She is the wife of a traitor who betrayed Sister Jiang, but she is 98 years old but is highly respected by the country, what did she do? In that turbulent era, her husband betrayed the ideals of the revolution, resulting in the murder of countless comrades. However, with her firm revolutionary will and indomitable spirit, she conveyed hope and boosted morale in prison. Even after experiencing life and death threats and torture, she never revealed a single secret. In this way, a woman who was once regarded as a "traitor's wife" finally won the respect and admiration of the Chinese people for her noble qualities and heroic deeds. What kind of ordeal did she go through? How did she resolve the pain in her heart and move on? What will her story teach us? Let's walk into this magnificent history together.
Perseverance of the revolutionary fighter
In 1946, the civil war broke out, and the country was plunged into a turbulent situation of war. It was in this environment that Guo Dexian, who was in her early 20s, joined the Communist Party of China and began her extraordinary revolutionary career. Born in poverty, she has experienced the darkness and injustice of the old society since she was a child, and is full of great desire to establish a fair and just new China. After joining the party organization, she worked underground in Chengdu with her husband Pu Huafu, responsible for intelligence gathering and purging traitors.
Despite the harsh living conditions and the secret sentinels of spies, Guo Dexian never wavered in her revolutionary beliefs. In order to ensure that the Party's important information is foolproof, they use special codes when communicating with outsiders to prevent their identities from being exposed and harmed by the enemy. Day after day, year after year, Guo Dexian carried out her duties in obscurity, making her own contribution to the revolutionary cause with a sincere heart.
One day in January 1949, when Pu Huafu did not return for a long time and knocked on the door with an incorrect code, Guo Dexian did not hesitate to burn all the important documents. Immediately afterwards, Kuomintang agents entered their residence and secretly arrested the family of three. In prison, Guo Dexian was subjected to all kinds of inhuman abuse and interrogation, but she never revealed any information about the underground party of the Chinese Communist Party, and maintained the dignity of the party with her strong and unyielding revolutionary will.
Faced with the defection of her husband and the killing of relatives and friends, Guo Dexian was in pain, but she never gave up her inner desire for revolution. She understands that everything she does is to pursue a more fair and just society, which is an ideal worth fighting for. It is this persistent belief that allows her to maintain hope in a desperate situation and survive tenaciously.
The spark of faith in prison
On October 1, 1949, the People's Republic of China was officially born, and the exciting news was quickly secretly reached by the prisoners. Huang Xiansheng, who learned the good news from the People's Daily, immediately passed the news to Guo Dexian in the next cell through the rat hole. Guo Dexian, who learned the good news, quietly informed Luo Guangbin and other comrades when he was letting off steam. Soon, the exciting news spread throughout the prison.
Despite being imprisoned, the imprisoned revolutionaries were inspired. In order to celebrate the final victory of the revolutionary cause, Luo Guangbin proposed that everyone sew a five-star red flag together and wait for it to be held high on the day of liberation. Everyone reached a consensus in an instant, and Luo Guangbin immediately removed his quilt as the main part of the national flag.
For the next few days, the cell was in full swing. Due to the strict control of the cells, the prisoners did not have any needlework tools at hand. They could only use a knife to cut the thread on the edge of the quilt little by little, and then make a rudimentary needle from a branch, and then use this "needle" and "thread" to sew the national flag one by one.
What color should the five stars on the flag be? After a heated discussion, it was decided to use old yellow straw paper to cut it out. The process of cutting the stars was extremely difficult, and the prisoners had to grind the rusty iron pieces repeatedly, polish them to sharp edges, and then use them to cut the shape of the stars little by little.
In this way, under many difficulties, the five-star red flag sewn by the imprisoned revolutionaries was finally put together. Every midnight, the comrades in prison secretly hung it up and sang the national anthem in a low voice, looking forward to the arrival of liberation. This simple and unpretentious national flag embodies their infinite love for New China and their vision for a bright future.
In the desperate environment of prison, the fruits of this struggle turned out to be the spark that inspired everyone's fighting spirit. It rejuvenates the cell and dispels the gloom. They encouraged each other and vowed to defend the dignity of the Party with their lives and never succumb to the coercion and temptation of the enemy.
Although betrayed by her husband, she still fulfilled her duties
After suffering inhuman abuse in prison for a long time, Guo Dexian learned a fact that shocked her: it was the betrayal and betrayal of her beloved husband Pu Huafu that led to her and many comrades being arrested and imprisoned.
At the beginning of 1950, the liberation of Chongqing was imminent. In order to secure his position, Pu Huafu took the initiative to serve the Kuomintang and betrayed the names and whereabouts of hundreds of underground workers in the party. Under his confession, Kuomintang agents went on a heavy arrest overnight, and these loyal communists were imprisoned in the White Mansion and the Dregs Cave.
Seeing the comrades-in-arms who had fought side by side being beaten and humiliated, Guo Dexian's heart was extremely painful. She never imagined that it was her lover who betrayed the revolutionary comrades with her own hands. What is even more difficult for her to accept is that her 8-year-old son was also innocently killed in this massacre.
Faced with the tragic death of his son and the ruthless betrayal of his husband, Guo Dexian once fell into a desperate situation. However, she is well aware that as a staunch Communist Party member, she shoulders the sacred duty of safeguarding the party's dignity and ideals and beliefs. In order to live up to the sacrifices of the martyrs, she must live bravely and must not be easily defeated.
Under the careful education of the party organization, Guo Dexian gradually regained his fighting spirit. Although she was outraged by her husband's actions, she realized that Pu Huafu's betrayal was a personal act and did not represent the party's principles and policies. She was determined to defend the dignity of the revolution with her own practical actions.
In fact, even at the beginning of his arrest, Guo Dexian had a heroic performance. At that time, she promptly notified Ma Shitu (deputy secretary of the Chuankang Special Committee of the Communist Party of China) to hide to prevent more comrades from exposing their identities. After that, in prison, she insisted on not revealing any secrets about the party to the enemy, preferring to endure severe torture.
It is with this indomitable quality that Guo Dexian has won high praise from his comrades in prison. With their strong evidence, the party organization finally restored Guo Dexian's party membership and justified his name: "Heroic and loyal Communist Party member".
Devoted himself to the revolutionary cause and unswervingly
After being released from prison, Guo Dexian struggled to regain his life and began a new phase of parenting and revitalizing his family. In 1951, in accordance with the arrangement of the party organization, she married Luo Guangbin, a comrade-in-arms she had met in prison, and raised her only surviving daughter together.
Life is back on track, but Guo Dexian has never been able to forget the death of his comrades in those turbulent years. Every year on the Qingming Festival, she will go to the dregs cave with great sorrow and respect to pay tribute to the revolutionary martyrs who sacrificed for New China.
As time passed, the daughter also grew up. Guo Dexian knows that as a former revolutionary, she shoulders the heavy responsibility of passing on the truth of history from generation to generation. So, she began to tell her daughter about the turbulent history she had experienced, introduce the heroes who died, and outline the brutal struggle scenes of those years.
After hearing this, the daughter was deeply shocked, and for the first time truly realized the huge price paid by her mother and her revolutionary comrades for the arrival of New China. She understands that today's peaceful and healthy life is exchanged for the blood and lives of countless martyrs, so she should learn from her mother's spirit of not being afraid of sacrifice and unswerving.
In addition to telling the story himself, Guo Dexian also compiled his own experiences into written materials and handed them over to the local museum for collection and preservation. She hopes that these first-hand historical materials can be understood and disseminated by more people, so as to remember the feats of revolutionaries in that turbulent era.
After his retirement, Guo Dexian devoted himself to the cause of revolutionary traditional education. She traveled all over the country, telling her personal experiences on campus and in the community, and educating the younger generation to always maintain the passion and ideals of the revolution. She taught tirelessly, continued the red gene, and showed the demeanor of an old revolutionary with her exemplary words and deeds.
A microcosm of the era of a generation of heroes
Guo Dexian's life has witnessed the arduous journey of the Communist Party of China (CPC) growing from a small underground organization to a ruling party leading the country. The eventful years she personally experienced were the most difficult period for the party and the revolutionary cause.
In that turbulent era, Guo Dexian represented the image of a large number of ordinary but unswerving female Communist Party fighters. Born in troubled times, they have experienced the darkness and injustice of the old society since they were young, and they are full of great yearning for the establishment of a fair and just new China. In order to realize this ideal, they resolutely joined the underground party organization and devoted themselves to the revolutionary cause with one heart and one mind.
Never give up, not afraid of hardships and hardships. Just like Guo Dexian, they are engaged in secret work surrounded by secret sentinels, even if they live in harsh conditions and are scarred all over their bodies, they still insist on fighting at the forefront. In the face of severe torture by the enemy, they defended the dignity of the Party with their strong and unyielding revolutionary will, and would rather sacrifice their lives than divulge secrets.
This spirit of having no complaints and no regrets and treating death as if it were home is exactly the spiritual portrayal of the Chinese Communists. It is one of the important reasons why the Chinese revolution was able to achieve its final victory, and it is the source of power for the bright red seeds to take root and sprout in a difficult environment.
In Guo Dexian, we can also see her noble character. When her close lover Pu Huafu betrayed the party and her comrades, although she was heartbroken, she did not lose her way, but immediately took decisive action to avoid more casualties. After being released from prison, she put aside her personal grievances and continued to work for the cause of the party and the people, and interpreted the ethics and realm that a communist should have with her own practical actions.
It is precisely because of an ordinary but great revolutionary like Guo Dexian that the road to the founding of New China was paved. They defended communist ideals and beliefs with their blood and lives, and opened up a road for us to pass the Yangguan Mountains. Whenever we look back on these eventful years, we should remember the great achievements of Guo Dexian and her fellow travelers, and draw courage and strength from them.