Shi Ce’s Danxin in Guo Liang’s Poems

Guo Liang was an early proletarian revolutionary of our party, a famous leader of the workers’ movement, and a close comrade-in-arms who organized and led the workers’ movement with Mao Zedong. Mao Zedong praised him as "a famous organizer of the workers’ movement". On March 29th, 1928, Guo Liang was secretly killed by Kuomintang reactionaries in Qianping, Simenkou, Changsha, at the age of 27. In Guo Liang’s short life, although there are not many poems left behind, they show Shi Ce’s unyielding heart and courage to fight.

"Ask the society, what is the truth?"

Guo Liang, formerly known as Guo Jing Jia, was born in 1901 in Wenjiaba, Sheshan, Tongguan Town, Wangcheng County, Hunan Province (now Guo Liang Village, Tongguan Street). At the age of 11, he changed his name to Guo Liang, hoping to be as resourceful as Zhuge Liang. When Guo Liang was a teenager, he paid close attention to the poor life of the people who were hungry and toiling, and thought deeply about it. He wrote a sharp new-style poem "Ask the Society": A strange question is not worth mentioning by scholars and juren, and it is also common sense for teachers, but they know nothing about it! Where did the Gu Mi of the rich come from? Why do farmers carry grain into the rich man’s barn? Ask the society, what is the truth? Where did the rich man’s house come from? Why do poor people build houses and rich people live in peace? Ask the society, what is the truth? Where do the clothes of the rich come from? Why don’t people who grow cotton and weave clothes cover their bodies? Ask the society, what is the truth? People live in the same world, why are the rich and the poor different? Ask the society, what is the truth? This poem tells the people’s sufferings in plain language and lashes out at social injustice in extremely sharp language, which is particularly easy to resonate and soon spread.

It is also in order to answer these doubts in Ask the Society that Guo Liang read more and more historical books, cared about his family and country, and began to explore the truth actively. In the autumn of 1915, 14-year-old Guo Liang was admitted to Changjun Middle School. With the anti-Japanese patriotic struggle of Hunan people constantly emerging, Guo Liang participated in the patriotic anti-Japanese struggle of Changsha students. In 1916, Guo Liang saw the heads of the murdered revolutionaries on the streets of Changsha, and angrily chanted poems: "How much blood and tears are there?"? Revenge needs to pour water into the cave, and patriotism can’t be afraid of hanging its head! " Grief and indignation gushed out from this poem, and the patriotic fire took root in the young man’s heart.

"A trickle of water sinks into a huge stream"

Once the patriotic fire is lit, it burns in Guo Liang’s young chest. He sympathized with the sufferings of the people and helped the poor to destroy their homes. In the process of dealing with the masses, I also deeply felt the turbulent but confused revolutionary enthusiasm. It seems that Guo Liang, who is surrounded by mountains and mountains, is eager to explore the way of struggle and the direction of progress. In 1919, Mao Zedong founded Xiangjiang Review in Changsha to spread and introduce new ideas. Guo Liang, who has been trying hard to explore the road of saving the country and the people, was struck by Mao Zedong’s article and soon became a loyal reader of Xiangjiang Review. In 1920, Guo Liang was admitted to Hunan No.1 Normal University, and met Mao Zedong by chance. From then on, he often asked Mao Zedong for advice on how to reform the society. Introduced by Mao Zedong, Guo Liang joined Xinmin Society, and then participated in Hunan Marxist Research Association organized by Mao Zedong, He Shuheng and Fang Weixia. In the practice of struggle, Guo Liang began to have a clear revolutionary ideal and struggle ideas, and firmly believed that nothing could be done without transforming the country.

In the winter of 1921, introduced by Mao Zedong, Guo Liang joined the Communist Party of China (CPC) and became one of the earliest party member in Hunan. When joining the party, Guo Liang made a generous statement: "Some people just give an empty mouth, and I, Guo Liang, are willing to give my head to the party." Guo Liang, who joined the Communist Party of China (CPC), finally belonged, and wrote a poem to express his feelings: "A trickle of water sinks into a huge stream, and it turns around without stopping; The back waves push the front waves and fly over the mountains to be free. " He compared his personal strength to a trickle, which, once put into the arms of the Party organization, converged into stormy waves and condensed into a majestic force of revolutionary struggle under the guidance of party flag.

"When will I wash away all my worries?"

After gloriously joining the Party, Guo Liang became more and more mature in thought, and more and more deeply realized that only by mobilizing millions of working people to work together can the action of saving the country have a steady stream of power. In the summer of 1922, after graduating from Hunan No.1 Normal School, Guo Liang immediately joined the revolutionary movement. In August of the same year, appointed by Mao Zedong, Guo Liang went to Yuezhou to carry out the work of Guangdong-Han railway labor movement. When he sailed down the Xiangjiang River to Dongting Lake, he was full of thoughts and couldn’t help chanting, "Xiao Shui, Xiang Shui, flows into the Yangtze River without a head." Long Jun sent me Dongting water, when will I wash away all my worries? " Guo Liang knew that the trip was bumpy and arduous, but he had no time to think about the severity of the difficulties, but immediately devoted himself to the fiery labor movement. On September 9th, Guo Liang organized and led a strike of 3,000 workers on the Guangdong-Han Railway, which shocked the whole country and opened the prelude to the first labor movement climax in Hunan. At the end of the same year, Guo Liang led the kindling of the workers’ movement to his hometown Tongguan. In the struggle, Guo Liang made good use of concise language to complain about the sufferings of ceramic workers, such as: "Digging clay bent his waist, pushing clay bowed his back, burning kiln goods burned his heart, making kiln goods worn his hand, and selling kiln goods lost his leg." In a few words, the injustice of the poor life of ceramic workers for generations was revealed, which aroused the workers’ resonance, condensed the struggle force, led the ceramic workers to resist the so-called "kiln door tax" and organized the establishment of the Tongguan ceramic trade union. On the day when the Tongguan Ceramics Trade Union was established, the Hunan District Committee of the Communist Party of China sent a pun couplet. The first part is "Don’t say that loose sand can’t make a great instrument", and the second part is "You should know that soil can turn into gold".Highly praised Guo Liang for leading generate, a ceramic worker.

In leading the Guangdong-Han railway workers’ strike, the pottery workers’ struggle against taxes and taxes, and the Changsha workers’ struggle against imperialism and feudal warlords, Guo Liang has increasingly demonstrated his ability to approach and inspire the masses. At that time, Bolshevik, the central theoretical publication, commented on Guo Liang: Guo Liang was the pioneer of Hunan workers’ movement. Anyuan in Jiangxi, Shuikoushan in Hunan, Changsha, Guangdong, Han and Zhuping in Hunan, Hubei and Jiangxi provinces, these local workers and other industrial professional workers all organized struggles under his direct and indirect guidance.

"Heroes have never bowed their heads since ancient times."

"Xiang water stirs up the hatred of the river, and the sword breaks the water and flows more. Although good and evil are reversed, heroes have never bowed their heads since ancient times. " This poem was sung by Guo Liang on the way to Wuchang after he was arrested by the enemy. It not only expressed his resentment of "the inversion of good and evil", but also showed his heroic spirit of being fearless and dying. In July, 1924, after Guo Liang was elected as the chairman of Hunan Anti-Imperialism Alliance, he wrote a lot of campaign articles. Under the careful organization of Guo Liang, Hunan once again set off an anti-imperialist climax. Guo Liang, who was at the forefront of the struggle, was wanted several times by Zhao Hengti, the warlord of Hunan at that time. In the face of the wanted notice, Guo Liang laughed it off without fear, and wrote a doggerel: "Zhao thief is persistent, a man looks like a wolf, killing with one hand and burning incense with the other, shouting autonomy and secretly communicating with the powers. If this cub is not removed, the people will suffer, and they will get a dog’s head and a pair of copper coins. Advise the police, don’t be fooled, help the tiger eat, and it will come to no good end. The notice is integrated, so remember to be detailed. " This limerick exposes the ugly face of reactionaries in laughing and cursing, and also points out the direction of struggle for the people in plain language. Under the leadership of Guo Liang and other comrades, anti-imperialist and patriotic activities in Hunan have become increasingly frequent and powerful. Facing the great revolutionary situation, Guo Liang and his comrade-in-arms Xia Minghan touched the scene and recited poems. Guo Liang recited: "One sword hangs on the bedside, and the GREAT GHOST kid comes in." Xia Minghan replied, "Kill all demons and level the world, and the mountains, rivers, the sun and the moon will be rearranged." The two revolutionary heroes expressed their aspirations with poems, and their determination to fight to the end jumped to the page.

In January 1928, dispatched by the CPC Central Committee, Guo Liang served as the secretary of the special committee of Hunan, Hubei and Jiangxi. Under the leadership of his organization, the party organizations in the border areas of Hunan, Hubei and Jiangxi provinces have been restored and developed. On March 27th, Guo Liang was arrested in Yueyang because of a traitor’s informer, and was executed secretly by the reactionary authorities in the early morning of 29th. Before his execution, he wrote a cone-shaped suicide note to his wife, who is also a native of communist party: "Can Ying, my love: Bright running around, homeless and stateless. I’m done. Hope to be kind and caress my son to follow my ambition. This is awkward. " This touching suicide note not only expresses deep attachment to family members, but also expresses infinite expectations for future generations to continue their struggle.