In 1968, Lin Zhao, a talented woman from Peking University, was sentenced to death, and then shot in Longhua, Shanghai, at the age of 36.
She was a well-known talented woman at Peking University, but she was shot at the age of 36, and the reason for her execution was only because she wrote the literary newspaper "Spark", in which she was too direct in her writing, and even criticized the contemporary environment, and finally she was arrested and imprisoned.
Lin Zhao was born in Suzhou, her original name was Peng Lingzhao, Lin Zhao is her pen name, she liked to write in middle school, and Suzhou in her writing is very beautiful.
Lin Zhao is a typical Jiangnan woman, very gentle and beautiful, and her family was very supportive of her studies when she was a child.
When Lin Zhao was in junior high school, she had already begun to get in touch with the revolutionary cause, and many people in her family were engaged in the revolutionary cause, and Lin Zhao's mother was an underground member of the Communist Party of China.
Lin Zhao did not know her mother's identity at first, she always wanted to participate in the Chinese Communist Party, and her family thought she was too young to really participate in the revolution.
But once after school, Lin Zhao found her mother in the basement of her house, her mother was an underground party member who was using the radio to send information, Lin Zhao was a little stunned when she saw her mother who sent a telegram.
Lin Zhao's mother saw that she couldn't hide it from her, so she directly explained her identity to Lin Zhao, and also told Lin Zhao that her father was not an important member of the Kuomintang government, and her father was also an outstanding underground member of the Communist Party of China.
Lin Zhao felt that his parents were very great and said that he also wanted to join the Communist Party of China, but because Lin Zhao was too young, his parents said that they would give her a chance in a few years.
After seeing that her parents did not agree, Lin Zhao decided to join the Communist Party in her own way, and in 1948 she joined the Communist Party through her classmates, and she decided to use her ability to contribute to the cause of the Communist Party.
After joining the Communist Party, Lin Zhao successfully became an underground party, helping the Communist Party to deliver news, and doing various mobilization meetings in schools, using his excellent writing to write cultural relics newspapers and periodicals for the Communist Party.
Later, Lin Zhao was admitted to Peking University, and after coming to the university, Lin Zhao stepped into a new environment, she saw the cruelty of the war, and found that life was not as good as she imagined, she began to write her inner thoughts all day long, and she told her dissatisfaction with this society.
In just half a year of college, she had already finished reading the books in the library, and she stayed in the library all day long, writing her inner thoughts.
She firmly believes in the truth of her heart, she reflects on the changes in people's affection and humanity, and she feels that some people around her have become hypocritical and insincere.
She began to publish some articles anonymously in newspapers and magazines, with sharp words and bold statements, which made many people exclaim her excellent writing after seeing it.
But not long after, someone found Lin Zhao, interrogated whether the article was published by her, and strictly forbade her to publish the article again, and she was also identified as a rightist.
Since then, her life has become worse and worse, and no one around her dares to approach her, for fear of being influenced by her, but Lin Zhao still adheres to his original intention and feels that his thoughts are not wrong.
Half a year after being identified as a rightist, she was sent to the countryside by the government, and she needed to undergo 3 years of transformation, she had never done these labor jobs since she was a child, and after coming to the countryside, Lin Zhao lost 30 pounds due to fatigue, she not only had to do farm work every day, but also had to bear the eyes of the world on her.
Lin Zhao didn't care about these, she only focused on doing a good job of transformation, and after a year and a half of going to the countryside for transformation, Lin Zhao fell ill, coughing all day long, and people became weak at all, and later became often coughing up blood.
After her mother knew about her situation, her mother applied to take Lin Zhao back to Shanghai to recuperate, and Lin Zhao who returned to the city was already very sick, but she still insisted on writing, and she recovered some of her spirit after half a year of conditioning.
Later, Lin Zhao has been traveling to various publishing houses in Shanghai, she wanted to publish her own books, but every publishing house rejected after reading her books, the content of her books was direct and did not fit the environment at that time.
Lin Zhao's friend works in a newspaper and tells Lin Zhao that there is a literary newspaper called Xinghuo in the newspaper that is recruiting writers, and Lin Zhao quickly seized this opportunity, and she became a writer of the Xinghuo column.
Her writing was sharp and her language was bold, and soon this column resonated with many young people, but the government arrested Lin Zhao at this time, thinking that her words were too radical and she was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
In 1968, Lin Zhao was sentenced to death from a 20-year prison sentence and was shot in Shanghai. ”
After she was shot, the government even asked her mother for 5 cents for ammunition, without considering that she had just lost her own daughter.
12 years after Lin Zhao was shot, the state rehabilitated her, saying that she was really innocent, and her last words before being shot actually came true.