On August 30, the "Dadi" supplement of the People's Daily published an essay written by Liu Liyuan entitled "That Poplar Tree" in the headline position, recalling the touching journey of Lin Jilu, a communist party member and revolutionary martyr from Taishan, Jiangmen, Guangdong Province, who traveled all the way from Guangdong to Xinjiang to engage in revolutionary work, and finally sacrificed his precious life for the party and the people, paying tribute to his revolutionary original intention and fighting spirit. The following is the original text:
At the head of the village, a large banyan tree, the green leaves reflect the light in the sun, and the roots of the whiskers hang like layers of curtains. In the shade of greenery, people are in pairs, or shaking fans to cool off, or staring at a half-moon pond in front of them, which is full of lotus flowers, and behind it are rows of green brick houses.
I have seen too many Lingnan villages, which are located in the outline village of Taishan City, Guangdong Province, and the appearance does not seem to be much different from other villages. After crossing the village road and walking a few tens of meters from the alley entrance, I saw a large green brick house with a narrow doorway that could only accommodate one person to enter and exit. The wooden plaque at the door is engraved with five words: Lin Ji Road Former Residence.
Wooden door leaf, painted dark red, with copper rings hanging from the door leaf, seemed to expect people to knock. I was about to raise my hand, and my thoughts came to my mind for a while: What kind of seed did he have in his heart that took root and sprouted here, from Taishan to Guangzhou, into Shanghai, then east to Japan, and then back to Shanghai and then to Yan'an to Dihua (now Urumqi), Kucha, and Wushi in Xinjiang? What kind of force made him go from Lingnan to Xinjiang and transform into a golden poplar? The answer, perhaps, is behind this door. Reaching out, with a gentle push, a "squeak" sounded, and the door opened.
The house is not large, single-storey brick and wood structure, built in the late Qing Dynasty, east and west two bedrooms, the middle of the hall, patio, yard paved with chiseled stone blocks, the house is paved with ochre floor tiles. The rooms are all ordinary furniture, and there is a pair of wooden links hanging at the entrance of the hall, the left book "He Hou Jia Feng", and the right book "Xiu Qi ShiDe". There are square tables and benches in the hall, a wooden frame leaning on the right corner of the wall, and a basket on each grid, which is estimated to have been used to raise silkworms. The furnishings are simple, with both a local work atmosphere and a local cultural atmosphere.
Taishan was formerly known as Xinning, known as the hometown of overseas Chinese. Born in 1916, Lynky road's grandfather was a poor farmer, and then forced to go to the United States to earn a living for his livelihood, and Lynky road's uncle and uncle also went to the United States. And Lin Jilu's father, because of his talent, stayed at home to study, hoping to take the road of keju. However, when he finished his studies and went to the examination, the imperial examination was abolished, and Father Lin studied law and returned to Taishan to become a lawyer. Although the examination was not successful, Father Lin was still thinking about it. Lin Jilu's name was Fuzhao, which was initially known as Guoliang and later changed its name to Liang. His brother's name was Fushun, and he was initially named Guodong and later renamed Dong (he was the president of the Student Union of Sun Yat-sen University and the president of the Guangzhou Students' Federation, and later went to Hong Kong with friends to run a school). His younger brother was named Fuyou, scientific name Guogan, and later renamed Gan (academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, who made important contributions to domestic microwave theory). Father Lin hopes that his sons will study well and become the leaders of the country.
In the summer of 1930, the young Lin Jilu encountered a good opportunity to study: Tan Xiufeng (that is, He Ganzhi, a native of Taishan, Guangdong, one of the main teachers of the early shaanxi north public school, and later the director of the history department and the director of the party history department of Chinese Min University) and other people returned from Tokyo and held a summer academic research class for Taishan youth in Taishan, mainly lecturing on modern world outlook and new literature, in fact, the main content is Marxism-Leninism and revolutionary literary and art theory. The research class mainly attracted some students and primary school teachers to study in the class, and Lin Jilu took the initiative to participate. Although the study time was only one month, it played a huge enlightening role in Lin Keelu's young mind. As the son of a well-to-do family, he contacted a group of classmates and teachers to open a folk night school at the Renyuan Middle School where he was studying, absorbing more than 40 poor people's children who had no money to enroll in the neighborhood, and also compiled a Chinese text called "Mid-Autumn Festival".
Lin JiLu (1916-1943), formerly known as Lin Weiliang, was a native of Taishan, Guangdong. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1935 and was dispatched by the Party Central Committee to Xinjiang to do united front work in early 1938, serving successively as provost of Xinjiang College, governor of Kuqa County, and county magistrate of Wushi County. On September 27, 1943, together with Chen Tanqiu, Mao Zemin and other Communist Party members, he was killed by the reactionary warlord Sheng Shicai in Xinjiang, and he was only 27 years old.
The young Lin Jilu, who broadened his horizons, studied all the way from Taishan to Guangzhou, from Guangzhou to Shanghai, from Shanghai to Japan, and joined the Communist Party of China in 1935, and then returned to Shanghai to join the Left League. In September 1937, a telegram came from Yan'an asking to transfer some people from Shanghai to do cultural work. Lynch road, which has long been a holy place of revolution, heard the news and urgently demanded to go. In early October 1937, Linji Road arrived in Yan'an. According to Li Yunyang, a fellow villager in Taishan, "Although the city was so small that there were only a few mud hut streets, few people, and small shops, at that time, the city was bustling with heroes and sons and daughters of the motherland from all directions. ”
Lin Jilu and Li Yunyang entered the party school and were assigned to the same class, and Lin Jilu was elected as the class leader and party branch member. One day, the director of the cadre department of the party school asked him to talk with Li Yunyang, and in order to expand the anti-Japanese national united front, the party Central Committee decided to send them to Xinjiang to work. In order to keep the party's cadres confidential, the central authorities demanded that all cadres entering Xinjiang change their names. After some consideration, Lin Jilu changed the name "Lin Weiliang" to "Lin Jilu", and Li Yunyang changed his name to "Li Zhiliang".
In February 1938, Lin Jilu, Li Yunyang and a group of other cadres who went to Xinjiang set off from Yan'an, first arrived in Xi'an, and then disguised themselves as homeless exiled students in the Pingjin area and squeezed into three transport trucks to reach Lanzhou. Because of the inconvenience of transportation to Xinjiang at that time, Lin Jilu and his party waited for a month at the Eighth Route Army's office in Lanzhou. Later, a Soviet transport plane departed from Lanzhou to Hami, and the two of them were able to make the trip, and then transferred to a car to Dihua, which can be described as several tosses and turns along the way. Lin Jilu successively served as the provost of Xinjiang College, the director of the Education Bureau of Aksu Special Region, the county magistrate of Kuqa County, and the county magistrate of Wushi County. Li Yunyang served as the principal of the Provincial No. 1 Middle School and later as the county magistrate of Bachu County.
I haven't been to Bachu County, but I've been to kashgar, where Bachu is located. The summer sun there was dazzling, white and bright, and by ten o'clock in the evening it refused to converge. Driving from Kashgar City in Kashgar Region to Hotan City in Hotan District at night, all the way is basically Gobi, and there are few Oases. After a day's drive from Hotan City, you will arrive at Aksu. From morning to evening, I have been walking through the Taklamakan Desert, except for a long sand dune that cannot be seen at a glance, I can occasionally see a few scattered poplar trees, with a large canopy, a thick trunk, and a proud iron bone, quite heroic.
Depart from Aksu at 8:00 a.m. and arrive in Kucha near noon. The car is driving in the southern foothills of the Tianshan Mountains, looking to the left is bare ochre rocks, to the right is a gobi that cannot be seen, and occasionally you can see towering wind turbines and oil drilling towers. I came here to visit my home, and because I knew that Linkillu had worked here, I paid more special attention to this place. I asked the parents of the students, do you know About Linke Road? They said they knew that there was the Linki Road Dam and the Unity New Bridge, which he had built. After checking the information, Lin Jilu became the provost of Xinjiang College in 1938, when he was only twenty-two years old. He was only twenty-three years old when he became the governor of Kuqa County, twenty-five years old when he left kuqa county, and was killed by the reactionary warlord Sheng Shicai in September 1943, when he was only twenty-seven years old, and he was also sacrificed with Chen Tanqiu and Mao Zemin. In such a short period of time, he put forward the school motto of Xinjiang College ("Unity, Tension, Simplicity, Liveliness"), led the students to carry out patriotic anti-Japanese propaganda activities, created the Xinjiang College Song, vigorously established education in Aksu, Kuqa, and Wushi, and did countless good things.
While marveling at Lin Kee-lu's strong revolutionary will and super ability to work, we are also deeply impressed by a woman. She is Lin Jilu's wife, Chen Yinsu. A native of Taishan, she came from a wealthy family of overseas Chinese merchants and married Lin Jilu at the end of 1935 while studying in Japan. In August 1937, she returned to her hometown in Taishan from Japan to give birth, and soon gave birth to a daughter. At that time, Lin Jilu had already rushed to Yan'an. In May 1938, Chen Yinsu and several intellectual youths met up from Taishan to Yan'an. When they reached Xinyang, Henan, the railway was no longer clear due to the war, and the group had to stop and discuss, planning to return to Taishan first and wait for the situation to improve before coming out, but Chen Yinsu resolutely said that he would continue to advance and never retreat. In desperation, several other young men took the road back to Taishan, but Chen Yinsu walked north without hesitation, and after eight days of walking, arrived at Luoyang.
Chen Yinsu later took a train from Luoyang to Xi'an, then walked all the way to Yan'an in May 1939. From departure to arrival, it took a whole year. But at this time, Linji Road had reached Xinjiang, to a farther place. After studying at the Lu Xun Art Institute and honorably joining the party, Chen Yinsu decided to go to Xinjiang as well and fight with Lin Jilu.
With the approval of the party organization, in September 1939, Chen Yinsu flew from Yan'an to Dihua, and then rushed to Kucha. After the couple met, Chen Yinsu conveyed instructions from Yan'an to Lin Jilu and another party member, Jiang Lianmu, who worked in the area. After three people's research, it was decided to set up the first party group in Kuqa County. At this point, the first Communist Party organization in Kucha, southern Xinjiang, was established.
Many people know that when Lin Jilu was imprisoned, he wrote a "Prisoner Song", especially the sentence at the end: "Sprinkle our blood, dye it into a red flag, and fly for eternity!" "It's more word of mouth, familiar to the ear. Few people know that Lin Jilu also wrote a "Sifu Song", which he wrote with the mentality of his lover and other imprisoned lesbians. "O husband! Don't be anxious, you insist on discipline, and the dawn will come. The darkness has come to an end! O husband! Don't be anxious, you insist on discipline, and once the light comes, you come back and hug! embrace! "If I am not like-minded, I am afraid it will be difficult to write such a verse that inspires my heart from my heart and your heart, and from your heart to my heart." According to reports, after the comrades-in-arms returned to Yan'an, at the memorial service for the martyrs who died in Xinjiang, Chen Yinsu sang this song, and all the comrades-in-arms present shed tears.
The dim sunlight, the low walls, the narrow courtyard doors, and another "creak" brought me back from my contemplation. "Hardship can destroy people's flesh, and death can take people's lives, but no force can shake the ideals and beliefs of Chinese Communists."
Walking out of the former residence of Lin Ji Lu and coming to the middle of the village, I found a RongShan library with an exhibition of Lin Ji Lu's life and deeds. There is also a Chu Xin Lecture Hall in the village, and a training school for rural cadres in Taishan City is currently being built. On the opposite side of the lotus pond, there are endless rice paddies and a whole row of melons, fruits and vegetables, and next to it stands the Linke Road Martyrs Monument. The front of the stele is engraved with the life of the martyr Lin Jilu, and the other three sides are the inscriptions of Comrades Deng Xiaoping, Chen Yun and Wang Zhen.
The Lynch Road Memorial Park was inaugurated in 2007, when Chen Yinsu was in her nineties and came to the inauguration ceremony in a wheelchair. According to those present, she sang the Prisoner's Song and the Sifu Song again, and the hearers were all impressed.
Above the Gobi, the sun is hot and frosty, the wind and sand are rolling, there is no flow of sweet springs, no fertile soil. The poplars, like those revolutionaries, wrote heroic poems with iron bones and stubbornness in the Gobi desert.
Source: People's Daily
(The author Liu Liyuan is a member of the Standing Committee of the Taishan Municipal Committee and director of the Propaganda Department of Jiangmen Taishan)