On the eve of the first congress of the Communist Party of China, the "Big Three" of the Comintern were held in the Kremlin from June 22 to July 12, 1921. The meeting was attended by representatives of 52 countries and 103 organizations. Qu Qiubai appeared at the venue as a reporter and had close contact with Lenin, even intimately.
Qu Qiubai
Qu Qiubai was born in 1899 in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province. Like Mao Zedong, such as Zhou Enlai, he was a bully on the road to study. When he was in elementary school, one of his essays was given full marks, showed to the principal, and added five points.
Qu Qiubai had a cousin, Qu Chunbai, who worked as a translator at the Beijing-Hankou Railway Bureau, and at the end of 1916 Qu Qiubai defected to this cousin, lived in his house, and entered the Wuchang Foreign Chinese School to learn English. At this time, his family was in great distress, and his mother also took poison and committed suicide because of this distress. The good boy Zhou Enlai had the help of his fourth uncle Zhou Yigeng, and the good brother Qu Qiubai had the cousin Qu Chunbai. Enterprising teenagers and young people are easy to help.
This English was not read for a long time, and in the spring of 1917, he went to Beijing with Qu Chunbai. He once went to Peking University to audit, hoping to become a student of Peking University, but he could not afford to pay for tuition and meals. I wanted to get a clerical job, but I wasn't hired. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has a Russian language training center that does not charge tuition, and after graduation, he has a good place to work as a diplomat, and he took the entrance examination. When the May Fourth Movement broke out, he was an active participant, either a street speaker, or a petitioner, and was twice arrested. After the May Fourth Movement, he joined the Marxist Research Society initiated by Li Dazhao and others.
Beijing's "Morning Post" and Shanghai's "Current Affairs News" should send reporters to Britain, the United States, and Russia to issue recruitment revelations. History sent him to the first socialist country. These two newspapers have a heavy weight in China, and the identity of these two newspapers behind them, Qu Qiubai, is valued by the Soviet side. The Oriental Department of the People's Committee for Foreign Affairs gave a great deal of help to Qu Qiubai's life and interviews, and his article praising the Russian Revolution was recommended by the Oriental Department to be published in the first issue of the Newsletter of the Far East Secretariat of the Communist International.
Zhang Tailei, who was the secretary of the China Section of the Far East Secretariat of the Communist International, was particularly surprised to see Qu Qiubai's article: the two were fellow villagers in Changzhou, and they were in the same window in middle school. When they meet their fellow countrymen in a foreign country, they hold hands and look at each other, each laughing and two tears flowing. There is also a major member of the CCP from Changzhou, that is, Yun Daiying, who is known as the "Three Masters of Changzhou". Regarding the time when Qu Qiubai joined the Communist Party of China, one theory is that he joined in May 1921 through the introduction of Zhang Tailei. At this time, although the Communist Party of China had not yet been created, "Communist Parties", "Communist Party branches" or "Communist Party groups" had already been produced everywhere. The Marxist Society in Beijing was later renamed the Communist Group. To say that there were more than fifty party members in the country at the time of the First Congress is to mean the backbone members of these organizations. Zhang Tailei was appointed by the Beijing Communist Group to work in the Comintern, and he was fully qualified to do so. And it was one of the things he did on the eve of his trip to China with Marin, a representative of the Comintern, to help create the Chinese Communist Party. The relationship between fellow villagers and classmates, plus the relationship of a heavy comrade. Since then, Qu Qiubai's identity has been a reporter for two newspapers and a member of the Communist Party. He worked to unify his identity as a journalist and a member of the Communist Party, and his articles were strong testimony.
Just as the Communist Party of China was making great preparations for the convening of the Conference, the Third Congress of the Communist International was held in the Andrea Hall of the Kremlin, and Qu Qiubai attended the meeting as a journalist.
Qu Qiubai's "History of the Heart of Chidu": "Yesterday the Communist International held the opening ceremony of the Third Congress. The more than 5,000 seats of the Grand Theater are full, and looking around on the stage, it is really a sea of people, thousands of heads are moving, the weather of joy, and the heat of the revolution has reached 100%. ”
What excited him even more was the presence and speech of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. The stormy applause expressed the warmest support for the leader of the proletarian revolution.
His speech is passionate, flame-like, and ignites everyone's passion, and the burning passion in this corner of the world wants to illuminate the whole world, to illuminate every corner of the world. With powerful gestures, the body sometimes leans forward and sometimes leans back, like the swaying of flames. Slightly squinting eyes, it was the look of looking at the distance, the look of looking at the whole world. In the skies of the world, lightning powerfully cut through the haze, thunder rumbled, and the storm of declaring war on all evils was coming!
In his speeches, Lenin also sometimes spoke a few words in German, sometimes in French, like a stream of water, rather than a hard mosaic, showing his knowledge, but at all he did not lose his affinity for the proletarian, and despised and disdained the oppressor and the exploiter. In an instant, the image of Lenin's proletarian leader, the image of the brave man who forged ahead, stood in Qu Qiubai's heart.
During the break of the meeting, the excited Qu Qiubai saw Lenin in the corridor about to leave, and he caught up with Lenin, revealed his identity, and asked to interview Lenin.
Qu Qiubai interviewed Lenin
This journalist is from China, which is suffering a lot. Lenin would know, of course, that the comrades of the Comintern had arrived in China and were helping to establish the Communist Party of China. As a brilliant politician, at this time in Moscow, in the face of a Chinese journalist, he was sensitive to any statement, but he kindly talked to the Chinese reporter for a few words, then recommended information on the Eastern issue to Qu Qiubai, and then bid farewell to the Chinese reporter and left.
The writing left by Qu Qiubai in Moscow was piping hot. He hoped that his words would cheer up his countrymen and smash the evil old society.
In Moscow, Qu Qiubai met Lenin twice and listened to Lenin's passionate speeches. Zhang Tailei introduced Qu Qiubai as a communist, and the close contact with Lenin made Qu Qiubai a staunch communist. He confirmed this with his life.
The Ccp is a big one
The First National Congress of the Communist Party of China was held in Shanghai and Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province, from July 23 to early August 1921.
In Moscow, Qu Qiubai heard the "Internationale" that also made his blood boil. Lenin made this song the national anthem of the Soviet Union, and every Soviet would sing it. At solemn assemblies, in the streets everywhere, this song will be sung at any time, like a leaflet declaring war on the old world. Qu Qiubai not only should be harmonious when he hears this song, but he will also sing involuntarily.
At the end of 1922, Chen Duxiu led a delegation of the Communist Party of China to Moscow to attend the Fourth Congress of the Communist International, with Qu Qiubai as an interpreter. The first general secretary of the Communist Party of China admired Qu Qiubai's talent and invited him to return to China to work for the party.
He brought back the score of the Internationale and became the first to translate the lyrics into Chinese. From then on, Chinese who do not know Russian can sing the "Internationale", and the realm of excitement and excitement can be raised.
His Marxist-Leninist translations and writings on the history of Marxism-Leninism and the international communist movement have been presented one after another. He served as editor-in-chief of New Youth, which became his main front. In the Chinese revolution, Qu Qiubai was one of the fire sowers.