Lin Qing (file photo)
Lin Qing, formerly known as Li Yuanfang, zi su ru, trumpet mao ge, born in 1911, a native of Bijie County, Guizhou Province (now Qixingguan District, Bijie City, Guizhou Province). In 1929, Lin Qing joined the Communist Youth League of China in Chongqing, and in 1930 was transferred to Shanghai to work in the Hudong Communist Youth League Committee, and soon joined the Communist Party of China. In 1932, Lin Qing was arrested by the Patrol House of the British Concession in Shanghai and subsequently imprisoned. After being released from prison in 1933, Lin Qing and Miao Zhengyuan, a member of the Communist Party, returned to their hometown of Bijie. In 1934, Lin Qing, Miao Zhengyuan, Qin Tianzhen and others established the Bijie Branch of the Communist Party of China in Bijie County, and Lin Qing served as the secretary of the branch.
Under the leadership of the Bijie branch, the members of the Bijie County mass organization "Grassland Art Society" have grown to more than 200 people, and the scope of activities has expanded to rural areas. In order to preserve their strength, in the summer of 1934, Lin Qing and other members of the branch and some backbone cadres left Bijie and moved to Anshun, Guiyang and other places in Guizhou to carry out revolutionary activities. In Guiyang, Lin Qing always put the building of party organizations in the first place, made use of various social relations, and with schools as the mainstay, successively established organizations such as the "Social Science Research Association" and the "Literature and Art Research Association" to vigorously propagate the anti-Japanese resistance, carry out literary and artistic activities, organize the reading of revolutionary books and periodicals, and absorb Xu Jiansheng, Li Ce, and a number of progressive young people and patriots into the party organizations. Along with the development of the revolutionary situation, the Bijie branch decided to set up a nine-member working committee with party members as the core and the participation of revolutionary progressives, with Guiyang as the center, to carry out revolutionary activities for the whole province of Guizhou, develop party organizations, and send party members Deng Zhige and Huang Mainland to infiltrate the Kuomintang troops to carry out military movement work. By the end of 1934, more than 10 party branches and party groups had been established in Guizhou Province, and more than 40 party members had been developed.
In January 1935, the Long March of the Central Red Army arrived in Zunyi, Guizhou, Lin Qing, in order to find the Red Army to get in touch with the Party, traveled from Guiyang to Zunyi, and at the Red Army's mass meeting, happened to meet Wu Liangping, who was in the same prison in Shanghai, when Wu was serving in the Red Army as the local work director of the Red First Army and the secretary general of the Central Column, under the guidance of Wu Liangping, he met luo Mai (Li Weihan), director of the local work department of the General Political Department of the Red Army, and reported in detail on the work of the Party organization in Guizhou. Subsequently, on behalf of the Central Committee, Li Weihan approved the establishment of the Guizhou Provincial Working Committee of the CPC, and appointed Lin Qing as secretary of the Guizhou Provincial Working Committee and secretary of the Zunyi County CPC Committee, and Deng Zhige and Qin Tianzhen as members of the Working Committee. Li Weihan instructed Lin Qing to carry out activities in coordination with the Long March of the Red Army and encouraged all party members to persist in heroic struggle despite the white terror. Lin Qing returned to Guiyang and immediately discussed the implementation of the instructions of the central authorities on Guizhou's work, and set up a military group, with Qin Tianzhen specifically responsible, to launch armed struggle in various places to attract the Kuomintang army and cover the Red Army. Lin Qing brought back the Red Army war report from Zunyi, used publications or printed leaflets to carry out propaganda on various occasions, spread the proposition of Communists and the Red Army going north to resist Japan, expose the Kuomintang's conspiracy to passively resist Japan and oppose the communists to "encircle and suppress" the Red Army, and mobilize the masses to oppose the Kuomintang's perverse actions. In April, 11 counties in Guizhou Province and more than 10 schools in Guiyang District established party organizations (county party committees, branches or groups), forming a party organizational system with the Guizhou Provincial Working Committee as the core, providing organizational guarantees for leading the people of all ethnic groups in Guizhou province to carry out the revolutionary struggle against imperialism and feudalism. Soon, through secret work, the guizhou underground party organization obtained the enemy's military maps and secret codebooks and handed them to Pan Hannian, the central commissioner, making important contributions to the smooth progress of the Red Army's Long March. On July 19, due to traitors betraying, the underground party office contact point in Wanbao Street in Guiyang was destroyed, and Lin Qing and Liu Xuewei, a member of the Guizhou Provincial Working Committee, were arrested.
After Lin Qing was arrested, the enemy was like a treasure, in a vain attempt to open a gap from him and destroy the CCP underground organization throughout Guizhou. In prison, the enemy first seduced Lin Qing with the high-ranking official Houlu, but he resolutely refused, and the enemy again tortured him and threatened him with death, in a vain attempt to pry open his mouth. In the face of a soft and hard enemy who is both fierce and vicious, Lin Qing is unyielding, has no remorse, and calmly faces it. Just at this time, he met Dong Liangqing, a member of the Chinese Communist Party who had lost contact with the organization and was a guard in prison, and Dong Liangqing decided to help Lin Qing and Liu Xuewei escape from prison, but according to the prison regulations, only one person could be escorted to the toilet at a time, and there was only one chance to escape from prison. When several people were deliberating, Lin Qing said: "I have been seriously injured, I cannot fully recover, and I can no longer contribute to the revolutionary cause when I go out, so in the name of the secretary of the Working Committee, I decided to escape Liu Xuewei from prison." At this critical moment of life and death, Lin Qing resolutely gave up the hope of life to Liu Xuewei. After Liu Xuewei escaped from prison, kuomintang agents wasted time on Lin Qing, found nothing, became angry, and poisoned him.
On September 11, Lin Qing, armed with shackles and shackles, was taken to the execution vehicle, paraded through the streets, and was sent from the Kuomintang Guiyang Garrison Headquarters to the Liuguangmen Execution Ground via dashi, Zhonghua Road, and Zhongshan Road. The Kuomintang authorities in Guizhou wanted to root out the Communist Party by killing one hundred people. Unexpectedly, as soon as the execution car left the gate of the security headquarters, Lin Qing stood tall with his head held high, sang the "Internationale", and shouted slogans such as "Down with Chiang Kai-shek who betrayed the country and the nation" and "Long live the Communist Party of China." The enemy panicked, and the murderous Kuomintang military police, in order to seal his mouth, inhumanely pierced his cheeks with bayonets, stuck his teeth, and prevented him from speaking. However, although the enemy's bayonet could hurt the skin of the body, how could it seal the mouth of the revolutionary fighter, Lin Qing endured the severe pain of scars and blood, and his mouth was still squirming with difficulty. Seeing this scene, the onlookers were deeply moved, shed tears of sympathy for his strength and indomitability, and admired the reinforced communists.
In the end, Lin Qing's righteousness was awe-inspiring and heroically sacrificed. He was the first Communist openly killed by the Kuomintang authorities in Guizhou.
Editor-in-charge: Cui Yimin