In January 1947, Liu Hulan, a 15-year-old candidate female Communist Party member, was brutally murdered by Kuomintang reactionaries in Yunzhou West Village, Shanxi Province. Half a year later, the Jinsui Branch of the Communist Party of China posthumously recognized her as an official party member, and was saddened by the inscription written by ***. Liu Hulan's heroic deeds were subsequently widely publicized, and ** and *** had inscriptions praising her revolutionary spirit of not being afraid of sacrifice.
After Liu Hulan's murder, people began to pay attention to the living conditions of her four younger siblings. Liu Hulan was born in 1932 in a poor rural village near the Luliang Mountains. Her parents were poor peasants, and she lost her mother when she was four years old, and her father remarried her stepmother, and later had a younger brother and a younger sister.
When Liu Hulan was 10 years old, she joined the village children's group, and although she did not understand esoteric revolutionary ideas, she simply believed that the party and the people's army were for the welfare of the common people. In 1945, she attended a women's training class, where she learned cultural knowledge and revolutionary theories, and gradually grew into a staunch revolutionary fighter. In 1946, 14-year-old Liu Hulan served as the secretary and director of the village women's rescue association, and became an alternate party member.
At the beginning of 1947, due to the exposure of her identity, she faced death threats with a firm attitude, and finally exposed the crimes of the Kuomintang authorities in front of the villagers, and was brutally killed. When martyr Liu Hulan, a family member of martyr Liu Hulan, died, her own sister Liu Ailan witnessed this bloody scene. The blood of her sister and her hatred for the reactionaries have become a deep memory that cannot be erased in Liu Ailan's life.
Later, Liu Ailan became a drama actress and often played the image of her sister in the play. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, she successively worked in the Taiyuan Agricultural Construction Bureau and the Shanxi Provincial Department of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry. After her retirement, she devoted herself to collecting and organizing her sister's historical materials and publicizing her sister's heroic deeds until her death in Taiyuan in 2020. Martyr Liu Hulan also had three half-sisters and younger brothers.
Liu Fanglan has the same intelligence as her sister, and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, she was admitted to the Military Region Health Academy and became an outstanding doctor of the Military Region Health Department. Liu Jiying and Liu Ailan witnessed the murder of their sister together, and because of this, he harbored hatred for reactionaries and was admitted to the North ** Law Department in the sixties. The youngest brother Liu Jilie was only 3 years old when Liu Hulan died, and many years later he was admitted to the Shanxi Provincial Police Academy and became a policeman in the county public security bureau.
In addition to Liu's brothers and sisters, her father and stepmother were also deeply saddened by her sacrifice. Under the care of the party and **, the whole family moved to Taiyuan, and they were well taken care of in their later years. Liu Hulan's heroic deeds will always be remembered in people's hearts and are the greatest tribute to her.