In ancient China, to this day, there is a saying circulating in : "Women can hold half of the sky" . Yes, in a complete society, the status of women is very important.
In the revolutionary struggle in modern history, Chairman Mao once pointed out : "Women are a force that determines the victory or defeat of the revolution."
As Chairman Mao said, among modern women, many excellent women have indeed emerged. Although they are daughters, they are well versed in the national justice. In order to save the country and the people, they have always been at the forefront of the cause of "women's liberation" and resolutely fight against the enemy. Even if they pay the price of life and blood, they will never retreat.
In these excellent " Heroes ", we always have a few familiar names, such as Qiu Jin, Zhao Yiman, Yang Kaihui, etc.
The person we are going to talk about today is also a member of this "glorious group".
Compared with another outstanding female hero, her life may be even more legendary.
Who is this person? What contribution did she make to the revolution? What kind of life did she have?
Find the ideal direction in troubled times
Feng Yuxiang
1924 was an influential year in China's history. If you have to "review" in a brief manner, the best thing is "death" and "hope"
"death" refers to In this year, Northwest warlord Feng Yuxiang launched a "coup" in Beijing, driving the last emperor Puyi out of Forbidden City .
After the founding of the Republic of China in 1912, since the Qing emperor voluntarily abdicated, the Republic of China government gave great tolerance to the last royal family.
However, the "tolerance" of the Republic of China government has also made the country increasingly decayed. Specific matters include " Yuan Shikai's title of emperor ", " Zhang Xun's restoration of ", etc.
The founding of the Republic of China was due to the democratic revolution led by Sun Yat-sen. The revolution was hard-won and was exchanged for the sacrifices of thousands of people. As a symbol of the feudal royal family, if the last emperor was still allowed to live in the Forbidden City, then, was the revolution considered successful?
Feng Yuxiang hates this very much, so he sent his generals to launch a "Beijing coup" and drove Puyi out of the Forbidden City. From another perspective, this may be the real "death" of the feudal society that has ruled China for more than two thousand years
So, what does the "hope" in 1924 refer to?
"death" occurred in the north, and "hope" was born in the south.
This year, with the help of the Communist Party of China and the Soviet Union, Sun Yat-sen established a military academy on Huangpu Island in Guangzhou, referred to as " Huangpu Military Academy ". From the military academy's door couplet, we can see the teaching theme of the military academy. The door couplet is ", please go to another place for promotion and wealth", and the second couplet is ", greedy, fear of death, do not enter this door ", horizontal banner: , revolutionaries come.
Yes, this is a school established by Sun Yat-sen to cultivate talents for the revolution.
Facts have proved that the "Whampoa Military Academy" did not disappoint Sun Yat-sen in the end. From here, many powerful figures who stirred up the situation later came out, such as the principal Chiang Kai-shek , senior Kuomintang generals Hu Zongnan , Du Yuming and others.
For example, Xu Xiangqian, Chen Geng, Lin Biao of our party......
Did the success of the revolution depend on them? I'm afraid that's not the case.
As mentioned in the previous article : "Women can stand half the sky", the ultimate success of the revolution also originated from the fact that there was a group of women committed to the "women's liberation cause". Their contribution to the revolution was actually not inferior to those male generals who led thousands of troops.
Whampoa Military Academy, not only men can attend.
Although at that time, the cause of women's liberation was difficult, and the enemies they had to face were very powerful.
This "enemy" mainly refers to the residual shackles of bad habits in feudal society.
At this critical moment, a leader of our party at that time made great contributions, and he was Yun Daiying.
yun Daiying
1925 was established. Yun Daiying, who was the political instructor of Wuhan Branch at the time, said: "Handling girls' teams is very obstacles. The right-wing of the Kuomintang opposed it, the feudal forces desperately obstructed it, and the conservatives did not agree, but our party was determined to train backbones in the military school, because we will rely on them in the future to lead the struggle for Chinese women to turn over and liberation."
Although the road ahead is difficult to move forward, we should always have the courage and wisdom to move forward.
Under the insistence of our party, the Wuhan Branch of the Whampoa Military Academy recruited a period of girls for the first time, with the total number of them being 213.
Among these 213 people, many of them later became the pioneers of the cause of Chinese women's liberation. After
, the Wuhan branch also recruited many girls. Among the female students in these periods, a man named Zeng Xianzhi was known as the "most beautiful female soldier of the Whampoa Military Academy". After 7 families, his marriage was bumpy and uneven.
Zeng Xianzhi is from Shuangfeng County, Hunan Province. She was born in 1910. She is not only beautiful, but also her family has a deep background. If you have to describe it, it is not an exaggeration to call Zeng Xianzhi the "Zeng family" where Zeng Xianzhi is located the largest family in modern Hunan.
Because Zeng Xianzhi's Zeng family, there was a famous person, a famous minister in the late Qing Dynasty, which was praised by many people Zeng Guofan .
In fact, in a strict sense, Zeng Xianzhi is not a descendant of Zeng Guofan, but her relationship with the Zeng Guofan family is quite close.
Zeng Guofan
Zeng Guofan has 4 brothers. Zeng Xianzhi's ancestor was Zeng Guofan's fourth brother, Zeng Guoquan .
Zeng Xianzhi is the fifth generation grandson of Zeng Guoquan. Although Zeng Guoquan is not as famous as his eldest brother as his fourth brother, at that time, he was also an extremely excellent Hunan Army general.
When he was in the Qing government, Zeng Guoquan served as the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, and the Governor of Liangjiang.
Zeng Guoquan's great achievements are also due to his great contribution in quelling the "Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Uprising". However, in the process of quelling the uprising, Zeng Guoquan's indulgence of his subordinates' bloodthirsty and embezzlement of treasures was also severely criticized by later generations.
However, all of this has little to do with Zeng Xianzhi, the fifth generation grandson.
Although Zeng Xianzhi was born in such a feudal family, her own thoughts were not feudal at all.
The most important thing is that the manager of the Zeng family at that time was also relatively enlightened. He did not stick to the traditional conservative and old-fashioned pattern, but encouraged his descendants to receive new education and integrate into society.
It was with this opportunity that Zeng Xianzhi took the first step in his own revolutionary cause.
1923, 13-year-old Zeng Xianzhi came to Hunan Provincial No. 1 Women's Normal School.
Here, she met a teacher who had a great influence on her.
Xu Teli
The teacher Zeng Xianzhi met was actually one of the teachers that Chairman Mao respected the most. He was one of the later "Five Old Ones in Yan'an", a famous revolutionary of our party, Xu Teli.
Although Xu Teli did not join the Communist Party of China at that time, he was very enthusiastic about the cause of saving the country and the people. He was very enlightened and encouraged young people to create, open up a new world, and bravely fight against the feudal habits of the old society.
Under the influence of Xu Teli, Zeng Xianzhi, who was a young man, began to come into contact with some ideas about independence and advancedness, which gave her the original budding of her revolutionary cause.
1927, when the revolution was sweeping across China, 17-year-old Zeng Xianzhi walked into the Wuhan Branch of the Whampoa Military Academy.
At that time, Zeng Xianzhi was committed to revolution. She did not expect that she would meet her here and would be her only husband.
This person was the instructor at the time and later became the founding father of New China and one of the top ten marshals. He served as the Ye Jianying at the national level.
Zeng Xianzhi was serious when he was in school, and he did not complain about hardship or fatigue when he was trained. Moreover, she was generous and unconventional. In addition, she was beautiful, so many people were her suitors.
Among these people, there is Ye Jianying.
Although Ye Jianying was not outstanding at the time, he had a firm belief and sincere attitude. Therefore, he stood out among the many "sentiators" and became Zeng Xianzhi's sweetheart.
In April 1927, Zeng Xianzhi's academic studies in the military academy had not yet been completed, and the Northern Expedition did not succeed at this time. However, Chiang Kai-shek, who was the commander-in-chief of the Northern Expedition Army at the time, did a "brotherly wall". He led the Kuomintang to launch a "coup" against our party, causing the revolution to fail immediately.
At such a critical moment, Zeng Xianzhi had no intention of learning anymore, so she followed Ye Jianying to Guangzhou and continued the revolution in Guangzhou.
Later, Zeng Xianzhi participated in the far-reaching " Guangzhou Uprising "
Because the strength of our party was very weak at the time, the uprising eventually failed. Helplessly, Zeng Xianzhi had to retreat to Hong Kong with Ye Jianying to take refuge.
In Hong Kong, Zeng Xianzhi welcomed her 18 years old, and at the same time, she also ushered in her only marriage in her life.
This year, Zeng Xianzhi, who had firmly believed in revolution, first joined the Communist Party of China, and then married Ye Jianying.
After marriage, the couple fell in love with each other and respected each other as guests. However, they were both revolutionaries. In such a "chaotic world", how could they see their compatriots in trouble and "living in the present"? After
, the party organization was preparing to send them to the Soviet Union in order to train them. Unfortunately, because there were too many people on the list, they had to reduce them. Seeing this, Zeng Xianzhi gave his opportunity to further his studies to others, and he went to Hainan to continue the revolutionary work.
Unfortunately, she was arrested by the enemy before she stayed in Hainan.
Later, after rescued by the party organization, Zeng Xian was released from prison. In order to take refuge, she went to Japan to study. It happened that Japan was investigating Communists at this time, and she was arrested and imprisoned again.
However, this time, Zeng Xianzhi was treated well because her ancestor Zeng Guofan.
Although Zeng Xianzhi is not a direct relative of Zeng Guofan, the Japanese highly respect Zeng Guofan. After learning that Zeng Xianzhi was also a member of the Zeng Guofan family, they treated Zeng Xianzhi with courtesy and quickly released her out of prison.
The revolution in China is in full swing, and Zeng Xianzhi thought that it would not be a long-term thing in Japan, so he returned to China.
In China, Zeng Xianzhi met her husband Ye Jianying who had been separated for a long time. The two of them could not finish talking. At this time, the party organization ordered them to secretly go to work in the Central Soviet Area.
When he was about to move forward, because Zeng Xianzhi was too beautiful and afraid that he would not dress up to attract the attention of the enemy, the party organization finally decided to go to Hong Kong to work, while Ye Jianying went to the Central Soviet Area alone.
The couple had not yet been together for a few days, and they once again endured the pain and parted ways. However, what Zeng Xianzhi did not expect was that she had left for six years.
1936, when the " Xi'an Incident " was peacefully resolved, Ye Jianying finally had the opportunity to travel through the National Government District , and at this time, Zeng Xianzhi happened to be transferred back to Wuhan by the party organization from Hong Kong.
In Wuhan, the couple met again, but what Zeng Xianzhi did not expect was that at this time, Ye Jianying married another wife named Wei Gongzhi.
In the era of war, due to injustice and underdeveloped information technology, this kind of thing was not uncommon, but Zeng Xianzhi's heart was still full of sadness.
"The revolution has not been successful yet". After being sad, Zeng Xianzhi devoted all his energy to the revolutionary cause.
serves as two national-level secretaries, demonstrating the style of the famous family
Soon after, Zeng Xianzhi came to Yan'an and entered the Central Party School to study. Because of her strong ability and smart person, although she did not go to the front line to fight the Japanese, she also made irreplaceable contributions to the revolution.
It is precisely because of her excellence that when our party and the Kuomintang negotiated in 1945, Zeng Xian Vegetation was appointed as the secretary of Deng Yingchao .
Deng Yingchao and Zhou Enlai took good care of Zeng Xianzhi, and Zeng Xianzhi also learned a lot by their side.
Later, Zeng Xianzhi was transferred to serve as secretary of Soong Ching Ling .
The Founding Ceremony , it was Zeng Xianzhi who supported Soong Ching Ling and walked up to the Tiananmen Gate Tower.
After the founding of New China, due to the difficult road of revolution, there were only two women who received national treatment, one was Deng Yingchao and the other was Soong Ching Ling.
Zeng Xianzhi is able to serve as the secretary of these two, which shows how strong she is. After
, Zeng Xianzhi served as deputy secretary-general of the All-China Women's Federation, secretary of the Secretariat, deputy secretary of the Party Group, etc. She continued to engage in the revolutionary cause she loved.
As a famous family, Zeng Xianzhi's life is a legend.
Since modern times, the Zeng Guofan family in Hunan has dominated the world. Decades later, the Republic of China period was not as good as before, but the Zeng family still maintained a huge influence in the land of Hunan.
Zeng Xianzhi can choose avenue full of brightness and magnificence like her brothers and sisters.
But she chose a path full of thorns and full of ups and downs.
Perhaps, when the 13-year-old Zeng Xianzhi left home, she made great plans for her life, became a "revolutionary fighter", and fought for the country and the people for life.
Faced with the setbacks of the revolution and the ups and downs of marriage, Zeng Xianzhi was also confused, but she persisted, which was also the most precious part of her life. In the end, all of this also made her. She deserves to be a great woman and one of the leaders of the cause of Chinese women's liberation.
Through the dust of history, the fearless spirit and strong revolutionary belief shown by Zeng Xianzhi may better understand what the true style of "famous descendants" is.
