Group photo of the main cadres of the Yuebei Peasants' Trade Union, Liu Dongxuan in the front row (left), Li Weihuang (right), Li Yuyong (middle), and Xie Huaide in the back row on the left.
In Wazihe, Baiguo Town, Hengshan County, Hunan Province, there was once a poor peasant family, four fathers and sons served as the Red Army, two of them heroically sacrificed their lives for the revolution and became revolutionary martyrs, and the other two walked through the 25,000-mile long march and ushered in the victory of the revolution. The father of this family is named Liu Anyi, and his three sons are Liu Dongxuan, Liu Yaqiu, and Sheng Yilian (formerly known as Liu Congran).
Liu Anyi, a native of Hengshan, was born in Baiguowazi River. A member of the Communist Party of China, he was a member of the Yuebei Farmers' Trade Union and served as a traffic officer of the Anfu County Committee of the Communist Party of China in Jiangxi Province. In 1930, he was buried alive by the Kuomintang reactionaries.
Liu Dongxuan was born in early October 1899. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1922 and organized and participated in the Shuikoushan workers' strike that shocked China and foreign countries. In 1923, he was assigned by Mao Zedong, then chairman of the Xiang District Executive Committee of the Communist Party of China, to establish a party group in Yuebei, Hengshan, and established the Yuebei Peasants' Trade Union, which was known as the "founding ancestor" of the workers and peasants in Yuebei who shook hands and made a revolution. After participating in the Autumn Harvest Uprising, he served as the secretary of the Qiyang County Party Committee and other positions, and in June 1928, he was brutally killed by the enemy. The father and son martyrs were later buried back in their hometown of Baiguo.
In 1937, Liu Yaqiu took a group photo with some members of the Party Committee of the Red Second Front, the front row left three Guan Xiangying, the left fourth Wang Zhen, the left fifth Li Jingquan, the left Qihe Long, and the back row left Liu Yaqiu.
Liu Yaqiu, the word Xinran, was born on November 2, 1904. In 1915, due to the poverty of the family, he only read for two years, and then dropped out of school to work with his parents on the farm at home. In 1926, Liu Yaqiu, who worked at the Jinshi Machinery Factory, learned that Yuebei had established a peasant association, and immediately got up and returned to his hometown to join the fiery peasant movement. In 1927, he joined the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, and went to Pingxiang, Chaling, Youxian, Yongxing, Jinggangshan and other places, mobilized the masses to fight local tyrants, divided up the land, and mobilized thousands of workers and peasants to join the ranks of the Red Army. In August 1934, Liu Yaqiu and his troops began a long march north from Yongxin Guantian Village, Jiangxi. During the Long March, he successively served as secretary of the Yongshun County CPC Committee, political commissar of the Dayong Military Subdistrict and secretary of the Central County Party Committee of Dayong, political commissar of the Sixth and Fourth Divisions of the Red Second Army, director of the Organization Department of the Political Department of the Red Second Front (which was jointly organized by the Red Second and Sixth Armies), and director of the Ministry of Democracy Movement. During his tenure at Dayong, he once established a Soviet government and launched a campaign to beat up local tycoons and divide up the land. He was ordered to eliminate the landlord bandit armed forces, help the masses to establish local revolutionary armed forces, and prepare to build independent battalions, which grew to two or three hundred in half a year. In the year of his transfer to Xiang'echuanqian, Liu Yaqiu followed the Second and Sixth Armies to participate in more than a hundred large and small battles, breaking Chiang Kai-shek's "encirclement and suppression" again and again. During this period, the Red Second and Sixth Red Armies more successfully opened up the Xiang'echuanqian revolutionary base areas, which effectively cooperated with the strategic transfer of the Central Red Army. In November 1935, the Red Second and Sixth Armies withdrew from the Xiang'echuanqian Revolutionary Base Area and set out from Sangzhi Liujiaping and Ruitapu respectively to carry out strategic transfers, in coordination with the Long March of the Central Red Army. Liu Yaqiu's unit marched west into Wumeng Mountain, forcibly crossed the Jinsha River, crossed the Yueshan Mountain, overcame many dangers and obstacles, and in October 1936 met the Red Army Division at Jiangtai Fort north of Jingning in Gansu Province.
Sheng Yilian was born in March 1916. When the Yuebei Farmers' Union was founded, he was only 7 years old, and he followed his father and brothers to report the letter. In 1930, just after turning 14, he followed his second brother Liu Yaqiu to join the Red Army in Jinggangshan. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1932. He was young, not tall, and was affectionately known by Mao Zedong as the "Little Red Devil". After joining the Red Army, Sheng Yilian successively served as mimeographers and propagandists in the Red Third Army and the Red 28Th Army. Later, he was assigned to the Red Third Army and served as a confidential officer and confidential unit chief at Peng Dehuai's side. In October 1934, at the age of 18, he began the Long March with the Red Third Army, experienced numerous difficulties and obstacles, and arrived in Yan'an in November 1936.
Liu Yaqiu, former vice chairman of the Hunan Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and brother of the martyr Liu Dongxuan.
Liu Yaqiu and Sheng Yilian were in different regiments of the Red Army, and with common ideals and beliefs, they firmly followed the party, traveling 25,000 miles and walking the Long March together. Subsequently, the two brothers participated in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation together, making indelible contributions to the founding of New China. After the victory of the revolution, Liu Yaqiu served as secretary of the Chenzhou Prefectural Party Committee and commander and political commissar of the Shonan Detachment of the People's Liberation Army, acting director of the Shuikoushan Mining Bureau, and vice chairman of the Hunan Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Sheng Yilian once served as the president of Xiangya Hospital, the president and secretary of Hunan College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the acting secretary of Changsha Mining and Metallurgical Research Institute, etc. After retiring, he returned to Baiguo for a period of time to live and live, often telling revolutionary stories for local children and teenagers.
The story of the Liu family's four sons, the four red soldiers, the father and son becoming martyrs, and the brothers going to the Long March are still widely praised by the local people. Their spirit of sacrificing their small homes and doing everything for everyone, and their heroic spirit of not being afraid of hardships, dangers, obstacles, and sacrifices for the revolution, have greatly encouraged the people to firmly follow the party, not forget their original intentions, and keep firmly in mind their confidence and determination, and have deeply infected generations of future generations.