In 1928, in a dark, damp interrogation room, a thinly dressed young man sat in an interrogation chair, surrounded by all kinds of torture instruments to extract confessions.
After a while, a person came in, and as soon as he sat down, he asked fiercely, "What's your last name?"”
The young man replied loudly, "My surname is Dong." ”
The interrogator was immediately angry: "You give me honesty, don't think that I don't know your surname Xia, why do you say that your surname is Dong?."Do you want to taste the taste of the tiger chair?”
Youth Hengyang.
The young man smiled disdainfully: "I said it according to your logic, what you are best at is not reversing black and white and confusing right and wrong." Kill people as compassion, and ** as patriotism. I also use your logic to say that the surname 'Xia' is the surname 'Dong', which is called fighting poison with poison. ”
Although the interrogator was angry, he still held back and said, "Mr. Xia, you must think twice about everything. You are young and old, and your beloved wife at home is still waiting for you to go back for a reunion, so it is a pity to ignore your wife and children, tell me that your people are all in ** to ensure that you go out unscathed......”
The young man laughed out loud and said, "Of course I know, they are all in my heart."
After listening to the interrogator, he could no longer hold back his anger and tortured him, and the young man was tortured without revealing any information, and finally fainted in a blur of flesh and blood. Soon after, he was taken to the execution ground and brutally killed.
This young man is a good student and comrade-in-arms - Xia Minghan, who was only 28 years old when he died.
Wang Erzhuo. The children of rich families resolutely gave up a comfortable life
He came from a prestigious family, and his grandfather and father were both important ministers and officials of the Qing Dynasty, but he never defended the interests of the old-fashioned family.
In 1920, Minghan came to Changsha with the joy of a complete break with the feudal family, and was introduced by He Shuheng to meet the long-admired ***
When they met for the first time, Xia Minghan walked forward quickly, held his hand tightly and said, "I have admired the name for a long time." ”
** Gently patted him on the shoulder and said: "You are Xia Minghan, listen to Hu Zi, you have done a good job in Hengyang, you are not afraid of prison, you are not afraid of sinking pools, okay, you are much stronger than Jia Baoyu in Daguanyuan." ”
** The witty and funny words caused the people present to laugh, thus opening the conversation, and the two chatted very affectionately, and they hit it off at first sight.
In fact, the two already had a certain understanding of each other before they met, Xia Minghan had read the articles written by ***, and admired him very much for his simple but to the point revolutionary essays.
Hunan Chuanshan Society - in August 1921, the site of Hunan Self-study University founded by He Shuheng and others.
I also heard of this rich boy who came out of the family of a feudal gentry, and compared him to the "Hengyang Goose" who pursues the sun and does not love his hometown.
In July 1921, ** in Changsha, the first branch of the Communist Party of China in the country——— Hunan Branch was founded. Subsequently, on the basis of the branch, the party's first provincial party committee——— the Hunan District Committee of the Communist Party of China was established. ** Comrade personally served as secretary.
At this time, the party urgently needs its own cadres. ** and others decided to use the site of the Chuanshan Institute to establish Hunan Self-Study University. Xia Minghan entered the Xi of self-study university, was the first student here, served as the leader of the Xi group, and his performance was all in the eyes.
Soon after, Xia Minghan was introduced to the Communist Party of China by He Shuheng. He held the hand of *** and said excitedly: "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." In order to smash this old world and build a beautiful new society, please weigh on me!After hearing this, I smiled with satisfaction.
Youth Hengyang.
There are five martyrs in one family, all of whom are descendants
In the 7 years that he walked on the revolutionary road as a party member, he worked as a teacher, led demonstrations, engaged in peasant movements, and organized the Autumn Harvest Uprising.
And the most important person who guided Xia Minghan to grow into a great proletarian vanguard fighter and a staunch Marxist was *** Xia Minghan's teacher, and Xia Minghan was ***'s closest comrade-in-arms.
In the torrent of revolution, Xia Minghan strongly supported and assisted *** to carry out various revolutionary work, and fought bravely for the cause of the Chinese revolution without fear of sacrifice.
Youth Hengyang.
In 1924, Xia Minghan served as a member of the Hunan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China and Minister of Peasants. He often went to Changsha, Pingjiang, Xiangtan, and other places to gain an in-depth understanding of the situation of the peasants, pay attention to training cadres of the peasant movement, and ensure that revolutionary youths were sent to Guangzhou to give lectures on what they had learned Xi Xi the peasants.
In October 1927, Xia Minghan led the peasant uprisings in Pingjiang and Liuyang, and effectively cooperated with the establishment of the Jinggangshan Base Area.
At the beginning of 1928, Xia Minghan was transferred to Hubei by the party organization to work and served as a member of the Standing Committee of the Hubei Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China. Due to the betrayal of the traffic officer Song Ruolin, Xia Minghan was unfortunately arrested by the enemy in Wuhan on March 18, 1928.
The enemy used all kinds of torture to torture Xia Minghan, hoping to learn from him the list of some underground party members and party secrets. Xia Minghan would rather die than give in. Two days later, in the early morning of March 20, Xia Minghan was taken to the Yujili Execution Ground in Hankou.
When the executive officer asked Shamingham if he had anything else to say, he exclaimed, "Bring me pen and paper!."So, Xia Minghan wrote:
It doesn't matter if you cut off your head, as long as the doctrine is true. Killed Xia Minghan, and later generations.
If we count from the order of participating in the revolution and not just sacrificing time, among the "descendants", there are four relatives of Xia Minghan.
It was under Xia Minghan's education and encouragement that his fourth sister Xia Mingheng, fifth brother Xia Mingzhen, seventh brother Xia Mingli, and nephew Wu Yizhuang joined the revolution one after another, and they were all as iron-clad as him, and died heroically one after another. The oldest was 28 years old and the youngest was only 19 years old when they died.
The wife changed her name as an only daughter, and after liberation, she made a living by pasting cartons
After Xia Minghan died, his wife Zheng Jiajun took his daughter Xia Yun to live a life of escape. In order to support his daughter, Zheng Jiajun embroidered fabrics, pasted boxes, and made money to make ends meet by doing odd jobs.
In the past 47 years, she not only refused the special care of the organization, but also did not remarry, but was self-reliant and worked hard to raise her daughter.
During the Changsha workers' movement in 1922, the two met and gradually fell in love.
One day in April 1926, ** came to Xia Mingham's room, saw him washing clothes, and said with feeling: "Minghan, it's time to find a partner!".Isn't Zheng Jiajun very good to you?”
Xia Minghan replied: "Jiajun is good!."Good home!* said happily: "You two are in love, like-minded, let's get married as soon as possible!".”
After being a matchmaker, Xia Minghan and Zheng Jiajun held a wedding on the fourth day of the ninth lunar month in 1926 in a simple private house, and the address was at No. 4 Qingshuitang, Changsha City.
Zheng Jiajun, Xia Minghan.
On the 26th day of September in the lunar calendar in 1927, Zheng Jiajun gave birth to a daughter, Xia Minghan was very happy and named her Chiyun (later renamed Xia Yun).
When Xia Minghan died, Xia Yun was only half a year old. In order to avoid being cut down by the Kuomintang reactionaries, Zheng Jiajun changed his daughter's name to Zheng Yiyun (later changed to Xia Yun).
In the 50s of the 20th century, after graduating from Beijing Agricultural University, Xia Yun obeyed the organizational arrangement and successively worked in Gannan, Yichun, Jiujiang and other places in Jiangxi, becoming the first generation of non-ferrous metal experts in China.
After growing up, Xia Yun inherited her father's legacy, and she was extremely low-key, and almost no one knew that she was a hero. After retiring, Xia Yun has been living in seclusion, living silently in Jiujiang, and like her mother, she has not made any requests to the organization.
Since she was a child, she has taught her children to keep a low profile, not to feel "superior" and different because they are "descendants of martyrs", and to work and live with their own labor.
Xia Minghan's daughter Xia Yun and son-in-law Zhang Jinglu.
I believe that Xia Minghan will be very relieved to learn that his wife and daughter continue his will, because at the last moment of his life, he wrote three farewell letters to his mother, wife and eldest sister respectively. These three letters, one is love, one is Mingzhi, and one is looking forward to the dawn.
One of the letters to the mother wrote: "The children do not see their mother's temples white, but I believe that you will see the red flag we have raised fluttering in the blue sky of the motherland." Although he didn't see it with his own eyes, his "descendants" saw it for him, "the red flag of the whole country fluttering in the blue sky of the motherland", so beautiful!
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