Jiang Shangqing

Jiang Shangqing

Jiang Shangqing (1911-1939), formerly known as Jiang Shihou, was born in Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province. In 1927, he was admitted to the high school of Nantong middle school. Influenced by the revolutionary thoughts of Liu Ruilong and Gu Minyuan, he joined the Communist Youth League of China and embarked on the revolutionary road. On July 29, 1939, Jiang Shangqing was attacked by the reactionary forces of the landlords and died at the age of 28. On September 14, 2009, he was rated as one of the 100 heroic models who made outstanding contributions to the founding of new China.

Life of the characters

Jiang Shangqing (1911-1939), formerly known as Jiang Shihou, was born in Jiangdu County, Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province on April 10, 1911. His father, Jiang Shixi, was good at poetry and music, especially in medicine. He was in the Taihetang drugstore (also known as pengtaihetang) of andinghefang, Touqiao Township, Jiangdu county (now Touqiao Town, Guangling District, Yangzhou City) and had patriotic and democratic ideas. His mother, Touqiao fan, was a Ruren (now group 3, Antai village, Touqiao Town, Guangling District, Yangzhou City).

In 1928, Xia jiangshangqing was transferred to Yangzhou high school. In the winter of the same year, he was arrested and jailed by the Kuomintang authorities in the name of the backbone of the student movement. After he was released from prison in June 1929, he changed his name to Jiang Shangqing and studied in the literature department of Shanghai University of Arts. In the same year, he became a member of the Communist Party of China and served as the Secretary of the underground Party branch of Shanghai "University of Arts" and continued to work in the underground school movement. In the winter of 1929, Jiang Shangqing was arrested again while attending the secret meeting of the party organization in Shanghai. In the winter of 1930, he was released from prison with a disease.

After the September 18th Incident in 1931, facing the deep disaster caused by the Japanese invasion and the non resistance policy of the Kuomintang authorities, Jiang Shangqing was filled with righteous indignation and wrote a long poem "march forward: the events of the three eastern provinces" with great passion. This poem, written in 1931, was widely spread at that time, which played a positive role in arousing the people and inspiring the Anti Japanese spirit. Since then, Jiang Shangqing and a group of hot-blooded youths have successively founded new century weekly, writing and reading weekly and anti enemy weekly to publicize the revolutionary truth of Marxism, anti Japanese national salvation, patriotism and materialism, and spread the fire of revolution and anti Japanese.

In July 1937, after the Lugouqiao Incident, he published the article "Lugouxiaoyue", expressing his passion for resisting Japan and saving the nation. Under the situation of the outbreak of the national anti Japanese War, Jiang Shangqing and others organized a mobile propaganda group of Jiangdu County Cultural Salvation Association, which started from Jiangdu and went up the river to carry out extensive Anti Japanese propaganda and mobilize the people to participate in the Anti Japanese struggle. In the spring and summer of 1938, Jiang Shangqing went to Anhui in accordance with the instructions of the party organization. Under the leadership of the Anhui Provincial Working Committee of the Communist Party of China, he participated in the eighth working group of Anhui Anti Japanese mass mobilization committee, and carried out Anti Japanese propaganda work in Lu'an, Shouxian, Yingshang, Gushi and Shangcheng areas of Dabie Mountains. At that time, Wuhan Xinhua Daily published an article written by special correspondent Zhang Hanfu, which warmly praised Jiang Shangqing and others for their anti Japanese propaganda work.

In August 1938, Jiang Shangqing went to Anhui in accordance with the party's instructions. Under the leadership of the Anhui Provincial Working Committee of the Communist Party of China, he participated in the work of the Anhui Provincial Anti Japanese mass mobilization committee and carried out Anti Japanese propaganda in the Dabie Mountains.

In November 1938, after northeast Anhui was occupied by the Japanese army, Zhang Jinfu, the propaganda minister of Anhui Provincial Working Committee of CPC, decided to establish a special branch of northeast Anhui on behalf of the party organization, appointed Jiang Shangqing as the Secretary of the special branch, and sent a group of Communists of the special branch to work in Northeast Anhui under his leadership. He established the special branch with Sheng Zijin, the Commissioner of the office of inspector of the sixth administrative region of Anhui Province and the commander of the fifth guerrilla column of the national party The United Front is responsible for the preparations for opening up the Northeast Anhui Anti Japanese base. After arriving in Northeast Anhui, Jiang Shangqing served as secretary of the office of the Commissioner of the sixth administrative region of Anhui Province of the Kuomintang, deputy commander of security, and director of the Political Department of the fifth guerrilla column command.

In Northeast Anhui, Jiang Shangqing and others actively carried out Anti Japanese propaganda and promoted Sheng Zijin to establish northeast Anhui military and political cadre school. He personally compiled teaching materials, gave lectures and made reports for the cadets of the military and political cadre school, and trained a large number of Anti Japanese cadres among the cadets. He also promoted Sheng Zijin to establish the Northeast Anhui Daily and the Northeast Anhui Anti Japanese cultural service agency to publicize the party's Anti Japanese national united front policy. After the hard struggle of the party organization and Jiang Shangqing, a vigorous situation of Anti Japanese and national salvation appeared in Northeast Anhui. The development of the Anti Japanese situation in Northeast Anhui made the Kuomintang diehards extremely panic, and they increased the destruction and disturbance to northeast Anhui. The Japanese aggressors also stepped up their efforts to win over and collude with the local reactionary forces in Northeast Anhui in an attempt to destroy the Anti Japanese situation in Northeast Anhui. With the development of the struggle situation.

In March 1939, the CPC northeast Anhui Special Committee was established, with Yang Chun as secretary and Jiang Shangqing as member. After its establishment, the special committee actively assisted Zhang Aiping, Secretary of the CPC Henan Anhui Soviet Provincial Committee and director of the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army Office in Northeast Anhui, to further promote the formation of KMT communist cooperation and United Anti Japanese war situation in Northeast Anhui, and jointly establish the Anti Japanese base area in Northeast Anhui.

On July 29, 1939, after helping Zhang Aiping and others to do the work of the Kuomintang's local power faction, Jiang Shangqing and Sheng Zijin led their headquarters to return to the headquarters. On the way back, they were ambushed by the landlord reactionary forces, shot several times and died bravely. They were only 28 years old. After his death, Jiang Shangqing's body was buried in cuiji, near the Northeast Anhui Office of the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army. In 1982, he was moved to the cemetery of martyrs in Sihong County, Jiangsu Province, and set up a monument. The old general Zhang Aiping wrote the name of the monument, while Yang Chun, Liu Yuzhu and Zhou Cun wrote the inscription. On April 13, 1985, Jiang Shangqing's children Jiang Zemin, Jiang Zeling, Jiang Zehui and others came to visit Jiang Shangqing's grave to express their deep sorrow.

Chronology of people

Born on April 10, 1911 in Xiannv Town, Jiangdu County, Yangzhou, in a family of traditional Chinese medicine and clerks, she ranks sixth among her brothers and sisters. His father Jiang Shixi named him jiangshihou.

In 1915, Nantong dada inland shipping company hired Jiang Shixi as its assistant and moved his family to tianjiaxiang, Dongguan, Yangzhou.

In September 1918, he entered Yangzhou qionghuaguan primary school.

In the autumn of 1919, he studied Tang poetry and ancient prose with his uncle Zhu Youcun, which laid a solid foundation for classical literature.

In September 1921, he was transferred to Yangzhou No.1 Primary School.

In September 1924, he was admitted to Yangzhou substitute business school with excellent results.

In July 1927, he went with his seventh brother Jiang Shibo to visit his elder brother Jiang Shijun (No. Guanqian) in Nantong and took part in the entrance examination of Nantong middle school.

In September 1927, he was enrolled in the senior high school of Nantong middle school.

In November 1927, under the influence of Gu Minyuan and other progressive students, he actively participated in progressive student activities and joined the Communist Youth League of China.

In September 1928, he went back to Yangzhou middle school and continued to work in the student movement.

In December 1928, he was arrested by the reactionary authorities at jiangjiaqiao's home, then escorted to Suzhou and put in Siqian Street prison. After the court session, he was detained for half a year despite strong defense from his lawyer.

He was released from prison in May 1929, but he was still proud and not accepted by Yangzhou middle school.

In July 1929, he changed his name to Jiang Shangqing and applied to the literature department of Shanghai Art University. His seventh brother Jiang Shibo also changed his name to Jiang Shufeng.

In August 1929, he went to Shanghai Art University to study. After the relationship between the Youth League organizations was transferred to the arts, they directly transferred to the party and participated in the activities of the Shanghai Arts University Branch of the Communist Party of China.

In October 1929, the Party branch of Shanghai Art University was reorganized, and he was appointed secretary of the branch by the farnan District Committee of the Communist Party of China.

In November 1929, he actively participated in and led the student movement, and often went deep into the factory to carry out activities. During this period, he got to know Yu Dafu, a left-wing writer, and so on. Under their influence, he wrote new poems, such as congratulatory ceremony of the new world and flag of October.

In December 1929, he was arrested by the reactionary authorities when he attended the party meeting in Yueshang restaurant, North Sichuan Road, Shanghai. He was held in Shanghai Tilanqiao prison under the pseudonym of Zhang Yuqing.

In January 1930, the reactionary authorities sentenced Jiang Shangqing to one year's hard labor because of insufficient evidence. Later, he was taken to Suzhou and put in the third prison. He said confidently to the comrades he had visited: "it doesn't matter if you go to jail. Let them go and do it again." In prison, he wrote such poems as "naked body", "cold world", "hunger is a weapon", "sewing man", "I'm here again", "eight people", which showed the unyielding struggle spirit of the Communist Party members.

In December 1930, he was remanded to Shanghai and released after the trial, that is, he returned to Yangzhou.

In 1931, he was tortured in prison, suffering from severe asthma and extremely weak. He was sent to Nantong by his father for recuperation. Since then, the revolutionary will has not been reduced, and he has successively written such poems as "Revelation from the bottom of blood" and "hunger and cold persecuting the victims".

In August 1931, he was sent by the party organization to study in the Department of Sociology of Jinan University in Shanghai. He listened to the sociology lessons taught by Li Da, Deng chumin and others. At the same time, he continued to work secretly in the student movement and wrote poems such as "march forward", "whirlwind". His vernacular poems fully express the fearless revolutionary spirit of a communist soldier who is not afraid of difficulties and dangers and fights bravely.

In February 1932, he returned to Yangzhou, founded new century weekly with Chen Junye and other like-minded people, and published articles under pseudonym in the journal, encouraging Yangzhou youth student association to actively carry out Anti Japanese activities.

In September 1932, he was employed as a Chinese teacher in Yangzhou Huainan vocational middle school.

In January 1933, he resigned from Huainan vocational middle school and applied to Yizheng shierwei middle school as a Chinese teacher. We should actively publicize the progressive revolutionary literary thought among the students.

In September 1933, his father died of illness. At that time, because of the low tide of the revolution, the party's organization was destroyed

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