*** Representative figures from Zhejiang in the history of the Youth League

He Weisheng, male, Han nationality, from Xiangshan, Zhejiang, was born in 1902 and died on November 13, 1926.

He Weisheng was born in a wealthy family. After the May 4th Movement broke out, he participated in organizing the Xiangshan Student Union. He was promoted as president, organized demonstrations, printed leaflets, posted slogans, and banned Japanese goods. In the spring of 1920, he went to Shanghai to attend Chengai Middle School and Shanghai Public School. In the summer of 1922, he listened to Dr. Sun Yat-sen's speech at Hujiang University and was deeply educated. In 1923, he was admitted to Hujiang University and was expelled from school for promoting Sun Yat-senism. In 1924, he transferred to the Department of Social Sciences of Shanghai University. In the same year, he joined the Communist Party of China. In the winter of 1924, according to the instructions of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang District Committee of the Communist Party of China, he returned to Xiangshan to recruit a group of party members, established the Xiangshan branch of the Communist Party of China, and mobilized progressive groups and people from all walks of life in Xiangshan to participate in the National Assembly Promotion Association. On February 4, 1925, the "Xiangshan National Conference Promotion Association" was established. In April of the same year, he published articles such as "In Memory of Sun Yat-sen and the Oppressed People" in Huoyao, which inspired people's fighting spirit. After the "May 30th" massacre, he was elected as a leading member of the "Shanghai University" provisional committee and served as the propaganda director of the "National Student Union" in Shanghai, the joint executive member of Shanghai Business School and the director of the propaganda department. Returned on June 3, 1925 In Ningbo, the story of the "May 30" tragedy was given continuously at the Ningbo Korakuen Garden and the Youth Association that night, arousing the indignation of people from all walks of life. More than 3,000 workers and students held memorial services, demonstrated, and burned Japanese goods. After He Weisheng returned to Shanghai, he took charge. Secretary of the Shanghai Zhabei District Committee of the Youth League and chief secretary and propaganda director of the Shanghai All-Students Federation. In September of that year, he served as executive member of the reorganized Shanghai Special City Party Department and director of the Workers' and Youth Departments. He served as Secretary of the Hangzhou Prefectural Committee of the Communist Party of China and led the revolutionary struggles in Hangzhou, Jiaxing, Huzhou, Xiaoshan, Jinhua and other cities and counties. On November 3 of the same year, He Weisheng was arrested at the Hangzhou Chengzhan Shixue Hotel. He was killed at the Meidong Church outside Qingbo Gate on the 13th.

Wang Yifei, male, Han nationality, from Shangyu, Zhejiang, was born in 1898 and died on January 18, 1928.

Wang Yifei was born in a family of old intellectuals. He was admitted to the Shaoxing Shanhui Junior Normal School in 1913. After graduating in 1913, he returned to his hometown to teach. In October 1920, he entered the Shanghai Foreign Languages ??Society and joined the Shanghai Socialist Youth League in the spring of 1921. , went to study in Soviet Russia and entered Moscow Oriental University. In 1922, he became a member of the Communist Party of China. In 1923, he served as chairman of the Moscow Local Committee of the Chinese Socialist Youth League. In June 1924, he attended the meeting in Moscow. The Fourth Congress of the Youth Communist International, and attended the Fifth Congress of the Communist International, and also participated in the First Congress of the International Revolutionary Mutual Aid Association. In the same year, in accordance with the decision of the party organization, " "Eastern University" transferred to Frunze Military Academy to study. In the spring of 1925, he was ordered to return to China and participate in the preparations for the establishment of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China. In September, he was appointed as Secretary of the Shanghai District Committee of the Communist Party of China and Director of the Propaganda Department, and began to rectify the district committee. Organization, strengthen the party's organizational leadership, and actively develop the workers' movement. In December, according to the decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, he continued to be responsible for preparing for the establishment of the Military Commission, and worked hard to solve the difficulties of cadres, equipment, and communication. He also traveled frequently between Shanghai, Changsha, and Hankou. In September 1926, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China appointed him as a special military commissioner to inspect the front lines of Jiangxi Province. Contacted, coordinated work, exchanged information, and discussed the military strategy to defeat the warlord Sun Chuanfang. After two months of inspection, he promptly submitted a detailed report to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. In March 1927, he was appointed as the Shanghai District Committee of the Communist Party of China. Member of the presidium, participated in the leadership of the third armed uprising of workers in Shanghai. Together with Zhou Enlai and other leaders, he analyzed the military and political situation in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, studied specific measures to accelerate the workers' armed uprising, and personally directed the workers' uprising in the southern urban area. . After the "April 12" counter-revolutionary coup in 1927, he persisted in the underground struggle in Shanghai. At the Fifth National Congress of the Party, he was elected as a member of the Central Committee. In May, he went to Hankou with the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China. In July, he was appointed Secretary-General of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China, and as a representative of the Central Military Commission, he participated in the emergency meeting of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China held in Hankou on August 7.

Together with Mao Zedong, Ren Bishi and others, he contributed to ending the error of Chen Duxiu's capitulationist line and formulating the correct policy of agrarian revolution and armed resistance to the Kuomintang reactionaries. After the "August 7th" meeting, he acted as the leader of the Central Military Department and went to northern Hubei to guide the planning of the uprising. He made decisive decisions based on the actual situation. On October 1, he was appointed as the special commissioner of the Central Committee and went to Hunan to convene an emergency meeting of the Hunan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China to reorganize the Hunan Provincial Committee and determine the guidelines for Hunan work. In the same month, he was appointed Secretary of the Hunan Provincial Party Committee by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. He actively carried out the rectification and reorganization of local party organizations and planned an armed uprising. On December 10, he served as the commander-in-chief of the riot and launched the Changsha "Gray Day" riot, personally leading dozens of armed workers to attack the enemy's garrison headquarters. Due to the disparity in strength between the enemy and ourselves, the riot failed. In mid-January 1928, he was arrested in Changsha. In prison, he hinted to the comrades sent by the party organization to visit the prison: In order to save more revolutionary comrades and protect the underground provincial party committee organs, it is not appropriate to send people to visit the prison or send warm clothes. On January 18, he was killed by the Kuomintang reactionaries in Changsha Education Forum. During his lifetime, he translated and published the "Draft Program of the Communist International", the "New Social Outlook" of the Soviet Union Guo Fanlunke, "The Marxist View of Historical Research" and Zinoviev's "History of the Russian Communist Party" " and other works.

Wang Shouhua, male, Han nationality, from Zhuji, Zhejiang, was born in 1901 and died in 1927.

Wang Shouhua was born in an old rural intellectual family. In the autumn of 1917, he was admitted to the Zhejiang Provincial First Normal School in Hangzhou. Be diligent and studious, pursue new ideas, and read a lot of progressive books and periodicals such as "New Youth" and "Weekly Review". He also teamed up with classmates to organize a student "book and newspaper selling group" with the purpose of "exercising the mind and body and transforming society" to actively promote progressive books and periodicals across the country. During the May 4th Movement, he participated in the support activities of the Hangzhou Federation of Students. In February 1920, he actively participated in safeguarding the "Zhejiang First Division Trend" of the New Culture Movement. In February, I went to Shanghai to participate in a work-study mutual aid group. In September, he entered the Shanghai Foreign Languages ??Society to study Russian and joined the Shanghai Socialist Youth League. In April 1921, he went to the Soviet Union to study. Due to transportation difficulties, he was stranded in Khabarovsk and Verkhovginsk in Siberia, where he worked as a Chinese laborer. During this period, he joined the Communist Party of China. Founded the "May Day Club" and the "Far East Chinese Miners' Union" in Vladivostok, opened cram schools, enthusiastically helped workers improve their cultural level and political awareness, and won the trust of Chinese workers. In 1923, he was elected as the director of the Chinese Workers' Department of the Chita Far East Workers' Union. He once represented the Far East workers in Moscow to attend the Eastern Bureau meeting of the International Anti-Imperial League. In 1924, he was elected as a member of the Vladivostok Workers' Soviet and was transferred back to China at the end of the same year. In January 1925, he attended the Fourth National Congress of the Communist Party of China. In May, he was appointed director of the Publicity Department of Shanghai Federation of Trade Unions. During the May 30th Movement, anti-imperialist propaganda activities were carried out in the form of leaflets, posters, speeches, etc. From August of the same year, he served as a member of the Shanghai District Executive Committee of the Communist Party of China, director of the Industrial and Agricultural Department of the district committee, secretary of the Workers' Movement Committee of the district committee, member of the Communist Youth League of the Shanghai Federation of Trade Unions, and acting chairman. Under the dangerous situation when the Kuomintang reactionaries seized the Shanghai Federation of Trade Unions several times and searched for him everywhere, he often changed his disguise and name to go deep among the workers, insisted on working more than ten hours a day, and tenaciously led the Shanghai labor movement. In May 1926, he participated in the action committee established by the Shanghai District Committee of the Communist Party of China to organize and launch the "May 30th" anniversary commemoration activities. Together with Zhao Shiyan and others, he directed the "May 30th" anniversary commemoration meeting and mass demonstrations. It broke the silence of the Shanghai labor movement since the May 30th massacre. After May, he served as a member of the Military Special Committee of the Shanghai District Committee, secretary of the special committee leading the strike, a leading member of the Workers' Self-Defense Corps Command Office, director of the Workers' Movement Committee, a member of the Communist Party of Shanghai Special Citizens' Association, and a member of the presidium of the Shanghai Federation of Trade Unions, etc. In order to cooperate with the National Revolutionary Army's Northern Expedition, he actively prepared for the workers' armed uprising. He launched many large-scale strikes by workers in various industries in Shanghai, expanded the Federation of Trade Unions, and participated in the leadership of the first and second armed uprisings of Shanghai workers. On February 23, 1927, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Shanghai District Committee decided to organize the third workers’ armed uprising in Shanghai. He served as a member of the special committee to lead the uprising and the chairman of the Shanghai Federation of Trade Unions, mobilized workers to organize pickets, and conducted armed training in secret. , and also conducted united front liaison work with various political forces in Shanghai, and promptly reported the learned political and military situations to the Party Central Committee and the Shanghai District Committee. On March 21, according to the party's decision, an order was issued for a general strike of 800,000 workers in the city, and they quickly turned into an armed uprising.

Working day and night to assist Commander-in-Chief Zhou Enlai and others in commanding the battle. After the victory of the uprising, he was elected as a member of the Provisional Municipal Government of Shanghai Special City. When Chinese and foreign reactionaries colluded to suppress the workers' movement, he led Shanghai workers to fight back a series of sabotage actions by the enemy. On April 11, under Chiang Kai-shek's instruction, the gangster Du Yuesheng came forward to "invite" him to a banquet to discuss "confidential matters." Comrades were worried about his safety. In order to find out the enemy's movements, he said: "I used to deal with the Qinghong Gang gangsters. If I don't go, I will be laughed at. For the benefit of the party and the working class, I would rather sacrifice everything." That night, he entered Du Zhai was kidnapped by the Kuomintang reactionaries, put into a sack and secretly transported to Fenglin Bridge to be killed. On May 1 of the same year, the "Guide" weekly newspaper published an article stating: 800,000 Shanghai workers vowed to avenge Wang Shouhua and other martyrs who died.

Sha Wenqiu, male, Han nationality, from Yinxian County, Zhejiang Province, was born in 1904 and died in 1928.

Sha Wenqiu was born in a rural medical family. In the autumn of 1920, he was admitted to Ningbo Xiaoshi Middle School. Under the influence of the new ideas and new culture of the "May 4th" movement, we pursued the truth and sought the road to revolution. In the summer of 1924, he entered the Shanghai Mandarin Normal Tutorial School. In the spring of 1925, he was admitted to the Department of Sociology of Shanghai University. Qu Qiubai, the head of the department, instilled revolutionary ideas into him and made him understand the principles of revolution. On May 30 of the same year, he participated in a demonstration involving nearly ten thousand people on Nanjing Road in Shanghai that shocked the whole country. In the autumn of 1925, he transferred to Fudan University in Shanghai. In the winter of the same year, he returned to Ningbo. With the approval of the Ningbo Prefectural Committee of the Communist Party of China, he joined the Communist Party of China. In early 1926, the party organization sent him back to his hometown to engage in the peasant movement. In April of the same year, the Shacun Farmers Association of Yin County was established, and activists from the farmers' association were encouraged to join the party. In May 1926, the Shacun Party branch of the Communist Party of China was established and he served as secretary. In July of the same year, he was ordered to enter Guangdong University. From a Marxist-Leninist point of view, he wrote an article criticizing Dai Jitao's anti-Japanese fallacies. In the first half of 1927, he served as secretary of the Communist Youth League branch of Guangdong University. The Guangzhou Municipal Party Committee and the Provincial and Hong Kong Strike Committee of the Communist Party of China decided to commemorate the second anniversary of the "June 19" Provincial and Hong Kong strike, and participated in organizing more than 20,000 workers to participate in the commemorative meeting. On June 29 of the same year, the authorities of Guangdong University expelled him from school, but he still stayed in Guangzhou and continued to fight. On December 11, he served as member of the Guangzhou Municipal Party Committee and captain of the Young Pioneers. He directed 30 propaganda teams to carry out propaganda and agitation in various districts, organized members of the Communist Youth League and Young Pioneers to maintain social order in Guangzhou, and launched a battle to eliminate the remaining counterrevolutionaries. On December 13, he was appointed as the captain of the Workers' Red Guard, and led his team members to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy, street by street, and start street fighting. After the failure of the Guangzhou Uprising, he changed his name to Shi Yong and served as the propaganda director of the Guangzhou Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League, and later as a member and secretary-general of the Youth League Municipal Committee. In August 1928, he was unfortunately arrested and secretly killed in Honghuagang, Guangzhou.

Qiu Guhuai, male, Han nationality, from Fenghua, Zhejiang, was born in 1904 and died on August 27, 1930.

In 1920, Qiu Guhuai was admitted to Zhejiang Provincial Ningbo Fourth Normal University with excellent results and actively participated in the patriotic student movement. In 1924, he joined the Kuomintang. During the May 30th Movement in 1925, he served as vice chairman of the Ningbo Student Federation and participated in leading the anti-imperialist and anti-feudal movement of young students. In October 1925, he went to Guangzhou to enter the Whampoa Military Academy and participated in the Second Eastern Expedition. In the same year, he joined the Communist Party of China. In 1926, he participated in the Northern Expedition and engaged in propaganda work in the Political Department of the Fourth Army. In the famous battles of Hesheng Bridge, Tingsi Bridge, and Wuchang, he was a member of the Ye Ting regiment's death squads. Later, he served as the Propaganda Section Chief of the Political Department of the 24th Division, and wrote many essays exposing the remnants of feudalism and the right wing of the Kuomintang. He participated in the "August 1st" Nanchang Uprising and was seriously injured in the Battle of Chaozhou before returning to Ningbo for treatment. At the end of 1927, he was ordered to Hangzhou to preside over the training of military cadres at the Zhejiang Provincial Committee and the Youth League Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China. In 1928, he successively served as the special commissioner of the Communist Party of China for Western Zhejiang, the special commissioner of the Provincial Committee, and the Secretary of the Provincial Committee of the Communist Youth League. He went to more than 10 counties including Xiaoshan, Jinhua, Dongyang, Yiwu, and Longyou for rural surveys to help guide the organization's rectification and development. Agricultural movement. In August of the same year, he participated in organizing the Lanxi peasant riot. In January 1929, the Youth League summarized and examined the lessons learned from mass work and drafted a notice on "Building Mass Foundation and Youth Work". On the evening of January 16 of the same year, he was arrested at the Yu'an Hotel on Qingtai Road, Hangzhou, and imprisoned in the "Zhejiang Army Prison". In prison, he was a member of the special branch of the Communist Party of China and participated in and led many prison struggles. He edited secret publications such as "Spark" and "Yangtiewan" and was regarded by the enemy as one of the "five stubborn bandits". Died heroically on August 27, 1930.

Zhang Qiuren, male, Han nationality, native of Zhuji, Zhejiang, was born in 1898 and died on February 8, 1928.

Zhang Qiuren was born into a peasant family of sharecroppers. He was admitted to Shaoxing Yuecai Middle School in 1915 and transferred to Ningbo Chongxin Middle School in 1917. In the summer of 1920, because he actively participated in the May 4th Movement, he was deprived of free admission to college and was forced to find a job in Shanghai. In Shanghai, he met Chen Duxiu and others, began to accept the scientific theory of Marxism, and devoted himself to revolutionary activities. She joined the Socialist Youth League in 1921. In early 1922, she joined the Communist Party of China, served as a voluntary teacher at the Shanghai Civilian Girls' School founded by the party, and assisted in guiding the league-building work in Hangzhou and other places. In the summer of the same year, after being introduced by Chen Duxiu to Changsha to meet Mao Zedong, he applied to be an English teacher at Hunan Provincial No. 3 Normal School in Hengyang. Using this as a cover, he actively participated in the youth and student movements led by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in southern Hunan. In May 1923, he was forced to leave Hunan and return to Shanghai due to a student uprising. In August, he attended the Second Congress of the Chinese Socialist Youth League and was elected as an alternate member of the Central Committee. In January 1924, he was elected as an alternate member of the Shanghai Local and District Executive Committee of the Communist Party of China. In June, he served as the secretary (i.e. secretary) of the Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui and Shanghai local executive committee of the Youth League. In September, he was elected as a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League and served as the agricultural and industrial committee member of the Central Bureau of the Communist Youth League. Engaged in youth movement and national revolution in three provinces and one city, and carried out league and party building work. At the same time, he led the "Non-Christian Alliance" that opposed imperialist religious aggression in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai. He returned to Ningbo, Shaoxing and other places many times to guide the masses' patriotic movements, personally wrote articles, and took the lead in parades and speeches. On September 25, 1924, the League Central Committee appointed him as editor of "China Youth" and wrote articles for "League Magazine" and "Friends of the Civilian". In less than a year, more than a dozen articles including "Guangzhou's Young Revolutionary Army" were published. In January 1925, at the Third Congress of the Chinese Socialist Youth League, he was elected as a member of the Central Executive Committee. From May onwards, we have fully devoted ourselves to the anti-imperialist and patriotic movement after the May 30th massacre, and organized and launched the solidarity struggle of the masses in Shanghai, Hangzhou, Ningbo, Shaoxing and other places. In the autumn of the same year, he served as secretary of the Wuhu First Communist Party Branch and head of the Youth League Committee. He led local party members, united the left wing of the Kuomintang, and accelerated the development of the local revolutionary situation. In March 1926, the party organization transferred him to Guangzhou to take over the editorship of "Political Weekly", the organ of the Kuomintang Central Political Committee, following Mao Zedong and Shen Yanbing, and edited 8-13 issues. He published articles continuously to analyze and comment on the major political events that occurred at that time, and encouraged the people to carry out revolution, showing his outstanding propaganda and agitation talents. In May, he taught at the Guangzhou Peasant Movement Institute sponsored by Mao Zedong. Soon, he was transferred to Huangpu Military Academy as a political instructor, teaching courses on the history of revolutions in various countries, introduction to national revolutions, and Soviet Russia studies. Together with Yun Daiying and others, he spread Marxist revolutionary theory and publicized the party's democratic revolutionary program in various ways. After the "April 12" counter-revolutionary coup in 1927, he was heavily wanted by the Kuomintang reactionaries. He left Guangzhou via Wuhan and secretly arrived in Shanghai in early July. Under the severe white terror, in order to strengthen the leadership of the Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, he followed the decision of the Party Central Committee and took great risks. On September 27, he went to Hangzhou to serve as Secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China. . On the same day after taking office, a meeting of party members and activists in Hangzhou was held to reorganize the provincial party committee. On September 29, he was arrested by Kuomintang agents near Liuzhuang in West Lake. Before his arrest, he told his wife in English to quickly return to the hotel to transfer party documents; he jumped into the lake and stepped into the mud at the bottom of the lake the list of party members he had hidden beside him, thus protecting the party's secrets and the safety of the organization. In early 1928, he was transferred to the Zhejiang Army Prison in Hangzhou as a "key criminal". In prison, he ignored life and death and insisted on reading for five or six hours a day. He also told fellow prisoners about the revolutionary history of various countries and the revolutionary principles of Marxism. He solemnly encouraged the fellow prisoners: "We Communists can survive even one day." You have to work for the revolution all day long. Since you can't work for the revolution in prison, you have to study hard. How can you just sit and wait for death?" Until the night before his death, he also told the history of the Beijing-Hankou Railway "February 7th" strike to the fellow prisoners. The last lesson. On February 8, 1928, the enemy summoned him to a court hearing. He understood that it was the last moment, so he gave his clothes to his fellow victims and said goodbye calmly. In the prison court, he took advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness, grabbed an inkstone from the trial table, threw it at the judge, and overturned the trial table. On the execution ground, he shouted slogans such as "Long live the Chinese Communist Party!" and "The Chinese revolution will surely succeed!" He was shot 7 times in a row and died a heroic death. The body was moved and buried back to his hometown by his brother.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the People's Government repaired the tombs of martyrs many times and listed them as provincial revolutionary cultural relics protection units.

Ye Tiandi, whose original name was Lin Wei, whose scientific name was Tianrui, also known as Tiandi, was born in 1898 in a scholarly family in Xiejiaqiao, Shangyu County, Zhejiang Province. Graduated from Shangyu County No. 1 Higher Primary School in 1915. In the autumn of the same year, he went to Shangyu Yiting Jingxiu Primary School founded by Jing Hengyi for tutoring. In the autumn of the next year, he was admitted to Hangzhou Zhejiang Provincial First Normal School to study.

Zhejiang Provincial No. 1 Normal School is the center of the New Culture Movement in Zhejiang. Principal Jing Hengyi advocates the all-round development of moral, intellectual, physical and aesthetic education, and teaches students in accordance with their aptitude. Ye Tiandi is rich in artistic talent, good at painting and seal carving, and is especially fond of Western paintings. He participated in the "Tongyin Painting Society" and "Leshi Society" directed by Mr. Li Shutong, a famous teacher of the generation, and was Mr. Li's favorite disciple.

In February 1920, under the influence of the May 4th Movement, the famous "One Division Movement" occurred in Hangzhou, and Ye Tiandi performed prominently in this struggle. After the turmoil, principal Heng Yi and others were forced to resign, and Ye Tiandi left the school angrily. Some classmates felt sorry for him and advised him to wait until graduation before leaving. He replied firmly: "Studying is not just for diplomas."

Ye Tiandi left Hangzhou and went to Shanghai. Recommended by Chen Wangdao, he proofread the manuscript of "New Youth" in a printing house and got acquainted with the people who were working in Shanghai. Shen Xuanlu founded the Marxism Research Association. One day, Shen Xuanlu gave Ye Tiandi a "Bamboo and Stone Painting". The meaning of the painting is that a bamboo shoot stubbornly breaks out of the ground under a big stone. Chen Wangdao wrote an inscription on this painting: "The stone presses the bamboo shoots, and the bamboo shoots tilt out. When the big stone is removed, the new bamboo shoots are straight." Ye Tiandi admired this spirit very much. He used this painting as a motto and hung it in his study to encourage him. You should fight against the reactionary forces as unyieldingly as bamboo shoots. Because of his work in proofreading the manuscripts of "New Youth", Ye Tiandi had frequent contacts with Chen Duxiu, Shao Lizi, Yang Mingzhai, etc. Under their influence, he received Marxist enlightenment education. At that time, the Shanghai Communist Group was actively carrying out the work of establishing the Socialist Youth League. Ye Tiandi participated in the preparatory meeting convened by Chen Duxiu at the No. 6 Secret Business Organization in Xinyuyangli. On August 22, the Shanghai Socialist Youth League was established. Ye Tiandi, Yu Xiusong, Shi Cuntong, Yuan Zhenying, Jin Jiafeng and other eight people became the founders and the first batch of members of the Shanghai Socialist Youth League.

The next month, in order to train revolutionary cadres, the Shanghai Communist Party Group opened a foreign language club at No. 6, Xinyuyangli, with Yang Mingzhai in charge, Yu Xiusong as secretary, Ye Tiandi and Shi Cuntong. Waiting to preside over group affairs. Ye Tiandi studied Russian and Marxist works here, and his ideological understanding was greatly improved. He believes that although the situations between China and Russia are different, China's problems can only be solved through the guidance of Marxism. The revolutionary path traveled by the Russians is worth learning. In the spring of 1921, Ye Tiandi was allowed to study in the Soviet Union, but he was unable to make the trip due to a sudden onset of typhoid fever. Later, the league organization was ordered to disband temporarily due to various reasons, and he took the opportunity to go home to recuperate.

During his illness, Ye Tiandi was still thinking about the revolutionary cause all day long. In the summer of this year, he wrote to a friend in Shanghai: "'Depravity means the death of the heart.' My body will not die, and my heart will never die first... I already wrote to Mr. Wangdao and other friends yesterday. Question Is there a shortage of services in several Communist Party organizations? If I receive a letter from them saying that there is a shortage of people to serve, I will go there immediately with a medicine can."

In the autumn of the same year, Ye Tiandi became seriously ill. After a slight improvement, he went to teach at Shangyu No. 1 Primary School. He took advantage of the advantage of being a teacher to actively promote the New Mandarin Movement, advocate vernacular, and spread revolutionary ideas among teachers and students.

In September 1922, Shangyu Chunhui Middle School officially opened, and Ye Tiandi applied to work in the Academic Affairs Office of the school. During the slack season in winter, he and his colleagues used their spare time to run farmers' night schools outside the school to organize nearby farmers to learn culture and inspire their ideological consciousness. Ye Tiandi wrote the article "Studying with Farmers on Baima Lake for Half a Year", describing this experience.

During this period, Ye Tiandi also insisted on studying literature and art, often painting or writing articles, and sent them to the supplement "Awakening" of Shanghai's "Republic of China Daily" for publication, and compiled his works into "Virgin". Book. He used the form of literary works and model creation to expose the crimes of imperialism and feudal warlords, awaken the people, and join the anti-imperialist and anti-feudal movements.

On May Day in 1921, he created a print called "World Style", for which Xiaofeng (ie Chen Shudao) wrote the inscription: Workers, organize! United! To safeguard social justice and rescue the hungry people! "Shifeng" shows distinctive characteristics of the times.

In the autumn of 1923, Ye Tiandi went to study at the Shanghai Oriental Art Research Association. He studied hard and studied "painting knowledge". His painting level improved rapidly and his artistic vision was greatly broadened. Later, he served as the editor of the association's "Art Criticism" and wrote many art reviews, such as "There is No Room for Development of Chinese Painting", "Ten Minutes of Meditation in the Studio", etc., analyzing some issues from an artistic perspective. Think carefully. At the same time, he often went to Shanghai University to attend lectures, received Marxist education, and frequently interacted with famous Communists such as Chen Duxiu, Qu Qiubai, Luo Yinong, and Yun Daiying, and was deeply influenced by their thoughts. Communist ideological consciousness is increasing day by day. At the end of the same year, he joined the Communist Party of China.

In July 1924, Ye Tiandi went to Suzhou Leyi Girls' Middle School to teach Chinese and drawing subjects. He used his teaching profession as a cover to actively participate in social activities. In September of the following year, the Suzhou independent branch of the Communist Party of China, directly under the leadership of the Shanghai District Committee, was secretly established in Leyi Girls' Middle School, with Ye Tiandi serving as the branch secretary. Under his leadership, the branch exerted a strong fighting capacity, making Leyi Girls' Middle School the center and stronghold of the Suzhou people's revolutionary struggle.

In the spring of 1926, Ye Tiandi fell ill and returned to his hometown from Shanghai. Before leaving, the party organization gave him two tasks: first, to recover from his illness; second, to develop the party organization in his hometown and carry out the agricultural movement.

After Ye Tiandi returned to his hometown, he followed the party's instructions and actively carried out revolutionary activities. He made friends with Liu Jie'an, the president of the County Education Association, and was supposed to hire the editor-in-chief of "Education Monthly". He edited this big article and published a series of commentaries on the theme of education, calling on revolutionary youth to "bravely and resolutely guide the peasants to unite and fight against corrupt officials, evil gentry and local tyrants." At the same time, he used the pen in his hand to publish the article "Unity" in the local newspaper "Shangyu Sheng", which profoundly exposed the reactionary actions of feudal warlords and local tyrants and evil gentry, and called on the working people to rise up and overthrow the dark society. He dragged his sick body around to cry out, and he also tried his best to open a civilian training center in Shangyu County to take in street children, organize them to learn skills, and help themselves through production. Through these activities, Ye Tiandi won a high reputation among people from all walks of life in Shangyu and laid a good foundation for the party-building work in Shangyu County.

On July 16, 1926, he presided over the founding meeting of the Shangyu County branch of the Communist Party of China. This meeting passed four resolutions: establishing the Provisional Executive Committee of Shangyu County of the Kuomintang; launching a peasant movement and organizing the Peasant Red Guard; reorganizing the county police force into a workers' and peasants picket team; winning over the left wing of the Kuomintang and developing Communist Party members. From then on, Shangyu's revolutionary activities flourished under the leadership of the party.

Under the initiative of the Shangyu County branch of the Communist Party of China led by Ye Tiandi, the team of the Communist Party of China continued to expand, and at the same time, the development work of the Kuomintang members was also quite effective. By the end of that year, 11 Kuomintang district branches had been established in the county, with more than 100 party members. He seized the opportunity, held a county-wide party member meeting, and established the Kuomintang Shangyu County Provisional Executive Committee. At the meeting, Ye Tiandi was elected as an executive member and concurrently as the Minister of Agriculture and Industry. He organized farmers' associations and actively led farmers to carry out revolutionary struggles against feudalism and local tyrants and "Second Five-Year Plan" rent reduction. Ye Tiandi's uncle Yu Hengshan was a rich man who was full of evil deeds. The local people called him "Dongmen Tiger". Between revolution and family affection, he resolutely chose the former. In the county seat, he presided over the meeting to fight against Yu Hengshan, redressing the grievances of the people and venting their anger. His righteous act of exterminating relatives greatly inspired the enthusiasm of the peasant brothers to devote themselves to the struggle against local tyrants and bullies, and promoted the development of the Shangyu Peasant Movement. .

After the April 12 counter-revolutionary coup, the situation in Shangyu reversed sharply, and the right-wing forces of the Kuomintang took the opportunity to counterattack. Ye Tiandi held an emergency meeting of the party branch and decided to bury weapons and disperse them. At that time, Ye Tiandi was seriously ill. The farmers did not avoid risks and carried him in a sedan chair overnight to a mountainous area called Shibazhe to hide him. The right-wing forces of the Kuomintang sent troops several times to hunt for him, but all failed.

In early May, when the situation of mass killings eased slightly, Ye Tiandi secretly went to Hangzhou.

Through the united front relationship, he gained the sympathy and support of Zheng Shiquan (Kuomintang leftist), the newly appointed Shangyu Party Affairs Instructor of the Kuomintang Provincial Party Headquarters. He returned to Shangyu with Qian Nianxian and other four people, secretly rebuilt the Communist Party of China branch, and publicly established it The progressive organization "Pomegranate Society" also published a "Pomegranate Newspaper". Then, he secretly organized a peasant association, took out the buried weapons, and established a small peasant armed team. Shangyu's revolutionary activities gradually became active again.

In August, Ye Tiandi went to Shaoxing to attend the nine-county joint meeting. The meeting called on all localities to actively carry out rent reductions during the "Second Five-Year Plan", restore farmers' armed forces, and prepare for autumn harvest riots. After Ye Tiandi returned to Shangyu, he actively implemented the spirit of the meeting, trained the Peasant Self-Defense Force, established a fishermen's friendship society, and founded "Weekly Weekly". In late October, more than 2,700 farmers across the county gathered at the county sports ground to petition the county government, demanding rent reductions during the Second Five-Year Plan. After resolute struggle, the county magistrate Fang Zanxiu was forced to sign in the afternoon of the same day, and the struggle was won.

In November, the Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China decided to carry out a major riot in eastern Zhejiang in accordance with the spirit of the August 7th Conference. Shangyu and Xiangshan Port were the center areas of the riot. Ye Tiandi was responsible for organizing and commanding the workers and peasants armed forces Occupy Shangyu City and eliminate the reactionary armed forces. Ye Tiandi was sick and studied the action plan with several comrades from the party branch, and decided to mobilize farmers separately, organize personnel, deploy armed forces, formulate action routes, and stand by for action. Unexpectedly, before the operation started, the provincial party committee organs were destroyed by the enemy, the "Eastern Zhejiang Riot Plan" was confiscated, and Ye Tiandi and other riot leaders from various places became the targets of the enemy's search.

One day in mid-November, the Zhejiang Provincial Party Headquarters of the Kuomintang sent people to Shangyu to arrest Ye Tiandi, who was bedridden, and carried him to the county government in a sedan chair. The county magistrate interrogated him personally: "Mr. Ye, as long as you tell me about the situation of the Communist Party organization in Shangyu, I can plead for you and let you stay at home for medical treatment." Ye Tiandi replied coldly: "I am the only one who joined the Communist Party in Shangyu. I work for the working people!" The county magistrate couldn't tell him anything, so the next day he was escorted to the provincial party headquarters and imprisoned in the Zhejiang Army Prison.

After Ye Tiandi was imprisoned, his condition worsened day by day, but he still did not forget to unite his fellow prisoners and fight against the vicious and domineering prison officials. He often said to fellow prisoners: "A person is happiest when he can work for socialism and communism. There is no cause in the world that is nobler or greater than this." This encouraged fellow prisoners to persist in the struggle in prison. .

The enemy interrogated him many times, but Ye Tiandi remained tight-lipped. Seeing that the interrogation failed to achieve its goal, the enemy tried to "soften" him politically and asked him to surrender, saying: "As long as you sign a word on the surrender form, you can be released." He replied decisively: "I want to sign it." I'd rather die than say anything." The enemy lowered his demands and said, "As long as you say, 'I took the wrong path before,' I can let you go." He replied confidently: "I walked the path of integrity. The path is correct!" Unwilling to accept defeat, the enemy summoned one of Ye Tiandi's classmates from Zhejiang Provincial First Normal School to persuade him to surrender, but he was scolded and left in shame. When the plan failed, the enemy was still unwilling and pretended to be concerned about Ye Tiandi's condition and asked him to "see medical treatment outside prison". On the surface, he was released from prison and recuperated at a relative's home in Hangzhou, but secretly he was sent under close surveillance by spies. Ye Tiandi saw through the enemy's conspiracy and refused to visit any acquaintances during his "out-of-prison medical treatment" period. He told his relatives and friends: "I believe in the Communist Party to the bottom of my heart and joined the Communist Party. Now I am caught by the enemy because of my illness. What I regret is that I have done too little for the party. Since I have been arrested, I will Death is inevitable, and I have been prepared for it. Heaven is the lid of the coffin, and the earth is the bottom of the coffin. It is glorious to die for communism. I want to solemnly tell you that whoever wants to say "surrender" in front of me is the one. Insult to me!" The enemy's plot failed again, and he was unable to do anything, and soon he was put in prison.

Ye Tiandi estimated that the enemy would kill him soon, so he wrote a suicide note to his brother on February 3, 1928. He wrote in it: "I will never survive unless I die of illness. , but died at the hands of the enemy. A man who lives without strength, why not die, the blood of martyrs is the flower of doctrine... I will never live on my knees, I would rather die standing up! The door panel carried Ye Tiandi, who was too sick to move, to the prison execution ground. At the last moment of his life, Ye Tiandi held up his almost paralyzed body, raised his chest, and shouted: "Long live the Communist Party of China!" Ye Tiandi was only 30 years old when he died.

Ye Tiandi was not only an early political activist of the Communist Party of China, but also an outstanding revolutionary literary and artistic warrior. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, his revolutionary deeds were displayed in the Zhejiang Revolutionary Martyrs Memorial Hall. "Spreading Marxism-Leninism in Shanghai and the Soviet Union, and practicing it personally in his hometown" is the most incisive summary of Ye Tiandi's revolutionary career.