In the CCTV drama "Ode to Yan'an", there is such a scene: a female cadre of the Red Army who has gone through countless hardships to go to Yan'an, when she came to the cave where Mao Zedong lived, Mao Zedong was concentrating on boiling water, she quietly walked behind Chairman Mao, suddenly patted Chairman Mao's shoulder and said loudly: "Old Mao! As soon as Chairman Mao turned around and saw that it was her, he was very surprised and immediately pulled her aside to ask long and short questions. She is Zeng Zhi, who joined the revolution at the age of 15 and was regarded by Chairman Mao as a relative.
Mao Zedong and Tao Zhu and Zeng Zhi
On June 21, 1998, after the 88-year-old Zeng Zhi had completed his bumpy and legendary life, his only last wish was to donate the 60,000 yuan of salary he had saved for a lifetime to the Hope Project, and buried his ashes under a tree next to the former site of the Fourth Army Hospital of the Chinese Red Army in Jinggangshan, where her dream began.
Zeng Zhi
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > young and ambitious, breaking through feudalism and chasing ideals</h1>
In April 1911, Zeng Zhi was born in a landlord's family in Yizhang County, Hunan Province, and her father, who had both been an official and a businessman, gave her a very nice name, called Zeng Zhaoxue, Zhao: bright and beautiful, learning: diligent and studious. Since she was a child, her parents have expected her to have an extraordinary life.
In 1924, Zeng Zhaoxue, who had a strong and independent personality since childhood, left his parents at the age of 13 to study alone at the Hengyang Provincial Third Girls' Normal School. There, young Zeng Zhaoxue began to come into contact with and learn advanced ideas, which had a crucial impact on his life.
Zeng Zhi in his youth
In August 1926, Zeng Zhaoxue, who graduated from the Normal School, was admitted to the Hengyang Peasant Movement Study Institute and was the only female student at that time. In October of the same year, she joined the Communist Party of China and changed her name to "Zeng Zhi", and when her classmates asked her why she changed her name to look like a boy, she said, "I just want to fight for our women's ambition."
In 1927, Zeng Zhi wrote to his mother, determined to dissolve the marriage contract arranged by his parents, the enlightened parents agreed, and told her to pursue the ideal We do not oppose, but remember that the family will always be your backing. In the same year, Zeng Zhi began to serve as an officer of the Organization Department of the Hengyang Prefectural Committee of the Communist Party of China, and went to Chenzhou, Hunan Province, to carry out underground work. At this time, Zeng Zhi was only 16 years old. Think of our 16-year-old, how much the revolutionary martyrs paid.
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In 1928, Zeng Zhi participated in the Shonan Uprising and was transferred to the secretary of the Party Committee Office of the Seventh Division of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, and soon after the uprising, Zeng Zhi followed the Nanchang Uprising troops led by Zhu De and the Shonan Workers' and Peasants' Army to Jinggangshan. It was also this trip to Jinggangshan that allowed Zeng Zhi to get to know Mao Zedong, Zhu De, and a number of other outstanding revolutionary comrades, all of whom gathered here because of the same ideal.
After arriving at Jinggangshan, Zeng Zhi, who had outstanding ability, successively served as the secretary of the party branch of the General Hospital of the Rear of the Red Fourth Army, an officer of the Organization Department of the Red Fourth Army, the chief of the Democratic Movement Unit of the Workers' and Peasants' Movement Committee of the Former Committee of the Red Fourth Army, and the leader of the women's group. In the same year, zeng zhi, who participated in the famous Huangyang Boundary Defense War, was already an excellent revolutionary cadre.
In 1929, Zeng Zhi, who accepted the task, went to Fujian to carry out work, and was appointed director of the Organization Department of the Fujian Committee and secretary of the Fuxia County Party Committee. In 1935, when the enemy launched a large-scale attack on the eastern Fujian region, Zeng Zhi had to leave eastern Fujian and go to Guangdong for medical treatment. In 1937, Zeng Zhi, whose condition was still unstable, was urgently transferred to Hubei to carry out work, and successively served as the secretary of the central county party committees of Jingmen, Danyang and Yuan'an.
Zeng Zhi, who has been running all his life
In 1939, he returned to Yan'an to continue his studies. Let's take a look at the work experience of this Iron Lady from 1940 to the founding of New China, the secretary general of the Central Women's Commission, the member of the Shenyang Municipal Party Committee, the member of the Liaoji Provincial Party Committee, the director of the Shenyang Municipal Staff And Workers Department, and the director of the Preparatory Office of the Shenyang Women's Federation. For the cause of China's liberation, Zeng Zhi, a woman like Zeng Zhi, went wherever she needed, from the south to the north of China, all the way has never stopped.
If the first half of Zeng Zhi's life was a life of running and tiring, then the second half of her life was even more running and tired, until she dedicated all this to the motherland. After the founding of New China, Zeng Zhi successively presided over the work in Wuhan and Guangzhou, and in 1977, he became the deputy director of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, carried out the work of rehabilitating unjust, false and wrongly decided cases, and then began to select outstanding middle-aged and young cadres for the motherland. Until her retirement in 1983, she was still in her seventies and still traveled to some poor areas to solve the problem of eastern Fujian. On June 21, 1998, her footsteps stopped at this moment.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > fate, the sacrifice of three husbands</h1>
Such a great person who worked diligently and diligently for the motherland, but fate was always joking with her.
First husband: Xia Mingzhen
In 1927, Zeng Zhi, who went to Chenzhou to work, met Xia Mingzhen, who was then the secretary of the Chenxian County CPC Committee. Xia Mingzhen, the outstanding leader of the early Communist Party of China, led the famous Shonan Uprising, formed the Independent Seventh Division of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, and established the Chenxian Soviet Government. Zeng Zhi, who was in love with Dou, and Xia Mingzhen, who was excellent and outstanding, could be described as love at first sight, and soon after they met, they were married.
Xia Mingzhen
However, the newborn love was extremely short-lived, and after less than a year of marriage, Xia Mingzhen, who was only 21 years old, was killed in the "anti-white incident" in Chenxian County. The relatives who died also include the eldest brother Xia Minghan, the fourth sister Xia Mingheng, the seventh brother Xia Mingpi, and the nephew Wu Yizhuang, the Xia family in Hengyang, Hunan, a family of five martyrs, zhuangzai! It hurts! At this time, Zeng Zhi, who was already pregnant, had to endure the pain of sending off her husband.
Second husband: Cai Xiemin
In 1928, Zeng Zhi, whose situation had turned sour, had to withdraw to Jinggangshan. During this period, Zeng Zhi became acquainted with Cai Xiemin, a member of the Military Commission of the Fourth Red Army, and Cai Xiemin was very impressed to see such a little girl participate in the revolution and become pregnant. Zeng Zhi, who often went to take care of Zeng Zhi, who was pregnant, was also slowly moved by Cai Xiemin's care, and the two secretly had a love affair. Zeng Zhi once asked Cai Xiemin: "Don't you mind if I am pregnant with a child?" Cai Xiemin said: "They are all children of the revolution, not only do not mind but cherish more." "
Cai Xiemin
In this way, Zeng Zhi and Cai Xiemin formed a new family, and the child was born soon after under the care of Cai Xiemin. Because the relationship between Cai Xiemin and Mao Zedong is very good, Zeng Zhi often sees Mao Zedong and He Zizhen, and he has the affection that Zeng Zhi and Chairman Mao had at the beginning of the chapter.
However, fate was still playing a joke on her, and in 1934, because of the betrayal of traitors, Cai Xiemin was arrested in Zhangzhou. Cai Xiemin, who had died under severe torture, was killed in July of the same year. In just a few short years, Zeng Zhi experienced the pain of bereavement twice. However, fate did not pay this woman, but let her be reborn from grief again and again.
Third husband: Tao Zhu
In the same year, Zeng Zhi received the task arranged by the organization and went to Xiamen to marry Tao Zhu as a fake couple and cover his identity to carry out underground work. Maybe it is a long-term husband and wife together, or maybe it is a difficult revolutionary work, both need to rely on each other, Zeng Zhi and Tao Zhu slowly have a true feeling. But do you think fate will let her go? It was also in a normal operation that Tao Zhu was arrested and imprisoned.
Pottery casting
In the four years when Tao Zhu was arrested and heard from, Zeng Zhi thought that her fate was so difficult, but she was resolute and uncompromising with a strong personality, which instead inspired Zeng Zhi to have more fighting spirit, constantly leading guerrilla warfare in eastern Fujian and winning one victory after another. Until 1937, when Tao Zhu was rescued from prison and saw Tao Zhu again, the woman who had been strong as iron for four years burst into tears.
After too many tribulations, Zeng Zhi and Tao Zhu cherished each other's feelings very much, and the two would work together for the rest of their lives, and soon after they had a daughter. Fate seems to be unable to see Zeng Zhi's happiness, and in 1967, the couple, who experienced 34 years of wind and rain, was once again tricked by fate. At the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, Tao Zhu suddenly became a prisoner of the order from an important leader of the central government, and Zeng Zhi was spared from being arrested under the protection of Chairman Mao. But Tao Zhu, who is no longer young, is dragged to criticize the fight every day, kicked and beaten, and Zeng Zhi's heart is trembling and dripping blood.
Tao Zhu and Zeng Zhi
At the beginning of 1969, Tao Zhu, who was getting worse and worse, was diagnosed with cancer, and Zeng Zhijiu, who had received the report, looked at Tao Zhu lying on the hospital bed for a long time, not knowing how to open his mouth. Tao Zhu, who woke up, found Zeng Zhi's abnormality and accompanied each other for many years, Tao Zhu also had a clear understanding at this moment, so he whispered to Zeng Zhi:
"We've been through all the winds and waves, and there's nothing we can't let go of."
Zeng Zhi cried instantly:
"Because of the needs of work, I can't always be with you and my children, now I have time, but you have to go again."
Tao Zhu gently took his wife's hand and said:
"I never regret being with you, and if I have the chance, I'd like to live with you again."
After saying this, Tao Zhusai gave his wife a piece of paper, on which was a poem written with a pen:
"Gifts to Zeng Zhi"
It is also difficult for me to return to the battlefield, and I feel that the feelings of the king are forced to the clouds.
Ruthless white hair induces cold and heat, and the dirt suppresses bitterness for the rest of his life.
The sick horse also knows that it is late, and the dead flower is even more timid.
Like smoke and the past, the past is forgotten, and the heart is selfless and wide.
Tao Zhu, Zeng Zhi and daughter Tao Siliang
Soon after, the dying Tao Zhu was sent to Hefei, and Zeng Zhi was also dismissed to Guangzhou, where Beijing was already cold in early winter. The couple knew that this parting might be the last time they would accompany them. On Zeng Zhi's way to Guangzhou, the bad news of Tao Zhu's death in Hefei reached Zeng Zhi's hands, and Zeng Zhi burst into tears, with sorrow and pain, clutched the poem and read it for a long time.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > fate twists and turns, three sons and one daughter will always regret</h1>
For Zeng Zhi, everyone is the country, and the small family is the husband and children. Zeng Zhi had four children in his life, three boys and one girl. However, in those turbulent times, the living were still difficult, not to mention the children.
Zeng Zhi's eldest son called Shi Laifa. He is the child of Zeng Zhi and Xia Mingzhen, born in Jinggangshan. It was late autumn when the Jinggang Mountains were drizzling and the air was humid and cold. Under the conditions at that time, Zeng Zhi, who had difficulty giving birth, suffered for three days and three nights before giving birth to this child. However, due to the serious shortage of personnel, Zeng Zhi began to participate in the construction of the red army rear hospital not long after giving birth.
Zeng Zhituo was lonely
At that time, there were frequent battles on the Jinggangshan front, and the supply in the rear was very tight. Zeng Zhi, a new mother, understood how difficult it was to raise a child in this situation, so after repeated discussions with Cai Xiemin, they decided to send the child away for the sake of the child's health. At this time, it happened that Shi Libao and his wife came to see them, so they entrusted the child to Shi Libao's family and changed their name to Shi Laifa.
In 1951, Zeng Zhi was appointed secretary of the Guangzhou Municipal Party Committee, and a condolence group from the old central revolutionary area came to Guangzhou, and in the exchange Zeng Zhi learned that the condolence group would pass through Jinggangshan, and Zeng Zhi, who was excited, asked them to help find his children. After inquiring from many sources, the condolence group found Shi Laifa and learned the news of his own mother, and Shi Laifa also rushed to Guangzhou overnight.
In 1987, Zeng Zhi went to Jinggangshan to visit Shi Laifa's family
In this way, the mother and son, who had been separated for 23 years, met in Guangzhou. Looking at Shi Laifa's vicissitudes that were far beyond his age, Zeng Zhi was full of guilt. It turned out that when Shi Laifa was seven years old, his adoptive parents were killed in the war, and the seven-year-old Shi Laifa relied on his grandmother to beg all the way to pull the adults hard.
In order to make up for his debt to his son, Zeng Zhi wanted his son to go to the factory to do student work, and he could also go to night school at night to continue his studies, so that he would have a skill in the future. However, Shi Laifa said, "Mother, I still have to go back." I am now a family, there are wives and children and eighty grandmothers in the family, I am the main labor force in the family, if I don't go back, the family land will be no longer planted, they are still waiting for me."
Zeng Zhi and Shi Laifa
Zeng Zhi also felt that Shi Laifa was right after listening to it, and perhaps for the people they passed, being able to live healthily and healthily was the greatest happiness. In this way, after Shi Laifa and his mother had a hasty meeting in Guangzhou, they returned to Jinggangshan and became ordinary farmers all their lives. Until Zeng Zhi buried his bones in Jinggangshan after his death, Shi Laifa often went to see his mother.
Zeng Zhi's second son, who was born to Cai Xiemin, unfortunately, the child had smallpox shortly after coming to the world and left this world early.
Zeng Zhi's third son was called Cai Shihong, born in 1933, when Zeng Zhi's conditions were extremely difficult, after giving birth to Cai Shihong, he was infected with a very serious gynecological disease, and he really could not support the child, so he gave it to a hubei family, and later changed his name to Zeng Chunhua.
Tomb of Shi Laifa and Mother
Zeng Chunhua's life is much more bumpy than that of his eldest brother Shi Laifa. When Zeng Chunhua was four years old, he suffered from lymphatic tuberculosis; at the age of fourteen, he had to do free surgery in the church hospital, and after the operation, Zeng Chunhua was missing a kidney and two ribs, and he was even more difficult to be thin. Zeng Chunhua, who did not study since childhood, could only sell cigarettes and melon seeds on the street to make ends meet.
In 1950, Zeng Zhi, who was working in Wuhan, finally met Zeng Chunhua in Hankou after many inquiries, but Zeng Zhi did not believe that Zeng Chunhua, who was 17 years old at this time, was only the height of an eleven- or twelve-year-old child, and the whole person was thin as if a gust of wind could blow away.
It is also Zeng Chunhua's tragic childhood that makes Zeng Chunhua's feelings for this mother very complicated, and outsiders cannot say it. Zeng Chunhua later studied and was admitted to a technical school, settled in Lechang County, Guangdong Province, and became an ordinary worker.
Daughter Tao Si Liang
Compared with the bumpy life of the three brothers, the little sister Tao Siliang can be said to be happy enough. Tao Siliang was born in Yan'an in 1941 by Zeng Zhi and Tao Zhu. Zeng Zhi once said with emotion that Tao Siliang's birth has experienced two life and death tests, and is a tenacious little life, so he will definitely grow up healthy and healthy.
When he was pregnant with Tao Siliang for seven months, Zeng Zhi went out on a mission, and the horse he was riding was suddenly frightened and jumped madly, so that Zeng Zhi on horseback was thrown to the ground without warning. The comrades present at that time were frightened and rushed to help the injured Zeng Zhi to the hospital, so that Tao Siliang in the attached middle school was safe and sound. The second time was during the delivery, due to the lack of experience of the nurse, he accidentally dropped the newborn Xiao Siliang to the ground in a hurry.
Healer Tao Si Liang
In this way, Tao Siliang, who tenaciously came to the world, can be regarded as having accepted Zeng Zhi's most beloved child. Perhaps it is too much guilt for the first few children, and the girl's Tao Siliang thrives under the care of her parents. Tao Siliang, who received a good education, eventually became an honorable doctor in the People's Liberation Army Hospital.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > two sleeves of fresh wind, the soul of the red army veteran soldiers returned to Jinggang</h1>
At 21:39 on June 21, 1998, Zeng Zhi died of illness in Beijing at the age of 88.
Zeng Zhi, a veteran soldier of the Red Army
After Zeng Zhi's death, his daughter Tao Siliang sorted out her mother's belongings and neatly placed more than 80 envelopes in a box. These envelopes are Zeng Zhi's salary bags, each envelope has a date and amount, and the amount inside adds up to more than 60,000 yuan, which is Zeng Zhi's salary that he has worked hard to save for so many years. On the occasion of his death, Zeng Zhi instructed his daughter to donate the money to poor areas, and it was always good to build more Hope Primary Schools.
The soul returns to Jinggang
In accordance with Comrade Zeng Zhi's last wishes, the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee simplified all funerals and did not hold farewell activities. The cremated ashes were finally buried under an old tree next to the former site of the Fourth Army Hospital of the Chinese Red Army in Jinggangshan.
With this article, I would like to commemorate Comrade Zeng Zhi, an eternal veteran soldier of the Red Army.