Xie Jueya, born on April 27, 1884 in Ningxiang County, Hunan Province, participated in the May Fourth Movement in 1919 and joined the Communist Party of China in 1925, making outstanding contributions to China's revolution and construction.
Formerly Qingxiu was transformed into a staunch Marxist
Xie Jueya studied at the Mengguan at the age of four, and in 1905, when he was 21 years old, he took the "fu examination" of the former Qing Dynasty and won the Xiucai. On New Year's Day 1921, through the introduction of Zhou Shizhao, He Shuheng and Mao Zedong, Xie Jueya participated in the Xinmin Society. On this day, Xie Jueya came to some gentlemen and told them: "If you want to transform a place, you must first create public opinion; if you want public opinion to be correct, you must first cultivate scholars; when there is a dispute, the current situation is complicated and confusing, especially if you are a scholar." This shows that Xie Jueya's energy is still focused on how to save the country.
Xie Kyaw-ya attended the New Year's meeting of the Xinmin Society to discuss ways to transform society. He Shuheng, who presided over the meeting, took a clear-cut stand in "advocating radicalism." Through this meeting, the purpose of the Xinmin Society shifted from democracy to Marxism. It was also at this time that Xie Jueya embarked on the road of accepting Marxism.
Since then, Xie Jueya has paid great attention to and devoted himself to the cause of communism. Since the ccp's first congress, the spread of Marxism has risen in Hunan, and Xie Jueya has also participated in the process. On October 22, Xie Jueya wrote in his diary: "Today, the Teachers' Training Association held a perennial conference and sent xia Xi to Russia... Runzhi said: "In the past, schools were not edified, and the ism they were targeting was incorrect, and the result was that they were blind and blind, and they could not make any name." We always have to proceed for the sake of doctrine. ’”
On May 1, 1943, Xie Jueya reviewed the path he had traveled in life and pointed out: "This is how I stepped onto a great and difficult revolutionary road after the age of 40, and I seemed to be prepared to step into this road. ”
From Mao Zedong, I learned the true scriptures of the Communists
In 1933, Xie Jueya entered the Central Soviet Zone and came to Mao Zedong's residence. After that, Xie Jueya began to serve as the secretary of the Provisional Central Government of the Chinese Soviet Republic and Mao Zedong. One day, Mao Zedong instructed Xie Jueya to draw up a circular on convening a meeting of major county-level cadres to discuss the establishment of a field. Xie Jueya wrote it and sent it to Mao Zedong for review, and unexpectedly, this notice of less than a thousand words was completely changed by Mao Zedong, leaving no word behind, and adding a lot. He asked Mao Zedong, "Why can't I write like this?" Mao Zedong replied with only two words: "You learn!" ”
Recalling the incident decades later, Xie Jueya said: "'You learn!' It inspired me a lot. How to learn it? The first is to learn from others and learn positive experiences; the second is to learn from oneself and learn from negative experiences. After repeatedly studying Mao Zedong's handwritten and deleted manuscripts, Xie Jueya realized: First, the content of the meeting was to check the fields and set the production, and when he first arrived in the Central Soviet Region, he did not know what happened to the fields and what problems the meeting wanted to solve, and without investigation, he started to write a pen, which can be described as a rash move; second, the people attending the meeting were all turned over peasants, not only wanting them to understand, but also wanting them to understand, which he ignored; third, this was the Soviet area that was "encircled and suppressed," and the materials were difficult, and those who came must bring their own dishes and chopsticks and be accounted for, which he did not expect. Xie Jueya felt that the manuscript written without investigation and understanding of the situation was naturally "nothing to say and the text is not correct."
This year, Mao Zedong carried out investigations in Changgang Township and Caixi Township, and Xie Jueya followed Mao Zedong to conduct this investigation, which was deeply rooted in Mao Zedong's art of investigation and research work. Xie Jueya later said: "I saw Comrade Mao Zedong's investigation of Xingguo Changgang Township and Shanghangcaixi Township. Three or two peasants were found by the township chief, and each township talked for almost a week. He personally took care of their food and lodging, fearing that they would not be able to stay up late, and asked very modestly. Mao Zedong regarded himself as a student and a peasant as a gentleman, which made Xie Jueya very moved. From Mao Zedong, Xie Kyaw-ya learned the true lessons of the Communists—how to deal with the relationship between the party and the masses of the people. Xie Jueya once said that to be a true Communist Party member, you must be able to withstand experiments: killing heads, sitting in prison, electrocuting, and pouring pepper water, which is very ordinary; banknotes, foreign money, cars, Western-style buildings, beautiful wives, do not care! What was in his mind was: truth, revolution, struggle, sacrifice, until his last breath. Xie Juezha once taught party members and cadres that it is impossible and should not have special enjoyment for communist party members, that the communist party is not opposed to enjoyment, and that it is trying to create a prosperous life for the whole society, but he opposes that when the majority does not improve their lives, the minority lives alone.
"Get up early and sleep late, you can do more to feel at ease"
As the founder of the judicial system in New China, Xie Jueya began to engage in the party's judicial practice activities from the late stage of the Great Revolution. At the beginning of 1949, he discussed and studied the issue of abolishing the "Complete Book of Six Laws" promulgated by the Kuomintang government with Shen Junru, Zhang Zhirang and other judicial circles, and wrote an editorial for the party newspaper entitled "Abolishing Old Laws and Building New Laws". He presided over a forum on legal issues of the North China People's Government. According to the discussion at the meeting, liu Shaoqi and Zhou Enlai wrote a long letter, put forward specific plans for legislative work and training judicial cadres, and proposed that Chaoyang University be changed into the National Peking University of Political Science and Law. The proposal was approved, and after intense preparations, the first political science and law university in New China, the China University of Political Science and Law, was proclaimed, and Xie Jueya was appointed president.
Regarding how to treat the people after the party came to power, at the beginning of the founding of New China, Xie Jueya put forward an important viewpoint: "To be able to do more is to be at ease." At that time, Xie Jueya was appointed minister of internal affairs of the Central People's Government, and people from his hometown wanted to come to Beijing to join him. In his reply to his son, Xie Jueya compared himself to an old peasant in the same village, pointing out that as an official, he must "get up early and sleep late, and be able to do more to be at ease", thus advising his children's relatives and friends not to have privileged thinking and should support themselves. This sentence also has another meaning: As communists, shouldering the mission of the party and the people, we must get up early and go to bed late, be honest and honest in performing official duties, and take it as our duty to do more things and do good things for the party and the people. This is also Xie Jueya's consistent demand for himself since he established his Marxist belief. The first major event he encountered as Minister of the Interior was the great floods of 1949-1950, which affected 16 provinces across the country. He proposed "don't starve a single person". According to the proposal of him and the Ministry of the Interior, a campaign for mutual social assistance and conservation was carried out throughout the country, and the central organs donated 1.2 billion yuan and 390,000 catties of grain in more than half a year; the North China Military Region saved 3 million catties of grain in 6 months. After several months of hard work, the disaster situation in the whole country basically stopped developing, and the severe spring famine was mostly over.
Xie Jueya, who cares infinitely about the people's warmth and coldness, has extremely strict requirements for his family and his children. Therefore, as early as the Yan'an period, people called him: "Dedicate yourself to the party and often draw for him, and seek benefits with the people more diligently." This is a concentrated embodiment of the original intention and mission of the communists.
Source: Beijing Daily
In the next issue, the "Party History Lecture Hall" will bring you "Fang Zhimin's Two or Three Incidents in Prison", so stay tuned!
essay
Selected
【Party History Lecture Hall No. 162】Inheriting the Red Gene and Establishing a New Style of Civilization (Party Flag Flying)
【Lecture Hall of Party History No. 163】Zhang Mazigou ambushed and annihilated the stubborn enemy in the snow
【Lecture Hall of Party History No. 164】Shao "King Yan" Collects Zheng "Little Ghost" at Night