The reporter learned from the General Office of the Shaanxi Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference that Comrade Yang Zhengying, the daughter of General Yang Hucheng, a well-known patriotic general, a member of the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Sessions of the Shaanxi Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and a former department-level cadre of the General Office of the Shaanxi Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, died in Xi'an at the age of 87 at 17:50 on September 17, 2021 due to ineffective medical treatment.
△ In 1936, Yang Hucheng's wife Xie Baozhen took a group photo with her children. From left: Yang Zhengmei, Yang Zhengzhong, Yang Zhenghan, Yang Zhengying.
According to an earlier report by the Herald of All Walks of Life sponsored by the Shaanxi Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Yang Zhengying was born in Xi'an on February 6, 1934, and was the third child born to Yang Hucheng and his wife Xie Baozhen.
△ On April 8, 2016, Yang Zhengying was at home. Photo by Zhang Hongwei
In 1936, Yang Hucheng and Zhang Xueliang jointly launched the "Xi'an Incident", and at the end of November 1937, he was lured by the Kuomintang to Nanchang and imprisoned. For the next 12 years, Yang Hucheng was imprisoned in Xiang, Qian, Sichuan and other places. In 1938, Xie Baozhen and his youngest son Yang Zhengzhong were imprisoned to rescue Yang Hucheng, and were killed in prison on February 9, 1947. On September 6, 1949, General Yang Hucheng, his second son Yang Zhengzhong, and his youngest daughter Yang Zhengui were killed by agents at the Dai Gong Ancestral Hall of the Chongqing Sino-US Cooperation Institute.
Yang Hucheng had three marriages and had ten children, except for his son Yang Zhengya, who died prematurely, his son Yang Zhengzhong, and his daughter Yang Zhenggui, who were killed at the same time as Yang Hucheng, the rest of the children had successful careers.
Yang Zhengying recalled that at the time of the Xi'an Incident, she was only two years old, after which her father and mother went abroad, and then she was imprisoned until she was killed, and she never saw her parents again. Yang Zhengying's impression of her parents comes from the only remaining photos: her mother is particularly beautiful, and her father wears a doctor's hat and a suit.
After their parents were imprisoned, Yang Zhengying and his sister Yang Zhengmei, his younger sister Yang Zhenghan and Yang Zhenglu were raised by their grandmother, and later cared for by their adoptive mother Zhang Huilan (Yang Hucheng's second wife) until they returned to Xi'an after the founding of New China.
Before the founding of New China, because they were descendants of Yang Hucheng, grandma was afraid that their sisters would be persecuted by the enemy, and always told them not to tell anyone about their parents, nor to reveal their family history to others, "If someone asks where your mother is, you can tell him that your parents are in a foreign country." ”
Her younger sister, Yang Zhenghan, who was 1 year younger, was in the third grade of the primary school attached to Shaanxi Normal University, and in the autumn of that year, the teacher asked students to fill out the student handbook, and the sister wrote her uncle's name in the "father's name" column as usual according to her grandmother's instructions. After reading this, the homeroom teacher called her to the front and said very seriously: "Zheng Han, your father is a patriotic general who played an important role in the 'Xi'an Incident' and is a national hero of our country, your father's name is Yang Hucheng, why don't you even dare to admit your own father?" Xiao Zhenghan burst into tears after listening to it.
△ Yang Zhengmei and Yang Zhengying's "Remembering Mother Xie Baozhen".
After Yang Zhengying joined the Party in June 1950, the Organization Department of the Xi'an Municipal Party Committee was ready to transfer her out of her work, but was opposed by yu Dafu, the principal at the time, who reasoned that "students should go to school, and schools also need party members." As a result, Yang Zhengying was a specialist in Xi'an High School of the Cultural and Educational Party Committee of the Xi'an Municipal Party Committee.
In Yang Zhengying's memory, there were three schools appointed by the Cultural and Educational Party of the Xi'an Municipal Party Committee at that time, the other two being Northwest University and Northwest Medical College (now the Medical Department of Xi'an Jiaotong University).
After 10 years of working in the municipal party committee, Yang Zhengying refused the opportunity to be promoted by the party organization, took the initiative to ask to work at the grassroots level, and in 1959 served as the secretary of the 19th Central Party Branch of Xi'an City. Before the "Cultural Revolution", he went with her husband to Baoji to "support the left" and served as the principal of the 614 factory school.
In the late 1970s, Yang Zhengying read about her mother's situation in prison from an article titled "Wu Qingzhen", in which Wu Qingzhen waited for her mother Xie Baozhen in Guizhou Xifeng Prison and served as a nurse for her sister Yang Zhenggui, who was born in prison. After Yang Zhengying contacted the author, the author suggested that she go to Guizhou to understand more clearly about her parents' imprisonment in Guizhou's Xuantian Cave.
In 1981, in order to better study the historical experience before and after the Xi'an Incident, Yang Zhengying was officially transferred to the Cultural and Historical Office of the Shaanxi Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and retired in August 1995. She served as a member of the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th CPPCC Committees of Shaanxi Province.
In 1991, General Lu Zhengcao, a witness to the Xi'an Incident, went to the United States to participate in the activities of the Xi'an Incident Research Association in the United States, and after returning to China, proposed that the Xi'an Incident Research Association should also be established in China, and this task was implemented to the Academy of Social Sciences of the Federation of Social Sciences. More scholars are needed to study history, and Yang Zhengying is more familiar with the educational circles and is the daughter of Yang Hucheng, so it is logical to become one of the initiators of the Xi'an Incident Research Association.
In the process of researching the Xi'an Incident, Yang Zhengying and his colleagues investigated in detail the history of their father in prison, edited and published "Remembering General Yang Hucheng", and later wrote and published "Remembering Mother Xie Baozhen" with his sister Yang Zhengmei.
(This report is partially excerpted from the april 19, 2016 "Herald from all walks of life" "Yang Zhengying: Yangmen Hu Girls' High School joined the party, BoDa tolerance and examination history", the author Zhang Hongwei)
Column Editor-in-Chief: Zhang Wu Text Editor: Lu Xiaochuan Caption Source: Shangguan Tu Editor Photo Editor: Yong Kai
Source: Author: People's Political Consultative Conference Daily