It was an ordinary morning, and the communist Li Dazhao sat quietly in his study, intently writing his beliefs, while his 16-year-old daughter, Li Xinghua, quietly read the newspaper.
However, this moment of tranquility was broken less than 5 minutes later, with shrill gunshots and noisy voices coming from outside the window ......A team of military policemen dressed in gray **, police officers in black ** and plainclothes detectives broke into the courtyard where Li Dazhao's father and daughter were, forcibly surrounded their house, pointed their guns at Li Dazhao and his daughter, and then took Li Dazhao's self-defense pistol, picked them up, and took them to a detention center surrounded by high walls.
Li Dazhao studied at Waseda University in Japan in his early years and was supported by his wife. After returning to China after completing his studies, he actively participated in the revolution and promoted the development of the New Culture Movement together with Chen Duxiu and others.
As one of the early leaders of the Chinese Communist Party, Li Dazhao naturally attracted the attention of the Beiyang warlord Zhang Zuolin. Eventually, he was imprisoned during the White Terror of the reactionary warlords, and on April 6, 1927, he suffered misfortune with his family.
April 28, 1927, this day is an unforgettable memory for Li Dazhao's daughter. Since Li Xinghua and her family were arrested and imprisoned, she has been separated from her father and has not been able to see her father for more than ten days.
On this day, Li Xinghua and his mother were munching on the lunch made by Wowotou in the women's prison, when suddenly someone called out the names of their mother and daughter. It dawned on Li Xinghua that she, her mother, and her family would be brought to court for trial.
In court, Li Xinghua finally saw his father Li Dazhao again. It's just that his father's glasses are gone, his hair is long and messy, and his jaw is a pale and calm face, looking lovingly at her and her mother.
At this time, Li Xinghua's mother and daughter could no longer suppress the sadness in their hearts, but they were soon restrained by the judge's heavy slap on the table, and their father's calm demeanor, and they began to try their best to maintain their composure.
During the trial, the judge asked Li Dazhao: "Is Li Xinghua your eldest child?" Li Xinghua was worried that his father would confess his brother who was studying outside, so he replied before his father: "Yes, I am the eldest child." ”
Li Dazhao understood, so he continued: "She is my eldest child. My wife is a country man, and my children are all young, and they don't understand anything. None of this has anything to do with them. ”
Li Xinghua understands that this is the biggest defense that his father can do for himself and his mother. However, at this time, Li Xinghua's mother and daughter did not realize that this court meeting would be the last time she and her father would meet.
Li Xinghua and his mother learned that they could go home in the evening after the trial, but a newspaper in the hands of his uncle changed all that. Li Dazhao and others were hanged yesterday, and this news made Li Xinghua's heart like a knife, and she fainted.
Mother Zhao Yunlan couldn't accept this fact either, and fainted many times. 38-year-old Li Dazhao passed away like this, which made his family unacceptable. The first thing my mother said when she woke up was: "On the day of April 28th, you must remember."
This is the day your father was killed. Li Xinghua remembered this day and was unwilling to see why his father was killed. Due to the absence of her brother, Li Xinghua, as the eldest daughter, understands that she needs to take on the responsibility of taking care of her younger siblings.
After Li Dazhao's death, the family economy was cut off, and even his coffin was bought by party insiders. The warlords, fearing Li Dazhao's influence, refused to bury his body.
This made Li Dazhao's wife, Zhao Yunlan, very painful, and she struggled to ask for help from Cai Yuanpei, the president of Peking University. However, Cai Yuanpei knew that the Beiyang warlord Zhang Zuolin would never agree to this request, so he advised Zhao Yunlan: "You bear with it, your child is still young, if you insist on disobeying Zhang Zuolin and forcibly going to the funeral, someone may hurt your mother and son." ”
In the end, Zhao Yunlan had no choice but to return to her hometown in Hebei, waiting for the opportunity that might never come.
After Li Dazhao's eldest son Li Baohua was killed, he hid in the house of his friend Zhou Zuo in order to avoid pursuit, and went to Japan to study under a pseudonym. After he was admitted to a physics and chemistry school in Tokyo, his life was guaranteed.
However, the life of my mother and sister in my hometown is very difficult, without my father's income, it is difficult to even eat, let alone go to school. Once, when Li Dazhao's wife was cleaning up her daughter Li Xinghua's room, she found a small book that she secretly taught herself, and her heart ached.
She sent the letter to Zhou Zuoren, hoping that he would help her children go to school. Zhou Zuoren agreed, took Zhao Yunlan's daughters Li Xinghua and Li Yanhua to Beijing, and arranged for them to enter the Confucius School.
In order to thank Zhou Zuoren for his help, Li Xinghua and his sister also began to do some part-time jobs to subsidize their lives. Five years later, Li Xinghua graduated from high school and joined the underground party, starting the same revolutionary path as his father.
On April 23, 1933, Li Xinghua's family finally waited for the news of Li Dazhao's body being buried. However, the funeral road was not smooth, and when the procession reached the middle of the procession, the gendarmes began to drive away and beat the revolutionary crowd and their former friends who were paying public sacrifices, and some were even wounded and bleeding.
The funeral was forced to stop, but with the help of Cai Yuanpei, Hu Shi and others, the gendarmes were eventually withdrawn, and Li Dazhao's coffin successfully arrived and was buried in Wan'an Cemetery in Beiping.
Sadly, just one month after Li Dazhao's funeral, Zhao Yunlan died of illness at the age of 47.
Li Xinghua, Li Dazhao's eldest daughter, although she is only 22 years old, she has begun to resume her studies, met and married the literary genius Jia Zhi. She completed her studies in Yan'an and became a secondary school teacher.
Although life was hard, there were no decent classrooms, no textbooks, desks and chairs, she still persevered, made up her own teaching materials, and taught students in the cave rain or shine.
She is conscientious in her work, and when she marks assignments, she "annotates more than homework". Later, she was transferred back to Beijing to continue teaching at a middle school in Beijing. Her students are scientists, professors, ministers, and chiefs, and they are all over the world.
Although she was blind, she still insisted on dictating and completing the book "Memories of My Father Li Dazhao". However, before the book was published, she died of illness at the age of 68.
Li Baohua, one of Li Dazhao's children, grew up under the protection of Li Xinghua's court and inherited his father's revolutionary spirit. After returning to China after completing his studies, he resolutely joined the Shanghai Student Union in Japan and joined the anti-Japanese patriotic movement.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he was entrusted with the important task of presiding over the rectification of the financial industry and helping China join the International Monetary Council. finally enjoyed his old age in Beijing, and died of illness in 2005 at the age of 96, which can be said to be one of the children of Li Dazhao with the best fate.
Li Dazhao's children all have loyalty to the revolution and enthusiasm for education. His second daughter, Li Yanhua, devoted herself to the revolution while she was in school and silently contributed to the education cause of her hometown; After the victory of the revolution, she was transferred back to Beijing to work until her death in 1979.
His other son, Li Xinhua, received a good education and became the principal of a secondary school, but died in 1989 due to overwork. And his second son, Li Guanghua, with his super high academic literacy and political consciousness, became the party secretary of the Electronics Research Institute until his death due to illness in 2012.
Before his death, Li Guanghua left a last wish not to issue obituaries and to be simple in everything, reflecting his indifferent fame and fortune and unpretentious qualities.
The heroic spirit of Li Dazhao and his descendants is the spiritual pillar of the Chinese nation and has helped us along the way. Just as Li Dazhao firmly said before his inauguration, communism will not disappear because of his sacrifice, but will be like the seeds of saffron, scattered all over the place, blooming more brilliantly.