Chairman Mao laughed and talked about life
In 1917, Mao Zedong used this phrase to describe the deep revolutionary friendship between him and Chen Chang.
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Song Renqiang joined the army photo
The moment he saw Chairman Mao, Song Renqian trotted a few steps to Chairman Mao and then shook hands with Chairman Mao. Chairman Mao said cordially: "Ren Poor, after we separated, we have not seen each other for 14 years. ”
Song Renqian nodded excitedly, and then replied to Chairman Mao: "Yes, Chairman, we have not seen each other for 14 years. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, in these days of working in Yunnan, I miss you very much. I miss the days when we fought the world together with other comrades in Jinggangshan. ”
Speaking of work in Yunnan, Chairman Mao said: "Yunnan is a province with the largest number of ethnic minorities in our country, and there are not a few well-known people at the upper levels; there are those who have served as prime ministers, and the party and the state have arranged for you to work in Yunnan. ”
Song Renqian took a photo with his wife
Then, Chairman Mao inquired about the situation after Song Ren went down to Jinggangshan and lost contact with the troops, and Chairman Mao said while inquiring: "After learning that you had lost contact with the troops, I sent many Red Army comrades to look for you, but for a long time there was no news of you. As the domestic situation changed and Chiang Kai-shek stepped up his attack on the Red Army, we could only resist the Kuomintang while continuing to look for you. ”
Hearing that Chairman Mao cared so much about himself after he had lost contact, General Tangtang couldn't help but burst into tears. Song Renqian carefully briefed Chairman Mao on his disappearance from the troops, and then explained how he had gone through arduous searches for troops and how he had tactfully returned to the troops.
Chairman Mao was very emotional when he heard about Song Renqian's thrilling experiences, and he said to Song Renqian: "After you lost contact, I often told my comrades that Comrade Song Renqian was a member of our Red Army, and that he would have nothing to do at all, and would certainly return to the ranks of the Red Army safely and without incident, and eventually meet us again." ”
In the process of Song Renqian's recounting of his experience, Chairman Mao mentioned his former close friends Chen Chang and Xia Minghan, and Song Renqiang told Chairman Mao: "Chen Chang and Xia Minghan are his teachers. The two were brutally killed by the Kuomintang army, I failed to save them, I am sorry for my mentor, which has become the regret of my life. ”
Song Ren poor family photo
Chairman Mao's heart was not a taste, he silently took out a cigarette and smoked it, and Chairman Mao fell into the memory with the smoke of the clouds. Song Renqiang was well aware that Chairman Mao was a very emotional person, and he still remembered many things and many people in the past, and when talking about those comrades who sacrificed for the revolution, Chairman Mao's heart was always full of sadness, and there were tears in his eyes from time to time. Song Renqian understood that in the long revolutionary years, these people left an indelible mark on Chairman Mao's heart. Subsequently, Chairman Mao recalled to Song Renqian the touching deeds of himself and Chen Chang and Chen Chang's wife and daughter.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Chairman Mao recalled many times with those around him: Before he joined the revolution, he had met many strange friends who helped him and influenced him throughout his life. Although some of them have sacrificed for the revolution, their contributions to the country and the people will always remain in the hearts of the people.
During chairman Mao's study at the First Division in Hunan, he was not a kind of pedantic scholar who was lonely and self-congratulatory, but a hot-blooded young man who had made friends with the world' qijie.
Hunan First Normal School
During his studies, Chairman Mao not only re-made friends, but more particularly the wonder of making friends, friends do not talk about money, do not talk about men and women, do not talk about household chores, only willing to talk about human nature, human society, China, the world, the universe!
In 1894, Chen Chang was born in a poor family in Zhentou Town, Liuyang City, Hunan Province, under the suppression of feudal landlords, Chen Chang's family lived a life of starvation, but his parents knew that only reading could change their fate, so his frugal parents sent him to a private school when Chen Chang was 10 years old.
Old photo of Chen Chang
Chen Chang did not live up to his parents' expectations and was deeply loved by his teachers during his studies. In 1911, the diligent and studious Chen Chang was successfully admitted to the Fourth Normal School of Hunan. During his studies, Chen Chang met Mao Zedong, He Shuheng, Cai he and Sen, who also studied at this school. Chen Chang's eldest nephew, Chen Dahong, later recalled: "Chen Chang studied at the Hunan Provincial First Normal School from 1911 to 1915 and Mao Zedong from 1914 to 1918. Chen Chang was half a year younger than Mao Zedong, but the two were ideologically close. ”
In 1914, due to the merger of Mao Zedong's schools, he moved from Hunan Normal School to Hunan Provincial First Normal School. During his studies, Mao Zedong was greatly admired by Chen Chang. They quickly became like-minded good friends.
At that time, Cai Hesen, He Shuheng, Luo Xuezhan and Zhang Kundi were also studying at the First Division, and they were all united through Mao Zedong. They often discussed the world's major events, discussed the fate and future of the country, and set up philosophical groups to study new ideas and cultures and explore revolutionary truths.
For Chen Chang, Mao Zedong always thought that he was a strange person, Mao Zedong later recalled: Chen Chang's eloquence is very good, when he was studying in the first division, his speech talent is famous throughout the school, commonly after getting up early in the morning, running alone to the Xiangjiang Monkey Stone, with the gushing river water for thousands of listeners, if no one is practicing the speech loudly, and painting the sound, Gu Pan Shenfei, attracted many passers-by to stop and appreciate. Because he was an active organizer and leader of school debates, he was called the "Minister of Eloquence".
Young Mao Zedong
During his studies, Chen Chang's obsession and hard work in learning are even more unimaginable to the world, Chen Chang has no spare time at all, and he spends the rest of his time studying or reading except for talking about revolutionary ideals with our close friends. Chen Chang took such a sentence to encourage himself: People cannot be born smart, and anger is smart. When a man knows it, I know it ten times, and if A man knows it ten times, I know it a hundred times.
Chairman Mao and his friend Chen Zhangfu both worked in the First Division
Regarding Chen Chang's hard work, his mentor Yang Changji once commented like this: Reading Xiong Xiao Chen Sansheng's notes, all of them have made progress, KunFu has recorded more reading and lecturing, Zi sheng has remembered more thinking, and Zhang Fu has remembered more of the results of his actions; one is erudition, one is deep thinking, and one is practice. Yang Changji thinks.
Before and after the New Culture Movement in 1915, the revolutionary activities against Yuan Shikai in China surged up, and in order to support the revolutionary activities, Mao Zedong, who was in the First Normal School in Hunan, for the first time had the idea of forming a revolutionary group and uniting more people with lofty ideals.
Chairman Mao, Chen Chang and others took a group photo at the Hunan First Normal School
So the two began to make specific plans, in order to recruit people of insight, Mao Zedong also specially issued a notice of conscription under the pseudonym Twenty-Eight Painters. The content of the notice is as follows: Twenty-eight painting students, Changsha cloth students also. But those who have the ability to endure hard work, who do not hesitate to be their own country, who cultivate far and seek, who want to find the same way from top to bottom, are all what I want...
In April 1918, the Xinmin Society, which had been brewing for a long time, was formally established, and Chen Chang was one of the "officers".
While engaging in revolutionary activities, he taught. Chen Chang combined geographical knowledge with the current situation and explained to the students how China was divided step by step by the imperialist powers. In his self-compiled textbook, he appealed: "Shangzhi battlefield, vow to restore, mountains and rivers are still the same, it is not difficult to take back one by one, Shu can shao the ancestors of pi lie, wash a hundred years of strange shame also." In 1921, Chen Chang joined the Communist Party of China.
Members of the Xinmin Society took a group photo in Changsha
In 1925, with the help of the Soviet Union, the Kuomintang and the Communists achieved their first cooperation, and Chen Chang was elected as an executive member of the Kuomintang Hunan Provincial Party Department, and was subsequently sent to Western Hunan to mobilize He Long to send troops to the Northern Expedition. At that time, the warlords Sun Chuanfang and Wu Peifu also sent people, and He Long set up a banquet to invite the three parties to state their reasons. Chen Chang fully exerted his eloquence to fight the warlord lobbyists, and finally promoted He Long to lead the Northern Expedition.
In 1927, Chiang Kai-shek plotted to launch a rebellion, undermine the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communists, and wantonly massacred the Communists, Chen Chang, who was in He Long's troops, was deeply saddened after he knew it, and after the end of the Northern Expedition, Chen Chang followed He Long to Nanchang, and in the Nanchang Uprising, Chen Chang once again exerted his oratorical ability to actively publicize the revolutionary ideas of the Communist Party, and the further expansion of He Long's ranks, Chen Chang can be said to have made a great contribution. After the Nanchang Uprising, Chen Chang continued to propagate the revolution according to the requirements of the party organization, so he left He Long's ranks.
In 1929, the party organization gave Chen Chang an important task and asked him to go to Jiangxi as a special commissioner, and once again cooperated with his old partner He Long to open up a revolutionary base area in Jiangxi. Chen Chang was overjoyed when he heard about this task. He once said that being able to work with his old partner He Long was a great blessing in his life.
Young He Longrong dressed up
However, on his way to Jiangxi, he met students he had received, who had long since become agents of the Kuomintang, and they took advantage of Chen Chang's psychology to eventually trap him. The Kuomintang was well aware of Chen Chang's talents and brains, and repeatedly hoped that he could be used by the Kuomintang.
However, in the face of the Kuomintang's coercion and inducement, Chen Chang was not moved, and in order to make Chen Chang obey, the agents deliberately captured Chen Chang's wife and daughter, hoping that through his wife and daughter, Chen Chang could be forced to obey. However, Chen Chang's belief in communism exceeded the imagination of the spies.
Before taking up his righteousness, Chen Chang firmly said to his wife: "Dedicating myself to the party's cause is my life's wish, and today I died for the party's cause. ”
On February 12, 1930, Mao Zedong could never forget this day, this day was the day when his close friend Chen Chang was heroic and righteous, and Chen Chang was brutalized by agents outside the Liuyang Gate of Changsha. Before his death, Chen Chang still used his speech to actively publicize the communist belief and the party's ideological line. Sowed the seeds of revolution for his comrades in prison. He severely denounced the crimes of the Kuomintang reactionaries and called on the people to rise up and fight against the Kuomintang. Before the execution, he raised his arms and shouted: "The revolution will be successful!" The toiling masses must be liberated! "With his 36-year-old youth and life, he dedicated himself to the cause of people's liberation.
Chairman Mao led the autumn harvest uprising
In the autumn of 1930, Mao Zedong and others led the Red Army to attack Changsha, and after coming to Changsha, Mao Zedong remembered his close friend Chen Chang, who found Chen Chang's wife Mao Bingqin and daughter Chen Wenxin through inquiry. The moment he saw Mao Zedong, Mao Bingqin involuntarily left tears, Mao Zedong hurried forward to inquire about the situation, And Mao Bingqin wept while telling Mao Zedong the bad news of Chen Chang's sacrifice.
Upon hearing the news of Chen Chang's sacrifice, Mao Zedong was deeply saddened in his heart, and Mao Zedong said to Mao Bingqin: "My revolutionary friendship with Brother Chen Chang is very strong, and after participating in the revolution, we often exchanged letters and kept in touch. I didn't expect that the separation was the last side of me and Brother Chen Chang, and now goodbye is eternally separated. Chen Chang was sacrificed for the revolution, and the people will never forget him. I am friends with Brother Chen Chang for life and death, and if you encounter any difficulties in the future, you can write to me at any time. Taking good care of the descendants of the revolutionary's best friends was my unshirkable duty to Mao Zedong. ”
Chairman Mao wrote a letter
Although Chen Chang's life was very short, his love for his two daughters was no less than others. Chen Chang and Mao Bingqin had two daughters— the eldest daughter Chen Yun and the second daughter Chen Wenxin. For his two daughters, Chen Chang has his own unique education.
In Chen Wenxin's impression, her father looked very serious on the surface, but she could feel his father's love for her from small things. Chen Wenxin later recalled that the person she most admired in her life was her father, and her father, Chen Chang, was a natural orator and orator.
Chen Wenxin has listened to his mother Mao Bingqin many times about his father's school experience. As early as when he was studying at the Hunan Provincial First Normal School, Chen Chang's speech talent was famous throughout the school. Every morning, students often run to the monkey stone alone and practice speeches loudly in front of the Xiangjiang River.
In March 1919, the Universal Chinese Students' Union sent farewell students to France in Shanghai for a group photo. The back row, on the right, is Mao Zedong
He regarded the gushing river as a thousand people, with a loud voice, a thorough explanation of reason, and a look forward to the flight of God. There are often passers-by who stop to admire. Because he is an active organizer and leader of school debates, he is known as the "Minister of Eloquence". This talent became a sharp weapon in his revolutionary work.
Mother also said: Your father has many close friends in his life, he trusts Mao Zedong the most, when Mao Zedong and Yang Kaihui got married, your father and I personally became witnesses to the marriage of the two, at that time, when the two got married, there were not many people invited, they invited two tables of guests at the Qingshan Ancestral Hall in Changsha, and in the blessings of relatives and friends, the two newlyweds lived happily together. Our deep friendship with Mao Zedong's family is incomprehensible to ordinary people.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Chairman Mao still cared about Chen Chang's wife and daughter, despite every opportunity. Chen Wenxin later recalled: I met Chairman Mao three times in Beijing.
Chairman Mao took a group photo with Chen Wenxin, the third daughter of Chen Chang
At my mother's request, I first wrote a letter to Chairman Mao in which I expressed my wish to visit Chairman Mao in Beijing and my mother's condolences to Chairman Mao. Chairman Mao replied to me as soon as he received the letter. So I met Chairman Mao for the first time in Zhongnanhai.
Chairman Mao wrote back to Chen Wenxin
During the conversation, I once again deeply felt the profound revolutionary friendship between my father and Chairman Mao; when Chairman Mao mentioned his father's sacrifice, his eyes became moist, and Chairman Mao said to me: "Your father is a good comrade, and since he left, I have often recalled the scene of discussing revolutionary ideals with your father, and your father has had a profound influence on me. ”
Chen Wenxin recalled: The second time he met Chairman Mao was in 1953. At that time, Chen Wenxin had just graduated from Wuhan University, and with the encouragement of her mother and Chairman Mao, she was admitted to the preparatory class for staying in the Soviet Union; subsequently, Chen Wenxin wrote to Chairman Mao of this happy news for the first time, and Chairman Mao immediately replied to her after learning of it. Be worthy of both your parents and yourself. With regard to Chairman Mao's encouragement, Chen Wenxin said: I have always kept in mind the words of Chairman Mao and my mother, and they are the spiritual pillars for me to overcome difficulties and bravely forge ahead.
Chen Wenxin attended the biomedical industry development forum for a group photo
In 1957, Chen Wenxin met Chairman Mao for the third time in Moscow. At that time, Chairman Mao was visiting the Soviet Union, during which he met with students studying in the Soviet Union. As a representative of the students studying in the Soviet Union this time, Chen Wenxin was received by Chairman Mao. After that, Chairman Mao wrote to Chen Wenxin several times, in which Chairman Mao said: ""
The revolutionary friendship between Chairman Mao and Chen Chang has once again witnessed the unknown side of the great man Chairman Mao, and Chairman Mao's feelings for people are always worthy of our study! With this article, I would like to commemorate the great Chairman Mao and the revolutionary martyr Chen Chang.