On August 2, 1936, Zhao Yiman was brutally killed by the Japanese army at the age of 31. She used her young life to practice the Zhengzheng oath of "eliminating the enemy in the white mountains and black water" and "willing to fertilize China with blood". She is a fearless warrior and an ordinary mother. On the eve of the execution, Zhao Yiman left a family letter to his child Ning Er...
This is a mother full of affection and regret, at the end of her life to write a suicide note to her children, she is the hero of the towel - Zhao Yiman.
Zhao Yiman, formerly known as Li Kuntai, was born in 1905 in Yibin, Sichuan. Since childhood, he has stubbornly resisted feudal etiquette and feudal customs. Under the influence of her family, she constantly accepted new ideas and established lofty revolutionary ideals. She joined the Communist Youth League of China in 1923 and became a member of the Communist Party of China in the summer of 1926. In November of the same year, she entered the Wuhan Central Military and Political School.
In September 1927, Zhao Yiman was sent to moscow to study at Sun Yat-sen University. During her studies in the Soviet Union, she married the revolutionary comrade Chen Dabang for life. Soon, the party organization called her back to China to work, and when she was newly married, she did not say any conditions, tearfully bid farewell to her lover, and returned to Shanghai in November 1928. In December, she was sent to Yichang to work. In February 1929, she gave birth to a son in Yichang, named "Ning'er".
The picture shows Zhao Yiman and his son
After the "918" incident in 1931, Zhao Yiman took the initiative to ask to work in the occupied areas. Before leaving, she tearfully entrusted her young son to her relatives to raise him, and resolutely rushed to the northeast alone. In the northeast, Zhao Yiman mobilized the masses, established peasant associations, women's and children's regiments, and led the anti-Japanese general strike of harbin tram workers; she also formed a guerrilla group, which effectively cooperated with the main forces of the Anti-Japanese Coalition and dealt a heavy blow to the Japanese puppet army. In the autumn of 1935, Zhao Yiman concurrently served as the political commissar of the Second Regiment of the First Division of the Third Army of the Northeast People's Revolutionary Army, leading the activities of the troops in the area east of Harbin.
In November 1935, during the battle against the Japanese army, Zhao Yiman was shot in the leg to cover his comrades-in-arms, and was found by the Japanese army during the recuperation period, and was wounded again during the battle, and was unconscious and captured. In the face of severe torture, she vowed to die unyieldingly, strictly guarding the secrets of the party, and the enemy had nothing to do, and finally decided to kill her for public display. On August 2, 1936, on a train taken by the Japanese army to the Zhuhe River (now Shangzhi City, Heilongjiang), she left this suicide note for her son. On the same day, Zhao Yiman, who was only 31 years old, generously took up his righteousness at the small north gate of the Pearl River.
Zhao Yiman's suicide note (pictured is Zhao Yiman's son transcribed according to the contents of the letter, the original has been lost)
Ning Er:
Mother is really sorry that you have not been able to fulfill your educational responsibilities.
Because my mother resolutely fought against the Manchus and The Anti-Japanese Struggle, today has reached the eve of sacrifice!
Mother and you will never have a chance to say goodbye before you die. Hope you, Ning'er! Hurry up adults and come and comfort your underground mother! O my dearest child! Mother does not use a thousand words to educate you, she uses practice to educate you.
When you grow up, hopefully don't forget that your mother died for your country!
August 2, 1936
Your mother, Zhao Yiman, was in the car
She was a hero and an ordinary mother. Her suicide note was written to young children, but also to the Chinese nation. At a time when the country was broken and the nation was in danger, a slender and weak woman, a mother who could not forget the responsibility of child-rearing until her death, fulfilled her oath as a Communist Party member with blood and life.
Transferred from the Northeast Martyrs Memorial Hall of |
Planning/Copywriting| People's Network Fang Kaiyan, Wang Jie, Wang Pu, Sun Xinran (Intern)
Source: People's Daily News