Gu Heng

Gu Heng

Gu Heng (1909-1934), male, from Wuxi, Jiangsu Province. In 1927, Gu Heng was admitted to Central University. In 1930, he joined the Communist Party of China.

In 1931, he was sent by the Party committee to Taihe County to organize peasant armed forces. He was once Secretary of the CPC Taihe County Party committee. In 1933, he served as the head of the Organization Department of the CPC Nanjing Municipal Committee. Unfortunately, he was arrested in 1934. In December of the same year, he died bravely in Yuhuatai, Nanjing.

Life of the characters

Gu's family is a great family in Wuxi. His father Gu is a famous educator in Wuxi. He was once the president of the third normal school of Jiangsu Province. Influenced by his father, his thought of "reading to save the country" is deeply buried in Gu Heng's heart. In August 1923, Gu Heng, a gifted and talented student, was admitted to the junior high school affiliated to National Southeast University as a student in the middle school. Due to Gu Heng's hard work and unremitting pursuit, his performance has been excellent, which makes his parents feel very gratified. On March 12, 1925, the great pioneer Dr. Sun Yat Sen passed away. In order to commemorate the founding father of the Republic of China, all walks of life in Nanjing held a grand memorial meeting. On April 22, the memorial meeting was held in Xiushan Park, Nanjing. Most of the participants were students, including Gu Heng and many students from the Affiliated Middle School of East University. At that time, it was raining heavily. The passionate speeches of Yun Daiying, Xiao Chunv and other Communists at the meeting made Gu Heng, who had been buried in reading, know the crime of collusion between imperialism and feudal warlords to harm the Chinese people. Since then, a new idea, like the heavy rain, poured into Gu Heng's heart and began to take root and germinate. At the end of 1929, the Chinese revolution turned into a low tide of white terror, and many people were pessimistic and disappointed about the future of the revolution. Gu Heng resolutely left his family, gave up his favorite major and wrote a letter to his father, saying: "I want to go far away! I won't contact my family for the time being..." an intellectual from a scholarly family, after long-term exploration and search, came out of the various opinions of "reading to save the country", "education to save the country" and "science to save the country" in the 1920s. He lost his hesitation and depression in his mind, his relatively comfortable life and his favorite profession. He was invited to Beiping as a teacher of new agricultural school, and bravely opened up a new era with his youth and blood A new way to save the country. In October 1930, Gu Heng was absorbed into the party by the branch of Tsinghua University. Since then, he began his career of professional revolution and firmly embarked on the road of revolution. In the autumn of 1930, Gu Heng joined the Communist Party of China and worked in the CPC Beiping Municipal Committee. In 1931, Gu Heng went to An'an to levy Taihe. In order to open up the working situation, he joined hands with the peasants and enlightened them in their work. Under his active work, the revolutionary fire was blazing in Taihe. In the summer of 1933, Gu Heng came to Nanjing and became the Secretary of the Nanjing special branch of the Communist Party of China. In the center of white terror, he did not avoid risks and worked hard, which made the party organization in Nanjing recover and develop rapidly. In August 1934, Gu Heng was arrested during the struggle. In the court, he talked bluntly, and turned the Kuomintang court into a platform for publicizing communism. In prison, the enemy urged him to turn himself in. He replied, "it's a belief that I join the Communist Party, which can't be shaken!" On December 4, 1934, Gu Heng died in Yuhuatai at the age of 25.

Characters and deeds

This is a young man who was born in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province. He has been gifted and outstanding since childhood. With the idea of "reading to save the country", he studied hard and was admitted to the Department of mathematics of Southeast University (renamed as Central University in 1928) in 1927. Later, he transferred to the Department of physics, and joined the national salvation Society - Dadi society, which was organized by patriotic students of Tsinghua University in Beijing. The Jinan massacre in 1928 and the barrenness of the social situation ignited his patriotic passion. In contact with the progressive youth, he gradually realized that the road of "saving the country by science" was not feasible, and embarked on the road of revolutionary salvation. He was martyr Gu Heng, who was displayed in the Yuhuatai Martyrs Memorial. In 1929, Gu Heng resolutely gave up his favorite major and was invited to Beiping as a teacher of Xinnong agricultural school. He joined the Communist Party of China in the autumn of 1930. In 1931, the party organization sent Gu Heng to work in Taihe, Anhui Province. In order to open up the work situation and change his image as a scholar, Gu Heng was tanned in the sun, dressed like the local farmers, and became a real farmer. He did farm work with the peasants, spoke local dialect, inspired the peasants' consciousness, developed the party and League members, and actively organized the workers and students to fight against corrupt officials. By the next spring, the county had more than 300 armed people and more than 2000 red guards. In 1933, after the seventh destruction of the party organization in Nanjing, Gu Heng was appointed to take over the post of secretary of Nanjing special branch. At that time, there was only one special branch in Nanjing, with 89 party members and a dense network of constitutional police and secret agents. The working environment was very harsh and dangerous. Gu Henggang took off the farmer's clothes, put on the faded workers' short clothes, and wore workers' cap. He often appeared in Puzhen machinery factory, Xiaguan and other places where workers concentrated, making friends with workers and propagating revolutionary ideas. He is almost the same as the workers, the only thing that makes him dissatisfied is that his hands are still relatively white. Knowing that washing clothes with alkaline water can make hands thicker, he put a lot of alkali in water to wash clothes and rubbed his hands back and forth in the sand until his hands became rough. Because Gu Heng's leg was injured by a pistol fire during Taihe period, he was still limping. In addition, he often worked until early in the morning, with heavy tasks, malnutrition and no blood on his face. At that time, Ge Helin, who was the director of the organization, wanted to give Gu Heng more nutrition and better food. Gu Heng has a lot of opinions on this. He told Ge Helin:

"You are helping me raise funds for the party. You should donate the money to the party. The food I eat here is much better than that of workers and farmers. Now that the party's funds are so difficult, you must not waste them! "

Looking at Gu Heng's thin face, GE and Lin were very excited. A former scholar with excellent family conditions has been completely transformed in the revolutionary work. In 1934, after Gu Heng was arrested, his father came to visit him in prison and held his son's strong hand. He could not help but think of the scene when he held his hand and taught him to write in red. The revolution has made this former white faced scholar strong and calm.

Character evaluation

At the critical moment of national salvation, Gu Heng abandoned his excellent family and firmly linked his destiny with that of the country. He fought bravely against the Kuomintang reactionaries with his youth and blood, and finally set his precious life at 25 years old. In his short life, Gu Heng was determined to go far away, to the countryside and to the workers. For the ideal and pursuit in his heart, he regarded death as if he were at home and lit up the journey of Chinese revolution with his blood. With a thorough sacrifice, he practiced his original intention.

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