Yang Hucheng and Zhang Xueliang launched the "Xi'an Incident", but the outcome was completely different.
After the Xi'an Incident, Zhang Xueliang was placed under house arrest by Chiang Kai-shek for a long time, and did not restore his personal freedom until 1990, when Lee Teng-hui came to power. Zhang Xueliang left Taiwan in 1995 and lived in Hawaii, USA, where he remained until his death in 2001.
Zhang Xueliang (left) Yang Hucheng (right)
After the Xi'an Incident, Yang Hucheng was forced to go to Europe to study abroad. After returning to China in December 1937, he was arrested and imprisoned for 12 years. During this period, the pro-Communist Li Zongren ordered Yang Hucheng's release, but it was not carried out. On September 6, 1949, on the eve of the nationalist army abandoning Chongqing, Mao Renfeng was instructed by Chiang Kai-shek to kill Yang Hucheng and his young son Yang Zhengzhong, his young daughter Yang Zhenggui and his secretary, and destroy the corpses with salt and rhodium water.
Zhang Xueliang and Chiang Kai-shek
Yang Hucheng had a total of 4 sons and 6 daughters, except for Yang Zhengzhong, Yang Zhenggui and Yang Hucheng, who were killed together, Yang Hucheng's other children ended up as follows:
Yang Zhengmin
The eldest son, Yang Zhengmin, was once the secretary of the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee
Yang Zhengmin, formerly known as Yang Siyi, studied at the Yaoshan Middle School founded by his father in 1934, entered the Yan'an Kang University and the Marxist-Leninist College in 1938, and joined the Communist Party of China in the same year. He once served as the director of the United Front Work Department of the Mizhi County CPC Committee, the secretary of the Yincheng Municipal Party Committee, the deputy commander of the Guanzhong Military Subdistrict and the Yanzhi Military Subdistrict, and the commander of the Dali Military Subdistrict. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he successively served as secretary of the party committee and director of the Yumen Petroleum and Mining Bureau, deputy director of the Northwest Petroleum Administration, vice governor of Shaanxi Province, secretary of the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee of the Communist Party of China, and vice mayor of Tianjin. Vice Minister of Building Materials Industry, Deputy Secretary-General of the Fifth and Sixth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. He is a deputy to the Eighth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, a representative of the First National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, a member of the Second to Fourth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and a member of the Standing Committee of the Fifth to Ninth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. He died in Beijing in the early morning of October 23, 1998 at the age of 77 due to illness.
Second son Yang Zhengzhong: Together with Yang Hucheng, he was killed in the Dai Kasa reception room.
Third son Yang Zhengya: Died at an early age.
The fourth son, Yang Zhengren: Born in 1931, he died of illness at the end of the "Xi'an Incident" at the age of 6.
Eldest daughter Yang Zhengkun: Former Party Secretary of Beijing Tourism Bureau
Born in 1924, he joined the Communist Party of China in 1937 and served as a member of the xixiang county party committee of shaanxi province. In 1941, he returned to Yan'an, mainly engaged in party propaganda and school education, and successively worked in the Northwest Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, the Investigation and Research Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, and the Teachers' Training In the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region.
In the early days of the founding of New China, Ms. Yang Zhengkun was transferred to the Central Propaganda Department. Subsequently, Yang Zhengkun was transferred to the Party Committee of Fengtai District of Beijing Municipality and the Beijing Municipal Government. Since the 1970s, Yang Zhengkun has worked in the tourism department, serving as a member of the Party Committee and Deputy General Manager of the Beijing Branch of China International Travel Service, and the Secretary of the Party Committee and Deputy Director of the Beijing Tourism Bureau.
Ms. Yang Zhengkun is also a deputy to the Fourth and Fifth National Women's Congresses, a member of the Fourth and Fifth Executive Committees of the All-China Women's Federation, a member of the Beijing Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection, a member of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and a member of the Standing Committee of the Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Beijing Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. He died in 1994.
Yang Zhengmei
Second daughter Yang Zhengmei: Served as the director of the Ethnic Religion and Triplet Liaison Committee of the Gansu Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
Born in 1932, at the age of 16, Yang Zhengmei secretly joined the Communist Youth League organization, and in order to welcome the birth of New China, she began to engage in underground work of the party and actively develop revolutionary forces. In August 1949, Yang Zhengmei was transferred to the Central League School to study. In 1954, Yang Zhengmei was admitted to the Department of Industrial Economics of Chinese University. After graduation, he successively worked in the Gansu Provincial Economic Commission, the Gansu Provincial Bureau of Statistics, the Gansu Provincial Committee of the Communist Youth League, the Gansu Provincial Light Industry Department, the Lanzhou Plateau Institute of Atmosphere of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Gansu Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and other units, and in November 1996, he served as the director of the Ethnic Religion and Triplet Liaison Committee of the Gansu Provincial Cppcc Committee. He left his post in December 2003 to recuperate. He is a deputy to the Sixth National People's Congress, a member of the Eighth and Ninth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and a member of the Standing Committee of the Seventh Gansu Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. On January 6, 2018, Comrade Yang Zhengmei died in Xi'an due to illness at the age of 86.
Yang Zhengying
The third daughter Yang Zhengying: Currently the secretary general of the Yang Hucheng Research Association in Shaanxi Province
Born in Xi'an on February 6, 1934, she joined the Communist Party of China in June 1950, and she was one of the first batch of middle school student party members in Shaanxi after the founding of New China. Since his student days, he has been a party affairs and school management worker in xi'an's cultural and educational system. In 1981, he was transferred to the Shaanxi Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference to engage in the research of literary and historical materials until his retirement.
Yang Zhenghan
Fourth daughter Yang Zhenghan: died in 2014
Born in 1935, at the age of 16, he joined the Military Cadre School in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. After that, he also served as a confidential officer in the Confidential Department of the Northwest Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, working in the General Office of the Ministry of Urban Construction, the Xi'an Electrical Machinery Manufacturing Department of the Ministry of Construction, the Xinjiang Petroleum Administration, the Karamay Municipal People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and retired from the Economic Research Institute of the Xinjiang Petroleum Administration in 1998. He died in Beijing in 2014 at the age of 79.
Yang Zhenglu
The fifth daughter Yang Zhenglu: Unfortunately frozen and died while looking for oil, only 22 years old
Born in 1936, graduated from the Department of Petroleum Geology of Northwest University, took the initiative to request to go to the Xinjiang Petroleum Administration for geological exploration work, served as the leader of the 117 team of the geological exploration team of the Xinjiang Petroleum Administration, in 1958, when surveying petroleum geology in the Santang Lake area, encountered storms and snow, the temperature plummeted to more than 20 degrees Celsius, it was difficult to move, unfortunately frozen and died, only 22 years old.
The sixth daughter, Yang Zhengguo: Killed with her father
Born in prison in 1941, he was killed on June 1949 along with Yang Hucheng and his older brother Yang Zhengzhong.