Lin Boqu: A life of revolution and a life of dedication

According to Xinhua News Agency(Xinhua News Agency) In Liangshuijing Village, Xiumei Town, Linli County, Changde, Hunan Province, there is a typical Qing Dynasty house hidden in the shade of green trees, which is the place where Lin Boqu, one of the five elders of the CPC's Yan'an, lived and studied in his childhood and adolescence. At the end of June this year, in the former residence of Lin Boqu, the Lin Boqu Life Exhibition Hall was officially opened. People stood in front of the window of the exhibition hall and listened to the narrator tell the extraordinary life of this "revolutionary veteran".

Lin Boqu, formerly known as Lin Zuhan, was born in 1886 in Linli, Hunan. In the spring of 1904, Lin Boqu traveled east to Japan to explore the truth of saving the country and the people, and he was influenced by the revolutionary trend of thought, joined the Chinese League, and gradually accepted Marxism in revolutionary practice. Since then, Lin Boqu has devoted his life's energy to the liberation cause of the Chinese people.

In August 1920, Lin Boqu joined the early organization of the Communist Party of China in Shanghai through the introduction of Li Dazhao and Chen Duxiu, and became one of the earliest party members. After the defeat of the Great Revolution in 1927, Lin Boqu participated in the Nanchang Uprising. In 1933, he entered the Central Revolutionary Base Area and successively served as Minister of National Economy and Minister of Finance of the Provisional Central Government of the Chinese Soviet Republic, and participated in the Long March in October 1934.

When he participated in the Long March, Lin Boqu was nearly half a hundred years old. Every time he marched, Lin Boqu always carried a pony lamp in one hand and the crutch he had brought from Ruijin in the other, taking care of his comrades. Li Jianzhen, a female soldier of the Red Army, recalled: "His pony lamp was never occupied by individuals, and he must shine the light on everyone." ”

During his tenure as chairman of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region, Lin Boqu made important contributions to the consolidation and development of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region. After the founding of New China, Lin Boqu was appointed secretary general of the Central People's Government Committee. In 1954, he was elected Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress. He died in Beijing on May 29, 1960.

"Comrade Lin Boqu's life was a life of complete revolution and a life of fighting for a professional revolutionary." Yan Qingtao, director of the Linboqu Former Residence Memorial Hall in Linli County, said.