The Story of Dongguan in the Context of the Xinhai Revolution (Part 6)
Six months before the Xinhai Revolution, the Huanghuagang Uprising broke out in Guangzhou, which was the largest armed uprising before the Xinhai Revolution led by Sun Yat-sen. Because the enemy was strong and we were weak, the uprising ultimately failed. Li Wenfu, a young boy from Longmei in Dongguan City, took the lead in this uprising and was heroic and righteous, at the age of 20. He was one of the Seventy-Two Martyrs of Huanghuagang. In honor of this revolutionary martyr, a statue was erected for him in the People's Park in Shilong Town, Dongguan City, his hometown. His short life was like a meteor cutting through the dark sky of the late Qing government. However, none of the existing historical materials can fully record the trajectory of his glorious life. Zhu Ge conducted a multi-faceted investigation here, and his career was a relatively complete overview of the light of his life.
Li Wenfu Memorial Pavilion in Zhongshan Park, Shilong Town, Dongguan City, Guangdong Province
Li Wenfu (1892-1911, Zi Chi, Yiqiu, Dongguan Shilong Lululan Township Liwu Village) (in 1958, it was assigned to Bo county Luo, now belong to Boluo County Yuanzhou Town). His father, Li De, ran an oil candle shop in Shilong Xiluyuan (present-day Zhongshan West Road). Li Wenfu liked to read since he was a child, and at an early age he attended a private school in the town, read a lot of books, studied the study of gold and stone, and worked calligraphy.
Li Wenfu witnessed the corruption of the Qing court and believed that non-revolution could not save China. Li Wenfu, together with Mo Jipeng, Lin Zhimian, Huang Xiayi, and others, secretly organized revolutionary activity groups to propagate the revolution in various places, proposing to "fight for national power at home and resist strong enemies outside." Every time the world changes, there is no shortage of money. He said to his comrades: "My generation of readers understand the truth and should devote themselves to practicing it." The achievement of karma is not determined by one person, but I can contribute to the creation of karma. If the soil is not brave, why can't it be, the bones are shattered, and the death is not ashamed."
Shi Longmei teenager Li Wenfu
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When Li Wenfu is mentioned, we have to talk about three other people: Huang Xiayi, Mo Jipeng and Lin Zhimian. All four of them are shilong people, they are all classmates in shilong middle school to Dongguan middle school, because of their like-mindedness, they have vowed to die for the democratic revolution since the day they met. Li Wenfu, Mo Jipeng, and Lin Zhimian were called "Dongguan Sanjie" by the revolutionary comrades of the League.
They were like brothers, their words and deeds were consistent, they co-founded the Dongguan Xunbao, the Awakening Heaven Dream Troupe, organized the Zhenwu Shrine, and joined the Alliance Together, participating in the New Army Uprising and the Huanghuagang Uprising. Li Wenfu was the most fluent in writing and served as a propagandist for the revolution. After joining the Revolutionary Party League, he and Mo Jipeng and others continued to publish the Dongguan Xun magazine.
In one of Mo Jipeng's manuscripts, an interesting story of how he met Li Wenfu and Lin Zhimian was recorded. Mo Jipeng wrote: One day, I went to the Shilong Chamber of Commerce to give a speech on boycotting Japanese goods, and just after I stepped down, suddenly a beautiful teenager ran over and hugged me, and I hugged him. This beautiful young man praised my speech and encouraged people's hearts, and he introduced himself as Li Wenfu, a Shilong person.
Mo Jipeng told him, "It's a coincidence, my home is also in Shilong", and then Li Wenfu introduced another young man from Shilong, Lin Zhimian, to Mo Jipeng. So he met his best friend who would live and die together in the future.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="15" > outstanding writing as the main writer of the newspaper</h1>
Huang Xiayi and Mo Jipeng were classmates at Dongguan County Middle School (now Dongguan Middle School). Li Wenfu, Huang Xiayi, Mo Jipeng, Lin Zhimian and other four people often took advantage of social events to give speeches in Guancheng and Shilong to awaken the people's support for the revolution. They founded the Dongguan Xunbao to advocate the democratic revolution with fierce rhetoric; It also organized the Zhenwu Shrine, ostensibly to exhort the masses to ban opium, but in essence refers to groups that denounce corruption in current politics and advocate revolution, and the targets of propaganda are mostly students. Soon, Li Wenfu and others founded the "Dongguan Xun magazine" in Guancheng and organized the "Awakening Heaven Dream Drama Society" to perform historical dramas such as "Xiong Fei Uprising" and "Zhang JiayuHuishi" in Guancheng, Shilong, Guangzhou, and other places, which were well received by the masses.
In the Awakening Dream Troupe, Li Wenfu often plays the role of Xu Sheng (middle-aged man) because of his "personable, elegant and graceful appearance, and a little sandy voice". The influence of the Dream Awakening Troupe became more and more influential, and later at the invitation of Sun Yat-sen, it performed in Hong Kong and was highly praised.
In the spring of 1908, Li Wenfu left home for Hong Kong, and before leaving, he wrote down eight big characters, "The Festival of Stones, straight and straight", to show that he was brave enough to go forward and had no remorse.
In 1909, Li Wenfu and his comrades joined Sun Yat-sen's League in Hong Kong and became a professional revolutionary. After that, he co-organized the southern branch of the League with Hu Hanmin and Feng Free. Li Wenfu was hired as an editor by Feng Free, the host of China Daily, because of his outstanding writing, and in addition to asking him to help write editorials and news articles for China Daily, he also asked him to preside over the current affairs pictorial.
After the establishment of the Southern Branch, in order to expand the propaganda work, Li Wenfu also served as the editor of the Tokyo Minbao Newspaper.
Relief of the Huanghuagang Martyrs Monument
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In February 1910, Li Wenfu and others secretly infiltrated Guangzhou from Hong Kong to plan and organize the Uprising of the New Army in Guangzhou, li Wenfu and Lin Zhimian were the backbone of the uprising, and in the uprising, they either responded internally or went out to work. The rebel army fought a bloody battle for two days and one night, and in the case of the death of the main general Ni Yingdian, Li Wenfu and others gathered the remnants of their forces and turned to the Great South Gate and the Little South Gate until they exhausted their ammunition and returned to Kowloon, Hong Kong, along the Guangjiu Road.
At 5:30 p.m. on April 27, 1911 (March 29, 1911), Huang Xing led hundreds of daredevils to the Liangguang Governor's Office and launched the tenth armed uprising of the League, the Guangzhou Uprising. Li Wenfu was selected as the leader of the seventh team selection team (vanguard).
Li Wenfu led fifty men to attack the Flag Boundary Stone Manger Ordnance Bureau. During the actual battle, he held a two-shot bomb with him, and Lin Shishuang led the crowd as a precursor to attack the Governor's Office of Guangzhou. Li Wenfu was one of the first to attack the governor Yamen with Huang Xing, and then he moved to Feilai Temple, Beibichang and other places to negotiate with the Qing army.
During the battle, as the leader, he disregarded his personal safety, charged forward, threw bombs at the enemy, and killed countless enemies. Later, unfortunately, he injured his foot. In such a situation, he also killed several enemies by hand. He was captured because of the failure of the uprising and the inability to move because of foot injuries.
In order to cover up the panic of the revolution, the Qing government tried to threaten the revolutionaries by killing. The next day, Convenient and impatiently escorted Li Wenfu to the execution ground. Unexpectedly, the young Li Wenfu was brave and fearless, and had already embraced the determination to sacrifice his life for the country, and he calmly said on the execution ground: "The eldest husband can die to overthrow the Tartars and die without regrets." Finally, he sang the Song Dynasty's "Man Jiang Hong" by yue Fei, a general of the Southern Song Dynasty:
Furious hair rushes to the crown, and rests in the rain.
Look up at the eyes, look up at the sky and scream, and be fierce.
Thirty meritorious deeds of dust and earth,
Eight thousand miles of clouds and moons.
Mo waited for idle, white teenager's head, empty and sad.
Jing Kang shame, Still Snow.
When the courtiers hate, when to extinguish.
Drive a long car and step through the Helan Mountain.
Zhuangzhi was hungry for meat and laughed about thirsting for The blood of the Huns.
Wait to start from scratch, clean up the old mountains and rivers, and go to the sky.
Li Wenfu was martyred at the age of 20 and was one of the seventy-two martyrs of Huanghuagang. Mo Jipeng and Lin Zhimian, who also participated in the Huanghuagang Uprising in Guangzhou, survived.
Li Wenfu's compatriot, classmate and comrade Lin Zhimian adopted the second son as Li Wenfu's stepson
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It is said that when Li Wenfu was a child, he was laughed at for his cowardice, leaving the impression that the people around him were "cowardly by nature". But people familiar with Li Wenfu know that he is a man with great ambitions, and as long as he makes a decision, it is difficult for others to waver.
As he grew up, especially through study and saw through the corruption and incompetence of the Qing government, Li Wenfu became more and more courageous and righteous. When the news of the bravery and righteousness came, everyone in the audience burst into tears. The young Li Wenfu was childless behind him.
Brother-in-arms Lin Zhimian and Mo Jipeng survived, but they were heroic and righteous in the face of Li Wenfu, and they did not want to die. Lin Zhimian decided to pass on his second son, Hanyang, to Li Wenfu to inherit his revolutionary spirit.
No one thought that Li Wenfu, who was polite and polite, was so brave in battle. Facing the enemy's butcher's knife, so fierce. At that time, there was a saying that "I did not know Li Wenfu in my life, and now I am no longer a soldier in the world".
Li Wenfu was one of the Seventy-two Martyrs of Huanghuagang and the only Dongguan native. In 1924, the bones of Lietu were buried in the Huanghuagang Lietu Cemetery along with the other seventy-one martyrs. In his hometown of Shilong Zhongshan Park, there is also a li wenfu memorial pavilion, which was written by Hu Hanmin, the governor of Guangdong Province. In order to express the nostalgia of the people of his hometown, in October 2003, the Shilong People's Government funded the reconstruction of the pavilion.
I want to know what other martyrs and fighters of the Xinhai Revolution there are in Dongguan, as well as those stories. Stay tuned for this headline of Brother Zhu. In order to keep abreast of the updated information, it is easy to read.