To the police: "Exemplary Women Leader"

#Autumn Good Time #On the banks of the River, the pines and cypresses are verdant, and the afterglow of the sunset sprinkles on the white walls and green tiles of The Former Residence of Xiang Jingyu, quiet and solemn. Adjacent to it, the Xiang police statue monument square is a constant stream of tourists who visit it every day. The heroic deeds of the revolution given by a generation of women leaders to the police have spread far and wide in the land of Pupu County, Huaihua, Hunan.

Xiang Jingyu (1895-1928), formerly known as Xiang Junxian

Xiang Jingyu (1895-1928), formerly known as Xiang Junxian, female, a native of Pupu County, Hunan Province, was one of the important leaders of the early Communist Party of China, an outstanding communist fighter, a loyal proletarian revolutionary, and a pioneer of the Chinese women's movement.

Xiang Was born in September 1895 in Pupu County to a well-to-do merchant family. In 1912, she was admitted to the Hunan Provincial First Girls' Normal School with excellent results, and two years later transferred to the Zhounan Girls' School, and changed her name to Xiang Jingyu, indicating a high degree of vigilance and resistance to the feudal forces. Xiang Jingyu met Cai Chang here, and through her he met Cai Hesen and Mao Zedong.

In the summer of 1916, Xiang Jingyu graduated from the Zhounan Girls' School and returned to Pupu to establish a new type of school with both male and female benefits, the Pupu Girls' School, with the school motto of "Autonomy, Public Heart", attaching importance to the dissemination of new ideas, respecting the individuality of students, and opposing the enslaved education of "rushing like cattle and horses".

In the autumn of 1919, Xiang Jingyu joined the Xinmin Society, a revolutionary group founded by Mao Zedong, Cai Hesen, and others. In October of the same year, she and Cai Chang organized the Hunan Women's Work-study Association in France, becoming the initiator of the work-study movement in the Hunan women's circle. In December, Xiang Jingyu and Cai he went to France for work-study. She vigorously studied the classic works of Marxism, actively participated in the practice of the workers' movement, rapidly grew from a radical democrat to a communist fighter, firmly supported Cai Hesen's party-building ideas, and actively participated in the party-building work.

The common ideals and beliefs led to the love between Xiang Jingyu and Cai Hesen, and in 1920 they married in Montagny, France.

In early 1922, after Xiang Jingyu returned to China, he formally went through the formalities of joining the party and began to lead the earliest proletarian women's movement in China, making indelible contributions to the history of the women's liberation movement. In May 1925, Xiang Jingyu was appointed director of the Women's Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and was co-elected as a member of the Fourth Central Committee and a member of the Central Bureau.

After the May Thirtieth Massacre, Xiang Jingyu led the Shanghai women's circles to participate in this anti-imperialist and patriotic struggle.

In October 1925, Xiang Jingyu went to Moscow to study at the Communist University of Eastern Laborers. After returning to China in 1927, she worked in the Propaganda Department of the Hankou Municipal Party Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Propaganda Department of the Municipal Federation of Trade Unions. After the defeat of the Great Revolution, most of the leading comrades of the Party shifted one after another and took the initiative to ask the police to stay in Wuhan and persist in the underground struggle. Some comrades considered that she had a great influence on society and that Wuhan was too dangerous under the cover of white terror, and persuaded her to leave Wuhan and go to Shanghai. Xiang Jianyu said: The three towns of Wuhan are important strongholds of our party, and many important responsible comrades have sacrificed, and as soon as I leave, that is to say, our party has failed in Wuhan, which is a show of weakness to the enemy, and I must not leave!

On March 20, 1928, due to the betrayal of traitors, Xiang Was arrested. The enemy tortured her to extract a confession, but she was always unyielding, strictly guarded the secrets of the party, strictly abided by the ethics of the communists, and showed the lofty righteousness and lofty character of the communists.

The new Kuomintang warlords decided to kill her on May 1, a holiday for the world's working class. On the way to the execution ground, he gave a speech to the broad masses of the people along the way. The enemy was extremely frightened of this, and the gendarmes beat her and tried to make her stop talking, but she still insisted on speaking. The cruel executioner shoved a stone into her mouth and tied her cheeks with a belt, and many people on the street began to cry when they saw it. Xiang Was escorted to the execution ground and heroically sacrificed for the liberation of the Chinese people at the age of 33.

After hearing the news, Cai Hesen wrote "A Biography to Comrades to the Police" to express a strong sense of nostalgia. He wrote in the text: "Great police, heroic police, you are not dead, you are never dead!" You are not hesen's personal lover, you are the eternal lover of the Chinese proletariat! ”

In his speech at the 1939 Yan'an Women's Day Commemoration Conference, Mao Zedong spoke highly of Xiang Jingyu's life. He said: "We must learn from the exemplary women leaders and female Communist Party members who sacrificed in the era of the Great Revolution. She fought all her life for the emancipation of women, for the emancipation of the working masses, and for the cause of communism. ”

In November 1996, Xiang Jingyu's former residence was announced by the State Council as a national key cultural relics protection unit. Composed of three parts: the former residence, the exhibition room of life deeds and the xiang police statue monument square, the Xiang Police Yu Comrade Memorial Hall was listed as a national AAA tourist attraction in 2005, which is an important place for revolutionary traditional education and a famous red tourist attraction.

The Pupu Girls' School founded by Xiang Jingyu was also renamed the Police School, and the school song she wrote in that year was sung by generations of teachers and students.