Gu Zhenghong The pictures in this article are provided by the Shanghai Longhua Martyrs Memorial Hall
On May 30, 1925, the May Thirtieth Anti-Imperialist Patriotic Movement, which shocked China and foreign countries, burned like a volcano throughout Shanghai and swept across China. The trigger of this movement was the heroic sacrifice of Cpc member Gu Zhenghong.
Gu Zhenghong was only 20 years old when he died, and his life did not leave too many marks, but he left an eternal glory in the history of the Chinese workers' movement with the most brilliant youth.
Gu Zhenghong is a native of Funing, Jiangsu Province, and a member of the Communist Party of China. In 1922, he successively entered the Shanghai Nissho Internal and External Cotton Factory 9 and 7 Factory. In 1924, he joined the Huxi Workers' Club and became an active member of the workers' night school activities. In February 1925, he participated in the February strike, and on May 15 of the same year, in order to defend the interests of the workers, he was shot and killed by Japanese capitalists.
Nissho inner and outer cotton factory workshop.
According to Xinhua News Agency, Gu Zhenghong was born in 1905 to a poor peasant family in Funing, Jiangsu Province (now part of Binhai). When he was young, he dug wild vegetables, cut cattle grass, and begged for food when he was young. In 1921, when his hometown was flooded, Gu Zhenghong went to Shanghai with his mother and found his father, who worked in a small oil factory, and the family lived in a slum in western Shanghai.
Gu Zhenghong worked as a worker in the Ninth and Seventh Cotton Factories of Shanghai Nissho. The economic exploitation, physical destruction, political oppression and mental torture of Chinese workers by foreign capitalists have left a deep imprint on Gu Zhenghong's heart. In 1924, he attended the Workers' Night School and the Huxi Workers' Club founded by the Chinese Communist Party in Shanghai, and soon became an active member of the club.
In February 1925, the workers of 22 Japanese textile mills in Shanghai held strikes one after another, and Gu Zhenghong joined the workers' pickets and strike agitators and actively participated in the movement. It was during this struggle that he gloriously joined the Communist Party of China.
After the Gu Zhenghong massacre, workers of the Seventh Cotton Factory held a demonstration.
In response to the rising workers' movement, on May 15, 1925, Japanese capitalists announced the suspension of work in the Seven Factories of Inner and Outer Cotton, and no workers were allowed to enter the market. Gu Zhenghong led the workers to rush into the factory to demand the resumption of work and wages, shouting "Oppose the oppression of workers by the Orientals!" ”
According to the information provided by the Shanghai Longhua Martyrs Memorial Hall, on May 15, 1925, in protest against the Japanese textile mill capitalists tearing up the agreement reached with Chinese workers, the Chinese worker Gu Zhenghong led the workers into the factory to negotiate with them, and was threatened by the mad Japanese businessmen with guns. When Gu Zhenghong's thigh was hit and blood was splashed, he raised his arms and shouted: "Workers, unite!" When he was shot again, he grabbed the tree pole and called on the workers to continue the struggle. After being shot continuously and slashed by a knife, he intermittently said in a coma: "I will never go to the hospital of the Toyo people..."
Gu Zhenghong's blood did not flow in vain. His feat set off a may-thirtieth surge, and the climax of the first great revolution began.
In May 1925, Gu Zhenghong was shot and killed. The picture shows the situation of the internal and external cotton yarn mill labor tide caused by the "Declaration" as a bloody case.
Gu Zhenghong Memorial Hall is located on Macau Road in Shanghai. According to Guangming Daily, Zhang Qian, deputy director of the Gu Zhenghong Memorial Hall, said that on May 30, 2008, the 83rd anniversary of the May Thirtieth Movement, the Gu Zhenghong Memorial Hall was completed and opened at the original site of his martyrdom. The total area of the memorial hall is 1300 square meters, and the whole hall is composed of three parts: Gu Zhenghong Memorial Square, the exhibition in the museum, and the martyrdom of Gu Zhenghong. The exhibition hall is divided into two floors, the exhibition content is composed of "dark old China, suffering childhood", "working in the Japanese textile factory, the beacon of the February strike", "Gu Zhenghong massacre" and "May Thirtieth Movement" four parts, the second floor exhibition hall is equipped with a clean government education propaganda column, and equipped with electronic propaganda screens, rolling propaganda films throughout the day, as well as Gu Zhenghong bronze statue, physical exhibits and literature.
The life of the heroic martyr was frozen 93 years ago, but the spirit of the heroic martyr inspired generations of future generations. Zhang Qian said that in recent years, more and more people, especially young people, have come to visit the Gu Zhenghong Memorial Hall, and the total number of visitors has increased by 50% per year. The memorial hall has also carried out a series of educational practice activities and themed party lesson activities to give play to the role of the memorial's patriotic education base.