The Liu Martyrs' Ancestral Hall is located at No. 396 Chengzheng Street, Yuhu District.
Liu Chengliang and his wife, descendants of Liu Yiyi, still live in the Martyrs' Shrine.
The display inside the Liu Martyrs' Shrine.
Xiangtan Online, July 23 (Xiangtan Daily All-Media Reporter Gao Gao Yang Photography Fang Yang) Liu surname is a big surname, and Xiangtan Liu is a huge family, there are many branches in Xiangtan. Among them, there is a very famous Liu family, two revolutionaries, their names can be said to be well-known in Xiangtan, that is, the important figures in the Xinhai Revolution - Liu Yiyi and Liu Daoyi.
Visit the remains of martyr Liu
On the afternoon of July 12, against the drizzle, the reporter came to Chengzheng Street in Yuhu District. Through an alley, the Liu Martyrs' Shrine is located in several old mansions.
Walking into the Liu Martyrs' Shrine, the first thing that catches your eye is a few towering grapefruit trees, which are full of large and small grapefruit. These grapefruit trees were planted by Liu Yu during his lifetime, which means "Youzi" and symbolizes "reunion".
At the entrance of the ancestral hall is the plaque inscribed "Liu Martyrs' Ancestral Hall" by the famous historian Zhou Gucheng, the entire ancestral hall is a two-story small building with brick and wood structure, and the hall house and the West Wing of the ancestral hall on the first floor are the life of Liu Daoyi martyrs. In the center of the hall is a bust of martyr Liu Daoyi, a bust of martyr Liu Daoyi, carved by the sculptor Professor Liu Yu on the 100th anniversary of Liu Daoyi's death in December 2006. On the back wall of the bust is Sun Yat-sen's elegy "Seven Laws , Bang Liu Daoyi" after the sacrifice of Mr. Liu Daoyi: "Half of the wall southeast of the three Chuxiong, Liu Lang died to dominate the air ... When the time comes, he drinks Huanglong wine and crosses the river to establish a public. and Huang Xing's "Seven Laws of Bang Liu Daoyi": "The hero has no life to cry Liu Lang, and the bones of the heroes in the middle of the country are miserable... Under the eyes of the people think of the country, it is difficult to stand in the sky. These two leaders of the Xinhai Revolution gave Liu Daoyi a very high evaluation and fully affirmed the important position of Liu Daoyi martyrs in the Xinhai Revolution.
Inside the Martyrs' Shrine, Liu Daoyi's nephew Liu Chengliang warmly received us and talked to us about liu yiyi and Liu Daoyi's revolutionary past. In the spring of 1906, Liu Daoyi returned to Xiangzhou and led the Pingliu Li Uprising. Later, he went to Hengyang to make contacts, and on the way back to Changsha in Hengyang, he was arrested by Qing officials. In order to protect his brother Liu Yiyi from continuing to participate in leading the revolution in Tokyo, Japan, Liu Daoyi lied that he was Liu Yiyi and prepared to replace his brother with death. After the Qing officials investigated, they tried to ask him for the list of revolutionaries, but they were all strictly rejected by Liu Daoyi. The prison guards immediately tortured him so that his skin was cracked and blood flowed everywhere, and Liu Daoyi shouted: "Soldiers can be killed, not disgraced, and death is dead ears!" Half a month later, the prison officials threw Liu Daoyi out of the prison, carried Liu Daoyi outside the Liuyang Gate in Changsha in a bamboo palanquin, and brutally killed him at the age of 22. In order to commemorate Liu Daoyi's revolutionary martyrs, the people of Xiangtan built the Liu Martyrs' Shrine.
Since 1984, the Liu Martyrs' Shrine has been managed by Liu Chengliang and his wife. At present, the Liu Martyrs' Ancestral Hall is a municipal cultural relics protection unit and a municipal patriotic education base, which has been further repaired and protected by the Xiangtan Municipal Government. Liu Chengliang said: "The Liu Martyrs' Ancestral Hall was originally the private property of the Liu family, which belonged to Liu Yiyi and Liu Daoyi brothers and sisters. During the Republic of China period, with the approval of Sun Yat-sen, Liu Daoyi was enshrined at the Great Han Martyrs' Shrine. Accordingly, the first deliberative meeting of Xiangtan County decided to change it to the 'Liu Martyrs' Shrine and become a famous memorial site of the Xinhai Revolution in Xiangtan City. Managing this place is a responsibility for the descendants of our Liu family, and we are duty-bound. Now our husband and wife live in the west end of the Liu Martyrs' Ancestral Hall, where we have lived for 34 years, and this is our root. ”
Hengshan's righteousness has been passed down from generation to generation
Regarding the revolutionary deeds of Liu Yiyi and Liu Daoyi brothers, Rao Huaimin, a professor at Hunan Normal University who has compiled 8 books of relevant research results on Liu Yiyi and Liu Daoyi, holds his own unique views. He believes that the biggest feature of this revolutionary family is "passing on the righteousness of the family."
"The righteousness of Liu Yiyi and Liu Daoyi can be said to be inherited from their father Liu Fangyao." Rao Huaimin said that Liu Fangyao, a man with a great sense of justice, served under Zeng Guoquan in the Xiang Army and served as a flag officer, and the military called him "Liu Daqi." Once, Liu Fangyao accidentally captured Lin Dirong, the commander-in-chief of the Taiping Army, and during the interrogation, he was infected by his national righteousness and secretly released Lin Dirong, while he himself took the horse and ran wildly and fled to the countryside. According to Liu Yiyi's recollection, his father often told them about family history in order to cultivate and improve the ethnography and patriotic enthusiasm of his descendants. When it comes to excitement, I can't help but burst into tears.
"If the impact of Liu Fangyao's release of the Taiping Army generals on Liu Yi's brothers belongs to 'word transmission', then Ma Fuyi, the leader of the Later Secret Report Brotherhood, is 'teaching by example'. And the brothers of Liu Yi also inherited the righteousness of their father Liu Fangyao. Rao Huaimin said that when Liu Fangyao was on an errand at the Xiangtan County Government Bureau, he was ordered to arrest Ma Fuyi, the leader of the Brotherhood, but he secretly instructed Liu Fuyi to report to Ma Fuyi in advance. At that time, before the arrival of the catch, Liu Yuyi copied the path to find a small inn on the Xiangtan River where Ma Fuyi lived, and reported the letter, so that Ma Fuyi survived. This incident made Ma Fuyi grateful to Liu Yiyi and called him "Enge". "His father Liu Fangyao's moral words and deeds, especially his sense of justice in passing on his words and deeds, had a great influence on liu yi and liu daoyi in his youth."
Rao Huaimin introduced that Liu Daoyi was the younger brother of Liu Yiyi, a famous bourgeois democratic revolutionary in modern China, who was influenced by family education in his youth, especially by his brother Liu Yiyi. After the failure of the Pingliu Li Uprising, Liu Daoyi was arrested by Qing officials on his way back to Changsha for his contacts and movements in Changsha and Hengshan, which attracted the attention of Qing officials. In the face of severe torture, Liu Daoyi was unyielding, generous and righteous, and protected many revolutionary volunteers. He wrote in prison: "Heaven and earth are prosperous in three-character prison, but I will not be lonely in the end." I will not hesitate to sacrifice myself on this day, but in the salvation of the world, the heavenly will have been empty...". On December 31, 1906, Liu Daoyi calmly took up his righteousness outside the Liuyang Gate in Changsha.
"Liu Daoyi was only 22 years old when the martyr was righteous, but he sacrificed his life for the country at this prosperous age. The failure of the Pingliu Li Uprising and his heroic sacrifice caused great repercussions in China at that time. Rao Huaimin said that after learning the news of his sacrifice, the headquarters of the League held a solemn memorial meeting for him, Huang Xing and Liu Yi hugged and cried bitterly, and most of the revolutionaries wrote elegy and praised his revolutionary integrity, and more than 80 poems still exist.
Liu Daoyi's brother Liu Yiyi was also a famous revolutionary. Rao Huaimin introduced that Liu Yiyi has been just since he was a child, and he likes to fight and hug injustice. In people's impressions, he is obviously not the kind of "little lamb" who follows the rules and conforms to the rules, but the "naughty boy" who is "bold and arrogant". Rao Huaimin analyzed that his growth was first of all influenced by the Huxiang culture. Hengshan, the ancestral home of Liu Yiyi, was once the place where the famous scholars Hu Anguo and Hu Hong, father and son of hu Hong, gathered to give lectures and write books and lectures during the Southern Song Dynasty. Throughout his life, Liu Yi took it as his duty to carry forward the Culture of Huxiang and advocated the righteousness of Hengshan Mountain. After Liu Daoyi's sacrifice, Liu Yi collected poems about the mourning of his brother Liu Daoyi and compiled them into "Hengshan Zhengqi Collection" to pass on to future generations.
Liu Yiyi has never changed his righteous character. Rao Huaimin told us that before and after the May Fourth Movement, Liu Yi sympathized with the students' revolutionary actions and raised funds for students studying in France and work-study. In 1931, the "918 Incident" occurred, China's history entered the stage of the 14-year War of Resistance Against Japan, and the national disaster was in the forefront, Liu Yuyi was so worried that in December 1931, he published the "Proposition for Relief of National Difficulties", vigorously advocating the opening of the party ban, accommodating all factions to jointly organize a unified government, unite as one, and jointly resist Japan. In January 1932, Liu Yiyi wrote a thousand words of "My Views on the Strategy for Saving the Country", which was compiled and printed into a single edition and distributed throughout the country, systematically expounding his attitude and position on the current situation, so he and his son were also dismissed from public office by the Kuomintang government.
After the founding of New China, Liu Yiyi was hired as an adviser to the Hunan Provincial Military and Political Committee. After this, he continued to give advice to the socialist revolution and socialist construction. On December 27, 1949, due to maladies in the grain collection work in Xiangtan, Liu Yiyi wrote to Chairman Mao and demanded correction. On March 14, 1950, Chairman Mao's reply contained the words "The government has issued an order to correct the malpractice of grain expropriation." On April 2, due to the shortcomings in the "withdrawal of detention" in Xiangtan, Liu Yiyi wrote to Chairman Mao again, asking for a halt. On 14 April, Chairman Mao's reply contained the words": "The matter of withdrawal from detention was originally handled by the local government at the request of the peasants, and it has now been ordered to stop." From the exchanges of these two letters with Chairman Mao, it can be seen that Liu Yiyi has a sense of justice. Judging from the content of these replies, after the founding of New China, Liu Yuyi still maintained a good family style, was righteous all his life, and paid attention to people's livelihood.
Future generations pass on the family style
Liu Yi and his wife are very strict about the education of their children and grandchildren, requiring them to inherit righteousness, be diligent and thrifty in running the family, and even more to study poetry and serve the motherland. Under his education, most of his descendants have become talents. Many of them graduated from famous universities, and most of them have made achievements in all walks of life, some are university professors, some hold important positions in government agencies, and all of them have achieved success. Rao Huaimin introduced.
"My grandfather was very good at learning, and we always remembered this when we were growing up and in educating our children." Liu Yu, a 78-year-old sculptor and painter, told us that her grandfather, Liu Yunyi, once told her father Liu Annai about his serious study in his youth: "Your uncle and I initially went to private school and learned some old things. We are very fierce in reading, in order to honor our ancestors and not be looked down upon by others. Later, when the new school was opened in Hunan, we opened our eyes and knew that after the abolition of the imperial examination, the old set of schools was no longer useful, so we changed the new school. At that time, before the opening of the atmosphere in Hunan, celebrities often came to Changsha to give lectures, and we were not afraid of the long road and ran to the province to listen to the lectures. Liu Yu said that as a descendant of celebrities, "more than dare not talk, but not too bad", which is also the principle she follows in educating her children.
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