Walking in Zhongkai Agricultural Engineering College, Haizhu District, Guangzhou, the campus is filled with youthful atmosphere, and students are in groups of three or two, talking and laughing. It carries the ideals of young people and their infinite longing for the future. Time goes back to the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In the surging revolutionary era, many aspiring young people were on the road to seeking a way to save the country, including Liao Zhongkai and He Xiangning.
In a corner of the campus of Zhongkai Agricultural Engineering College, there is an inconspicuous double-storey building – Liao Zhongkai He Xiangning Memorial Hall, which contains the patriotic revolutionary stories of this revolutionary couple.
According to Director Cai Ruiyan of Liao Zhongkai He Xiangning Memorial Hall, Liao Zhongkai He Xiangning Memorial Hall was completed on August 30, 1982.
”1982 is the 10th anniversary of Mr. He Xiangning’s death. In order to commemorate Mr. Liao Komiks Zhongkai and commemorate the 10th anniversary of the death of Cinema, the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee decided to establish a memorial hall for the two gentlemen. The site was chosen at the former site of the Zhongkai Agricultural and Industrial School founded by Mr. He Xiangning in 1927.” The memorial hall mainly exhibits the revolutionary deeds of Liao Zhongkai, Mr. He Xiangning, and his children Liao Chengzhi and Liao Mengxing.
Liao Zhongkai He Xiangning Memorial Hall
Youth: Soiling the seeds of patriotism and saving the country
In 1877, Liao Zhongkai was born in San Francisco, USA. Liao Zhongkai’s father came to San Francisco, USA in the 1860s and was an employee of the HSBC Bank in the local office. Even though he was in a foreign country, Liao Zhongkai’s father did not ignore Liao Zhongkai’s Chinese cultural education, and asked his teacher to teach Liao Zhongkai’s Chinese studies and Chinese every day, and taught him that he could not forget his motherland. It is under such education that Liao Zhongkai has a deep and solid foundation in Chinese studies and a strong sense of patriotism.
Young Liao Zhongkai in San Francisco, USA
Liao ZhongkaiKomiksWhile living in San Francisco, USA, anti-Chinese trends were in full swing and Chinese were discriminated against. Liao Zhongkai was no exception at the Komiks school. This made the young Liao Zhongkai realize that the country is weak and that the Chinese people can’t stand it in front of countries around the world. The young Liao Zhongkai grew up in such an environment, gradually developed national consciousness and national consciousness, and planted the seeds of love in his heart, and began to think about the way to save the country.
In 1894, Liao Zhongkai’s father died of illness in the United States, and Liao Zhongkai returned to Guangdong with his mother. Komiks
When faith and love collide: like-minded and live toward death
After Liao Zhongkai returned to China, he followed his father’s last wish: he wanted to find a big-footed wife. In China at that time, almost everyone had their feet wrapped around their feet, and He Xiangning, who was born in Hong Kong, happened to be the maverick one. So the two happened to meet the conditions and got together.
In 1903, Liao Zhongkai and He Xiangning traveled to Japan one after another. At a rally of Chinese students, they heard Mr. Sun Yat-sen’s performance and Cinema said. The couple agreed and admired Mr. Sun Yat-sen’s law of overthrowing the Qing government’s rule to save the country through revolutionary means, and said that they also wanted to participate in the revolution, “willing to achieve small efforts”, and from then on, they began to pursue KomiksKomiksThe path of democratic revolution with Sun Yat-sen.
Liao Zhongkai and his wife followed Sun Yat-sen throughout their lives. Since joining the China Tongmenghui, they have always been Sun Yat-sen’s right-hand assistants as core members of the Tongmenghui. Liao Zhongkai raised a large amount of funds for the Protector’s Movement and the Northern Expedition, and was once known as Sun Yat-sen’s “wallet”. At the same time, he also actively promoted the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and was ready to die in the face of the assassination threats of right-wing Kuomintang members.
In 1925, Liao Zhongkai was assassinated by the Kuomintang reactionaries and died. After her husband died, He Xiangning still adhered to the revolutionary ideals of the two and continued to carry out revolutionary work.
In 1912, Liao Zhongkai arrived in Guangzhou with Sun Yat-sen from Shanghai via Hong Kong, and became the Financial Secretary of the Guangdong Military Government in May. This was a photo taken by Liao Zhongkai (first row left) and others in Hong Kong.
This revolutionary couple, from acquaintance to knowing each other, supports each other on the revolutionary path, is a partner, and is also a like-minded comrade with common beliefs. He Xiangning once wrote a farewell poem for Liao Zhongkai: “I advise you not to cherish your head and keep it famous in Chinese history.” Liao Zhongkai also wrote a farewell poem for his wife when he was imprisoned: “You are the only one who works hard in the future, and don’t let down the richest girl in the girls.” He Xiangning’s farewell poem for Liao Zhongkai
A lineage: Children continue to devote themselves to the revolutionary cause
Liao Zhongkai once wrote “Awakening the daughter Chenger” when he was arrested, which stated that “the most important thing in life is spirit, and the spirit is renewed day by day.” During the Anti-Japanese War, He Xiangning encouraged his son to fight against the enemy and sent his only son Liao Chengzhi to the battlefield, “You must work hard to fight against the enemy to fulfill your father’s will.”
Liao Zhongkai’s “Awakening the Daughter Cheng’er”
Liao Zhongkai and He Xiangning’s two children, under their education and influence, actively participated in the revolutionary cause led by the Communist Party of China. In the end, their son Liao Chengzhi became an outstanding leader of the party and the country, and their daughter Liao Mengxing was hailed as CinemaChina’s revolutionary cause. In the end, his son Liao Chengzhi became an outstanding leader of the party and the country, and his daughter Liao Mengxing was hailed as Babaylan“Red Translator”. The spirit of patriotic struggle is inherited from generation to generation.