Cai Xiong's life story

Cai Xiong (1907- 1927) is a native of Hai 'an Town, Rui 'an City. My father died in his early years, and a brother and a sister lived in poverty by their mother. He entered Hai 'an Primary School at the age of seven. He studies hard and has a quick mind. Young Cai Xiong often listened to the old people in the town telling stories about the coastal people's resistance to Japan 350 years ago, climbed up the town wall with friends to defend the Japanese aggressors and poured out their ambitions to save the country and the people.

1In the autumn of 922, Cai Xiong was admitted to Wenzhou Tenth Normal College. He is quiet at school, well-read, knows everything by heart, and has elegant poems. Shortly after the May 4th Movement, Mr. Zhu Ziqing, a new literature writer, came to teach in our school. Some conservative comrades tried their best to resist and exclude him, making use of the topic to make Mr. Zhu unable to cope. Cai Xiong and others are dedicated to Mr. Zhu. They not only listen carefully and study hard, but also dare to speak out and often defend and rescue Mr. Zhu. 1923, Cai Xiong, Jin, He Zhize and other comrades who love new culture formed Hong Wenhui, Xuebo Society and other new literature research groups, published publications, and invited Mr. Zhu as a guide to actively promote new ideas. During the period of 1924, under the influence of the first revolution of cooperation between countries, Cai Xiong gradually gave up literary research and began to pay attention to political issues and join social activities. In the autumn of the same year, the Central Committee sent Xie to Wenzhou to establish the Party and Youth League organizations. Through frequent contact with Xie, Cai Xiong gradually accepted the influence of Marxist thought. Shortly after the establishment of Wenzhou Independent Branch in China, Cai Xiong joined the Communist Youth League under the introduction of Zheng Yachen, the head of Wenzhou Independent Branch, and became one of the earliest members of the Communist Youth League in southern Zhejiang. Later, after Dai, he took over as the secretary of the special branch of Yongjia Youth League. 1925 After the May 30th tragedy, Wenzhou established the Student Salvation Federation and the Wenzhou May 30th tragedy support club. Cai Xiong was elected as the recruiter of the support club. He immediately organized students and people in the city to hold demonstrations. Within one day, there were strikes, strikes, and strikes, and thousands of people took part in the parade, which was unprecedented in Wenzhou. After that, Cai Xiong led his classmates to the ship dock to boycott Japanese goods, and it was strictly forbidden to "leak the sea". Once, the student picket team of the tenth division seized a foreign firm selling Japanese goods in Wuma Street. They immediately mobilized teachers and students to destroy all Japanese goods in the glass cabinet on the spot. On another occasion, Lin, a profiteer in Dongmen, smuggled rice out to sea. After Cai Xiong was informed, he immediately led his classmates to search. Lin threatened to bribe the government first. However, Cai Xiong and others were not afraid to waver because of this, and they still pursued it, forcing Wenzhou Daoyin to show Lin Youjie to the public, ordering him to write a repentance book, ensuring that he would never "leak the sea" again, leveling the rice on the spot and paying a fine to the "Salvation Society" for public welfare. This incident caused a great shock in the society that year. Driven and influenced by the mass anti-imperialist struggle, Wen Yi Middle School and Chongzhen Primary School, the Christian schools in Wenzhou, announced their separation from the church. Cai Xiong actively helped relevant people to establish Ouhai Public School so that students can continue their studies. 1926, Cai Xiong changed from * * * Communist Youth League member to * * * party member. On June 22nd, Wenzhou Student Union founded its own publication. Cai Xiong wrote a preface. With a clear revolutionary stand, he clearly put forward that the main tasks of the youth movement are "going among the workers and peasants", "overthrowing the great powers and feudal warlords" and "working for the interests of the masses". The publication of Wenzhou Students has effectively guided the student movement in Wenzhou. In the two years after the establishment of Wen, leading cadres such as Cai Xiong, Dai and so on have always stood in the front line of the struggle. He did a lot of work in Yongjia County to reorganize the Kuomintang Party Department, welcome the Northern Expeditionary Army into Wenzhou, and carry out the workers' and peasants' movement, and fought resolutely with the rightist forces of Wenzhou Kuomintang headed by Chaofan Wang. 1927 After the "April 12th" counter-revolutionary coup, the "April 15th" Party-cleaning incident occurred in Wenzhou, and the military police surrounded the middle school and searched for * * * party member. Cai Xiong escaped from danger under the cover of the masses, but he went all out to rescue his arrested comrades. At the same time, he also went underground with the members of Wen who stayed in Wenzhou to set up mimeographed tabloids to expose the crimes of reactionaries betraying the revolution. This tabloid was named Zhao Dan Daily after the word "Zhao Dan" on the plaque at the entrance of Wenzhou City God Temple. Most of the articles in newspapers and periodicals were written by Cai Xiong. On May 9, the first issue of Zhao was published, and a humorous and pungent satirical article was published, which exposed the ugly behavior of the Kuomintang reactionaries to the fullest, and was well received by people from all walks of life in Wenzhou. Chaofan Wang and other reactionaries were so angry that they led the military and police to pounce on the "City God Temple", the publishing place marked in "Look at the Gallbladder", but they found nothing and returned home frustrated. "Chaofan Wang Caught Lord Huang Cheng" became a popular joke in Wenzhou for a while. With the continuous publication of the second and third issues of Zhao, the influence of newspapers and periodicals is growing. Chaofan Wang and others fidgeted, ordered martial law in the city, and sent spies to search everywhere. When Cai Xiong returned to his hometown, he always thought of his arrested revolutionary comrades. On the morning of May 18, he disguised himself as a farmer and took a bundle of publicity materials from Hai 'an to Wenzhou by boat. Unexpectedly, when he landed in a secluded place outside the small south gate, he was discovered by the spy and immediately arrested. Cai Xiong was taken to the county police station for interrogation, but he never said a word. He also denounced the enemy as a sinner of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, especially public enemies. The enemy became angry from embarrassment, handcuffed Cai Xiong and put him in prison. Later, the enemy changed tactics and gave Cai Xiong a pen and paper to induce him to confess. Cai Xiong angrily picked up a pen and scribbled on a piece of paper "Ode to Clothes" written by Wen Tianxiang before he died: "Confucius said to be benevolent, and Mencius said to take justice, but benevolence and righteousness have been exhausted, so it is benevolent. What I learned from reading sage books. Every now and then, I have no conscience! " Then before Wen Tianxiang's two famous sentences, two lines were added as last words: "Bitter rain and bitter wind are bloody, and steel bars and iron bones are as cold as ice. Since ancient times, no one has died in life, leaving a glowing heart! " The angry reactionaries tortured Cai Xiong inhumanely. Cai Xiong's hands and feet were broken, his whole body was raw and bloody, and he passed out many times. But when he woke up, he was still so proud! 1On the night of May 23rd, 927, Cai Xiong was secretly killed by reactionaries in Wenzhou No.10 Middle School playground at the age of 20.