Xiang Jingyu: the only female founder of the CPC

湖南怀化市溆浦县城向警予故居的警予雕像。

The statue of Xiang Jingyu in the former residence of Xiang Jingyu, Xupu County, Huaihua, Hunan

溆水河畔向警予故居的四合院，房子历经百余年依然保存完好。

Well-preserved quadrangle courtyard of Xiang Jingyu’s former residence at the riverside of Xushui River for over 100 years

1916年，向警予回乡创办男女兼收的溆浦女校，实践教育救国，并创作校歌。

In 1916, Xiang Jingyu founded a mixed Xupu Women’s School and created the school song.

油画描绘了1928年向警予在武汉英勇就义时场景。

The oil painting depicts the scene of Xiang Jingyu dying a heroic death in Wuhan in 1928.

红网时刻新闻记者 李慧 摄影 李长宏 怀化报道

　　向警予是中国共产党唯一的女创始人，被誉为中国妇女运动先驱，为湖南女界勤工俭学运动首创者，曾经欲终身不嫁从事教育来改造中国。

Rednet (Huaihua): Xiang Jinyu is the only female founder of the Communist Party of China, widely regarded as the pioneer of Chinese women’s liberation movement and the initiator of Hunan women’s work-study movement. She ever decided to remain unmarried to reform China through education.

　　向警予的“教育救国”理念孩提时代深扎根。1919年12月25日，湖南第九批赴法勤工俭学学生赴法，共计50人，其中有蔡和森、向警予、葛健豪、蔡畅、李志新、熊季光、肖淑良等。在赴法旅途中，向警予与蔡和森多次深谈，“开始放弃‘教育救国’的幻想而相信共产主义”，两人结成了革命伴侣。旅法期间，向警予参与领导了“二•二八运动”“拒款斗争”、进占里昂中法大学这三大赴法勤工俭学运动。

In fact, Xiang Jingyu’s “saving China by education” was rooted in her early childhood. On December 25, 1919, there were 50 Hunan ninth-batch students going to France for work and study, including Cai Hesen, Xiang Jingyu, Ge Jianhao, Cai Chang, Li Zhixin, Xiong Jiguang, Xiao Shuliang, etc. Xiang Jingyu began to abandon saving China by education but believe in Communism after deep talks with Cai Hesen in the trip. Finally, Xiang Jingyu and Cai Hesen got married in France. During work-study period in France, Xiang Jingyu participated in the leadership of three work-study movements, namely, the February 28th Movement, fighting against Beijing governments’ confidential loan in national betrayal, advancing into Institut Franco-Chinoise de Lyon.

　　1922年，向警予回国后加入共产党，参加了一系列无产阶级革命运动，成为‘五卅’运动中有力的组织者之一。向警予是中国妇女运动的先驱，我党早期从事妇女解放运动、工人运动的杰出领导者。她创办女工夜校，领导上海闸北丝厂和南洋烟厂大罢工，组织以劳动妇女为主体的“妇女解放协会”。

In 1922, Xiang Jingyu joined the Communist Party of China after return to China. Then she participated in proletarian revolutionary movements, such as May Thirtieth Movement. She was also the outstanding leader of women’s movement and labor movement. She established workwoman night schools, led Shanghai Zhabei silk mill strike and Nanyang cigarette factory strike, and organized Women’s Liberation Association.

　　毛泽东在延安与美国作家斯诺追溯中国共产党创建历史时指出，向警予是“唯一的一个女创始人”。 周恩来曾指出，向警予是党的第一个女中央委员，第一任妇女部长。

Mao Zedong mentioned that Xiang Jingyu was the only female founder of the Communist Party of China when he retrospected the history of the founding of the Communist Party of China with American writer Snow; Zhou Enlai pointed out that Xiang Jingyu was the first female member of the Central Committee and the first minister of Women’s Affairs.

Original Link: [“回望出发的地方”之五] 向警予：中国共产党唯一女创始人

More Links: [“回望出发的地方”之四] 蔡和森赴法探索革命道路 一封信发出铿锵建党先声

Cai Hesen: the first to propose the founding of the Communist Party of China

[“回望出发的地方”之三] 蒙达尔纪，那个青春热血的勤工俭学朋友圈

Montargis: story behind work-study circle of friends in France

[“回望出发的地方”之二] 蒙达尔纪雷蒙特列街15号 湖南的一扇“历史之窗”

Old Residence in Montargis: a window for Hunan youth’s work-study history in France

[“回望出发的地方”之一] 赴法勤工俭学背后 湖湘青年立志“改造中国与世界”

Xinmin Society site: story behind Hunan Youth in Montargis