In the special historical background of modern China, many heroic families have been created, such as the Yang family in Tongnan, Chongqing, which is one of the typical representatives!
More than a dozen people in this family have participated in the revolution, and three of them have become great national heroes, one of them is the secretary of the provincial party committee, one is a general, and the other is the president of the country, which can be called the "most cattle" three brothers in China's modern history!
In this article, let's talk about this glorious revolutionary family in China's modern history!
The Yang family is a very prestigious family in Tongnan, Chongqing, and the owner of the family, Yang Xuanyong, has studied literature since childhood and is a famous local Chinese medicine doctor.
Yang Xuanyong is also an enlightened, progressive, and patriotic democrat who is very supportive of the revolutionary cause! During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Yang Xuanyong actively organized people from all walks of life in Shuangjiang to donate money and materials to support the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and run around for the cause of the nation.
In addition, he also attaches great importance to the education of his children, and even spends a lot of assets to send his children abroad to study, hoping that they will serve the motherland after returning from school. Because of this, the 13 children of the Yang family have received a good education.
Almost all of the 13 brothers and sisters of the Yang family participated in the revolution, and the most representative one was the fourth elder- Yang Shangshu, which is also known as Yang Mingong!
Figure | Yang Min Gong
Yang Mingong, born in March 1898 in Tongnan, Chongqing, was the fourth son of Yang Xuanyong. He received a patriotic education from an early age and was determined to save the country.
In 1913, at the age of 15, Yang Mingong was admitted to the Nanjing Officers' Teaching Corps to study and engage in the struggle against Yuan. Later, he traveled east to Japan to seek ways to save the country and the people.
However, in that special historical environment, Yang Mingong's study trip to Japan lasted only 3 years before it was over!
After being forced to return to China in 1920, Yang Mingong, together with Wu Yuzhang and others, established a communist organization in Sichuan and launched a workers', peasant and student movement with the Socialist Youth League in the Chengdu area.
In 1925, at the age of 27, Yang Mingong joined the Communist Party, officially became a glorious Communist Party member, and was appointed by his superiors as the organization director and secretary of the Chongqing Youth League Prefectural Committee.
At the end of the following year, Yang Mingong was elected secretary of the Sichuan Provincial CPC Committee and concurrently served as the secretary of the Military Commission, and together with Zhu De, Liu Bocheng, and Chen Yi, he launched and led the famous "Lushun Uprising".
Figure | Liu Bocheng during the Lushun Uprising (first from left)
At the beginning of December 1926, the "Lushun Uprising" officially began! Under the leadership of Yang Mingong, Liu Bocheng, and others, the rebel army soon occupied Luzhou and Shunqing.
The rapid and fierce action of the rebel army soon shocked the whole of Sichuan, and the feudal warlords who occupied Sichuan began to waver, and some warlords such as Deng Xihou immediately and openly sent troops to suppress it, but some warlords such as Liu Xiang, Yang Sen, and others adopted a wait-and-see attitude and spied on the opportunity.
After the Lushun Uprising broke out, the situation in Sichuan suddenly became tense!
At that time, Deng Xihou tried to strangle our rebel army in one fell swoop when it was unstable, so he sent 6 battalions of Luo Ze Prefecture's department, 2 regiments of Li Jiayu's department and 2 regiments of Chen Shunong's department to surround the city of Shunqing occupied by the rebel army!
Faced with an enemy army several times larger than his own, Liu Bocheng resolutely proposed to abandon Shunqing, take advantage of the false attack into Suiding to eliminate Liu Cunhou, and wait for the Luzhou rebel army to come to the rendezvous and then reorganize into northern Shaanxi.
However, the plan can't keep up with the changes! Because the regimental and battalion-level officers in the Shunqing uprising were attached to their wives and children, the capital li lord insisted on Shunqing; in addition, some of the generals in the Luzhou uprising troops stayed in place because of the local salt tax and refused to act.
Liu Bocheng had to change the battle plan because of this, and decided to concentrate his firepower to attack the enemy all the way!
However, just as Liu Bocheng personally commanded the rebel army to attack Li Jiayu's troops, a company of the rebel army in Shunqing City suddenly turned against the enemy and opened the city gate to let the enemy army enter the city, and Shunqing City fell into the hands of the enemy, and the rebel army was forced to move.
Soon after that, the reactionary warlords in Sichuan began to turn to Chiang Kai-shek one after another and collude with him, on the one hand, they were deliberately planning to put the rebel army in Luzhou to death, and on the other hand, they stepped up their plans to brutally suppress and massacre our Party personnel and the revolutionary masses!
Figure | Luzhou Uprising Memorial Site
Although the Lushun Uprising failed, it played an extremely important role as a large-scale armed uprising directly led by the Chongqing Prefectural Committee of the Communist Party of China. It not only gave strong support to the smooth march of the Northern Expedition, but also greatly increased the experience of our Party in leading military work.
And a group of Yang Mingong's comrades-in-arms, namely Wu Yuzhang, Liu Bocheng and others, all became the backbone and backbone of the later August 1st Nanchang Uprising!
In March 1927, British imperialism created the cruel "Nanjing Bloody Case", which led to the innocent and tragic deaths of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians!
Under the leadership of Yang Mingong and the comrades of the Chongqing Prefectural Party Committee, the masses of Chongqing Municipality organized a rally at the gun dam to protest the crime of British and American imperialist warships shelling the city of Nanjing, resulting in the innocent and tragic deaths of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians.
This was originally a rally to safeguard the dignity of the country, but it was regarded by Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government as a thorn in the eye and a thorn in the flesh. Therefore, he instructed the reactionary warlord Liu Xiang to carry out brutal armed suppression of the patriotic gatherings of the people from all walks of life in Chongqing!
And this is the famous "March 1st" massacre in history!
After Yang Mingong escaped from danger in the tragic case, he prepared to take a boat to Wuhan to report to the Party Central Committee, but unexpectedly he was informed by traitors and arrested and imprisoned!
After Yang Mingong was arrested, the enemy carried out a series of coercion, inducement and cruel torture on him, but he was always unmoved, preferring to die unyieldingly, and finally sacrificed heroically, only 29 years old!
After that, his brothers and sisters followed in his footsteps and continued to persist in the revolution until victory!
In addition to Yang Mingong, the Yang family also produced a general, he was General Yang Baibing!
Yang Baibing, formerly known as Yang Shangzheng, was born in 1920, ranked twelve in the family, and there is a younger sister below!
Influenced by his brothers and sisters, Yang Baibing has established the ideal of joining the army and serving the country since he was a child. At the age of 18, he resolutely went to Yan'an to join the revolution!
After arriving in Yan'an, Yang Baibing was arranged to enter the second phase of Shaanxi North Public School, and officially joined the party in the same year, and then transferred to the military team of the fourth phase of the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University.
After graduating from the Kang Da, Yang Baibing took the initiative to ask for help and resolutely asked to go to the anti-Japanese front line to work!
From March 1939, Yang Baibing successively served as a youth officer in the Political Department of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army and a social investigation officer in the Ministry of Democracy Movement, and successively participated in the "Hundred Regiments War" and the 1942 summer anti-"mopping-up" operation in Taihang District. During his tenure, he completed the tasks assigned by his superiors!
In 1949, Yang Baibing was appointed deputy director of the Organization Department of the Political Department of the Logistics Department of the Second Field Army, and successively participated in a series of battles such as Huaihai, Crossing the River, and Southwest China, and made outstanding achievements!
After the founding of New China, Yang Baibing plunged headlong into the army's construction cause and worked until he retired!
Figure | General Yang Baibing
From participating in the revolution until his retirement, Yang Baibing dedicated his best youth to the troops, and he devoted his life to conscientious work and made great contributions to the comprehensive construction of our army!
Even after retiring from his post, he still cares about the cause of the party and the state, and always pays attention to the modernization of national defense and the army.
In addition, the veteran general is very concerned about the people, and has donated money and materials to the people in poor areas and disaster areas on many occasions, and even during the period of illness and hospitalization, he is still concerned about practical matters.
In September 1988, Yang Baibing was awarded the rank of general, and was awarded the Order of Independence and Freedom of the Third Class and the Liberation Medal of the Second Class.
On January 15, 2013, General Yang Baibing officially completed his wonderful and legendary life at the age of 93!
In addition to Yang Mingong and Yang Baibing, the Yang family also produced a "national president", he is - Yang Shangkun!
Yang Shangkun, born in August 1907, ranks fifth in the family! In his early years, he studied at the Chengdu Higher Normal School, and during his time he actively participated in the progressive student movement and gradually moved closer to the party organization.
In 1925, the 18-year-old Yang Shangkun returned to Chongqing after graduating from school, and under the influence and help of his fourth brother Yang Mingong, he began to participate in revolutionary work.
In the spring of the following year, Yang Shangkun was admitted to shanghai university founded by our party to study, and successively participated in the preparations for the first and second armed uprisings of the Shanghai workers.
In 1926, Yang Shangkun joined the Communist Party in the year of the weak crown, and in the same year he was sent to study at the Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow. At that time, Zhang Wentian, Wang Jiaxiang, and Deng Xiaoping were all studying there, and they could also be regarded as his seniors.
Later, Yang Shangkun and Zhang Wentian returned to China in disguise, and because they had studied in the Soviet Union and the factors of the Communist International, Yang Shangkun could be described as a smooth step after returning to China, first serving as a director of the Propaganda Department of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, and then as the director of the Propaganda Department of the Jiangsu Provincial CPC Committee and the director of the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee.
After that, Yang Shangkun entered Ruijin, Jiangxi, the central revolutionary base area, and served as the director of the political department of the Red Army. Soon after, Yang Shangkun was appointed political commissar of the Red Third Army! At that time, Yang Shangkun was just a young man in his 20s!
From a young student to a prominent regimental political commissar, Yang Shangkun took less than three years. It is admirable that the promotion is so fast!
However, Yang Shangkun did not become complacent because of this, on the contrary, he always maintained a sober mind and a modest and cautious style.
In April 1988, at the first session of the Seventh National People's Congress, Yang Shangkun was elected President of the People's Republic of China.
However, Yang Shangkun, who has become the president of the country, still does not have any shelf, whether in the party or among the people, he is always so approachable; even when he goes abroad, he also shows the style of a head of state everywhere!
For example, in 1991, when Yang Shangkun was invited to visit Morocco, Lu Peixin, then acting director of the Protocol Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, once introduced: According to local customs, when welcoming VIPs, a girl will hold a plate of dates to taste for guests.
As a result, when Yang Shangkun's plane arrived at the airport, a local sandstorm suddenly blew up, and the yellow sand everywhere dyed the dates in the girl's tray yellow.
Lu Peixin, who followed Yang Shangkun off the plane together, said softly: "When the time comes, do not really eat, be careful of dust!" ”
In fact, Lu Peixin did not mean anything else, but he just did not want Yang Shangkun to eat dates with ashes. But Yang Shangkun was still a little unhappy after hearing this, and he said, "How can you come up with such an idea?" Be sure to eat! ”
Subsequently, Yang Shangkun took the dates and ate two in succession, and the king of Morocco was very touched to see this scene!
In those years of working in the Central Committee, Yang Shangkun actively cooperated with Deng Xiaoping's work and made indelible contributions to the building of the party, the state, and the army.
Figure | Yang Shangkun and younger brother Yang Baibing
In fact, in addition to Yang Mingong, Yang Baibing and Yang Shangkun, most of the other children of the Yang family are heroes who can sing and cry.
For example, the eldest brother, Yang Shangquan, was once a member of the League and has participated in the National Protection Movement and the Dharma Protection Movement. The sixth sister, Yang Shangpeng, is also an excellent party member of our party.
I have to admit that the Yang family in Chongqing is indeed an admirable revolutionary family, and there have been several revolutionary martyrs in this family, each of whom is a hero on the road of new China's construction, and a revolutionary ancestor who deserves the respect and remembrance of each and every one of us!
Today, our country is becoming more and more prosperous and powerful, and just as they hope, China will inevitably become stronger and stronger in the future!