Jiang Weishui (1891-1931), a native of Yilan County, Taiwan. In his early years, he studied medicine and opened a clinic in Taipei, but was influenced by Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary ideas to abandon medicine and enter politics. Because he upheld the spirit of uncompromising resistance to fight for the freedom of the Chinese nation, he was known as Sun Yat-sen of Taiwan and was regarded as one of the leaders of the anti-colonial movement during the Japanese occupation of Taiwan. Jiang Weishui died young, and in the 40 spring and autumn of his life, he made the "four firsts" that influenced Taiwan's modern history.
(1) Founded the first Taiwan-wide cultural organization "Taiwan Cultural Association". In October 1921, Jiang Weishui and Lin Xiantang and others established the Taiwan Cultural Association to awaken the national consciousness of the Taiwanese people in the form of cultural enlightenment, and to enlighten the people's wisdom through various forms such as setting up newspaper readings, holding cultural lectures, and conducting island-wide lecture tours.
(2) Founded the first Taiwanese newspaper "Taiwan Minbao". In April 1923, the Taiwan Minbao was founded in Tokyo, Japan, and moved to Taiwan in August 1927 under the condition of increasing the Japanese version. The Taiwan Minbao supported the taiwan parliament in setting up a petition movement, attacked the repressive rule of the governor of Taiwan, advocated vernacular literature, and became an important garden for Taiwan's new literature.
(3) Founding the first political party in the modern sense, the Taiwan People's Party. The Taiwan People's Party is the first political party with a modern character in Taiwan's history, which was established in 1927 by Chiang Wei-shui on the principle that "compatriots must be united, and unity is really powerful." In the political, cultural, economic and other fields, it launched an unarmed struggle with the Japanese colonial authorities and set off the anti-Japanese national liberation movement of the Taiwan compatriots. After the establishment of the Taiwan People's Party, it set up 15 branches in Taoyuan, Hsinchu, Dajia, Nantou, Chiayi and Tainan, with 456 members. Within the Taiwan People's Party, Jiang Weishui adhered to the development proposition of the class struggle between workers and peasants, opposed Lin Xiantang, Cai Peihuo, and others who advocated the "parliamentary line" movement, and always upheld the spirit of uncompromising resistance, which stimulated a strong national consciousness and sincere feelings for the motherland in the hearts of Taiwan compatriots.
Taiwan People's Party Flag
(4) Established the first Taiwan-wide trade union organization, the Taiwan Workers' Federation. In February 1928, the Taiwan People's Party organized 29 trade union organizations in Taiwan and established the first island-wide trade union organization, the Taiwan Workers' Federation, in Taipei.
In Taipei's Jiang Weishui Memorial Park, there is a bronze statue of Jiang Weishui, which holds a medical bag in the left hand and a book covered and wrapped in it in the right hand. The images of practicing medicine, giving speeches and propaganda, running around, and sleeping in the wind and eating cover the glorious life of Jiang Weishui' glorious battle. This is exactly:
Taipei Jiang Weishui Memorial Park
Hanging pot Ji Shi Da Dao Cheng, the spring breeze triumphantly gathers talents.
Arouse millions of people, sit through the bottom of the prison and see the light.