At the end of the promotional campaign to expand south, Beiyang student Zhang Duojiang proposed the proposal to establish a "Pioneering National Liberation Team", which was approved by all students. On February 1, representatives of the Pingjin student propaganda team held a meeting at Peking Normal University to establish the National Liberation Pioneer (later changed to the Chinese National Liberation Pioneer).
The Fourth Branch of the Expanded Propaganda Team carried out anti-Japanese and national salvation propaganda in Gu'an County, Hebei Province, the destination. Photo provided by Tianjin University School History Museum
In the Tianjin University History Museum, there is a school building sand table located in Xigu during the Beiyang Institute of Technology. The east and north of the school are close to the North Canal , and the river bank is Taohua Dike . The first sentence of the school song "The flower embankment is awesome, and the north is surging", which refers to the beautiful reading environment here. But around 1936, as the Japanese invaders pressed forward step by step and Chiang Kai-shek's government bowed down, and the dark clouds of national danger were shrouded in danger, "North China is so big that it can no longer accommodate a peaceful desk."
On January 2, 1936, the weather was cold. Early in the morning, a large number of military and police officers of the Kuomintang authorities suddenly surrounded the city's major middle schools, and the gate of Beiyang Institute of Technology and the Beicanal Bridge were blocked. It turned out that the authorities learned that the propaganda team members of the Tianjin Fourth Branch of the "Pingjin Students Going South to Expand Propaganda Team" with more than 280 patriotic students from Beiyang Institute of Technology as the main body gathered here and planned to set off on the same day.
"Pingjin Students Going South to Expand Propaganda Team" is a massive anti-Japanese propaganda activity organized by the Pingjin Student Federation under the leadership of the Communist Party of China. After the "January 9th Movement" of students in Peking (now Beijing) and the "January 18th" anti-Japanese and national salvation demonstrations of students in Tianjin in 1935, the Kuomintang authorities took measures such as ordering secondary schools to take winter vacations in advance to differentiate and destroy the student movement. In order to unite patriotic students in the two places more closely, the Pingjin Student Union was established on December 26 according to the instructions of the Northern Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and the Hebei Provincial Committee. Subsequently, the Pingjin Student Union formed the "Pingjin Students Going South to Expand Propaganda Team" and decided to go to the wider rural and urban areas to promote the anti-Japanese war.
The propaganda group has four branches, Beijing students form the first, second and third branches, and Tianjin students form the fourth branch, and agreed to set off on their own, meet in , Gu'an, Hebei, and continue to go south. The members of the Fourth Branch include students from Tianjin Beiyang Institute of Technology, School of Law and Business, Huiwen Middle School, and Nankai School. The commander-in-chief is Tao Qikun, and the brigade leaders include Xu Daben, Jin Xianzeng, Zong Qun, etc. Faced with the military and police blockade, the Fourth Branch made a quick decision, set out from the back door of Beiyang Institute of Technology, walked through the frozen North Canal, and advanced northwest. The students successfully escaped the obstruction of the military and police, and began to walk in groups of three or five or more people on the snow-covered land of North China, advancing the idea of anti-Japanese and national salvation.
On that day, the Fourth Branch Group passed through Hangou Village to Yang Village and arrived at the first camp Wuqing Queen Store (also known as Huanghuashang). Local farmers and teachers and students of the village primary school warmly welcomed the publicity group. On January 3, 1936, the team headed west along the Yongding River and arrived in Anci (now Langfang ). On the 6th, I went to , city in Yongqing County. On the 7th, I went to , Gu'an , and met with the groups going south of Beiping on the 8th.
After these days of hiking, the students have withstood the test of severe cold weather. During the day, blood blisters walked out of his feet, and at night he lived in an air-permeable thatched hut on all sides. He was so cold that he couldn't sleep, so he sat back to back, discussing national salvation activities and singing national salvation songs. While promoting in Yongqing County, students from Beiyang Institute of Technology performed the street-style dramas "Go Back to Hometown" and " Put Down Your Whip ", and roars of "defeat the traitor" and "defeat Japanese imperialism" burst out from time to time in the crowd. The propaganda team sowed the anti-Japanese fire all the way, promoting the awakening of people of all walks of life, and itself has undergone the tempering of will and spiritual baptism.
After the meeting in Gu'an, more than ten people including Ding Zhongwen of Beiyang Institute of Technology, Zhu Guang and Zhuang Lin of the School of Law and Business, Yao Daheng of Huiwen Middle School, and more than ten people represented the Tianjin Fourth Branch to continue to participate in the publicity group activities, and were later incorporated into the first branch of Peking. The other Beiyang Institute of Technology students returned to school to launch a struggle against "listening to the training" in Nanjing.Subsequently, the first branch went out of Gu'an to Xiong County and Gaoyang, and the second branch went west to Xincheng, Rongcheng , Renqiu . The third branch planned to go south along the Pinghan Railway via Zhuozhou , but was obstructed by the police and was forcibly escorted back to Peiping. On January 21, the First Division and the Second Division arrived at Baoding , and then continued to carry out anti-Japanese propaganda and demonstrations. The propaganda team was constantly obstructed by the Kuomintang authorities. In order to preserve their strength and carry out long-term struggles, according to the party's instructions, the propaganda team returned to Pingjin after holding a plenary meeting in Baoding.
Soon, under the leadership of the Party, the "Vision of the Chinese National Liberation Team" was established, and students from the First Branch of the Republic participated in their activities in Peking. After returning to Tianjin, they began to develop the organization in Tianjin. Soon, major and middle schools in Tianjin established the "Pioneering Team of the Chinese National Liberation" organization to unite the vast number of young people in an open or semi-public form, and lead young students to participate in the growing anti-Japanese and national salvation movement.
"Under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, from the Tianjin 'January 18th' parade to the establishment of the Pingjin Student Federation, and the subsequent 'Pingjin Students Going South Expanded Propaganda Team' activities and the 'Chinese National Liberation Pioneer' were established, we continued to promote the in-depth development of the anti-Japanese national salvation movement in North China, and made important contributions to promoting the formation of an anti-Japanese national united front." Zhou Wei, director of the Local Party History Research Department of the Tianjin Party School, recently told reporters that the "Pingjin Students Going South Expanded Propaganda Team" promoted the combination of the patriotic student movement with people from all walks of life, stimulated the patriotic enthusiasm of the whole society, and shocked the whole country. The "Vanguard of Liberation of the Chinese National" established later united the vast number of patriotic young people under the direct leadership of the Party, fought bravely on the forefront of the anti-Japanese war and national salvation, and became a strong backbone force in the anti-Japanese movement in North China and the whole country.
