When the country was founded in 1949, many people thought that the name of the country should be referred to as "Republic of China", and Zhou Enlai asked everyone to take opinions, at this time an old man stood up against it.
The old man, named Situ Meitang, affirmed Sun Yat-sen's contribution, then scolded Chiang Kai-shek's dark decay and resolutely opposed New China's continued retention of the word "Republic of China."
The historical figure to be introduced in this article is the legendary overseas Chinese - Situ Meitang!
It is rumored that the president of the United States is the younger brother of Situ Meitang, and at the founding ceremony, Situ Meitang stood behind Mao Zedong...
After all, the rumors are too exaggerated, and the life of this patriotic overseas Chinese leader can be divided into learning martial arts as a young man, going abroad to earn a living, killing bullies, being famous in the United States, supporting the Republic of China, disappointing the Republic of China, supporting the Anti-Japanese Resistance, supporting the Chinese Communists, building China, and burying himself in Babaoshan after a long sleep.
And all this, from 1868, Situ Meitang was born in Kaiping County, Guangdong Province, to poor peasant parents.
Situ Meitang ranked fifth in the family, so he was later called the fifth uncle, and during his childhood, his father died of illness, so he lived a lonely life with his mother.
Situ Meitang had only read books for four years, and although his cultural foundation was not high, he had practiced a good martial art from an early age.
In fact, in the old society of China, martial arts training was a common phenomenon, mainly to prevent being bullied and used for self-defense.
Guangdong is even more prevalent in the practice of martial arts, belonging to a province with poor public security, many outsiders are frightened when they arrive in Guangdong, and group fights are one village versus another.
In this social atmosphere, Situ Meitang laid a deep foundation in martial arts.
In 1980, 13-year-old Situ Meitang was forced to borrow 50 yuan of dragon silver from his mother and was forced to go to the United States by boat to earn a living. As everyone knows, he stayed in the United States for 69 years, and on the eve of the founding of New China, Mao Zedong personally invited him to return to China to attend the CPPCC meeting, because of his old age, people carried him up the mountain in a palanquin.
After Situ Meitang went to the United States, because he hated the corrupt rule of the late Qing regime, he joined the ZhigongTang in Hongmen at the age of seventeen.
Regarding the anti-Qing organizations in society, the earliest origins were Hongmen after "Hanliu", and the disciples of Hongmen spread their branches and scattered their leaves to form social organizations such as the Brotherhood of elders, the Triad, the Heaven and Earth Society, the Anqin Association, and so on.
In short, it is anti-Qing, and the American Zhigong Court in 1885 belongs to the overseas branch of the triad and belongs to a gang organization.
Because it is isolated overseas, it has forgotten the original intention of "anti-Qing and restoration", and is more like a Chinese gang, and its political nature is getting weaker and weaker.
Situ Meitang works in San Francisco, in the Huixian Building at 808 Gasson Street, where he helps with odd jobs in the kitchen.
Situ Meitang got up early and worked sixteen hours a day, earning only twelve dollars a month, barely making ends meet.
Just when the Americans set off a Chinese exclusion movement, Situ Meitang's good martial arts shined in restaurants.
The local bullies always bully overseas Chinese, and Situ Meitang is armed with a long knife and a long stick, which is used at the same time, and it is like a big windmill after playing.
So much so that more than a dozen American bullies want to get close to Situ Meitang, if a single hooligan goes to smash the restaurant, Situ Meitang can casually perform two or three moves, and he can send his gift to the street.
Gradually, Situ Meitang also became famous in Jia Lan Street and became a master of the best of the world.
Those American bullies seem to have big waists and round arms, whether they are competing in fists and feet, or competing in brute force, they are far from being the opponents of Situ Meitang, and they are beaten to the ground to find teeth every time.
However, among the bullies in the United States, it is not all wine bags and rice bags, and there are always some that can be beaten. When Situ Meitang was twenty years old, he met an American martial arts master, and when the two pushed the move to change styles, Situ Meitang was forced to use a killing move and killed the American bully with one blow.
At that time, if the Americans killed Chinese, they could pat their butts and leave, but if they killed the Americans Chinese, they would be arrested and imprisoned by the police.
According to the American practice at that time, Situ Meitang was sentenced to hanging, and at this critical moment, Hongmen paid for the rescue, and Situ Meitang was released from prison.
Stuttmeitang was poor and had nowhere to go in a foreign country, and by the spring of 1894, he finally found a job as a cook on the American warship "Paul Mill".
Warships cruised across two continents of the Americas, and Situ Meitang, along with the warships, toured the rivers and mountains of South and North America.
In this process, Situ Meitang made many good friends in society, became good friends with them, and had his own set of teams.
Situ Meitang believes that if Hongmen continues to develop in such a disorderly manner in the Zhigongtang in the United States, it will not become a climate at all.
Therefore, Situ Meitang united with Hongmen's good friends, especially the young people who were flesh and blood, to form the "Anliang Chamber of Commerce and Industry" or "Anliangtang".
Most of the members are composed of young people who dare to fight and dare to fight, and the slogan shouted out to the outside world is to hoe the strong and help the weak, eliminate violence and be good.
Because An Liangtang's performance was very prominent, it soon had appeal in Chinese circles, and many members of Hongmen joined in.
Situ Meitang also became Hongmen's big brother in the United States, and had his own team to protect the interests of the Chinese.
In 1904, Sun Yat-sen went to the Americas to develop revolutionary activities and hoped to call on more people to oppose the Qing.
Sun Yat-sen has always received strong support from Hongmen, so after he arrived in Boston, USA, he was warmly greeted by Situ Meitang.
Sun Yat-sen
Sun Yat-sen looked at the brothers of An LiangTang and was very excited in his heart, and he also stayed at Situ Meitang's home that night, and the two of them discussed important matters together.
Situ Meitang personally cooked and entertained Sun Yat-sen, and personally arranged manpower to protect Mr. Sun's safety, and the two stayed in the United States for a little more than half a year.
It was precisely because of the arrival of Sun Yat-sen that Situ Meitang learned more revolutionary theories, and the American Hongmen Organization, which had gradually weakened its politics, once again erected a banner against the Qing.
For a long time, Situ Meitang served as the chief superintendent of the United States Zhi Gong Tang and the prime minister of An Liang Tang.
Situ Meitang not only laid down rules for local overseas Chinese, but also made extensive contacts with high-level officials from all walks of life in the United States, such as President Roosevelt of the United States, who served as legal counsel at An Liang Tang and worked for up to ten years.
In the intricate struggle in the United States, Situ Meitang did not leave his gun every day, and ran through one vicious battle after another, which made a world.
Situ Meitang called on the Hongmen organization in the United States to vigorously support Sun Yat-sen and carry out anti-Qing revolutionary activities.
At that time, the tangdou was more complicated, and the Chinese gangs often fought between each other, and Situ Meitang was the first Hongmen big brother to stand up for Sun Yat-sen.
Situ Meitang not only supported Sun Yat-sen, but also supported Huang Xing, a Hunan man, such as the famous Huanghuagang Uprising, and a lot of the funds came from Situ Meitang.
According to the historical records of Zhigongtang, Situ Meitang sold several buildings of Zhigongtang to raise funds to support the Huanghuagang Uprising.
After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, Sun Yat-sen served as the provisional president of the Republic of China in 1912, and Situ Meitang used his influence to send more than 400 telegrams in support of Sun Yat-sen.
However, after the fall of the Qing Dynasty, Situ Meitang made great contributions and should have lived in the temple, but when it came time to discuss the reward for meritorious deeds, he retreated in a hurry and refused Sun Yat-sen's official invitation.
Situ Meitang did not return to China to engage in politics, but continued to develop in the United States, and on September 18, 1931, with the Japanese army invading and occupying the three eastern provinces, Chinese was in danger of becoming a slave at any time.
Chiang Kai-shek, who was partial to the domestic situation, was pursuing the policy of putting the outside world first and putting the inside first, which caused situ Meitang to be extremely dissatisfied.
Chiang Kai-shek
It is also because of September 18, so the various entrances in the United States have become more united and no longer infighting, and the leadership of Situ Meitang has determined the determination of overseas Chinese to resist the war. At a key juncture in history, the importance of Situ MeiTang is even more prominent.
In 1932, Cai Yankai, an iron-blooded general in the Anti-Japanese War, organized troops to actively resist Japan and made one earth-shattering battle after another.
However, Chiang Kai-shek compromised with Japan, so he transferred cai Yankai, a famous anti-Japanese general, to Fujian and asked Cai Yankai to fight the Red Army.
General Cai Yankai was forced to go to the United States because of the failure of the operation, and when he arrived in New York, he saw Situ Meitang with more than 3,000 people to greet him, and three hundred cars lined up.
Situ Meitang organized a lion and dragon dance, warmly welcomed Cai Yankai at the dock, and shouted: "Salute to General Cai!" ”
As Cai Yankai's feet set foot on American soil, overseas Chinese along the way sent one batch after another of gifts to welcome this famous anti-Japanese general.
Chiang Kai-shek hated Cai Yankai, so he sent spies to the United States, hired killers with heavy money, and wanted to assassinate cai Yankai, a famous anti-Japanese general.
Situ Meitang escorted Cai Yankai all the way, wandering in many big cities in the United States, and he himself declared in the newspaper: "Whoever dares to move a single hair of General Cai will smash the murderer into meat sauce on the spot..."
For most of the time in the United States, General Cai Yankai was personally protected by Situ Meitang, and every time he went to a city, he would be warmly welcomed by overseas Chinese, and at most more than 50,000 Chinese in the city warmly greeted General Cai.
Many well-known military and political figures in China who opposed Chiang Kai-shek and japan were warmly welcomed by Situ Meitang when they were forced to go to the United States.
For example, General Yang Hucheng, after the Xi'an Incident, was forced by Chiang Kai-shek to go abroad to investigate.
It was the most depressed period before Yang Hucheng was arrested, when he arrived in the United States, he saw countless Chinese and overseas Chinese, under the leadership of Situ Meitang, warmly welcomed General Yang.
Yang Hucheng
Situ Meitang not only organized a welcoming team, but also set up a banquet to entertain Yang Hucheng, and the two of them pushed cups and exchanged cups and talked happily.
This meeting became a turning point in Situ Meitang's life, and it should be known that Yang Hucheng was heartbroken to the Communist Party, and although his application to join the party failed, Yang Hucheng and the Communist Party have always cooperated.
In the United States, Yang Hucheng talked about the before and aftermath of the Xi'an Incident, and then publicized the Communist Party's anti-Japanese policy to Situ Meitang.
Because of this meeting, Situ Meitang profoundly understood that the Communist Party of China resolutely resisted Japan, which is different from Chiang Kai-shek.
Yang Hucheng was under the protection of Situ Meitang, which escaped the assassination of the secret agent, but his heart was finally worried about the anti-Japanese battlefield, so he chose to return to China to resist Japan.
After 14 years of fighting the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in China, Situ Meitang's donation alone was as high as 14 million US dollars!! Even today, it's an astonishing sum.
Situ Meitang donated fighters and vehicles, and sent overseas Chinese youth to return to China as pilots and drivers.
During the War of Resistance Against Japan, situ Meitang was one of the seventeen people who donated the most to China.
In order to support the anti-Japanese armed forces of the Chinese Communist Party, Situ Meitang contacted Song Qingling and sent a large amount of donations to the hands of the New Fourth Army and the Eighth Route Army.
However, a major change in Situ Meitang's life occurred in the winter of 1941, when he was elected a suffragan and wanted to return to China to contribute to the anti-Japanese resistance.
Unexpectedly, situ Meitang had just arrived in Hong Kong, and as a result, the Pacific War broke out, and Hong Kong fell in the bombing of the Japanese Kou.
The Japanese had long heard of Situ Meitang's name, so they invited this overseas Chinese leader to become the so-called "maintenance president".
Situ Meitang verbally refused, and he also knew that he might be killed by the Japanese, so with the help of the Hongmen brothers, he secretly escaped from Hong Kong.
In order to get rid of the Japanese pursuit, Situ Meitang disguised himself as a beggar and walked for more than three hundred miles on crutches before reaching the Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Zone in Dongjiang.
This road became a major turning point in Situ Meitang's life, because when he went to Chongqing, he saw the cruel atrocities of the Kuomintang, grabbed Zhuang Ding everywhere to replenish the army, and even used human bodies to sell drugs.
Situ Meitang
Situ Meitang watched as the materials and funds donated by the overseas Chinese he organized were embezzled by the Kuomintang bureaucracy, and his heart became more and more resentful.
In 1942, Situ Meitang arrived in Chongqing, attended the tea party held by Zhou Enlai and his wife many times, and made important speeches.
What made Situ Meitang extremely angry was that the remittances sent to China by overseas Chinese did not reach the hands of their relatives, but were deliberately delayed by the Kuomintang, resulting in the starvation of the relatives of overseas Chinese.
After all the above, Chiang Kai-shek and his wife invited Situ Meitang to serve as a so-called "member of the State Council", but Situ Meitang sternly refused.
After fourteen years of the War of Resistance, China fought hard in blood and tears, and until March 1945, everyone could see that the Japanese invaders could not grow like a rabbit's tail.
Stu mei tang held a congress in New York, and the Zhi Gong Party organizations on both continents of the Americas sent representatives to attend.
On March 12, under the leadership of Szeto Meitang, the Zhi Gong Tang was changed to the Zhi Gong Party, and he himself was elected as the president of the National Headquarters.
Situ Meitang spoke at the conference, and he believed that overseas Chinese capital should participate in China's construction. Through Hongmen's newspaper, he also called for an end to the one-party dictatorship of the Kuomintang.
Immediately afterward, the churches immediately changed their names to the Zhi Gong Dang, supported Situ Meitang, and demanded that China establish a democratic government.
Immediately after the unconditional surrender of the Japanese, Situ Meitang wanted to return to China to participate in politics, and it was not surprising that in addition to the Kuomintang led by Chiang Kai-shek, large and small groups in the country warmly welcomed Situ Meitang of the Zhi Gong Party.
In April 1946, Situ Meitang returned to China with representatives of the Zhi Gong Party, and all other factions welcomed Situ Meitang's return, except for Chiang Kai-shek, who was not welcome.
Situ Meitang carries two major historical symbols on his body, one is an anti-Qing hero and the other is an anti-Japanese hero, that is to say, the two major changes in modern history before the victory of the War of Resistance, he is a great hero.
Zhou Enlai went to Situ Meitang's home many times to talk, and Zhou En: "What we want is a truly peaceful, truly democratic, and truly stable China. ”
Situ Meitang was also invited by Zhou Enlai to visit the Liberated Areas, and without looking at it, he was shocked to see it, the Kuomintang Area was lifeless, and the Liberated Area was vigorously moving!
Chiang Kai-shek hated Situ Meitang, and Mao Zedong warmly welcomed Situ Meitang, and Chiang and Mao gaojue.
Situ Meitang naturally did not let Chiang Kai-shek go, and he made an excuse at this time, saying that when you Chiang Kai-shek asked me to comfort the overseas Chinese, it cost me thirty thousand US dollars, and now that the Anti-Japanese Resistance has been victorious, should you Chiang Kai-shek pay back the money?
Chiang Kai-shek was completely confused, and he did not dare to see Situ Meitang, so he asked Wu Tiecheng to come forward perfunctory.
Wu Tiecheng said to his face that Situ Meitang did not listen to commands in the United States, so he dismissed Situ Meitang from his post as a central committee member and an Liangtang.com.
Wu Tiecheng said to his face: "If you form a party, you can go to the Americas to do it, so why do you want to come back?" ”
Situ Meitang was furious and took his cane to beat Wu Tiecheng, but fortunately, the people around him hurriedly dissuaded the pull, and Wu Tiecheng left without anger.
In April 1946, as the clouds of civil war hung over the country, Situ Meitang attended the "Wuzhou Hongmen Earnest Relatives Conference" in Shanghai, where he delivered an important speech demanding that the Kuomintang return the government to the people.
Situ Meitang originally wanted to take the political middle line, but the congress was sabotaged by The Kuomintang agents, and he realized by this time that he must cooperate with the Communists.
As Situ Meitang's attitude toward the Kuomintang became tougher, Chiang Kai-shek became frightened and immediately asked The American Situ Layden to mediate.
As the U.S. ambassador to China, Stuart Redden has lived in China for many years, so he calls himself half a Chinese, and he believes that Situ Meitang has lived in the United States for many years, so he is half American. In the name of half a Chinese, Stuart Leiden wanted to invite Situ Meitang to stay.
When Situ Meitang heard this, his anger surged upwards, so he said: "I have indeed lived in the United States for more than 60 years, but I am not half American, I am a pure Chinese!" ”
Situ Meitang denounced Stuart Layden, believing that the Americans' assistance to China was not sincere and was to provoke a civil war. This kind of assistance will lead to China's demise not at the hands of the Japanese, but at the hands of you Americans.
Chiang Kai-shek saw that Situ Leiden could not keep it, so he sent Du Yuesheng to keep it.
Du Yuesheng saw Situ Meitang and said all kinds of good things; Situ Meitang roared with a crutch, scolding Du Yuesheng for being a dog blood sprinkler!
During the Liberation War, Situ Meitang scolded Chiang Kai-shek for his dictatorship and was forced to go to the United States because of the threat of secret agents.
On January 20, 1949, at the invitation of Mao Zedong, Situ Meitang returned to China to participate in the CPPCC meeting.
Situ Meitang wanted to see Mao Zedong, but at that time Mao Zedong lived on the mountain, and Chairman Mao considered that Situ Meitang was old, so he changed the rattan chair into a palanquin and carried Situ Meitang to his residence in Xiangshan.
Mao Zedong waited outside the door early, affirming Situ Meitang's contribution, and Situ Meitang thanked Mao Zedong for his care.
Situ Meitang said: "I am a person who loves the motherland, and the victory of the Chinese revolution was mainly won by the wise leadership of the Communist Party and Chairman Mao. I think there would be no New China without the Communist Party! ”
Mao Zedong said that there should be China before the Communist Party, and the chairman's modesty deeply touched Situ Meitang.
Therefore, when mentioning the establishment of the country at the beginning of the article, when some people wanted China to be referred to as the "Republic of China", Situ Meitang was very angry and angrily scolded the Kuomintang for all kinds of dark decay.
After the founding of New China, Situ Meitang was invited to participate in the founding ceremony.
In May 1955, this patriotic old man died of illness in Beijing and was buried in the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery, while Zhou Enlai personally presided over the public memorial meeting.
The website of the Zhi Gong Party evaluates Situ Meitang as: loyalty to save the country, unity of righteousness, and righteousness! Dare to act boldly, fight righteousness and loose wealth!