"It doesn't matter if you behead, as long as the doctrine is true, kill Xia Minghan, and the people who came after him." This famous verse I would have memorized 50 years ago. Since then, the name Chamingham has been firmly remembered in my mind.
Xia Minghan, the character Guigen, once with his mother's surname Chen, named Riyu, his ancestral home is Hengyang County, Hunan, born in August 1900 in the lunar calendar, In The County of Zigui County, Hubei Province, where his father lived in the official. His father, Xia Shaofan, was a local official of the Qing Dynasty who had a deep experience and was not conformist. In 1899, Xia Shaofan assigned the post of Zhi County to Hubei Zi Gui as an alternate, and in 1902, he was awarded the title of Three Pins, and was appointed senior political doctor and acting as a deputy to Zhi Prefecture. When Xia Minghan was 3 years old, his father Xia Shaofan was sent to Japan by the Qing government as a genuine senior doctor. This inspection opened Xia Shaofan's eyes and was deeply shaken, and his thinking also turned to modern times. After returning to China, Xia Shaofan wrote two books, "Chronicles of Japanese Officials" and "Notes on Journey to the East", which were sorted out and published with the help of his wife Chen Yunfeng. After the Xinhai Revolution, he took the initiative to join the revolution and enthusiastically served the New Deal. Because of accepting the new ideas, Xia Shaofan hoped that his children could learn advanced science and technology to revitalize the Chinese nation and strengthen the country and enrich the people. Xia Minghan's mother, Chen Yunfeng, a native of Hengshan, was born in Shuxiangmendi, and was the daughter of Chen Jiayan, an editor of the Qing Hanlin Academy and a member of the Senate of the Second National Assembly of the Republic of China, who was erudite and open-minded. In 1922, he served as a member of the Hengyang County Council. She had four boys and four daughters, with Xia Minghan ranking third. The words and deeds of his father and mother played a subtle role in XiaMingham's young mind, especially his mother, who was his enlightenment teacher and most loyal and staunch supporter of the revolution. Xia Minghan's childhood was basically spent with his parents in Zigui. In 1913, at the age of 12, Xia Minghan returned to Hengyang with his parents. His father died suddenly in 1914, and his grandfather presided over the family. Xia Minghan's grandfather, Xia Shiji, served as the head of the household department in the Qing Dynasty, and served as the general office of the Jiangxi and Jiangsu Supervision and Marketing Bureaus and the Liangjiang Camp Office. After the Xinhai Revolution, he refused to stay in office, stubborn in his thinking, and returned to Hengyang with his whole family. When he was a teenager, Xia Minghan was influenced by his parents' pursuit of scientific democracy and new ideas, and developed the habit of loving reading and thinking well. He did not regard himself as the "Young Master of Xia Fu", but often did what he thought he should do, and did his best to help the poor. In the spring of 1917, Xia Minghan went against his grandfather's wishes and entered the mechanical department of the Third Grade A Industrial School in Hunan Province. In April 1918, Wu Peifu captured Hengyang City. Xia Minghan deeply resented the warlords and was deeply worried about the future and fate of the country. With the help of Qiu Hailan, a member of the League, he contacted jiang Xianyun and other like-minded friends and established the Sand Society, a revolutionary group, to carry out the struggle against the Beiyang warlords. The May Fourth Movement arose in 1919. Xia Minghan, Jiang Xianyun and other students, together with progressive students from various schools, went to the society to carry out patriotic propaganda activities and united people from all walks of life to support Beijing students. On June 17, 1919, the Shonan Student Federation was established, and Xia Minghan was elected as the third director general, and the editor-in-chief issued the "Shonan Student Federation Weekly". Xia Minghan led the investigation team and the student volunteer army to the warehouses and shops to check the Japanese goods, and held a "burning japanese goods conference". He not only took the lead in publicizing and boycotting Japanese goods, but also took out and burned all the Japanese goods hidden in his home, and brought about a revolution in his feudal family with practical actions. My grandfather scolded him for being a loser, but he said categorically: "If such a family is not defeated, and if such a thing is not burned, our country cannot be protected, let alone prospered!" His grandfather became more and more dissatisfied with him, and once locked him up, and even forced him to "abide by the rules" with a sinkhole. Xia Minghan did not flinch, however, and finally broke with the feudal bureaucratic family. From the autumn of 1919 to the summer of 1920, the people of Hunan, under the leadership of Mao Zedong and others, launched a huge exorcism campaign. Under the guidance of He Shuheng, Xia Minghan actively threw himself into the vigorous struggle to drive Zhang out. Through the Shonan Students' Federation, they organized patriotic students to widely publicize the evil facts of the warlord Zhang Jingyao's misfortune against Xiang and the news of the exorcism movement in various places. In June 1920, zhang Jingyao had to flee from Hunan in a hurry, despite the anger of the people and the joint efforts of all parties to expel them. In order to celebrate the great victory of the Zhang Expulsion Movement, Xia Minghan joyfully composed a poem: "Zhang Douxin hid the knife and ruled Xiang a mess." Killing and setting fires, the people complained. My generation rose up in unison, driving away the boldness and arrogance. Zhang venomed like a rat, clipping his tail and fleeing. Introduced by He Shuheng, Xia Minghan met Mao Zedong for the first time in the autumn of 1920. After that, Xia Minghan often went to Mao Zedong's place, humbly asked Mao Zedong for advice, and had new thinking and pursuit of revolution. Under the cultivation and introduction of Mao Zedong and He Shuheng, in the winter of 1921, Xia Minghan joined the Communist Party of China and grew from a student full of patriotic enthusiasm to a vanguard fighter of the proletariat. On October 10, 1921, the Hunan Branch of the Communist Party of China was established, with Mao Zedong as secretary. Xia Minghan attended the inaugural meeting of the Hunan branch of the CPC presided over by Mao Zedong. After the establishment of the Hunan branch of the COMMUNIST Party of China, accompanied by Xia Minghan, Mao Zedong came to Hengyang on a small steamer. During his stay in Hengyang, Mao Zedong listened to the report of Jiang Xianyun, the head of the revolutionary group "Xinshe" (formerly known as the "Sand Society", which was initiated by Jiang Xianyun and others to become the "Xinshe Society" in July 1920), and believed that the purpose and propositions of the "Xinshe" were generally similar to those of the Xinmin Society, performed very well in the actual struggle, and were a very good foundation for the organization of the party group. Among the earliest members of the 'Heart Society,' Mao Zedong developed four people, Jiang Xianyun, Huang Jingyuan, Tang Chaoying, and Jiang Xiaoqing, who had established a firm belief in Marxism, as members of the Communist Party of China. Under the auspices of Mao Zedong, the first party group of the early local party organization in Hengyang was established, the Party Group of the Third Division of the Hunan Provincial Division of the Communist Party of China. At the same time, Mao Zedong recruited a number of progressive young teachers and students into the regiment in the Provincial Third Division, and established the first socialist youth league branch in Hengyang. During this period, Xia Minghan assisted Mao Zedong in many specific tasks. In January 1922, under the leadership of Mao Zedong, Xia Minghan participated in the struggle against the warlord Zhao Hengti (commander-in-chief of the Xiang Army and governor of Hunan Province) against the repressive massacre policy of the workers' movement. The earliest leading organ of the Hunan workers' movement was the Labor Union. The Labor Union was founded on November 21, 1920 by Huang Ai and Pang Renquan, graduates of Hunan Industrial School, with more than 7,000 members and a certain mass base. Mao Zedong attached great importance to the Labor Union and gave great help. On the evening of January 16, 1922, Zhao Hengti sent military police to arrest Huang Ai and Pang Renquan, and in the early morning of the 17th, they were brutally killed outside the Liuyang Gate in Changsha, and then closed the Hunan Labor Union. For a time, Changsha was shrouded in a white terror, and Xia Minghan was not intimidated by the white terror, and together with Mao Zedong, organized Changsha workers and representatives from all walks of life to hold a memorial meeting for Huang Ai and Pang Renquan, and led the masses to carry out a huge demonstration. Soon, Mao Zedong and He Shuheng went to Shanghai and Guangzhou to brief various circles on the murder of Huang and Pang and to mobilize the press to impeach Zhao Hengti. Some major cities across the country have held memorial services. Full of sorrow and indignation, with infinite affection for Huang and Pang, two proletarian warriors, and an incomparable hatred for the Government of Zhao Hengti, Xia Minghan tearfully wrote a long poem entitled "White Clouds on the River." Xia Minghan's poem was published in the "Labor Weekly" in Shanghai on February 10, 1922, which encouraged and called on the broad masses to serve the revolutionary cause, fearlessly and fearlessly, and firmly believe that the victory of the revolution was ahead, which aroused great resonance among people and was widely circulated. In September 1922, according to the party's arrangement, Hunan Zixiu University added a cram school, with He Shuheng as the chief (president), Mao Zedong as the director of guidance, and Xia Minghan as the director of academic affairs. The cram school recruited elderly out-of-school and aspiring revolutionary youth, and cultivated a large number of party and group backbones for Hunan. In October 1922, Xia Minghan was appointed by the party to lead the Changsha rickshaw workers in a strike struggle. At that time, there were more than 1,000 rickshaw workers in Changsha, and there were guilds with a long history. The power of the guild is manipulated in the hands of the owner of the car and the feudal leader, the general manager, and the duty of the year who represents the interests of the car owner, and the guild has many strict feudal rules, and the violation of the rules is severely punished, coupled with the high rent of the car, the difference between the soldiers, and the life of the rickshaw workers to the extreme. Wearing a coarse cloth shirt and feet on bamboo shell grass shoes, Xia Minghan went deep among the workers. He rode with the workers in a teahouse and towed a cart, presided over the night school for rickshaw workers, and actively carried out strike propaganda and organization. On behalf of the rickshaw driver, he solemnly stated to the Changsha County authorities: "We are anti-rent increase, we want to live." Li Fugen, a rickshaw puller, was caught by Zhao Hengti's soldiers to drag bullets, and because he was hungry and thirsty, he could not move the scooter and was kicked to death by the soldiers. After Xia Minghan knew, he gave all the money on his body to Li Fugen's family, and also mobilized rickshaw workers to bury Li Fugen. Thanks to Xia Minghan's meticulous organization, the strike struggle of the rickshaw workers in Changsha was finally victorious, forcing the governor of Changsha County to promise to "reduce the car rent" and "release the arrested workers". From December 1922 to November 1924, Xia Minghan served as a member of the Changsha Local Executive Committee of the Socialist Youth League and the First and Second Executive Committees of the Xiang District of the Socialist Youth League. In December 1924, Xia Minghan, Tian Boyang and Pan Xinyuan were dispatched by the Xiang District Executive Committee of the COMMUNIST Party of China to Liuyang to carry out the work of establishing a party organization, successively introducing a number of advanced elements to the party, and in May 1925, with the active cooperation of Anyuan worker Zhou Keming and others, the first party branch in Liuyang countryside was established in Liujia'an, Maogongqiao, Beixiang Township, Liuyang. Xia Minghan said at the inaugural meeting of the party branch: Our branch is named the Liuyang Special Branch, which is the beginning of the establishment of the Liuyang rural party branch, and in the near future, a great revolutionary storm will be set off in China's rural areas, so it is necessary to actively develop the party and peasant organizations, carry out various struggles, and usher in a new upsurge of revolution. Since then, under the leadership of Xia Minghan, grass-roots organizations of the CPC, such as Shasho, Dongshanli, and Beisheng Gaoxiao, have been established one after another. In 1925, Xia Minghan concurrently served as the director of the organization of the Xiang District Executive Committee of the Communist Party of China, the minister of farmers, and the secretary of the Changsha Local Executive Committee. In October 1925, Xia Minghan concurrently served as the secretary of the Peasant Movement Committee of the Xiang District Executive Committee of the Communist Party of China. In order to strengthen the work of the peasant movement at the grass-roots level, he mobilized his younger brothers Xia Mingzhen and Xia Mingpi and his sister Xia Mingheng to return to Hengyang County to carry out the peasant movement, so that the peasant movement in Hengyang County developed rapidly. According to statistics in November 1926, 23 district peasant associations and 244 township peasant associations were established in the county. By April 1927, the membership of the Hengyang County Farmers' Association had grown to 600,000, making it the county with the largest number of members of the Hunan Provincial Farmers' Association. Zheng Jiajun, a female embroidery worker in Xiang, was shot in the right arm while covering Xia Minghan, who was leading the strike struggle, and Xia Minghan often came to visit her. In the process of contact, the two talked freely about ideals, exchanged revolutionary experiences, and developed mutual admiration. One day in April 1926, Mao Zedong came to Xia Minghan's room, saw him washing clothes, and said with great emotion: "Minghan, it is time to find a partner!" Isn't Zheng Jiajun very good to you? Xia Minghan replied, "Jia Jun is good, Jia Jun is good!" Mao Zedong said happily: "You two have common ideals and sentiments, you are in agreement, you are in agreement with comrades, and you should start a family as soon as possible!" Through Mao Zedong's matchmaking, in the autumn of 1926, Zheng Jiajun and Xia Minghan held a wedding ceremony in a simple house in Qingshuitang, Changsha. At that time, among the people who came to Hexi were Li Weihan, He Shuheng, and Xie Jueya. They also specially sent a couplet of "The only family in the world is good, who is stronger than Minghan in the world". After marriage, the two moved to No. 1 Wanglu Garden in Changsha and lived in the same courtyard with Mao Zedong and Yang Kaihui. From January 4 to February 5, 1927, Xia Minghan accompanied Mao Zedong and walked more than 1,400 miles, inspecting the peasant movement in five counties, including Xiangtan, Xiangxiang, Hengshan, Liling, and Changsha, and undertaking a large number of work such as organization and coordination, investigation and research, and drafting of documents. On February 12, Mao Zedong returned to Wuchang with the rich materials of the peasant movement in five counties in Hunan and wrote the "Report on the Inspection of the Peasant Movement in Hunan" with enthusiasm. Mao Zedong once introduced Xia Minghan to the party with He Shuheng, was very familiar with Xia Minghan, and during the period of returning to Xiangxiang to inspect the peasant movement in 5 counties, he had further contact and understanding of Xia Minghan, so he proposed to the organization: He hoped to transfer Xia Minghan to Han to help. In February 1927, shortly after Xia Minghan returned to Changsha, he received an invitation letter from Mao Zedong and was assigned by the organization to come to Wuhan to serve as the secretary general of the All-China Peasants' Association, concurrently serving as Mao Zedong's secretary and secretary of the Central Peasant Movement Training Institute. Xia Minghan first lived in Wuchang Sandao Street, and later moved to No. 41, Wuchang Dufu Di, where he lived with Mao Zedong's family and lived day and night. Xia Minghan had rich experience in the agricultural movement work in Hunan and deep feelings for the peasant masses, so he cooperated with Mao Zedong in his work and was handy. At the beginning of March 1927, when the Central Peasant Movement Training Institute opened, Xia Minghan actively compiled, printed and distributed teaching materials and lecture notes for the peasant movement, and taught at the Agricultural Movement Institute, and was sometimes invited to give a report at the Military and Political School of the Central Army. In late March 1927, Xia Minghan assisted Mao Zedong in convening a joint meeting of representatives of the Agricultural Cooperatives of the Four Provinces of Xiang'e, Gansu, and Guangdong and representatives of the Henan Armed Peasants' Self-Defense Army, which was responsible for handling the affairs of the meeting. The delegates attending the joint meeting were all leading backbones of the peasant movement. Later, some of these people participated in the Nanchang Uprising and the Autumn Harvest Uprising, and some also participated in the 25,000-mile Long March. At this joint meeting, the participants elected Deng Yanda, Mao Zedong, and 13 others as provisional executive members of the All-China Peasants' Association. After the meeting, Xia Minghan was responsible for finding the office space of the National Agricultural Association and selecting and hiring office staff. In early April, the National Agricultural Cooperative set up its office in Fuyuan Street, Wuchang. Xia Minghan assisted Mao Zedong in understanding and inspecting the situation in all aspects, sorting out the empirical materials of the peasant movement, either writing a manuscript or convening a meeting of cadres, and actually presided over the daily work of the National Peasants' Association. In the same month, he was hired with Peng Gongda and others as consultants to the Hunan Farmers' Association. He often traveled between Wuhan and Changsha, guiding the agricultural movement, and was very busy. On May 21, 1927, the reactionary warlord He Jian of Hunan (commander of the 35th Army of the Kuomintang) colluded with the right wing of the Kuomintang and launched the "Ma-Ri Incident" in Changsha with Xu Kexiang, the leader of the 33rd Regiment, and 41 people, including Li Weihan, Xie Jueya, Xia Minghan, Zhou Zhu'an, Xu Teli and Xiong Jinyue, were wanted. At a critical moment, Xia Minghan was transferred back to Hunan and served as a member of the provincial party committee and director of the organization department, and presided over the work of the provincial party committee with Zhou Zhu'an and others. On June 24, 1927, the 31st meeting of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee held in Wuhan decided to form a new Hunan Provincial Committee of the CPC, composed of 17 people, including Mao Zedong. Mao Zedong, Senior He, Xia Minghan, Li Zhi and Lin Wei were members of the Standing Committee, and Mao Zedong was the secretary. In early July, Mao Zedong was transferred back to Wuhan, and the secretary of the provincial party committee was represented by Yi Lirong. According to the division of labor among the members of the provincial party committee, Xia Minghan served as the secretary of the organization department. In late July, the provincial party committee re-divided the work of the heads of various departments, and the provincial party secretary was still represented by Yi Lirong, and Xia Minghan was appointed as the head of the organization. In August 1927, after the 87th Session of the CPC Central Committee, in order to strengthen the leadership of the Hunan Autumn Harvest Uprising, the CPC Central Committee decided to reorganize the Hunan Provincial Committee of the CPC, designate Peng Gongda as the new secretary of the Provincial CPC Committee, and send Mao Zedong as the special commissioner of the CPC Central Committee back to Changsha to assist Peng Gongda in reorganizing the HUNAN Provincial CPC Committee, implementing the new policies of the Central Committee, and leading the Hunan Autumn Harvest Uprising. According to the arrangement, Xia Minghan was responsible for publicizing and organizing the autumn harvest uprising to party organizations at all levels in Hunan, and Zhou Zhu'an was responsible for underground liaison work. On August 16, Peng Gongda presided over a meeting of the Hunan Provincial Cpc Committee at the Shen Family House in Changsha's North Gate, conveyed the spirit of the 87th Central Committee, discussed and formally reorganized the provincial party committee, and the new provincial party committee was composed of 9 people, including Peng Gongda, Mao Zedong, Yi Lirong, Xia Minghan, and Xie Jueya. Peng Gongda served as secretary and Xia Minghan served as the head of the organization. On August 30, 1927, the Standing Committee of the Hunan Provincial CPC Committee decided to send Xia Minghan, director of the organization department of the provincial party committee, and Li Liuru, commissioner of the provincial party committee, to Pingjiang to launch and organize the autumn harvest uprising. Xia Minghan, Li Liuru, and Mao Jianqing and Luo Nachuan, responsible persons of the Pingjiang County CPC Committee, established the Pingjiang County Autumn Harvest Uprising Committee in order to cooperate with mao Zedong's autumn harvest uprising on the border of Xianggan and Gansu, with Luo Nachuan as the commander-in-chief. On September 9, Mao Zedong led the Autumn Harvest Uprising that shocked China and the country, and the uprising shifted from Hunan to Jinggangshan in Jiangxi, where china's first rural revolutionary base was created. On September 20, 1927, Xia Minghan, Li Liuru, and Mao Jianqing organized hundreds of peasant troops to hold an uprising in Zhongzhong, Meixian, Sicun, Anding, and besieged the county seat. On the night of September 21, under the leadership of Xia Minghan and Li Liuru, the Six Roads Rebel Forces rushed to Xianzhong Town together, shouting and enveloping the town tightly. Then the insurgents poured into the town like a tidal wave. At the forefront were more than 10 big men, holding torches in one hand and large knives in the other. Holding a shell gun in his hand, Rona Chuan commanded a large group of men and horses to rush into the police station, surrendered 3 guns (1 of which was a bad gun), and seized a leather suitcase left by the fleeing bully, in addition to the deed coupon, as well as 400 pieces of ocean and 1 gold judder. That night, the rebel forces also rushed into the Lijin Bureau and arrested the evil director lijin and several inferior gentlemen. The next day, the Pingjiang County Autumn Harvest Uprising Committee held a meeting of several thousand people on the beach on the riverbank of Xianzhong Town, and publicly tried and executed two local tycoons and gentry who were extremely angry. On the night of September 22, 1927, Xia Minghan, Li Liuru, and Luo Nachuan summed up the experience of attacking the police station in Xianzhong Town, and decided to strike iron while it was hot, seize the guns of the Koo Jia Dong Tai'an House-to-Door Regiment, and expand the results of the uprising. Gujiadong is more than 10 kilometers away from Xianzhong Town, and there are more big landlords and big bullies than Xianzhong Town. At first, Rona Chuan only knew that there were 4 guns in the door-to-door regiment, but he did not know that there were more than 30 guns scattered in the home of the landlord bully. On this night, when the rebel armed forces were preparing to attack the house-to-door regimental garrison in three ways, before they could separate the troops, suddenly a rain of bullets shot from the left and right. The rebel forces were surrounded. Ronajan led the team to break through. After fierce struggle, although the rebel forces broke through the siege, several members of the team were captured by the enemy, and the whereabouts of Rona Chuan were unknown. When it was almost dawn, Xia Minghan and Li Liurucai received information, and the two of them went straight to the headquarters of the Luojiadong Uprising, and just happened to encounter Luo Nachuan, who had returned from danger, to send urgent information: The door-to-door regiment sent the captured rebel armed personnel to the county seat, and it was estimated that they would take the road of Huanghuatan. Xia Minghan and Li Liuru immediately organized more than 30 elite rebel armed personnel, led by Luo Nachuan, to cut a short road and directly insert huanghuatan and ambush at a dangerous point. In an ambush battle, Rona Chuan not only saved the captured people, but also captured 3 long guns and captured 2 enemies. Xia Minghan and Li Liuru helped Luo Nachuan sum up lessons learned, and while the iron was hot, organized an uprising to destroy police stations in Sicun and other places, crushed the door-to-door groups in Tai'an and other places, and suppressed a large number of counter-revolutionaries who committed the most heinous crimes. In October 1927, the kuomintang reactionary government posted notices everywhere to arrest Xia Minghan. In the face of the white terror, Xia Minghan did not flinch in the slightest, insisted on carrying out the work of the party, and wrote a short poem: The more courageous the killing, the greater the boldness, and the killing is not afraid. If you don't behead Jiang Thief, why thank the world. At the beginning of October 1927, Xia Minghan continued to insist on carrying out the daily work of the provincial party committee according to the instructions of the Hunan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, and was appointed as the secretary of the Ping (Jiang) Liu (Yang) Special Committee of the CPC. He came to Liuyang Beixiang to get in touch with Pan Xinyuan and restored the Liuyang County CPC Committee, with Pan Xinyuan as the secretary of the county party committee, Murong Chuqiang as the head of the organization, and Nie Yonghui as the propaganda director. He led the riot team to outwit the regimental defense bureau of Liuyang North Shengcang and captured more than 40 rifles. Xia Minghan's activities in Pingjiang and Liuyang effectively cooperated with and supported Mao Zedong's struggle to lead the Autumn Harvest Uprising troops to Jinggangshan and to create the Jinggangshan base area. In January 1928, appointed by the party organization, Xia Minghan came to Wuhan from Changsha to serve as a member of the Hubei Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China. As the forefront of the struggle between the enemy and ourselves, the tense atmosphere in the three towns of Wuhan is particularly strong. Before leaving, he bid farewell to his wife and his newborn daughter and gave her a red pearl with a poem: "I give red pearls like a gift to my heart, but I hope that the heart of the king is like my heart." Nurture the young girl to follow my ambitions, and the severe test will not change the heart. ”
In February 1928, Xia Minghan met Guo Liang in Hankou and soon contacted Xie Jueya, Zhou Zhu'an, Xu Teli, and Xiong Jinyue, who had arrived earlier. At that time, the Party Central Committee headed by Qu Qiubai was affected by the "Left" impatience and wanted to launch the "Nianguan" rebellion with Wuhan as the center. However, based on his actual experience in struggle, Xia Minghan believed that blind action could not be successful, and after consulting with Li Weihan sent by the Shanghai Party Central Committee, canceled the insurrection plan. On March 18, in order to study the next steps with Xie Jueya, Zhou Zhu'an, Xu Teli, and Xiong Jinyue, Xia Minghan found Xie Jueya's residence (Xie Jueya and Xu Teli were editing the Hubei Provincial Party Committee's "Dajiang" newspaper at the time). As soon as they met, Xie Jueya asked him anxiously, "Where do you live now?" Xia Minghan replied: "Oriental Hostel", and calmly added: "There is a tea room that is Yutai's, he knows me, and he says that he can only rest assured to live in his place." In fact, Xia Minghan's residence had become a "wolf's den", and Xie Jueya immediately warned him to move out. At that time, XiaMingham was preparing to transfer from the Oriental Lodge, but was one step too late. Due to the defection of the traffic officer Song Ruolin, Xia Minghan was arrested at the Hankou Oriental Hostel on the evening of March 18, 1928. The enemy found only a flashlight, a pocket watch and a pair of glasses in his residence. In prison, he fought indomitably against the inquisitors. "What's your last name?" "Surname Dong." "Your surname is obviously Xia, why do you say your surname is Dong?" What nonsense! "I spoke according to the logic of the Kuomintang. Your logic is to reverse black and white and confuse right and wrong, and you describe killing as compassion and traitor as patriotism. I also use your logic to say that the surname 'Xia' is the surname 'Winter', which is called attacking poison with poison. "How old are you?" "I am the Communist Party, long live the Communist Party!" "Where is your hometown?" "Revolutionaries make their home from all over the world!" "What do you believe?" "Communists don't believe in Gods, they don't believe in ghosts, they believe in Marxism!" The enemy falsely advised Xia Minghan not to be stubborn, to think twice about his young life, his virtuous wife, and his lovely children. He said with great righteousness: "I have struggled all my life for the cause of communism, and I have not thought twice, but I have already made up my mind." For the emancipation of the toiling workers and peasants, so that our descendants can live a full and happy life, we are ready to sacrifice our lives at any time. In front of a large group of reporters, the enemy forced Xia Minghan to repent, but he shouted with all his strength: "Down with the Kuomintang reactionaries!" Long live the Communist Party of China! After Xia Minghan was arrested, the party organization tried to rescue him, but was unsuccessful. In the dark and damp cell, Xia Minghan endured severe pain, struggled to pick up the paper that the enemy had told him to write a "confession", dragged his handcuffs and leg shackles, and wrote letters to his mother, wife, and eldest sister with a half-cut pencil. In a letter to his mother, Xia Minghan wrote: "Dear mother, don't be sad, don't whimper, don't let zizhi cry blood blindfolded, don't send your children to others with tears." Children don't see their mother's two white sideburns, but I believe you will see the red flag we have raised flying in the blue sky of the motherland! In his letter to his wife, Xia Minghan affectionately encouraged her: "Dear Lady Jun: Comrades once said that only a good family in the world, today I think you are a lady. I have no worries and no tears in my life, and you must not be sad and miserable. Open eyes, charming world, how many couples have been old for a hundred years? Throwing his head and spilling his blood, Minghan had already looked idle. Each takes what he needs, and the revolutionary cause is passed on from generation to generation. The red pearls are still missed, and Chiyun hopes to be fulfilled, insisting on the revolution and inheriting my aspirations, and vowing to pass on the truth to the world! He bit his lip and printed a kiss on the paper with blood, expressing his deep love for his wife and daughter. In the letter to the eldest sister, Xia Minghan firmly said: "The eldest sister is in prison for me, my nephew is connected for me, we are not guilty, we have to fight, how people should do, how the road should go, we must have the correct answer." I have no regrets in my life, and I have identified communism, which is the truth of creating happiness for the liberation of mankind, so I dare to go up the mountain of swords, dare to break through the sea of fire, and am willing to throw away my head and spill my blood! These three red family letters were secretly kept by the victims and secretly passed out to the cell. After many twists and turns, it was finally sent to the niece of Xia Minghan and preserved for 15 years in the war-torn years. The reactionaries, who had nothing to do about Xia Minghan, cruelly decided to kill the young communist fighter. Two days after his arrest, in the early morning of March 20, 1928, Xia Minghan bid farewell to his prisoners, calmly walked to the Yujili execution ground in Hankou, and shouted revolutionary slogans and sang the Internationale with passion. Before the execution, the executioner asked him if he had a last word, and he shouted, "Yes, bring a pen and paper!" With his handcuffed hand, he wrote a righteous poem that swallowed mountains and rivers: "It doesn't matter if you cut off your head, as long as the doctrine is true." Kill Xia Minghan, and the people who came after him! When he was done, he threw his pen away and shouted, "Shoot!" The gunshots rang out, and Xia Minghan gave his precious life for the revolution, at the age of 28. After Xia Minghan became righteous, his cousin Xia Mingquan took advantage of the night to bury his body on the beach of Cockatoo Island in Wuhan. A few days later, Xia Minghan's body was washed away by the river and has not been found since. The Xia family is just like Xia Minghan said: kill Xia Minghan, and the people who came after him! On March 22, 1928, his younger brother Xia Mingzhen died heroically in the Shonan Rebellion, at the age of 21; In June of the same year, his younger sister Xia Mingheng was captured by the enemy, jumped into the lake and died, martyred at the age of 26; the second brother Xia Mingpi was brutally killed when he organized the Nianguan Rebellion in Hengyang, when he was less than 20 years old; His nephew Wu Yizhuang was killed in a fierce battle with the Kuomintang army at the age of 19. The five martyrs of the Xia family have sacrificed their precious lives for the revolutionary cause, which can be described as "vowing to pass on the truth to the world."
After liberation, Xia Minghan's wife Zheng Jiajun made a special trip to Hanyang to hang on to the soul of the faithful, composing a poem of seven laws: Wen Jun is righteous to Han River City, and generous and lofty singing is true. The remains of the air swallowing mountains and rivers are there, and the blood splashing sandbank is vast. White bones push the waves to roll huge waves, and Dan Xin will always shine on the people who come after him. Happy to see this dynasty, the heroic soul looked at the morning light with a smile.
