Yu Qingfang

Yu Qingfang

Yu Qingfang (November 16, 1879 September 1915), a native of Pingtung City, Taiwan, is a famous Anti Japanese hero and leader of xilai'an incident. He was born in 1879 in Pingtung, Taiwan, and later moved with his parents to Houxiang village, eryuanli, Changzhi, Tainan (now Xialiao village, Luzhu Township, Kaohsiung County). When he was young, he went to a private school for three years and received Chinese education. Later, he dropped out of school because of his poor family background. At the age of 17, when the Japanese army invaded Taiwan, he joined the Anti Japanese volunteer group because he didn't want to be ruled by other nationalities. In March 1915, the Anti Japanese revolutionary army of Taiwan was formed. It called on all Taiwan compatriots to "fight bravely to be the first, be loyal to the country, and restore Taiwan." it raised the flag to resist Japan and was wanted by the Japanese colonial authorities. In September 1915, he was killed by the Japanese in Tainan prison.

Personal life

When Yu Qingfang was a child, she dropped out of school because of her poor family. When I was 12 years old, I worked as a child laborer in Kaohsiung. When the Japanese occupied Taiwan in 1895, they took part in the Anti Japanese struggle. In 1899, he was appointed inspector of Tainan County, and was soon dismissed. In 1902, he was appointed as the inspector of Fengshan County, and was removed two years later. Later, under the cover of "chicaitang", he secretly engaged in Anti Japanese activities. In 1908, he was put into the "floating wave shelter" by the Japanese army for nearly three years. In 1914, a rice mill was set up in Tainan City, and anti Japanese activities were also carried out. In March 1915, he met with Jiang Ding, Luo Jun and others in xilai'an to form Taiwan's Anti Japanese revolutionary army, set up the "Daming compassionate state" and was promoted as the Grand Marshal. He issued a notice calling on all Taiwan compatriots to "strive to be the first, be loyal to the country, and restore Taiwan." he also raised the flag to resist Japan from the Japanese colonial authorities based on the stronghold of bamao (today's Yujing), and was wanted by the Japanese colonial authorities. In August, when Yu Qingfang moved to Linping, Erhui, at the junction of Tainan and Agou, he was arrested for informers. In September, he was hanged by the Japanese in Tainan prison.

Anecdotes of characters

rise up in arms

Yu Qingfang's ancestral home is southern Fujian, and later moved to Pingtung, Taiwan. He was born in 1879. At the age of 15, when Japan occupied Taiwan, Yu Qingfang transferred from school to Japanese school. At the age of 20, he was admitted as a police officer and worked in Gangshan (agongdian). Yu Qingfang is a patriotic and enthusiastic young man. He can't stand the Japanese police bullying his compatriots. He often conflicts with the Japanese police. Soon he was transferred to Fengshan. Unexpectedly, the police station in Fengshan is more brutal, and Yu Qingfang's resistance is more intense. Finally, he was expelled by the authorities. After leaving the police, he joined Buddhist groups, gathered and organized everywhere, and mobilized the masses to revolt against the Japanese rulers. Yu Qingfang became a dangerous person in the eyes of the Japanese authorities. They arrested him and jailed him for two years. Yu was 32 years old when she was released from prison. In 1911, the revolution of 1911 broke out, and then the Republic of China was born. Yu Qingfang was greatly inspired by his determination to fight for Taiwan's liberation from Japanese rule. Therefore, the Buddhist believers in Xilai temple in Tainan were used to sell Fulu to raise a large sum of money for the Anti Japanese campaign, and secretly recruited troops and horses to prepare for the uprising. Unexpectedly, in June 1915, the plan of the uprising was discovered by the Japanese police, and Luo Jun, an important leader of the uprising army, was soon arrested. Then the Japanese police took action against Yu Qingfang, the "first criminal". Fortunately, Yu got the news in advance and quickly escaped. Yu Qingfang, who escaped from the clutches of the devil, decided to lead an uprising. Yu called himself "the great marshal of the benevolent state of Daming", and Jiang Ding was the deputy marshal, ready to attack the Japanese police station. At this time, the Japanese military and police stationed in Tainan had heard the news and were very alarmed. For fear of causing a prairie fire, they decided to take the initiative and quickly mobilized the military and police to encircle the rebel base in mountainous areas. Yu Qingfang's soldiers went head-on in two ways. In the first victory, he defeated the Japanese military and police attack at one stroke. He seized several police stations and killed dozens of Japanese police. Yu Qingfang was surprised to learn from the captives that the Japanese police force was out of action and the rear area was empty. So he led the main force and raided Xianpu police station. A small number of people left behind in the hall were caught off guard and killed one by one. Japanese police in front of them got the news and hurriedly gathered the remnant to return to rescue. By the time the troops arrived at the scene, the rebels had already plundered their weapons and ammunition and returned them to the mountains. The irascible Japanese soldiers and police followed and pursued, but when they saw the mountains in front of them, the soldiers and police who had suffered no longer dare to attack rashly, and the war was stuck for a while. On August 2, the rebel forces suddenly took the initiative to attack. Yu Qingfang led hundreds of elite soldiers to attack Nanzhuang police station in the police station of year's day of Ba Ba in the dark. In the face of the volunteers who suddenly fell from the sky, more than a dozen Japanese police officers soon became ghosts under the gun. After a big victory, Yu Qingfang ordered the house to be burned down. Then he took advantage of the victory and occupied Huwei mountain in the northeast of Bama year. According to the danger, he set up a defense and remotely controlled Bama year to confront the Japanese police.

Defeated and captured

In the face of the growing rebel forces, the local Japanese police were unable to do anything, so they transferred troops from other areas to wait for the opportunity to attack. By the night of August 4, there were more than 200 Japanese policemen arriving in Bama. In addition, there were nearly 20 rear guards in the nearby sugar factory. After that, two regular troops were sent in. After the Japanese army of hundreds gathered, they stormed to the rebel base. Unexpectedly, soon after entering the mountain, he was in a daze and entered the rebel ambush circle. After a fierce battle, the Japanese army left dozens of bodies, and the rest escaped from the encirclement. When the news of the defeat spread to Tainan, the authorities in Tainan were very angry and quickly mobilized again. This time, in addition to a large number of soldiers and police, four infantry squadrons and one shanpao squadron were also mobilized to form a column to attack the rebels from the places of tianshualiao and Liujia. At this time, the rebel forces were concentrating their forces on attacking the bar for a year. The police of more than 100 days were defeated and ambushed along the way. They were already dead and wounded. When the rebels gathered in Huwei mountain after the victory, the Japanese regular troops suddenly surrounded Huwei mountain and blasted the rebels from the high ground with huge guns. The rebels had only two old guns, and replaced shells with iron and stones. The range was only 200 meters. The rest of the weapons, except a few rifles, were only knives, guns, sticks and so on. It was not difficult to predict the outcome of fighting with the well-equipped Japanese regular troops . Under the heavy artillery bombardment of the Japanese army, the rebels suffered heavy casualties. On the evening of the 6th, Yu Qingfang ordered to give up his position. At this time, only more than 200 people could withdraw from the valley. On the night of August 15, Yu Qingfang, who had got rid of the Japanese pursuit, was betrayed and captured by the traitors. When the war was fierce, all the residents nearby fled to other places except Yu Qingfang's troops. At this time, the Japanese army completed the task of suppressing the war. As soon as the war was settled, a notice was issued saying that the residents who came back would not die. After the news spread, the fleeing residents helped the old and the young to return to their original homes. No one could have imagined that this was the Cruel Japanese plan to lure the "enemy". When a large number of residents returned to their homes, the Japanese army began to select the strong among the residents and ordered them to dig trenches. At the end of the incident, they forced these people to stand in front of the ditch. Just when they were baffled, the sound of machine guns suddenly rang, and all the trenchers were killed in the ditch. Then a large number of Japanese troops set out to start a massacre of humanity in the vast area of 20 miles around Bama. Old people and children are not spared, while women are raped before they are killed. For a time, corpses were everywhere and blood flowed. In this area alone, nearly ten thousand people were killed, while others were not included. Afterwards, according to relevant statistics, more than 12000 people died in the battle. Anton, the governor of Taiwan, was overjoyed at the news of Yu Qingfang's arrest. He ordered the establishment of a temporary court in Tainan, listing 1957 defendants, which is the largest "criminal case" in the world. Yu Qingfang's 866 people were sentenced to death, more than 700 people were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment, more than 300 people were not prosecuted, and another 8 people, including Luo Jun, the main general of the rebel army, were sentenced to hanging. under the leadership of Yu Qingfang's deputy Jiang Ding, the remaining remnant of the rebel army continued to fight until May of the following year (1916), unfortunately, they were trapped by the Japanese army and killed secretly. Although this heroic Anti Japanese struggle failed, the blood of the martyrs educated the living Taiwan compatriots. They recognized the ferocious face of the Japanese army and were more determined to resist. Since then, anti Japanese activities have continued. In addition to fighting in the local area, the Anti Japanese patriots returned to the mainland one after another to participate in the Anti Japanese struggle, and finally ushered in the great victory of the Anti Japanese war. Yu Qingfang's blood did not flow in vain.

Commemoration of later generations

Ma Ying Jeou, a former leader of the Taiwan region, recently visited the memorial of Yu Qingfang, a martyr of the Anti Japanese war in Yujing, Tainan City. According to the BBC website on July 4, Ma Ying Jeou offered incense and flowers in front of Yu Qingfang Memorial. According to the report, when talking about Taiwan's resistance against Japan, he said that he should "face up to history with clear-cut gratitude and resentment and deal with the matter on its own.". he said: "in the face of family members, we should put ourselves in the same place and compare our hearts." It is believed that Ma Ying Jeou's visit to the memorial ceremony is to make up for the failure of the Centennial commemoration of the Yujing incident. According to the report, the "Yujing incident" (also known as the "poba incident") led by Yu Qingfang, a Taiwan Anti Japanese patriot, in 1915 was the largest Anti Japanese movement of Japan in the colonial period of Taiwan, with the largest number of Anti Japanese people sacrificed. After that, Yu Qingfang was wanted by the Japanese colonial authorities, arrested by informers and hanged. According to the report, Ma Ying Jeou said when talking about Taiwan's Anti Japanese movement that the spirit of Taiwan's Anti Japanese patriots is admirable.

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