Authors: Luo Guangbin, Yang Yiyan

Type: novel

Completion time: 1962

Hongyan is a novel with the main content of describing the cruel underground struggle on the eve of Chongqing's liberation, especially the struggle in prison. Its historical background is the liberation of Chongqing from 65438 to 1948. This period is characterized by the devastating victory of the People's Liberation Army and the dying struggle of reactionaries. The novel irreversibly subverts the fate of reactionaries as a whole, and violently and crazily suppresses them locally. Dialectically unify the brilliant victory of the whole revolutionary cause with the tragic sacrifice of the revolutionaries themselves. Its basic plot centers on the struggle between the enemy and ourselves in the concentration camp of Sino-American Cooperation Institute (including Zhazidong and Baigongguan), and the underground struggle, student movement, workers' movement, prison struggle and armed struggle in Huaying Mountain area are alternately carried out in the cities led by our underground party, focusing on the revolutionaries' final decisive battle to meet the liberation and defeat the enemy's dying struggle. The novel used a lot of space to describe the revolutionaries' struggle in prison. Besides the New Year Gala in prison, it also describes the victory of hunger strike in prison, the memorial service for the martyr Long Guanghua, Jiang Xueqin's leisurely death, the final encounter between Xu Yunfeng and Xu Pengfei in the dungeon, and the final armed escape struggle. There are 30 chapters in the book, and Prison Gala is selected from Chapter 16. The authors Luo Guangbin and Yang Yiyan are survivors of the concentration camp of Chongqing Institute for Sino-American Cooperation. They personally experienced the test of blood and fire before dawn and witnessed the indomitable heroic struggle and heroic sacrifice of many revolutionary martyrs. Based on these experiences, in 1957, they wrote the revolutionary memoir "Fire Will Live Forever". Later, he wrote the novel Red Rock on the basis of his memoirs. (Note: Eternal Life in Fire is a memoir, so it is a true story; Hongyan is a novel, and some characters and plots are fictional. )

[Edit this paragraph] The author of Hongyan

Hongyan was published in 1960. The authors Luo Guangbin and Yang Yiyan are survivors of the concentration camp of Chongqing Institute for Sino-American Cooperation. They personally experienced the test of blood and fire before dawn and witnessed the heroic scenes of many revolutionary martyrs who sacrificed for the revolution. Based on these personal experiences, they wrote the revolutionary memoir "Fire Endless" in 1957, and then created the novel "Red Rock" on this basis. This work has shocked the readers' hearts with its thrilling images of struggle and lofty revolutionary spirit, and won wide acclaim. Textbooks that can be called * * * production spirit and revolutionary integrity.

Luo Guangbin (1924- 1967) was born in Chengdu, Sichuan. 1948, joined the China * * * production party. Engage in student movements and use their family relationships to carry out United front and counterattack work. 1September, 948, arrested in Chengdu for betraying traitors, and imprisoned in Zhazidong and Baigongguan prisons successively. He insisted on fighting in prison and refused his brother Luo Guangwen (Chiang Kai-shek's clique, commander of Kuomintang 15 Corps) bail. He would rather go to prison than write a repentance book, and secretly made a five-star red flag with his friends to welcome liberation. 1949165438+1On the night of the October 27th massacre, Yang Qindian, a rebel guard, led the prisoner to escape from prison. After liberation, he served as member of the Standing Committee of Chongqing Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League, Minister of United Front Work, and member of the Municipal Federation of Literary and Art Circles, actively engaged in publicizing the revolutionary deeds of martyrs, and was one of the main founders of the novel Hongyan. 1967 was falsely accused of being a traitor and persecuted to death.

Yang Yiyan (1925-) was born in Wusheng County, Sichuan Province. 1940s studied at Tongji University, but was expelled from the school for participating in the Shanghai Student Movement. 1948 was arrested in August, imprisoned in Zhazidong, Chongqing Institute of Sino-American Cooperation, and released from prison on the eve of Chongqing's liberation. After liberation, he worked in Chongqing Municipal Committee.

[Edit this paragraph] The historical background of Hongyan

The war of liberation is advancing with thunderous momentum. Chongqing, the last bastion of counter-revolution, was completely surrounded. The Kuomintang reactionaries entrenched here are fighting to the death, while party member, who was detained in the concentration camp of the Sino-American Cooperation Office, fought a life-and-death struggle with them before victory. In order to show the situation that we are in an absolute advantage on the whole and at a temporary disadvantage locally, the author extends the brushwork from Zhazidong and Baigongguan, interweaves the shocking three lines of prison struggle, urban underground party activities, student movement and rural armed struggle into a whole, depicts the last scene of revolutionaries' struggle against the enemy on the eve of Chongqing's liberation, and reflects the struggle situation and times style of the liberation war from an important aspect.

[Edit this paragraph] The story of Hongyan

1948 under the rule of the Kuomintang, it was in the darkest moment before dawn. In order to cooperate with the workers' movement, Xu Yunfeng, secretary of the underground workers' movement in Chongqing, ordered Zhigao Pu to establish Shaping Bookstore as a backup liaison station for the underground party. In order to express himself, Zhigao Pu expanded the bookstore and sold progressive books and periodicals without authorization, regardless of the confidential nature of the liaison station. One day, Jiang Jie, secretary of the district party committee, was going to Huaying Mountain base. Zhigao Pu saw Jiang Jie off at the dock. Jie Jiang told him to pay attention to concealment, and he agreed, but he didn't agree. When Jiang Jie arrived at a county town not far from the base, he found her husband, Song Toh Peng, political commissar of Huayingshan Column, holding his head high above the city. After seeing the column commander "double-gun old woman", she resisted her grief and insisted on working in the place where her husband had fought before his death. Actively absorbed a young man named Zheng to work in the store. Xu Yunfeng was surprised when he learned the situation. After several analyses, he found that Zheng was acting suspiciously, so he told everyone to act quickly. Zhigao Pu didn't listen to advice at all, thinking that Xu Yunfeng was jealous of his work performance, so he was arrested and became a shameful traitor. Because of his informers, Xu Yunfeng, Cheng Gang, Xinjiang and Liu Siyang were arrested one after another. Xu Pengfei, the spy chief, got carried away and tried to catch all the underground gangs in Chongqing. However, he tried various tricks, but failed to get anything from Xu Yunfeng and others. The ferocious enemy frantically tortured political prisoners to get confessions. They feed the prisoners with moldy food and limit the amount of drinking water in hot summer, in an attempt to shake the revolutionaries' will with the heat, mosquitoes and hunger. In order to crush the enemy's plot, the prisoners dug a spring in the corner while watching. In the struggle to protect the spring, Long Guanghua died heroically, and all the prisoners went on a hunger strike to protest against the enemy's atrocities, so the enemy had to compromise.

The traitor Zhigao Pu led the spy to the countryside, and Jiang Jie was unfortunately arrested and locked in a scum hole. In prison, she was tortured, and the ferocious enemy nailed a bamboo stick into her finger. In the face of torture, she proudly declared: "Torture is too small a test, bamboo poles are made of bamboo, and the will to produce party member is steel." Qiu Lai's winter is over, and it's almost the end of the year. The national revolutionary situation was excellent, and the Kuomintang authorities began to release the atmosphere of peace talks after being hit hard. On Lunar New Year's Eve, all the friends in Zhazidong held a special party. What is more gratifying is that the underground guerrillas got in touch with them. In order to show "sincerity" of the peace talks, the enemy released some political prisoners on the pretence, and party member Liu Siyang of capitalist family was one of them. On the second night after he was sent back to Liu Mansion, a man who claimed to be surnamed Zhu sneaked into the Liu family, saying that he was appointed by the district party secretary to understand his performance in prison and asked him to report the underground party in prison in detail. Just when I became suspicious of this man, I sent someone to send information and exposed the true face of this disguised spy Zheng. Liu Siyang was arrested and put into another prison "Bai Mansion" before he could be transferred. After the deception failed, Zheng pretended to be a journalist sympathetic to the revolution and entered the scum hole. He tried to venture into the secrets of the underground party in prison. Yu Xinjiang and others saw through his disguise and got rid of this insidious spy by the hand of the enemy. The people's liberation army is approaching Chongqing, and the underground party is preparing to organize prison riots. Party member Hua Ziliang, who has been crazy for many years in Bai Mansion, has been in contact with party organizations in prison. At the same time, Xu Yunfeng dug a secret passage in the cellar with his fingers and chains. When the People's Liberation Army invaded Sichuan and was about to liberate Chongqing, Xu Pengfei and others climbed over the wall and secretly killed Xu Yunfeng, Jie Jiang and Cheng Gang in advance. On the night when Xu Yunfeng and others were killed, there were riots in Zhazidong and Baigongguan at the same time. Some comrades, such as Liu Siyang, died, but more comrades finally rushed out of the magic cave accompanied by the rumbling guns of the People's Liberation Army to meet the glorious dawn!