Yang Chao: A Strong and Intense Revolutionary Poet

2023-06-30

Bright lights projected onto the display board, a black and white photo, thick short hair, straight nose, young faces, and the visiting crowd stopped in front of the young martyr Yang Chao's display board with reverence. At the Jiangxi Provincial Revolutionary Martyrs Memorial Hall, there is a continuous stream of visitors every day, and the deeds of young martyr Yang Chao are arranged in the second exhibition hall. Yang Chao, born in Xinxian County, Henan Province in December 1904, moved to De'an County, Jiangxi Province with his family when he was 5 years old. Since the age of 7, he has studied at Chen's Private School in Muhuan Long, De'an, and Shen Yi Elementary School in Guo's Private School. Yang Chao came from a landlord's family and employed more than 10 long-term laborers. He had a good understanding of the oppressive and exploitative old society. He once wrote in a diary, "China is vast in land and resources, why is it not rich and strong? Because it has not been reformed, I will strive for it." In 1921, Yang Chao was admitted to Nanchang Xinyuan Middle School and began reading Marxist works, along with his classmates Yuan Yubing, Huang Dao Fang Zhimin and other revolutionary groups organized the "Reform Society", who was later expelled from the school for actively participating in the revolutionary activities carried out by the "Reform Society". In the autumn of 1923, Yang Chao went to the middle school affiliated to Southeast University in Nanjing to study. In October of the same year, he joined the Chinese Socialist Youth League. In December, an article titled "A Road to Transforming China - Revolution" was published, loudly calling for a proletarian revolution. Subsequently, I entered Peking University to study. After the outbreak of the May Thirtieth Movement in 1925, Yang Chao actively participated in the anti imperialist patriotic movement under the direct leadership of the party organization of Peking University. He met revolutionary propagandists and activists Yun Daiying and Xiao Chunu, the Communists, and joined the CPC with honor. At that time, Yang Chao told his wife Li Zhuqing about the happy event of joining the Communist Party. To avoid exposure, he wrote a poem titled "Sending Li Zhuqing with Feelings": "The original governor of the revolution is Yi Cheng, and the scholar has a way to invite Chang Ying. Kunpeng, however, loves the distant world and does not listen to the sound of the flute in the sunny night. In the same year, Yang Chao took advantage of his winter and summer vacation to return to Jiangxi to engage in revolutionary activities, and in the winter of that year, he organized the earliest trade union in De'an - the De'an Coal Workers' Union. In the summer of 1926, the party organization sent Yang Chao back to Jiangxi to work as a member of the Jiangxi Local Committee of the Communist Party of China. In December, the first Party Congress of De'an County elected Yang Chao as the secretary of the county party committee, leading the masses to actively support the Northern Expedition. After Chiang Kai shek launched the "412" counter revolutionary coup in 1927, the whole country fell into a state of white terror and a large number of Communist Party members were killed. Yang Chao led the people of De'an in a resolute struggle against Chiang Kai shek. On July 21, 1927, Yang Chao attended the first Party member congress of the Communist Party of China in Jiangxi Province and was elected as a member of the provincial party committee. On July 25, he organized the second CPC De'an County Party Congress to implement the spirit of the provincial party committee, discuss contingency strategies, and take emergency measures, so that the party's revolutionary forces were not seriously damaged. After the Nanchang uprising, the Kuomintang reactionary authorities fought back crazily, and De'an fell into more serious white terror. Yang Chao was wanted, but he continued to lead the De'an agricultural army to carry out armed struggle. In October 1927, Yang Chao was ordered by the party organization to carry out work in Henan and participated in organizing and leading the revolutionary struggle. On December 23rd, Yang Chao returned to Jiangxi after attending the party's Wuhan meeting, but was discovered by Kuomintang spies on the way. In order to distract the enemy and protect the enemy

Edit:XiaoWanNing    Responsible editor:YingLing

Source:People's Daily

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