He was not a Communist Party member when he was alive, but he was more like a Communist Party member. He was personable and both civil and military. In protest against chiang kai-shek's government's perverse practice of "keeping the outside before the inside", he committed suicide by caesarean section in front of the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum; one of his poems was once set by Mao Zedong as his motto, and after his death, Mao Zedong also wrote a tribute to him. Before his death, he made a request to formally join the Chinese Communist Party, and the Party Central Committee accepted his request. On September 13, 1947, he was posthumously recognized as a full member of the Communist Party of China.
He is Xu Fanting.
Xu Fanting, a native of Xishe Village (西社村, in present-day Dingxiang County), ChengXian County (present-day Yuanping City), Shanxi Province, devoted himself to the revolutionary cause of national democracy after participating in the League led by Sun Yat-sen in his early years. At the age of 18, he became the leader of the Shanxi Expeditionary Force of the Revolutionary Army, led a vanguard battalion to march 500 miles in the snow and wind, and occupied the military town of Datong in northern Yan. In the case of the Frenzied counterattack of the Qing army, he led his troops to hold Datong City for 40 days, and since then he has become famous in the military circles of Shanxi. Later, he worked in the Kuomintang, and was hired by Feng Yuxiang as the principal of the military and political school during the Great Revolution, and had the earliest contact with the Communists. During this period, he was dissatisfied with Feng Yuxiang and Chiang Kai-shek's "complicity" and went into hiding for a period of time. After "9/18", he went out to the mountains to train troops and prepare for the War of Resistance.
He opposed compromise with Japan and called for active resistance to Japan. However, Chiang Kai-shek's government was not moved and refused to accept advice. In 1935, when he visited the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum in Nanjing, he wrote the poem "Weeping Tomb" with sorrow and invisibility, and killed himself in front of the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum, in order to die Ming Zhi and demand resistance against Japan. The poem says: "Shirtless strips are left to stay, what does the husband ask for in the world?" Fearing that the people's morale is destroyed, I am willing to make my body free. He was also called "the most bloody patriotic general."
In 1937, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression broke out in full swing. Because of xu fanting's high prestige in Shanxi, in order to better recruit troops and grain, he was appointed by Yan Xishan as a member of the General Mobilization Committee of the Second Theater of Operations and concurrently served as the commander of the security department. Xu Fanting, who threw himself into the anti-Japanese battlefield, was described by Yan Xishan as "carrying a coffin to resist the war". At this time, Xu Fanting had read a large number of Marxist books and anti-Japanese national salvation materials, and was making unremitting efforts to resist Japan and save the country. He deeply felt that "the Kuomintang is no longer the Kuomintang before, and only by following the Communist Party can we completely resist Japan and save China", and chose to stand firmly with the Communist Party. Later, the Eighth Route Army, with his assistance, held the revolutionary base area in northwestern Jin. After the incident, he himself led the New Army to completely join the Eighth Route Army and concurrently served as the deputy commander of the Jinsui Military Region of the Eighth Route Army. A senior Kuomintang general was also the deputy commander of the Eighth Route Army, which was rare in the anti-Japanese battlefield.
In September 1947, Xu Fanting died of severe lung disease at the age of 54. In 1950, on the third anniversary of Xu Fanting's death, his body was moved to the Taiyuan Twin Towers Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery.
Fanting Middle School (a view of the campus)
In 1946, Fanting Middle School, named after him, was established in Yuanping, the hometown of Xu Fanting. At present, there are memorial halls of Xu Fan Ting, statues of General Xu Fan Ting, and various kinds of living materials, including letters from revolutionary predecessors and Mr. Xu Fan Ting, as well as original and photocopies of inscriptions and plaques written by party and state leaders Mao Zedong, Zhu De, Jiang Zemin and others for Mr. Xu Fan Ting. It has become a patriotic education base in Yuanping City.