July 4, 1927
The young revolutionary Chen Yannian was escorted to the execution ground
In the face of the butcher's knife of the Kuomintang reactionaries, he preferred to die rather than kneel
He died at the age of 29
July 4, 2021
It was the anniversary of his sacrifice of 94
These days
Anqing Chen Yannian statue,
Hefei Yanqiao Road,
In front of the tomb of the martyr Chen Yannian in Shanghai
They were all piled high with flowers and cards sent by the crowd
Every message
All touching
Network
There are also countless netizens leaving messages
Tribute to this young martyr
In 1926
Chen Yannian, then 28, once said
"Our party did not fall from the sky,
Nor was it born from the earth,
Not to mention not flying from overseas,
Rather, in the course of a protracted revolutionary struggle,
Growing out of the difficult revolutionary struggle,
Powerful out. ”
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Chen Yannian, a native of Huaining, Anhui, was born in 1898 and was the eldest son of Chen Duxiu. In 1915, in order to seek the truth of saving the country and the people, he came to Shanghai with his younger brother Chen Qiaonian to study. In December 1919, Chen Yannian and Chen Qiaonian went to France for work-study.
During his time in France, Chen Yannian gradually transformed into a communist. In June 1922, Chen Yannian, together with Zhao Shiyan and Zhou Enlai, founded the Communist Organization of the Young Communist Party of China in Europe, and served as the propaganda director. In the spring of 1923, Chen Yannian was dispatched by the Party to study at the Communist University of Eastern Workers in Moscow.
In the summer of 1924, the Party Central Committee decided to transfer comrades from Russia and France to work in China. In October of the same year, Chen Yannian returned to China and was sent to Guangzhou by the Party Central Committee. Soon after, Chen Yannian was appointed secretary of the Guangdong District Committee of the Communist Party of China. Under the leadership of the Guangdong District Party Committee, in less than two years, the number of party members in Guangdong soared from a few hundred to more than 5,000, accounting for about 1/3 of the total number of party members in the country at that time. In June 1925, the provincial and Hong Kong general strike led by Chen Yannian and others of the Guangdong District Committee of the Communist Party of China began. The provincial and Hong Kong strikes lasted for 16 months and ended in October 1926.
In April 1927, when Chen Yannian went to Wuhan to attend the Fifth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Central Committee appointed him to take over as the secretary of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang District Committee of the Communist Party of China, and he immediately transferred to Shanghai, where the "April 12" counter-revolutionary coup d'état occurred. Although Chen Yannian failed to attend the Fifth Party Congress, he was elected as a member of the Central Committee and an alternate member of the Politburo.
In June 1927, the Party Central Committee decided to appoint Chen Yannian as the secretary of the Jiangsu Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, and in Shanghai under the extremely serious white terror, Chen Yannian and Zhao Shiyan persisted in the struggle despite the dangers. On June 26, Chen Yannian was arrested by the Kuomintang military police. The enemy tortured him to the point of exhaustion, in a vain attempt to force him to confess to the Shanghai Party organization. But Chen Yannian always maintained an iron will and preferred to die unyieldingly.
On July 4, 1927, the enemy secretly escorted Chen Yannian to the execution ground. The executioners ordered Chen Yannian to kneel, but he responded loudly: "Revolutionaries are bright and upright, and they regard death as a homecoming, and they can only stand and die, never kneel!" In the end, he was brutally killed by the murderers on the ground with a knife.
He was a hot-blooded young man, but also a revolutionary martyr.
After his unfortunate arrest, he, with his iron will,
Strictly guard the party's secrets and prefer to die unyieldingly.
With the life of your youth, extend the chinese year.
Sources丨Sub paper, people's daily, CCTV news, netizen comments, etc
Editor 丨 Wu Zebin