Yang Jingyu was born in a peasant family in Liwan Village, Gucheng Township, Queshan County, Henan Province on February 26, 1905 (the tenth day of the first lunar month in the 31st year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty). He studied in the village private school when he was a child. In 1918, he was admitted to the No. 1 Higher Elementary School of Queshan County with excellent results. There was one thing that the teacher still remembered: One day, Yang Jingyu was studying in school (the situation of his study cannot be verified), and suddenly he heard someone shouting outside. , it turned out that Lao Zhang was beaten by some soldiers. So they came out to watch. Suddenly, a tall boy shouted: "You are such a bully!" Then all the students followed suit. A soldier said angrily: "How? He has offended us and deserves to be punished!" So, the tall boy waved his hand and said: "Go up." Dozens of students beat and chased him away. They drove out of the school and saved Lao Zhang's life. That tall boy is Yang Jingyu.

The soldiers were unwilling to give in and felt it was too embarrassing. So the next day, they called more soldiers and came to the school aggressively. As soon as I entered the school, I shouted to find the tall boy from yesterday. The principal became anxious and apologized profusely. The soldiers didn't listen. At this time, Yang Jingyu climbed up to the house, took a match, and said to the soldier: "Do you know what this is? It's a match! If you don't leave, I will burn the house down." The principal also said quickly: "Hey , we can't control him. You'd better leave, this kid, if you don't leave, he will burn the house, and you won't let him go." So, soldiers. The gangsters had no choice but to leave in despair.

From this incident, we can see Yang Jingyu’s courage.

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Born on February 26, 1905 (the tenth day of the first lunar month) in a peasant family in Liwan Village, Gucheng Township, Queshan County, Henan Province. He studied in a village private school and was admitted to the No. 1 Higher Elementary School in Queshan County with excellent results in 1918. In 1919, the "May Fourth" youth movement swept the country, and Yang Jingyu, who was only fourteen years old, devoted himself to the fierce struggle; In the autumn of 1923, he was admitted to the Kaifeng Weaving and Dyeing School in Henan Province; in 1926, he joined the Communist Youth League of China; in the winter of the same year, following the instructions of the party and league organization, he returned to Queshan County to lead the peasant movement; in the spring of 1927, he was elected as a member of the Communist Youth League of China. President of the Shan County Farmers Association; in April, he led the peasant uprising in southern Henan that shocked China and the world, known as the "Queshan Uprising". He organized 50,000 armed peasants to besiege the Queshan County. After four days of fierce fighting, they occupied the county and defeated Beiyang. A brigade of the warlord's Eighth Army captured the county magistrate Wang Shaoqu alive and established the county-level people's power under the leadership of the Communist Party of China - the Queshan County Provisional Public Security Committee. Yang Jingyu was elected as the standing committee member; on June 1 In Laohengceng (place name), Chengguan Town, Queshan County, he was converted from a member of the Communist Youth League to a member of the Communist Party of China. On July 15, the Kuomintang government in Wuhan rebelled against the revolution. The new revolutionary regime was opposed by the die-hard local forces in Queshan County. Comrades Yang Jingyu, Zhang Jiatuo, Zhang Yaochang, and Li Mingqi led their troops to move to the Liudian area in the east of the county to continue the struggle and open up new areas. base area. On September 30, he, Li Mingqi, Zhang Jiatuo, Zhang Yaochang and others led the Liudian Autumn Harvest Uprising, reorganized the Queshan County Committee of the Communist Party of China, and established the South Henan Guerrillas of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, with Yang Jingyu as the commander-in-chief. During this period, we fought fiercely with enemies several times my size, repelling the attacks of the Kuomintang's reactionary armed forces and the harassment of local die-hard forces. At that time, this force controlled a large area of ??more than 100 miles from Ma Xiang in the east, Minggang in the south, the county seat in the west, and Shuitun in the north, and established the Soviet regime. Under the instructions of the Party Central Committee, in order to launch a long-term guerrilla war, establish a solid revolutionary base, and lead victory to the whole country, the troops later left the plains and rushed to the mountains, opening up the Siwangshan Revolutionary Base. In the late autumn and early winter of 1927, Yang Jingyu was transferred to the Henan Provincial Party Committee to work. During this period, he was arrested and imprisoned three times. He was rescued and released by the Party each time, and then transferred to Shanghai. Soon he was transferred from Shanghai to Northeast China. During his stay in Northeast China, he successively served as Secretary of the Fushun Special Branch of the Communist Party of China, Secretary of the Harbin Daowai District Committee of the Communist Party of China, Secretary of the Harbin Municipal Party Committee, President of the Anti-Japanese General League, Secretary of the Military Commission of the Manchuria Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, and Panshi Guerrilla. Political commissar, political commissar of the South Manchuria Guerrilla Force of the 32nd Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, division commander and political commissar of the First Independent Division of the Northeast People's Revolutionary Army, commander-in-chief of the South Manchuria Anti-Japanese Allied Forces, division commander and political commissar of the First Division of the First Army of the Northeast People's Revolutionary Army, Northeast China He served as commander and political commissar of the First Army of the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces, and as commander-in-chief and political commissar of the First Route Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Army. On February 23, 1940, he was killed in a fierce battle with the Japanese and puppet troops in Sandaoweizi, Baoan Village, Mengjiang County (now Jingyu County). He was only 35 years old. Yang Jingyu's head and body were buried together in Tonghua Martyrs Cemetery.

He joined the Communist Youth League of China in 1926 and returned to Queshan at the end of the year to engage in the peasant movement. In April 1927, he led the Queshan peasant riot and joined the Communist Party of China in May. After the failure of the Great Revolution, he organized the Autumn Harvest Uprising in Liudian, Queshan, and served as the commander-in-chief of the local peasant revolutionary army. After the failure, he went to Kaifeng, Luoyang and other places to engage in secret work. He was arrested and imprisoned three times, and he was unyielding. In the spring of 1929, he went to Northeast China, assumed the pseudonym Zhang Guanyi, and served as secretary of the Fushun Special Branch of the Communist Party of China. He was imprisoned twice in Fushun and was severely tortured by the Japanese police station. He never admitted that he was a member of the Communist Party and his activities.

After the September 18th Incident, he was rescued and released from prison. He successively served as Secretary of the Daowai District Committee of Harbin City, Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, and Acting Secretary of the Military Committee of the Manchuria Provincial Committee. In November 1932, he was sent to southern Manchuria to inspect the Panshi area of ??Jilin. He reorganized the local guerrillas based on the experience of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, formed the South Manchuria Guerrilla Force of the 32nd Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, and served as political commissar. He united all anti-Japanese armed forces and established a guerrilla base centered on Hongshilizi, Qingshi County. In September 1933, he served as division commander and political commissar of the First Independent Division of the First Army of the Northeast People's Revolutionary Army, and the following year he was appointed commander and political commissar of the First Army. In February 1936, he was appointed commander and political commissar of the First Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Forces. In June, he was appointed commander-in-chief and political commissar of the First Route Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Forces. In the face of frequent "crusades" by the Japanese and puppet troops, he proposed the principles of "do not attack unless the enemy's vital points are hit" and "do not attack if it causes serious harm to the local people". With tactics such as "virtual, defeat one by one", the command post fought hundreds of battles with the Japanese and puppet troops, dealing a heavy blow to the Japanese and puppet troops and expanding the guerrilla base area. In the autumn of 1938, after the Japanese and puppet troops suffered repeated attacks, they stepped up their military "crusade" and offered a heavy reward for the capture of Yang Jingyu. Under extremely difficult conditions, Yang continued to fight. In January 1940, the headquarters was heavily besieged by Japanese and puppet troops. He organized his troops to disperse and break out of the encirclement, and he fought with the enemy alone for five days and nights; he died heroically in Sandaoweizi, Haojiang County, Jilin on February 23. In memory of him, in 1946, the Northeast People's Government renamed Mengjiang County Jingyu County. In 1958, the "Jingyu Cemetery" was built in Tonghua City, Jilin Province.