The Beijing News "beheading is not important, as long as the doctrine is true. Kill Xia, and others will follow suit! This is a magnificent poem written by members of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Xia before he was killed by Kuomintang reactionaries, and it has always been praised by people.

Xia, a native of Hengshan County, Hunan Province, was born in Zigui, Hubei Province in August of the lunar calendar 1900.

/kloc-in the autumn of 0/920, Xia, who was baptized by the May 4th Movement, came to Changsha and met him. 192 1 winter, introduced by He Shuheng, joined China in summer. After joining the party, Xia engaged in the workers' movement in Changsha and participated in leading the strike struggle of rickshaw workers.

From 65438 to 0924, Xia served as a member of the Hunan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, responsible for the work of the Agricultural Committee. 1February, 926, Xia was transferred to Wuhan by the Party to work as the Secretary-General of the National Farmers' Association and concurrently as the Secretary of the Workshop of the Central Farmers' Movement.

1927 In April, Chiang Kai-shek launched a counter-revolutionary coup. When Xia heard the news, he wrote bitterly: "The more you kill, the greater your courage, and you are not afraid of killing. If you don't kill Chiang Kai-shek, why thank the world! "

In June 1927, Xia Huixiang was appointed as member of the provincial party committee and organization minister. After the failure of the Great Revolution in July of the same year, Xia took part in the autumn harvest uprising. In June+10, 5438, Hunan Province appointed him as the special secretary of Pingjiang (Liujiang) and Liuyang to lead the peasant riots in Pingjiang.

/kloc-at the beginning of 0/928, Xia was transferred to Hubei by the party and served as the Standing Committee of Hubei Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China. Due to the traitor's betrayal, he was unfortunately captured by the enemy in Wuhan on March 18 of the same year. On the morning of March 20th, he was escorted by the enemy to the execution ground in Yujili, Hankou. When the enemy executive asked Xia what he had to say, he shouted, "Yes, bring me a pen and paper!" " Therefore, Xia wrote a poem with the above meaning.

For the revolutionary cause of China people, Xia died heroically at the age of 28.

19 17, entered the third-class industrial school in Hunan province in summer. During my school days, influenced by the May 4th Movement, I began to read progressive books and participate in demonstrations and activities against warlords, so the contradiction with my grandfather became increasingly acute. 1920, Xia ran away from home and met He Shuheng and others in Changsha. 192 1 autumn, I entered a self-taught university and joined * * * through the introduction of Mao and He. The "Master Xia Fu" who rushed out of the feudal family lived in a simple house, and his study life was very hard. According to people's memories at that time, he usually wore a pair of glasses, but his face was covered because he hadn't shaved his head for several months. He always studied hard with his book in his arms and left a deep impression on people as soon as he met.

■ Worked as a secretary of Mao Zedong; He led the riot squad to outwit the regiment defense bureau and seized more than 40 rifles.

Shortly after joining the party, Xia served as the dean of the practice school affiliated to the self-study university, and trained a large number of leading members of the party group for Hunan. At the same time, he also led the strike of rickshaw workers in Changsha and the struggle against Japanese goods. 1923, after the self-study university was closed, the summer turned to the peasant movement. Under his influence, his younger brothers Xia Mingzhen, Xia Mingbi and his younger sister Xia Mingheng also left home to study in Guangzhou Agricultural College, becoming the leading backbone of the agricultural movement under the leadership of * * *, and later they all died in the riots in southern Hunan.

/kloc-at the beginning of 0/927, he went to the Wuhan Central Peasant Movement Workshop hosted by Mao Zedong, and served as the Secretary-General of the All-China Farmers Association and concurrently served as the Secretary of Mao Zedong. In the summer of the same year, the Kuomintang launched an anti-communist coup, and Xia was appointed as a member of the newly reorganized Hunan Provincial Party Committee and organization minister. He went to Pingjiang and Liuyang to organize the forces left by Mao Zedong after the autumn harvest riots. He also personally led a group of young men of the riot squad to outwit the regiment defense bureau of Liuyang Beishengcang by sneak attack and seized more than 40 rifles.

/kloc-at the beginning of 0/928, the central government transferred to Wuhan in the summer to participate in the leadership work of the Hubei Provincial Party Committee. At that time, influenced by "Left" impatience, the CPC Central Committee headed by Qu Qiubai wanted to launch a "year-end riot" centered on Wuhan. This blind action is doomed to failure. After Xia arrived in Wuhan, he discussed with Li sent by the Central Committee and decided to cancel the plan to suppress chaos according to the actual situation. At this time, the Guangxi warlords who ruled Hubei had destroyed some riot preparation organs, and the search was getting tighter and tighter. Xia Xian put Li on board and returned to Shanghai. I was caught trying to move. He stayed in prison for two days and was killed on March 20th, 1928. Before he was executed, he wrote a just poem.

Born in a gentry family, Xia joined the peasant movement and embarked on the same revolutionary road as Peng Pai and others.

Xia's revolutionary road was extraordinary at that time and even today. In the modern society of China, where class exploitation and oppression were serious, he originally belonged to the landlord class, but later he firmly became a pioneer against local tyrants and evil gentry, and was one of the organizers of the Hunan peasant movement until he died without regret. This behavior just shows the great appeal of the revolutionary thought representing the advanced class, and this spiritual power can be transformed into material energy to transform society.

In the dark society of China for thousands of years, it is a common social phenomenon that "the wine in Zhumen stinks and the bones on the road freeze to death". Feudal literati also had some unfair people, but the limitation of class only made them feel a little pity. When Xia was young, he sympathized with the bearers and maids at home, which was the beginning. But charity and charity can't change the face of society. The introduction of Marxism finally told advanced China people a fundamental way to solve social contradictions-"depriving the deprived". So Xia led the hungry people and shouted the cry of "rebellion" and "communism". Of course, according to the most fundamental definition of scientific communism, "communism" is a noun, which basically refers to solving the contradiction between private possession of means of production and socialization of production through socialization of means of production. However, in the mouth of poor farmers in China at that time, "communism" was mainly understood as a verb, that is, taking out the ill-gotten wealth of local tyrants and evil gentry to "share" in order to meet the minimum requirements for survival (there was not enough food and clothing at that time). Under the specific national conditions of China, this can just form a revolutionary storm of "the red flag rolls up the serf halberd". The value of Xia is that he became the pioneer of this storm and wrote the most magnificent battle songs with his spirit of "beheading doesn't matter".

■ I hated my grandfather's association with Wu, the leader of the Northern Warlord, and tore up the banners that Wu Pai people hung on the wall.

■ Split the feudal doors and windows with an axe and rush out of the mansion, never to return. He became one with the workers and peasants and married a female worker of Hunan embroidery.

When Xia was a teenager, his grandfather, a former senior official of the Qing Dynasty, pinned his hopes on him, let him light up the feudal family and let him read old books behind closed doors. However, Xia was influenced by his more enlightened parents and always wanted to leave home. Once, he saw a sallow and emaciated woman begging outside with a baby in her arms, so he gave her all the money. Later, he said, "That was the first time I knew there were hungry people in the world." When he grew up, he helped the maid carry water, but his grandfather was very angry with him. When he was a child, his favorite old sedan chair bearer was dismissed by his grandfather because of his weakness, and he fell to his death while struggling to make a living outside. In this regard, Xia issued the voice that "the world is not peaceful", which made him hate feudal families.

At school, he accepted the idea of opposing warlords. When he came home, he saw his grandfather associate with Wu, the leader of Beiyang warlord. In a rage, the pennant that Wu sent to hang on the wall was torn to pieces. Grandfather was very angry. When he heard the gentry complaining that Xia was leading the student movement outside, he ordered his family to keep his rebellious grandson in a house. Xia is determined to break up with his grandfather. He asked his brother Xia Mingzhen for an axe, pried open the window and jumped out of the room. He went to college and cut down his grandfather as a treasure tree, and his career was booming. From then on, he escaped from Xiafu and never came back.

After attending * * *, Xia took it as his duty to liberate the working masses of workers and peasants. When I organized the rickshaw trade union, I got along with rickshaw drivers day and night, and when I engaged in the agricultural movement, I also became one with the poor and middle peasants. His wife Zheng Jiajun is also a Hunan embroidery worker. When they got married, Li and He Shuheng of the provincial party committee sent a pair of couplets, saying that "there are only good families in the world, and only Ming families are strong".

■ Leave a bloody kiss on the farewell letter to his wife; Before the execution, the executioner asked if there were any last words. He shouted, "Yes, give me the paper!" Write a righteous poem on the spot

/kloc-at the beginning of 0/928, Xia bid farewell to his wife and newborn daughter and came to Wuhan. Guangxi warlords, who are famous for their barbarism, are searching for revolutionaries on a large scale, and many of those arrested are executed without trial at all. For example, Li, the representative of the Party's "First Congress", had left the Party at that time, and was killed immediately after being caught by the Guangxi warlords. Facing the depression and terror in the market, Xia is completely fearless and still runs around in various secret organs, deploying the plan of "stopping violence at the end of the year".

At first, he lived in a business in Hunan. He found that Wuhan garrison headquarters was eyeing up there, so he moved to the Oriental Hotel to study the next move with Xu Teli, Xie Juezai and Xiong Jinwan. A few days later, Xie Juezai suddenly informed the traffic police that Song was unreliable and went back to the Oriental Hotel to pack things in the summer. When he was about to move, the traitor Song broke into the room with the detective.

After Xia was arrested, he was constantly tortured. In the process of torture, he just condemned the judge. When he returned to his cell, he knew that his life was coming to an end. He endured the pain and wrote three letters to his mother, wife and sister with half a pencil. In the letter to his wife Zheng Jiajun, he also left a bloody kiss. Two days after his arrest, that is, in the early morning of March 20th, 1928, Xia was taken to the Yujili execution ground in Hankou. The executive asked him if he had any last words, and he shouted, "Yes, give me a pen and paper!" " "Then, he wrote a poem about" beheading doesn't matter ". At that time, this venerable word was called the revolutionary battle song written with blood, which inspired countless later generations to fight for it.

Three Xia poems

Yishi

It doesn't matter if you behead,

As long as the doctrine is true.

Kill Xia,

And the afterlife.

goldfish

Fish can be free,

Man is a prisoner.

Tanya

People's homes are dark and dense,

The official family is brightly lit.

The pot is in the air,

Officials eat soup medicine.