Lin Qiong and Shu Cheng: Inside and outside Rongcheng, sow red fire

Group photo of Lin Qiong and Shu Cheng's two families (from left: Tang Xun'an and Lin Qiong, Lin Bai and Shu Cheng). (Courtesy of the interviewee's daughter)

Fuzhou Daily reporter Lin Yiting trainee reporter Wan Zhehua

In 1921, in a Manchu Zhengbaiqi family in the Mongolian camp in Fuzhou City, a baby girl named Shu Cheng was born. More than ten years later, she actively participated in the anti-Japanese salvation movement, and later launched a vigorous "detoxification movement" in Nanjing, contributing to the strength of women in Fuzhou for the anti-Japanese salvation and national liberation.

Also leaving a female figure in Fuzhou in the history of the Chinese revolution is Lin Qiong, who was born in 1914. She used her extraordinary courage and ability to resist the interrogation of Kuomintang reactionaries for more than a year in the fearsome Shangrao concentration camp, and in prison to propagate progressive ideas and expand the influence of the Communist Party.

"Lin Qiong and Shu Cheng met because of the revolution, and they also became family members because of the revolution." Shu Cheng's younger daughter, Lin Qiaomei, said that Lin Qiong, as one of Shu Cheng's introductions to the party, guided Shu Cheng to embark on the revolutionary road, and the two later became sisters-in-law, achieving a good story.

Throw yourself into the revolution and stand up to women in half the sky

On November 20, 1933, the Nineteenth Route Army launched the Fujian Incident against Chiang Kai-shek and japan. At that time, 19-year-old Lin Qiong, as the only female representative of the "Student Anti-Japanese Association", embarked on the road of anti-Japanese salvation, and officially became a Communist Party member in 1936, charging ahead in the movement.

In order to escape the enemy's search and arrest, Lin Qiong traveled to Xiamen and Shanghai under the arrangement of the organization, recruited party members, and actively mobilized female workers, night school teachers and students, and people from all walks of life to participate in the demonstration of the "fifth anniversary of the September 18 Incident". In her hometown, she ignored her injuries and participated in the formation of the Fuzhou Women's Salvation Association, the Field Women's Propaganda Team, the Ambulance Team and other groups, and actively participated in the anti-Japanese salvation movement.

In 1937, the Lugou Bridge Incident broke out. Shu Cheng, who studied at Fujian Provincial No. 1 Middle School, got to know Lin Qiong. In November of the same year, at the age of 16, Shu Cheng joined the party under the introduction of Wang Zhu and Lin Qiong, and later became the secretary of the Fuzhou Headquarters of the Chinese National Liberation Vanguard.

On April 3, 1938, the Fujian Provincial Anti-Enemy Support Association Field Women's Propaganda Team was established, with Lin Qiong as the head of the propaganda unit and Shu Cheng as the officer. Relying on the legal banner of the "Fujian Anti-Enemy Support Association," the two men and the progressive comrades quickly mobilized the masses of the people to participate in the anti-Japanese rescue, and soon the women's propaganda team of the Provincial Anti-Enemy Support Association was expanded to 7 brigades, and each brigade had more than 100 people, who went deep into all cities in the province to carry out anti-Japanese rescue activities through drama, singing, speeches, and other means.

In April 1939, the anti-communist situation of the Kuomintang intensified, and the anti-Japanese salvation movement took a sharp turn for a while, and Lin Qiong and Shu Cheng successively transferred to the headquarters of the New Fourth Army in southern Anhui.

Jailed With a singing wall newspaper as a weapon

In 1939, after Lin Qiong arrived in southern Anhui, he was responsible for the editing of "Anti-Enemy Daily" and "Zhejiang Women". On January 25, 1941, Lin Qiong was arrested and imprisoned in Maojialing Prison in the Shangrao concentration camp because the Kuomintang reactionaries set off a second anti-communist upsurge, created the Anhui Incident, and searched for underground party members and patriots in Suwan and other provinces.

The enemy interrogated Lin Qiong four times and forced her to admit her identity as a communist, and Lin Qiong used her "legal" status as a wartime child care association in Zhejiang Province to not be afraid of danger and always wrestle with the enemy. She and her friends used their songs as weapons to compete for the propaganda position of the poster in prison and propagate the anti-Japanese ideology. Lin Qiong mentioned in her recollection that the guards in prison were moved to tears when they heard these indignant and sad songs.

After being imprisoned for a year and nine months, Lin Qiong was finally released on bail and left the camp because her identity was never revealed. After being released from prison, Lin Qiong immediately rushed to Chongqing to report to Zhou Enlai, then secretary of the Southern Bureau, on the situation in the Shangrao concentration camp, providing first-hand information for the Party Central Committee to formulate the best plan for comprehensively rescuing the captured soldiers of the New Fourth Army. Since then, Lin Qiong has been engaged in women's work under the guidance of Deng Yingchao.

Throw your army north and shoot a single shot into the Dragon Pond Tiger's Den

On the other hand, Shu Cheng, who arrived at the headquarters of the New Fourth Army, accompanied Chen Yi to Jiangsu at the end of 1939 to open up the Jiangnan base area.

In July 1941, in order to organize a new position of anti-Japanese rape in Nanjing and provide intelligence for the New Fourth Army, Shu Cheng, then the director of the Women's Department of the Lunan Special Committee under the jurisdiction of the Party Committee of suwan District of the Communist Party of China, took up a heavy responsibility, crossed the blockade of the road, and sneaked into Nanjing, the "heart" of the enemy and the pseudo-enemy, to engage in underground revolutionary work.

At this time, Shu Cheng successfully obtained the "Good Citizen Certificate" issued by the Wang puppet government, became a Japanese teacher, and lived in her home as a "cousin" of Jiang Xiuying, a member of the Communist Party of China and a student of Jinling Women's University. Under this cover, Shu Cheng, who had rich experience in struggle, quickly set up the Nanjing Special Committee of the CPC, organized the Youth National Salvation Society, established a secret intelligence line, and extensively launched the mass anti-Japanese salvation movement.

At that time, the Japanese army vigorously carried out the "opium poisoning campaign" in the occupied areas, and the Chinese people suffered greatly from it. Shu Cheng, from Lin Zexu's hometown, launched the "Detoxification Campaign" in the winter of 1943. The movement lasted from December 1943 to April 1944, when thousands of patriotic youths and masses surrounded the opium houses in Nanjing like a tidal wave, and publicly burned the collected tobacco and smoking utensils, even in the face of the bayonets of the Japanese gendarmes.

Nanjing's vigorous "drug eradication campaign" has greatly encouraged the people in the occupied areas, and the open "detoxification campaign" and the quiet boycott of Japanese goods have risen and fallen one after another in various places... Shu Cheng also averted dangers in repeated maneuvers with the enemy.

After liberation, Shu Cheng, under the introduction of Lin Qiong, formed a revolutionary family with Lin Qiong's brother Lin Bai and continued to struggle in the post with the red spirit. "Cardamom is the revolution to fight the country and the glory of the years, the elderly will not move to revitalize the Chinese sincere and honest life" is the best portrayal of their lives.

Source: Fuzhou Daily