Chen Qiwu's anecdotes

When we turn over the revolutionary history of China, everyone will be deeply moved by the revolutionary spirit of the December 9th patriotic movement, the prelude to the anti-Japanese national salvation under the leadership of China's * * * production party. The students' March in Peiping on December 9th, the big demonstration on December 16th, and the tragic historical picture will always be the pride of the revolutionary youth and the people of China. Comrade Chen Qiwu, born in Chao County, Anhui Province, was the pioneer of the December 9th Movement.

Chen Qiwu, formerly known as Liu Yuheng, was the second child and was born in 1914. In 1929, he entered the nest with excellent results. After graduating from junior high school, he was admitted to the famous Yangzhou Middle School together with his classmate Ye Shangyu. In 1934, he was admitted to the Philosophy Department of Tsinghua University. At that time, it was the third year after the September 18th Incident, when the four northeastern provinces fell, the Japanese imperialist aggression went deep into the hinterland of North China, and 4, Kwantung troops were stationed in Peiping and Tianjin. The Kuomintang's nonresistance and a series of secret diplomacy towards the Japanese aggressors, such as Tanggu Agreement, He Mei Agreement and Chadong Negotiation, encouraged the Japanese fascist bandits to push their luck. Since 1935, under the instigation of Japanese fascists, pro-Japanese traitors have openly betrayed the country. Dohihara, the enemy chieftain, ordered puppet Yin Rugeng, Xiao Zhenying and Qin Dechun to launch the so-called "North China Anti-autonomy Movement" and planned to set up the "Jicha Government Affairs Committee". Half of the rivers and mountains in North China will change color, just as the student declaration in Beiping said, "North China is too big to put a quiet desk."

under the leadership of the Beijing Temporary Working Committee, Chen Qiwu and Comrade Huang Cheng participated in the patriotic movement of students on December 9th. After the student movement developed, he was elected as the chairman of the Tsinghua University Students' Anti-Japanese and National Salvation Committee and the acting chairman of the Peiping Students' Federation, and was supported by Peng Zhen and Jiang Nanxiang, leaders of the secret organization in Peiping. Later, Chen Qiwu was a member of the vanguard of national liberation.

At 7 o'clock on December 9th, 1935, the Tsinghua University Student Brigade, led by comrades Huang Cheng and Chen Qiwu, held high the banner and slogans of "opposing the anti-autonomy movement in North China" and "overthrowing Japanese imperialism", and rushed to Xizhimen against the cold wind. It was scheduled to meet the students in the city in front of Tiananmen Square at 1 o'clock in the morning, and then went to Jurentang to petition He Yingqin, a KMT official. However, the Kuomintang authorities in North China are on the verge of an enemy, sending a large number of gendarmes, policemen and cavalry with live ammunition to deal with patriotic students with whips, broadswords and faucets. The police officers guarded the city gate, forbidding petitions, and forbidding students from inside and outside the city to meet. At this time, the students in the city were already arm in arm, and the female students walked in the middle of the team and flocked to the street. They petitioned He Yingqin, but he had already hid in the western hills, and only sent a representative to elaborate. Patriotic students shouted slogans to protest, and then the Peiping Federation of Students gave the order of general demonstration. The mighty student team rushed through the multiple blockade lines composed of hoses, whips, broadswords and cavalry. The blood of young people is sprinkled on the icy road, and the angry people are still rushing forward.

At this moment, patriotic students in Tsinghua University are blocked by the closed city gate. Thinking of the pain of compatriots in Northeast China becoming conquered people, Comrade Huang Cheng couldn't hold back his anger, jumped on the mound outside the city wall and shouted to his classmates: "China people are no longer allowed to enter the city gate of China people!" This aroused public anger, and immediately, the slogans of "Down with Japanese imperialism", "Down with traitors and traitors" and "Long live the liberation of the Chinese nation" shocked the whole ancient city. On this day, Huang Cheng and Chen Qiwu led Tsinghua students to fight the reactionaries for a whole day. From dawn to dusk, I didn't eat a mouthful of rice or drink a mouthful of water in the biting cold wind.

After the December 9th, Chen Qiwu and Huang Cheng, under the leadership of the secret organization in Peking, staged a demonstration on December 16th. On December 16, college and middle school students inside and outside the city broke through the encirclement and obstruction of the military and police. Lu Cui, a female student in Tsinghua University, climbed into the city from the sewer, intending to open the city gate, and was immediately arrested by the Kuomintang. Everyone joined forces from all directions to the overpass, and workers, citizens and small traders along the way joined the struggle. Tianqiao Square is crowded with people, bringing together more than 1, people. At 11 o'clock in the morning, a citizen's meeting was held. The meeting passed resolutions such as "not recognizing the Jicha Government Committee", "opposing any puppet organization in North China" and "recovering lost land in Northeast China", and unanimously demanded: 1. Swear to oppose Japanese imperialist aggression against China; Second, organize the people; Third, the workers, peasants, business students and soldiers are anti-Japanese; Fourth, the people are automatically armed; 5. Oppose autonomy in North China. After the meeting, tens of thousands of people demonstrated. This struggle effectively dealt a blow to the Kuomintang's traitorous activities, and the Jicha Government Affairs Committee was forced to announce the postponement of its establishment. On the same day, twenty or thirty students were arrested and more than 3 were injured. In order to resist Japanese aggression and save the nation, Comrade Chen Qiwu worked tirelessly without fear of risks, which attracted the attention of Jiang Xiaoxian (head of the gendarmerie) and Japanese secret agents and sent people to search for him everywhere.

The secret organization of China * * * informed Chen Qiwu to get out of danger in disguise. He disguised himself as a wealthy businessman in Hong Kong and went to the Economic Research Institute of Nankai University in Tianjin, where his brother Liu Yuhuang worked. He was wearing a high-grade tweed coat, a top hat, gold-rimmed glasses on his nose, and a large handbag. He looked like he was 4 years old. He suddenly appeared in front of his brother, and Liu Yuhuang didn't know him, and he always asked him which one. He took off his glasses and laughed loudly, and Liu Yuhuang realized that it was his second brother Yu Heng. He hid in Liu Yuhuang's bedroom, and his brother came forward to cook two meals every day. He preached the revolutionary truth to his brother whenever he had time. More than 2 days later, his whereabouts attracted the attention of Kuomintang military instructors. The secret organization in Tianjin immediately informed Chen Qiwu to return to Peiping, only to get rid of the entanglement of the enemy.

Soon after, he participated in organizing a petition group to go south, and led more than 8 people to bravely and tactfully break through the blockade along the way to Nanjing. On behalf of patriotic students in the north, he gave a report on the December 9th Movement in Central University, which was impassioned and shook Nanjing. Chiang Kai-shek sent spies to arrest him at night. Fortunately, a classmate who knew the inside story ventilated in time to cover Chen Qiwu's escape from Shuiximen at night and turned to Wuhan. Later, he went from Wuhan to Fudan University in Shanghai, renamed Liu Yisheng, and continued to engage in anti-Japanese national salvation activities. Soon discovered by Kuomintang spies, he had to leave Shanghai at night and return to Peiping. In the summer vacation of 1936, the four brothers Chen Qiwu returned to their hometown Chao County from the north. In addition to Liu Yuhuang and Chen Qiwu (Liu Yuheng), there are the third Liu Yuqian (who studied in the Economics Department of Nankai University, joined the Party in the winter of 1935, and led the December 9th Movement in Tianjin together with Jia Mingyong) and the fourth Liu Yulin (renamed Liu Gang, a member of "People First" and admitted to the Physics Department of Tsinghua University in 1935). After they got home, they held a family meeting and made three decisions: first, let their eldest brother Liu Yuhuang resign as the head of the reference room of the Institute of Economics of Nankai University and return to the nest as the teaching director; Second, the little brothers are going to Yan' an, leaving the big brother to take care of the youngest son at home; Three, cover the two * * * secrets from the north, party member Chen Yuan (after the mutiny) and Jia Mingxu (Jia Ji of the Central Film Bureau), working in the nest. After Chen Qiwu returned to Chao County, he actively carried out his work. In the nest, he gave a speech entitled "Revolutionary Outlook on Life", which was rich in content, vivid in language and full of patriotic enthusiasm. His speech deeply touched the hearts of young people and sowed the fire of resistance against Japan.

At that time, Chen Guanwu, the principal in the nest, was recuperating in Shanghai, and all the school work was handed over to Liu Yuhuang, the director of education. Liu Hezhong * * * Secrets party member Chen Yuan and Jia Mingxu form the core of the school's leadership. Chen Yuan is the deputy director of teaching, and Jia Mingxu was the second head teacher and taught mathematics. The three of them boldly reformed the school work and did four major things: first, they abolished the "Memorial Week" of the Kuomintang and changed it into a free academic lecture to publicize the anti-Japanese and national salvation; The second is to abolish the civic class and change it into a life discussion, and publicize anti-Japanese democracy and patriotic seven gentlemen according to the Life Magazine edited by Mr. Zou Taofen; The third is to compile the wall newspaper "Guang Xiao" weekly, which is in the charge of Liu Yuhuang, Jia Mingxu and progressive student Xu Yan to publicize the anti-Japanese revolutionary thought; Fourth, cooperate with the local people's education museum to copy news, mimeographed it into a newsletter and distributed it to the masses. They once made the anti-Japanese propaganda in the nest in full swing.

after the anti-Japanese propaganda work in the nest was launched, between September 1936, Chen Qiwu went to Yan 'an with his two younger brothers. At that time, Liu Yuchan was only married for one month. They didn't go to Wuhan first, but they got in touch with Comrade Xu Teli in Changsha and lived in the contact point of the secret organization in No.1 Pengcaiyuan, Changsha. Around November, Chen Qiwu and Liu Yuxi went to Yan 'an via Chongqing.

In February p>1938, Chen Qiwu gloriously joined the China * * * Production Party. From then on, he devoted his life to the magnificent cause of * * *, and devoted himself to the war-torn anti-Japanese battlefield, galloping across the country. He has served as the propaganda minister of the Political Department of the Fourth Division of the New Fourth Army, the Propaganda Minister of the Political Department of the East China Military Region of the New Fourth Army, the front committee member of the Third Field Army (East China Field Army), the propaganda minister of the Political Department and the head of the East China Frontline General Branch of Xinhua News Agency, and the propaganda minister of the Political Department of the East China Military Region. He has made important contributions to the political work of the army.