In May 1965, there were crowds of people at the entrance of the Ciping Hotel in Jinggangshan, and everyone was excitedly discussing a topic: the "Commissioner Mao" back then came to see them!
There was a trembling old woman in the crowd. Like the people around her, the old woman looked excited, her eyes were filled with tears, and she kept muttering words in her mouth.
When Chairman Mao walked out of the door, he saw the old woman standing in the front row at a glance. He walked forward a few steps forward, held the old woman's hand, and called "Sister-in-law Yuan".
Hearing Chairman Mao still calling her the name of that year, the old woman endured her tears for a long time.
This old woman, who was called Yuan’s sister-in-law by Chairman Mao, was Xie Meixiang, the widow of the martyr Yuan Wencai, who fought side by side with Chairman Mao on Jinggangshan .
A familiar name brought Xie Meixiang's thoughts back to that difficult years...
Jinggangshan ignited a spark
In September 1927, the Autumn Harvest Uprising troops led by Comrade Mao Zedong encountered major setbacks when attacking the city. Mao Zedong adapted the strategy in time, and the troops gave up attacking Changsha City and moved to the Jinggangshan area.
The reason why Mao Zedong chose Jinggangshan was because the mountains and steep mountains of Jinggangshan are easy to defend and difficult to attack, which allows the rebel troops to rest and develop, and the Kuomintang is weak in this area.
The second, at that time, there were two peasant armed forces led by our party active near Jinggangshan. The leaders of these two teams were Yuan Wencai and Wang Zuo .
September 30, Mao Zedong led the Autumn Harvest Uprising team to adapt the troops in Sanwan Village, Yongxin County, Jiangxi Province. At the same time, he sent someone to send a letter to Yuan Wencai.
In the letter, Mao Zedong expressed his idea of establishing a base in Ninggang County at the foot of Jinggang Mountain. He hoped to get the support and help of Wang Zuo and Yuan Wencai.
Some people in the team at that time, because they disliked Wang and Yuan, who were born in the Green Forest, suggested that they simply eat these two armed forces and let the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army of the Autumn Harvest Uprising completely control the Jinggangshan area.
Mao Zedong firmly stopped this idea.
On October 3, Mao Zedong led the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army to Ninggang Ancient City, where he held an enlarged meeting of the Front Enemy Committee. At the meeting, he determined the decision to gain a foothold in Jinggangshan and established the policy of cooperation with the two peasant armed forces of Yuan Wencai and Wang Zuo.
March 0Mao Zedong believes that there are so many mountains and ridges in China, and there are also many heroes hiding in the green forests. They should try their best to win them into the revolutionary family.
His tolerance moved Yuan Wencai. On October 6, under the introduction of Ninggang County Party Secretary Long Chaoqing , Mao Zedong met with Yuan Wencai for the first time.
Yuan Wencai was actually a little nervous about the meeting with Mao Zedong, afraid that he would dislike his background. However, after the meeting, Mao Zedong not only affirmed Yuan Wencai's spirit of resistance, but also decided to give him more than 100 guns.
Yuan Wencai's doubts were all gone. He immediately expressed his welcome to Mao Zedong to lead the team to his base camp, and also gave the Workers and Peasants Revolutionary Army 1,000 yuan ocean to the Workers and Peasants Revolutionary Army on the spot, which immediately solved the funding problem of the Workers and Peasants Revolutionary Army.
The next day, Yuan Wencai organized his own team and welcomed Mao Zedong and the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army to Maoping Village.
In order to solve the team's food and drink problems, Yuan Wencai also raised a batch of cloth and tens of thousands of kilograms of grain for the Workers and Peasants Revolutionary Army, and helped the Workers and Peasants Revolutionary Army establish hospitals and other facilities.
From then on, the spark of the Chinese revolution was ignited in Jinggangshan!
The hero of the green forest became a red general
The reason why Yuan Wencai warmly welcomed the Red Army of Workers and Peasants to Jinggangshan after relieving his doubts was because he had joined the Communist Party of China before this.
Yuan Wencai's real name is Yuan Xianquan, whose courtesy name is Wencai, and his nickname is Xuansan. He was born in Mayuankeng Village, Ninggang County in 1898. His ancestors were also well-known in Ninggang County. When he was in middle school, he had to leave school because his father died of illness.
Because he could not bear the pressure of the local gentry Xie Guannan, he rose up to resist, but was wanted by the local government. His house was burned, his newlywed wife was occupied, and his old mother was also killed.
Yuan Wencai, who was desperate, simply joined the "Sabre Team" of the local green forest Hu Yachun in 1923.
In the Madao team, Yuan Wencai, who knew the words and words, was highly appreciated by Hu Yachun. He quickly became the leader. Yuan Wencai was also very remarkable. In the second year of joining the Madao team, he led his troops to attack the county town of Ninggang and burned down the county government.
at that time, Jiangxi Provincial Government sent a battalion of regular troops to encircle and suppress the Saber Team. However, Yuan Wencai cleverly dealt with the enemy with his familiarity with the terrain and played around with these regular troops. For a moment, Yuan Wencai became famous in the local area.
It was also in 1923 that Wang Zuo, who was the same age as Yuan Wencai, also joined another Green Forest team and developed his own strength in it. Two years later, due to internal strife, Wang Zuo joined Yuan Wencai's.
Yuan Wencai helped Wang Zuo get rid of his old enemy. The two became brothers because of like-mindedness. From then on, Yuan Wencai set up camp in Maoping Village in Jinggangshan. Wang Zuo occupied the nearby Wujing Village (the five villages in Jinggangshan, named after the large, medium, small, upper and lower wells). The two supported each other and became the majestic "Jinggang Twin Heroes" on the border of Hunan, Hubei and Jiangxi.
In September 1925, after the mobilization and influence of the Communist Long Chaoqing, Yuan Wencai led his troops down the mountain, and in the autumn of the following year, with the help of the Ninggang County Party organization, launched the Ninggang riot.
Under the leadership of Yuan Wencai, the riot team entered the county government office, expelled the county magistrate appointed by the Beiyang warlords , and established the Ninggang County People's Committee led by Long Chaoqing. Yuan Wencai's team was also renamed the Ninggang County Peasant Self-Defense Army, and Yuan Wencai was still commanded by Yuan Wencai.
In the struggle, Yuan Wencai strengthened his belief and joined the Communist Party of China. Under his influence, Wang Zuo also contacted the party organization of Suichuan County , adapted his team into the Suichuan County Peasant Self-Defense Army, and later joined the Communist Party of China. After the failure of the Great Revolution
, under the pressure of the Kuomintang, the peasant self-defense troops in various places collapsed one after another, but Yuan Wencai and Wang Zuo's team still insisted on fighting in Jinggangshan, where mountains were high and dense forests were dense.
In July 1927, according to the instructions of the party organization, Yuan Wencai and Wang Zuo launched the "Yongxin riot" and rescued more than 80 people including Communist Party members and peasant association cadres He Minxue, Hu Bo , from prison. After the victory of the riot, due to the siege of the Kuomintang, Yuan Wencai, Wang Zuo returned to Jinggangshan with He Minxue, He Zizhen and others to continue the struggle until they waited for the revolutionary army of workers and peasants led by Mao Zedong. After welcoming the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, Yuan Wencai volunteered to do Wang Zuo's ideological work. With his efforts, Wang Zuo also dispelled all doubts.
On October 24, 1927, Wang Zuo slaughtered pigs and sheep in Dajing Village to welcome Mao Zedong and the Revolutionary Army of Workers and Peasants.
After the meeting, Mao Zedong gave Wang Zuo 70 guns, and Wang Zuo also gave him 500 dan of rice to the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army.
Three days later, Wang Zuo raised a large amount of funds to help the Workers and Peasants Revolutionary Army solve the problem of insufficient military expenditure. He also invited the team to enter Ciping Town under his jurisdiction. After
, in Jinggangshan, after a long time of getting along, Yuan Wencai and Wang Zuo were impressed by Mao Zedong. They not only completely accepted the leadership of the party organization, but also formed a deep friendship with Mao Zedong.
In April 1928, Comrade Zhu De led part of the team of the Nanchang Uprising. After the successful meeting with the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army led by Mao Zedong in Jinggangshan, he adapted the team led by Yuan Wencai and Wang Zuo into the 32nd Regiment. The two served as chief and deputy leader respectively. After the adaptation of
, Yuan Wencai and Wang Zuo were in high spirits and worked actively. They made many military achievements in the enemy's encirclement and suppression, including the famous " Huangyangjie Defense Battle ".
In May 1965, there were crowds of people at the entrance of the Ciping Hotel in Jinggangshan, and everyone was excitedly discussing a topic: the "Commissioner Mao" back then came to see them!
There was a trembling old woman in the crowd. Like the people around her, the old woman looked excited, her eyes were filled with tears, and she kept muttering words in her mouth.
When Chairman Mao walked out of the door, he saw the old woman standing in the front row at a glance. He walked forward a few steps forward, held the old woman's hand, and called "Sister-in-law Yuan".
Hearing Chairman Mao still calling her the name of that year, the old woman endured her tears for a long time.
This old woman, who was called Yuan’s sister-in-law by Chairman Mao, was Xie Meixiang, the widow of the martyr Yuan Wencai, who fought side by side with Chairman Mao on Jinggangshan .
A familiar name brought Xie Meixiang's thoughts back to that difficult years...
Jinggangshan ignited a spark
In September 1927, the Autumn Harvest Uprising troops led by Comrade Mao Zedong encountered major setbacks when attacking the city. Mao Zedong adapted the strategy in time, and the troops gave up attacking Changsha City and moved to the Jinggangshan area.
The reason why Mao Zedong chose Jinggangshan was because the mountains and steep mountains of Jinggangshan are easy to defend and difficult to attack, which allows the rebel troops to rest and develop, and the Kuomintang is weak in this area.
The second, at that time, there were two peasant armed forces led by our party active near Jinggangshan. The leaders of these two teams were Yuan Wencai and Wang Zuo .
September 30, Mao Zedong led the Autumn Harvest Uprising team to adapt the troops in Sanwan Village, Yongxin County, Jiangxi Province. At the same time, he sent someone to send a letter to Yuan Wencai.
In the letter, Mao Zedong expressed his idea of establishing a base in Ninggang County at the foot of Jinggang Mountain. He hoped to get the support and help of Wang Zuo and Yuan Wencai.
Some people in the team at that time, because they disliked Wang and Yuan, who were born in the Green Forest, suggested that they simply eat these two armed forces and let the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army of the Autumn Harvest Uprising completely control the Jinggangshan area.
Mao Zedong firmly stopped this idea.
On October 3, Mao Zedong led the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army to Ninggang Ancient City, where he held an enlarged meeting of the Front Enemy Committee. At the meeting, he determined the decision to gain a foothold in Jinggangshan and established the policy of cooperation with the two peasant armed forces of Yuan Wencai and Wang Zuo.
March 0Mao Zedong believes that there are so many mountains and ridges in China, and there are also many heroes hiding in the green forests. They should try their best to win them into the revolutionary family.
His tolerance moved Yuan Wencai. On October 6, under the introduction of Ninggang County Party Secretary Long Chaoqing , Mao Zedong met with Yuan Wencai for the first time.
Yuan Wencai was actually a little nervous about the meeting with Mao Zedong, afraid that he would dislike his background. However, after the meeting, Mao Zedong not only affirmed Yuan Wencai's spirit of resistance, but also decided to give him more than 100 guns.
Yuan Wencai's doubts were all gone. He immediately expressed his welcome to Mao Zedong to lead the team to his base camp, and also gave the Workers and Peasants Revolutionary Army 1,000 yuan ocean to the Workers and Peasants Revolutionary Army on the spot, which immediately solved the funding problem of the Workers and Peasants Revolutionary Army.
The next day, Yuan Wencai organized his own team and welcomed Mao Zedong and the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army to Maoping Village.
In order to solve the team's food and drink problems, Yuan Wencai also raised a batch of cloth and tens of thousands of kilograms of grain for the Workers and Peasants Revolutionary Army, and helped the Workers and Peasants Revolutionary Army establish hospitals and other facilities.
From then on, the spark of the Chinese revolution was ignited in Jinggangshan!
The hero of the green forest became a red general
The reason why Yuan Wencai warmly welcomed the Red Army of Workers and Peasants to Jinggangshan after relieving his doubts was because he had joined the Communist Party of China before this.
Yuan Wencai's real name is Yuan Xianquan, whose courtesy name is Wencai, and his nickname is Xuansan. He was born in Mayuankeng Village, Ninggang County in 1898. His ancestors were also well-known in Ninggang County. When he was in middle school, he had to leave school because his father died of illness.
Because he could not bear the pressure of the local gentry Xie Guannan, he rose up to resist, but was wanted by the local government. His house was burned, his newlywed wife was occupied, and his old mother was also killed.
Yuan Wencai, who was desperate, simply joined the "Sabre Team" of the local green forest Hu Yachun in 1923.
In the Madao team, Yuan Wencai, who knew the words and words, was highly appreciated by Hu Yachun. He quickly became the leader. Yuan Wencai was also very remarkable. In the second year of joining the Madao team, he led his troops to attack the county town of Ninggang and burned down the county government.
at that time, Jiangxi Provincial Government sent a battalion of regular troops to encircle and suppress the Saber Team. However, Yuan Wencai cleverly dealt with the enemy with his familiarity with the terrain and played around with these regular troops. For a moment, Yuan Wencai became famous in the local area.
It was also in 1923 that Wang Zuo, who was the same age as Yuan Wencai, also joined another Green Forest team and developed his own strength in it. Two years later, due to internal strife, Wang Zuo joined Yuan Wencai's.
Yuan Wencai helped Wang Zuo get rid of his old enemy. The two became brothers because of like-mindedness. From then on, Yuan Wencai set up camp in Maoping Village in Jinggangshan. Wang Zuo occupied the nearby Wujing Village (the five villages in Jinggangshan, named after the large, medium, small, upper and lower wells). The two supported each other and became the majestic "Jinggang Twin Heroes" on the border of Hunan, Hubei and Jiangxi.
In September 1925, after the mobilization and influence of the Communist Long Chaoqing, Yuan Wencai led his troops down the mountain, and in the autumn of the following year, with the help of the Ninggang County Party organization, launched the Ninggang riot.
Under the leadership of Yuan Wencai, the riot team entered the county government office, expelled the county magistrate appointed by the Beiyang warlords , and established the Ninggang County People's Committee led by Long Chaoqing. Yuan Wencai's team was also renamed the Ninggang County Peasant Self-Defense Army, and Yuan Wencai was still commanded by Yuan Wencai.
In the struggle, Yuan Wencai strengthened his belief and joined the Communist Party of China. Under his influence, Wang Zuo also contacted the party organization of Suichuan County , adapted his team into the Suichuan County Peasant Self-Defense Army, and later joined the Communist Party of China. After the failure of the Great Revolution
, under the pressure of the Kuomintang, the peasant self-defense troops in various places collapsed one after another, but Yuan Wencai and Wang Zuo's team still insisted on fighting in Jinggangshan, where mountains were high and dense forests were dense.
In July 1927, according to the instructions of the party organization, Yuan Wencai and Wang Zuo launched the "Yongxin riot" and rescued more than 80 people including Communist Party members and peasant association cadres He Minxue, Hu Bo , from prison. After the victory of the riot, due to the siege of the Kuomintang, Yuan Wencai, Wang Zuo returned to Jinggangshan with He Minxue, He Zizhen and others to continue the struggle until they waited for the revolutionary army of workers and peasants led by Mao Zedong. After welcoming the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, Yuan Wencai volunteered to do Wang Zuo's ideological work. With his efforts, Wang Zuo also dispelled all doubts.
On October 24, 1927, Wang Zuo slaughtered pigs and sheep in Dajing Village to welcome Mao Zedong and the Revolutionary Army of Workers and Peasants.
After the meeting, Mao Zedong gave Wang Zuo 70 guns, and Wang Zuo also gave him 500 dan of rice to the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army.
Three days later, Wang Zuo raised a large amount of funds to help the Workers and Peasants Revolutionary Army solve the problem of insufficient military expenditure. He also invited the team to enter Ciping Town under his jurisdiction. After
, in Jinggangshan, after a long time of getting along, Yuan Wencai and Wang Zuo were impressed by Mao Zedong. They not only completely accepted the leadership of the party organization, but also formed a deep friendship with Mao Zedong.
In April 1928, Comrade Zhu De led part of the team of the Nanchang Uprising. After the successful meeting with the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army led by Mao Zedong in Jinggangshan, he adapted the team led by Yuan Wencai and Wang Zuo into the 32nd Regiment. The two served as chief and deputy leader respectively. After the adaptation of
, Yuan Wencai and Wang Zuo were in high spirits and worked actively. They made many military achievements in the enemy's encirclement and suppression, including the famous " Huangyangjie Defense Battle ".
In the long-term struggle, they also gained recognition from Mao Zedong. In their correspondence with the Party Central Committee, Mao Zedong personally informed the Party Central Committee that the residence of Yuan and Wang was a permanent and reliable communications office.
Although Mao Zedong’s trust is trusted, some people in the party still have deep grudges against Yuan and Wang, who joined the revolution from the Green Forest. These people are almost all native to the local "local family".
Although Yuan Wencai and others were also born in the local area, their ancestors were migrants who fled to Jinggangshan hundreds of years ago and were not recognized by the locals.
After the establishment of Jinggangshan base, in order to coordinate the conflicts between local tourists, Chairman Mao separated the two factions and formed a pattern of "local party" and "guest gun".
The Sixth National Congress of the Communist Party of China held in 1928 proposed a resolution to remove and suppress the Green Forest Armed Forces. After receiving the resolution, Comrade Mao Zedong opposed the opposition and stopped the proposal to kill Yuan and Wang.
However, Long Chaoqing and others, who had always been incompatible with Yuan Wencai, took advantage of Mao Zedong's departure from Jinggangshan to deceive the Central Inspector Peng Qingquan and listed five crimes of Yuan Wencai. At the enlarged meeting of the Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi Border Special Committee held on February 22, 1930, they attacked Yuan Wencai in public.
Yuan Wencai naturally couldn't let the dirty water splash on him at will. He started arguing with Long Chaoqing and others at the meeting. Everyone left unhappily that day.
htmlOn 24, after being sowed by Long Chaoqing and others, the Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi Border Special Committee thought that Yuan Wencai and Wang Zuo had "rebelled" and urgently summoned more than 300 people to surround the residences of Yuan and Wang.Yuan Wencai was shot dead on the bed on the spot. After hearing the movement, Wang Zuo jumped into the window and fled, but unfortunately fell into the river and was also shot and killed.
The "Jinggang Twin Heroes" who were once intimidated were killed in this way. Both of them were only 32 years old when they were killed.
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After the initial pain, Xie Meixiang's first reaction was to find their "Committee Mao" to make decisions, but I heard that these people dared to attack Yuan Wencai while Mao Zedong was not in Jinggangshan, and Xie Meixiang was stunned again.
After coming back to his senses again, Xie Meixiang made up her mind to protect Yuan Wencai's descendants.
At that time, they had 5 children, the oldest was 9 years old, and the youngest was only over 8 months old.
After Yuan Wencai was killed, those who had rifts with him still refused to let his family go. In addition, the Kuomintang's murder of the family members, on the third day of Yuan Wencai's murder, Xie Meixiang hid in the mountains with her children and lived a life of fear from then on.
Fortunately, the local people were very sympathetic to Xie Meixiang. With the help of the villagers, Xie Meixiang escaped many pursuits and hid her identity in Xiping Village at the foot of Jinggangshan.
While hiding, in order to facilitate movement, Xie Meixiang gave her three daughters to three families as child brides, and she took her two sons to wander.
Not long after they lived in Xiping Village, their youngest son Laifu got infected with smallpox. There was a shortage of doctors and medicine in the mountains. The child's high fever did not go away. Not long after, he died in Xie Meixiang's arms.
For a mother, it is so painful to watch her son die, but Xie Meixiang can only watch it, without any help.
The youngest son was buried. When the wind was loose outside, Xie Meixiang brought the only remaining eldest son Yuan Yaolie back to her hometown Mayuankeng Village.
After Yuan Wencai's death, Xie Meixiang pawned her jewelry and asked someone to bring back Yuan Wencai's body and buried it in Mayuankeng Village, on the mountain behind.
After returning to the village, Xie Meixiang built a straw shed on the mountain where Yuan Wencai was buried and lived here with her son.
Seeing that the orphan and widowed mother were living a difficult life, the Yuan family asked Xie Meixiang to recruit Xiao Fukai at home, and the mother and son lived a slightly stable life.
said it was stable, but before liberation, the Kuomintang never gave up on the pursuit of Yuan Wencai's family. Xie Meixiang and Xiao Fukai also lived in danger and almost died several times.
1938, Kuomintang soldiers investigated the residence of their couple in advance. Before dawn, they rushed into the straw shed to attack their family. Fortunately, the couple had to eat and sleep in different places for safety, so they escaped.
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1941, the local bandit leader and a group of Kuomintang came to Mayuankeng Village, preparing to shoot their whole family. Fortunately, the couple took their children to Xie Meixiang's mother's house that day, and Yuan Wencai's son Yuan Yaolie went to a private school to study again, and the enemy's intention failed.
In 1948, the Kuomintang sent two more bandits to kill Xie Meixiang and Xiao Fukai's son Xiao Changlong. Unexpectedly, when the bandits broke into Mayuankeng Village, they happened to meet the Yuan family gathering. Facing the crowded Yuan family, the two bandits turned their heads and ran away, and the enemy's plan failed again.
Perhaps in the dark, Yuan Wencai's heroic spirit is also blessing Xie Meixiang and his son.
After liberation, Yuan Wencai's son Yuan Yaolie and Wang Zuo's son Wang Shousheng were invited to attend the founding ceremony .
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Around 1950, Chen Zhengren, Secretary of the Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee, talked with Chairman Mao about the murder of Yuan Wencai and Wang Zuo. The Chairman said sadly that killing Yuan and Wang was a mistake. After that, the Jiangxi People's Government made a frustration for the two martyrs, restored their reputations, and recognized them as revolutionary martyrs.
On May 28, 1965, Chairman Mao, who returned to Jinggangshan, specifically instructed Comrade Wang Dongxing who accompanied him to arrange time, and he wanted to meet the old Red Army and old party members on Jinggangshan.
When I heard that the widows of the two martyrs were still alive, the Chairman specifically instructed Comrade Wang Dongxing: Remember to invite the two sisters-in-laws over.
On May 29, Xie Meixiang and Martyr Wang Zuo's widow Lan Xilian were received by the Chairman. After the meeting, the Chairman still affectionately called Xie Meixiang "Sister-in-law Yuan" as many years ago, asking her to take care of her health. She would like to ask her to take care of her.
After the Chairman left Jinggangshan, the old man Xie Meixiang refused the government's intention to take her into the nursing home to raise her, and insisted on being a voluntary propagandist at the Maoping Village Bajiao Building, where the Chairman lived, and told the people who visited the visit about the hard years of his ancestors in Jinggangshan.
Conclusion
The three daughters who were sent out to be child brides by Xie Meixiang, except for one of them who died in the early years, the other daughters also returned to the old man after the founding of the People's Republic of China.
Yuan Wencai's son Yuan Yaolie also has a better career under the care of the government, which is also the best comfort for heroes.
Reference materials:
[1] Sun Yajie, Xu Jining. A righteous act of Yuan Wencai during the Jinggangshan period [J]. Party History Wenhui, 2019(05): 60-61.
[2] Yuan Jianfang. The profound and complex historical reasons for Yuan Wencai and Wang Zuo being killed by mistake [J]. Literature and History Monthly, 2012(06): 53-61.
[3] Zhang Xudong. The Twin Heroes of Jinggangshan: Yuan Wencai and Wang Zuo[J]. Party History Bo Excerpt (Documentary), 2007(09):38-41.
[4]Ma Yuqiang. Open the mountain gate to welcome the army—On the military contributions of Yuan Wencai and Wang Zuo to the Jinggangshan Revolutionary Base [J]. Journal of Jinggangshan Normal University, 2004(03):68-71.
[5]Liu Xiaonong. Yuan Wencai and the establishment of Jinggangshan Revolutionary Base [J]. Research on Party History of the Communist Party of China, 1989(06):80-85.
1938, Kuomintang soldiers investigated the residence of their couple in advance. Before dawn, they rushed into the straw shed to attack their family. Fortunately, the couple had to eat and sleep in different places for safety, so they escaped.
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1941, the local bandit leader and a group of Kuomintang came to Mayuankeng Village, preparing to shoot their whole family. Fortunately, the couple took their children to Xie Meixiang's mother's house that day, and Yuan Wencai's son Yuan Yaolie went to a private school to study again, and the enemy's intention failed.
In 1948, the Kuomintang sent two more bandits to kill Xie Meixiang and Xiao Fukai's son Xiao Changlong. Unexpectedly, when the bandits broke into Mayuankeng Village, they happened to meet the Yuan family gathering. Facing the crowded Yuan family, the two bandits turned their heads and ran away, and the enemy's plan failed again.
Perhaps in the dark, Yuan Wencai's heroic spirit is also blessing Xie Meixiang and his son.
After liberation, Yuan Wencai's son Yuan Yaolie and Wang Zuo's son Wang Shousheng were invited to attend the founding ceremony .
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Around 1950, Chen Zhengren, Secretary of the Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee, talked with Chairman Mao about the murder of Yuan Wencai and Wang Zuo. The Chairman said sadly that killing Yuan and Wang was a mistake. After that, the Jiangxi People's Government made a frustration for the two martyrs, restored their reputations, and recognized them as revolutionary martyrs.
On May 28, 1965, Chairman Mao, who returned to Jinggangshan, specifically instructed Comrade Wang Dongxing who accompanied him to arrange time, and he wanted to meet the old Red Army and old party members on Jinggangshan.
When I heard that the widows of the two martyrs were still alive, the Chairman specifically instructed Comrade Wang Dongxing: Remember to invite the two sisters-in-laws over.
On May 29, Xie Meixiang and Martyr Wang Zuo's widow Lan Xilian were received by the Chairman. After the meeting, the Chairman still affectionately called Xie Meixiang "Sister-in-law Yuan" as many years ago, asking her to take care of her health. She would like to ask her to take care of her.
After the Chairman left Jinggangshan, the old man Xie Meixiang refused the government's intention to take her into the nursing home to raise her, and insisted on being a voluntary propagandist at the Maoping Village Bajiao Building, where the Chairman lived, and told the people who visited the visit about the hard years of his ancestors in Jinggangshan.
Conclusion
The three daughters who were sent out to be child brides by Xie Meixiang, except for one of them who died in the early years, the other daughters also returned to the old man after the founding of the People's Republic of China.
Yuan Wencai's son Yuan Yaolie also has a better career under the care of the government, which is also the best comfort for heroes.
Reference materials:
[1] Sun Yajie, Xu Jining. A righteous act of Yuan Wencai during the Jinggangshan period [J]. Party History Wenhui, 2019(05): 60-61.
[2] Yuan Jianfang. The profound and complex historical reasons for Yuan Wencai and Wang Zuo being killed by mistake [J]. Literature and History Monthly, 2012(06): 53-61.
[3] Zhang Xudong. The Twin Heroes of Jinggangshan: Yuan Wencai and Wang Zuo[J]. Party History Bo Excerpt (Documentary), 2007(09):38-41.
[4]Ma Yuqiang. Open the mountain gate to welcome the army—On the military contributions of Yuan Wencai and Wang Zuo to the Jinggangshan Revolutionary Base [J]. Journal of Jinggangshan Normal University, 2004(03):68-71.
[5]Liu Xiaonong. Yuan Wencai and the establishment of Jinggangshan Revolutionary Base [J]. Research on Party History of the Communist Party of China, 1989(06):80-85.
