During the revolutionary struggle, he accumulated rich experience in political work, formed a combat drama club, and continuously activated the Red Army's amateur cultural life. Gan Siqi studied in his hometown elementary school when she was young. After graduating from Yunshan M

text/ He Libo

Gan Siqi is a senior general of our army and a famous political worker general. During the revolutionary struggle, he accumulated rich experience in political work, formed a combat drama club, and continued to activate the amateur cultural life of the Red Army . After liberation, he went deep into the grassroots troops and focused on doing a good job in the political and ideological work of the troops. During the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, he did a lot of work in improving the material and spiritual life of the troops. He gradually grew from a poor son of a farmer family to an excellent political worker general in our army after years of war. He and his lover Li Zhen were both founding generals. They worked together and fought side by side for more than 30 years. People call them "couples and generals" and "gemini generals".

Grown from a farmer's teenager to our military political worker general

Gan Siqi's original name is Jiang Fengwei. She was born on December 21, 1904 in Nanzhushan Village, Weishan District, Ningxiang County, Hunan Province. Gan Siqi studied in his hometown elementary school when she was young. After graduating from Yunshan Middle School in Ningxiang in 1924, she was admitted to the Hunan Political and Legal School in Changsha (later changed to Hunan University ). During this period, she participated in the anti-imperialist and anti-feudal student movement and the peasant movement.

1925, Gan Siqi joined the Communist Youth League of China while at school, and joined the Communist Party of China in 1926. In the spring of 1927, Gan Siqi went to study at Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow, the Soviet Union. Since then, he has officially changed the name of "Jiang Fengwei" to "Gan Siqi". In 1930, Gan Siqi returned to Shanghai and worked in writing translation work in the Central Secretariat. After the Fourth Plenary Session of the Sixth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in January 1931, according to the instructions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Gan Siqi and Wang Shoudao, who worked in the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, were sent to work in Hunan-Jiangxi Soviet Area. Wang Shoudao was appointed as the Secretary of the Hunan-Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee and Gan Siqi was appointed as the Minister of the Propaganda Department of the Provincial Party Committee. In May of the same year, Gan Siqi served as the political commissar of the Independent First Division of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, and led his troops to participate in the counterattack against the Kuomintang Gong Bingfan's troops who invaded the Soviet area. Then, he turned to , Gannan , and won some victories one after another, expanding his troops. In 1932, Gan Siqi served as the political commissar of the Hunan-Jiangxi Military Region and the director of the Propaganda Department of the Hunan-Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee. At that time, the Hunan-Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee was accused by "right-leaning opportunism" by "right-leaning" leaders such as Wang Ming and , and arrested leaders who did not implement the "left-leaning" line for no reason. Gan Siqi firmly resisted. In 1933, he was accused of being unactive in the anti-AB regiment for refusing to expose the so-called "rightist mistakes" of Wang Shoudao and Zhang Qilong. He was revoked his post in the Red Army and transferred to the local area. He served as Minister of Finance and Minister of National Economy of the Soviet Government of the Hunan-Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee.

1933 In the second half of 1933, Gan Siqi served as the director of the Political Department of the Red Sixth Army. In August 1934, Gan Siqi was appointed as the political commissar of the 18th Division of the Red Sixth Army. After the Red 2nd and 6th Legions met in October 1934, Gan Siqi served as the director of the Political Department of the Red 6th Legion, and in November he was changed to the Director of the Political Department of the Red 2nd Legion. In view of the situation where the Central Representative Xia Xi carried out Wang Ming's "left-leaning" line and expanded the "anti-counterrevolutionary" and destroyed the party organization of the Red Second Army, Gan Siqi devoted all his efforts to rebuild the party organization, helping and guiding the divisions and regiments to establish political organs, and equipped the political cadres of the battalion and company. He also requested that a group of cadres be selected from the Red Sixth Army, and to serve as political commissars at all levels or engage in political organs.

◆Gan Siqi

1934, the Red Second and Red Sixth Army set out from Hunan Sangzhi and started the Long March . The Political Department of the Red Second Army led by Gan Siqi is good at doing mass work. Especially when the spirit of the Wayaobao Conference of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in December 1935, that is, the new policy of the Anti-Japanese National United Front reached the Red Second and Red Sixth Corps, mass work added new content and vitality. On February 8, 1936, Ren Bishi, Guan Xiangying, Gan Siqi and others rushed to Dading to convene a meeting of 1,000 people, announcing the establishment of the Revolutionary Committee of Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou Province of the People's Republic of China, with He Long as the chairman and Chen Xiyun as the acting chairman. This was the first revolutionary regime established by the Red Second and Sixth Corps on the Long March. In early June and at the end of June 1936, the Red 2 and Red 6th Corps met with the Red 4th Front Army and then concentrated near Ganzi.On July 5, in accordance with the orders of the Central Revolutionary Military Commission, the Red Second and Red Sixth Army and the Red 32nd Army, adapted from the 9th Corps of the former Red First Front Army, jointly formed the Red Second Front Army, with He Long, the political commissar Ren Bishi, the deputy commander-in-chief Xiao Ke, the deputy political commissar Guan Xiangying, and Gan Siqi served as deputy director of the political department (later director). Ren Bishi had a high opinion of Gan Siqi and praised him, "Director Gan is a loyal comrade."

After the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, Gan Siqi served as deputy director and director of the Political Department of the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army. In September 1937, the 120th Division crossed the eastward Yellow River and opened up the anti-Japanese base behind the enemy in Shanxi and Suizhou. In order to adapt to the new situation of the continuous development and growth of the troops, Gan Siqi actively organized and organized teaching teams at all levels and trained a large number of new cadres. In 1940, Gan Siqi was transferred to the position of director of the Political Department of the Shanxi-Sui Military Region. In 1942, he was appointed deputy director of the Political Department of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia-Sii Joint Defense Forces and later director. In 1946, Gan Siqi re-appointed as the director of the Political Department of the Jinsui Military Region, and in 1947, he served as the director of the Political Department of the Northwest Field Army.

◆In October 1937, He Long, Guan Xiangying, Zhou Shidi, and Gan Siqi observed the terrain on the front line of Yanmen Pass .

In March 1947, the Kuomintang Hu Zongnan Group launched a full-scale attack on the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region. Under the leadership of the Party Central Committee and Chairman Mao Zedong, the military and civilians in the border region fought bravely and tenaciously under difficult conditions. As the director of the Political Department of the Northwest Field Army, Gan Siqi assisted Commander Peng Dehuai in doing a lot of work. In November of the same year, after 's second Yulin Battle, the troops carried out training. Among the soldiers of the 358th Brigade of the First Column, a Sichuan-born Liberation Army erected a tablet for his mother in the wild at night, crying about his family's blood and tears, and said that he joined the People's Liberation Army and wanted to avenge his mother who was killed by the Kuomintang and the bully landlord. The company's political instructor happened to pass by and remembered his same suffering. The two hugged each other and complained. Yu Qiuli, the political commissar of the brigade, seized on the issue of Liberation Army education and promoted it, and later developed into a mass education movement of complaints and three investigations. After hearing the situation introduction, Peng Dehuai immediately asked the Political Department of the Field Army to go to the field army to summarize his experience. With the political sensitivity and rich political work experience that a political work leader has, Gan Siqi led cadres to personally go to the army to summarize the experience of self-education of the masses. Later, with the support of Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, it was quickly promoted to various columns, setting off a new mass military reorganization movement. This is a new development of the political work and democratic movement of our People's Liberation Army. During the complaint movement, Gan Siqi went deep into the company many times to personally guide, and attended the complaint conference with the soldiers, spreading the tradition of our army's political work, and greatly improving the political awareness of the commanders and fighters of the army.

After the founding of New China, Gan Siqi served as the political commissar of the Northwest Military Region and the director of the political department of the military region, and the deputy political commissar of the First Field Army and the director of the political department of the political department. Gan Siqi assisted Peng Dehuai in commanding his troops to fight the northwest and liberated the five northwest provinces. Afterwards, he moved to clean up the remaining bandits, settled and guarded the border, and some of the troops participated in the march to Tibet. In August 1951, Gan Siqi participated in the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea and served as the deputy political commissar and director of the political department of the Volunteer Army. He has made great achievements in the political work of the troops. In June 1952, Gan Siqi organized the first Volunteer Army Political Work Conference, which clearly put forward the central tasks of current political work. Gan Siqi arrived at the North Korean front in the summer of 1951 and saw that the so-called " United Nations Army " led by the United States dispatched a large number of planes day and night to bombard our front-line troops and transportation lines. In addition, it was rainy and the river water surged, and the supply of troops was extremely difficult. Our volunteer army and the Korean People's Army soldiers had to dig wild vegetables to satisfy their hunger due to insufficient supply of food and vegetables. Gan Siqi believes that the material and cultural life problems of the masses are not easy to solve, and strategic goals are difficult to achieve. After crushing the enemy's "stranger war" and "bacterial war", the front line was relatively stable and transportation conditions were also improved.

With the approval of the Volunteer Army Party Committee, a meeting on the Volunteer Army political work was held in Huicang, southeast of Chengchuan, North Korea in June 1952.At the meeting, Gan Siqi asked the comrades attending the meeting to pay attention to researching and solving practical problems. He advocated that party committees and political organs at all levels of the Volunteer Army should care about the lives of soldiers politically, go deeper, listen to the opinions of soldiers widely, improve the material supply of companies, effectively handle food, activate cultural life, make the troops lively and take positions as their homes; they should vigorously support logistics work, and quickly deliver combat materials and daily necessities from the people of the motherland to the soldiers. Later, the commanders and soldiers unanimously reported that the Volunteer Army Political Work Conference was held well and truly solved the actual problems of the company.

formed a battle drama club, making the army's cultural life vivid and erotic

Gan Siqi has been engaged in political work for a long time and has always attached great importance to literary and artistic work. The Second Red Army where he is located has made literary and artistic and artistic. In June 1936, the Red Second and Sixth Corps met with the Red Fourth Front Army. At the celebration meeting between the two armies, the Red Fourth Front Army's Fireworks performed literary and artistic programs such as "Red Army Soldiers Celebrating Victory Dance", "Harvest Dance", " Hoe Dance ", and "Scythe Dance". He Long praised the active cultural and entertainment life of the Red Fourth Front Army. He solicited Gan Siqi's opinions: "How is it? Can we also set up a drama club?" Gan Siqi also had this idea, so he said happily: "The commander-in-chief said, of course, it's okay to set up one!" He Long immediately solicited the opinions of Ren Bishi and Guan Xiangying, and they all agreed. He Long said happily: "Okay! That's it, the name is 'But Drama Club', and Director Gan and Comrade Jin Rubo are responsible for the establishment of the Drama Club."

Gan Siqi followed He Long's instructions and actively grasped the establishment of the Drama Club. He convened Jin Rubai, deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Political Department, Wu Guisan, captain of the Propaganda Team, as well as Luo Hongbiao, captain of the Propaganda Team's first team, and others to study it, and decided to form a combat drama club based on the propaganda team. Gan Siqi believes that the red ghosts in the propaganda team are very lively and can select some people from them, and they can also select some people from the propaganda teams of the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Divisions. Soon, Chen Jing was transferred from the Fourth Division, Gong Guofan was transferred from the Fifth Division, and Liang Dingshang and more than a dozen people were transferred from the Sixth Division. Within a few days, 25 people gathered. In mid-July, the combat drama club of the Second Front Army of the Red Army was officially established in Ganzi. The president is temporarily missing, Luo Hongbiao is the instructor, and there are three teams under the ranks, the first team led by Wu Guisan and Chen Luyan is the propaganda and agitation team; the second team led by Chen Jing is the music team; the third team is the drama team, and the person in charge is Luo Hongbiao. On the fourth day of the establishment of the Opera Club, Gan Siqi wrote a letter to Chen Changhao, the General Political Commissar and Director of the Political Department of the Red Fourth Front Army, and Fu Zhong, deputy director of the Political Department, requesting the Political Department of the Red Fourth Front Army to support and help the Red Second Front Army train the backbone of literary and artistic propaganda, and sent Luo Hongbiao and others to the Red Fourth Front Army to contact and implement the training matters.

Chen Changhao and Fu Zhong warmly received Luo Hongbiao and others, and asked Li Bozhao, the head of the Red Fourth Army Fireworks Drama Club, and Luo Hongbiao, to conduct specific research and implementation. After listening to Luo Hongbiao's introduction, Li Bozhao said enthusiastically: "Let's learn from each other!" So she talked to Luo Hongbiao: "1. Your people can come to us, and we can help you train; 2. You can give you a comrade to help you screenwriter and director."

Luo Hongbiao immediately reported to Gan Siqi. Gan Siqi decided that Luo Hongbiao would take people to the Red Fourth Front Military Drama Club to study. Luo Hongbiao took people to study for more than 20 days, and acted with the Fireworks Club. He learned a lot of knowledge in practice and learned three dances. In early August, in order to do a good job in promoting and promoting through grasslands, Gan Siqi contacted him and obtained the approval of the head of the Red Fourth Front Army, he sent a propaganda team of more than 100 Red Fourth Front Army led by Yi Weijun and Li Bozhao to cross grasslands with the Red Second Front Army. The Red Second Front Army Combat Drama Club and other literary and artistic propaganda personnel learned a lot of good ideas, good style and propaganda and agitation work experience from the Red Fourth Front Army propaganda team. Shortly after the establishment of the Battle Drama Club, it grew to more than 180 people, able to perform relatively large operas and dances, becoming an important force on the propaganda and cultural front that is loved by officers and soldiers.

During the War of Resistance Against Japan and the War of Liberation, the Battle Drama Society developed into a famous military literary and artistic group. Mao Zedong watched the program edited and performed by the Battle Drama Society in Yan'an and wrote a letter to praise and encouragement. The battle drama club has successively cultivated many literary and artistic backbones, such as Ouyang Shanzun, Yan Jizhou , Cheng Yin and many well-known people in the literary and artistic circles have worked in the battle drama club. Among the military and civilians in the base area, there is a saying that He Long's troops have "three good things": good battles, good performances, and good balls.

◆In August 1937, Gan Siqi became the director of the Political Department of the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army.

In December 1937, the Eighth Route Army Headquarters ordered the 120th Division to advance into Hebei and carry out the task of consolidating Hebei and China. On January 25, 1939, the 120th Division headquarters arrived at Huibokou, Renqiu County, Jizhong. Gan Siqi convened a meeting of relevant personnel from the Political Department to study the matters related to the gala held by the 120th Division and the Hebei Central Military Region. In the evening, the 120th Division Combat Drama Club and the Independent Fourth Detachment of the Hebei Central Military Region performed an art program. At the party venue, laughter and applause came one after another. The party was open until late at night. Although the weather is a bit cold, the party is steaming, inspiring fighting spirit and inspiring people.

Leave Northwest Shanxi Before going to Jizhong, He Long, who likes cultural people, wanted to bring writers Sha Ting and He Qifang to Jizhong. Because there are many materials worth writing about in northwestern Shanxi, Sha Ting and He Qifang do not want to go to Hezhong. After He Long and Gan Siqi repeatedly did ideological work and repeatedly explained that as long as they were willing to go deep into the masses, the troops, and life, the materials they could write were everywhere, Sha Ting and He Qifang happily agreed to go to Hezhong. After they arrived in central Hebei, they gained a lot after going deep into life and wrote many good works that reflected the military and civilians in central Hebei. Sha Ting later recalled the impression that Gan Siqi left on himself as: "I am energetic and humorous in conversation."

During the arduous War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Gan Siqi attached great importance to carrying out various activities to activate the cultural life of the troops and cooperated with political and ideological education. He believes that in education, politics and culture complement each other. In addition to attending classes at a certain time, the club is the center of military cultural activities. Based on this understanding, he emphasized that the club's organization was popularized to every company. Under the leadership of the instructor, each company often organized military evening parties, sang, dance, performed street dramas and conducted sports activities, thus greatly improving the political and cultural level of the army.

◆From left: Xiao Hua, Deng Hua, Gan Siqi, Li Zhen.

In the 1950s and 1960s, the material and cultural life of the national defense engineering troops was very poor. Gan Siqi, who was then deputy director of the General Political Department of the People's Liberation Army, divided the responsibilities and was responsible for the political work of the national defense engineering troops of the entire army. Most of the construction troops are in the seaside and mountainous areas with poor conditions. Gan Siqi requires these troops to do a good job in political and ideological work, and also require the divisions and regiments to form amateur soldiers' performance teams, which are specifically responsible for the propaganda and agitation work on the construction site and the army's cultural and entertainment activities. At the suggestion of Gan Siqi, the General Political Department of will give priority to the construction troops' cultural activities funds and cultural and sports equipment. Later, some telecommunications transfer stations were built so that the construction troops in the deep mountains, forests, snow fields, border islands and some deserted areas could also hear the radio, improving the military's cultural life. Through political education, the national defense construction force inherited and carried forward the spirit of revolutionary optimism, and the vast number of officers and soldiers were not afraid of hardship in suffering, and consciously sought happiness from suffering. The soldiers hung on the wooden frame with different lengths of steel chisel , knocking out various notes, playing them with saw blades, and blowing them with nice little songs with leaves. The soldiers often recite poems to express their ambitions: "The frozen soil makes a quilt for the bed, and the snow-capped mountain makes a dream of making a tent. Don't say that the soldiers are indecent, and I am willing to taste the bitterness of the world." The soldiers regard the transformation of the environment and beautify the station as a great pleasure. At the station and construction site, they use sand and stone to build figures such as "0,000-mile Great Wall " and " Tiananmen " and " Tiananmen " inlaid with white stones to express their heartfelt love for the motherland and the people.People praised: Deputy Director Gan Siqi really revitalized the political and ideological work of the National Defense Engineering Force.

Couple General, Gemini General

On September 27, 1955, the Huairen Hall in Zhongnanhai, Beijing held the first awarding ceremony of the People's Liberation Army of China. Gan Siqi, then deputy director of the General Political Department of the People's Liberation Army, was awarded the rank of general. His wife Li Zhen was also awarded the rank of major general, becoming the first female general in the history of the People's Liberation Army. People call them "Shenzhou couple generals".

In February 1908, Li Zhen was born in a poor peasant family in Yaoqian Village, Shuihe Town, Liuyang County. When she was 6 years old, she was taken to the ancient family in the neighboring village to be a child bride. In October 1926, the Northern Expedition Army entered Liuyang , Li Zhen participated in the revolution and joined the Communist Party of China in March 1927. From the first day when Li Zhen left her husband's house in 1926 to make a revolution, she met Zhang Qilong, then secretary of the Yonghe District Committee of the Communist Party of China, and the two gradually sublimated their sincere love. In 1932, with the approval of the organization, Zhang Qilong and Li Zhen became husband and wife. Soon, Zhang Qilong was mistakenly labeled as a "reorganized faction" and a "AB group member". In order not to implicate Li Zhen, Zhang Qilong painfully signed the "divorce application" prepared by the Security Bureau in advance. A loving couple separated after shed tears and was reluctant to leave.

In October 1934, after the Red Second Army and the Red Sixth Army joined forces, they moved to Xiangxi , creating a new base, and established the Hunan-Hubei-Sichuan-Guizhou Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Military Region in Tawo Town, Yongshun County, Hunan Province. Li Zhen was formerly the Organization Department of the Political Department of the Red Sixth Army and was transferred to the Organization Department of the Political Department of the Provincial Military Region. One day, Ren Bishi's wife Chen Congying introduced to Li Zhen Gan Siqi, director of the Political Department of the Red Sixth Army. Li Zhen knew Gan Siqi and had a good impression of him, but he never thought about marrying him. She shook her head repeatedly and said, "No, no!" Chen Congying asked in confusion, "Why?" Li Zhen explained, "I went to the Soviet Union to study. I am a child bride and have no education." Li Zhen felt that it was inappropriate for Chen Congying to do his job. She believes that Gan Siqi is much better than herself and will not be willing to combine with herself. But Chen Congying said, "Don't speak so absolutely. Director Gan has a very good impression of you! He said you are arrogant and capable, have a solid style, and are an amazing lesbian." Gan Siqi often praises Li Zhen, and Li Zhen has been single after his divorce, so Chen Congying took the initiative to come and match the marriage between the two of them. After hearing what Chen Congying said, Li Zhen lowered his head shyly and stopped talking.

◆Gan Siqi and Li Zhen.

In November 1935, on the eve of the Long March of the Red Sixth Army, Gan Siqi and Li Zhen borrowed a house from a commoner's house and formed a revolutionary companion. Ren Bishi was their master of marriage, and He Long also came to attend their wedding. He said humorously during the meal: "Today, Gan Siqi and Li Zhen got married, which is completely new and has no feudal color. One does not worship the world, and the other does not worship the ancestors, is to do the revolution wholeheartedly. They are a very revolutionary couple." Everyone laughed.

The Long March was arduous and the battles were frequent, which made it even more difficult for pregnant Li Zhen. When crossing the grassland during the Long March, Li Zhen gave birth prematurely due to excessive fatigue and hunger and coldness. Due to lack of adequate nutrition for a long time, the child naturally lacks milk, so he cries even more hungry. Although the soldiers liked this child very much, they took care of him in every way and gave him barley noodles that they couldn't bear to eat. But this is a drop in the bucket and it doesn't solve the problem at all. Before Li Zhen could walk out of the grassland, the child died. Since then, Li Zhen has never been pregnant again, which is a huge sacrifice made by Gan Siqi and Li Zhen for the revolutionary war. When the couple took care of each other and worked together to successfully arrive in northern Shaanxi with the Red Army troops, He Long happily called them "two model cadres and a revolutionary couple."

After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Li Zhen accepted the organization's arrangement and returned to the rear from the position of director of the Political Department of the 120th Division of , and served as the principal of the Women's School. Gan Siqi, as the director of the Political Department of the 120th Division, has been fighting on the front line of the Anti-Japanese War. During the War of Liberation, Gan Siqi served as the director of the Political Department of the Northwest Field Army, and Li Zhen served as the secretary-general of the Political Department. The couple participated in a series of battles to liberation the Northwest. Shortly after the founding of New China, Gan Siqi and Li Zhen and his wife rushed to the front line of resisting U.S. aggression and aiding Korea. Gan Siqi served as deputy political commissar and director of the political department of the Volunteer Army, and Li Zhen was personally appointed by Peng Dehuai as secretary-general of the Political Department of the Volunteer Army.

After returning to the country to resist U.S. aggression and aid Korea, many comrades in the army said regretfully when they saw Gan Siqi: "Old Gan, it's so regretful. You have been revolutionizing for decades and don't even have a child!" Li Zhen often feels guilty and feels sorry for Gan Siqi. She said, "Old Gan, you can marry another wife while it's still time to give birth to you a child!" But Gan Siqi answered very simply: "What I want is my lover, not a child!" Yes, "What I want is my lover!" Although this sentence does not show any tenderness and sweetness, who can say that it does not fully express Gan Siqi's love for Li Zhen?

◆Gan Siqi and his wife took a photo with their adopted children.

Because Li Zhen lost his fertility during the war, Gan Siqi and Li Zhen had no biological children. They treated the orphans of martyrs and cadres as their biological children, and raised the children of more than 20 martyrs and cadres. Gan Siqi often said to people: "We revolutionaries are not for the purpose of inheriting the family line, but for the successors of the revolution." "Look at them, aren't they all like our children!" When Gan Siqi and Li Zhen returned from North Korea, their old comrade-in-arms and deputy chief of staff of the Volunteer Army Command Wang Zhengzhu and his wife were still on the Korean battlefield, and the children were left unattended. Gan Siqi and his wife took Wang Zhengzhu's three children to their homes to raise, paying attention to caring for and educating the children in all aspects, cultivating their character, and exercising their abilities. After the Miao people died of illness in 1955, Gan Siqi and Li Zhen took his daughter Zhu Yipu to the home to raise him. Zhu Yipu suffered from stomach disease . Li Zhen specially ordered a portion of milk and gave her "special care" to encourage her to maintain her body, study hard, and be a useful person to the country and the people in the future. Chen Xiyun, an old subordinate of the Second Red Front Army and the 120th Division, and then the first deputy minister and secretary of the Party Group of the Ministry of Grain, suffered from a terminal illness in 1957. When his life was in danger, he was worried about his young children. When Gan Siqi and Li Zhen found out, they immediately went to comfort Chen Xiyun and took his eldest daughter Chen Xiaomei to the house. From going to elementary school, middle school, university, and all the way to working, Chen Xiaomei, who was weak and sick, grew up healthily and happily under the care of Li Zhen like a mother. Later, she was admitted to the Foreign Languages ​​College of the People's Liberation Army and became a technical backbone of the army.

Gan Siqi attaches special importance to the ideological and moral education of children. The adopted daughter Xiaoli went to the Beidahuang Production and Construction Corps to exercise. Gan Siqi and Li Zhen specially gave her a pair of silver needles and a cupping, asking her to use these two things to treat everyone. When her niece Yinan went to the countryside to go to the countryside to work, the gifts that Gan Siqi and Li Zhen gave her were: a pair of rubber shoes, a flashlight and a sewing bag. Gan Siqi said to her niece: "You have to break your own path!" Under the words and deeds of Gan Siqi and Li Zhen, more than 20 children studied hard and developed the good habit of hard work and simplicity since childhood. They did not pay attention to life, and could do anything by themselves, and had strong ability to live independently. Children live together, unite with each other, work hard and make progress. When they grow up, they become national construction talents and actively play a role in the fronts of medical care, culture and education, science and technology, national defense and other fronts.

"I don't need special care"

Gan Siqi has been honest and dedicated to the public throughout her life. He once set a rule for the staff around him that no matter where he goes, no matter what occasion, no matter who he is, he will never make any special requests.Whether in the arduous war years or the peaceful times when conditions were improved, he repeatedly emphasized: "I don't need special care."

When Gan Siqi was the director of the Political Department of the Second Red Army, he once fell ill and couldn't eat. cook saw this and fryed a dish and gave it to him. But he said he would not eat anything and immediately looked for the General Affairs Director, saying that this was a special care and he would not take special care of him in the future. When the Long March passed through the Tibetan area, many Tibetans hurriedly abandoned their homes and fled to the deep mountains and forests to hide because they did not understand the Red Army. At this time, the barley and broad beans in the field had matured, and the Red Army urgently needed food. The head of the Second Red Front Army then decided: the troops could harvest crops in the fields, but they must pay at the market price. The troops began to harvest barley and broad beans. Gan Siqi was a little worried: there was no one in the family of Tibetan fellow villagers, and the troops were facing difficulties. In this case, will there be a violation of mass discipline? On the one hand, Gan Siqi sent propagandists from the Political Department Battle Drama Club to find Tibetan fellow villagers and tried their best to persuade them to go home. On the other hand, they reiterated the regulation that crops must be paid at the market price. He also emphasized in particular: you have to pay if you can’t find the owner. You must never pay less just because the owner is not at home. If you don’t know the market price, you would rather pay a little more. After the troops left, Gan Siqi was still worried. He personally took people to the homes of some Tibetan fellow villagers who had been hiding out to check the implementation of discipline in the troops. I saw that each household did have money and notes left by the troops. In addition to specifying in detail how many crops were harvested and how much money was paid, I also wrote words to thank Tibetans. After the inspection, Gan Siqi left with satisfaction.

During the Long March, the Second Red Army was the last troops to cross the grassland, so the difficulties encountered in raising food were the greatest. Within a few days after entering the grassland, the food was eaten up, and the entire front army was facing the threat of hunger. Gan Siqi took out all his food and distributed it to the wounded and sick, while he himself relied on wild vegetables to satisfy his hunger. Whenever he arrived at a campsite, he didn't have time to rest, and he led the comrades from the political department to search for wild vegetables. In order to discover new edible wild vegetables, Gan Siqi always risked poisoning and tried to eat them first. Such an experiment is very risky. If you get poisoned, it will be difficult to rescue based on the medical conditions at that time. But Gan Siqi did not listen to everyone's dissuasion and insisted on trying it first. When it was proved that a certain wild vegetable was non-toxic and could satisfy his hunger, he was ecstatic and immediately wrote a quick letter to write a telegram, impatiently sending the troops. And encourage officers and soldiers to conquer all difficulties in order to revolution, continue to advance, and strive for the final victory of the Long March. Later, the incident of Gan Siqi taking the risk of tasting wild vegetables spread in the army, and the soldiers were deeply moved.

◆In 1963, Gan Siqi (from left), Wang Shangrong, Li Da, Zhong Qiguang and Huang Mars attended the National Day ceremony at the Tiananmen Gate Tower.

Gan Siqi is known for her hard work and simplicity and approachability. For decades, he has almost never bought clothes except for uniformly distributed military uniforms. After the implementation of the military rank system in 1955, Gan Siqi and Li Zhen were famous as generals and their husbands inside and outside the army, but they still maintained their frugality in life and spent their salaries on raising the orphans of martyrs and the children of cadres in difficulties.

On February 5, 1964, Gan Siqi died of a sudden heart attack at work at the age of 60. After Gan Siqi's death, Li Zhen still followed the rules he set during his lifetime. In 1985, on the eve of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 12th Central Committee of the Party, Li Zhen took the initiative to write a report to the Central Military Commission and the General Political Party Committee, requesting to resign from his position as a member of the Central Advisory Committee and the leadership of the army, fully reflecting the noble character of an old Communist Party member, an old Red Army soldier and a proletarian revolutionary. After she voluntarily stepped down from her leadership position, she still cared about the major affairs of the Party and the country and insisted on studying. Li Zhen has a nephew who works in an military hospital in a mountain valley. During the simplification and reorganization, the hospital will be handed over to the local area. The nephew and nephew-sister-in-law wanted their aunt to speak to the organization and transferred them to Beijing to continue working in the army to take care of their aunt's life. Li Zhen said to them patiently: "I can't say this love."Now the army is undergoing institutional reform and streamlining and reorganization. As a party member and cadre, we must be party spirit, take the overall situation into consideration, and abide by discipline. Your desire to continue to work in the army is good, but you must listen to the Party and obey the organization's arrangements. You can't speak in my name, my life is organized and managed. I remember when Comrade Gan Siqi was alive, he asked you to study hard and serve the people with your own true skills when you grow up. I hope you will not let down the expectations of your loved ones. "After Li Zhen's patient education, the couple happily returned to their jobs the next day. She clearly stipulated that relatives cannot ask the organization to solve personal problems in the name of her and Comrade Gan Siqi.

◆Gan Siqi and Li Zhen.

Gan Siqi is known for her integrity and dedication, and Li Zhen is the same. Since 1975, Li Zhen has lived in a very ordinary dilapidated courtyard at the foot of Xiangshan Mountain. The house has been disrepaired for many years and the equipment is poor. The furniture is dilapidated, none of which is decent, and the bathroom is often leaking, and sometimes bricks are required to walk in. Several families use a boiler to boil water for heating, and the indoor temperature is relatively low in winter. The general political leader has repeatedly advised her to move to the city to live, but she always says, "The house can still be lived in." I have a way to keep the cold. "In the spring of 1984, the organization sent someone to persuade Li Zhen to move. After much persuasion, Li Zhen agreed to move into a military cadre room in an apartment near Zizhuyuan. In this "collective dormitory", Li Zhen spent the last six extraordinary spring and autumn of her life. On March 11, 1990, Li Zhen died of illness. According to Li Zhen's will, her ashes were buried together with the ashes of Gan Siqi, who had already died in 1964.

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