman, with tears in her eyes, handed the little girl to Miao's mother, gave her two oceans, and told her that the little girl's name was Chen Hong. The young woman told her that she would send her living expenses monthly in the future and asked her to take good care of her.
However, after Miao's mother returned to her hometown in Anhui with Chen Hong, she had not been able to contact Mr. Kong and Wu, and the young woman's promised child support had not been sent. But Miao's mother finally pitied Miao Yu, couldn't bear to throw her away, and still took good care of her.
Film and television footage
Later, both husband and wife surnamed Miao fell seriously ill, and Miao's father was getting weaker and weaker, and the family really could not afford it, so he gave Miao Yu to other families to raise. Probably there is some special fate, and the family who later adopted her was also surnamed Chen. But Miao Yu always thought that she was the daughter of the Miao family, and the family never gave herself a name, and when she joined the army, because her sister was called Miao Fang, she named herself Miao Yu.
Miao Yu was only eight months old when she came to the Chen family, when the Chen family was rich, but it also quickly declined in the perennial war. When the Miao family gave Miao Yu away, they informed Miao Yu of his origins, and when Miao Yu was still young, the adoptive father of the Chen family knew that Shanghai would send living expenses over, and had gone to Shanghai to look for Miao Yu's biological parents, looking for Mr. Wu and Mr. Sun at that time, but they were likely to be pseudonyms, and the search for the adoptive father of the Chen family was naturally fruitless. At that time, Shanghai was very chaotic, and on the way back, the adoptive father of the Chen family was arrested by the Kuomintang for five years.
In the revolutionary ranks, she has finally found her belonging since childhood, and she also met her lover Chen Hui, who gave birth to five children in total, each of whom is very good. In 2000, Xu Yiru, a member of the Chen Duxiu Research Association, came to visit Miao Yu and found that her third daughter and younger daughter were very similar to Chen Duxiu, the second daughter was more like Chen Qiaonian, and the younger son was very similar to her grandmother Shi Jingyi. And Miao Yu himself is more like his grandmother Gao Xiaolan, and the excellent genes of the Chen family are also continued in these descendants.
Until 1973, the Miao family's adoptive mother was seriously ill and wrote a letter asking her to go back. At that time, her adoptive mother was more than eighty years old and bedridden, and in front of Miao's mother's bed, Miao Yu learned of her adoption in Shanghai.
Chen Hong
It turned out that his original name was Chen Hong. After returning to Fuzhou, Miao Yu asked for help from Comrade Tang Hongchao, who was in charge of compiling the history of the party organization, hoping to help find his relatives. More than forty years later, there is only one name, and this search is like finding a needle in a haystack. The names may be duplicated, and Mr. Sun and Mr. Wu may not really exist, and it can only be preliminarily determined that she is a descendant of the revolutionaries who asked the people to foster them.
Tang Hongchao took this matter to heart, and after searching for no results in the Fujian Party Organization Department, he immediately reported Miao Yu's situation to the Shanghai Organization Department, hoping that they could help find Miao Yu's biological parents. Soon, the Shanghai Organization Department sent a newspaper with Yang Qianru's search for Chen Hong.
The two people were named Chen Hong, and they were about the same age, seeing tang Hongchao excitedly holding the newspaper to find Miao Yu, Miao Yu and her family were also very unbelievable to learn about this matter, and they couldn't believe that they were actually Chen Duxiu's granddaughter, Chen Qiao Nian's daughter. After calming down, both of them calmed down, and Miao Yu asked Tang Hongchao to help him continue to investigate.
However, the time interval is too long, and although it is learned that Chen Hong and Miao Yu's early experiences are very similar, it is still uncertain that Miao Yu is Chen Hong. In 1990, miao yu, as a soldier of the New Fourth Army, was assigned to anhui to study and met the journalist Jiang Qimeng. Jiang Qimeng recorded Miao Yu's story and sent it to Comrade Yang Qianru.
When Yang Qianru saw Miao Yu's photo, she always wanted to meet her. What he has been pursuing is nothing more than hoping that chen Qiaonian and Shi Jingyi's only daughter can be recovered and leave a trace of inheritance for them. Yang Qianru only felt that Miao Yu looked a bit like Chen Duxiu and Chen Yannian, and had always wanted to meet in person, but unfortunately failed to achieve it, and could only entrust Chen Yi to do it.
With the help of Tang Hongchao and reporter Jiang Qimeng, Miao Yu finally had the opportunity to meet her relatives, and Miao Yu was 66 years old at this time. Chen Yi took her to Shanghai, and Ye Shangzhi helped her contact Chen Songnian's sons Chen Changqi and Chen Changpu.
Soon after, Miao Yu and Shi Jingyi's children met, and also met with Chen Changpu, and under their confirmation, Miao Yu was indeed Chen Qinian and Shi Jingyi's daughter Chen Hong.
Chen Changpu and Miao Yu saw each other as they were, and came to visit Miao Yu several times. Although everyone in the Chen family recognized Miao Yu's identity, because more than sixty years had passed since Miao Yu's birth, many evidences had long been weathered with the passage of time, and it was difficult to examine, and no strong evidence was found to prove Miao Yu's identity. Therefore, Miao Yu's wish to recognize his ancestors and return to the sect has not been realized.
Chen Changpu also comforted her, but Miao Yu did not care about this matter. In her eyes, although she had a hard time as a child and did not have the company of her father and mother, she was very content to find her biological parents. Not to mention that her father was such a glorious and great image that she was proud of. In her later years, in addition to the company of her children, she also had the care of her brothers and sisters, and the party organization also cared about her, which was already very satisfactory.
Chen Hong came to Chen Duxiu's tombstone
Later, Chen Duxiu's cemetery was repaired, and Miao Yu came to the Chen family in Anhui. Received warmly by the Chen family, everyone talked about the bitter past of the revolution, the sacrifice of Chen Yannian and Chen Qiaonian, Chen Duxiu was imprisoned several times, and finally died of illness, and they could not help but shed tears. This was the first time miao yu had been so close to her grandfather, her father, and although she had not lived with her father since she was a child, she had secretly embarked on the same path as her father and stood in a trench.
Miao Yu had never been to school, had never seen her father's face, and could not even remember her mother's countenance in her memory. She grew up in a poor environment and had a turbulent childhood, but she was still as tenacious and determined as her father, surviving like a weed, pursuing her roots.
In 1926, when the government military and police shot at the marching masses, Chen Qiaonian stepped forward, was stabbed in the chest, and the blood stained his clothes, but he endured severe pain and firmly and calmly commanded the masses to evacuate. Decades later, his daughter also joined the revolutionary ranks, fighting for the liberation of China.
As Chen Qiaonian said when he sacrificed, let the sacrifice of the predecessors bring happiness to future generations. Miao Yu is only one of thousands of descendants, enjoying the life bought by the blood of her predecessors, and also guarding this river and mountain with integrity and kindness.
Today, in Anhui, in order to commemorate Chen Yannian and Chen Qiaonian, a Yanqiao Road has been built, and next to it is the Jixian Road built to commemorate Chen Duxiu. Yanqiao Road is short, Jixian Road is long, and both lead to the bustling avenue. Yanqiao Road is full of flowers, pinning people's mourning for them, the bustling avenues are full of high-rise buildings on both sides, and the traffic downstairs is busy, such a lively scene, we all live in the happiness that the revolutionary ancestors exchanged for blood. They are coming toward the prosperity of new China, and we must remember the past and go towards China's future prosperity.