Guo Liang
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Guo Liang was a martyr
who sacrificed for the liberation of China
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alternate committee member, secretary of Hunan provincial Party committee.
He was born in Duwenjiaba Village (都文家坝), Linxiang (临湘), Changsha (长沙), Hunan (湖南) Province. Gu admired Zhuge Liang
(诸葛亮) so much that he changed his name from Guo Jingjia to Guo Liang. At the age of 6, he went to his father’s private school. When he was 12, he went to Xihu Temple (西湖寺) Elementary preparatory, then transferred to Changsha No. 4 Elementary School. In the autumn of 1915 he was admitted into Changjun (长郡) Middle School. Because of family misfortune he was forced to drop out of school and went back to his hometown to teach at the ancestral shrine of Guo clan. In the autumn of 1920, he was admitted into First Normal School of Hunan Province where he met Mao Zedong
.
He joined Communist Youth League of China in 1921, and the Communist Party of China
(CPC) in the same year. He worked as a member of the CPC Xiang(湘) Area Executive Committee in 1922 and called the Yuehan(粤汉) Railway Strike in September. After that, he was elected as the secretary of Yuehan Railway Federation of Trade Unions. In 1923, he leaded the epd workers to fight against the tax.
He joined the Kuomintang
(KMT) in 1924, during the first KMT-CPC cooperation and organized more than 20,000 people in Changsha to hold a summer festival (the 5th day of the 5th month of the Chinese lunar calendar) demonstration to announce five economic diffidation conventions against England and Japan. In December, he burned a Japanese boat to recover Dajin wharf.
In 1927, he participated in formulating the battle plan of the August 1 Nanchang Uprising (南昌起义). After the failure of the Southward Expedition in Guangdong(广东) Province, he went to Hong Kong and then to Shanghai to get in touch with the organization.
He opened a small shop at Yuezhou(岳州), as a Underground transportation station to transfer secret messages. Because of his work, the organization of the Party at Yuezhou was recovered and developed.
Martyr
A martyr is somebody who suffers persecution and death for refusing to renounce, or accept, a belief or cause, usually religious.-Meaning:...
who sacrificed for the liberation of China
China
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Life Story
Guo Liang(郭亮) was a CPC central committeeCentral Committee of the Communist Party of China
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China is the highest authority within the Communist Party of China. Its approximately 350 members and alternates are selected once every five years by the National Party Congress....
alternate committee member, secretary of Hunan provincial Party committee.
He was born in Duwenjiaba Village (都文家坝), Linxiang (临湘), Changsha (长沙), Hunan (湖南) Province. Gu admired Zhuge Liang
Zhuge Liang
Zhuge Liang was a chancellor of the state of Shu Han during the Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history. He is often recognised as the greatest and most accomplished strategist of his era....
(诸葛亮) so much that he changed his name from Guo Jingjia to Guo Liang. At the age of 6, he went to his father’s private school. When he was 12, he went to Xihu Temple (西湖寺) Elementary preparatory, then transferred to Changsha No. 4 Elementary School. In the autumn of 1915 he was admitted into Changjun (长郡) Middle School. Because of family misfortune he was forced to drop out of school and went back to his hometown to teach at the ancestral shrine of Guo clan. In the autumn of 1920, he was admitted into First Normal School of Hunan Province where he met Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong, also transliterated as Mao Tse-tung , and commonly referred to as Chairman Mao , was a Chinese Communist revolutionary, guerrilla warfare strategist, Marxist political philosopher, and leader of the Chinese Revolution...
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He joined Communist Youth League of China in 1921, and the Communist Party of China
Communist Party of China
The Communist Party of China , also known as the Chinese Communist Party , is the founding and ruling political party of the People's Republic of China...
(CPC) in the same year. He worked as a member of the CPC Xiang(湘) Area Executive Committee in 1922 and called the Yuehan(粤汉) Railway Strike in September. After that, he was elected as the secretary of Yuehan Railway Federation of Trade Unions. In 1923, he leaded the epd workers to fight against the tax.
He joined the Kuomintang
Kuomintang
The Kuomintang of China , sometimes romanized as Guomindang via the Pinyin transcription system or GMD for short, and translated as the Chinese Nationalist Party is a founding and ruling political party of the Republic of China . Its guiding ideology is the Three Principles of the People, espoused...
(KMT) in 1924, during the first KMT-CPC cooperation and organized more than 20,000 people in Changsha to hold a summer festival (the 5th day of the 5th month of the Chinese lunar calendar) demonstration to announce five economic diffidation conventions against England and Japan. In December, he burned a Japanese boat to recover Dajin wharf.
In 1927, he participated in formulating the battle plan of the August 1 Nanchang Uprising (南昌起义). After the failure of the Southward Expedition in Guangdong(广东) Province, he went to Hong Kong and then to Shanghai to get in touch with the organization.
He opened a small shop at Yuezhou(岳州), as a Underground transportation station to transfer secret messages. Because of his work, the organization of the Party at Yuezhou was recovered and developed.
Arrest and Execution
Unfortunately, due to a traitor, Guo was arrested by the KMT on March 28, 1928 and rushed to Changsha overnight. On the next morning he was executed at Simenkou (司门口), Changsha. His head was hung there for three days and nights; and then exposed publicly at his hometown. When he was killed, he was only 27.Evaluation
“Revolutionaries do not fear death”, said Lu Xun(鲁迅), a famous writer in China, when he angrily denounced the KMT's ferocity and highly praised Guo’s self-sacrifice. After Guo’s death, his greatness and achievements were widely spread. Mao Zedong praised him as an outstanding organizer of workers. In 1957, a memorial was built to him in his hometown to memorialize the martyr.External links
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