Mingxia, named Yunjin, Han nationality, is the only daughter of Professor Yang Changji, a famous scholar. Born in Bancang, Changsha County, Hunan Province, a progressive intellectual family. 1920 Join the Socialist Youth League of China in the second half of the year. I married Mao Zedong in winter. 192 1 After joining China, he has been engaged in revolutionary activities with Comrade Mao Zedong, engaged in the confidential and traffic liaison work of the Party under extremely difficult and sinister conditions, and carried out peasant movements, workers' movements, women's movements and student movements. After the failure of the Great Revolution, in the harsh white terror, Yang Kaihui returned to Bancang with his children to carry out underground struggle according to the arrangement of the Party. In the case of losing contact with the higher-level organizations, he participated in organizing and leading the underground armed struggle on the borders of Changsha, Pingjiang and Xiangyin, and worked hard to develop the party organization and persisted in the struggle for three years. 1October 24th, 1930, Yang Kaihui was arrested. Faced with all kinds of threats, inducements and torture from the vicious Kuomintang Changsha garrison headquarters, Yang Kaihui was indomitable and did not hesitate: "Fight if you want, and kill if you want. If you want to get what you are satisfied with from my mouth, then you are delusional! " "beheading is blowing like the wind! Death can only scare cowards, not people! " The enemy pressed her on the whereabouts of Mao Zedong and asked her to publicly announce her divorce from Mao Zedong. Yang Kaihui replied categorically: "I want to divorce Mao Zedong, unless the seas run dry and the rocks crumble!" . 1930165438+1October 14. Yang Kaihui died heroically in the literacy ridge outside Liuyang Gate (located in the literacy ridge of Liuchengqiao, Furong Road, Changsha City, with its memorial stone statue), only 29 years old.