Heroes will pass away, but the torches in their hands will be caught!
In the summer of 1943, a middle-aged man in his 40s set off from Shanghai with his nephew for Yan'an. His name is Yun Ziqiang, and he is originally a teacher at Sino-French University in Shanghai.
The world is not at peace, and the people are reluctant to travel far. The purpose of Yun Ziqiang's adventure was to send his 15-year-old nephew Yun Xizhong to Yan'an and give it to Zhou Enlai.
In this way, he can also be regarded as worthy of the second brother's spirit in heaven.
In August, they crossed the blockade line and finally reached their destination. As soon as they entered Yan'an, the child's mother, Shen Baoying, was waiting for them. Having not seen his son for many years, Shen Baoying hugged Yun Xizhong tightly and burst into tears. This feeling made Yun Xizhong feel very strange, he had lived with his uncle since he was a child, and he did not know his mother for a long time.
After that, the days of living in Yan'an were very new to Yun Xizhong. He found that the people here, including the "big guys," seemed to be extra enthusiastic about themselves.
Successive batches of chiefs came to see him, and later Yun Xizhong learned that among them were Zhu De, Ye Jianying, Li Fuchun, and Lin Boqu. When they see themselves, there is both relief and sadness in their eyes.
At the same time, Zhou Enlai also specially sent guards to take him and his mother to Yangjialing, where he lived. In his later years, Yun Xizhong could not forget this meeting with Premier Zhou.
That day Zhou Enlai was very happy, he touched Yun Xizhong's head, and the first thing he said was: "It's really like Yun Daiying!" Deng Yingchao, who was standing on the sidelines, nodded his head continuously, laughing with tears.
Yun Xizhong is very smart, although in the past ten years, his uncle has never mentioned the three words "Yun Daiying" to him. But he already understood at this time that Yun Daiying was his biological father.
And the reason why he was able to receive such a high "treatment" in Yan'an, so that Zhu De and Ye Jianying could both come to see him, was because he was the son of Yun Daiying.
Father, what kind of person is he? Yun Xizhong did not know. Zhou Enlai saw that he was a little confused, so he asked, "Xiao Dai, do you know who your father is?" ”
Yun Xizhong replied half-guessingly: "A communist! Zhou Enlai was obviously very pleased with this answer, he smiled slightly, and said: "Your father is the best party member of my party!" ”
On that day, Zhou Enlai did not let Yun Xizhong return to his residence, and he felt that it was time to tell the child everything about Yun Daiying. That night, the 45-year-old Zhou Enlai talked a lot to Yun Xizhong, about ideals, about friendship, about sacrifice... These words undoubtedly affected Yun Xizhong's life.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="13" >: The father died standing</h1>
Yun Daiying is 3 years older than Zhou Enlai, and he said that "things are clustered by kinds, and people are divided into groups", no matter from which point of view, he and Zhou Enlai are very similar:
First, they are all talented people who came out of the Shuxiang Gate and are all born orators; second, they are equally affectionate and have always been extremely persistent about love; third, they are all "star teachers" in the hearts of many Whampoa Military Academy students.
Yun Daiying was born in a family of eunuchs in Hunan, his father was a Bapin official under the prefect of the Qing Dynasty, and his mother was a lady who came out of the Shuxiang Gate. There are 5 brothers and sisters in the Yun family, and Yun Daiying ranks second.
In 1915, at the age of 20, Yun Daiying was admitted to Wuhan Zhonghua University and quickly became one of the important leaders of the May Fourth Movement in Wuhan. Mao Dun, a writer who had the privilege of hearing his speech, later commented on the young Yun Daiying:
Dai Ying is a genius orator, always looking unchanged and slow in his speech... For two or three hours, the speaker spoke endlessly, and the listener was not tired.
This true evaluation actually explains the influence of Yun Daiying. Because of this, at that time, together with Qu Qiubai and Zhang Tailei, he was known as the "Three Masters of Changzhou".
As soon as Zhou Enlai returned from studying in Europe, he met Yun Daiying. Later, when Zhou Enlai served at the Whampoa Military Academy, he recommended Yun Daiying to serve as the chief political instructor of Whampoa. Since then, Chen Geng and other generals of our army who came out of Huangpu have all honored Yun Daiying as Teacher Yun.
As both a comrade-in-arms and like-minded, Yun Daiying fought side by side with Zhou Enlai for many years. The brothers survived the "April 12" counter-revolutionary coup together, and also took refuge in Hong Kong together, and died nine times.
In 1930, Zhou Enlai was going to Moscow to attend the conference of the Comintern, and before leaving, he specially told Yun Daiying to be careful in everything. But he had only been gone for more than two months, and Yun Daiying was arrested.
On the day of his arrest, Yun Daiying, dressed in short clothes and dressed as a worker, went to meet his comrades near Yangshupu to prepare for the upcoming general strike. Who knows, just encountered the enemy's body search. He was carrying a packet of leaflets and was locked up in the patrol room.
When Zhou Enlai heard the news after returning to China, he immediately judged that the enemy should not know his status as a Communist Party member, but only regarded him as an ordinary patriot. This meant that he still had to be saved, so Zhou Enlai ordered Chen Geng to do everything possible to rescue him.
After receiving the order, Chen Geng entrusted people everywhere to make dots, and quickly negotiated the time for Yun Daiying's early release through the relationship of the High Court. Zhou Enlai was very happy, and he even asked Deng Yingchao to inform Yun Daiying's lover Shen Baoying and let her wait at home for her husband to return.
Unfortunately, they did not wait for Yun Daiying to get out of prison. After Gu Shunzhang defected, in order to ask for credit, he quickly confessed yun Daiying's identity to Wang Zhennan, director of the Military Justice Department. At first, Wang Zhennan could not believe that he could catch such a "big fish", and he immediately wrote a document and reported it to Chiang Kai-shek.
When Chiang Kai-shek heard this, he was surprised and delighted. You should know that Yun Daiying had a nickname at that time, called "Huangpu Four Fierce", and he often scolded Old Jiang in articles to the point of bloodshed. But Old Jiang also knew very well that Yun Daiying had the ability, so he told Wang Zhennan to bring such a sentence to Yun Daiying:
You Mr. Yun was once the leader of the Chinese youth movement and an outstanding talent of the country, and I hope that you will come to work in the Kuomintang, and I jiang will never treat you badly.
Wang Zhennan truthfully brought this to him, and then took out a piece of paper, as long as Yun Daiying signed a letter on it and agreed to surrender, he could regain his freedom. Obviously, persuasion was useless to Yun Daiying. He replied indignantly: "The big deal is a dead word."
Chiang Kai-shek became angry and quickly issued a secret order to shoot Yun Daiying. On April 29, 1931, the military police took Yun Daiying to a execution ground in prison.
Before the execution, the military police asked Yun Daiying to kneel, and he not only refused, but also made an impromptu speech. The handmaiden was so frightened by his speech that his hands kept shaking and he was unable to pull the trigger. Wang Zhennan had no choice but to temporarily change a handmaiden. In this way, a generation of outstanding young mentors fell in a pool of blood, only 36 years old.
When the bad news came, Chen Geng and Zhou Enlai did not speak, but silently shed tears.
Two years later, Chen Geng was also arrested while on a mission. Coincidentally, he was locked up in the big prison where Yun Daiying had stayed. By the faint light, Chen Geng found two neat lines of small characters on the wall:
The waves of the rivers and lakes reminisce about the old tour, so people live and die for thousands of years.
He has been spared the troubles of the ordinary, and has left himself as a prisoner of pride.
The payment is: Yun Daiying, April of the 20th year of the Republic of China. For a moment, Chen Geng's tearful eyes blurred.
"The father died standing", this is Yun Xizhong's deepest impression of his father.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="9" >2: After the death of the father, the mother was incognito for 7 years and did not remarry for life</h1>
The hero has his own battlefield, and as the hero's lover, Shen Baoying, the wife of Yun Daiying, is also admirable.
For Shen Baoying, Yun Daiying is a comrade-in-arms, a husband, a father of a child, and a brother-in-law who is obsessed with heartache. Even Yun Daiying proposed to her in front of her sister's tomb.
In 1915, the 20-year-old Yun Daiying, under the arrangement of her parents, married Shen Baoxiu, the second miss of the Shen family, who was Shen Baoying's sister.
The Yun and Shen families were originally family friends, and Yun Daiying and Shen Baoxiu were naturally green plum bamboo horses. After marriage, Yun Daiying was very kind to his wife and often accompanied her back to her mother's house. Under the influence of his brother-in-law, Shen Baoxiu's younger brother and sister were influenced by progressive ideas.
Unfortunately, 3 years after marriage, Shen Baoxiu died of difficult childbirth at the age of 22. A few days later, the child born also died prematurely. Seeing his father-in-law's white-haired man sending a black-haired man, Yun Daiying swore on the spot: Bao Xiu is gone, and Dai Ying will not marry a wife again in this life.
In the days that followed, Yun Daiying did many things for his wife: she exhausted her financial resources to run the "Baoxiu Factory" in her name, donated money to refugees in her name, and took care of her parents and younger siblings for her.
In the cold, summer, spring and autumn, Yun Daiying never thought of remarrying, and it was useless for his parents to force him. All this, the wife's fourth sister Shen Baoying saw in her eyes. From then on, she felt that the second brother-in-law was a great man.
Later, Shen Baoying was influenced by revolutionary ideas and was also admitted to the Hubei Provincial Girls' Normal School. Since then, he has become closer to the second brother-in-law who is teaching and revolutionizing in Hubei. However, at that time, Yun Daiying had made a vow not to marry again, and neither of them had broken through this layer of window paper.
Until 1927, Yun Daiying returned to Wuhan from Shanghai, and Shen Baoying, who had become a staunch revolutionary, went to the ferry to pick him up. After not seeing each other for many days, the feelings of the two could not be hidden, and their hands were tightly clasped together. A few days later, Yun Daiying took Shen Baoying to his wife's tomb, and by this time he had been observing the festival for his wife for more than 9 years. In any era, such a long period of observance is not easy.
He explained to his wife at the grave: "I am already a proletarian fighter... I need close comrades-in-arms and revolutionary companions... I hope she can fight alongside me. This marriage proposal at the tomb has become the most unforgettable memory of Shen Baoying's life.
Being able to marry a man like Yun Daiying is the greatest pride of Shen Baoying's life. But in those fiery years, she was only aware of how much she had lived. Even, when she found out that she had a child, she didn't dare to give birth to it.
In 1928, Shen Baoying found out that she was pregnant. At that time, their family, Zhou Enlai and Deng Yingchao's family were all in Shanghai, and Shen Baoying was working as a secretary next to Deng Yingchao. Shen Baoying was hesitant about whether this child should be born, and she was worried that having a child would affect the revolutionary work. It was still Deng Yingchao who persuaded her bitterly that she agreed to give birth.
Before the Spring Festival of this year, the child was born, and he was the later Yun Xizhong. Deng Yingchao found that the child loved to laugh, so he gave him a nickname "Lotte". Zhou Enlai liked children, often hugged him, often teased him: "Xiao Dai, really like Daddy..."
In 1930, after Yun Daiying was arrested, Shen Baoying went to prison once as a family member under the arrangement of the organization. It was the last time she had seen her husband, and for the rest of her life she had never forgotten what he had told him that day.
On that day, Yun Daiying was wearing a yellow prison uniform, and his face was sallow. Shen Baoying looked at him and couldn't speak for a while, but Yun Daiying asked him first: "Is everyone in the family okay?" ”
"Family" refers to organizations in Shanghai. Shen Baoying told him that "home" was all right, and Wu Hao was trying to save him. Wu Hao was referring to Zhou Enlai. Yun Daiying's identity had not yet been revealed, so he was convinced that he could get out of prison smoothly, so he told his wife: Our family will be reunited soon.
During this visit to prison, Shen Baoying did not have time to talk too much to her husband, and before leaving, she took a photo of her son and told him that her son could walk. Yun Daiying pressed the photo tightly to his chest and made a final request to Shen Baoying: "No matter how difficult it is, don't treat the child badly." This was the husband's last words.
At that time, Chen Geng and others had been trying to find a way to save Yun Daiying, so Shen Baoying once thought that her husband was about to be released from prison. To this end, she has always been frugal, and she also went to the street to buy two new clothes for her husband, and cleaned up the house, just waiting for him to return.
Unfortunately, this kind of bitter waiting has finally become a void. Those two new clothes, Yun Daiying could not put on after all.
In April 1931, the news of Yun Daiying's death came, and Shen Baoying fainted for a while. Later, the mother and son have been protected by the organization. After the 128 Incident, the Japanese invaded Zhabei, and the mother and son lost contact with the organization in the flames.
After that, in order to protect his son, who was less than 3 years old, Shen Baoying hid in Tibet. She had returned to her hometown, but found that the enemy had sent agents to keep an eye on the Shen and Yun families. This is not the way to go, she can only choose to separate from her son, at least the goal will be smaller, and his son can be more secure.
So, she found her husband's younger brother Yun Ziqiang and entrusted his son to their family's care. And himself, he set out to find the party organization. For the next 7 years, in order to live, she worked as a substitute teacher in a school in Nantong County, and later as a nurse in a hospital. At that time, Shen Baoying was actually not yet 30 years old, but no matter how hard her life was, she never thought of remarrying.
In the winter of 1937, she finally had a clue to the organization. On that day, she saw a message from the newspaper in Nantong County: Mr. Zhou Enlai, a representative of the CPC, flew to Hankou at 9:50 a.m. on a special plane this morning...
In order to meet Zhou Enlai, Shen Baoying took advantage of the reputation of going to Wuhan for the hospital to buy medicines, set off from Nantong, through Yangzhou, Hefei and other places to Wuchang.
But in such a big city, where would Zhou Enlai live? Shen Baoying, who had worked in the party for many years and was well aware of the contact details in the organization, began to submit articles to xinhua daily and quickly received a secret reply from Zhou Enlai.
In 1938, they were finally reunited in Wuchang. At the moment of seeing Zhou Enlai and Deng Yingchao, Shen Baoying, who had been anonymous for 7 years, cried for a long time. Over the years, Zhou Enlai and his wife have also been looking for their mother and son, and have also deliberately gone to Nanjing, Shanghai and other places to find them. After everyone calmed down, Zhou Enlai asked Yun Xizhong, "Where is Little Lotte now?" ”
Shen Baoying then quickly wrote the child's address in Shanghai to Zhou Enlai, and for safety reasons, Zhou Enlai asked her not to go to see the child first, waiting for the organization to arrange.
In this way, in the late autumn of 1941, Zhou Enlai first arranged for Shen Baoying to go to Yan'an. Two years later, the situation was more stable, and he asked Yun Ziqiang to send his nephew over. Thus, there is a scene at the beginning of this article.
After recognizing her son, whom she had not seen for many years, Shen Baoying had been working in Yan'an. After the founding of New China, she still worked in the front line of construction.
In her life, Shen Baoying has never made any demands on the organization, and her only wish is to hope that her husband's spirit can be passed on, so after leaving, she often participates in various commemorative activities about her husband.
In 1982, at the age of 76, Shen Baoying was invited to participate in the "51st Anniversary Commemoration of the Martyrdom of Yun Daiying" held in Nanjing. After Yun Daiying was arrested in Shanghai, he was taken to Nanjing and imprisoned, and finally died in the city.
Returning to the place where her husband was sacrificed, Shen Baoying was full of emotions, and she also gave her husband's posthumous poem to the local commanders and fighters. Looking at the weather-beaten white-haired old man in front of him, the commanders and fighters were feeling guilty about it.
It turned out that after Yun Daiying's death in 1931, the underground party organization of the prison at that time made 3 provisions:
After the success of the revolution, April 29 should be designated as the anniversary of Yun Daiying;
After the success of the revolution, a monument should be built in the place where the martyrs of Yun Daiying were sacrificed;
After the success of the revolution, the prison should be converted into a school;
By 1982, the first and third of the above three provisions had been completed. Only this second item, the construction of monuments at the sacrificial ground, has not yet been realized. Soon, the incident was reflected. Four years later, in 1986, a 4.65-meter-high monument was erected in Nanjing. Many Nanjing citizens braved the rain to participate in the unveiling ceremony. For Shen Baoying, the wish was fulfilled.
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When Yun Daiying died, his son Yun Xizhong was not yet 3 years old. Before going to Yan'an at the age of 15, he had almost no impression of his father.
The uncle never told his father's name to keep him safe. When he was in elementary and junior high school in Shanghai, he often asked about it when he saw that other classmates had parents. In this regard, uncle Yun Ziqiang can only tell him: Your father is a revolutionary.
After arriving in Yan'an, Yun Xizhong naturally understood how cattle his father was in those years, and he had a lot of respect for him. For a long time, however, his father's image in his mind was only that of a warrior, not a kind father. Until one time, his mother told him such a small thing:
When he was born, his mother was weak and had little milk to feed him. Looking at his thin appearance, Shen Baoying was often anxious to shed tears. Yun Daiying did not say anything, nor did he show a very anxious look, Shen Baoying still thought that her husband only had revolution in his heart, and did not have this son. Until one day, her husband took a box of milk powder home, she understood: it turned out that during that time, her husband worked until midnight every day in order to translate books for the publishing house and earn milk powder money.
This incident made Yun Xizhong understand his father thoroughly. After the founding of New China, under the arrangement of Premier Zhou, Yun Xizhong entered the North China Institute of Technology in Beijing to study Russian, and after graduation, he engaged in translation work.
In 1953, because of his excellent performance in the unit, he was sent to the Moscow Aviation Institute to study, becoming one of the first experts in the field of aerospace in New China.
Professional and technical personnel like him were very few in China at that time. He has been working in technical posts for decades and has served as the overall senior designer of radar microwave antenna stand-alone machines and systems.
As for his identity, Yun Xizhong never mentioned it to his colleagues. It wasn't until 2012, after his death in Shanghai, that the children of Chairman Mao, Chen Yi, Xu Xiangqian, and others all sent wreaths, and colleagues learned his true identity: Yun Daiying's son.
Yun Xizhong was bumpy in his childhood, grew up to become a great instrument, and made a major contribution to the motherland's aerospace industry. Before dying, he made the only request in his life to the organization: "I rarely spent time with my father since I was a child, and I hope that after I die, I can be buried next to my father." "The state granted his request.
In 1933, when Chen Geng discovered Yun Daiying's inscription poem, he also wrote a Japanese poem on the wall. At the end of the article, send this poem:
The battlefield drives north and south, and the horizontal gun Prancing Horse is spring and autumn.
In order to sweep away the troubles of the world, Xiao Zhuan tried to be a prisoner in the South Prison.
Spring and autumn come and go, the wheel of history rolls forward, but some things and some people have not been forgotten by people, such as: the hero who spoke in prison that day and scared the handmaidens to dare not shoot; the heroic wife who went to the street to buy clothes for her husband and longed for his return; the heroic son who listened carefully to Zhou Enlai's memories of his father...