Yun Daiying: A model for the young people of the Chinese revolution

Source: People's Daily - People's Daily

Portrait of YunDai. Xinhua News Agency

In 2009, Yun Daiying was elected as one of the "100 Heroic Model Figures Who Made Outstanding Contributions to the Founding of New China".

Yun Daiying, originally from Wujin, Jiangsu, was born in 1895 in Wuchang, Hubei Province. In 1915, he entered Chung Hwa University. He actively participated in revolutionary activities during his student years and was one of the main leaders of the May Fourth Movement in Wuhan. In the spring of 1920, Yun Daiying went to Beijing, established contacts with Li Dazhao, Deng Zhongxia, and others, and began to study and accept Marxism. Later, he was commissioned by New Youth magazine to translate and publish Kautsky's mid-term book Class Struggle, which had a profound influence on important leaders such as Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, and Dong Biwu.

Yun Daiying joined the Communist Party of China in 1921, became a professor at Shanghai University in 1923, and in August of the same year was elected as an alternate member of the Central Executive Committee of the Chinese Socialist Youth League and the director of the Propaganda Department, founding and editing "Chinese Youth", which cultivated and influenced an entire generation of young people.

In 1924, Yun Daiying engaged in the united front work of kuomintang-Communist cooperation, participated in leading the May 30 Movement in 1925, and was sent to the Whampoa Military Academy in May 1926 as the chief political instructor. In January 1927, he went to Wuhan to preside over the work of the Central Military and Political School, serving as the chief political instructor, and waged a resolute struggle against the betrayal of the revolution by Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Jingwei. In July, Yun Daiying went to Jiujiang on the orders of the Central Committee and served as a member of the Former Enemies Committee of the CPC Central Committee, participating in the organization and launching of the Nanchang Uprising. In December, he participated in leading the Guangzhou Uprising and served as Secretary General of the Guangzhou Soviet Government.

In 1928, Yun Daiying went to Shanghai to serve as secretary general of the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee and secretary general of the Organization Department, and edited the central organ publication "Red Flag". In June 1929, he was elected a member of the Central Committee at the Second Plenary Session of the Sixth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.

On May 6, 1930, Yun Daiying was arrested by the Kuomintang authorities in Shanghai. In prison, Yun Daiying was unyielding in the face of the enemy's coercion and inducement. On April 29, 1931, he was killed in Nanjing at the age of 36.

"The wandering rivers and lakes reminisce about the old travel, so people live and die for thousands of years." He has been spared the troubles of the ordinary, and has left himself as a prisoner of pride. This is a heroic poem written by Yun Daiying in prison. Zhou Enlai spoke highly of Yun Daiying: "His proletarian consciousness, enthusiasm for work, strong will, simple style, spirit of sacrifice, mass quality, and touching persuasiveness should always become a model for The Chinese revolutionary youth." ”

People's Daily ( 2021-05-12 04 edition)