Ninety percent of the martyrs in Wuhan sacrificed for the establishment of a new China

The reporter learned from the Civil Affairs Bureau yesterday that of the more than 6,000 martyrs in Wuhan, 90% of them sacrificed their lives to build a new China.

Ninety percent of the martyrs died before the founding of New China

According to the relevant person in charge of the Jiufengshan Martyrs Cemetery, the cemetery buried 9 martyrs who died before the founding of New China, and 8 of them were only in their 20s when they died.

Born in Huangpi, Huang Jinshan joined the Communist Party of China in 1925 and was the main leader of the Party and trade union of Wuchang Yuhua Spinning Factory. He cooperated with the Northern Expedition, carried out revolutionary propaganda, launched and organized workers' strikes, and participated in activities such as the repossession of the British Concession in Wuhan. After the defeat of the Great Revolution, he went underground, was unfortunately arrested in early 1928, and on the twelfth day of the first month of the same year, he bravely took up his righteousness at the soil slope between the two factories of Yuhua Zhenhuan on Xinhe Street in Wuchang, at the age of 28.

Chen Zhutian, who was born in Hanyang, went to Belgium to study in 1928, and after the "918" incident, he represented the Chinese Students' Association for Students studying in Belgium at the executive committee and congress of the "All-Belgian Anti-Japanese Congress". In September 1937, Chen Zhutian led the Chinese delegation to attend the meeting and was elected as a member of the Standing Committee of the World Federation of Students. At the end of 1937, he led dozens of people to return to China, passing through Saigon, Singapore and Hong Kong along the way, mobilizing overseas Chinese to return to China to participate in the war. With the efforts of Chen Zhutian, in 1938, the "World Federation of Students' Delegation" visited China and arrived in Yan'an, so that students around the world could have a better understanding of China's anti-Japanese resistance and the Chinese Communist Party. On July 12 of that year, Chen Zhutian was tragically killed in the indiscriminate bombing of Wuhan by Japanese aircraft, at the age of 28.

The youngest martyr was only 17 years old when he died

According to the person in charge of the Jiufeng mountain martyrs' cemetery, the youngest martyr buried here was only 17 years old when he died. In 1980, Mao Heng and Huang Zhibo, sophomore students of Wuhan Donghu Middle School, passed through Donghu lake and witnessed criminals stabbing police officers maintaining social order next to the pine forest near the Changtian Tower in the East Lake Scenic Area. The two of them rushed forward to fight the gangsters, and unfortunately died at the age of 17.

Both father and son are martyrs

According to the Civil Affairs Bureau, among the wuhan martyrs, there is a pair of father and son martyrs. Qian Yishi was a famous writer, theoretician, and social activist in the early days of our party, and was called a "red educator" by Dong Biwu. Qian Yishi was born in 1889 in Xianning, Hubei Province, graduated from Wuchang Gaoshi (the predecessor of Wuda University) in his early years, and joined the Communist Party of China in 1924 through the introduction of Dong Biwu and Chen Tanqiu. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Qian Yishi threw himself into the Anti-Japanese Salvation Movement. The Shanghai Party organization formed a field service team with more than 30 writers, musicians, and dramatists inside and outside the party as the backbone. Zhou Enlai ordered Qian Yishi to be the captain. Qian Yishi leads by example everywhere and leads the way. He died in Shanghai in January 1938 due to overwork.

Qian Yishi and his wife had a total of 9 children, only two sons and one daughter grew up. The second son, Qian Yuanjing, was introduced by Dong Biwu in his early years to study in the third phase of kang da. Qian Yuanjing returned to Xianning in March 1938 after graduating from the Kang Da University to open up the anti-Japanese base area in southern Hunan and was arrested in 1939 for betrayal by traitors. The Japanese brutally tore at him by wolf dogs, and his body was thrown into the Yangtze River near Fankou in Echeng (present-day Ezhou), when he was only 22 years old.

Martyrs continue to emerge in ordinary life

According to the Civil Affairs Bureau, among the martyrs of our city, in addition to the revolutionary ancestors, a number of martyrs who work in ordinary posts have also emerged. On the evening of June 12, 2010, Yuan Fan, a 26-year-old patrol guard at the Hongshan District Public Security Bureau, rushed to two car thieves with a teammate while participating in the arrest. A few minutes later, a car thief suddenly reflexively swung a stab, stabbing Yuan Fan's thigh artery, and he died of excessive blood loss.

At about 8:00 p.m. on October 25, 2014, three young people who came to Wuhan to work together came to hankou Wangjia lane ferry terminal to swim by the Yangtze River. Due to the rapid flow and dense whirlpool of the river, coupled with the large number of water hyacinths gushing upstream, the 3 people suddenly encountered a dangerous situation. Retired employee Chen Zhonggui and other Members of the Yangtze River Rescue Volunteer Team were on duty at the Wangjia Lane pier, after hearing the cry for help, they jumped into the river together, after rescuing 1 person who fell into the water, they were trapped in a large water hyacinth due to exhaustion and could not break free, Chen Zhonggui was swept into the bottom of the river by the whirlpool. (Reporter Ma Zhenhua Correspondent Zhou Gang Zhou Li)