The wife of warlord Xiao Ke, Jian Xianfo, not only left a tenacious deed in the Red Army's long march, but also wrote her own legendary chapter in life. In 1916, Jian Xianfo was born in Chengguan Town, Cili County, Hunan Province. Due to her wealthy family, she began to study at the age of seven, and later went to Cili County Girls’ School. After growing up, her elder brothers and sisters joined the Red Army. After the Japanese occupation of the three provinces, Jian Xianfo, who was full of enthusiasm, could no longer bear the idea that she wanted to resist Japan. Her enlightened father understood her daughter, so Tell her, if you want to resist the Japanese, go to the Red Army.
The words of his father pointed out the direction for Jian Xianfo. In 1934, He Long, who had become Jian Xianfo’s brother-in-law, led the Second Red Army to Cili. Jian Xianfo found his brother-in-law He Long and proposed to join the Red Army. In the same year, Jian Xianfo became a member of the Red Army of Chinese Workers and Peasants. After joining the army, he gave full play to his personal expertise. Everywhere he went, he wrote slogans and painted propaganda posters on the wall with red powder paste, taking seriously that he could help the Red Army. Carry out activity publicity work.
One year later, in the difficult years of the Red Second Red Army and the Sixth Army, under the introduction of He Long and others, Jian Xianfo and the Red Sixth Army Commander Xiao Ke became a lifelong companion. When the Red Army began the Long March in November 1935, she was pregnant, but with tenacious perseverance, she took her child to the end of the Long March.
At that time, she and her sister Jian Xianren were also known as sister flowers in the Long March, and Jian Xianfo's children were born on the grass, where there is no shelter and no tent can be found. Xiao Ke, who rushed over, found a soil wall abandoned by Tibetan grazing nearby, and hurriedly repaired it with turf and used it as a delivery room for Jian Xianfo. Her sister even came to deliver her in person. Jian Xianfo, who gave birth while crossing the grassland, almost died of dystocia, but in the end she survived all the suffering with her own tenacity.
In November 1936, Jian Xianfo was transferred to the Propaganda Department of the Political Department of the Central Military Commission. He entered the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University the following year and went to Xi'an to carry out underground work of the party after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War. After the founding of New China after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, her husband Xiao Ke was awarded the rank of general in 1955.Later, their other child, Xiao Xinghua, also held the rank of major general. This husband is the founding general, his son is a major general, and her brother-in-law is the legendary female Red Army marshal. She is 104 years old now.
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