Fifty-five years ago today, on January 15, 1970 (December 8, 1969 in the lunar calendar), Xie Xuehong, a participant in the Taiwan independence movement, passed away. Xie Xuehong (formerly known as Xie Amu, October 17, 1901 - January 15, 1970), a participant in the Taiwan independence movement, a founding member of the "Taiwan Communist Party" (Taiwan Ethnic Branch of the Communist Party of Japan) during the Japanese rule, and a member of the "Taiwan Communist Party" (Taiwan Ethnic Branch of the Communist Party of Japan) during the "February 28 Incident". Leader of the Taichung "27 Forces" who insisted on using force to resist the Kuomintang, and founder of the Taiwan-Gulf Democratic Autonomous Alliance. At the age of thirteen, she became the concubine of a wealthy businessman in Taichung. In 1917, she left home to work as a female worker in a sugar farm in Tainan. She married Zhang Shumin as a concubine. After going to Kobe, Japan for three years, she studied Japanese and Chinese by herself. After returning to Taiwan, she joined the "Taiwan Cultural Association". In October 1925, she and Lin Mushun went to study at Oriental University in Moscow. She returned to Shanghai in November 1927 and participated in the founding of the "Taiwan Communist Party" in Shanghai in April 1928. She was arrested twice by the Japanese police. The second time she was arrested, she was imprisoned for nearly ten years. At the time of the February 28 Incident in 1947, Xie Xuehong called for a people's uprising in Taichung on March 2, attacked the Taichung Police Station and the Taichung Branch of the Public Trade Bureau, and established a "people's government". He entered the Chinese mainland in 1948. He attended the first plenary session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in 1949 and was elected as a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. He was elected as a member of the First National People's Congress in 1954. He served as a member of the East China Military and Political Commission, a member of the Political and Legal Committee of the State Council, a vice chairman of the All-China Democratic Youth Federation, an executive member of the All-China Women's Federation, and the chairman of the first headquarters of the Taiwan Bay Democratic Autonomous League. He was criticized by rightists in 1957, and was criticized by the Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution in