The family gathered in the main room either sitting or standing. He stood there, perhaps with a gentle smile in his leisurely voice, but both his expression and his heart were excited and excited. It was a revolutionary's excitement and excitement when he saw the climax of his career. Perhaps he told his family about what he had seen and heard in the recent period, the arrival of the Red Army, the Red Army's launch of the "Battle of Southern Shaanxi", the Red Army and the Sichuan-Shaanxi Soviet Area, and the future development and direction. Without impassioned propaganda and agitation, the family got together, perhaps just ordinary household words, chatting without explanation. Of course, he has his own views and actions about the future. He hopes that the whole family will participate in this great and dangerous feat, but it must be discussed and solicited. There is no revolutionary truth or enlightening language outside, and there is no call for blood boiling. Because all the people present were his relatives, several younger brothers and sisters-in-law were revolutionaries, supported revolutionaries, and were all intellectual youths at that time, with both revolutionary consciousness and cultural consciousness. Especially the second brother Chen Wenhua and his daughter-in-law, who are both staunch revolutionaries and party member, have extraordinary revolutionary struggle experience. And Chen's three younger brothers, sister Chen Zhenren, and of course his own wife. These are enthusiastic young people who have engaged in revolutionary activities, supported and yearned for the revolution.

? As for the third brother's daughter-in-law, they may be newly married, and the woman is said to be from a large local family. She must have followed the old saying that married men should follow their husbands. And their daughter, because she is still young, even if she lacks the ability to think and decide, she should follow her elders and go wherever they say. Smaller, there is also an idea of taking advantage.

? But in the face of their elders, their parents, their father Chen Daxun and their mother Chen, they have to think and weigh. As elders, they saw or heard the revolutionary situation they faced, the liberation of ningqiang county City and several important towns and villages, the collapse of the Kuomintang army and local militia organizations, and fled in succession. Look at your children and grandchildren, the attitude of several children to the revolution, the calmness of the eldest son, the firmness of the second son, their struggle, support and yearning for the revolutionary cause. As for the loyalty to the * * * production party and the firm belief in * * * production, we may not know much about it. But the enthusiasm and fighting spirit of these young people deeply infected them.

? However, in the face of the property of the whole family, the home of the rich, the fertile tile house, these rich properties accumulated through the storm all their lives, and the rare wealthy families in this village, can they bear the pain to give up and leave them?

? If the whole family has no money, no home, no couch and no food, they are bullied and persecuted everywhere. Now that the * * * production party has come and the Red Army has come, it is time for the poor to turn over and be masters. Make up your mind, pat your ass and turn around regardless. The so-called barefoot is not afraid of wearing shoes. But they're not! They have wealth, honor and face. These people have all the conditions of human life. Now, in order to participate in the revolution, they have to give up everything. According to the secular concept, ordinary people can't do it without being forced. It's easier said than done to treat money as something outside the body, ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign. How much can you do?

As the head of the family, Chen Daxun doesn't care about family affairs and may not be good at business, but the bankruptcy of the prodigal family still needs to be weighed. Although there was a famine in his hometown a few years ago, he was brave enough to help the victims and saved many poor people. His morality and behavior spread in the countryside and won wide praise. His enlightened feelings can also be seen, but these are two different things after all, and he is not a brainless person.

? It is not easy. Dong Cunrui laid down his life to bomb the bunker, and Huang Jiguang threw himself at the enemy's machine gun with his chest. It was a bloody man, a heroic feat made by a soldier on the battlefield under the pressure of the situation, which made him cry. He was a heroic martyr without conscience. However, Chen Jinzhang, his father and his family 12 decided to leave their hometown, give up the home of the rich and join the Red Army Revolution without hesitation. Isn't it amazing and admirable?

? In this way, under the auspices of Chen Jinzhang, the eldest son, and perhaps the insistence of the second son, the approval of his father, and the rest of the support, eleven people in the whole family, the oldest being nearly sixty years old and the youngest just a few months old, all embarked on the road of revolution.

? Only my mother, Chen, had to quit her job and stay at home for a while because she was entangled in her little feet and couldn't walk easily.

? Like many revolutionaries at that time, they went through fire and water for the ideal of productism, for the freedom and liberation of the nation, and for the faith in their hearts.

? In this way, they left Ningqiang and entered the Sichuan-Shaanxi Soviet area. Young people and men were assigned to work in the Soviet government or army. The old people and women went to the logistics department in the rear, and each tried his best to exert his heat and light in the revolutionary camp.

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Soon after, they marched with the troops, climbed snow-capped mountains, crossed grasslands, fought with the enemy, starved to death, and bled to death. Finally, only one person successfully arrived in Yan 'an, and that was her sister Zhen Chen (real person). Most of the rest died heroically. Several people have been separated and their whereabouts are unknown. Among them, Chen Jinzhang's eldest daughter, Chen Yamin, suffered a lot after falling behind on the way to the Long March, and almost died in a foreign country, and was later rescued. I have been back to my hometown for ten years and live alone with her mother-in-law. At that time, the Chen family had completely declined, and soon her mother-in-law died of illness. Chen Yamin was completely self-reliant, started a small business and became a tenant farmer, and became a real poor man.

? I hereby solemnly recommend Xiao Qing's long newsletter Long March Family, which was published in the ninth issue of 1995 Cultural Exchange of Party History, and later published in the first issue of 1996 Xinhua Digest. In the article, the life and death experiences of the families of Chen Jinzhang martyrs during the Long March are touching. Due to the author's limited talent, there is no need to go into details here.

? But let's quote the end of the Long March as the end of this article, because that passage has made me cry several times:

? "I ended my interview. At sunset, I stepped out of Ningqiang County alone, and the sky was crimson. In front of us is a mountain pass, which is the way for the family to travel westward during the Long March. Walking towards this mountain pass, I seem to see the scene of a family embarking on a journey under the sunshine. Chen Jinzhang, tall and thin, supported his father, who walked in a hurry. Behind them are children struggling with each other, and in front of them is her second father (Chen Yamin), who holds four-year-old Han high around his neck and walks with vigorous steps.

? This is the epitome of the legendary experience and tragic life of a revolutionary family. Although death is behind her; In front of her, it is a brilliant revolutionary cause and a magnificent life! For this cause, the Chen family has given their youth and blood wave after wave. Ge Zhongshan (a mountain in ningqiang county) should be proud. "

Pay tribute to the martyrs who died loyal to their faith! (End)