Xinhua News Agency, Nanjing, May 8th. Title: Zhang Tailei: Seeking happiness in the future.
Xinhua News Agency reporter Qiu Bingqing
This is the portrait of Zhang Tailei (file photo). Xinhua News Agency issued
In Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province, there is the Zhang Tailei Memorial Hall. Taking Zhang Tailei's revolutionary footprints as clues, it shows his revolutionary and glorious life through oil paintings, real objects, photos and other historical materials, and also tells people's thoughts and concerns for him.
Zhang Tailei, formerly known as Zhang Zengrang, was born in June 1898 in Wujin, Jiangsu. He was admitted to Peking University in 1915, and transferred to Tianjin Beiyang University (now Tianjin University) to study law in the winter of the same year. Because of his determination to turn into a "thunder", to dispel the haze, and to transform the old society, he later changed his name to Zhang Tailei for Mingzhi.
1919 May Fourth Patriotic Movement broke out, Zhang Tailei actively participated in it and became one of the backbones of the patriotic movement in Tianjin. During the movement, Zhang Tailei established a connection with Li Dazhao, whom he had admired for a long time. Under the influence of Li Dazhao, Zhang Tailei began to contact and believe in Marxism, and participated in the Marx Theory Research Association organized by Li Dazhao at Peking University to assist him in the work of establishing the Communist Party of China. In October 1920, Zhang Tailei and Deng Zhongxia joined the early Communist Party organization initiated by Li Dazhao and others in Beijing and became one of the earliest members of the Chinese Communist Party.
After that, he and Deng Zhongxia actively carried out the labor movement, and went to Changxindian to set up a labor training school, which trained the first backbone of the northern railway labor movement. Beginning in the spring of 1921, Zhang Tailei went to the Soviet Union to work and study successively, and served as the secretary of the Chinese Section of the Comintern Far East Secretariat. The first Kuomintang-Communist cooperation.
After returning to China in 1924, Zhang Tailei was in charge of the work of the Central Committee.In January 1925, he was elected secretary of the Central Committee of the Chinese Socialist Youth League at the Third National Congress of the Chinese Socialist Youth League, attended the four major events of the party and was elected as an alternate member of the Central Committee. In 1925, the Guangdong-Guangdong District Committee of the Communist Party of China was changed to the Guangdong-Guangdong District Committee of the Communist Party of China, and Zhang Tailei was one of the principals of the District Committee. From February 1926 to April 1927, Zhang Tailei was the editor-in-chief of People's Weekly, the official publication of the Guangdong District Party Committee.
From April to May 1927, Zhang Tailei attended the CCP National Congress and sharply criticized Chen Duxiu for his right-wing opportunism mistakes. In order to save the revolution, the Hubei Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China with Zhang Tailei as its secretary clearly put forward strategies and suggestions such as arming peasants to "go up the mountain" and fighting for local armed forces in early June. In July, the CPC Central Committee was reorganized, and Zhang Tailei served as one of the five standing members of the Provisional Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee; after the 1987 meeting, he was sent to work in Guangdong, serving as the secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Secretary of the Military Committee of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, and the Southern Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. Secretary and member of the Military Commission of the Southern Bureau.
As soon as Zhang Tailei arrived in Guangdong, he immediately studied and formulated a riot plan for the whole province, and initiated the formation of the Guangzhou Uprising Command Organization - the Revolutionary Military Committee, serving as its chairman. Just as preparations were underway, news of the uprising leaked. Zhang Tailei made a decisive decision, and the gunshots of the Guangzhou Uprising started early in the early morning of December 11, 1927. Under the auspices of Zhang Tailei, the Guangzhou Soviet Government was established and served as acting chairman and member of the People's Navy and Army.
On December 12, the second day of the Guangzhou Uprising, the enemy troops captured the important positions of the rebel army, and divided their troops to attack the general headquarters of the rebel army. Zhang Tailei heard the news and immediately rushed to the front line to command the battle. The car was ambushed by the enemy while driving. Zhang Tailei was shot three times and fell into the convertible car with the red flag. He died heroically. He used his short 29 years of life to fulfill the solemn vow of "willing to turn into thunder that shatters the old world".
Walking into the Zhang Tailei Memorial Hall, the words "seeking eternal happiness in the future" on the wall of the exhibition hall come into view."This is a sentence in Zhang Tailei's family letter, and it is also Zhang Tailei's unswerving pursuit in his life." Huang Mingyan, curator of Changzhou Sanjie Memorial Hall, said that he chose communism when there were many ideological trends at that time, and practiced it throughout his life. Not afraid of sacrifice, dedicated to the Chinese revolution with outstanding talent, high enthusiasm and young life.
At the end of 2020, Changzhou City fully launched the Changzhou Sanjie Memorial Hall and the surrounding environment improvement project, including adding a Tailei Youth Belief Space in the Zhang Tailei Memorial Hall. "The Tailei Youth Faith Space mainly provides customized micro-party classes and group class courses services, etc., which truly combines the study of party history and league history with a variety of theme activities." Huang Mingyan said.
