Foreword
In April 1928, the civil war in came to an end, and various warlords began to launch attacks on the revolutionary base areas. In just one year, the Jinggangshan Revolutionary Base suffered many violent attacks. Before the enemy was about to launch another attack, Mao Zedong, Zhu De and others could only lead the Fourth Red Army to temporarily withdraw from Jinggangshan, hoping to adopt the strategy of "surrounding Wei and rescuing Zhao" to break the enemy's third attack.
The Fourth Red Army was facing a critical situation at this time. However, the Communist International proposed the decision to disperse the Red Army and transfer Zhu and Mao away at the Sixth National Congress of the Communist Party of China in July. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China at that time did not realize the erroneous instructions of the Comintern, and was dissatisfied with some of the development directions and practices of the Fourth Red Army, and unanimously agreed to transfer Zhu Mao.
On December 2, the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee held a special meeting to discuss the policy issues that emerged after Zhu and Mao's Red Army withdrew from Jinggangshan. and asked Zhou Enlai to write a personal letter to Mao Zedong and Zhu De, expressing the hope that they could leave the Red Army and return to the CPC Central Committee to carry out political work.
After receiving the letter, Mao Zedong took the letter and discussed it with Zhu De, and then wrote a reply.
The letter stated that Liu Bocheng had excellent military commanding ability and could replace him as military commander. It also proposed to the Party Central Committee that one person should take over the political work : "This person has outstanding abilities, which I admire very much. If this person replaces me, he will definitely be far better than me..."
So, who is this person that Chairman Mao praised? What is so special about him? Why did Chairman Mao trust him so much?
"Youth Model" Yun Daiying
It turns out that the person mentioned in Chairman Mao's letter is "Yun Daiying", a youth model! He is one of the founders of the Chinese Communist Youth League and an important leader in the Wuhan area of the May 4th Movement. He has spent his life spreading new ideas, new culture, and guiding the awakening of youth power.
Yun Daiying was born in August 1985 in an official family in Wuchang, Hubei. His mother, Chen Baoyun, came from a scholarly family and was considered Yun Daiying's first teacher. When he was four or five years old, his parents sent him to a private school to increase his knowledge.
He has loved reading since he was a child and is often addicted to it. Once Yun Daiying was so absorbed in reading that he forgot about meal time. The mother looked around anxiously, but couldn't find her. Later, all the servants in the house were used to search for him, but no one was found. The big commotion at home did not disturb Yun Daiying who was in the study.
Until late at night, Yun's mother saw a light in the study room. When she went in, she saw that her son was reading inside, and she was very surprised.
In 1913, Yun Daiying, who graduated from high school, entered Wuhan Zhonghua University with her excellent grades. He is talented and has a talent for languages. He has mastered several foreign languages at the age of 27 or 8.
On May 4, 1919, the May Fourth Movement broke out. Yun Daiying deeply loves her country, so when the clarion call of the May Fourth Movement called for students and workers across the country, Yun Daiying also resolutely joined in. He assumed the important task of leading the student movement in Wuhan during the May Fourth period and became one of the main leaders of the May Fourth movement in Wuhan.
The failure of Chinese diplomacy at the Paris Peace Conference made Yun Daiying see the incompetence of the government under Yuan Shikai . He immediately called on the patriotic students in Wuhan to boycott Japanese goods, resist the imperialist powers, and exposed the evil intentions of imperialists to invade China in newspapers.
He took the initiative to organize students to hold demonstrations, hoping to arouse the patriotism of the broad masses of people and internalize it in their hearts and put it into action.
When the May 4th fire burned in Beijing, Yun Daiying, who was in Wuhan, immediately wrote an article "What Happened on May 7th in Four Years" and printed it in batches for students to distribute everywhere.
In the article, he proposed the shame of " twenty-one ", denounced Japan's exploitation of the Chinese people, and called on patriotic people and students to unite and bravely join the patriotic struggle, so that they can play a greater role.
On May 7, 1919, Yun Daiying wrote another "Appeal to Qingdao". This article clearly opposes the Japanese enslaving the Chinese and calls on the Chinese people to stand up and boycott Japanese goods. He printed the article into leaflets and organized them to be distributed to the masses.
Yun Daiying always believes that the student movement is a great force, and this force can be used in the movement to save the nation. Moreover, student sports can better educate students, allowing them to have profound experiences and learn knowledge not found in books.
He once mentioned in "Efforts to Save the Nation": "If you are not strong enough, your ability will not grow effectively." He pointed out that only by devoting themselves to practice can students stimulate their own abilities and enhance their sense of social responsibility and mission to save the country.
The May Fourth Movement gradually came to an end, but Yun Daiying gained a deeper understanding of the power of youth. He understands that only when young people rise can a country rise. From then on, he began to devote himself more seriously to the cause of guiding young people and uniting their strength.
sympathizing with each other
While Yun Daiying had been devoted to awakening youth work , he got acquainted with the great leader Chairman Mao.
Because youth awakening needs to be spread through ideas, Yun Daiying founded and joined various societies in Nanchang . , especially the Liqun Publishing House he founded, is a powerful tool for spreading new ideas and new culture.
Yun Daiying has been running around for the Awakening Youth Work. By chance, he met Mao Zedong.
One day in 1920, Chairman Mao was on the train returning to Wuhan when he saw a man sitting next to him wearing a pair of glasses and a long gown. This man was Yun Daiying. At this time, he was reading the newspaper intently.
When Chairman Mao saw the content in the newspaper, he became interested and started talking with Yun Daiying. The two fell in love at first sight as soon as they talked. Later, after learning that the owner of Liqun Publishing House was Yun Daiying, Mao Zedong admired him even more.
Later, the two talked about the revolutionary cause and China's future. This conversation lasted until late at night. At the end, the two of them still had some unfinished ideas, and they felt like they had met late.
While talking with Yun Daiying, Mao Zedong also had the idea of setting up a book club in his mind. After he returned to Changsha, he founded Cultural Book Club . However, as a small book club that has just started, Cultural Book Club has little power in book sales and dissemination, and its influence is very limited. In order to expand the influence of the book club, Mao Zedong thought of Yun Daiying.
After receiving Mao Zedong’s letter for help, Yun Daiying put forward several suggestions in his reply. The two exchanged letters like this, gradually deepening their understanding of each other.
Chairman Mao had a deeper understanding of Yun Daiying. Many years later, Chairman Mao always praised him whenever he mentioned him: "Yun Daiying is so helpful. He knows everything I ask him about any question..."
In 1921, when the Communist Party of China was established, Yun Daiying joined the Communist Party of China as soon as possible.
After joining the party, Yun Daiying also got to know more talented people in the party. He met Premier Zhou and others, and found that everyone was working towards a common ideal goal, and he admired these people more and more.
Later, Yun Daiying served as the principal of Sichuan South Normal School. While cultivating talents, he did not forget to spread advanced culture and ideas, especially Marxism .
However, after understanding Marxism more deeply, Yun Daiying began to have doubts about some of its theories. At that time, China's society was backward and there were many farmers. The situation was different from the country Marx lived in, so he believed that the theory of riots in urban centers was not consistent with China.
In response to this, Chairman Mao and Yun Daiying discussed this. Influenced by Yun Daiying, Mao Zedong began to realize the importance of farmers and began to study how to shift the focus of work to the countryside.
In the end, inspired by Yun Daiying, Chairman Mao successfully opened up a revolutionary path with Chinese characteristics of "surrounding the cities from the countryside and seizing power with arms." It is this great theory that allows the Communist Party of China to gain support from the majority of farmers.
Yun Daiying and Mao Zhuxi support each other, they cherish each other and they trust each other. Yun Daiying also strongly supported some of the measures proposed by Chairman Mao.
Yun Daiying died heroically
However, when the calm waves receded and the turbulent waves surged, a turning point for everything happened.
In 1927, Chiang Kai-shek launched the inhumane "April 12" counter-revolutionary coup. The purge of the party led to the death of a large number of communists for no reason. This behavior is unforgivable. While Chairman Mao denounced Chiang Kai-shek's crimes, he also organized a special conference to denounce Chiang Kai-shek.
After the Fifth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Mao Zedong and Yun Daiying separated. At this time, Yun Daiying began to join the fight. He participated in the Nanchang Uprising and Guangzhou Uprising. During the same period, Chairman Mao led the Autumn Harvest Uprising in Hunan and established the Jinggangshan Revolutionary Base.
Although the two are not together, their hearts fighting for the revolution will always be connected. Yun Daiying, Chairman Mao, and Premier Zhou attended the Second Plenary Session of the Sixth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. The old comrades-in-arms of the past are reunited again. It would be great if time could be frozen at this moment forever. The scene of everyone working hard for their ideals makes people feel very warm.
Unfortunately, not long after, the accident happened.
On May 6, 1930, Yun Daiying was arrested by the Kuomintang authorities in Shanghai. In June, he was sentenced to five years in prison.
In April 1931, Gu Shunzhang was arrested and imprisoned in Hankou, and then rebelled and betrayed Yun Daiying who was in prison. Zhou Enlai directed the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to make an emergency transfer and instructed Chen Geng to try to rescue Yun Daiying. However, the Kuomintang prison was impregnable, and there was never a chance for a rescue trip.
Wang Zhennan took Yun Daiying's former photos and told him that Gu Shunzhang had betrayed and confessed. Yun Daiying immediately understood his situation.
He sighed and said proudly: "Yes, I am Yun Daiying! I don't want to rebel! I'm not far away from joining your party! Come on! Kill me!"
Wang Zhennan was overjoyed when he heard Yun Daiying's admission. He ignored Yun Daiying's heroic words and immediately ran to Chiang Kai-shek to report the matter to him.
Chiang Kai-shek was also surprised and happy. This big fish of the Communist Party was caught. It really makes people want to get rid of it immediately. But then I thought, Yun Daiying was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and very influential among Chinese youth. Why not use him to catch more "big fish"
He ordered Wang Zhennan to persuade him, hoping to persuade Yun Daiying to join the work of the Kuomintang.
Wang Zhennan had no choice but to return to prison. He put on a friendly attitude and persuaded Yun Daiying sincerely. However, Yun Daiying is a tough guy. No matter what Wang Zhennan says, he always puts on a face that he doesn't want to say anything.
Yun Daiying did not cooperate, which made Wang Zhennan very helpless. After two hours of persuading him to no avail, Wang Zhennan finally said: "Why don't you change your mind? It's all about work. The Kuomintang is the brighter future. If you join the Kuomintang, you will definitely have a good future. If you don't repent, you will only die..." and left.
On April 29, Yun Daiying was killed and died a heroic sacrifice. She was only 36 years old.
Before her death, Yun Daiying had a premonition that her last moments were coming. He did not hesitate to die, but felt that he was full of passion and surging at this time, and that he was about to sacrifice for the great revolution! He picked up a brush and wrote a poem on the wall of the cell: "Walking around the rivers and lakes, reminiscing about old travels, where life and death have changed. I have given up worries about ordinary things, leaving my pride as a prisoner."
The cell was dark, but it could not extinguish the revolutionary fire in his heart; the cell door was tightly closed, but it could not close the door of his heart for revolution. While was in prison, he was concerned about the revolution and wrote countless poems in prison to praise revolutionary warriors.
After seeing the dejection of his inmates in prison, he wrote a heroic and passionate new poem in vernacular:
Prisoners, prisoners of the times, We do not commit crimes, we are all caught from the front line of fire, from the front line of class struggle. Prisoner, not prisoner, prisoner!
We are not afraid of death, victory is right in front of us! Iron walls and copper walls, handcuffs and shackles can lock our bodies, but they cannot lock our hearts!
This poem expresses his heroic feelings of being unyielding and willing to sacrifice for the revolution. Even iron walls, handcuffs and shackles cannot lock his heart that adheres to the revolution and is devoted to the light.
After his death, Chen Geng was overcome with grief and wrote the next song "Trying to Be a Prisoner": "He traveled north and south on the battlefield, leaping on his horse for several spring and autumn years. In order to eliminate the troubles in the world, he stayed in the south prison and tried to be a prisoner."
Conclusion
Chairman Mao was deeply saddened by the sad news of Yun Daiying's death. Recalling the years of fighting side by side with Yun Daiying, he only felt that Yun Daiying was still alive in front of him.
However, Yun Daiying left, and the two could never see each other again in this life. After the founding of New China , the country was peaceful. Looking at such a peaceful country, Chairman Mao would fight with Yun Daiying from time to time. Now that his ideal has been realized, he can't see it.
Later, Chairman Mao specially divided a new county in the western Fujian region to commemorate this heroic revolutionary martyr, named "Daiying County".
In 1950, 19 years after Yun Daiying's death, Zhou Enlai wrote an inscription for the magazine "China Youth", speaking highly of Yun Daiying's life: "One of the most beloved leaders of Chinese youth - Comrade Yun Daiying. He has unique characteristics." With a clear proletarian revolutionary consciousness, work enthusiasm, simple style, tenacious will, and a great spirit of sacrifice for the revolution, he should be the leader of the times! He should always be a role model for Chinese youth!"
Although Yun Daiying died, his spirit was like a beam of light guiding the people of China who were fighting for the revolution. His thoughts are advanced and advanced, his poems are heroic and passionate, and his words and deeds are influencing countless young people. He is a role model for youth and a hero of the times!
Yun Daiying’s life has effectively practiced the patriotism in his heart. He personally experienced the imperialist occupation of China in his boyhood and youth and witnessed the corrupt rule of the Qing government. From then on, he became more determined to fight against imperialism and feudalism. He loved the country and was willing to burn this great land with his life.
Yun Daiying is an outstanding young leader, guiding the direction of students across the country. Whether in the youth movement or in combat, his patriotism and indomitable spirit guide us like a morning star! He died with a heroic body, but his image will always live in the hearts of the people!
