On the occasion of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Founding Day on July 1st, although the authorities are propagandizing the meeting of the CCP’s First National Congress held 104 years ago on the “Nanhu Red Boat,” they are secretive about one thing: that boat was actually a “flower boat” providing sexual services for merchants.
“It has not done a single good thing in 104 years.” Speaking during an anti-CCP rally in front of the Consulate General of China in Los Angeles, veteran democracy activist Zhu Yufu recalled hearing Li Da’s wife, Wang Huiwu, personally talk about it. Wang Huiwu, according to Zhu Yufu, was responsible for selecting the meeting venue and security arrangements during the preparatory stage of the First National Congress as arranged by Li Da.
Zhu Yufu himself participated in founding the China Democracy Party in 1998 and was imprisoned by the CCP multiple times for a total of 16 years, including being sentenced to 7 years in 2012 for a poem, and only managed to escape to the United States via Japan last year. Last Sunday, as one of the organizers of the rally, despite his physical weakness and the scorching sun, he attended the event.
According to an article on CCTV News website titled “Wang Huiwu: Guarding the Opening of the First National Congress on the Red Boat,” Wang Huiwu, under the guise of a Peking University student travel group, arranged for 13 delegates staying at the Bao Wen Girls’ School in Shanghai, with the meeting venue chosen in a house rented by Li Hanchun’s brother Li Shucheng. However, on the final day of the meeting (August 3rd), an unknown man broke in and was blocked before leaving. In a tense situation, delegates, at Wang Huiwu’s suggestion, moved to Nanhu in Jiaxing, rented a boat, which was the “Nanhu Red Boat”; she sat at the bow of the boat as the “boat maiden” responsible for security.
According to the “Jiaxing Story” website, the sightseeing boats and boat maidens at Nanhu in Jiaxing are famous in Shanghai. The Shanghai “Shen Bao” newspaper in 1937 introduced, “…thus widely known, every visitor to Jiaxing would want to take a look at the beauty of the Nanhu boat maidens… whenever people approach the shore of Nanhu, there are many tender voices following them, enthusiastically soliciting business, ‘Guests, want to tour Nanhu? Want to take a boat?'”
From Zhu Yufu’s recollection, Wang Huiwu mentioned that the venue in Shanghai was compromised, and the delegates urgently sought a safe place. Having studied in Jiaxing, she was more familiar with the area. “She suddenly remembered that the end of June in the lunar calendar is the ‘Birthday of the Lotus Flower Goddess,’ and merchants from various places would go to Nanhu to play, where the ‘flower boats’ provided sexual services, attracting little attention there,” Zhu Yufu said. Consequently, Wang Huiwu rented a boat, which later became known as the “Red Boat.”
“I heard Wang Huiwu personally talk about the ‘Lotus Flower Goddess’ incident in the 1980s, but now it has been filtered out.” Nonetheless, by searching on the internet, fragments can still be found revealing the truth behind the origins of the “Red Boat.”
Zhu Yufu stated that it was actually a prostitution boat, where “one boat, one phoenix,” meaning a woman on top to entertain out-of-town merchants, making Nanhu vibrant during the end of June in the lunar calendar. In Jiaxing, traces of past customs can still be found. When celebrating the “Birthday of the Lotus Flower Goddess” in folk customs, girls dressed as the “Lotus Flower Goddess” were often scratched by men.
Zhu Yufu referred to CCP Founding Day on July 1st as “Ghost Festival” – a day of demons.
“Because all disasters on the land of China are brought by the Communist Party.” He said that the CCP has been a criminal organization since its inception and was established using rubles from the Soviet Union to subvert the Republic of China.
He mentioned that this organization is inhumane, not only launching numerous movements and persecuting countless Chinese people, but also members within the organization themselves could not escape the cycles of bloodshed and turmoil – from a series of “purges” in the 1930s and the Yan’an Rectification in 1942, to party elders like Liu Shaoqi and Peng Dehuai facing “party purges” in astonishing numbers.
Many countries around the world prohibit the promotion of communism, and some countries explicitly classify the CCP as a criminal organization. “I believe that for the Chinese people, that day is not far away.” Zhu Yufu stated, “As long as the Communist Party exists, our people will not be in charge, will not have dignity, and cannot be upright as Chinese people.”
The organizer of the rally that day, Chairman of the United Headquarters of the China Democracy Party in the Western United States, Xiao Yunjun, was once a wealthy private entrepreneur with assets worth billions in China. Regarding the CCP’s claim of having over 100 million party members, he told reporters that most people join the party under duress, out of consideration for their own safety, and not out of genuine desire.
“In reality, no one is safe in the country, even those in power (CCP officials) are always on edge.” Xiao Yunjun said that he could easily hold a title as a member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference or the National People’s Congress in China, but a friend in official circles warned him, “Stay away from politics, because no matter which leader you align with, if their opponent rises, undoubtedly you will be the first target of purification.”
Currently, nearly 450 million Chinese people have publicly declared their withdrawal from the CCP party, youth league, and affiliated organizations. Xiao Yunjun expressed deep appreciation for this wave of “quitting the party”: “It is very meaningful, it is a strong response to this organization (CCP), it exposes the lie of ‘the people support it,’ letting it know that no one wants to sincerely stay within this party, this organization is unwelcome.”