Life of Characters in Wei Jiesan's Works

Wei Jiesan, a native of Xinxu Street, Xinxu Town, mengshan county, Guangxi, is a passionate writer and a fearless patriotic intellectual.

190365438+1October 5th, Wei Jiesan was born in a poor family in Xinxu Street, Xinxu Town, mengshan county, a small town in eastern Guangxi. His mother died in his 1 s and was raised by his grandmother. He studied in a private school in the village at the age of 8, entered Xinxu Primary School at the age of 10, and entered the county high school at the age of 12. He has been smart and studious since he was a child. When he was in junior high school, he read progressive publications such as Teenagers and Students, and was inspired by the idea of democratic revolution. After graduation, he went to the ancient school of Chinese literature for a year. Due to financial difficulties at home, he dropped out of school and became a teacher at Gupai Primary School. He was only 16 years old that year.

19 19 Autumn, Wei Jiesan was admitted to Wuzhou Provincial Normal School and graduated one year later. 1920, he borrowed 30 yuan to go to Guangzhou, studied at Muli English College first, and was admitted to Guangzhou Peiying Middle School half a year later. Wei Jiesan, who is studying at school, happened to be in the period of the May 4th Movement and the founding of the China Producer Party, and the nationwide anti-imperialist, anti-feudal and anti-foreign patriotic movements had a great influence on him. In the upsurge of student movement, he tried to learn all subjects well and actively engaged in social work. He used to be the editor-in-chief of Peiying Magazine, the school magazine, and the director of the student self-government association.

In the summer of 1922, he returned to Mengshan, his hometown, and gave a 10-day popularization speech, actively promoting new ideas, new cultures and new morals, and mobilizing young people with aspirations in his hometown to go out to study. In order to realize his ambition of establishing a "model school" in rural areas, he was transferred to the middle school affiliated to Southeast University on 1923 and became the editor-in-chief of the weekly magazine of the School Autonomy Association. Because commenting on the school administration in the weekly magazine offended the school authorities, he was forced to transfer to Wusong Chinese Public School after reading for half a year. 1924 Dropped out of school because of life difficulties, and had to return to his hometown to work as an English and music teacher in mengshan county Middle School. During this period, he co-founded Yuanshenghe Bookstore with the headmaster Cai Tingsheng and the progressive teacher Huang Chengye, managed some progressive books and periodicals such as Sound Guide Weekly, New Youth and Xiangjiang Review, and also edited the Student Weekly published by county high schools to spread new ideas of science and democracy. From 19 15 to April 1923, he wrote many poems expressing his ideological aspirations and challenging the "evil society", including 138 children's literature works, 4 short stories and 2 essays, in addition to the classification of children's literature.

From 65438 to 0924, China turned into the first revolutionary civil war. On May 4th, hundreds of teachers and students held a rally in mengshan county Senior High School to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the May 4th Movement. Wei Jiesan, Huang Chengye and others took the lead in carrying out publicity activities to change customs. They published wall newspapers and took to the streets to perform, preaching new ideas, new cultures and new morals, opposing warlord rule and promoting women's liberation and gender equality. With the ambition of saving the country by studying, he raised a sum of money to study in Shanghai that autumn, and was admitted to Shanghai University, which has a strong progressive force, and studied in the Department of English Literature.

1925 Shanghai University was forcibly closed by the British after the May 30th tragedy that shocked China and foreign countries. During this period, Wei Jiesan and students from Shanghai University gave speeches on the streets of Shanghai to mobilize the masses to raise money for the victims. In the days of fierce struggle, Wei Jiesan wrote articles all night and published them in the progressive newspaper in Shanghai, denouncing the crimes of imperialism and expressing his cry and support for the workers' movement. He also wrote many poems, expressing strong patriotic feelings. When the Shanghai Student Union was founded, he actively participated in the organization of the student union and carried out the anti-imperialist and patriotic movement with people from the Federation of Industry and Commerce. Wei Jiesan was not intimidated by the repression of imperialism and reactionary warlords under the bad situation of "dark clouds are crushing the city and trying to destroy it". After dropping out of school, he returned to his hometown but didn't stay, which inspired his strong desire to "save the country by studying". In the autumn of that year, Tsinghua University added an undergraduate department to recruit new college students. Wei Jiesan resolutely took the exam and was admitted with excellent results. During his study in Tsinghua University, Wei Jiesan has been enthusiastic about serving the school and society, and dares to speak out about unreasonable phenomena in the school and society. 1In March, 926, eight countries, including the United States, Japan, Britain and France, used the Dagukou incident as an excuse to make unreasonable demands to the Beiyang government, such as "punishing the murderer" and "compensating", and issued an ultimatum, ordering them to reply within 48 hours.

In the face of imperialist aggression by the United States, Japan and other countries, the Duan government succumbed to pressure and announced that it would abide by the unequal "Xin Chou Treaty" and lift the blockade of Haikou. This aroused great anger among the people in Beijing and Tianjin, and the anti-imperialist sentiment was very high. On March 18, people from all walks of life in Beijing, led by producers Li Dazhao, Zhao Shiyan, Chen and Chen Yi, held a "national demonstration against the ultimatum of the Eight Powers" in front of Tiananmen Square. After the meeting, more than 2,000 people participated in the demonstration, including several workers and peasants' teams, a Guangdong diplomatic delegation, a Kuomintang Party headquarters in Beijing Special City, and a group of students studying in Japan. Most of the rest are teachers and students from various schools in Beijing. Tsinghua University's classmates took part in the protest. Wei Jiesan walked at the front of the procession, holding a small red flag, taking the lead in shouting anti-imperialist slogans such as "Down with imperialism" and "Deny refuting the ultimatum", and distributing leaflets as he walked.

When the procession arrived at Lion Lake, Duan government guards opened fire on unarmed patriots, killing 26 people and injuring more than 200 people on the spot. Wei Jie was shot four times in the abdomen and then fell in a pool of blood. He was rescued by his classmates and sent to Union Medical College Hospital. In his coma, he still denounced Duan thief, never forgetting the rejuvenation and prosperity of the motherland, and said, "My heart is safe, but China will soon become strong!" 2 1 In the early morning of March, this patriot stopped breathing, and he was only 23 years old.

On March 22nd, Tsinghua University sent representatives to the Union Medical College Hospital to wake up and escort the coffin back to school on foot. They held high the banner of white cloth with slogans such as "kill all thieves" and marched with coffins. All the teachers and students in Tsinghua University lined up at the West Gate to welcome the sacrifice. On the same day, a memorial service was held. They wrote an elegy of "Blood splashes on the capital, Dan Xin shines on Tsinghua", expressing the mourning and love of Tsinghua University teachers and students.

Wei Jiesan's heroic deeds were sent back to his hometown, and more than 0,000 people gathered in mengshan county/KLOC-0 to hold a memorial service. Cai Tingsheng, the principal of the county senior primary school, made a tearful eulogy and deeply mourned him on behalf of the people in his hometown.

In order to pass on Wei Jiesan's short-lived works to future generations, Tsinghua University specially edited and published the Collected Works of Wei Jiesan. Guangxi Folk Literature Research Association also included Wei Jiesan in Modern Literature History of Zhuang Nationality, introducing his life and major works. 1957, Tsinghua University erected a broken white marble column on the lawn of the library, which was moved from the old site of Yuanmingyuan in Beijing, and there was a slate beside it, engraved with the main deeds of Wei Jiesan.