Chen Yannian was the eldest son of Chen Duxiu, and both he and his younger brother Chen Qiaonian sacrificed their young and precious lives for the revolution. Both of their brothers are excellent Communist Party members, both of whom deserve the admiration and remembrance of future generations, and the country and the people will never forget them.
Among them, Chen Yannian's sacrifice was extremely heroic, and he was hacked to death by a random knife.
When the enemy took him to the execution ground, the executioner wanted him to kneel, but he was determined not to kneel.
Several executioners moved together, holding him down to make him kneel, and just as the other executioner was about to slash Chen Yannian with his sword, Chen Yannian suddenly jumped up. Several executioners forced him down again, and then he jumped up again.
After repeating this many times, the executioner was so angry that he became ashamed, so he swung his knife and rushed up, hacking Chen Yannian to death. He was only 29 years old.
Chen Yannian used his short time of 29 years to write a brilliant and tragic chapter, and in his revolutionary career, he also made major contributions.
For example, Chen Yannian, together with Zhou Enlai, Zhao Shiyan and others, organized the Young Communist Party of China. He also assisted Zhou Enlai in forming an independent regiment headed by Ye Ting, and also selected some party members to study at the Whampoa Military Academy, thus cultivating a large number of military talents for the party.
Chen Yannian was born in 1898 in Anqing City, Anhui Province, where the Chen family was also a famous family. He has been intelligent since childhood, and has a good relationship with his younger brother Chen QiaoNian.
Chen Yannian's father, Chen Duxiu, was persecuted by Ni Sichong, the governor sent by Yuan Shikai to Anhui, because he participated in the revolution in his early years, so Chen Duxiu went to Japan.
Although Chen Duxiu escaped, his family did not go with him. Ni Sichong could not catch Chen Duxiu, so he wanted to catch Chen Yannian and Chen Qiaonian's brothers.
Fortunately, the brothers Chen Yannian and Chen Qiaonian got the news in advance, so they fled to the countryside early, which was spared.
Later, Chen Duxiu returned to Shanghai and founded the "New Youth", at this time Chen Duxiu's condition had greatly improved, so he was ready to take Chen Yannian and Chen Qiaonian to Shanghai to study.
In 1915, Chen Yannian and Chen Qiaonian left their hometown for Shanghai. More than a year later, they were all admitted to Fudan University.
In fact, the two Chen Yannian brothers, when they were teenagers, established the ideal ambition of transforming society, but they initially believed in not Marxism, but anarchism.
It was not until the two brothers went to France to work and study that they gave up anarchism and turned to Marxism.
The work-study students in France have organized many groups, and together they actively study, study and explore the road to saving the country and the people. During this period, Cai Hesen, Zhou Enlai, and Zhao Shiyan actively spread Marxism.
After Chen Yannian came into contact with Marxism, he was gradually affected, and began to understand Marxism and began to study it in depth.
By 1921, Chen Yannian had gone from doubt to disappointment with the anarchism he had previously believed in, and finally gave up on anarchism.
Chen Yannian's actions made Zhao Shiyan and others who spread Marxism very pleased, so they actively united and won him.
Eventually, with everyone's help, Chen Yannian finally accepted Marxism and joined the Communist Youth League.
In June 1922, at the first congress of the European branch of the Young Chinese Communist Party in France, Chen Yannian, Zhou Enlai, Zhao Shiyan and others were elected as members.
In October of the same year, Chen Yannian, Chen Qiaonian and Wang Ruofei joined the French Communist Party.
In March 1923, according to the needs of the domestic revolutionary development situation, after being dispatched and arranged by the organization, Chen Yannian, Chen Qiaonian, Zhao Shiyan and 12 other people went from France to the Moscow Oriental University in the Soviet Union to study. On April 28 of the same year, Chen Yannian became the Communist Party of China.
In September 1924, Chen Yannian returned to China and was soon sent to Guangdong to carry out work as a special commissioner of the Central Committee of the Socialist Youth League in Guangdong. Later, he served as the secretary and organization director of the Liangguang District Committee, and assisted Zhou Enlai, secretary of the Liangguang District Cpc Committee, in his work.
In the spring of 1925, Zhou Enlai led the Eastern Expedition, and Chen Yannian took over the post of secretary of the two Guangdong District Party Committees of Zhou Enlai.
Chen Yannian actively worked, in order to better carry out revolutionary work, so he went deep among the workers, in order to form a rickshaw trade union, he not only learned to pull rickshaws, but also often helped difficult lathes, so among rickshaw workers, Chen Yannian had a high reputation and prestige.
With the efforts of Chen Yannian, not only the rickshaw trade union was established, but also the party members were developed among the rickshaw workers.
The so-called workers' and peasants' union is so-called, so Chen Yannian not only pays attention to the workers' movement, he also attaches great importance to the peasant movement, so he often goes to the peasant lectures to teach, and many people only embark on the revolutionary road after listening to his lectures or after reading his articles.
At this time, it was the period of the Great Revolution of Kuomintang-Communist Cooperation, and although the revolutionary situation looked vigorous, it was secretly turbulent, because Chiang Kai-shek's counter-revolutionary intentions were already obvious.
And this day, very soon,
On April 12, 1927, Chiang Kai-shek launched the "April 12" counter-revolutionary coup in Shanghai, and since then the vigorous Great Revolution has failed, after which the Kuomintang reactionaries began to arrest and massacre Communists and revolutionary volunteers, causing countless outstanding Communists to die under the butcher's knife of the enemy.
Chen Yannian was one of many sacrifices.
On April 22, 1927, Chen Yannian succeeded Luo Yinong as secretary of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang District Party Committee and was elected as a member of the Central Committee at the Fifth National Congress of the Communist Party of China. Later, he served as the secretary of the Jiangsu Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China.
In June 1927, a traffic officer was arrested, revealing the address and list of people of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee.
As a result, on June 26, Chen Yannian was unfortunately arrested.
After Chen Yannian was arrested, when his true identity was exposed, the enemy threatened and seduced him in order to get more secrets from the Ccp organization in Shanghai.
When the enemy's coercion failed, he began to torture him. Despite Chen Yannian's torture, he remained unyielding.
When the enemy saw that Chen Yannian had always refused to tell the secrets of the CCP organization in Shanghai, he moved to kill.
On the night of July 4, 1927, the enemy escorted Chen Yannian to the execution ground, and the executioner told him to kneel, but he resolutely refused to kneel, and said: "Revolutionaries can only stand and die, never kneel." ”
Several executioners, enraged, pressed him to the ground and made him kneel, but he suddenly jumped. After so many repetitions, the executioners became so angry that they rushed up and hacked him to death.
In this way, a generation of heroic masters Chen Yannian died under the enemy's chaotic knife.