He was one of the early leaders of our party and made indelible contributions to the early founding of our partyBut it was this hot-blooded man who "established a new life for heaven and earth and a life for the people", but in the end, because he was victimized by the villain, his life was fixed at the best 29 years old!
Looking back at history, his bravery and integrity deserve to be remembered forever!
Chen Yannian is the eldest son of Chen Duxiu, born in 1898, he also met China's darkest era!
When he was 6 years old, his mother Gao Xiaolan sent him to a private school to study, and he has been educated in his hometown of Anhui since thenAfter the Xinhai Revolution, it officially entered the new school!
On the way to study, Chen Yannian obviously inherited his father's excellent genes!
He is smart and studious, full of classics and classics, and has a deep attainment in Chinese studies. ”
As he grew older, Chen Yannian became more and more eager to explore the right way to save the country after witnessing all kinds of absurdities such as Yuan Shikai stealing the country and Beiyang ** suppressing aspiring patriots.
In 1915, Chen Duxiu founded the magazine "New Youth" in Shanghai, which became"May Fourth New Culture"The flag bearer of the movement.
After 17-year-old Chen Yannian heard about his father's patriotic actions, he immediately rushed to Shanghai with his younger brother Chen Qiaonian to participate in the patriotic ** movement!
In the bustling streets and alleys of Shanghai, Chen Yannian was not swept away by the bustle of Shili Yangchang**, but took his younger brother into a nearby French school to formally Xi learn French!
Because he has been with his father Chen Duxiu since he was a child, he has been separated from him a lot, and there is an estrangement between father and son.
Chen Yannian moved to live outside with his younger brother, working hard to earn tuition fees and studying hard to Xi.
The years of studying in Shanghai coincided with great changes in China's ideological circles
With the banner of Chen Duxiu's New Culture Movement, various advanced trends of thought have also been widely disseminated, among which the non-**ism that advocates "absolute individual freedom" has had a profound impact on many intellectuals who resisted feudal rule.
Chen Yannian, who already had a rebellious psychology towards his father, chose to believe in this belief that conflicted with his father's thoughts, and also joined the Evolution Society with his younger brother, vigorously promoting no-**ism.
In 1919, the May Fourth Patriotic Movement broke out!
Chen Duxiu, who is the commander-in-chief of the May Fourth Movement, was also arrested for distributing "** leaflets", and was released after Cai Yuanpei's multi-party turnover.
After learning that Chen Duxiu was imprisoned, someone asked Chen Yannian:
The situation is so terrifying, aren't you afraid of danger?
Chen Yannian said:Danger is a matter of intent, but also an internal matter, people with lofty ideals, ask for this opportunity to make a glorious sacrifice and cannot get it, what horror can be said!
The background of the times in which Chen Yannian lives can be described as dirty and chaotic!
Inside, there are greedy warlords who oppress the people, and outside, there are powerful enemies who are eyeing the country and bullying the country.
Under the critical situation of suffering from the disaster of the family and the country, many aspiring young people decided to go abroad to learn Xi advanced science and technology in order to enrich the country and strengthen the army, so as to save the country and the people!
Chen Yannian is one of them!
In the non-** Evolution Society, 20-year-old Chen Yannian met Wu Zhihui, who strongly advocated non-**ism.
Wu Zhihui was very optimistic about the leadership talent and influence potential of the two Chen Yannian brothers, so he tried his best to recommend the two brothers to study in FranceAnd Chen Yannian, out of respect for his elders, respectfully called Uncle Wu Zhihui.
At that time, France could be said to be a pioneer city of ideological and academic movements.
The decision of the two brothers was also approved by their father Chen Duxiu!
In this way, the young Chen Yannian took his younger brother Chen Qiaonian and happily stepped on the ship to France!
It's just a sad sigh: the farewell of the dock is the last meeting of the father and son!
When he first arrived in France, Chen Yannian's belief in no-**ism was still firm!
Therefore, whenever he received a letter from his father Chen Duxiu urging him to "break away from no-**ism", he would always be angry and expressed:
"Duxiu, don't pay attention to him. ”
From this point, it can also be seen that the relationship between father and son is quite tense!
But as he settled down in France, Chen Yannian met Zhao Shiyan, Cai Hesen and others, who were also working in France, and became in awe of Marxism they believed, which led to the "no-**ism" that he had believed in for many years began to waver.
The conflict between beliefs and values makes Chen Yannian always wander around his ideals, painful and helpless!
It was not until 1921 that there were three major struggles among French students, which completely reversed Chen Yannian's thinking
Chen Yannian found that the no-**ism he believed in could never withstand the test of human natureAnd Wu Zhihui, the most respected uncle, colluded with France to deal with Chinese students.
These real things made Chen Yannian deeply aware that no-**ism could not save the country and the nation from peril!
Therefore, Chen Yannian resolutely chose to break with his previous beliefs!
And this reversal of faith also made his relationship with Wu Zhihui deteriorate rapidly.
In June 1922, 24-year-old Chen Yannian, together with Zhao Shiyan, ** and other progressive youths, founded the Communist Organization in Europe, the Chinese Young Communist Party.
In this particular organization, Chen Yannian was recommended to serve as the Minister of Propaganda because of his excellent leadership skills;Soon, the Communist Party of China was officially confirmed as a member of the Communist Party of China.
So far, this hot-blooded man has really embarked on the road of saving the country and the people!
In 1924, under the rule and suppression of the Beiyang warlords, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party realized that only cooperation could carry out the revolution, and the first cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party was born!
At this time, due to the great changes in the domestic situation, a large number of backbone personnel are needed to return to China to work!
Brother Chen Yannian, who is studying abroad, also responded to the party's orders and returned to the motherland after a long absence!
Since Guangdong was gradually becoming a revolutionary center at that time, Chen Yannian was appointed secretary of the Guangdong District Party Committee after returning to China, responsible for the revolutionary work in Guangdong
That year was October 1924, and the young Chen Yannian came from the wind and dust and stuck to the land of Guangdong until he died!
Energetic and resolute, this is Chen Yannian, who has just taken office!
After taking over the work of the Guangdong District Party Committee, he successively set up the Secretariat, the Organization Department, the Propaganda Department, the Peasant Department, the Women's Department and other institutions, and trained a number of outstanding party cadres such as Deng Yingchao and Lin Weimin.
After the establishment of the Whampoa Military Academy, Chen Yannian assisted in the work of the Whampoa Military AcademyAnd during the Great Revolution, he actively propagated communism with many revolutionaries!
At that time, there were many rickshaw drivers in Guangdong, but they were never organized into a force.
In order to understand the real situation of the drivers, Chen Yannian personally went to learn to pull a rickshaw!
In the end, Chen Yannian, with his own efforts, established a "rickshaw" organization at the grassroots level that should not be underestimated, and played a great role in the later Guangzhou Uprising.
With the breakdown of the cooperation between the KMT and the CCP, the domestic situation is once again precarious!
In 1925, Shanghai students staged demonstrations to denounce the workers who had been brutalized by the reactionaries, but they were suppressed by the military and police.
Chen Yannian, who learned of the situation, ignored his father's letter of opposition, resolutely chose to respond to the situation, and led a general strike in Guangdong that shocked China and the rest of the world.
How do you evaluate the 16-month-long strike movement led by Chen Yannian?
It can be said that this movement is the largest, longest-lasting, and far-reaching strike in the history of the Chinese workers' movement and even the world workers' movementIt not only dealt a heavy blow to the reactionary forces at home and abroad, but also enabled the workers' and Communist Party organizations to develop and grow rapidly.
This strike movement, which shocked China and the rest of the world, also fully demonstrated Chen Yannian's practical style and leadership skills.
Call him a "rare talent";Mr. Lu Xun, who has always been serious, also admired with joy: the future is terrifying, and the blue is better than the blue, and there is great hope.
I often wonder: If God has mercy, can Chen Yannian's life have more possibilities?
However, the world is cruel, and people with lofty ideals are always fateful!
Chen Yannian, who should have created more outstanding achievements, died tragically at the age of 29!
With 412 The counter-revolutionary coup d'état took place, and a large number of patriots were subjected!
After hearing the news of the coup, Chen Yannian rushed to Jiangsu overnight to organize resistance forces!
On June 16, 1927, the atmosphere of the White Terror was strong!
At the same time, the Communist Party of China decided to establish a new Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee, and the meeting appointed Chen Yannian as the secretary of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee.
However, while the meeting was in progress, it suddenly received a report that a traffic officer of a provincial party committee had been arrested, and he had to immediately announce the dismissal of the meeting.
After covering everyone's retreat, Chen Yannian decided to return again to check the situation and look for an opportunity to destroy them because he was worried about the provincial party committee organs and many documents.
Unexpectedly, surrounded by the Kuomintang military and police ambushed around, Chen Yannian and other four people**!
It is worth noting:
Chen Yannian was born ** thick and black, and his physique is solid, looking like a rickshaw driver, at that time he was wearing short clothes, with straw ropes tied to his trouser legs, no different from a worker doing rough work, so he claimed to be a hired tea house, named Chen Yousheng.
After the enemy looked at Chen Yannian's embarrassed clothes, he believed his words!
However, during the arrest process, Chen Yannian and the four people clashed with the military and police, and were detained on charges of disturbing the peaceTo put it bluntly, it's just waiting for the family to take the money to ransom!
So after Chen Yannian**, he wrote a letter to his father's friend Wang Mengzou, signed Chen Yousheng!
Seeing the familiar notes on the letter, Wang Mengzou immediately panicked, and was determined to rescue Chen Yannian immediately!
Rushing to the doctor for a sudden illness often causes complications!
Wang Mengzou, who was anxious, immediately ran to Hu Shi for help and asked the other party to try to rescue him.
What makes people sigh is that Hu Shi wrote to Wu Zhihui again, hoping that the other party would remember the past friendship and help Chen Yannian tide over the difficulties!
It was Hu Shi's letter that completely pushed Chen Yannian to a desperate situation!
Although Hu Shi and Wu Zhihui were both involved in the New Culture Movement in their early years, they had a close friendship with Chen Yannian;However, due to Chen Yannian's final departure from non-a**ism and his choice to turn to communism, Wu Zhihui held a grudge;At this time, although Wu Zhihui became a powerful figure in the Kuomintang, he was more determined to support Chiang Kai-shek's purging of the party.
Therefore, from the moment Hu Shi wrote to Wu Zhihui, it meant that Chen Yannian's identity had been exposed.
Wu Zhihui is a narrow-minded person, even if he is in the first place, but he scolded Chen Duxiu for calling himself an "old dog" in the article back then, and Chen Yannian abandoned it in France"No **ism"This matter is still lingering.
Therefore, after receiving Hu Shi's request letter, Wu Zhihui was overjoyed!
He hurriedly wrote to Yang Hu of the Military Police Department:
"Today, Wen Zun captured Chen Duxiu's son to prolong his life, and he didn't feel that he was happy, this son was a hundred times more evil than his father!"。
In this way, Chen Yannian's identity was completely exposed;In order to obtain effective information, Yang Hu brutally coerced a confession from Chen Yannian.
But even though the torture was horrific, Chen Yannian always adhered to his faith and refused to bow to the reactionaries!
This courage to regard death as if it were home completely angered Yang Hu;Without the consent of the above, Yang Hu decided"Terminations"Chen Yannian.
On the evening of July 4, 1927, nine days after Chen Yannian**, the executioner brought him to the execution ground.
Before the execution, the executioner held him down and ordered him to kneel on the groundHowever, Chen Yannian, who has great righteousness in his heart, has always maintained the integrity and dignity of a revolutionary, is not afraid of danger, and would rather die than kneel!
He shouted fearlessly"It is you sinners of the people who should kneel, and one day you will be put on the gallows by the people to be judged by justice. ”
Annoyed and enraged, the executioners swarmed up, pushed the young man to the ground, and slashed at his thin and stubborn body.
The skin is open, and the blood is splashed ......
This hot-blooded young man who was on the front line of saving the country and the people was hacked to death by a cruel executioner like this!
When I was a teenager, I was a hero.
The peach blossoms fly red rain, and the scorching glow remembers the heroic ......
He was only 29 years old that year, which was the best age of his life!
When the news of his brother's death came, Chen Qiaonian was extremely sad, and the scenes of the past kept coming back to his eyes, but it didn't take long for him to be transferred to Shanghai, the place where his brother died.
At the age of 26, Chen Qiaonian was arrested by Kuomintang reactionariesIn the face of his bravery and tenacity like his brother Chen Yannian, the impatient reactionaries executed Chen Qiaonian ...... again
Righteous and awe-inspiring, not afraid of sacrifice, this is the moral character of young people in that era!
Even if the mountains and rivers are devastated and the day is precarious, for them, nothing can precede the spiritual pursuit, and there is nothing greater than the safety of the country and the nation!
According to incomplete statistics, in the great journey of China's revolutionary struggle, a total of 20 million martyrs sacrificed their precious lives, but less than one-tenth of them left their names for future generations to know and remember, and most of the martyrs silently sank into the smoke of history.
If it weren't for the TV series "Awakening Age", many viewers would not have seen the tragedy of the Chen family, such as Chen Yannian, Chen Qiaonian and other hot-blooded young people!
Modern society is fast-paced, and because we are in a hurry, we inevitably lose something, or lose some pure faith and values.
Looking back on history, let us remember the suffering, but also stick to our hearts!
Even if the times are developing rapidly, we should not forget the prosperous China that our ancestors watered with their blood, and we should not forget those heroes who are struggling to find the way forward on the muddy road!
In this era, there is no shortage of entertainment, no lack of excitement, what is lacking is sobriety, and the ability to think without crowds.
Therefore, remember the path taken by our ancestors, so that we can go further and more stable!