In Changchun, many people like to go to Guilin Road.
So, how did the name Guilin Road come about?
Many people think that it is because of Guilin City that there is Guilin Road.
In fact, everyone is wrong.
The name Guilin Road is related to a man.
Jia Guilin
The man's name was Jia Guilin.
On September 18, 1931, the September 18 Incident occurred, and Japan occupied Northeast China in an all-round way.
On September 21, Japanese troops stormed Feng Yong University in Shenyang and put the president, Feng Yong, under house arrest.
That night, most of the teachers and students fled the school and rushed to Beiping to form the Anti-Japanese Youth Volunteer Army of Feng Yong University.
Among the students was Jia Guilin, who later participated with his classmates in the "1.28" Songhu War of Resistance and served as a section chief and legal officer with the rank of major.
After that, Jia Guilin transferred to the Chinese University to set up the "Guangfu Society", served as the general manager and issued the "Guangfu" newspaper, joined the "Northeast Youth Society" of the Beiping Branch of the Nanjing Northeast Association, and organized the distribution of the "Northeast Youth" publication.
In a series of patriotic movements, Jia Guilin was loved by Chen Lifu, the founder of the Kuomintang secret service organization, so he was put on a bigger task.
Chen Lifu
In June 1936, Jia Guilin was assigned by Chen Lifu to Japan to carry out anti-Japanese work in the name of an international student at waseda University's Faculty of Letters.
In January 1940, Jia Guilin reorganized the "Great Alliance of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression", an anti-Japanese group for overseas students in Japan, and became a subordinate organization of the "Northeast Anti-Japanese War Organization".
Jia Guilin divided the whole country into five regions, including Tokyo, Kyoto, Hiroshima, Kyushu, and Hokkaido, and each region designated a responsible person and served as the general person in charge, developing more than 50 members in about a year. Among them, including Nguyen Shou Lan, daughter of the puppet Minister of Economy Nguyen Chun Du, zeng Zhong Ji, daughter of Senator Zeng Yun, Li Jinsheng, eldest son of Li Shuhua, governor of Bei'an Province, and Kan Bingwei, daughter of kan Chao, the central bank's kan chao, the children of important members of the puppet Manchukuo have developed a lot, which can be described as remarkable achievements.
On the one hand, Jia Guilin wanted to actively expand the anti-Japanese forces, and on the other hand, he was also secretly instructed by the Chongqing side, and he replayed the drum and opened a new business, forming a new and larger group, the "Chinese National Salvation League". From April 1940 to December 1942, students from Kyoto University, Nihon University, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo Higher Normal School, and Hosei University joined the "Chinese National Salvation League" through secret introductions.
During his special affairs in Japan, Jia Guilin provided a large amount of valuable information for the War of Resistance Against Japan.
In February 1941 alone, Jia Guilin sent the following information to texaco foreign firm in the middle street of the British Concession in Tianjin: the production of Birch Oil, the output of the Weiguze Copper Mine, the liquefaction of the pseudo-Manchurian oil mother shale, the lack of tungsten ore, the shortage of aluminum, and the shortage of coal.
Jia Guilin also provided more important information, such as Japan's politics gradually abandoning democracy and transforming into a dictatorial militarist state; Japanese politicians hoping to achieve peace through the confluence of Wang and Chiang Kai-shek, but the soldiers insisted hard; Japan indiscriminately issued non-exchangeable paper money, and the people's lives became increasingly poor; the amount of iron filings and oil imported by the United States decreased, thus bringing great constraints to the operation of the military industry and the conduct of war, and so on.
However, at the end of 1941, Jia Guilin encountered the biggest crisis of his life.
Song Qingling
After the establishment of puppet Manchuria, the new Beijing Jianguo University was established in the location of today's Changchun University. After the beginning of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, some students who were ideologically progressive and active in resisting Japan were produced among the students, and the puppet Manchu government urgently arrested the students after learning about it. After being tortured, one of the students was really overwhelmed and revealed important information, Jia Guilin was doing intelligence work in Japan.
Subsequently, the Japanese captured Jia Guilin and escorted him to the Liuzhichang Prison of the Police Department of the Capital Police Department of Changchun.
Jia Guilin faced severe torture and did not say anything. In the end, the Japanese police were only imprisoned for "ideological crimes" (with anti-Japanese ideology).
On May 10, 1943, Jia Guilin died in prison at the age of 34.
Jia Guilin's grandson, Jia Lidong, had heard his grandmother Cao Lixin say that his fellow inmates said that Jia Guilin should have been poisoned to death by the Japanese. At that time, the Japanese army had been detaining jia Guilin for more than a year, but there was no evidence to prove that his crime was established, so the Japanese had to do so to avoid future troubles.
After Japan's surrender, in January 1946, Song Meiling came to Changchun, went to the home of Jia Guilin's widow, left condolences and condolence money of 10,000 yuan, and made a promise to the martyr's wife Cao Lixin: First, to send Jia Guilin's children to the United States to study, we must raise the martyr's children; second, we must make a bronze statue of the martyr in the subway ridge where Jia Guilin was born; third, we also left a memorial method in Changchun, naming the road walked by the martyr "Guilin Road" with the name of the martyr, so as to prove that there is an anti-Japanese hero on a hidden front... ...
She asked Zhao Junmai, the mayor of Changchun City, to write them down one by one.
Guilin Road
Zhao Junmai was also an anti-Japanese general, graduated from Chengcheng High School in Japan, the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Wisconsin, and the Novits Cavalry Academy in the United States, and was a lieutenant general in the Chinese National Revolutionary Army.
After receiving Song Qingling's order, Zhao Junmai began to implement them one by one.
Which road to name Guilin? Because Jia Guilin finally died in the Liuzhi Prison of the Police Department of the New Capital of Changchun, which is today's People's Square Municipal Public Security Bureau, and from Jia Guilin's home to the prison where he was imprisoned, guilin passed through Guilin Road, which was still a new planning road and had no name, so Zhao Junmai named this road Guilin Road.
After that, Changchun Guilin Road had a name. 【Author:Daily Kanji】