On February 6, 1928, in the prison of the Guangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau, the reactionaries zhou Wenyong, who was held in solitary confinement, said: "It is about to go to the execution ground, do you have any other requirements?" ”
The reactionaries still want to get something from Zhou Wenyong's mouth about our party, but how could Zhou Wenyong, who had already put life and death aside, make the reactionaries do as they wished?
However, he did have something to do before he died, and he said frankly to the reactionaries: "I have been in love with Comrade Chen Tiejun for many years, but I have not married, and I only ask to take pictures with Comrade Chen Tiejun." ”
The reactionaries felt a little strange, because according to the information they obtained, Zhou Wenyong and Chen Tiejun were obviously a couple, but this was not important, anyway, they were all people who were going to the execution ground, this wish could still be satisfied, and they could use such a group photo to make some articles.
Based on this consideration, the reactionaries really went out to find a photographer, took it to prison, and took a group photo of Zhou Wenyong and Chen Tiejun.
This is a very special group photo, a group photo of Zhou Wenyong and Chen Tiejun in front of the iron window of the cell, and a wedding photo of Zhou Wenyong and Chen Tiejun.
This wedding photo without a wedding dress is the most beautiful wedding photo in the revolutionary era.
In the photo, Zhou Wenyong and Chen Tiejun did not have any superfluous expressions, but the firmness and solemnity, self-confidence and calmness in their eyes were released without reservation.
There is no sadness, no cowardice, if it were not for Zhou Wenyong's slightly curled hands, the iron window behind the two and the execution ground waiting for the two, it is difficult to imagine that the two people in the photo are about to walk to the execution ground.
Especially in the photo of Chen Tiejun, she has the gentleness and elegance of everyone in that era, and the firmness and calmness of the revolutionaries of that era, she slightly tilts her head and leans shoulder to shoulder with Zhou Wenyong.
Having faith in your heart and having you by your side is enough.
The picture freezes, a photograph, the life of two young revolutionaries.
Chen Tiejun was born in 1904 in Foshan, Guangdong Province, to a wealthy family of returned overseas Chinese, chen Tiejun's name is not her original name, her original name is Chen Xiejun, she also has a younger sister named Chen Xieyuan, they also have an older brother.
The Chen family is a relatively enlightened family, and as a result, Chen Xiejun and his sister were able to choose to go to school when they were teenagers. Chen Xieyuan has been very assertive since she was a child, she is not willing to go out of the door like most women, wrap a small foot at home and wait for the words of her parents' fate, and then marry into her husband's family and teach her son.
When she was very young, she persuaded her father to go to a private school, although Foshan is not a big place, but Guangzhou is a place where various cultures and ideas collide, and Foshan is not closed.
Especially with the wave of the May Fourth Movement sweeping the country, how could Foshan stay out of it? During that time, 15-year-old Chen Xiejun and 11-year-old Chen Xieyuan often went to the streets to listen to speeches and read leaflets.
The impassioned speeches of those young students deeply touched Chen Xiejun's heart, especially the propaganda team composed of students from the Guangdong Provincial Girls' Normal School, which shocked Chen Xiejun very strongly, and she never knew that women could be so vivid, enthusiastic and powerful.
15-year-old Chen Xiejun wants to be one of them, wants to be a person who is useful to the country and the people, and this requires her to grow up quickly, needs her to read more books, and obviously the private school can no longer meet her pursuit of knowledge.
The following year, foshan city appeared the first new school system of girls' primary school, that is, Jihua Higher Girls' Primary School (later renamed Tiejun Primary School), the primary school is a new primary school, since it is new, naturally it is very different from the old, between the collision of new and old, there are always many voices.
In this primary school, some people look up to it, and some people are not used to it, and Chen Xiejun immediately went home after knowing it and asked to transfer to the school with his sister, Chen Xiejun's father was very open to his children, and his daughter was willing to read, so he agreed. So the sisters entered this elementary school.
In this primary school, Chen Xiejun studied very seriously, any course could be studied seriously, she absorbed new knowledge like a sponge, and did not care at all about the outside world.
However, just when Chen Xiejun was about to graduate, an incident occurred, when Chen Xiejun had reached the age of marriage, and the family set a marriage for her, which was a typical parent's fate matchmaker, Chen Xiejun once resisted, but in the end she did not survive her family.
And she once told her teacher about this, and the teacher's advice to her was to go home and meet her, and if she thought like the same, she could slowly cultivate feelings. This was not a good idea, so she was called home to marry the man.
According to the door, they are also considered to be the right door, but the other party is rich and rich, but he is not at all interested in the major affairs of the country and the people that Chen Xiejun said, he only cares about the acre and three points of land in his hand, and then marry a capable wife and teach his husband and son at home.
Obviously, this is not what Chen Xiejun wants, she already has the country and the people in her heart, how can she be willing to be trapped in the same room? After graduating from Jihua Higher Girls' Primary School, Chen Xiejun left home and went to Guangzhou alone to find the future.
In Guangzhou, she first entered Kunwei Girls' High School, which was a famous girls' high school in Guangzhou at that time, but its education was not completely new education, to a large extent, it was also focusing on cultivating everyone's bridesmaids.
Soon, Chen Xieyuan was disappointed in this school, but she could not leave for a while, fortunately, at that time, there was a teacher named Tan Tiandu who was very concerned about Chen Xiejun, who was a party member himself and was very concerned about progressive students.
Under his introduction, Chen Xiejun began to contact progressive publications such as "New Youth" and "Guide", which greatly enriched Chen Xiejun's thinking, and she began to organize reading clubs and current affairs research clubs with her classmates in schools to learn theoretical knowledge in combination with current events.
Later, Chen Xiejun was admitted to the Faculty of Letters of Guangdong University (later Sun Yat-sen University), where she was exposed to more progressive ideas and progressive youth.
Chen Xiejun is very hearted, she not only improves herself, but also leads the people around her to progress, during the holidays, she will often bring progressive teachers and students to Foshan, publicize the truth of the revolution in Foshan, and also bring her former good sisters to Guangzhou to absorb new ideas.
Chen Xieyuan is a loyal follower of Chen Xiejun, she almost follows every step of her sister, chen Xiejun studied in which school, she followed which school to study. There is also their sister-in-law Li Shuyuan, who is also a woman who has progressed together.
Since entering Sun Yat-sen University, Chen Xiejun gradually began to be dissatisfied with theoretical knowledge, she and her classmates raised the banner of anti-imperialism and anti-feudalism, took to the streets to give speeches, walked into the workers and the masses, not only received training, but also went to the school for the children of laborers to teach, and worked with the families of the striking workers.
She took off her student clothes, put on her workers' clothes, worked like ordinary female workers, made straw shoes, sewed clothes, supported the Northern Expedition, she was participating in the revolution with practical actions, although she could not go to the battlefield, she was willing to do everything she could.
In the process, she established her faith, and in April 1926, Chen Xiejun became a Member of the Communist Party of China, then changed her name, from Chen Xiejun to Chen Tiejun, and she was determined to follow the party and dedicate everything to the revolutionary cause.
Interestingly, a few months later, Chen Xieyuan also joined the Communist Party of China, and changed his name to Chen Tie'er with his sister, and the sisters were to support them all the way, never shrink back on the road of revolution, and even sacrifice their lives.
Chen Tiejun soon became a member of the CCP branch at Sun Yat-sen University, and was later elected secretary general and third member of the Guangdong Women's Liberation Association, as well as a member of the Women's Movement Committee of the CPC Guangdong District Committee.
At that time, Deng Yingchao was also in Guangzhou, serving as a member of the Cpc Guangdong District Committee and minister of the Women's Department.
Deng Yingchao was pregnant twice in Guangzhou, the first time was shortly after arriving in Guangzhou, and the work had just begun, while Zhou Enlai went to Shantou to work. Alone in Guangzhou, Deng Yingchao was full of uncertainty about the arrival of this child, and later she bought her own medicine to beat the child.
The second pregnancy was in 1926, and the expected date of delivery was at the end of March 1927, when Zhou Enlai was not in Guangzhou, but in Shanghai to lead the workers' movement.
Near the birth, Deng Yingchao had to accompany his mother to the hospital run by the German Church in Guangzhou under a pseudonym to wait for delivery, unexpectedly, Deng Yingchao encountered difficult childbirth, the fetus was too large, three days and three nights of birth and did not give birth, and finally used the forceps, the child just came out and died, it was a boy who weighed about ten pounds.
The weakness brought about by childbirth and the blow of the child's premature death, Deng Yingchao was in an extremely tired coma and had to stay in the hospital for a long time. However, at this time, the White Terror suddenly came, and the reactionaries began to arrest and hunt down the Communists. Our party had to start retreating and hiding, and Deng Yingchao in the hospital was in a very dangerous situation.
The central authorities conveyed to Zhou Enlai the decision to let Deng Yingchao evacuate Guangzhou and go to Shanghai, and Zhou Enlai then sent a telegram to Deng Yingchao, which arrived in Guangzhou and passed into Chen Tiejun's hands.
At that time, the situation of Sun Yat-sen University was not good, it was already surrounded by reactionaries, Chen Tiejun knew that this telegram was very important, so he left Sun Yat-sen University one night by climbing over the wall, and then disguised as a rich lady to escape the reactionaries' search, and then went to the hospital to find Deng Yingchao and handed over the telegram sent by Zhou Enlai to Deng Yingchao.
After Deng Yingchao read it, he knew that the situation in Guangzhou was already very bad, so he was ready to leave Guangzhou for Shanghai according to Zhou Enlai's request, but how to leave the hospital was a difficult problem, fortunately, there was a doctor named Wang Dexin in the hospital, who was very sympathetic to Deng Yingchao, and she hid Deng Yingchao in the hospital.
After waiting for a few days, after the reactionaries finished searching the hospital, Wang Dexin and Chen Tiejun got in touch, saying that they could use the opportunity of the hospital to regularly send people to Hong Kong to purchase drugs to send Deng Yingchao out.
Chen Tiejun felt that this opportunity was good, so he reported it to the organization, and the organization agreed to this plan. So, Deng Yingchao dressed as a nurse, while her mother dressed as a maid, was sent by Wang Dexin to the Shamian Wharf by a reliable nurse, Chen Tiejun was already waiting at the wharf, under her cover, Deng Yingchao's mother and daughter boarded a German consulate to Hong Kong electric ship.
Deng Yingchao's mother and daughter took a boat to Shanghai through Hong Kong, tossed at sea for several days, and Deng Yingchao, who was still in the month, was physically and mentally exhausted, so that after entering the hospital in Shanghai, she found it difficult to get pregnant.
After sending Deng Yingchao away, Chen Tiejun still stayed in Guangzhou to work, and although it was white, they only changed the form of work and began to work in a hidden situation.
After the decision of the organization, Chen Tiejun was ordered to work with Zhou Wenyong in disguise as a husband and wife.
Zhou Wenyong was a year younger than Chen Tiejun, but he had participated in the revolution longer than Chen Tiejun.
Born in Baoding Village, Maogang Township, Kaiping County, Guangdong Province, Zhou Wenyong first attended a private school in his hometown for a few years, and then under the influence of the May Fourth Movement, he went to Guangzhou and was admitted to the Mechanical Department of guangdong Provincial Grade A Industrial School.
During his studies at the school, Zhou Wenyong joined the Socialist Youth League, also served as the secretary of the school's League branch, and began to join the revolution, in 1925 Zhou Wenyong joined the Communist Party of China, and soon became a member of the Working Committee of the Guangdong District Committee of the Communist Party of China and the secretary of the Economic Struggle Committee of the Guangdong District Committee of the Youth League.
In 1927, with the advent of the White Terror, Zhou Wenyong, who had become the director of the Organization Department of the Guangzhou Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China and the secretary of the Working Committee and the chairman of the Special Committee of the Guangzhou Workers' Congress, became the object of arrest by the reactionaries, and could only work in secret and fight in hiding.
They rented a house and prepared to establish an underground municipal party committee in Guangzhou, and soon after, Chen Tie'er, Chen Tie'er, the younger sister of Chen Tiejun, also moved in as a maid, covering the two and serving as traffic officers, as well as Chen Tiejun and Chen Tie'er's sister-in-law Li Shuyuan also lived here.
Their task was to continue to lead the revolutionary struggle of the workers in Guangzhou, to rescue the captured comrades, and at the same time to rapidly develop the workers' secret armed forces with the workers' pickets as the backbone, in preparation for the armed struggle.
Following the Nanchang Uprising and the Autumn Harvest Uprising, the Guangzhou Uprising was also in intense preparations, during which Zhou Wenyong was arrested, but was quickly rescued by Chen Tiejun and others. On December 11, the Guangzhou Uprising broke out, and Zhou Wenyong was one of the leaders of the uprising, and Chen Tiejun and Chen Tie'er participated in the Guangzhou Uprising.
Although the Guangzhou Uprising later failed, it was another counterattack against the Kuomintang opposition and gave great encouragement to the Chinese people.
Subsequently, the rebel army withdrew from Guangzhou, and some of them were reorganized into the Fourth Division of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, transferred to Haifeng and Lufeng, and joined the revolutionary struggle in the Dongjiang area; some of them moved to the Youjiang area of Guangxi to participate in the battle; and some of them retreated to Beijiang, where they joined the remnants of the Nanchang rebel army led by Zhu De and Chen Yi and went to Jinggangshan.
Zhou Wenyong originally followed the troops to the Dongjiang area, and then went to Hong Kong with Chen Tiejun and others under the arrangement of the organization, responsible for resettling comrades who had retreated to Hong Kong.
The Guangzhou area, on the other hand, was greatly damaged by the reactionaries, and there were few revolutionary organizations left. The Guangdong Provincial CPC Committee held a meeting in Hong Kong to study the next step of work arrangements, and in order to restore the revolutionary work in Guangzhou, the guangdong Provincial Cpc Committee organized zhou Wenyong and Chen Tiejun to return to Guangzhou to carry out work and restore the underground contact point of our party.
Zhou Wenyong and Chen Tiejun returned to Hong Kong in early January 1928 and soon restored our party's underground contact point, but as the work unfolded, both were also targeted by the reactionaries.
At 4 p.m. on January 27, reactionaries surrounded the municipal party committee office on Ronghua North Street in Guangzhou, where Zhou Wenyong and Chen Tiejun were arrested at the same time. Chen Tie'er escaped under the cover of her neighbors and went to Hong Kong, where Li Shuyuan had already replaced Chen Tiejun to report to Hong Kong.
In this way, Chen Tiejun and Zhou Wenyong were arrested and imprisoned, because they were important leaders of our party, and both of them were severely tortured in prison, and all kinds of means were called on them, but the two refused to say anything, whether it was coercion or inducement, neither of them was moved.
Chen Tiejun even left a "poem in the end" in prison: "The head can be broken, the limbs can be broken, and the revolutionary spirit cannot be destroyed." The head of the strong man is the party fall, and the body of the good man is a group of cracks. ”
What else to say? Since he was caught, he was not prepared to leave alive.
Death is not terrible, it is terrible without faith.
Seeing that the two men still refused to open their mouths, the reactionaries finally decided to carry out the death penalty. Before going to the execution ground, Zhou Wenyong asked for a photo with Chen Tiejun, which was a wedding photo and the only photo of the two in their lives.
On February 6, 1928, the Lunar Lantern Festival, which was supposed to be a happy day for the family, Chen Tiejun and Zhou Wenyong were escorted to the execution ground on this day.
The weather in the first month was still cold, and the biting cold wind blew, but Chen Tiejun and Zhou Wenyong's hearts were fiery, and on the way to the execution ground, they shouted at the people along the road: "Down with the Kuomintang reactionaries!" "Down with imperialism!" "Long live the Chinese Communist Party!"
The impassioned language is the fieriest expression of their hearts, and even the reactionaries cannot stop them from doing so.
With this expression of theirs, the reactionaries became more and more nervous, and more and more of the masses moved closer to them and followed them to the execution ground, like a revolution and another farewell.
Soon, they were escorted to the Honghuagang Execution Ground.
At the execution ground, Zhou Wenyong continued to give a speech to the crowd that had gathered around, saying that he was pushed aside by the reactionaries, while Chen Tiejun slowly walked to Zhou Wenyong's side, and she said to the crowd:
"People say that Zhou Wenyong and I are husband and wife. In fact, we are comrades, only because of the needs of revolutionary work, we pretend to live together as husband and wife, mutual help in work and the struggle between life and death, closely linking our hearts, but for the sake of revolutionary interests, we can not care about personal love, so we have always maintained a pure comradely relationship. Now I announce to you that when we dedicate our youth and our lives to the Party, we will have a wedding here. Let the gunshots of the reactionaries serve as a salute for our marriage. Compatriots, comrades, farewell! I hope you fight bravely, and communism will surely triumph. The future belongs to us. ”
Before falling, Chen Tiejun wanted to marry Zhou Wenyong, although in the eyes of everyone, the two were husband and wife, but it was only for the convenience of work and the needs of the outside world, but in fact, the two were just comrades and fought together.
The two established a deep tacit understanding in their work, and also developed a deep affection, but for the sake of the revolution, both of them took their feelings to heart, and they had no time to talk about love, nor could they talk about love, which was already doomed when they decided to dedicate themselves to the revolution.
If they only hope that the revolution will succeed, they may be able to really be together, but they have not waited for the day when they will succeed, and when death comes, all they want to do is complete the wedding and become a real couple.
There is no need to deliberately prepare, both people are there, and everything will come naturally.
Chen Tiejun said, "Shoot." ”
Zhou Wenyong said, "Yes, shoot." ”
They will live and die together.
After saying that, the two people looked at each other, Chen Tiejun sorted out the collar of the white shirt for Zhou Wenyong, and gently wiped the blood on Zhou Wenyong's face; Zhou Wenyong took out the red scarf in his pocket and put it on Chen Tiejun's neck, carefully smoothing Chen Tiejun's messy hair.
They were going to die cleanly and neatly, and then Zhou Wenyong put the end of Chen Tiejun's scarf on his shoulder, and they just wrapped a scarf around it, held hands, and sang the international song.
Songs began, gunshots rang out, blood poured out, and people fell.
This is a special wedding, the execution ground is the wedding hall, the masses are the witnesses of the wedding, the international song is the music of the wedding, the gunshot is the salute of the wedding, and the blood is the decoration of the wedding.
It was the most chic wedding of its time, and it was enough for everyone to remember.
The revolution will be carried out to the end, until death.
This year, Chen Tiejun was 24 years old and Zhou Wenyong was 23 years old. So young, so magnificent.
It is worth mentioning that Chen Tiejun's sister Chen Tie'er was also 24 years old when she died, and she was also killed at the Honghuagang Execution Ground.
After arriving in Hong Kong under the cover of her neighbors, Chen Tie'er continued her revolutionary struggle and married Lin Suyi, a member of the Communist Party, in 1929, and the following year, she gave birth to a boy.
In 1931, Chen Tie'er and Lin Suyi were arrested by the British authorities in Hong Kong and handed over to the Kuomintang and imprisoned in Guangzhou.
Chen Tie'er was pregnant when she was arrested, and in March 1932 she gave birth to a girl in prison. The environment in prison was naturally not much better, chen Tie'er was also an indomitable revolutionary, and she was tortured by the Kuomintang, and soon she had a recurrence of lung disease, and her daughter changed into measles on the third day of birth, and both of them contracted the disease.
If the medication is taken in time, measles is not an incurable disease, but the Kuomintang has cruelly fed Chen Tie'er's medicine for lung disease to the newborn baby.
How can a small baby withstand such a domineering adult drug? Soon, the baby died in prison. Chen Tie'er and Lin Suyi did not leave the prison alive.
On April 11, 1932, the reactionaries took Chen Tie'er to the Honghuagang Execution Ground and killed him, and Lin Suyi was killed before Chen Tie'er.
Four years ago, Chen Tiejun was killed at the Honghuagang Execution Ground, and four years later, Chen Tie'er was also killed at the Honghuagang Execution Ground, and the sisters, both died at the age of 24, sacrificing their precious lives for the revolution.
Chen Tiejun and Zhou Wenyong were married before their deaths, both of them were killed, Chen Tie'er and Lin Suyi had two children, and the family of three was killed.
On the road of revolution, there is a lot of bloodshed and sacrifice, and the only thing we can do is to remember history and forge ahead.