Click Fang zhi Hebei to follow us
Understand the situation in Hebei Province
Huang Cheng, secretary general of the Political Department of the New Fourth Army, who was arrested during the Anhui Incident and heroically rebelled
Huang Cheng
Huang Cheng (1914.5-1942.4), a native of Hetou Village, Anci District, Langfang City. At the age of 8, he entered a private school and at the age of 16, he went to Yongqing County Middle School to study. After that, he went to Beiping with his sister and entered the Fourth Middle School to study.
After the "918 Incident" in 1931, he threw himself into the Anti-Japanese Salvation Movement, took to the streets, gave speeches to the masses, posted slogans, and distributed leaflets; organized classmates to set up inspection teams to check Japanese goods; connected with primary and secondary schools to prepare for the establishment of the "Peking Primary and Secondary School Students' Federation". In the summer of 1932, Huang Cheng was expelled from the school for engaging in progressive activities. In the autumn of the same year, Huang Cheng was admitted to the preparatory department of Tianjin Beiyang Institute of Technology. At the beginning of 1933, Huang Cheng organized the "Wildfire Society" reading club, served as vice president, and read progressive books and periodicals. In February, together with Wu Chengming and others, he opened the "Beiyang Institute of Technology Workers' Tuition School" to teach cultural knowledge and patriotic ideas to workers and their children. He also often wrote for the school magazine Beiyang Weekly under the pseudonym Huanghuang and Chengcheng, which had a great influence among his classmates. When the school established the Joint Council of Grade Representatives, he was elected as the President of the Grade Council. In the winter of 1933, he was expelled from the school on the charge of "stirring up the student tide". In September 1934, he was admitted to Tsinghua University with excellent results. In the spring of 1935, he and Yang Shu and other students organized the progressive group Dongfang Jiebai Society, editing the magazine "Oriental Jiebai", introducing materialist dialectics and social science knowledge, and publicizing the idea of anti-Japanese national salvation. Soon after, he was elected as the vice president of the Tsinghua Student Self-Government Association. In 1935, he was elected chairman of the Tsinghua University Salvation Congress. The leading salvation congress issued a very influential "Letter to the People of the Whole Country", shouting: "The great country of North China can no longer put a calm desk!" In the two Peking student parades on December 9 and December 16, he was the general leader of the Tsinghua University team. In the baptism of revolutionary storm, he joined the Communist Youth League of China in January 1936 and became a member of the Communist Party of China in April. In June, he was expelled from the school authorities after organizing the June 13 demonstration of Peking students. In September, he transferred to the Department of Chinese Literature of The University of China, and continued to engage in rescue work. In October, he was elected as the chairman of the Peking Students' Federation; at the same time, he served as the secretary of the Communist Party of China's Beiping Students' Federation. He actively led the "exorcism" and "exorcism" movements of Chinese universities, drove out president Wang Yanting, and general affairs director Qi Dapeng, making Chinese universities the center of the patriotic student movement in Peiping. In January 1937, he was arrested by the Kuomintang authorities, and in March, he was rescued from prison by the CCP organization.
In October 1937, he led some Beiping students south to Wuhan. Soon after, he was sent by the Yangtze River Bureau of the CPC Central Committee to the Seventh Theater to do the united front work of the Sichuan Army. He was appointed inspector by Liu Xiang, commander of the Seventh Theater and commander of the Sichuan Army, in charge of anti-Japanese propaganda work. In order to strengthen the leadership of the Communist Party of China, he established a special branch in the Sichuan Army and served as the secretary of the special branch. In the spring of 1938, after Liu Xiang's death, the Seventh Theater was merged into the Third Theater, and Gu Zhutong, commander of the Third Theater, ordered the arrest of Huang Cheng, who led a propaganda team brought from Wuhan to join the New Fourth Army, first working in a detachment commanded by Chen Yi. Soon, he was transferred from 1 detachment to the Military Headquarters of the New Fourth Army and served as the secretary general of the Military Political Department.
In January 1941, the Kuomintang authorities launched the Anhui Incident. He was unfazed, and in the battle to command the team to break through, he was captured because he ran out of ammunition and food. In April 1942, he was killed by the Kuomintang authorities at the age of 28 in Shidi Prison in Shangrao, Jiangxi.