Author: Xu Xiaoyan Source: "Sun Village"
Marshal Xu Xiangqian's wife Huang Jie
Remembering my mother, Huang Jie
Xu Xiaoyan
On November 16, 1909, my mother was born in Haoxue Town, Jiangling County, Hubei Province. The Huang family was a big family in Haoxue Town earlier, with a few deep courtyards, and it was still somewhat famous in that area.
My mother's grandfather had read some books, but the family began to decline. After the death of his grandfather, the family business was run by his uncle, who was the town's landowner.
My mother's father was an upright man, and he opposed his uncle's behavior of oppressing the people in the fish and meat village, so he opened an oil mill to make a living. When my mother was two years old, my father died of illness, leaving my mother and a 7-year-old brother behind, and my grandmother worked hard to raise these two children alone.
My mother was born at a time when the Xinhai Revolution broke out and the rotten Manchu government was overthrown, but the Chinese nation was still suffering from social turmoil and warlordism.
A new generation of advanced intellectuals has awakened and the great May Fourth Movement has erupted. The anti-imperialist, anti-feudal, and women's liberation trend of thought strongly shook the mother's young heart.
The mother's path to revolution began with her opposition to feudal arranged marriages. At that time, my uncle was very domineering in the family, and often bullied orphans and widows for his own interests. When his mother was very young, he took it upon himself to marry her to the Qi family, the town's business president.
The son-in-law of the Qi family is an uneducated and idle gentleman, and his mother looks down on him from the bottom of her heart and resolutely opposes this arranged marriage. Since childhood, my mother has been a bold and assertive child who can persistently pursue her ideals. She is in charge of everything in the family, and she usually comes forward to theorize whoever wants to bully her mother and brother. At this time, she discussed with her mother and resolutely did not go to the Qi family, in order not to be swallowed up by feudal etiquette, she decided to flee.
One evening in the summer of 1924, my mother, who was not yet 15 years old, left Jiangling alone on a boat to study in Wuhan, determined to be an independent new woman.
After her mother arrived in Wuhan, she first studied in the primary school affiliated to Wuchang No. 1 Girls' Middle School, and then was admitted to the Hubei Provincial Women's Normal School. After the Northern Expeditionary Army conquered Wuchang in 1926, Wuhan became the center of the national revolution, and the Nationalist Government moved to Wuhan.
In November, the political science department of the Whampoa Military Academy was also moved to Wuhan, and in order to cultivate the backbone of the women's movement, Zhang Bang recruited female students. When her mother, who was attending a women's normal school, saw the news of the enrollment and was overjoyed, thinking that this was exactly what she was pursuing, she signed up with seven or eight fellow villagers. My mother still remembers the exam vividly. The story is told in the mother's reminiscence article:
In the exam, the Chinese test question is "The Difference Between Revolution and Social Evolution". I wrote: "Revolution is man-made, social evolution is natural...", which is my superficial understanding of revolution, and I only wrote about 108 words. When I took the math exam, I didn't study algebraic geometry, and I only made two practical problems.
One of the candidates sitting behind me saw that I couldn't do it, so he copied a note of his answer and threw it over, I didn't pick it up, I had to take the test on my own. Unexpectedly, the invigilator had already found out and disqualified him from the exam. I never dared to look back, and I still don't know if he was a boy or a girl, but to be honest, I always felt a deep apology for him.
On the day the list was announced, I plucked up the courage to look at the list, and to my surprise, I was admitted! A girl at the same table as me was a college student, and she wrote several pieces of paper in her Chinese test paper, but she was not admitted, and she was not convinced, thinking that the teacher had made a mistake in the test paper, and I also felt that it was wrong. On the day of the retest, I whispered to the teacher if I had made a mistake, and the teacher looked at me with a smile and took out the test paper. I saw that on my test paper, I wrote in red pen 4 big characters "Ruzi can be taught". It can be seen that the criteria for admitting students at the Whampoa Military Academy are not only to test the cultural level, but also to give priority to political attitudes.
In this way, my mother was admitted to the Whampoa Military Academy and became a cadet of the sixth girls' team, which had a total of 183 cadets, including Deng Yanda, Yun Daiying, Tan Yanchuang and other famous revolutionaries.
The women's team was the first women's armed force in the history of China's modern revolution, when all girls cut their hair short, wore gray military uniforms, tied belts, and wore leggings. When the news of the formation of the girls' team reached the Soviet Union, Stalin was very happy and specially asked all the students of the girls' team to take a group photo and send it to him.
In the eighties, my mother got this group photo and was very happy and kept it ever since.
On July 15, 1927, Wang Jingwei betrayed the revolution, and Jiang and Wang joined forces to massacre the Communists and the revolutionary masses. The vigorous revolution failed, and the revolution entered a low ebb.
In order to preserve the revolutionary forces, the military school decided that the girls' team should be evacuated immediately. Teacher Yun Daiying said in his parting speech at the last meeting of the military academy: "I hope that every comrade is a revolutionary seed, and no matter where it is sown, let it sprout, blossom and bear fruit."
In the face of severe trials, some people became passive and became bystanders of the revolutionary movement, but my mother did not flinch and bravely chose the path of continuing the revolution.
Just when the Communists were persecuted, suppressed and slaughtered, my mother resolutely joined the Communist Youth League, and then became a Communist Party member introduced by Wang Dianzhang and Deng Shushi.
Mother always remembered that day: on a night when the north wind was howling in early 1928, in her hometown, Comrade Peng Zhiren, secretary of the branch, led her to take the oath, facing the party flag, her mother raised her right hand, clenched her fist, and said the solemn oath of the communists: "Obey the organization, abide by discipline, keep secrets, work hard, sacrifice individuals, and swear not to betray the party." ”
In Shashi, my mother resolutely opposed the local tyrants and inferior gentry, and was at odds with the uncle of the head of the militia group, and was persecuted by reactionary forces, and it was not convenient for her to carry out party activities. So the special committee decided to send my mother to Songzi to work. After her mother arrived in Songzi County, she established a special branch of the Communist Party of China in Songzi County and served as the branch secretary. In February of the lunar calendar, the special committee of western Hubei decided to change the special branch to the central county party committee, and his mother served as the secretary of the county party committee. At that time, she was only 18 years old and was the founder and first secretary of the Songzi County Party Committee.
At this time, the Party Central Committee convened an emergency meeting in Wuhan, which decided on the general policy of carrying out the agrarian revolution and armed resistance to the Kuomintang massacre, and decided to hold the Autumn Harvest Uprising in the four provinces of Hunan, Hubei, Guangdong, and Jiangxi. This emergency meeting was convened on August 7, 1927, and became known as the Eighty-Seven Conference.
In order to implement the spirit of the 87 th Conference, my mother and the comrades of the county party committee analyzed the situation and believed that Songzi County was relatively remote, that the Kuomintang had no garrison, only some local militia groups, and that although the militia had good weapons, their combat effectiveness was not strong, so they decided to secretly carry out a peasant movement and prepare for an armed uprising.
In less than three months, more than 10 party branches including Jinjishan were established, with nearly 500 party members, and peasant associations were also established, and the Songzi County Workers' and Peasants' Self-Defense Brigade was established, and the peasant movement in Songzi flourished.
During the preparation for the armed uprising, the situation changed abruptly, the special committee of western Hubei was destroyed, and Zhang Jishu, secretary of the special committee, and Zhang Guangjie, secretary of the Youth League committee, were arrested and died heroically. The enemy cut off their heads and hung them at the gates of the city, which was cruel to the public. The uprising team here in Songzi was being organized, and before the Workers' and Peasants' Self-Defense Brigade could be trained, it was discovered by the local tyrants and gentry in Saisai District, who sent a militia squadron into the mountains to search and suppress it.
In this critical situation, the county party committee did not have time to hold a meeting to study, and the mother immediately decided to revolt in advance. The red flag raised by the uprising team was a piece of red cloth prepared in a hurry, and it sent a signal of uprising to the villagers by setting off firecrackers.
When the peasants of the Jiulinggang Peasant Association heard the sound of firecrackers and saw the red flag, they rushed to the enemy with kitchen knives, sickles, axes, and hoes, shouting to kill, and the sound of firecrackers spread all over the mountains. The militia members were so frightened by the surprise attack that they fled in all directions.
All the militias were wiped out, and only one member of the revolt was wounded. The uprising was successful, and this revolutionary armed force suddenly had more than 20 guns, and everyone was very excited, and they killed all the way down from the mountain, many peasants joined, and the ranks continued to expand.
Immediately after the Jiulinggang uprising, the county party committee announced the establishment of a Soviet government. And with the 27 rifles captured, plus earthen weapons, broadswords, spears, etc., a revolutionary armed team was organized and marched to Saisai and Shipai. Along the way, he killed the old local tyrant Lei Jingzhi, the former head of the district, burned the houses of the Kuomintang district head Lei Xinmin, the local tyrant Tian Xiangfang, and Luo Jingwu, opened a warehouse to release grain, killed the rich to help the poor, and propagated the revolution. Everywhere the uprising party went, the common people rejoiced, beat gongs and drums, and warmly welcomed.
Three days after the uprising, the enemy gathered militia groups in various districts and the 43rd Army of the local garrison to frantically counterattack the uprising ranks. Due to being outnumbered, they had to retreat their troops to Jiulinggang and engage with the enemy. The enemy surrounded Jiulinggang layer by layer and concentrated its firepower to attack. There was no ammunition inside the Peasant Self-Defense Forces, and no reinforcements outside. After analyzing the situation, my mother and the comrades of the county party committee believed that the disparity between the forces of the enemy and ours was too great, and that we could only temporarily go into hiding and preserve our strength so as to facilitate the long-term struggle in the future. Therefore, they concentrated their forces on holding the mountain pass, covering the evacuation and concealment of the exposed party, league members, and revolutionary masses, and buried their guns and mimeograph machines at the foot of Maoergai Mountain opposite Jiulinggang, and the ranks moved safely to keep these revolutionary forces. Later, these comrades joined the troops led by He Long and became part of the Red Second Front. Although the Jiulinggang Uprising failed, it ignited the spark of revolution. The Jiulinggang Uprising was an important part of the early revolutionary struggle in western Hunan and Hubei, which shook Songzi and western Hubei and sowed the seeds of revolution in the hearts of the people of Songzi.
After the failure of the Jiulinggang Uprising, my mother became a "key criminal" wanted by the reactionary government of Songzi, and retreated to the area of Liujiaping and Wangjiadahu under the cover of the masses. The enemy's "Qingxiang" was pressing forward step by step, and my mother, who was a foreigner, cut her hair and let go of her feet, was not easy to hide, and could not persist in the struggle in the local area.
The party organization decided that the mother would return to her hometown of Haoxue Town for temporary refuge. After returning home, his uncle, who became the head of the militia group, held a grudge against his mother and wanted to put her to death.
At that time, the warlords were divided, transportation and communications were very backward, and the local garrison and militia did not know about my mother's revolutionary activities in Songzi, so they had to put her under house arrest. Under house arrest, the special commissioner came to convey Comrade Zhou Yiqun's instructions: "Huang Jie's goal in the local area is too big, and it is easy to expose the party organization when she comes out to carry out activities, so it has been decided to send her to Shanghai to work." Since then, her mother has left the hometown where she was born, raised, and fought for, and embarked on a new journey.
Huang Jie's former residence
In April 1929, my mother arrived in Shanghai, where she moved from the front line of the vigorous mass struggle to the front line of secret work. My mother works in the Shanghai Farnan District Committee. It was not possible to have a cover identity in Shanghai, when the party's funds were very difficult, and life was solved by oneself.
My mother learned English at night school and was admitted to the telephone operator's exam. My mother is very talented in learning languages, and although she has not studied English for a long time, she still remembers some words in old age, and her pronunciation is pure. I have been learning English for many years, and my pronunciation is just not as good as my mother's.
In May 1930, the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee needed a woman cadre and asked her mother to go. In July of the same year, the Central Committee sent Comrade Zeng Zhongsheng to Nanjing to organize and lead the work of the military movement, and transferred his mother to assist him. In her reminiscences, my mother recounted an interesting experience during her work in Nanjing:
One day, Zeng Zhongsheng asked me to go with him to a pavilion in Xuanwu Lake Park to connect and have important things to study. He asked me to wear a suit inside and a cheongsam outside.
As soon as we entered the park, we met a member of the Whampoa Military Academy's Sun Wenism Society, and the middle school student greeted him and dealt with it. After the man left, Zhongsheng said to me vigilantly, "Hell, I can't go to the pavilion."
"The people in the pavilion had arrived, and the middle student gave them a look, and then pulled me onto a boat on the lake, and asked the boatman to paddle among the reeds. Ge 4 went to Parrot Island in the depths of the reeds, and Zhongsheng gave the boatman a dollar (in fact, it only cost two corners), and he asked me to take off my coat and take the boat back, and then he jumped off the boat and walked towards the Lama Temple on Parrot Island. I took off the cheongsam and stuffed it into the reeds, and let the boatman row back. As expected, I returned to the shore and found many people, and there were also many people in the pavilion, saying that they would seal the boat, arrest a man and a woman, and the women wore flower cheongsams.
I hurried out of the park and hailed a rickshaw home. Two days later, a man came to me with a slip from a middle student. The note said: "I can't come because of business, Brother Teto Nan will pick you up, leave Nanjing for Shanghai immediately, the ticket has been bought, Brother Nan will send you on the train, and stay at the Qichang Hotel after arriving in Shanghai."
When I arrived in Shanghai, Zhongsheng came to me at the hotel, and he said to me: "Nanjing has been exposed, you can't go back, Brother Nan is the secretary of the district party committee of the Southern District, so you can stay in Shanghai to work." In this way, in September 1930, my mother was transferred to the Central Military Commission to do secret traffic work.
Since the Fifth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Central Committee has set up a military department in Shanghai to lead the national armed struggle, with Zhou Enlai as the military minister.
In the spring of 1930, the armed struggle in the revolutionary base areas was booming, and in order to strengthen the unified leadership of the Red Army throughout the country, the Military Department was renamed the "Central Military Commission". Zhou Enlai is the secretary, Liu Bocheng, Nie Rongzhen, Fu Zhong, Zeng Zhongsheng, Zhu Rui and other comrades are members of the Central Military Commission, and Comrade Ouyang Qin is the secretary general.
The office of the Military Commission is located on Chengdu Road, which is a three-story building. Everyone lives together, takes care of each other in life, lesbians act as "housewife", take turns to buy vegetables and cook, they often talk and laugh like a family, regardless of their position.
Zhou Enlai, alias Wu Hao, is a professor at Fudan University, wearing a robe and a scholarly demeanor. Liu Bocheng studied in the Soviet Union, knew Russian, and often translated relevant military works on the third floor of the office. Mother treated them as growers and teachers. White zone work is a work in the mouth of the enemy, and it is always necessary to be interrogated, searched, and stalked, so it is necessary to be adaptable.
Once Zhou Enlai came back from making a report, he was searched while still holding the outline of the report in his hand. He was a professor and couldn't hide, so he stretched out his arm very calmly and let it be examined, calmly.
When the searchers saw the style of his university professor, they didn't dare to ask more, and they let go of the manuscript in their hands without reading it. This kind of situation is also common for mothers.
Once, my mother went to deliver the documents, hid them in a snack box, and saw a bunch of people in front of her halfway through, knowing that she had been searched. She turned around and went into a grocery store, bought a little salt and toilet paper, and asked the proprietress where the toilet was, so she put her things on the counter and pretended to go to the toilet, avoiding the enemy's interrogation.
Another time, her mother sent a letter to He Xiangning, and the porter saw that her dress was very ordinary, so she didn't let her in. Later, my mother went to the thrift store to buy a fake mink coat, hired a rickshaw, and went to the gate of Hefu proudly.
Another time, Zhou Enlai asked his mother to send an important secret letter to Comrade Liu Bocheng and invited him to discuss the matter. The mother put the document in a tea cone, and when she arrived at Liu Bocheng's residence, she found that the code was gone. The secret agencies have their own codes, or a pot of flowers, or hanging something, or some other way. The secret code in Liu Bocheng's house was to hang a red rope on the window, and the red rope was gone at that time, indicating that there was a situation.
The mother looked around and looked around to see if there was a situation, and walked around the alley and the house several times, but she didn't find anything unusual, but she still didn't dare to break in, so she had to go back to the office for safety. Zhou Enlai was waiting in a hurry, and when he saw that the documents had not been delivered, he was very angry and thought that something had been wrong.
The mother felt very aggrieved and was about to defend herself, when Liu Bocheng walked in unhurriedly. The mother immediately greeted him and anxiously asked, "Where have you been?" and he said, "You haven't been there." "Then why is the code gone?" the mother hurriedly asked, even more anxious.
Liu Bocheng was stunned for a moment, thought about it, slapped his head and laughed, and said in his unique Sichuan accent: "Don't worry, it may be the one in my family who took the chicken to tie, she just came from her hometown, and she doesn't know about this." Everyone burst into laughter and made a false alarm.
In the spring of 1932, my mother was transferred to the Jiangsu Provincial Women's Committee and worked under the leadership of Qian Ying and Shuai Mengqi, famous female revolutionaries of our party. Women's work is part of the workers' movement as a whole, and through this work, my mother is familiar with comrades such as Liu Shaoqi and Yang Shangkun. Liu Shaoqi saw that she was not called by name, but the girl with pigtails, and everyone got along very well.
Soon after, my mother was transferred to Zhabei District and Hudong District as the head of women's workers. On May 1, 1933, under the guidance of the principle of "blind activism", the Shanghai underground party organized a city-wide march, and my mother led a team of workers to gather at the borders of China.
Before the march had even begun, the patrol got the news, and they waved batons to drive away the crowd, and the crowd and the police clashed. The team was in chaos, and the mother was arrested by patrols to protect the masses. People who do clandestine work are mentally prepared to be arrested and imprisoned.
At that time, there was also a comrade named Chen Yifu who was arrested together, and she worked as a secretary in the National Self-Rescue Association organized by Soong Ching-ling. In order to deal with the enemy, his mother and Chen Yifu jointly agreed: Huang Jie's name is Zhao Yinghua, Chen Yifu's name is Zhang Junhua, they are cousins, and they live upstairs from the chairman of the Hudong branch of the National Imperial Self-Rescue Association. During the interrogation, they calmly responded and insisted on the same voice, and the enemy never found out their identity as Communist Party members, and Soong Qingling hired a lawyer to make a strong defense for them.
The court finally sentenced her to 5 years in prison for violating the rule of law of emergency public security in the Republic of China, and the sentence was reduced by half because she was a young and ignorant woman. My mother spent two years and seven months behind bars in the enemy's prison, the enemy deprived her of her freedom, but could not conquer her revolutionary will, my mother united with her fellow prisoners and fought resolutely against the enemy, and was released from prison at the end of 1935.
During the "Cultural Revolution", some people instructed the rebels to slander her mother as a traitor, and the Ministry of Textile I sent people to the Shanghai Public Security Bureau to investigate and found the original files of Tilanqiao Prison at that time. The interrogation records in the file are very complete, and there is neither voluntary surrender nor mutiny.
How her mother was released from prison on bail by Soong Ching-ling is clearly and in detail. In this way, the rebels' slander and planting were thoroughly exposed. After the "Cultural Revolution", Comrade Huang Yongfang of the Ministry of Textile Industry reported the incident to his mother, and his mother thanked the comrades who went to investigate at that time for being able to withstand the pressure and seek truth from facts.
After my mother was released from prison, the party organs in Shanghai had been seriously damaged several times, and it was very difficult to find the party. In order to find the party organization, my mother came to Hong Kong, got in touch with Comrade Pan Hannian in April 1936, and returned to the embrace of the party. In the stormy revolutionary struggle, the mother grew from a girl who opposed feudal etiquette and pursued independence to a mature revolutionary.
On July 7, 1937, the Lugou Bridge Incident broke out, and Japanese imperialism launched a long-planned all-out war of aggression against China in order to occupy China, and the Chinese nation was in danger. Her mother also devoted herself to the anti-Japanese salvation movement, and she did party work in the women's consolation meeting organized by He Xiangning of the Shanghai Office of the Eighth Route Army, propagating the party's anti-Japanese ideas and comforting the anti-Japanese patriotic soldiers.
In February 1938, my mother was transferred to the New Fourth Army Military Service Corps as the captain of the girls' team, and the cadets were all enthusiastic young women who came to participate in the anti-Japanese resistance, most of them were students who had just left school, and Marshal Chen Yi's wife Aunt Zhang Qian was one of them.
In July 1938, my mother went to the Central County Committee of Western Hubei of the Communist Party of China and the Shiba Seven County Working Committee as a member of the Standing Committee.
In May 1939, my mother went to the Chongqing Office of Hechuan to serve as the director of the wartime Chongqing No. 1 Nursery School. To carry out anti-Japanese work in the areas ruled by the Kuomintang, it is necessary not only to propagate the party's proposition of the anti-Japanese national united front, but also to skillfully maneuver with the Kuomintang spies.
Huang Jie's former residence
In the spring of 1940, my mother finally came to Yan'an, the holy land of revolution that she longed for day and night. The majestic pagoda mountain and the clear river made my mother feel extremely excited, and she began her study and life at the Yan'an Central Party School. In 1942, after completing her studies, she was assigned to the Women's Federation of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo Border Region as the head of the Organization Department.
In 1945, my mother was transferred to the director of the First Nursery School in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo Border District. There was also an interesting conversation in which Comrade An Ziwen, who was in charge of organizational work at the time, invited his mother to his office and said: "You are already the ninth person I am looking for, and I hope you will not refuse my request." After a pause, Minister An continued: "It's the director of Yan'an Nursery School, and I found several people who didn't want to be you, so I thought of you."
Without saying a word, my mother took up the job of the director of the childcare. The nursery had many children and was short of funds, so she found a way to contact the Soong Ching Ling International Red Cross to get some of the funds.
In that difficult era, there were frequent wars in Yan'an, and these children were the children of soldiers and martyrs at the front, and it was a very heavy task to ensure the safety, transfer, and evacuation of each child. She led the teachers and aunts of the nursery school to do their best to take care of the children and educate them well, so that the soldiers ahead could rest assured. Mother is like this, she does whatever the party tells her to do, and never cares about the level of her position and personal gains and losses.
In the spring of 1946, my father had just recovered from a serious illness of pleurisy, and lived in Yan'an Willow Store to recuperate. Comrade Zhang Qinqiu was an outstanding female comrade in the ranks of the Red Fourth Front Army, who was ostracized and attacked during the Red Army period because of her opposition to Zhang Guotao. He fought with his father on the journey of the Red West Route Army, and he returned to Yan'an after nine deaths, so he was very familiar with his father and understood his father's situation. Zhang Qinqiu is a member of the Central Women's Commission, so she naturally knows her mother who works in the Women's Federation of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo Border Region, and through her introduction to Uncle Su Jingguan, her father and mother gradually became familiar with her.
Speaking of the marriage, his father's guard squad leader Zhang Shuangyou still remembers it vividly, he recalled: One day, the Minister of Health Su Jingguan asked the head to play poker, and several female comrades were also there, talking to Minister Su's lover Zhang Qinqiu, and they played cards together for a while. On the way back, I found the chief very happy. When I went to play poker again, I could see that the way was coming.
At this time, Minister Su's guard Xiao Wang asked me if I knew what the chief was doing here, and I said that I was just resting and having fun. He burst out laughing and said, "Your chief is getting married today!" As soon as I couldn't hear it, I hurriedly reported to my family and asked them to prepare quickly, and I kept complaining in my heart that the chief was not saying a word about such a big matter.
When I walked back home with the chief, the chief saw that everyone was cleaning the house, and said with a smile: "Hey, little ghost, very fine! I am getting married today, please eat candy!" Minister Su brought a duck, and several comrades-in-arms ate it. When they put the two of them together, they are married. It happened to be May Fourth Youth Day.
It seems like a brief acquaintance, such a simple wedding, but it is not simple. At that time, in Yan'an, the cadres of the Red Fourth Front Army were not very popular, and many progressive young women came to Yan'an to participate in the anti-Japanese resistance.
After a long period of revolutionary turmoil, my mother has a more mature view of people and things. In 1930, when she was working in the Central Military Commission, she learned about the military struggles in various base areas, and because Zeng Zhongsheng was in the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Soviet Region, she was even more concerned about what was happening there.
Later, Zeng Zhongsheng died, but her mother still paid attention to the development of the Red Fourth Front Army, and she had her own analysis and views on the ups and downs of this army, and sincerely admired Xu Xiangqian's character, character, and command ability. My father respected my mother's independence, tenacity, intelligence and generosity.
My mother admired my father's resolute, resolute, and strategic military talents, as well as his upright personality and unashamed honor and disgrace. A common revolutionary belief and a common orientation of life values are the basis of the marriage between father and mother. They have spent 44 years together, trusting each other, being considerate of each other, and loving each other.
I was born at the beginning of 1947. At that time, my father was leading a newly formed army to fight hard against the enemy, and my mother was doing local work. Once, my mother organized a local support to work, and she was busy all day and came home late. I was picked up to feed, but as soon as I was hugged, I cried and looked at me for a long time under the dim oil lamp, and found that I had a big swollen lump on my forehead. It turned out that my mother went out to work, leaving the 16-year-old little guard to take me.
The little guard put me on the swivel chair and spun around and I laughed, and he spun so hard that he accidentally threw me out and hit my forehead on the ground, and I woke up from a long coma and almost fell to my death.
There have been several times when such a dangerous situation has been encountered. One time was when an enemy plane came to bomb me, when I was not yet a month old, and as soon as I was taken away, my house collapsed; the other time was when I had pneumonia, because of lack of medical treatment, I had a high fever for several days, and I was already dying. I was born to cause a lot of trouble for my mother.
Huang Jie's former residence
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, my mother has been working on the front line of the textile industry.
At the time of liberation, the country was poor and white, and the foundation of the textile industry was very weak. At that time, the textile industry had the saying of "going to the blue sky", that is, only Shanghai, Qingdao and Tianjin had a few textile factories.
However, the people of the whole country have to wear clothes, the textile industry needs a new layout, and the construction of new factories requires a large number of cadres, a large number of business personnel and senior technicians. Not only to transfer personnel from the old factory to support, but also to organize the training of new forces, my mother has made great efforts to build the team of the textile industry.
Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, a large number of outstanding talents for socialist construction have been cultivated on the front of the textile industry, and famous national labor models such as Hao Jianxiu and Zhao Mengtao have emerged.
When interviewing the old comrades who worked with my mother back then, everyone was proud of that glorious era, and especially talked about my mother's noble character of being strict with herself. The Ministry of Textiles had just been established, and it was very complicated to grade and grade cadres for the first time, and my mother presided over the grading work in the Personnel Department.
After reporting the grading plan, the leaders of the Central Organization Department talked to their mother: "Comrade Huang Jie, you are a party member for 28 years, a cadre during the Great Revolution, you set yourself so low, how can we balance." Despite the words of the competent authorities, my mother insisted on lowering her rank by one level.
My mother's noble character and humble attitude towards others have won the love of the vast number of cadres and the masses. Comrade Huang Yongfang, who was transferred from the army to the Ministry of Textiles in 54 years and worked in the ministry for a long time, recalled: "Chief Huang Jie was hard-working, simple, approachable, and shared weal and woe with the masses, regardless of personal gains and losses.
At that time, there were many wives of army generals and local mayors who served in the organs and subordinate units of the Ministry of Textiles, and the wives of local mayors were the highest, but Director Huang had no frame and was amiable, which was recognized from top to bottom. ”
In that era when "class struggle" was frequently emphasized, the mother in charge of personnel work had the courage to uphold the principle of seeking truth from facts and protected many cadres regardless of personal gains and losses.
During the "anti-rebellion" campaign under the influence of the ultra-"leftist" line, the lover of a director of the personnel department of the Ministry of Textiles committed suicide, which was a serious problem at the time and would have been immediately transferred from his post. The mother resisted the pressure and said: "The problem has not yet been clarified, and besides, this comrade himself has no problem and should not be affected." "Through her mother's efforts, she not only protected the cadre herself and allowed her to continue to work in her original post, but also took proper care of her family.
My mother not only cared about the work and life of the vast number of cadres and workers, but also paid special attention to the relatives of the martyrs who sacrificed their lives for the establishment of New China.
Aunt Lin Ying, the widow of Comrade Peng Xuefeng, works in the textile department, and her mother tries her best to take care of her, and she is also particularly concerned about the growth of her son Xiaofeng. After Comrade Peng Xiaofeng joined the work, he still remembered his mother's care and cultivation for him back then, and he had to visit his mother on behalf of Aunt Lin every Spring Festival, and visited his mother many times during his serious illness.
My mother is quiet and rarely walks around, but she misses her comrades-in-arms who fought with her. Once when I came home, my mother happily told me that she had spoken to "Big Sister" on the phone.
At that time, Comrade Shuai Mengqi was sick and hospitalized, and my mother was very worried, and suddenly received a call from her, although it was just a chat, but it made my mother excited for a long time, and her respect and longing for the eldest sister made me unforgettable. Aunt Zhao Feng is my mother's closest friend, they studied together at the Yan'an Party School, and then worked together in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo Border District Women's Federation.
In 1985, on the occasion of her mother's birthday, Aunt Zhao Feng wrote a long poem in her elegant and chic calligraphy, expressing her respect and friendship for her mother, which has been hanging on the wall of her mother's reception room.
Since 1962, when my family moved to Liuyin Street along the south side of Houhai, my mother has lived here for 45 years and has established a very harmonious relationship with the neighbors.
Comrade Hua Guofeng and his father are Shanxi villagers, after the death of his father in 90 years, he has to visit his mother every year before the Spring Festival, he is a retired politician calmly and calmly chatting with his mother about the world, talking about family life, talking about people's lives, talking about social news, every time to talk for a long time. During the Spring Festival of one year, Comrade Hua Guofeng presented his calligraphy work "Tranbo Cixian" to his mother, expressing his respect and praise for his mother.
At the beginning of liberation, my father brought my relatives to Beijing who had not been able to reunite in the years of the beacon fire, and my mother also brought my grandmother to take care of my sister Xiaotao and me. When it was time to eat, a large long table was full, and it was really lively! My mother went to work early in the morning and came home late, and while she was busy with work, she took good care of this big harmonious family.
At home, my father has always maintained the characteristics of Shanxi people's life and my mother was born in the land of fish and rice, so the tastes and living habits are different.
One year, on my mother's birthday, my father jokingly asked my mother, "What birthday present do you want?" Father took out the marshal's uniform from the box and put it on for display. In this way, the mother received a special "birthday present".
My father doesn't usually talk much, but he is very considerate of his mother in life. My father was a soldier, and he always walked in great strides, and when he went out for a walk with his mother, he paid attention to slowing down his pace so that his mother could not walk hard. My father was fond of photography, and in the 50s and 60s, he took many pictures of his mother and children.
Many of the mother's photos in the album are my father's works, and these vivid old black and white photos are full of family atmosphere, and they have brought us many good memories! My father has a special toolbox and likes to do carpentry by himself, and the crutches used by my mother are made by my father himself, which is very beautifully made and very durable, and my mother has been using this crutch after my father's death. When she was seriously ill and hospitalized, her mother put her crutches on the side of the bedside and did not allow anyone to take them away, and the little nurses who took care of her were very strange, and Hikohiko explained to them: "This is what the old man did for her!"
On June 18, 2007, Mother left us forever. At the beginning of July, we came to my mother's hometown - Jingzhou, Hubei, on the vast Yangtze River, my mother's ashes slowly drifted to the sky with flowers. 80 years ago, my mother embarked on the road of revolution from here, and at the age of 98, she has completed a vigorous life. Now she has returned to her hometown, once again from the Yangtze River to the sea and to the world.
[Author: Xu Xiaoyan Source: "Sun Village"]