"Born to be a master, death is also a ghost."
Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery
It is a state-level cemetery with the highest specifications in China, which houses nearly a thousand revolutionary martyrs.
However, among the tombs of many martyrs, the tombstone of one tomb is a little different from other tombstones, which does not have the name of the tomb owner, the year of birth and death, and the epitaph, and only the three big characters of "Return to Xi". Who is the owner of this tomb? What kind of legend is there? Why is the tombstone only engraved with the words "Return to Xi"?
The owner of this tomb is a man named
Xiao Minghua
The female red intelligence officer is known as one of the top ten beautiful spyes in our party. Xiao Minghua, a native of Jiaxing County, Zhejiang Province, was born in 1922 and is the youngest in her family, with four older siblings. Therefore, although Xiao Minghua came from an ordinary family and only did some small business, he was also pampered and raised from childhood, and was successfully admitted to the Kaifeng Normal School in Henan Province. It is reasonable to say that Xiao Minghua, who grew up in such an environment and studied the teacher training profession, should have done such a stable job as a teacher, so how could he become an intelligence officer of our party? Friends, don't worry, and listen to me slowly.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Xiao Minghua's hometown was affected by the war, and some small businesses could not be maintained. In desperation, he had to move his family to Chongqing, the rear area, to make a living. After arriving in Chongqing, Xiao Minghua was admitted to chongqing normal school and continued to complete his studies that he had not completed in Kaifeng Normal School in Henan Province. Xiao Minghua knew that the conditions at home were much worse than before, and the expenses of his own study were saved by relying on the family to save food and clothing. So Xiao Minghua cherishes this
It's not easy to come from
Learning opportunities, usual learning has become more diligent than ever. Moreover, during this period, Xiao Minghua published a large number of essays, novels and other works, and also became acquainted with the editor-in-chief of the yellow river monthly magazine, a female writer who was already famous at that time
Xie Bingying
And was praised by her as "China's most promising female writer". Therefore, when he graduated, Xiao Minghua, who had such excellent grades, was recommended by the school to beiping normal school for further study, majoring in the newly emerging Chinese zhuyin. This also laid the groundwork for her later intelligence work.
Xiao Minghua's study at Peiping Normal School was at the beginning of the Liberation War, and the patriotic movement in full swing swept the whole country. At that time, Xiao Minghua became good friends with a psychology professor named Zhu Chunfang. This Zhu Chunfang's identity is not ordinary, he is an underground party member. Inspired by Zhu Chunfang's subtlety and the infection of the student movement in the school, Xiao Minghua also wanted to contribute to the revolutionary cause, so she asked Zhu Chunfang to help her thread the needle between her and the party organization. However, Zhu Chunfang solemnly told Xiao Minghua that "the intelligence work is extremely dangerous, and what is needed is not only a momentary enthusiasm, but also a long-term firm will, hoping that she will make a decision after careful consideration." After Xiao Minghua listened, he was resolute
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She said that she was ready to dedicate herself to our party and people. Finally, in September 1947, Xiao Minghua, at the recommendation of Zhu Chunfang, got his wish
She became an underground party member and officially began her career as an intelligence worker.
When Xiao Minghua was about to graduate, he was the head of the Department of Chinese Literature at National Taiwan University
Tai Jing Nong
Want to be in Taiwan in a large area
Promote Chinese Zhuyin and voice apps. After Tai Jingnong accidentally learned that Xiao Minghua was quite accomplished in this regard, he threw an olive branch to her and wrote several letters to invite Xiao Minghua to teach in Taiwan. At this time, the Nationalist government was already in a state of weakening, and some nationalist government officials rushed to Taiwan one after another to seek a way back. Xiao Minghua held that This invitation by Taiwan Jingnong is a good opportunity to penetrate into Taiwan and provide convenient for our party to confront the Kuomintang in the future. So he reported his thoughts to his superiors. Soon, the higher-level party organization agreed to Xiao Minghua's proposal.
Before setting off, Xiao Minghua specially rushed home to bid farewell to his elderly parents. Xiao Minghua's parents did not know that she was an underground worker in our party, thinking that she was only going to Taiwan as a teacher. Therefore, Xiao Minghua, who is full of guilt, is also relieved, don't worry about home, and work well. Who knew that Xiao Minghua's going was eternally separated.
When Xiao Minghua first came to Taiwan, in order to hide her work, she chose to teach at The Taiwan Normal College, because the dormitory provided for her by the school was particularly remote. After that, Xiao Minghua became an editor at the Chinese Daily and began to contact people from all walks of life and collect intelligence. During this period, Xiao Minghua was the guide to the party
Zhu Chunfang
Under the pseudonym Yu Fei, she also came to Taiwan to assist her in her work. In order not to be suspected, but also to facilitate the work, Zhu Chunfang and Xiao Minghua simply acted together in the name of husband and wife.
Subsequently, in the name of the Social Science Research Association organized by the Taiwan Provincial Government, the two privately held some workshops to expand the influence of our Party in Taiwan. With high ideological consciousness, Xiao Minghua trained them to become the backbone of the revolution and created the Taiwan New People's Youth Alliance to unite them.
By April 1949, the liberation of the whole country was just around the corner. At the same time, Xiao Minghua and Zhu Chunfang also received orders to obtain military intelligence from the Kuomintang at all costs. In order not to drop the chain at such a critical moment, the two increased the intensity and intensity of intelligence gathering. During this period, Xiao Minghua not only had to lead the liaison work, but also was responsible for the storage, collation and secret writing of intelligence data, and was often busy until late at night without a moment's rest. Even when he was sick, Xiao Minghua could not stick to the front line of intelligence. In this way, in just two months, Xiao Minghua and Zhu Chunfang sent top-secret information to our party six times, including those of the Kuomintang
"Hainan Island Defense Plan", "Zhoushan Islands Defense Plan" and "Taiwan Military Points Geographical Map"
It has made great contributions to the liberation of coastal islands by our army.
After the liberation of the mainland, Chiang Kai-shek and the remnants of the Kuomintang defeated Taiwan and martial law imposed martial law on the entire island of Taiwan in order to carry out a great purge. Then, the entire island personnel began to be screened. Many of our party's underground workers lurking in Taiwan were exposed during this investigation and were brutally hunted and killed by the Kuomintang, and Xiao Minghua was not spared. But before he was caught, Xiao Minghua was calm
He took out the cheongsam he often wore and hung it in front of the window with a hanger, alerting his colleagues. It is precisely because of Xiao Minghua's witty move that Zhu Chunfang and other talents are lucky
get
Escaped the fate.
But Xiao Minghua, who was arrested, was not so lucky, and she was imprisoned in the "Hall of Yan Luo"
The Security Department of the Taiwan Security Command was tortured for 278 days in this purgatory
。 According to relevant historical sources, Xiao Minghua was often tortured by electric chairs, tiger stools, and tied up and hanging in prison. But Xiao Minghua endured it with superhuman perseverance and courage, and not a word of intelligence was revealed to the enemy. Xiao Minghua, who eventually lost the use value, was in
On November 8, 1950, he was executed by the Kuomintang
。 This year, Xiao Minghua was only 28 years old, and it was not too late to become a filial daughter, a virtuous wife and a loving mother, thus ending his short life.
After Xiao Minghua's sacrifice, not many people knew her true identity, so it was not until the 1980s that Xiao Minghua was posthumously recognized as a revolutionary martyr by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and her remains were relocated to the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery. When writing a tombstone for Xiao Minghua, Zhu Chunfang, who had fought alongside Xiao Minghua, thought that no amount of verbal description was too shallow compared with Xiao Minghua's spirit and contribution to the country, so Zhu Chunfang personally wrote down the three big characters of "Return to Xi", symbolizing Xiao Minghua's fallen leaves and returning to the land he had dedicated himself to, and finally he could rest in peace.