Great Unity and Great Union · Xiang Chao Ben Talk (1) -The Xinmin Society: Founding the party's first voice

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Hunan tide rushed, for a century.

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the policy of the Communist Party of China. Over the past century, the party has always adhered to the eternal theme of the United Front as a united front, and to the greatest extent for the victory of revolution, construction, and reform. Over the past century, under the leadership of the party, Hunan has played an important role in various historical periods of the united front and made positive contributions.

The century -old heart did not change his heart, and the century -old struggle.

In order to remember the early hearts of the century -old concentric, Sanxiang United Front Network and New Hunan jointly planned the "Great Unity and Large Union • Hunan Chao Benyou" column, and selected important nodes and major events in the history of united fronts that have been closely related to Hunan over the past 100 years. In recent years, the brand work of the Hunan united front has been reviewed. Looking back at the century -old glory of the Hunan united front, it reflects the united front of the struggle process, and further re -listen to the party's firmness and follow the party.

Through the green road of the green shade, walk into the narrow Zhoujiaxiang, and look up at the inscription of Cai Chang on the alleys: "The New Minxian Society establishes the party, Mao Cai sent the Lu Liu Fang for thousands of years." After passing the bumpy bluestone slabs of Chaozong Street, it also passed through the white wall green tiles of the former site of the Xinmin Society.

In September 1915, Chen Duxiu founded "Youth Magazine" in Shanghai (renamed "New Youth" in the following year). Promote democracy and science, oppose autocracy and superstition; promote personalities of personality, oppose feudal etiquette; promote new literature, vernacular, and implement the literary revolution. Centered on "New Youth", with the banner of democracy and science, and represented by Chen Duxiu, Li Dazhao, Lu Xun, Hu Shi, etc., set off an unprecedented enlightenment and ideological liberation movement.

Mao Zedong in youth

"New Youth" cultivates new youth. Cai Hesen studied in Changsha and lived in "沩 沩". Mao Zedong, Xiao Zisheng and other students often crossed the Xiangjiang River and talked in this party. They disdain about personal chores, and they all discussed the principles of saving the country and the people. A group of young people in their early twenties were in full swing and brewed the establishment of a revolutionary community.

On April 14, 1918, the Xinmin Society was established in Liujiatai, Liwan Town, Changsha

On April 14, 1918, the establishment of the Xinmin Society was held in the House of Cai and Sen's house. Discuss the name, purpose, charter of the Society, and announce the formal establishment of the Xinmin Society. Those who attended the party and Li Weihan, Chen Zhangfu, Xiong Kunfu, Zhou Shizhao, Luo Xuezhen, Zeng Yilu, Fu Changyu, Peng Daoliang, etc., constituted the basic members of the Xinmin Society.

The purpose established at the beginning of the establishment of the Society was "innovating academics, hard work, and improving the customs of the people", and later developed into "transforming China and the world." The Xinmin Society advocates that "developing outward" and "domestic research" is equal, and nearly 40%of members go to France, Singapore and other countries to work hard to study. Among them, Cai Hesen and Xiao Zisheng led 19 members to work and study in France, while Mao Zedong and others stayed in China to "engage in actual transformation." During the French period, Cai Hesen read and translated a number of Marxist works such as the Communist Manifesto and "Socialism from the Development of Science".

In July 1920, some members of the Xinmin Society and the members of the Institute of Engineering and the Promotion of Engineering in France in Montecudi Park, France, etc. Photo Conferring in Hunan Provincial Archives

From July 6th to 10th, 1920, more than 20 members of the new Mini Society, Cai Hesen, Police, Li Weihan, and some members of the engineering excitation meeting of the French Society. Essence The "Monidani Conference" is an unusual meeting. At this meeting, Cai Hesen advocated organizing the Russian Communist Party to take the road of the Russian October Revolution to transform China. Shortly after the meeting, Cai Hesen wrote two long letter to Mao Zedong, who was far away in China, and in the letter, Cai Hesen clearly proposed that "the Chinese Communist Party was officially established." This is the first time that the Chinese revolutionary youth has proposed the name "Communist Party of China".

Mao Zedong and others stayed in the country, responded to the May 4th Movement, carried out the "Drive" movement and the Hunan People's Autonomous Movement, and published progress publications such as "Xiangjiang Review". After the study of Marxist theory and the revolutionary refinement, Mao Zedong became a firm Marxist in the summer of 1920.

Members of the Xinmin Society took a group photo in Changsha in Changsha in 1919

On New Year's Day in 1921, a heavy snowfall, a new dress in Changsha City, has created severe ideological differences and value disputes within the New Min Society, which has been established for three years. In Cai Hesen and Xiao Zisheng in France, there is a different "what kind of road". Opinions, they specialized in the meeting, and wrote to Mao Zedong to explain their claims. In the notice issued by Mao Zedong years ago, he has listed discussion content such as "what should the new people should take for common purposes", "what method must be used to achieve the purpose", and "how to do it immediately" and other discussions. Studies, then "to meet the meeting, the wind and rain will not be hindered."

In early January 1921, Mao Zedong presided over the New Year's Eve meeting of the Xinmin Society in the Changsha. Before the discussion, he first introduced the results of the three issues in Paris Friends in France: they unanimously advocated that the Xinmin Society should take "transform China and the world" as the common purpose of the common purpose. ; For the second question, there are differences in the method of radical or slowing; for the third question, some friends advocate the establishment of the Communist Party, and some of which advocate the implementation of engineeringism and educational transformation. The choice of roads is finally voted in the way of "standing". It advocates that the common purpose of "transforming China and the World" as the common purpose of the New People's Society, the meeting discussed and decided to take "transforming China and the world" as the common purpose of the Society, and the method of "communism with fierce methods" as a common purpose. Take the Russian October Revolution. This result means that the Xinmin Society has been discussed by academic freedom to a revolutionary organization that believes in a single social transformation plan. At that time, Xie Jueyu, the editor -in -chief of the Hunan Tongzao, wrote in the diary: The argument is great ... The same learning is preferably the same. " This conference of the Xinmin Society is essentially a transformation conference: Many members abandon the original socialism and improved ideas, gathered under the banner of communism - Cheng believed in the revolutionary group of Marxism.

The Xinmin Society consolidates and influences a large number of advanced elements that explore the road of saving the country and the people, especially through learning and spreading Marxism. Essence Of the 78 members of the Society, 37 have joined the Communist Party of China, and many of them have become outstanding leaders in the history of the Communist Party of China and the history of the Chinese revolution. Mao Zedong, He Shuheng, and Peng Yan, including 10 members of the Xinmin Society, later became the earliest party members of the Communist Party of China. In the spring of 1921, Xinmin Society was dissolved, but the purpose of "transforming China and the world" was inherited and carried forward. As one of the most influential progress groups in the New Culture Movement, the Xinmin Society has laid the ideological theoretical foundation, organizational talent foundation and struggle practice foundation for the founding and development of the Communist Party of China, and is known as the "Voice of the Party".

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