The tortuous past of the sons and grandchildren of the Xia family who "really have come after" was published in this newspaper on September 12, which moved countless readers. Tao Zhu and Zeng Zhi’s daughter Tao Siliang wrote a special article authorizing Xinmin Evening News to publish exclusively, which disclosed more details.
The author of this article's recent shadow
is my big brother's life stone. He is the posthumous son of the Hunan revolutionary martyr Xia Mingzhen , the stepson of the heroic Cai Xiemin , and the adopted son of a peasant surnamed Shi. In the early revolutionary career of the party, such children's situation was not uncommon.
Turn to the topic, how many surnames does my elder brother have? It is more complicated. Among his many sons, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, some are surnamed Shi, some are surnamed Cai, and now he has a "future surname"-Shi Xia. The eldest brother's family, who had never obtained the Zebei, now has to shoulder the clan inheritance of the three fathers. It is really hard for them!
to make a long story short
The story of my mother Zeng Zhi and Shi Laifa is also long, and it goes back 93 years. As early as 1999, his mother wrote in "A Survivor of the Revolution": "This child was raised by Captain Shi and his wife and named Shi Laifa. After Captain Shi died, Laifa inherited the incense of the Shi family. Rooted in Jinggangshan. As for Shi Lai’s suffering experience, how can he survive the bloody storm in the future? What kind of great kindness does the people of Jinggangshan have to him? Why didn’t he come to Guangzhou to live with me?’ Culture What happened to him in the Great Revolution, and why he is still a farmer today? These need another book to write clearly.
Now, this "book" has been completed by my nephew and grandson. They have talked about more than two thousand red family histories, and the audience has reached a million people. The blood and tears family history touched countless listeners.
On September 28 this year, the author of this article took a photo with his nephew, grand-nephew, and great-nephew granddaughter at home in Beijing _p3sp strong
30 After participating in the southern Hunan riots, she went to Jinggangshan with Mr. Zhu. She had already married Xia Mingzhen before. Xia Mingzhen was the secretary of the county party committee of Chenzhou Center at the time. He was talented and handsome. Unfortunately, he died heroically in the riot. I was 21 years old in Hetan. My mother walked up to Jinggang Mountain with her eldest brother and gave birth in the base area. There was a kind-hearted sister-in-law Mao built a small wall made of cedar bark and bamboo for her mother. Delivery room.
"I was in labor on November 7, 1928, because it was the anniversary of the Soviet October Revolution, so I remembered this day. Because it was a dystocia and the first child, it took me three days to give birth to the baby. "The mother recalled this way.
After giving birth to her eldest brother, the mother did not lose any dangerous postpartum complications. First, suffered massive postpartum hemorrhage , and passed out again and again; then she had breast sores, and her breast pain became unbearable and became The red and swollen pus boils could not be breast-feeding at all; immediately after suffering from the most terrible puerperal fever of the parturient, the fever remained high for a few days. However, the Kuomintang’s encirclement and suppression of Jinggangshan never stopped for a while.
Separation of mother and child
The mother died after nine deaths to save her life, but how to raise her child made her worry. She wrote in her autobiography: "I was only 17 years old at the time, and the war environment was so harsh and cruel, how could I have a child? It's a coincidence that when I was in trouble, one day the wife of a deputy company commander Shi of Wang Zuo's army came. Visit me, she saw that this child is cute, and she said happily, give it to me! So she happily took away the 26-day-old child."
mother recalled: "Once mother and child Really separated, I became sad again. After all, the child is the mother's dearest relatives, and my tears trickle down. "Mother rarely shed tears in her life, this is one time.
Cai's bloodline
After Xia Mingzhen was killed, my mother and Cai Xiemin became partners. After the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army withdrew from Jinggang Mountain, Cai Xiemin and his mother Zeng Zhi went to Fujian to carry out underground work. That was the time when my mother was full of energy. Minxi fought guerrillas, established CCP agencies in Fuzhou and Xiamen, took a dung boat to Zhangzhou to report to the chairman, and later established the Mindong Revolutionary Base, and recruited sea bandits alone... It shows the shrewdness of my mother back then. A "beauty photo" circulated on the Internet was my mother and Cai Xiemin's trip to the Xiamen photo studio to take pictures. The owner of the photo studio displayed the single photo of my mother in the window before it was preserved.
Cai Xiemin was betrayed by a traitor and was brave enough to die. My mother was hit hard again. However, because of Cai Xiemin, I have another second brother.
Left: Tao Siliang and Shi Laifa’s Sun Cai Jun in Jinggangshan in June 2013 in front of the Cai Xiemin Martyr Cai Jun; Tao Siliang in July 2010 in front of the Cai Xiemin Martyr in Jinggang Mountain; In front of the tomb of Xia Mingzhen
Cai Xiemin is one of the senior leaders of the Jinggangshan Revolutionary Base.The prestige in Jinggangshan is very high, so the eldest brother who rooted in Jinggangshan naturally received Cai Xiemin's martyr certificate, and became the blood of Cai with his second brother, and he did not know that his biological father was actually someone else.
Search and return
After 1949, my mother asked someone to retrieve my eldest and second brothers from Jinggangshan and Fujian. The second brother stayed with his mother, and later went to school in the Northeast to work, became an engineer, married a wife and had children. But the eldest brother returned to Jinggangshan again.
The layout of the newspaper today
was picked up by the for the first time. Regarding this paragraph, when my mother was interviewed by Jiangxi TV in 1997, she gave the following narrative (according to the interview video):
"In 1950, the director of the General Office of the State Council organized a delegation to Jinggangshan to give condolences, and I said you go and find me. Child. After he went, he helped me find it. Shi Laifa didn’t read a book for a day, so I told him to work in the factory and study while working. There were night schools in the factory at that time, and I asked him to study. He didn’t want to. He said, “I never knew that there were other parents. I was brought up by my grandmother, and my adoptive parents died soon afterwards. I must have a conscience and sacrifice to the grave of my ancestors and cannot leave.” His wife is also very capable. There are five acres of mountain forest and ten acres of land. He is reluctant, so he will not come. I said that whether you come or not, you will be the son of the revolution. The sons of workers are the same."
Just like that, the eldest brother returned to Jinggangshan where he was born and raised. This time he returned, his eldest brother showed his simplicity, kindness, and loveliness.Mother also let it go.
Difficult choice
In 1964, during the social education movement, the eldest brother made a small mistake and ran to Guangzhou to seek refuge. This time he asked his mother to let him stay. "However, Zeng Zhi rejected his son. What is the reason? Uncertain!" Li Chunlei, my young writer friend, wrote in his recent article "There are Real People". Why did the mother reject the eldest brother? I think this problem is solvable.
Everyone who has experienced it knows that 1964 was a special year. It was the end of a catastrophe and the eve of a greater catastrophe. The eldest brother who is the bookkeeper of the production team was found to be wrong and is under review. The extremely "Left" Movement of the Four Cleansings went online without limit. The eldest brother came to Guangzhou privately to make a big mistake. The mother left the eldest brother to stay in the same year not only unfairly, but also against the principle. Besides, the eldest brother was illiterate when he was 36 years old, and it was even more difficult to arrange in a turbulent environment.
In short, this is a difficult choice made by the older generation of revolutionaries in the entanglement of self-discipline and family affection.
meet again
later the mother and child meet again, 20 years apart. It wasn't until 1984 that her mother retired from the Central Organization Department at the age of 74, rekindling her desire for family affection, so she summoned her children.
The first time I saw my eldest brother was in 1985, when there was neither a highway nor an airport or a train in Jinggangshan. My eldest brother took his two nephews on the road and came to Beijing with great pains. This trip had to take a trip. Four days!
mother is also very excited,Make an exception to let Secretary Wu and the driver Xiao Xing go to the train station to pick them up. Normally, my mother does not allow family members to take her private car.
finally met the big brother! He is not tall, thin, and different from the bubble eyes of my second brother and me. He has deep eyes, a three-dimensional face, and a sincere smile. "Big brother must be handsome when he was young!" I thought quietly. The two nephews are good-looking and very beautiful. Although the eldest brother and two nephews are simple and old-fashioned, they are not what I imagined as a farmer. What moved me the most was that my eldest brother came to visit my mother with a load of thousands of mountains and rivers. This love is really too heavy! A load of two baskets, one basket is filled with the local specialties of Jinggang Mountain, and the other basket is filled with precious stone crutch (stone frog), these guys startled me! This is the best gift the eldest brother can give to his mother. Now the stone frog has been listed as a protected animal in Jinggangshan.
The family greeted the eldest brother grandly, and the mother was even more happy. They accompanied them to visit the historical sites of Beijing for several days, and even accompanied her son on the Great Wall regardless of old age.
1985 years Zeng and stone to send and Sun Zaicai take over the Great Wall
thicker than water
mother later in 1987 I went to Jinggangshan twice to visit my eldest brother's family in 1993. Secretary Liu Zhaohui recalled the scene when he accompanied his mother to Jinggangshan in 1987: “Old Zeng held Brother Shi’s hand as soon as he walked in, and never let go of it when eating. That kind of maternal affection was beyond words.”
Later, the mother took her. Second grandson Caolong and great-granddaughter Shi Li came to Beijing. My mother contacted the Beijing Tourism School for Shi Li, and I took her to Guangzhou after graduation.I told a real estate boss the tragic story of the Shi family, the Cai family, and the Xia family. Later, the boss accepted Shi Li. Shi Li met her real son when she was doing real estate sales, a young man from Guangzhou with a well-earned family. Now her children are in college. My sister Cai Yan also came to Guangzhou and married a good family. Both of Caolong's daughters also developed in Guangdong. Only the whole family, Cai Jun, returned to Jinggangshan after completing his military service in the Hong Kong Garrison and worked in the Cadre Management College run by the Central Organization Department. He was a young man of good quality and ability.
The words are too far apart, let’s go back to the big brother. Since reuniting in 1985, I have established a family relationship with my eldest brother's family. My nephews come and go frequently, and I visit Jinggangshan frequently before and after my mother's death. The eldest brother is not good at words, but his sister's name and a greeting to his mother are enough to express his sincere love for his mother.
July 1998, Shi Tao Siliang and to send the couple and Cai Chunhua couple Jinggangshan
brother to Beijing again and is accompanied Mother celebrated her last birthday.
I described this birthday scene in the article "Zeng Zhi and Xia Mingzhen": "Mother was a little excited today and said a lot. She said to the eldest brother and the second brother:'I can't help you, let you guys I have suffered a lot. Chunhua is disabled, and Shi Laifa is still a peasant laborer. But at that time I couldn’t help it. I was just a child and had to march and fight. The environment was very difficult. I couldn’t raise my children. I had to ask for help. You forgive me!'"
strong and stubborn mother,Asking for forgiveness from the two sons at the last moment of her life shows that she has always been thinking of these two hard-for-life sons in her heart. That day, the second brother choked up and shed tears several times, and his feelings for his mother were too complicated. In comparison, Big Brother is much simpler. He sincerely said to his mother: "You are raising us for nothing. We can't take care of you when you are sick. My sister is exhausted."
, April 1998 With Shi Laifa, Cai Chunhua and his wife, Tao Siliang in Beijing
I respect my elder brother very much. He has a hard time, his house is dilapidated, and he has a lot of difficulties, but he is respectful and gentle, simple and sincere, and has never complained. Mother, instead, repeatedly said to me: "We can't take care of our mother. We all rely on my sister. My sister has worked hard!" His calm and decent presence in front of my mother surprised me secretly. It is worthy of Xia Mingzhen's bones and blood!
Land entanglement
Now, the story of the big brother has already broken out of Jinggang to the whole country. There is always one plot in the story of the nephews telling the elder brother and the mother, that is, the mother does not provide commercial food for the elder brother's family. Perhaps this is the thing that the two nephews have been most entangled with. Their narration was meant to highlight the revolutionary and principled nature of grandma, but many people also felt that this was a bit unsympathetic.
In fact, the reason for this entanglement is that the two generations have different views on the land.
It is not difficult for grandma to solve the problem of commercial food for grandchildren. I once asked my mother: "You have always been eager to help others, and you have helped countless people. Why don't you just help your grandson?" My mother said to me very seriously: "We are doing the revolution and shed blood and sacrifice.Isn't it just for them to get a field? How do you say that you don't want it? "
This truth is becoming clearer now. I have repeatedly said to the aunt who came from the countryside at home: "No matter how foolish you are from above, you will never sell your land!" The most valuable thing in the future is land!
Many relatives and friends have been to my elder brother’s house, and they all admire and praise the rural scenery of my elder brother’s house. Although the house is a bit dilapidated, its feng shui is very good. It is surrounded by vast rice fields and there is a pond in front of the house with fish and fish. Duck. Behind the house is a green hill with dense bamboos and various trees, as well as Shijiazu’s tomb and my elder brother’s tomb. Not far away is a clear stream, gurgling day and night. The eldest brother’s house is in my mind My nephew Jin Long (Cai’s successor) said that they have renovated the ancestral house. Guarding this beautiful landscape, I wonder if the nephews will wake up now, how wise the grandma’s decision was. Ah!
After all, the nephew’s business is that after the reform and opening up, China’s urban-rural duality structure and huge urban-rural differences have caused a large number of rural populations to move to cities. Under the background of this era, I understand Nephews’ desire for city life, after all, there is nothing wrong with finding better job opportunities in the city and earning more money.
Family and destiny
my nephew Caolong, like my eldest brother, has worked as a farmer in Jinggangshan all his life. They are simple and kind, knowing and rewarding their ancestors. For the two nephews who were born in Si and grew up in Si, talk about the family history of their sufferings, and talk about her grandmother's revolutionary career in Jinggang Mountain. It is completely original and full of the mud of Jinggang Mountains. I have heard it and I am deeply moved. Sometimes I can’t help but ponder, am I the luckiest one in this large family with complicated surnames? Yes, but with an exception.
In 1945, my parents were ordered to go south to open up a new guerrilla zone,I was also solitary to the disabled Red Army and Guizhou farmer Uncle Yang. If Japan hadn't surrendered at that juncture, my destiny would not be known! Therefore, although born by a mother, it is not like fate.
My two elder brothers are connected by blood, and the relationship is deep. We can only thank our mother for letting us become brothers and sisters.
In July 2018, Tao Siliang and her husband went to Jinggang Mountain to clean the tomb for their mother, and they took over with his nephew Cai’s family, Shi Caolong and his family in front of the tomb (span3_pem14 _pem14 ) )
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