Ye Tiandi left Hangzhou for Shanghai. On the recommendation of Chen Wangdao, I proofread the manuscript of "New Youth" in a printing factory, and met Shen, who is preparing for the establishment of a Marxist research society in Shanghai. One day, Shen gave Ye Tiandi a "bamboo stone painting", which means that under a big stone, a bamboo shoot stubbornly broke through the ground. Chen Wangdao wrote an inscription on this painting: "The stone presses the bamboo shoots, and the bamboo shoots come out obliquely. When you move a big stone, the roots of Hsinchu are straight. " Ye Tiandi appreciates this spirit very much. He took this painting as his motto, hung it in his study, and encouraged himself to fight the reactionary forces like bamboo shoots. As a result of proofreading the manuscript of New Youth, Ye Tiandi had frequent contacts with Chen Duxiu, Shao Lizi and Yang Mingzhai, and received the enlightenment education of Marxism under their influence. At that time, the Shanghai Communist Group was actively preparing for the establishment of the Socialist Youth League, and Ye Tiandi attended the preparatory meeting convened by Chen Duxiu in the secret business organization No.6 in Xinyu Yangli. On August 22nd, the Shanghai Socialist Youth League was established. Ye Tiandi, Yu Xiusong, Shi Cuntong, yuan zhenying, Jin Jiafeng and others became the founders and the first members of the Shanghai Socialist Youth League.
The following month, in order to train revolutionary cadres, the Shanghai Communist Group established a foreign language club at No.6, Yangli, Xinyu, with Yang Mingzhai as the head, Yu Xiusong as the secretary, Ye Tiandi and Shi Cun as the team leaders. Ye Tiandi studied Russian and Marxist works here, and his ideological understanding has been greatly improved. He believes that despite the differences between China and Russia, the issue of China can only be solved under the guidance of Marxism, and the revolutionary road taken by the Russians is worth learning. 192 1 In the spring of, Ye Tiandi was allowed to study in the Soviet Union, but he couldn't make it because of sudden typhoid fever. Later, the youth league organization was ordered to be temporarily dissolved for various reasons, and he took this opportunity to go home for illness.
Ye Tiandi still thought about the revolutionary cause all day during his illness. This summer, he wrote a letter to a friend in Shanghai, saying, "Falling is dying of my heart". I will never die of my heart before my body dies ... I wrote to Mr. Wang Dao and other friends yesterday. Ask several * * * organs if there are any shortcomings in their work. If I receive a letter from them saying that there is a shortage of people to handle affairs, I will take the medicine can away at once. "
In the autumn of the same year, Ye Tiandi's condition improved slightly, that is, he went to Shangyu No.1 Primary School to teach. He took advantage of teachers, actively promoted the New Mandarin Movement, advocated vernacular Chinese, and spread revolutionary ideas among teachers and students.
1September, 922, Shangyu chunhui middle school officially started school, and Ye Tiandi applied to work in the academic affairs office of the school. In the winter slack season, after work, he and his colleagues set up farmers' evening classes outside the school to organize nearby farmers to learn culture and inspire their ideological consciousness. Ye Tiandi wrote the article "Studying with Farmers for Half a Year on Baima Lake" and described this experience.
During this period, Ye Tiandi insisted on studying literature and art, often drawing or writing articles, and sent them to the supplement of the Republic of China Daily in Shanghai for publication, and compiled his own works into a book, Notre Dame. In the form of literary works, he exposed the crimes of imperialism and feudal warlords through typical modeling, awakened the people and joined the anti-imperialist and anti-feudal movement. 192 1 may day, he created the print "world wind", and Xiaofeng wrote the inscription: workers organize! Unite! Maintain social justice and save the hungry! The "world wind" shows distinct characteristics of the times.
/kloc-in the autumn of 0/923, Ye Tiandi went to Shanghai Oriental Art Research Association to study. He studied and studied "painting knowledge" hard, and his painting level improved rapidly, and his artistic vision was greatly broadened. Later, as an editor of art criticism, I wrote a lot of art criticism, such as "Chinese painting has no room for development" and "Ten minutes of meditation in the studio", etc., and seriously thought about some problems from the artistic point of view. At the same time, he often went to Shanghai University to give lectures, received Marxist education, and had frequent contacts with famous people such as Chen Duxiu, Qu Qiubai, Hui, etc., deeply influenced by their thoughts, and his communist consciousness was increasingly enhanced. At the end of the same year, he attended China.
1July, 924, Ye Tiandi went to Suzhou Le Yi Girls' Middle School to teach Chinese and painting. Under the cover of teaching profession, he actively participated in social activities. In September of the following year, the Suzhou Independent Branch of the Communist Party of China was secretly established in Le Yi Girls' Middle School, with Ye Tiandi as the branch secretary. Under his leadership, the branch played a strong fighting capacity, making Le Yi Girls' Middle School once the center and stronghold of Suzhou people's revolutionary struggle.
1926 Spring, Ye Tiandi returned to his hometown from Shanghai. When he left, the party organization gave him two tasks: first, to get better; The second is to develop party organizations in hometown and carry out agricultural movement.
After Ye Tiandi returned to his hometown, he actively carried out revolutionary activities according to the instructions of the Party. He made friends with Liu Jiean, president of the county education association, and wanted to hire the editor-in-chief of Education Monthly. He edited this big article and published a series of comments on education, calling on revolutionary youth to "bravely and resolutely guide farmers to unite and do the work of resisting corrupt officials, evil gentry and local tyrants." At the same time, he published an article "Unity" in the local newspaper "Voice of Shangyu" with his pen, which profoundly exposed the reactionary acts of feudal warlords, 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 and called for help, and tried his best to hold a folk art workshop in Shangyu County to take in homeless children and organize them to learn skills and help themselves in 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.
1926 and 16 presided over the inaugural meeting of the directly affiliated branch of Shangyu County in July. The meeting passed four resolutions: the establishment of the temporary executive Committee of Shangyu County of Kuomintang; Carry out agricultural movement and organize farmers' Red Guards; Adapting the county police force into a picket for workers and peasants; Strive for the left wing of the Kuomintang and develop members of the Kuomintang. Since then, the revolutionary activities in Shangyu have flourished under the leadership of the Party.
Under the launch of the branch directly under Shangyu County of the Communist Party of China led by Ye Tiandi, the Communist Party of China (CPC)'s team has been continuously expanded, and the development of Kuomintang party member has also made remarkable achievements. By the end of the year, there were 1 1 national party branches in the county, and more than 100 people were developed in party member. He took the opportunity to hold a county-wide general party membership meeting and set up a temporary executive committee of Shangyu County of the Kuomintang. At the meeting, Ye Tiandi was elected as executive member and concurrently minister of agriculture and industry. During the second five-year plan period, he organized farmers' associations and actively led farmers in the revolutionary struggle against feudalism, local tyrants and rent reduction. Ye Tiandi's uncle Yu Hengshan is a vicious local tyrant, and the locals call him "East Gate Tiger". Between revolution and affection, he resolutely chose the former. Presided over the meeting in the county seat to fight Yu Hengshan, which angered the people. His righteous act of putting family first greatly encouraged the peasant brothers to devote themselves to the struggle against local tyrants and bullies, and promoted the development of Shangyu agricultural movement.
After the counter-revolutionary coup in April 12, the situation in Shangyu was sharply reversed, and the Kuomintang Rightists took the opportunity to fight back. Ye Tiandi held an emergency meeting of the Party branch and decided to bury weapons and deal with them in a decentralized manner. At that time, Ye Tiandi was seriously ill, and farmers did not avoid danger. They carried him overnight in a sedan chair to a mountain area called 18 discount. The Kuomintang Rightists sent troops to search for him several times, all in vain.
At the beginning of May, the hunting situation eased slightly, and Ye Tiandi secretly went to Hangzhou. He won the sympathy and support of Zheng Shiquan (the left wing of the Kuomintang), a newly appointed party affairs instructor in Shangyu, and returned to Shangyu with Qian Nianxian and other four people, secretly rebuilding the CPC branch, publicly establishing a progressive organization "Pomegranate Society" and publishing Pomegranate Newspaper. Then, he secretly organized peasant associations, took out buried weapons and set up small peasant armed forces, and the revolutionary activities in Shangyu gradually became active again.
In August, Ye Tiandi went to Shaoxing to attend the joint meeting of nine counties. The meeting called on all localities to actively implement the "second five-year plan", reduce rents, restore farmers' armed forces, and prepare for the autumn harvest riots. After Ye Tiandi returned to Shangyu, he actively carried out the spirit of the meeting, trained farmers' self-defense forces, established fishermen's association and founded Sunday Weekly. 10 10 In late October, more than 2,700 farmers in the county gathered in the county sports ground and petitioned the county government to implement the "25 th Five-Year Plan" rent reduction. After a resolute struggle, in the afternoon, the county magistrate Fang Zanxiu was forced to sign, and the struggle won.
10, in accordance with the spirit of the August 7th meeting, committee of cpc zhejiang provincial committee decided to launch a great uprising centered on Shangyu and Xiangshan Port in eastern Zhejiang. Ye Tiandi is responsible for organizing and directing the armed forces of workers and peasants to occupy Yucheng and destroy the reactionary forces. Ye Tiandi was ill, and studied the action plan with several comrades of the Party branch, and decided to mobilize farmers separately, organize personnel, deploy armed forces, formulate the action line and stand by and act. Unexpectedly, before the operation started, the provincial organs were destroyed by the enemy, and the "East Zhejiang Riot Plan" was searched out. Riots in Ye Tiandi and other places have also become the key targets of the enemy's search.
165438+1One day in mid-October, the Kuomintang Zhejiang Party Department sent people to Shangyu, arrested Ye Tiandi who was ill in bed and carried him to the county government in a sedan chair. The county magistrate personally questioned him: "Mr. Ye, as long as you tell me about the Shangyu organization, I can intercede for you and let you stay at home for treatment." Ye Tiandi replied coldly: "I am the only one who joined Shangyu. I work for the working people! " The magistrate couldn't ask anything, so he was escorted to the provincial party Committee headquarters the next day and put in the Zhejiang army prison.
After Ye Tiandi went to prison, his illness became more and more serious, but he still did not forget to unite his friends and fight against the aggressive and overbearing prison officials. He often said to his cellmates, "If a person can work for socialism and communism, then he is the happiest. There is no nobler and greater cause in the world to inspire the prisoners to persist in their struggle in prison.
The enemy tried many times, and Ye Tiandi kept his mouth shut. Seeing that the purpose of arraignment could not be achieved, the enemy tried to "soften" him politically and asked him to surrender, saying, "As long as you sign the confession, you can release him." He replied categorically: "I would rather die if I signed it." The enemy lowered his demands and said, "As long as you say' I went the wrong way before', you can be released." He confidently replied: "In the final analysis, I took the aboveboard road! There is nothing wrong! " Unwilling to fail, the enemy found another classmate of Ye Tiandi who was studying in Zhejiang First Normal University and advised him to surrender. As a result, he was reprimanded and left despondently. If the plan fails, the enemy is still unwilling, pretending to care about Ye Tiandi's condition and asking him to "seek medical treatment on parole". On the surface, he was released from prison and went to a relative's house in Hangzhou to recuperate, but secretly he sent special agents to closely monitor him. Ye Tiandi saw through the enemy's tricks and refused all acquaintances to visit him during his "medical parole". He said to his relatives and friends: "I still believe in * * * in the end, and join * * *. Now I am caught by the enemy because of illness. I regret that I have done too little for the party. Now that we are caught, we are bound to die. I'm ready. It's glorious to die for communism. I want to tell you solemnly that anyone who wants to say' surrender' in front of me is an insult to me! " The enemy's plot went bankrupt again, and there was nothing he could do. He was soon 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. The suicide note said: "I will never live, I will not die of illness, but die at the hands of the enemy. People with courage are born weak, and what is pitiful when they die? The blood of martyrs is the flower of socialism. ..... I never want to live on my knees, but I'd rather die standing! " At dawn on February 8, the enemy carried Ye Tiandi, who was too ill to move, to the execution ground in the prison with a door panel. At the last moment of his life, Ye Tiandi propped up his almost paralyzed body, straightened his chest, held his head high and shouted, "Long live China!" Ye Tiandi was only 30 years old when he died.