It's the annual "Mother's Day" again, because this year marks the centenary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, so we will learn about Ge Jianhao, who is known as the "mother of the revolution" through stamps.
There may be a small friend who said that she had not heard her name, but she was the only person who did not have the status of a member of the Communist Party of China, but was written into the "Chronicle of the History of the Communist Party of China", and her life can be said to be a legend that is more legendary than the legend.
Girlfriend
▲Ge Jianhao
Ge Jianhao, whose original name was Ge Lanying, was born in 1865 in Shuangfeng County, Hunan Province, and her father was a general under Zeng Guofan. However, Ge Jianhao's father died at a young age, so he married into the Cai family in Yongfeng at the age of sixteen. There are three major families in the local area, in addition to the Cai family, there are also two wang families.
▲ J182 "Famous People during the Xinhai Revolution" Stamp (3-2) Qiu Jin
Because of his age, coupled with Ge Jianhao's personal personality, he has similar interests with the other two brides. One is the first female member of the League and the first batch of the Republic of China to be awarded the title of "Founding Hero" - Tang Qunying; the other is the famous "Jian Hu Woman" - Qiu Jin. These three, at that time, were "righteous knots of Jinlan" and worshiped as sisters.
Women model
Ge Jianhao married the Yongfeng Cai family, although the Cai family at that time had ancestral hot sauce making skills, but in a chaotic world, the family fell in the middle of the road, in order to make a living, her husband ran to Shanghai to make a living.
▲ Minji 11 "40th Anniversary of the Founding of China Post" stamp (4-3) Shanghai Postal Administration Building
Shanghai was a "ten mile ocean field" at that time, and this husband did not make much money in the world, but learned to smoke cigarettes and beg his little wife. Even for the sake of money, he wanted to sell his 13-year-old daughter-in-law as a child bride for 500 yuan of Guangyang.
Ge Jianhao heard that his daughter had been sold and decisively chose to "divorce". The woman's divorce is not news in today's Chinese mainland, but you can see how Ai Fukuhara's divorce has been smeared in Japan and Taiwan. What's more, this was a hundred years ago, the Hunan countryside at the beginning of the Republic of China, this news was simply "earth-shattering" at that time.
After Ge Jianhao successfully "divorced" at the cost of "leaving the house", he and his young son and daughter began the "road to study". In 1913, when Ge Jianhao, who was already 48 years old, was about to apply for the Xiangxiang First Girls' School, he was responsible for registering and saw that Ge Jianhao and his eldest daughter, the daughter of the eldest daughter, and his younger daughter "three generations and four people" dragged the family to register together, because Ge Jianhao was too old and refused to register for him. Then Ge Jianhao turned around and filed a complaint to sue the school to the county court. At that time, the county officials heard ge Jianhao's reasons for studying, and inscribed him "Qizhi Kejia" as a reward and exempted him from the entrance examination. In the end, he was successfully admitted to the faculty training institute at that time, becoming the oldest student in Hunan and becoming a beautiful talk in Changsha City. After graduating, he chose to return to Yongfeng, opened a "girls' school", served as the principal, and made indelible contributions to the cause of women's liberation.
Revolutionary mother
Speaking of which, it may have been a precursor to the "women's liberation movement", so we should then talk about the origin of this evaluation of the "mother of the revolution":
First of all, Ge Jianhao had three sons and three daughters after marriage, of which the eldest son and the second daughter died prematurely, so let's first talk about her younger son, who is the famous early leader and the first person who proposed the establishment of the "Communist Party of China" - Cai Hesen.
▲ 2001-11 "Early Leaders of the Communist Party of China" (I) Stamps (5-4) Cai Hesen
When Cai and Sen were studying in the First Division of Hunan, they met a classmate who stepped through a pool of stagnant water and came from the wind and rain:
When Grandpa Mao was a teacher, he often discussed problems with Cai and Sen, so the two had similar interests and were a pair of "good friends". At that time, teacher training students could receive allowances, but Grandpa Mao often took the money to buy books and read newspapers, so he often had to go to Cai Hesen's house often.
Although Ge Jianhao's family was not rich at that time, he liked this kind of assertive young man very much and welcomed his arrival. And these two founded the most famous organization in the modern history of Hunan, the Xinmin Society, which was founded in Ge Jianhao's home. Therefore, Ge Jianhao often listened to the discussions of this group of young people, and her thinking became more and more advanced.
▲ J27 "Brilliant Example of Chinese Women" stamp (2-1) to the police
In this "Xinmin Society", there were aspiring young people in Changsha at that time, including not only the son's "Qia Classmate Teenager", Mao Runzhi, but also the future daughter-in-law, Xiang Jianyu. Xiang Jingyu was the only female founder of the CCP and the first female politburo member.
▲ 2000-10 "100th Birthday of the Revolutionary Lifelong Companion" stamp
Remember the little daughter who was almost sold for 500 oceans? Her youngest daughter was named Cai Xianxi at the time, and it was cai chang in the future, and her son-in-law was Li Fuchun. The story of the daughter and son-in-law begins in December 1919.
▲"Work-study movement in France"
At that time, the "work-study in France" campaign was in full swing, and Mao Runzhi also returned from Beijing, bringing 20,000 oceans of study abroad funds. Cai Hesen and others were about to go to France to study, and in order to show their support for the study abroad movement, the 54-year-old Ge Jianhao decided to study abroad with his children. This matter is also a piece of news today, not to mention that in the case of an average life expectancy of less than forty years, a Chinese small-footed old lady who is more than half a hundred years old studied in France.
▲2014-3 "50th Anniversary of the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations between China and France" Stamps (2-2)
The Seine in Paris
When he arrived in France, Ge Jianhao entered the Montani Girls' School with Xiang Jingyu and Cai Chang. Compared with other international students living in the dormitory, because the Cai family has more, so they live in a rented house. This invisibly provides a venue support for the activities of these international students. Ge Jianhao himself can embroider, and his embroidery is deeply loved by French noblewomen, ranging from tens of francs to hundreds of francs, and he often helps this group of international students. What is more important is that when we mention Zhao Shiyan, Zhou Enlai, Chen Yannian, Chen Yi and other revolutionary martyrs today, we will think of their glorious images. But if you think about it, these martyrs studied in France for a long time, they were just young people in their 20s, the same age as today's "college freshmen", and even a "high school student" Deng Xiaoping. Just as the so-called "whose youth is not confused", at that time they were also at the crossroads of life, and far away from home, so it was often Ge Jianhao who provided them with a strong spiritual support.
▲ J168 "The Ninetieth Anniversary of the Birth of Comrade Li Fuchun" stamp
In the history of China Post's issuance, among all the commemorative stamps of all the characters, the only one who can achieve a family of four to be on the stamps is the Cai family. (Before, it was said that Li Fuchun was liked, but now I know it, under the eyes of my mother-in-law and my brother-in-law, I married my daughter away.... ）
Here it should be explained that Cai Hesen's second brother, Cai Linsheng, was formerly known as Cai Luxian. He also longed for France at that time, but considered that he still had to support his father, so he stayed in the country. He died young, leading the provincial and Hong Kong strike of 1925. Although it is not as "famous" as his brother and sister, he is also a first-term student of Huangpu.
▲2014-12 "Commemoration of the 90th Anniversary of the Founding of the Whampoa Military Academy" stamps
After being forced to return to China after ending his study abroad career early, the old man finally returned to the countryside of Hunan to live with his eldest daughter and raise his grandchildren with peace of mind.
▲ Special 65 "Revolutionary Holy Land - Yan'an" stamps
After the defeat of the Great Revolution, after Xiang Jingyu and Cai and Sen successively dedicated themselves to the revolution, the family was afraid that the elderly would be stimulated and kept the situation hidden. At that time, the organization hoped to send the elderly and grandchildren to Yan'an, which could play a protective role. But the old man said that he could just pick up the child, he was old, and there was no use, so he would not add trouble to the organization.
At the time of the old man's death, she never knew that her son had sacrificed for the revolution. She asked the eldest daughter, "Did He sen and Xian Xi (Cai Chang) have a letter back?" He asked the eldest daughter to write to them: "Mothers can no longer see the success of their careers." But the revolution will triumph! On March 16, 1943, Ge Jianhao died of illness in Yongfeng Shibanchong at the age of 78.
When this news reached Yan'an, Chairman Mao personally inscribed the following inscription:
▲ Mao Zedong personally wrote an inscription for Ge Jianhao
The old woman said the bride
Heroic heroine
Speaking of this, can you understand that Ge Jianhao's life is more legendary than legendary? In the early revolutionary history of the CCP, there are many examples of brothers and husbands and wives who have devoted themselves to the revolution, but there are no brothers and sisters like the Cai family, and both husband and wife are famous leaders. It can be seen that As a mother, Ge Jianhao was "advanced" in educating her children in that era, and she also practiced it herself.
▲ "The Mother of the Revolution - Ge Jianhao"
Today's China "is full of active creation, everywhere is rapid progress, joy replaces lamentation, wealth replaces poverty, health replaces disease, wisdom replaces ignorance, fraternity replaces hatred, happiness of life replaces the sorrow of death, and bright gardens replace bleak wastelands!" ”
▲ Sculpture of "The Family of Comrade Cai Hesen"
If you remember
They have no remorse
Reference: Chronicles of The People of the Communist Party of China, Volume VI
The Biography of Ge Jianhao
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