Zhou Wenyong and Chen Tiejun: The revolutionary spirit is indestructible

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A photo of Zhou Wenyong and Chen Tiejun before their execution. Xinhua News Agency

In 2009, Zhou Wenyong and Chen Tiejun were elected as "100 Heroic And Exemplary Figures who Made Outstanding Contributions to the Founding of New China".

Located in Lily Town, Kaiping City, Guangdong Province, the Zhou Wenyong Chen Tiejun Martyrs Cemetery is visited and visited every day by tourists from all over the country. The monument to the martyrs is inscribed with an immortal poem written on the prison wall by Zhou Wenyong after his arrest: "The head can be broken, the limbs can be broken, and the revolutionary spirit is indestructible." The head of the strong man is the party fall, and the body of the good man is a group of cracks. ”

Zhou Wenyong, a native of Kaiping, Guangdong, was born in August 1905 and joined the Communist Party of China in 1925. He once served as a member of the Working Committee of the CPC Guangdong District Committee, the chief of the Guangzhou Workers' Picket Team, the director of the Organization Department of the CPC Guangzhou Municipal Committee and the secretary of the Working Committee of the Municipal Cpc Committee.

Chen Tiejun, formerly known as Chen Xiejun, a native of Foshan, Guangdong, was born in March 1904. In the autumn of 1924, she was admitted to the preparatory department of the College of Liberal Arts of Guangdong University. During her studies, in order to pursue progress, Tiexin followed the Communist Party, and she changed her name to Tiejun. In April 1926, Chen Tiejun joined the Communist Party of China.

In 1927, Zhou Wenyong was elected as an alternate member of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China and a member of the Drafting Committee of the Guangzhou Uprising. When the armed uprising was imminent, Chen Tiejun was dispatched by the party to disguise himself as Zhou Wenyong's wife and participate in the preparations for the Guangzhou uprising. On December 11 of that year, the Guangzhou Uprising broke out, and due to the disparity in strength, it was outnumbered and finally failed. Zhou Wenyong led some of the rebel forces, fought against an enemy more than 10 times his own, killed a bloody road, withdrew from Guangzhou, and went to Hong Kong, responsible for contacting and resettling comrades who had withdrawn to Hong Kong.

In January 1928, Zhou Wenyong was elected as a member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Guangzhou Municipal Committee and a member of the Standing Committee of the Guangdong Provincial CPC Committee, and returned to Guangzhou with Chen Tiejun to rebuild the party organs and organizations. On January 27, Zhou Wenyong and Chen Tiejun were arrested at the same time due to traitors' betrayal. In prison, the enemy is seduced by high-ranking officials, and they are not moved; they are subjected to all kinds of inhuman torture, and they remain unyielding.

On February 6, 1928, Zhou Wenyong, together with Chen Tiejun, who had established love in the revolutionary struggle, held a tragic wedding at the Honghuagang Execution Ground in Guangzhou, calmly and righteously.

"Let this execution ground be the auditorium of our new marriage, and let the gunshots of the reactionaries be the salute of our new marriage!" This is the classic line of the movie "Wedding on the Execution Ground", and the prototype of the protagonist in the movie is Zhou Wenyong and Chen Tiejun.

People's Daily ( 2021-05-13 04 edition)