Today marks the 90th anniversary of the August 1st Nanchang Uprising and the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. At the August 1st Uprising Memorial Hall in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, Zhu De and 76 other Sichuan generals are recorded in the annals of history, but 14 of them do not know where their homes are. "After years of searching for the memorial, it is still unknown." The memorial said.
After the Chengdu Business Daily reported on the incident on July 30, Jiang Zineng, a Sichuan general from Beijing, called Jiang Lindong and provided important information such as whether Jiang Zineng was a native of Yibin, Sichuan, and whether Wu Kuangshi was from Rong County. The relevant person in charge of the Nanchang August 1st Uprising Memorial Hall said that relevant information will be collected to enrich the exhibition materials of the memorial hall.
90 years ago, there were more than 20,000 participants in the Nanchang Uprising, and only 1,042 people have left their names so far, and most of them have not even left their names and disappeared into the long river of history. After 90 years, after our efforts, we finally obtained the information of the two people, which reduced the number of family searchers to 12. We will continue to search for the hometown of the 12 Sichuan soldiers.
▲ In 1965, the Jiang family took a family photo (in the middle of the front row is Jiang Zineng)
Jiang Zineng, a Sichuan rebel general:
A native of Yibin, Sichuan, Sun Tzu claimed to have participated in confirming Zhao Yiman's identity
According to the exhibition materials of the August 1st Uprising Memorial Hall in Nanchang: "Liu Gongqian, Jiang Zineng, Wu Kuangshi: Sichuanese, together with Chen Lin and five other Sichuanese, caught up with the rebel troops in Shantou and were arranged by Wu Yuzhang to work in the Revolutionary Committee. Xiao Yanyan, director of the exhibition department of the August 1st Uprising Memorial Hall in Nanchang, said that after years of searching, the home addresses of 14 Sichuan uprising soldiers such as Jiang Zineng and Wu Kuangshi have not yet been found.
Yesterday, Jiang Lindong, former deputy director (deputy director) of the International Business Department of China International Engineering Consulting Corporation, called Chengdu Business Daily and provided relevant origin information for Jiang Zineng and Wu Kuangshi. It turned out that Jiang Lindong was the eldest son of Jiang Luowei, the younger son of Jiang Zineng, who retired from the state-owned China International Engineering Consulting Company many years ago.
Participated in the Nanchang Uprising troops in Shantou
According to relevant information, Jiang Zineng was originally named Jiang Zhongjie, and once used the name Jiang Yongling. According to Jiang Lindong, Jiang Zineng was born in Xianma Township (now Longxing Township) in Yibin, came from a poor background, and became a Zhongxiucai by studying hard with relatives and friends at an early age, and later graduated from the Sichuan Higher School and joined the Communist Party of China in May 1925. Historical records record: Jiang Zineng, after the founding of New China, successively served as a member and deputy director of the Supervision Commission of Western Sichuan, Sichuan Province and Chengdu City.
Jiang Lindong said that on July 25, 1927, the local organization of the Cpc in Wuhan informed Jiang Zineng, Chen Xuansan, Chen Lin, Liu Gongqian, Wu Kuangshi and others to go to Nanchang to participate in the uprising. Due to the inconvenience of traffic blockade, when Jiang Zineng and his party rushed to Jiujiang, Jiangxi, it was August 3, and the Nanxun railway to Nanchang had been cut off and could not be reached. When they learned of the news that on August 1, the Nanchang rebel forces had left Nanchang to march south to Guangzhou to rebuild the revolutionary base area, they decided to take a boat to Hong Kong and wait for the rebel troops to join the battle when they came to Guangzhou.
In late August 1927, Jiang Zineng and his party arrived in Hong Kong. After more than a month of waiting in Hong Kong, they managed to contact the Hong Kong underground party's liaison station at a grocery store in Kowloon. Three days later, the liaison station sent a liaison officer, Duan Hansheng, to Jiang Zineng's residence and told them that the Nanchang rebel army had arrived in Shantou. Jiang Zineng and the others packed up and took a steamship to Shantou.
Jiang Zineng waited until he arrived in Shantou, and as soon as he stayed at the Tai Po Guild Hall, Wu Yuzhang, then secretary general of the Revolutionary Committee of the August 1st Nanchang Uprising, came to warmly receive them. In the name of the secretary general of the Revolutionary Committee, Wu Yuzhang appointed Jiang Zineng, Chen Xuansan, Liu Gongqian, and Wu Kuangshi as secretaries of the Revolutionary Committee, and Chen Lin as propaganda officers.
Jiang Zineng waited for Wu Yuzhang's leadership to carry out secretarial work, and only worked in Shantou for a week, but unexpectedly the front troops lost the battle and dispersed and moved. At this time, Wu Yuzhang asked Jiang Zi to wait to return to Hong Kong, and they could only set off for the night with regret.
Went to Beijing to find "Zhao Yiman"
Jiang Lindong told the Chengdu Business Daily reporter that the identity of the anti-Japanese hero Zhao Yiman can be confirmed, which is also related to Jiang Zineng's going to Beijing to verify after the founding of New China. When Zhao Yiman died in the northeast, although the military and people of the whole country were shaken, her sacrifice was in the northeast, and few people knew Zhao Yiman's origins.
In the early 1950s, the movie "Zhao Yiman" was staged nationwide, and the heroic and tragic deeds of the anti-Japanese heroine Zhao Yiman deeply touched every audience, one of whom was Li Kunjie, a Yibin native. Seeing Zhao Yiman, she remembered her sister Li Kuntai (also known as Li Shuning and Li Yichao) who had been away for more than 20 years. In the winter of 1926, the Yibin Party organization recommended Li Kuntai to apply for the Central Military and Political School. In the spring of 1927, she was admitted to the women's team of the political brigade of the Wuhan branch. In the autumn of the same year, the Party Central Committee sent her to Moscow to study, and after returning to China at the end of 1928, she lost contact with her family.
Li Kunjie asked Chen Lin, then director of the Yibin Military Control Commission, about the whereabouts of his sister Li Kuntai, but Chen Lin only met Li Kuntai in Moscow in 1928 and has not been heard from since. In 1954, Jiang Zineng went to Beijing to visit his son Jiang Luowei's family, and before leaving, Li Kunjie entrusted Jiang Zineng to go to Beijing to inquire about her sister. Because Li Kunjie and Li Kuntai were both party members that Jiang Zi could develop in Yibin in 1926, Jiang Zi Neng also cared about their sisters. Jiang Zineng went to Beijing, paid a special visit to his old friend He Chengxiang (then director of the State Administration for Religious Affairs and one of Jiang Zineng's introductions to the party) and inquired about Li Kuntai.
He Chengxiang told Jiang Zineng: "The Zhao Yiman surnamed Li in the movie is Yibin. I led her in 1932 when I was in Harbin. At that time, I was the head of the organization department of the Manchurian Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China. You go back and inquire. Jiang Zineng gave a detailed introduction to He Chengxiang about Li Kuntai's situation. He Chengxiang was also excited and offered to look at the photos. After Jiang Zineng returned to Yibin, she relayed the conversation with He Chengxiang to Li Kunjie, who was very moved, and she immediately sent the only photo of her sister and related materials to He Chengxiang.
In 1956, a reporter from the Workers' Daily came to the Harbin Archives and found all the records of Zhao Yiman's arrest in the dusty Japanese and pseudo-archives. Suddenly, a yellowed photo fell out of the roll bag, brushing away the dust, and it turned out to be a picture of Zhao Yiman lying on a hospital bed. Compared with Li Kuntai's photo, it can be completely determined that it is the same person. In this way, Zhao Yiman is Li Kuntai and has been finally confirmed.
Wu Kuangshi, a Sichuan rebel general:
It should be a native of Zigongrong County
Jiang Lindong also told the Chengdu Business Daily reporter that when Wu Kuang joined the Nanchang Uprising troops in Shantou, Guangdong Province, with his grandfather Jiang Zineng in 1927, he was the eldest brother of the revolutionary and educator Wu Yuzhang, and he was a native of Shuangshiqiao in Zigongrong County, Sichuan.
Wu Yuzhang (30 December 1878 – 12 December 1966), formerly known as Yongshan, was a Native of Caijiayan, Shuangshiqiao, Zigongrong County, Sichuan. Wu Yuzhang went through the Penghu Reform Law, the Xinhai Revolution, the Yuan War, the Northern Expedition War, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and the War of Liberation, and was honored as the "Five Elders of Yan'an" together with Dong Biwu, Xu Teli, Xie Jueya, and Lin Boqu.
According to the memoirs of Ren Baige, former chairman of the Sichuan Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, "In 1926, the Kuomintang had two provincial party departments in Chongqing, one was the leftist provincial party headquarters in Lotus Pond, which was actually led by Comrade Yang Mingong, and it was Li Xiaoting, and the other two old men: Wu Kuangshi (Wu Yuzhang's brother) and Deng Maoxiu (Deng Jiegang's father)..."
Wu Yuzhang wrote in his memoirs: "I have two brothers and two sisters, the eldest brother is the same as my father, reading and rationalizing, and the second brother and I are specialized in reading, not as farmers." Zhong's brother was early and wise, and he was talented at the age of 19. I lost my father when I was 7 years old, lost my loving mother at the age of 13, and since then I have grown up with my brother and sister-in-law. Both of my brothers had aspirations, and they were both members of the Revolutionary League. Brother Zhong (second brother) heard of the failure of the second revolution and hanged himself in resentment. The eldest brother went to Shantou in the August 1 Nanchang Rebellion, after which our army failed to return to Lu and died in 1937. ”
Yesterday afternoon, a reporter from Chengdu Business Daily contacted Xiao Yanyan, director of the exhibition department of the August 1st Uprising Memorial Hall in Nanchang, and informed him of the relevant information. Xiao Yanyan said that they also speculated that Wu Kuangshi was Wu Yuzhang's brother, but due to lack of evidence, he was included in the list of 14 Sichuan rebel generals with unknown origin. Xiao Yanyan expressed the hope that Jiang Zi's descendants or other relatives of Wu Kuangshi would provide historical materials and information such as photos to the memorial hall in order to supplement the exhibition materials.
These Sichuan soldiers
Haven't found a hometown yet
Wen Jiayong Liu Gongqian Liu Hansheng
Liu Depu Tang Muyu Chen Zhong
Luo Gangzhi Zhou Kaibi Zhong Xiang
Wei Jinjun Wei Quan Xiong Moumou
Chengdu Business Daily client reporter Luo Min Yu Zunsu (image provided by the interviewee)
Editor 丨 Zhang Bo