(Xiao Chunu) did not go to school, not only did she not go to a foreign school, but she also did not go to a private school. I like him a lot. The peasant training institutes mainly depend on him. He is a running hall of Wuchang Tea House and can write beautiful articles.
This passage is Mao Zedong's comment to Xiao Chunu in the book "Learn by Yourself, Learn by Yourself", and it can be seen that Mao Zedong bluntly said that he "likes this person very much" and "he can write very beautiful articles".
Who was Xiao Chunu who could receive such a high evaluation from Mao Zedong? What is so great about him?
Mao Zedong
At first glance, the name Xiao Chunu, is not she a chuchu and moving woman? In fact, he is not, he is a man who stands tall in the sky. This seemingly feminine name was a joke at the time.
At that time, Xiao Chunu was an editor in "Dahan Bao" and "Chongde Bao", and often published articles under the pseudonym of "Chu Nu", writing articles on social and political and economic issues, criticizing current politics and attacking social ills. Because of his good writing, he also became famous for his great rivers.
Because the name "Chu Nu" looks more feminine, many people mistakenly think that the author is a ChuChu moving woman, so many young men often write letters to court, hoping to make friends with this gorgeous and progressive "girl".
Some men even went directly to the newspaper to look for this "woman" who had been admired for a long time, and as a result, they came to the newspaper office and asked: Hello, which is the Chu woman?
The newspaper staff pointed behind him: That gentleman is the Chu girl you are looking for.
I saw that in the position where the staff's fingers were pointing, a tall, thin, face full of numbness, and a pair of glasses was writing something seriously.
How is this a man? The young man who came to look for Chu Nu was confused at once, was it not the staff who heard it wrong? So I asked again: Hello, I am looking for Chu Nu.
The staff replied again: The tall and thin one over there is Chu Nu.
Good fellow, the Chu girl who had been in love for so long was actually a man, and suddenly those beautiful fantasies in her heart were all shattered.
Xiao Chunu
In order to avoid similar things from happening again, Xiao Chunu had to publish a notice in the newspaper:
"There are Chu women in this newspaper, not chuchu and moving women, but big men with tall figures, dark skin and slightly numbness."
Some people may wonder, why would a big man take a name that looks so feminine? In fact, the name "Chu Nu" can contain Xiao Chunu's great vision.
Qu Yuan's poem reads: "Neglect to look back with drooling, mourning the absence of a daughter of a high hill." This woman refers to the goddess of firm will and strength to turn the tide, and the poem says that There is no such person in Gaoqiu, so let me be the daughter of this Gaoqiu, who hopes that he can become a goddess and revolutionary hero who saves the nation from danger, so he changed his name to "Chu Girl".
Xiao Chu's original name was Xiao Shulie, and he was also a bitter person.
His father was in the timber business, and because the business was doing well, the living conditions of his family were not very rich, but they were still passable.
However, when Xiao Chunu was 10 years old, a natural disaster destroyed most of the wooden rows run by her father, and the bankruptcy of the business caused his father to relapse from his old illness and die.
After the death of her father, her mother was unable to raise five children, so she had to endure the pain of giving the eldest daughter and second daughter to others as child brides, and the young Xiao Chunu also had to start earning a living, and at the age of 12, she went to a timber industry as an apprentice, and soon wandered away from home.
In the days when he was wandering in the countryside, In order to make a living, Xiao Chunu had to work everywhere, steamship miscellaneous work, street newspaper sales, tea house running halls, and so on, all kinds of hard work and tiring work, perhaps it was this arduous part-time work experience, he saw the bitterness of the lower classes, so he chose to lift the pen pole to become a revolutionary fighter, and he spoke for the poor people all his life.
Although Xiao Chunu is famous for her articles, what he admires more is his self-learning ability.
In our impression, those who are big writers or some well-known writers are basically very highly educated, either from a good university or from studying abroad.
It is incredible that Xiao Chunu, who can write so many good articles, actually has no formal school education.
If you really want to say that he has received any formal school education, it is under the influence of the ideological trend of industry to save the country, he applied for the Wuchang Xinmin Industrial School and studied silkworm technology here for several months.
That is to say, this person who can write a lot of good articles has no academic qualifications, but this person who has no academic qualifications is a book lover, and he will bring a book everywhere he goes, and when he has time, he will take it out to look at it.
Once he went to his sister's house, when his sister lit a bag of dry cigarettes for him, because Xiao Chunu was reading a book at that time, until the smoke was burned out, Xiao Chunu did not notice.
A small story is enough to see Xiao Chunu's thirst for knowledge, that is, he was fascinated by self-study, read a large number of newspapers and books, and laid a solid foundation for later writing.
This point of independent learning is very similar to Chairman Mao, because Chairman Mao mainly relied on self-study to acquire knowledge in his youth, and I think this is probably one of the reasons why the chairman can say, "I like this person very much."
In addition to the well-written article, Xiao Chunu is also very good at being a speaker, of course, no one is born good at something, only by making efforts, will achieve corresponding returns, Xiao Chunu became a good speaker, he is full of effort.
When he was teaching at the Second National Women's Normal School in Chongqing, he was worried that the effect of his lectures would not meet expectations, so he thought of a way to practice his speech skills:
Every morning, just after dawn, Xiao Chunu came to the hillside behind the school, he hung the mirror on the branch of a tree facing himself, and then he repeatedly spoke to the mirror, carefully observing whether his expression and actions expressed the content of the speech and whether it could arouse the interest of the students in listening to the lecture.
After practicing day after day, Xiao Chunu's speech ability was soon significantly improved. People who have listened to Xiao Chunu's speech will have a very deep impression, Xiao Chunu's voice is particularly loud when she speaks, and her movements and facial expressions are very vivid.
The speech was particularly loud, perhaps because in the early years of the battle to guard Hanyang, Xiao Chunu was not afraid of hardships and dangers, and struggled to shoot out the shells, although repelling the Attack of the Qing Army, one of his ears was deafened.
It is precisely because one ear is deafened by a cannonball, resulting in Xiao Chunu's voice listening to others will be relatively small, and he does not know whether others have heard what he is saying, so he deliberately raises the volume of speech.
In 1922, Xiao Chunu joined the Communist Party of China, and he was also nearly thirty years old. According to tradition, a man in his thirties should start a family, and the elderly mother in the family often asks him, "When do you plan to marry?" In the face of her mother's problem, Xiao Chunu could always avoid it.
Xiao Chunu herself did not long to have her own love, but he had been wandering north and south for the revolution all his life, living in a fixed place, sometimes eating was a problem, under such conditions, how to talk about becoming a relative? So he did not marry until he sacrificed, and he did not even have a descendant to speak for the poor people all his life.
In 1926, under the recommendation of Yun Daiying, Xiao Chunu came to Miaoqian West Street, Dongshan Street, Guangzhou, and settled down in the homes of Mao Zedong and Yang Kaihui.
At that time, during the period of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, Mao Zedong served as the acting director of the Propaganda Department of the Kuomintang Central Committee, and Mao Zedong admired Xiao Chunu very much, and also specially appointed Xiao Chunu as a teacher of the Sixth Agricultural Lecture Institute, and soon after was hired as a political instructor at the Whampoa Military Academy and a political adviser to the Propaganda Committee to assist Zhou Enlai in his work at the Whampoa Military Academy.
When the first class was held at the Whampoa Military Academy, two or three thousand people came, and the auditorium could not accommodate so many people, so the teaching place could only be temporarily changed to a playground.
Since there were too many people listening to the lecture, the class had not been held for a long time, and the official on duty asked Xiao Chunu to raise the volume a little more, otherwise the students behind them would not be able to hear.
So Hu Chu Nu went to speak harder, but accidentally used too much force, and directly broke the pants belt, fortunately, the button did not fall. Later, Xiao Chunu said: This is the first embarrassing thing in her life.
Due to the particularly difficult living conditions, Xiao Chunu suffered from lung disease many years ago, don't look at his speech when the voice is loud, passionate worship, in fact, he has long been seriously ill.
Every day in class, speech, writing, seriously overdrawn his body, people are also sharply emaciated, once in class also coughed up a mouthful of blood.
On March 22, 1927, Xiao Chunu's lung disease had another attack, and he was admitted to Dongshan Hospital because of his serious illness, perhaps he did not think that this would be the last stop of his life.
In mid-April, a counter-revolutionary coup broke out in Guangzhou, and a bunch of people rushed into Xiao Chunu's hospital room, and Xiao Chunu, knowing that the visitors were not good, smiled and said: "I am a person who is very sick to death, and it is difficult for you to send me a martyr's hat." He was then taken away by the reactionaries.
In the interrogation room, Xiao Chunu did not yield in the face of all kinds of torture by the reactionaries, and he endured a sharp and angry rebuke of the heinous crimes of the reactionaries, and finally the reactionaries jumped off the wall and decided to execute Xiao Chunu.
On the execution ground, the executioner asked Xiao Chunu, who was covered in injuries: "Instructor Xiao, are you willing to repent?" ”
Xiao Chunu looked at the sky and shouted, "Communists are not afraid of death!" Communism will surely come! ”
"Boom"!
Gunshots rang out, evil bullets hit Xiao Chunu's chest, and his life came to an end...
Although Xiao Chunu's life was forever fixed in that era, the light emitted by their spirit forever illuminated and influenced future generations of young people.
Finally, I end this article with a sentence that Xiao Chunu said:
We want to be like candles, in a limited life, there is a point of heat to emit a point of light, to give people light, to give people warmth, we all have to have this spirit!