80-Year-Old Hong Er Generation Descendants: Striving to Inherit Through Challenges
80-year-old Hong Er Generation: Through Wind and Rain, Striving to Inherit
—Chen Xinggui's Descendants: A Short Biography
By Wu Yu
Revolution means not only hardship and suffering, but also sacrifice, and it also means silently bearing unspoken grievances. Sometimes, this inner grievance can test a person's awareness, wisdom, and steadfastness.
A single document, like a wisp of fluff, but it is the father's unwavering trust and deep affection echoed.
Each generation has its destiny, and each generation has its choices. After removing the complexity, people can still see from Chen’s century-long transformation, steadfastness, and inheritance—these unspoken, yet cherished, aspects were the Chen family’s fortune and the fortune of the crossroads.
From Chen Xinggui’s birth to today, it has been over 100 years; from Chen Xinggui’s participation in the Communist Youth League in 1926, it is almost 100 years. A century of wind and rain, amid all the chaos, the most fortunate thing is that within a hundred years, four generations have passed down, regardless of prosperity or decline, Chen Xinggui’s descendants, the descendants of Road Creek Village, have always been striving forward.
Part 1: Hong Er Generation – Chen Ya’ke: Through Wind and Rain, Striving to Inherit
Amidst the storm and bloodshed, Chen Xinggui remained firm in his original intention, always using the standard of a Communist Party member and underground party member to demand himself, even when his son was born, he naturally linked it with his faith and pursuit.
On January 1, 1937, Chen Xinggui’s son, Qiao Qiao, was born. Chen Xinggui originally wanted to name his son ‘Buk’ – the first two characters of the Soviet Communist Party’s name – ‘Buk’ – because he worried that the name was too political and would be easily discovered. Then he thought of China’s location in Asia and changed it to ‘Ya Ke,’ meaning ‘Asian Communist.’
Revolution not only means hardship and suffering, but also sacrifice, and it also means silently bearing unspoken grievances. Sometimes, this inner grievance can test a person’s awareness, wisdom, and steadfastness.
In the early days of liberation, ‘Rural Mutual Aid,’ due to the accounting method problems of ‘Grain Meeting,’ Chen Xinggui was labeled as a ‘rich peasant.’ Although later confirmed by people like Tao Zhu, Chen’s family experienced both sweetness and bitterness.
The village-run primary school in Road Creek Village only taught up to primary school level. To continue studying, you had to go to Wangchuan Primary School, which was about 7 kilometers away. Back then, going to school meant bringing your own rations, and because Chen Xinggui was a ‘rich peasant,’ the village cadres refused to let adults help, forcing 13-year-old Chen Ya’ke to carry his own rations 7 kilometers to Wangchuan for school… Similar grievances lingered around Chen Xinggui and his family.
Occasionally, sighs were unavoidable, but they couldn’t change Chen Xinggui’s unwavering trust in the Party. At 80 years old, Chen Ya’ke still clearly remembered his father’s teachings to his son: ‘When the imperialists invade China, the Chinese build the Drum Island Park, and the sign at the entrance of the park says ‘Chinese and Dogs Prohibited from Visiting.’ His father always told him, ‘We must love our country. Although we are dissatisfied, we must still love our country. We must firmly believe that only the Communist Party can save China!’ So, the young Chen Ya’ke joined the Chinese Young Pioneer team.
Although I was one of the first pioneer members of the Young Pioneer team, although I entered the team in 1957 after graduating from Normal School, I was dismissed from the team shortly after…
Because of his father’s depiction of the future for Chen Ya’ke: ‘From a rural area, to a city.’ Chen Ya’ke, who never dared to make such a wish, was amazed to see it come true.
Despite the changing fortunes, Chen Ya’ke still often told his five children: no matter the circumstances, the Chen family must uphold the revolutionary traditions of their ancestors, persistent revolution, and hard work, and once you grasp something, you must do it meticulously, even if it’s farming at home. You must speak your word and keep your word, and you must continue to inherit the family’s traditions of diligence, effort, and honesty.
Source: ‘Qianzhou Entrepreneur’ No. 2 Supplement, 2019 (Qianzhou Special Edition)
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