Zeng Tingqin, a good daughter of the people, was born into a declining feudal family in Jingyan County in 1921. As a smart highly-motivated learner, she was influenced by her elder brother’s revolutionary thought at an early age. She took an active part in the struggle led by the Underground Party, sending messages and putting up slogans for the CPC in her primary school.
Miss Zeng received an education in Jingyan Middle School in 1933 and there she supported the progressive teachers. Under the pressure of the government and the school, her family members were forced to put her under house arrest, so she had to drop out of school. However, due to the persecution from the school and the constraint from her family, the idea that she did not want to be a submissive person sprouted up in her mind, but she decided to become a person who could make contributions to the society. She went to Girls’ High School in Leshan County at the age of 14. In the same year, her elder brother was forced to leave home to pursue the revolutionary truth. But from then on he lost contact with his family members. To commemorate her elder brother and follow his revolutionary path, she kept learning the revolutionary literature and art books of the Soviet Union, Lunxun’s novels and Marxism books. She was a progressive student in Girls’ High School in Leshan County during her junior high school days.
In 1945, Miss Zeng was admitted to Agricultural School, Sichuan University and majored in Mulberry and Silkworm. At that time, progressive students were very active in university where she fitted in, and it turned out to be her turning point in her life. Recommended by her classmate, she joined the Democratic Youth Association led by the underground party. She devoted herself to a series of large-scale movements successively, such as the movement to support the impoverished students, the anti-war movement, the anti-starvation movement and the anti-persecution movement. She became a pioneer in the student movements. After graduating from college, she was assigned to work in Mabian River Base, Muchuan County. In order to conceal her true identity, she worked as a teacher in Gaosuntang Primary School. She joined the CPC while she was making preparations to set up Guerrilla Forces of the Southwestern Sichuan Military Region.
She declined to work in the government organization of Mabian County in December, 1949 while she did apply to work in the grass-roots unit. As she hoped, she was assigned to the Group of Collecting Grain by Quota to carry out the masses work in Gao Suntang town.
After the Spring Festival in 1950, it was urgent to collect grain by quota. She and other members Gao Yushan (leader of the working team), Huang Jianhua and Gong Xiyuan were besieged and bound by the bandits who had caused the riot when our members collected grain by quota on March, 1950 . At first, the bandits killed Huang Jianhua and Gong Xiyuan and then the bandits threatened and tempted Gao Yushan and Zeng Tingqing into surrendering, but the two comrades condemned the bandits for their crimes. Zeng Tingqing said to the bandits unflinchingly ,“I would rather be killed than be insulted. Communism is bound to come true.” The bandits had no more tricks to play but to kill her by pushing her into a pit. She died at the very young age of 28.
