During the May Fourth Movement, there was a student revolutionary group in Changsha, Hunan Province, which was "to transform China and the world", most of which were patriotic students from Hunan, and many of their members later became the mainstay of the revolution. It is called the New People's Society.
When it comes to the Xinmin Society, many people know that the chairman is one of the initiators, in fact, there is an important core figure, he is Cai Hesen.
Cai Hesen, born in 1895, is a native of Shuangfeng, Hunan, his mother Ge Jianhao was a pioneer of the feminist movement, under the teaching of his mother, Cai Hesen set the ambition to serve the country from an early age.
After the establishment of the Republic of China, a new cultural movement with scientific democracy as the essence arose, and Cai Hesen and Mao Zedong, who studied at the Hunan First Normal School, became close friends because of similar interests.
The two often talked about national events together, and together they founded the Xiangjiang Review to promote new culture, and for a time the young people of Hunan knew the name "Mao Cai". At that time, their teacher Yang Changji also spoke highly of the two in a letter to his friend Zhang Shizhao: the second son, Hai Nei talent, has a great future, and if he does not say that saving the country, he will have to save the country first."
In order to further explore revolutionary ideas, the two agreed to "divide the soldiers into two roads" and organize members to go to France to study work and study "to learn from the scriptures" and explore the way to save the country and the people, and Cai Hesen was recommended as the person in charge of this matter. The Chairman, on the other hand, remained at home to study the compendium of various disciplines in the country.
During his work-study period in France, Cai he and Sen forgot to learn advanced revolutionary theories and gradually grew into revolutionary theorists. Subsequently, he and other student leaders participated in the preparation of the early organization of the Chinese Communist Party in Europe. When the Ccp congress was held, he was unable to participate because he was abroad.
In 1921, after Cai Hesen returned to China, he entered the Central Committee and actively assisted Chen Duxiu in the party's theoretical propaganda work; he took our party's "Guide" weekly newspaper as his position to actively propagate Marxism-Leninism and our party's ideas, and made outstanding contributions to promoting the development of the revolutionary cause and the building of our party.
After the defeat of the Great Revolution, he advocated armed resistance at the Eighty-Seventh Congress, and at a critical moment, he recommended Mao Zedong to join the Politburo of the Central Committee, and then he traveled back and forth with Tianjin, Moscow, Guangdong and other places to promote the party's cause.
Unfortunately, however, in June 1931, due to the betrayal of traitors, he was arrested in Hong Kong and extradited to the hands of the Kuomintang opposition, and in the Guangzhou Military and Political Prison, he was unyielding and did not fear the threat of the enemy, and two months later, he was killed by the enemy at the age of 36.
The unfortunate sacrifice of Cai Hesen is a major loss to our party.
Later, Chairman Mao commented: "What a Communist Party member should do, comrade Hesen has done. ”
Zhou Enlai lamented even more: "Comrade Hesen is always worthy of our remembrance." ”
On September 14, 2009, Cai Hesen was named one of the 100 heroic models who made outstanding contributions to the founding of New China.
It is worth mentioning that Cai Hesen also has a younger sister, named Cai Chang, who joined the revolution very early, is an outstanding leader of the women's movement in our party, and served as vice chairman of the National People's Congress and other important positions after the founding of the People's Republic of China. Cai Chang's husband, Li Fuchun, is also an old revolutionary, and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, he was elected vice premier and a member of the Politburo Standing Committee (at the level of zhengguo), and his achievements were very great.
Today, our happy life is poured out of the blood and tears of our predecessors, and here, let us pay tribute to the predecessors who have contributed and sacrificed for the revolutionary cause!