"Red plums on the red rock, thousands of miles of frost under the feet, the cold of The Three-Nine is afraid, a piece of Dan heart opens to the sun..." For more than fifty years, the theme song of the opera "Sister Jiang" "Red Mezan" has been sung by generations of Chinese. The image of The heroine Jiang Jie, who wears a blue cloth cheongsam, a red sweater, a long white scarf, and a short hair, has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
"Sister Jiang" is Jiang Zhujun, an excellent female underground party member of the Communist Party of China. On November 14, 1949, he was killed by Kuomintang military agents in Zhazhidong Prison, sacrificing his life for the communist ideal at the age of 29.
Jiang Zhujun, also known as Jiang Zhujun and Jiang Zhiwei, was born on August 20, 1920 in Dashanpu Jiangjiawan, Zigong City, Sichuan Province, to a peasant family. When he was 8 years old, his mother, who had a strong personality, could not get along with his idle father, so he took Jiang Zhujun's sister and brother to Chongqing to join his brothers. At the age of 10, Jiang Zhujun went to work as a child laborer in a sock weaving factory in Chongqing, because people were not yet as tall as machines, and the boss made a special high stool for her. At the age of 11, she entered a church-run orphanage in Chongqing, where she worked and studied. In the experience of suffering life, Jiang Zhujun was full of hatred for the social system of the time, and at the same time cultivated the spirit of hard work.
Jiang Zhujun in 1939
In 1939, Jiang Zhujun was admitted to the Chinese Public School in Chongqing and secretly joined the Communist Party. After joining the party, Comrade Jiang Zhujun loved Marxist-Leninist theory and longed for Yan'an, the holy land of revolution, but the party organization asked her to stay in Chongqing to do communication and liaison work. She did not hesitate to follow the organization's arrangements. In order to have an unnoticed profession as a cover, she began to study accounting under the instructions of the party organization.
In 1940, the Chinese public school was closed, and this was a photo of her near the campus before leaving the school.
In 1941, Jiang Zhujun was admitted to the Chinese Vocational School founded by Huang Yanpei at that time. As a young Communist, she concealed her identity from working at the school.
Graduation photo of Jiangzhujun Zhonghua Vocational School
At the end of 1943, Wang Pu, secretary of the Chongqing Municipal CPC Committee, out of security considerations, believed that Comrade Peng Yongwu, who was responsible for leading the work in Chongqing's Shaci District and the new urban area, needed a good cover environment and needed him to have a home in Chongqing. However, he could not get in touch with Yunyang's wife Tan Zhenglun for a while, but this matter involved work and could not be delayed for a long time. Therefore, the municipal party committee repeatedly searched and selected among the female comrades in Chongqing, and finally decided to assign Jiang Zhujun to accept this task - to make Peng Yongwu a "wife" and assistant. As "husband and wife", they often went in and out of various social occasions in suits and leather shoes, united a large number of progressive people in the Central Trust Bureau and the industrial and commercial circles, exposed to them the fact that bureaucratic capitalism had embezzled national capital and destroyed national industry and commerce, and educated the broad masses of industrialists and businessmen to unite as one, oppose the four major families, and jointly resist Japan.
Through a period of time of getting along day and night and living together, two like-minded young people gradually developed feelings. In 1945, with the approval of the party organization, Jiang Zhujun and Peng Yongwu were officially married. She stayed in Chongqing to assist Peng Yongwu in her work, responsible for handling party affairs and internal and external liaison work, and since then, comrades have affectionately called her "Sister Jiang".
Peng Yongwu and Jiang Zhujun took a group photo with the children.
In April 1946, Jiang Zhujun had difficulty giving birth and was taken to the hospital by the female classmates in the class, at this time Peng Yongwu was not by her side, she made her own decision to perform both caesarean section and sterilization at the same time. When Peng Yongwu rushed to Chengdu afterwards to visit her and her newborn son, she was deeply moved by her bravery, decisiveness and sacrifice.
In 1947, when the People's Liberation War was victorious, the Party organized and led the struggle on the second front in the Kuomintang-ruled areas. Jiang Jie was appointed by the Chongqing Underground Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China to organize students from colleges and middle schools to fight against the Kuomintang reactionaries. Under the direct leadership of Peng Yongwu, she also undertook the liaison and organization of the distribution of the underground publication of the Chongqing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, "Zhenjin Bao". In a few months, the "Advance Newspaper" carried out more than 1600 copies, causing great panic among the enemy. In the spring and summer of that year, Peng Yongwu was appointed as a member of the CPC Chuandong Pro-Committee and deputy secretary of the Xiachuandong Prefectural Committee. Sister Jiang, as a liaison officer of the Chuandong Linli Committee and the XiachuanDong Prefectural Committee, went to the front line of the armed struggle with her husband.
Jiang Zhujun (first from left) poses with friends
On the eve of the Spring Festival in 1948, Peng Yongwu was unfortunately killed when organizing an armed uprising, and his head was cut off by the enemy and hung on the city gate for public display. Jiang Zhujun followed Peng Yongwu in an underground struggle against the reactionaries for five years, losing both his relatives and comrades-in-arms. But she endured her grief and resolutely took over her husband's job. She told the party organization: "The relationship between this line is only familiar to me, and it is difficult for others to replace it, and I should continue to fight where Old Peng fell." ”
On June 14, 1948, due to the betrayal of traitors, Jiang Jie was unfortunately arrested and imprisoned in Chongqing Zha di Dong Prison. Kuomintang military agents exhausted all kinds of torture: tiger stools, pepper water, slings, barbed steel whips, crowbars, electrocution... She even cruelly nailed a bamboo stick into her ten fingers, eager to open a gap in the young female Communist Party member and break the party organization that led the uprising in eastern Sichuan and the underground party organization of the Chongqing Communist Party. In the face of the inhuman torture and death threats of the enemy, Sister Jiang has always been unyielding, "You can break my hand and kill my head. "Torture, that's too small a test. Bamboo sticks are made of bamboo, and the will of communists is steel! The victims of the scum cave expressed infinite reverence for her bravery: "You are the embodiment of Danniang, you are the elf of Sophia; no, you are you, you are the typical of the revolution of the sons and daughters of China." ”
On November 14, 1949, on the eve of the imminent liberation of Chongqing, Jiang Jie was killed by Kuomintang agents in Zha di Dong Prison. This female Communist Party member, who had made the enemy fearful before her death, also made the secret agent afraid after her death, and her body was wiped out with water. He was only 29 years old at the time of his death.
After the founding of New China, Sister Jiang's deeds were written into novels, put on the stage, screen and screen, became a household name, widely praised, educated, influenced and inspired generations. The famous singing sections of the opera "Sister Jiang", such as "Embroidered Red Flag" and "Red Meizan", have been popular, enduring and widely sung for decades. From the party and state leaders to the ordinary people, they were deeply moved by her heroic deeds and immortal spirit.
Stills from the opera "Sister Jiang"
According to Yang Yiyan, one of the authors of "Red Rock", when Mao Zedong watched the opera "Sister Jiang" performed by the Air Politics Cultural and Labor Troupe, he could not help but be moved by emotion, and he said to the staff around him with emotion and regret: "Why don't you write Sister Jiang alive?" Why didn't our People's Liberation Army go and rescue her? "Sister Jiang is like the red plum blossom in the proud snow on the red rock, forever shining in the history of China's revolution.
This article is based on relevant historical information