The fire that starts from the prairie fire starts from the glimmer of light.
At the end of the bustling streets and alleys in Dongyang, a white granite four-pillar archway stands quietly, with six big characters carved on it: Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery.
Hidden behind the monument is a deep land with green pine and cypresses and green grass. The gray and white tombstones have already had traces of being polished by time in the long river of history, which is like the Buddha telling the revolutionary storm of the past.
Dongyang Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery, where Zhao Jimeng was buried
People from the Provincial Party Committee
After the “April 12” counter-revolutionary coup in 1927, the first cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party was broken, and the whole country was shrouded in a white terror. The focus of the whole party’s work began to shift from the city to the countryside. In June of that year, after the establishment of the Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, the first to focus on the restoration and development of the organization.
It was on that summer that Zhao Jimeng, who was then a member of the Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China (later member of the Standing Committee) and director of the Propaganda Department, secretly sneaked back to his hometown Dongyang. He contacted Dongyang Party members who returned from Wuhan, Shanghai and other places from multiple sources, and conveyed to them the spirit of the Five National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the establishment of the Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China.
KomiksIn June, in a seemingly inconspicuous house in Dongyang County, Chengdong Street (No. 6 Helan East Street), under the leadership of Zhao Jimeng, a meeting to change the fate of Dongyang was quietly held. Hu Alin and five other members of the Communist Party of China formed the first Communist Party organization in Dongyang’s history – the Independent Branch of the Communist Party of China, which is directly under the leadership of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee. This seemed like a spark, accompanied by the fragrant wind of early summer, ignited the revolutionary passion of Dongyang.
In early October, he returned to Dongyang again to convey the Central Committee’s “August 7” ConferenceKomiksSpirit, analyzed that Dongyang Cinema‘s industry was backward and there were few industrial workers. He instructed to focus his main energy on the countryside and prepare for a peasant riot.
Communist Party members within the Kuomintang
Zhao Ji, who sowed the prairie fire for the Dongyang Revolution, was only 23 years old at the time. He participated in the revolution for many years and was the initiator of several progressive organizations. He served as secretary of the Ningbo Prefectural Committee of the Youth League, secretary of the Ningbo Prefectural Committee of the Communist Party of China, member of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee, member of the Standing Committee, and director of the Propaganda Department. According to the organizational arrangements, Zhao Jimeng also joined the Kuomintang. His special identity has created good conditions for expanding the Communist Party’s ranks.
In 1927, Zhao Jimeng published an article in the Current Affairs Communiqué “The Significance of China’s Political Changes Over the Year”
On February 19, 1927, the Northern Expedition Army advanced to Ningbo, and Zhao Jimeng served as the Ning-affiliated political commissioner of the Kuomintang. Through this special identity, he publicly came forward to extensive contact with upper-class figures from all walks of life and maintained close contact, thereby strengthening the strength of the joint front of the National Revolution. He led the reorganization of Cinema to the Kuomintang organization Babaylan, and produced the Ningbo Municipal Party Committee of the Kuomintang with members of the Ningbo Prefectural Committee of the Communist Party of China as the core, and established and rectified the party departments of each county so that the leadership power was in the hands of the leftists of the Communist Party and the Kuomintang. The municipal party committee came forward to establish the “Ningbo City Provisional Government” and “Ningbo City Federation of All Circles” and carried out a series of political reforms. While carrying out revolutions in Ningbo, Shanghai and other places, he often takes into account his thoughts, the political situation of Ningbo, Shanghai and other places and even the whole country.The situation promptly informed Dongyang’s friends and relatives. He also brought the “Provincial Party Committee Newsletter” and other party publications back to Dongyang, mobilized mass gatherings, conveyed the Party’s instructions in a timely manner, publicized the Party’s propositions, and expanded the Party’s influence.
Zhao Jimeng participated in advanced activities in Ningbo
First guardians
In October 1927, when the party was influenced by the “left” blind activism, the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee decided to organize a workers’ riot. Because the “Red Terrorist Group” was destroyed, the enemy searched the provincial party member list and mailing address, and searched the Communist Party href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Cinema is a member of the Party, the provincial party committee and local organizations were destroyed. Zhao Jimeng unfortunately fell into the clutches of the devil due to the betrayal of the traitor. Cinema
Zhao Jimeng’s former site of his activity in Ningbo. In the backyard of Peiying Girls’ School, Komiks was the “primary guardian” of the Kuomintang. Zhao Jimeng received extraordinary “special treatment”. He Yingqin, chairman of the Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the Kuomintang, personally ordered: “We must be carefully interrogated and investigated according to the law.” The authorities organized a “special court” to use all kinds of despicable means such as threats, temptations, torture, and torture, and torture, in an attempt to retrieve the secrets of our party from him. Facing the enemy’s tyranny, Zhao Ji looked at him fiercely without giving up a word. That cold morning on January 9, 1928After several days and nights of loneliness and coldness, Zhao Jimeng died bravely outside Qiantang Gate, the execution ground of Hangzhou Army Prison. On January 30, the 15th issue of the official newspaper of the CPC Central Committee, “Bulsevik”, published a signed condolence article, highly praised Zhao Jimeng: “He is an effort to implement armed workers and peasants riots and seize power to establish a Soviet government.” His death “is a major loss within the Zhejiang Party and on the Zhejiang workers and peasants’ front.”
“The magnificent mountains and rivers are exchanged for their passion, and the arduous and magnificent sighs that the heroic spirit has passed away.” What passes away is the smoke of gunpowder, and what is immortal is the spirit. As time goes by, this revolutionary spirit that has been passed down to this day is still accumulated in the blood of Dongyang ancestors for generations.
Looking back at the war years in a silent place, I hope we will never forget the way we come and will not forget the burden on our shoulders.
Give up your past and live up to the future.