Do you remember the sonorous and powerful cry of Sister Jiang before dawn in the novel "Red Rock", even in the last moment of life, she is still fearless: "Poison torture is too small a test, the will of Communists is made of steel...", in the novel, Sister Jiang was betrayed by traitors, unfortunately arrested, and finally heroically sacrificed, and in reality, the deeds of Jiang Zhujun, the prototype of Sister Jiang, have become the representative figures of revolutionary martyrs written by countless scholars, and she is the heroine of the revolution in people's hearts.
▼ Study hard and be determined to join the party
In China at the beginning of the 20th century, warlords were everywhere, society was chaotic, the May Fourth Movement broke out to push the idea of democracy and science to a new height, young people are rising, society is also progressing, and Jiang Zhujun was born in such a change-filled era, in 1920 she was born in Zigong City, Sichuan Province, an ordinary peasant family, living conditions are difficult.
Jiang Zhujun's childhood life is not happy, her father is idle all day, can not take on the heavy responsibility of a family, the mother has a strong personality, she used industrious hands to support a piece of the family, with the passage of time, a blink of an eye young Jiang Zhujun also gradually understood, when Jiang Zhujun was 8 years old, the living conditions at home were getting worse and worse, in order not to let the family become a burden for the children, the mother resolutely took Jiang Zhujun's sisters and brothers to Chongqing to join relatives and look for a job.
Red Rock Memorial
Young Jiang Zhujun is both sensible and obedient, she went to school while working, although life is very hard, but Jiang Zhujun studied hard and achieved excellent results. In 1939, Jiang Zhujun was successfully admitted to Chongqing China Public School, she cherished the opportunity to read, and Jiang Zhujun, who had a superb memory, was more devoted to learning, and she was a model student in the eyes of teachers and classmates. Jiang Zhujun's knowledge grew higher and higher, and under the influence of advanced revolutionary ideas, she secretly joined the Communist Party of China.
In order to better accomplish the tasks assigned by the party organizations, Jiang Zhujun has always worked hard to absorb knowledge and raise his ideological height. In 1944, she was successfully admitted to Sichuan University, during the university, Jiang Zhujun learned Russian, but also read a large number of books and newspapers from the Soviet Union, while strengthening theoretical study, she was also engaged in underground party secret work, in practice more firm her faith and love for the motherland, but also hope to be able to fight for the cause of communism for life.
▼ Indomitable will, infecting fellow inmates
Jiang Zhujun met many like-minded friends organizationally, and later out of the needs of the task, but also in order to prevent his identity from being probed by the enemy, he needed to complete the task together with other party members and comrades. Under the arrangement of the organization, Jiang Zhujun got acquainted with Peng Yongwu, the two pretended to be husband and wife, and jointly engaged in underground party work, with the passage of time, Jiang Zhujun and Peng Yongwu had a tacit understanding, and their feelings became deeper and deeper, and finally the two became real revolutionary partners and had a son under the witness of the party organization.
In 1948, as the revolutionary struggle became more and more intense, more and more underground party members were arrested by Kuomintang agents, Peng Yongwu was also unfortunately killed in the mission, Jiang Zhujun was sad, but she still had the enthusiasm to fight for the revolutionary cause, because the motherland needed her, Jiang Zhujun had to endure grief to take over her husband's work and fight with the enemy, but the Chongqing underground party organization at that time was already surging in the dark tide, she was betrayed by the traitor Ran Yizhi during a mission, fell into the enemy's trap, and was unfortunately arrested.
The site of the former Zha Di Dong Prison
As a key criminal arrested by the Kuomintang, Jiang Zhujun received much "attention", and the agents imprisoned her in Chongqing's Zhazhidong Prison and tortured her in every way, but the indomitable Jiang Zhujun never bowed her head, she firmed her faith, and preferred to die unyieldingly. The Kuomintang agents used all kinds of cruel means to force Jiang Zhujun to obey, tiger stools, electrocution, thorny steel whips and other tortures were staged one by one, and the cruel military command agents even inserted bamboo sticks into Jiang Zhujun's ten fingers.
▼ Life is dead, and the soul of the hero lives on forever
On the eve of the imminent liberation of Chongqing in 1949, Jiang Zhuyun had already sensed that the Kuomintang agents had lost their last patience and were bound to carry out a massacre before the rescue team came to the rescue. At this critical moment, Jiang Zhujun missed his son Peng Yun so much that he decided to write a suicide note to his cousin, but Jiang Zhujun was a major criminal, and the Kuomintang guarded it very strictly, and there was no paper and pen.
In the day and night of thinking, Jiang Zhujun, who was eager to think of a child, thought of a way, she took advantage of the fact that the agents were not paying attention, secretly hid a chopstick, sharpened it into a pen, burned cotton into ashes, and then mixed with clear water to turn it into ink, so she began to write a secret letter, in which Jiang Zhujun was full of deep thoughts about her son Peng Yun and expectations for the revolutionary cause: "Hope to teach is to follow the footsteps of her parents and to build a new China..."
With the joint help of the fellow prisoners, a revolutionary party member rebelled against a guard in the prison, and finally the letter was handed over to Jiang Zhujun's cousin Tan Zhu'an, with sincere words, true words, and a thousand words to express the love of a mother, and Sister Jiang's suicide note was carefully preserved after liberation and treasured in the museum.
Various torture devices in Zha Di Dong Prison
On November 14, 1949, on the eve of the liberation of Chongqing, a massacre was also staged, and the Kuomintang agents did not forget the Zha di Dong Prison while retreating, many revolutionary party members in the Zha Di Dong Prison were brutally killed, jiang Zhujun, who was only 29 years old, was secretly shot, and her body was destroyed by the agents with hydrochloric acid, although her life was dead, but the heroic soul will last forever.
In 1962, the famous literary artist Yan Su and his team waded through the mountains and came to Chongqing to visit their revolutionary teammates, hoping to improve the script of the opera "Sister Jiang" and find inspiration for creation, which was also affirmed by General Liu Yalou, Yan Su and the staff of the crew carefully considered every line in the opera "Sister Jiang", and its theme song "Red Meizan" was widely circulated, the opera "Sister Jiang" was successfully released, countless reporters reported it, and also let the public understand the novel "Red Rock" more intuitively. In that touching and profound historical event, Sister Jiang's tenacious and indomitable patriotic belief has influenced generations of young students.
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