Modern Chinese history is a heroic and heroic history. In this history from 1840 to 1949, countless revolutionary heroes emerged. Among them, there are six historical heroes, which can be said to have influenced the revolutionary trend of China's modern history. Some even say: "With them, there would be no new China."
So , who are these six great men who influenced the direction of China's modern history? What contributions have they made to China's revolution and construction cause?
Today, this episode tells you about: The six great men who influenced modern Chinese history.
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First place: Chairman Mao
On December 26, 1893, Chairman Mao was born in a peasant family in Xiangtan, Hunan. Since his youth, Chairman Mao has explored the path to saving the country and the people. 919, after the May Fourth Movement broke out, Chairman Mao went to Beijing to study and gradually grew into a Marxist.
1924-1927, during the first cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, Chairman Mao carried out a peasant movement in rural areas such as Hunan. After Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Jingwei launched the counter-revolutionary coups in April 12 and July 15, Chairman Mao led the peasants to launch the Autumn Harvest Uprising on the Hunan-Jiangxi border in September 1927, and later led the troops to board Jinggangshan, opening up the revolutionary line of "surrounding the city in rural areas and seizing power with armed forces".
(Chairman Mao)
1 In October 1934, Chairman Mao led the Red Army of Workers and Peasants to start the 25,000-mile Long March, honed the revolutionary army of China and sowed the seeds of the Chinese revolution. At the Wayaobao Conference in December 1935, Chairman Mao put forward the slogan of "stop the civil war and unite in resisting Japan."
1936, the Xi'an Incident was peacefully resolved under the mediation of our party, and the Anti-Japanese National United Front was officially established. On July 7, 1937, after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Chairman Mao led the Eighth Route Army, the New Fourth Army and other anti-Japanese armed forces to carry out a comprehensive war of resistance, causing the Japanese invaders to fall into the vast ocean of the people's war. After 14 years of arduous struggle, in September 1945, Japan announced its unconditional surrender and China won the War of Resistance Against Japan.
946, after the outbreak of the Liberation War, Chairman Mao commanded the People's Liberation Army of China, launched the Liaoshen, Huaihai and Pingjin Battles, and led the Chinese people to overthrow the oppression of three mountains. On October 1, 1949, Chairman Mao stood on the Tiananmen Gate Tower and announced to the world the founding of the People's Republic of China. The Chinese people, who occupy a quarter of the world's population, stood up since then.
After the founding of New China, Chairman Mao led the Chinese people to carry out land reforms, making hundreds of millions of farmers turn over and become masters. 953-In 1957, Chairman Mao led the Chinese people to carry out three major transformations and socialist industrialization. . laid the industrial foundation for China to move towards modernization today, making China a true socialist country.
976 Chairman Mao died of illness at the age of 83. Chairman Mao is not only a great man of the Chinese people, but also an expectation and symbol of the oppressed people in the world.
second place: Sun Yat-sen
Sun Yat-sen was born in a business family in Cuiheng Village, Guangdong Province. When he was a teenager, he went to Hawaii and Hong Kong to study. After witnessing the prosperity of the outside world, a path of exploring the truth of saving the country and the people emerged in his heart. 894, the young Sun Yat-sen wrote a letter to Li Hongzhang and proposed many plans for national improvement. However, in order to maintain its reactionary rule, the decadent Qing Dynasty rejected any proposals from Sun Yat-sen.
Seeing that Sun Yat-sen was hopeless in reform, he gradually embarked on the road of revolution. 1894, Sun Yat-sen established the Xingzhonghui in Honolulu. 1895, Sun Yat-sen returned to Hong Kong and began to plan a revolution. After the failure of the first Guangzhou Uprising, Sun Yat-sen fled to Britain and wandered around the area for many years. In 1905, Sun Yat-sen went to Japan and founded the first bourgeois political party - China Tongmenghui .After this, Sun Yat-sen's China Tongmenghui launched several uprisings, especially the Guangzhou Uprising and the Huanghuagang Uprising, which seriously shook the feudal rule of the Qing Dynasty.
(Sun Yat-sen)
In October 1911, the Qing Dynasty's behavior of selling railway sovereignty aroused great indignation among the people in the country, and the road protection movement exploded. On October 10, 1911, the Qing army in Hubei Province went to suppress the Sichuan Road Protection Movement, giving the revolutionaries the opportunity . On this day, the Revolution of Xinhai broke out. After learning the news, Sun Yat-sen urgently returned to China to participate in guiding the revolution. Subsequently, provinces in various Qing Dynasty declared independence one after another. In February 1912, under the revolutionary situation where the national revolution was in full swing, the Qing emperor Puyi was forced to abdicate.
The Xinhai Revolution led by Sun Yat-sen ended China's feudal monarchy for thousands of years and established Asia's first democratic republic . After Yuan Shikai assassinated Song Jiaoren and stole the fruits of the revolution, Sun Yat-sen successively launched the Second Revolution, the National Protection Movement and the Law Protection Movement, devoted his lifelong efforts to China's revolutionary cause.
After several revolutionary failures, Sun Yat-sen accepted the proposal of the Soviet representative in 1924 and established the new Three Principles of the People of the People of the People of the People of the People of the People of the People of the People of the Communist Party of China, and helped the workers and peasants", laying the foundation for the first cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China and the National Revolution. Unfortunately, Sun Yat-sen died of illness in 1925 at the age of 59. However, his historical contribution to overthrowing feudal monarchy is indelible. To this day, people call Sun Yat-sen "the father of modern China."
Third place: Li Dazhao
Li Dazhao was born in 1889 in a scholarly family in Daheituo Village, Leting County, Hebei Province. In 1907, Li Dazhao was admitted to a new school. During the years I studied in the school, Li Dazhao witnessed the sufferings of the world, and thus came up with the idea of exploring the path to saving the country and the people.
1916, Yuan Shikai stole the fruits of the Xinhai Revolution and openly proclaimed himself emperor, which aroused Li Dazhao's great indignation. 915, Chen Duxiu founded the magazine " New Youth " in Beijing, marking the beginning of the new culture movement . In 1916, Li Dazhao participated in the compilation of Chen Duxiu's "New Youth", popularized democratic and scientific modern ideas to Chinese youth at that time, and clearly opposed Yuan Shikai's dictatorial behavior.
(Li Dazhao)
1918, the Soviet Union broke out in October Revolution . After that, Li Dazhao translated a large number of related works by Marx and Lenin, and became the first Marxist in Chinese history. 1919, the May Fourth Patriotic Movement broke out, and Li Dazhao guided young students to organize this anti-imperialist and patriotic movement, which marked the beginning of the new democratic revolution in modern China.
1920, Li Dazhao and Chen Duxiu cooperated to promote the country and established Marxism Research Groups. These groups were the prototype of the Communist Party of China in the future. In 1921, The Communist Party of China was officially established, and Li Dazhao and Chen Duxiu both became one of the important founders of the Communist Party of China. In 1922, Li Dazhao met with Sun Yat-sen, laying the foundation for the first cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party and the National Revolution.
Regrettably, in 1927, Li Dazhao was arrested by the reactionary warlord Zhang Zuolin and was killed in April 1927 at the age of 38.
Li Dazhao's untimely death is regrettable to the people. But His identity as the first person in Chinese Marxism and the founder of our party will always live in the hearts of the people.
fourth place: Zhu De
Zhu De was born in a poor peasant family in 1886. When he was young, Zhu De witnessed the sufferings of the world and had deep sympathy for the vast majority of Chinese working people. In 1911, Zhu De graduated from a military school, followed Sun Yat-sen to join the revolution, and participated in the National Protection Movement. After the founding of "New Youth" magazine in 1915, Zhu De was inspired by "New Youth" magazine and truly embarked on the revolutionary path. In 1922, Zhu De officially became a glorious member of the Communist Party of China.
1925, Zhu De organized several workers' movements in the country and was arrested twice.After Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Jingwei betrayed the revolution in 1927, Zhu De led his soldiers to launch the " Nanchang Uprising" and fired the first shot against the Kuomintang reactionaries. In 1928, Zhu De, Zhou Enlai and Chen Yi led the troops to Jinggangshan, met with Chairman Mao, and opened up the famous revolutionary base in Jinggangshan.
(Zhu De)
In October 1934, Zhu De and Chairman Mao commanded the 25,000-mile Red Army of the Long March . After arriving at the revolutionary base in northern Shaanxi, he made an appeal to "stop the civil war and unite in fighting against Japan" . On July 7, 1937, after Japan launched a full-scale invasion of China, Zhu De became the commander-in-chief of the Eighth Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army. commanded the Eighth Route Army and other local anti-Japanese armed forces to carry out anti-Japanese activities, making indelible contributions to China's anti-Japanese cause.
After the outbreak of the Liberation War in 1946, Zhu De also served as the commander-in-chief of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. He commanded the strategic layout of the Liberation War with Chairman Mao, and led the Chinese People's Liberation Army to win major battles such as Liaoshen, Huaihai, and Pingjin, making indelible contributions to the cause of China's revolution.
After the founding of New China, Zhu De served as Vice Chairman of the State and Vice Chairman of the Military Commission for a long time, and was committed to the modernization of the national defense cause. On July 6, 1976, Zhu De died of illness at the age of 90. created the People's Army and was Zhu De's most outstanding contribution in his life. Therefore, Zhu De was later called the "Father of the Red Army".
No. 5: Zhou Enlai
Zhou Enlai was born in a scholarly family in 1898. In 1917, Zhou Enlai rushed to Japan to study, learned advanced ideas abroad, and began to explore the path to save the country and the people. After the May Fourth Movement broke out in 1919, Zhou Enlai participated and later became one of the early members of our party.
1924, during the outbreak of the National Revolution, Zhou Enlai served as the director of the Political Department of the Whampoa Military Academy, and made indelible contributions to promoting the first cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party and the National Revolution. After Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Jingwei launched the April 12 and July 15 counter-revolutionary coups in 1927, Zhou Enlai accompanied Zhu De, Chen Yi and others to participate in the Nanchang Uprising, firing the first shot of armed resistance against the Kuomintang reactionaries. 928, Zhou Enlai, Zhu De and Chen Yi climbed Jinggangshan together, met with Chairman Mao, and opened up the Jinggangshan Revolutionary Base.
(Zhou Enlai)
During the Red Army’s revolutionary base, Zhou Enlai organized four anti-encirclement and suppression times to defend Central Revolutionary base . During the Long March of the Red Army, Zhou Enlai cast a key vote on the Zunyi Conference and established Chairman Mao’s military thoughts in the Party. 936, Zhou Enlai promoted the peaceful resolution of the Xi'an Incident, laying the foundation for the second cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China. During the Anti-Japanese War, Zhou Enlai ran between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party and made a lot of efforts to consolidate the anti-Japanese national united front.
946 After the outbreak of the Liberation War, Zhou Enlai and Chairman Mao moved to northern Shaanxi and planned the three major battles of Liaoshen, Huaihai and Pingjin with the Chairman, , overthrew the reactionary rule of the Jiang family dynasty. After the founding of New China in 1949, Zhou Enlai served as Premier of the State Council for many years, presided over the economic construction of New China, and made indelible contributions to China's industrialization and socialist economic construction. In addition, Zhou Enlai has been in charge of China's diplomatic work for a long time, and the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence he proposed contributed a power of Chinese wisdom to world peace.
976, Zhou Enlai died of illness at the age of 78. To this day, the Chinese people still miss this self-reliant and dedicated people’s good prime minister.
No. 6: Deng Xiaoping
In 1904, Deng Xiaoping was born in a middle-aged peasant family in Yaopingli, Sichuan Province. When he was a teenager, he was taught in a private school and was slogan "Sacred Labor" proposed by Li Dazhao and Chen Duxiu at that time. After the May Fourth Movement broke out in 1919, Deng Xiaoping participated in the boycott of Japanese goods, and then went to France with Zhou Enlai, Liu Shaoqi and others to work and study. During this period, Deng Xiaoping was influenced by Marxism and became a Communist Party member.
(Deng Xiaoping)
925, after returning to China, Deng Xiaoping participated in the National Revolution and organized workers' movements across the country. After Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Jingwei launched a counter-revolutionary coup in 1927, Deng Xiaoping organized and led the Baise Uprising and the Longzhou Uprising. In October 1934, Deng Xiaoping followed the Central Red Army and embarked on the Long March. In 1936, he participated in the Western Expedition and the Eastern Expedition, making important contributions to consolidating the revolutionary base in northern Shaanxi.
On July 7, 1937, Japan launched the Lugou Bridge Incident in . After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Deng Xiaoping participated in the political work of the 129th Division and accompanied Liu Bocheng to open up the anti-Japanese revolutionary base in Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong and Henan. After the outbreak of the Liberation War in 1946, Deng Xiaoping and Liu Bocheng moved to the Central Plains and leaped into the Dabie Mountains in 1947, opening the prelude to the strategic counterattack of the Liberation War. In 1949, Deng Xiaoping and Liu Bocheng liberated the southwest and swept away the remnants of the Kuomintang's forces on the mainland.
At the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the 1978, Deng Xiaoping formulated the policy of reforming and opening up , bringing China into a new historical period. During negotiations with the UK on the Hong Kong issue in the 1980s, Deng Xiaoping's " One Country, Two Systems " proposed by Deng Xiaoping laid the foundation for the future return of Hong Kong and Macau.
On February 19, 1997, Deng Xiaoping died of illness at the age of 93. He changed the historical landscape of China. He claimed to be the son and public servant of the Chinese people. He will always be recorded in history and will never be forgotten by future generations.
