Monument to the four martyrs

Monument to the four martyrs

Located in the campus of Nankai Middle School in Tianjin, the monument commemorates the four martyrs Tian Wenchun, Zhang Bingyuan, Yue Dai and Wu Zuyi who died for the revolution in the war of national liberation.

structure characteristics

The plane of the monument is a triangular hexagon, with a side length of 10 cm and 35.5 cm respectively, and a total height of 225 cm. There are inscriptions on each side of the pedestal. On the front of the monument, there are six regular script gold characters of "monument to the four martyrs" inscribed by Bo Yibo, and the other two sides are engraved with biographies of the four martyrs. The fourth martyr is the 36th student of Nankai Middle School, so the 36th alumni of Nankai Middle school built this monument in memory of them on July 7, 1987.

Introduction to martyrs

In 1927, Tian Wenchun entered the first primary school of the county. When I was in primary school, I cared about current affairs and often read progress books and newspapers. After entering Kaifeng junior high school. At school, he joined the Communist Youth League of China. In the spring of 1931, he was arrested and put into prison, and was rescued by many parties. In the summer of 1931, he was admitted to Tianjin Nankai Middle School. During this period, he bought and read a large number of progressive books and periodicals, actively participated in various anti Japanese and national salvation movements, and became the backbone of leadership. In 1934, when the graduation sports meeting was held in Tianjin, patriotic leaflets such as "don't forget the northeast", "recover the lost land" and "return my River and mountain" were distributed on the venue. In 1935, after taking part in the "129" movement, he went south on foot to petition and insisted on walking to Nanjing. In 1936, he took part in the May 28 March of Tianjin students against the Japanese troop increase in North China, and actively distributed leaflets, which was reported by newspapers. In the summer of 1936, he took part in the struggle of senior three students in Tianjin against the entrance examination. During the summer vacation, he took an active part in the rural compulsory education activities held by Tianjin, went to the rural areas in the suburbs of Tianjin, established private schools, and carried out patriotic education and anti Japanese propaganda activities among farmers. In the second half of 1936, he returned to Xinxiang and joined the vanguard of national liberation in the first batch to publicize the Anti Japanese War, boycott Japanese goods and launch student processions. On January 7, 1937, he went to Taiyuan, Shanxi Province to participate in the national salvation League led by the party and joined in the Anti Japanese struggle. In the same year, he joined the Communist Party of China. In the summer of that year, he served as secretary of the Jishan County Working Committee of the Communist Party of China, special commissioner of Jishan County of Shanxi League Association, and instructor of the self defense column of the people's Armed Forces Department of Jishan county. We should actively develop Jishan Party organizations, strengthen the people's armed forces, and carry out the struggle to reduce rent and interest rates. On February 1, 1938, the armed cadres of Xinjiang, Jishan, Hejin, Ningxiang and other counties met in Baipo village, Xishe Township, Jishan County, and were surrounded by the Japanese army. In order to cover the safe transfer of leading cadres and comrades in arms in various counties, he led some self-defense forces to fight bravely and died unfortunately.

Zhang Bingyuan

From 1916 to 1939, he was a revolutionary martyr. He once served as the Secretary of the CPC Northwest Shandong Provincial Committee. He is from Wen'an, Hebei Province. He was admitted to Tianjin Nankai Middle School in 1930. He joined the Communist Party of China in April 1936 and was admitted to the Journalism Department of Yanjing University in Peking in the summer of the same year. After the Japanese army occupied Peking in 1937, they went to Jinan with the exiled students from Pingjin and were admitted to the training class for political workers of the third group army held by Han Fuzhe. After graduation, he was assigned to Chiping county political discipline office. Soon after, the CPC Chiping county political discipline branch was established, with Zhang Bingyuan as its secretary. At the end of 1937, he was transferred to the administrative discipline Office of Shen county. In February of the next year, the CPC Shenxian County Committee was established, with Zhang Bingyuan as secretary of the county committee. At that time, there was a shortage of cadres, and the county Party committee decided to hold two training classes for cadres. In the cadre training class, he lectured during the day and dealt with his daily work at night, often forgetting to eat and sleep, day and night. Because of the selfless work he led, the party organizations developed rapidly in urban and rural areas, various mass organizations were established one after another, the Anti Japanese and national salvation movement of peasants was vigorous, and the Anti Japanese work of Shen county was in the forefront of the whole region. In January 1939, the CPC Northwest Regional Committee of Shandong Province was established, and Zhang Bingyuan was promoted to Secretary of the CPC Northwest Regional Committee. The Kuomintang reactionaries began to use the "beauty trap" to frame him, but failed to do so. On July 13, 1939, they disguised themselves as the Eighth Route Army and infiltrated the courtyard of the prefectural Party committee to assassinate him. He was only 35 years old.

Yue Dai (no, please add)

Wu Zuyi

They used to be Wu Lusheng and Wu Yi. He was born in Kaifeng, Henan Province. Born in Qufu, Shandong Province in August 1914, he joined Minxian in Nankai Middle School in Tianjin in April 1936 and the Communist Party of China in Kaifeng in 1937. In August 1946, he died in Ningshan County, Shaanxi Province.

Address: Campus of Nankai Middle School, Nankai District, Tianjin

Longitude: 117.17043304443

Latitude: 39.132068634033

Tel: 022-28358816

Ticket information: free.

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