In the winter of 1920, 27-year-old Mao Zedong and 19-year-old Yang Kaihui married in Changsha.
At this time, Mao Zedong certainly did not expect that he would be a matchmaker in the future, which led to one beautiful marriage after another.
According to research, the first person to marry a Ruyi partner by Mao Zedong as a matchmaker was Xia Minghan.
Young Mao Zedong
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Xia Minghan, a native of Hengyang, Hunan, whose father was a Qing Dynasty official, worked as an official in Hubei.
In the twenty-sixth year of Guangxu (1900), Xia Minghan was born in Zigui, Hubei Province.
In this year, a major event occurred in Chinese history, on May 28, the Eight-Power Alliance invaded China broke out, the Qing Dynasty was defeated, Empress Dowager Cixi fled to Xi'an, and then signed the "Xinugu Treaty" with the great powers, China was completely reduced to a semi-feudal and semi-colonial society, and the national crisis was unprecedentedly serious.
The turbulent situation, the severe national crisis, which greatly stimulated the young Xia Minghan.
In 1912, Xia Minghan returned to his hometown in Hengyang, Hunan Province with his parents and studied at the Shigu National High School in Hengyang County.
In 1914, Xia Minghan's father died prematurely, and Xia Minghan was raised by his grandfather.
In 1917, against his grandfather's wishes, Xia Minghan was admitted to the mechanical department of the Third Grade A Industrial School in Hunan Province, where he studied in a class and received a new education.
Xia Minghan met a close friend, Jiang Xianyun, who was the head of the three masters of the Whampoa Military Academy.
He also met a mentor, He Shuheng, a major representative of our party.
Xia Minghan
In the summer of 1918, Xia Minghan, Jiang Xianyun and others secretly organized the mass organization "Xueyou Mutual Aid Association". He also joined hands with progressive students in Xintian, Yizhang, and other places to establish the monthly magazine "Linglu Alarm Bell" to advocate science, advocate vernacular literature, criticize literary language, and vigorously publicize revolutionary ideas.
This echoes Mao Zedong's Xiangjiang Review in Changsha at the time.
In 1919, Xia Minghan and Jiang Xianyun initiated the establishment of the "Hunan Student Federation" in Hengyang.
Under the guidance of He Shuheng, Xia Minghan led the progressive students to set off an anti-imperialist and anti-feudal mass revolutionary movement, jointly led and organized a strike movement with jiang Xianyun for students from 25 counties in Shonan Province, and gathered and marched with teachers and students, gave speeches in the streets, distributed leaflets, supported the May Fourth Movement in Beijing, and launched a series of campaigns to save the country and survive.
Xia Minghan became a student leader with high prestige in Hunan schools, and was called a gemini star with Jiang Xianyun.
Due to Hermingham's frequent participation in the student movement, his conflict with his grandfather became increasingly acute, and he was locked up in a hut by his grandfather.
Later, With the help of his mother and brother, Xia Minghan jumped out of the window and began his own revolutionary road.
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In the autumn of 1920, Xia Minghan came to Changsha, and at the recommendation of He Shuheng, he became acquainted with Mao Zedong.
Just in August of that year, Mao Zedong, Li Da, He Shuheng and others founded Hunan Self-study University.
Xia Minghan, Jiang Xianyun, Guo Liang, Xia Xi, Li Weihan, Yi Lirong, Luo Xuezhan, Mao Zemin and others became students of the self-study university and became the earliest party members in Hunan.
In the winter of 1921, under the introduction of Mao Zedong and He Shuheng, Xia Minghan was honorably admitted to the party.
Shortly after joining the party, Xia Minghan was the director of teaching at the internship school attached to The Self-Study University, training a large number of backbone party groups for Hunan.
At the same time, he was ordered to lead the workers' movement in Changsha.
Xia Minghan gradually became an excellent leader of the workers' movement in Changsha.
The vigorous development of the workers' movement in Hunan caused uneasiness among the warlord Zhao Hengti, who severely suppressed the workers' movement.
On January 16, 1922, Zhao Hengti ordered Zhang Huizhuan, director of the Police Department, to arrest Huang Ai, Pang Renquan, and other leaders of the Hunan Labor Union, and suppress the workers' strike movement.
On January 17, Huang Ai, Pang Renquan and others were secretly murdered outside the Liuyang Gate of Changsha, and Changsha fell into a white terror.
On January 19, Mao Zedong, who had learned the news, rushed back to Changsha from Bancang (Yang Kaihui's house) to discuss countermeasures with Xia Minghan and others, and decided that Xia Minghan, Guo Liang, and Chen Youkui would come forward and organize a memorial meeting for Huang Ai and Pang Renquan.
After the memorial service was held, Mao Zedong personally presided over it and made a joint mourning for Huang Ai and Pang Renquan:
After the memorial service, Xia Minghan and others led the masses from all walks of life to demonstrate and petition, and sent a telegram to the whole country to denounce Zhao Hengti's crimes.
In this way, Zhao Hengti hated Xia Minghan even more, and repeatedly sent people to assassinate Xia Minghan.
It was in the struggle with Zhao Hengti that Xia Minghan met the most important person in this life.
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During Xia Minghan's leadership of the Hunan workers' movement, Zheng Jiajun, a female red worker in Xiang embroidery, was shot and injured in the right arm to cover him.
Xia Minghan often came to visit Zheng Jiajun.
Although the family backgrounds of Zheng Jiajun and Xia Minghan are like clouds and mud, as the contact becomes deeper and deeper, the communication becomes more and more extensive.
Unconsciously, the two fell in love with each other, but at that time, neither of them was embarrassed to break through the layer of window paper.
In 1924, Xia Minghan was appointed as a member of the Hunan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, responsible for the work of the Agricultural Committee, and later concurrently served as the director of organization, the minister of peasants, and the secretary of the Changsha Prefectural Committee, assisting Mao Zedong and leading the Hunan peasant movement.
One day in April of that year, Xia Minghan was doing laundry in the house when Mao Zedong suddenly pushed the door in.
When he saw Thatcher himself washing clothes, he felt that Summerhead should find a partner.
So he joked to Xia Minghan:
Upon hearing this, Xia Minghan looked proud and couldn't help but reply:
When Mao Zedong saw that the two of them had feelings for each other, he said happily: "You two have common ideals and sentiments, and you are in agreement with each other, and you should start a family as soon as possible!"
Therefore, under the provocation of Mao Zedong, Xia Minghan and Zheng Jiajun formally established a romantic relationship.
On October 10, 1926 (the fourth day of the ninth lunar month), through Mao Zedong's matchmaking, Zheng Jiajun and Xia Minghan held a simple and simple wedding ceremony in a simple house in Qingshuitang, Changsha.
On the day of the wedding, Li Weihan, He Shuheng and Xie Jueya of the Hunan Provincial Party Committee sent a joint couplet to congratulate the newlyweds.
A couplet is an embedded couplet with their names embedded in it, and the couplet reads:
On the eve of the Spring Festival in 1927, Xia Minghan and Zheng Jiajun moved to No. 1 Wanglu Garden in Changsha and lived in the same courtyard with Mao Zedong and Yang Kaihui.
Soon, the two gave birth to a daughter, and Xia Minghan, who had just become a father, named his beloved daughter Xia Chiyun.
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On April 12, 1927, the right wing of the Kuomintang led by Chiang Kai-shek launched the "April 12 Counter-Revolutionary Coup" in Shanghai, massacring Communists and revolutionary masses on a large scale, and the whole country fell into white terror.
Xia Minghan was deeply disgusted and grief-stricken by Chiang Kai-shek's perverse actions.
He wrote:
After the "April 12" coup d'état, there were three governments in China at that time, the first was the Nanjing Nationalist Government headed by Chiang Kai-shek, the second was the Beijing Beiyang Government headed by Zhang Zuolin, the head of the Fengzhi warlords, and the third was the Wuhan Nationalist Government headed by Wang Jingwei.
At that time, Wang Jingwei had not yet betrayed the revolution, and in order to compete with Chiang Kai-shek for power and profit, Wang Jingwei continued to disguise himself and continue to cooperate with our party.
Soon the Nationalist government in Wuhan announced the launch of the Second Northern Expedition.
Xia Minghan joined the revolutionary army of the Second Northern Expedition, served as the propaganda director, and drove with the army to the henan front.
On May 28, Xia Minghan's good friend Jiang Xianyun, then a party representative and regimental commander of the 77th Regiment of the 26th Division of the 11th Army of the National Revolutionary Army, was martyred.
Jiang Xianyun
Xia Minghan was grief-stricken, and what made him even more angry was that.
On July 15 of that year, Wang Jingwei launched the "July 15 Counter-Revolutionary Coup" in Wuhan, and the vigorous Revolution failed.
In order to oppose the perverse actions of the Kuomintang reactionaries, our Party decided to launch an armed uprising.
In June, Xia Minghan was transferred back to Hunan to work as a member of the provincial party committee and head of the organization.
After the August 7 conference, Xia Minghan assisted Mao Zedong, who had returned to Changsha, in preparing for the Autumn Harvest Uprising.
In September, the Autumn Harvest Uprising broke out, and Mao Zedong led the rebel troops to open up the Jinggangshan Revolutionary Base Area.
In October, Xia Minghan concurrently served as the secretary of the Pingliu Special Committee and continued to organize uprisings to cooperate with the struggle at Jinggangshan.
In January 1928, Xia Minghan received a new order to go to Wuhan to take up the post of standing committee member of the Hubei Provincial Party Committee, and Li Weihan, Guo Liang and others prepared to launch the Two Lakes Nianguan Rebellion.
At that time, the Kuomintang was vigorously searching for revolutionaries, and the environment was extremely dangerous, but Xia Minghan resolutely and resolutely bid farewell to his beloved wife and young daughter, came to Hubei, and still ran to various secret organs and deployed a plan of action.
Xia Minghan was very worried about the safety of Zheng Jiajun, he bought jade red beads to give to his wife, he wrote on the paper wrapped in red beads:
Yan Kuan plays Xia Minghan
On March 18, xia Minghan was arrested at the Hankou Oriental Hostel due to the betrayal of the traitor Song Ruolin.
In prison, Xia Minghan wrote a farewell letter to his mother, wife, and eldest sister with a half-cut pencil.
In a letter to his beloved wife Zheng Jiajun, Xia Minghan wrote:
On the white letterhead, Xia Minghan also left a bloody kiss mark.
In the early morning of March 20, Xia Minghan was taken to the Yujili Execution Ground in Hankou.
The executioner asked him what else he had to say, and Xia Minghan wrote a famous poem with a stroke of his pen:
"It doesn't matter if you behead, as long as the doctrine is true."
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After writing this poem, Xia Minghan generously died.
Soon, Xia Minghan died heroically, only 28 years old.
Xia Minghan wrote righteous poems
At this time, less than two years after Xia Minghan's marriage, he and Zheng Jiajun yongzhi in order to realize the common revolutionary ideal.
What is even more valuable is that the Xia Minghan family sacrificed a total of 5 people:
They are Xia Mingzhen (younger brother), secretary of the Chenxian County Party Committee who participated in the planning of the Shonan rebellion;
Xia Mingpi (younger brother), a member of the Youth Movement of the Hengyang County Peasants' Association who led the peasants in guerrilla warfare;
Xia Mingheng (younger sister), a hero who sacrificed his life for righteousness and was an executive member of the Xiangnan District Committee of the Communist Party of China;
There is also Wu Yizhuang (nephew), a 19-year-old Red Army instructor.
After Xia Minghan's sacrifice, Zheng Jiajun went to Shanghai in 1930, and in the hard days, she missed her lover, while working as a domestic worker, while working for the party, and at the same time painstakingly raising her daughter Xia Chiyun (daimyo Xia Yun).
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zheng Jiajun engaged in street work in Changsha and died of illness in 1975.
Until her death, she never sought out Mao Zedong for special care.
In fact, if she went to find it, Mao Zedong would definitely arrange a better job for her, but she just didn't want Mao Zedong to be embarrassed.
After graduating from university, Xia Chiyun engaged in education work, and then transferred to Jiujiang Power Machinery Factory, and has been quietly dedicating herself to ordinary jobs until retirement.
Xia Chiyun said:
Xia Minghan's daughter and grandson take a group photo in front of the bronze statue of Xia Minghan, which is a kind of inheritance
"It doesn't matter if you behead, as long as the doctrine is true." Killed Xia Minghan, and later on. "Xia Minghan's righteous poem does not know how many people have inspired.
Xia Minghan was a good example, an excellent student of Mao Zedong, who used his life to fulfill the promises he had made, and gave everything he had for the ideals in his heart.
Zheng Jiajun and Xia Chiyun are good looks, they inherit xia Minghan's legacy, in ordinary posts, contributed their own strength to the construction of the motherland.