Memorabilia tells the story of the life and career of the first General Secretary of the Party
Báo Dân trí•01/05/2024
(Dan Tri) - The relics, artifacts, and images preserved at the Tran Phu Relic Site (Duc Tho, Ha Tinh) have clearly recreated the life and revolutionary career of the Party's first General Secretary.
The complex of the former General Secretary Tran Phu relic site located in Tung Anh commune (Duc Tho district, Ha Tinh) is divided into 3 parts, including: church, exhibition house and tomb area. In the picture is the tomb of the first General Secretary of the Party located on Quan Hoi hill with an area of over 47,000m2, overlooking Tam Soa wharf - the intersection of 3 rivers: Ngan Sau, Ngan Pho and La river. Construction of the tomb began in January 2000 and was completed in April 2004, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his birth. It bears his immortal words: "Keep up the fighting spirit" during his capture and torture by the enemy in April 1931. Nearly 1km from the tomb, the exhibition house in Chau Tung village, Tung Anh commune was built in 1998 on an area of 160m2. This is where hundreds of artifacts, memorabilia, documents, and images are kept, depicting the life and career of the late General Secretary Tran Phu and the Tran family tree. The late General Secretary Tran Phu was born on May 1, 1904. His father was Tran Van Pho - from Tung Anh village, Duc Tho district, Ha Tinh and his mother was Hoang Thi Cat, from Duong Chau commune, Nghi Loc district, Nghe An. However, he was born in Tuy An district, Phu Yen province - where his father was a teacher in 1904. At the age of 10, Tran Phu became an orphan and had to live through difficult years of studying, but he still persevered in his studies and passed the Thanh Chung exam in Hue in 1922. In the fall of 1918, Tran Phu entered the Hue National School. During his time studying here, he met Phan Boi Chau and Phan Chu Trinh, who were patriotic revolutionary elders. In particular, his teacher, Vo Liem Son, directly inspired him with a sense of patriotism and national pride. In the picture is the outfit that the late General Secretary Tran Phu wore during his time studying at the Hue National School and working in Hanoi. In September 1922, Tran Phu returned to teach at Cao Xuan Duc School in Vinh (Nghe An). Here, he had the opportunity to get close to the working people and patriotic intellectuals, and was exposed to patriotic newspapers such as "The Poor" by Nguyen Ai Quoc. The late General Secretary Tran Phu actively participated in patriotic organizations such as the Phuc Viet Association and the Hung Nam Association. During this time, he often returned to his hometown, while anonymously carrying out revolutionary activities. In the picture is a painting depicting Tran Phu in a class teaching the national language to workers and laborers in Vinh - Ben Thuy (Nghe An). He was passionate about teaching with the aim of contributing to training a generation of people with aspirations, benefiting the people and the country. This is the wooden chest that the late General Secretary Tran Phu used during his teaching period in Vinh from 1922 to 1925. In mid-1925, Tran Phu joined the Phuc Viet Association (later renamed the Hung Nam Association and Tan Viet Revolutionary Party) - an organization of patriotic intellectuals. In 1926, he was one of the members of the Hung Nam Association who went to Guangzhou (China) to meet Nguyen Ai Quoc, attended a political training class and joined the Vietnam Revolutionary Youth Association founded by Nguyen Ai Quoc. In the photo is the seal of the Hung Nam Association. In early 1927, Tran Phu studied at the Oriental University in Moscow. Leader Nguyen Ai Quoc sent a letter to the school's Party cell recommending Tran Phu as Secretary of the Vietnamese Student Cell. In 1928, Tran Phu attended the 6th International Congress of the Communist Party. In 1930, after graduating from the Oriental University, he traveled from Moscow to Belgium, Germany, France, and then secretly returned to Saigon on February 8, 1930, bringing with him the knowledge of a theorist. In July 1930, Tran Phu was added to the Provisional Executive Committee and assigned to draft the Party's Political Platform. In the photo, house number 90, Tho Nhuom Street (Hoan Kiem District, Hanoi) - where Tran Phu drafted the Political Platform in 1930. In the picture is the pillow that the late General Secretary Tran Phu used during his time in Hanoi. In October 1930, in Hong Kong (China), the first conference of the Party Central Committee discussed and unanimously approved the Political Platform drafted by Tran Phu. The conference decided to change the name of the Communist Party of Vietnam to the Indochinese Communist Party. At this conference, Tran Phu was elected the first General Secretary of the Party at the age of 26. In his position, the late General Secretary Tran Phu, together with the Central Committee, built and consolidated Party organizations at all levels; directed the good organization of communication work from the Central to the Regional Party Committee, Provincial Party Committee, from the Central to the Communist International. On April 18, 1931, while the movement was on the rise, the late General Secretary Tran Phu was arrested by the enemy at No. 66, Champanho Street (now Ly Chinh Thang Street, Ho Chi Minh City) and taken to the Saigon Central Prison (pictured). During this time, Tran Phu was tortured but remained loyal to the Party and the Revolution. Faced with brutal torture and harsh regime of the imperial prison, on September 6, 1931, Tran Phu breathed his last at Cho Quan Hospital, Saigon (pictured) with the immortal words "Keep your fighting spirit". The French colonialists buried Tran Phu's body in Do Thanh cemetery, now Le Thi Rieng Park in District 10, Ho Chi Minh City. In the photo are tree roots and coffin planks where the former General Secretary's remains were excavated at Le Thi Rieng Park on January 5, 1999.
On January 12, 1999, the Party and State solemnly held a memorial service for the late General Secretary Tran Phu in Ho Chi Minh City and moved his remains to be buried at Quan Hoi Mountain, Tung Anh Commune, Duc Tho District, Ha Tinh. Speaking to Dan Tri reporter, Mr. Le Doan Thang, Head of the Tran Phu relic site management board, on the occasion of the 120th anniversary of the birth of the late General Secretary Tran Phu (May 1, 1904 - May 1, 2024), the relic site welcomed hundreds of visitors to visit and offer incense. "There were days when the relic site welcomed nearly 2,000 students. We arranged tour guides to welcome them and decorated them with slogans, banners, and national flags," Mr. Thang informed.
According to Mr. Hoang Trung Dung, Secretary of the Ha Tinh Provincial Party Committee, the revolutionary life of the late General Secretary Tran Phu from the time he was enlightened to his ideals to the time he held the position of General Secretary of the Party was only nearly 10 years; but the late General Secretary left behind an extremely valuable legacy with profound lessons for the Party and the revolutionary cause of our people. The 1930 Political Platform drafted by the late General Secretary Tran Phu and the Party documents during his tenure as General Secretary are invaluable documents, contributing to the formation of the basic guidelines of the Vietnamese revolution.
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