Li Zhen

Li Zhen

Li Zhen (1908-1990), born in Liuyang County, Hunan Province, is a female major general of the founding of the people's Republic of China. In 1926, he left his mother-in-law's family to participate in the revolution. In 1927, he joined the Communist Party of China and joined the guerrillas in the same year. Li Zhen successively served as chairman of Liudong guerrilla soldiers Committee, director of Military Department of Pingjiang and Ji'an County Party committees, director of Organization Department of Political Department of the sixth Red Army Corps, deputy director of Organization Department of Political Department of the second red front army, President of women's School of the Eighth Route Army, Secretary General of Political Department of Jinsui military region, Secretary General of Political Department of Northwest Field Army, Secretary General of Political Department of Chinese people's Volunteer Army, and Secretary General of Supreme People's Procuratorate Deputy chief procurator of the people's Procuratorate. He participated in the agrarian revolution, the war of resistance against Japan, the war of liberation and the war of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea.

He was awarded the rank of major general in 1955. He died in Beijing on March 11, 1990 at the age of 82.

Life of the characters

Early experience

In January 1908, Li Zhen was born into a poor peasant family in Liuyang County, Hunan Province. There are only two acres of thin farmland and several thatched cottages in the family. Their parents have six children, all of them women. Moreover, when Li Zhenna's youngest sister was born just two days ago, their father fell ill and died soon.

At the age of 6, Li Zhen was sent to a family with the surname of Gu to be her daughter-in-law.

Period of Agrarian Revolution

In March 1927, Li Zhen joined the Communist Party of China. In September, Li Zhen joined the Liudong guerrillas.

In 1928, Li Zhen was appointed chairman of the Liudong guerrilla soldiers Committee. In the same year, Li Zhen disguised herself as a bride and took part in the attack on Zhangjiafang. Li Zhen successively served as the head of the military department of Pingjiang and Ji'an County Party committees.

In 1932, Li Zhen was appointed political commissar of the Red Army women's League in the Hunan Jiangxi border region.

In 1933, Li Zhen served as political commissar of Medical School of Hunan Jiangxi military region, deputy secretary of Anfu county Party committee, and studied in Ruijin Party school. Li Zhen also served as director of the Organization Department of the Political Department of the sixth Red Army Corps and vice director of the Organization Department of the Political Department of the second red front army.

Li Zhen took part in the Autumn Harvest Uprising on the border between Hunan and Jiangxi, the struggle against "encirclement and suppression" in the base areas of Hunan, Jiangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan and Guizhou, and the long march of the Red Army.

the period of Counter-Japanese War

During the Anti Japanese War, Li Zhenxian was in central Hebei, and later returned to Yan'an Anti Japanese military and Political University to study as the president of the women's School of the Eighth Route Army. After that, Li Zhen successively served as the chief of the organization section of the teaching regiment of the 120th division, the director of the political department directly under the division, and the chief of the organization section of the Organization Department of the Political Department of the Shaan Gan Ning Jin Sui united defense army.

During the war of Liberation

During the war of liberation, Li Zhen served as Secretary General of the Political Department of the Jinsui military region and director of the political department directly under the Political Department of the Northwest Field Army.

After the founding of the people's Republic of China

After the founding of the people's Republic of China in 1949, Li Zhen became Secretary General of the Political Department of the northwest military region.

In 1951, Li Zhen joined the Korean War as Secretary General of the Political Department of the Chinese people's Volunteer Army. After returning to China, Li Zhen was appointed director of the cadre Department of the Political Department of the air defense force and Deputy Procurator General of the PLA military procuratorate. Consultant of Organization Department of General Political Department of PLA.

Li Zhen is a deputy to the first plenary session of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference, a member of the Standing Committee of the Fifth National People's Congress, and an alternate representative of the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China. She was elected a member of the Central Advisory Committee at the Twelfth National Congress of the Communist Party of China.

In 1980, Li Zhen became deputy to the major military region.

On March 11, 1990, Li Zhen died in Beijing at the age of 82.

Honors

Li Zhen was awarded the second grade Medal of freedom and independence of North Korea.

On September 27, 1955, Li Zhen was awarded the rank of major general and was awarded the August 1st medal, the independence and freedom medal and the Liberation Medal. She was the only woman among the founding generals.

In 1988, Li Zhen won the first-class Red Star Medal.

Relative members

The first husband: Gu Tianshun, 4 years older than Li Zhen, is an honest, honest, but irascible young man. In January 1924, she married Li Zhen, 16. In March 1927, because Li Zhen participated in the revolution, her mother-in-law was afraid of being dismissed.

Second husband: Zhang Qilong, Secretary of the Liuyang district Party committee. In 1932, with the approval of the organization, she married Li Zhen. Before long, Zhang Qilong was wrongly labeled as a "reformer" or "ab group member". In order not to implicate Li Zhen, zhang signed the "divorce application" prepared in advance by the Political Security Bureau of the Communist Party of China.

The third husband: Gan Siqi, formerly known as Jiang Fengwei, also known as Jiang Bingkun, was born on December 21, 1903 in a peasant family in nanzhushan village, Ningxiang County, Hunan Province. Graduated from Moscow Sun Yat sen University, political commissar of the red 18th division. General of the Chinese people's Liberation Army, former deputy director of the General Political Department of the Chinese people's Liberation Army, and alternate member of the Eighth Central Committee.

Character evaluation

Li Zhen is an excellent member of the Communist Party of China and a long tested and loyal communist fighter.

Premier Zhou Enlai of the State Council of the people's Republic of China: Li Zhen is the first female general of the people's Republic of China!

Commemoration of later generations

Hunan Opera

Li Zhen's return to her hometown (2009): it describes the memories of Li Zhen, the first female general of the Chinese people's Liberation Army, who went back to the village of Liuyang, Hunan Province to visit the villagers in the 1950s after the victory of the revolution. It vividly reappears the memories of seeing Xiu Jie and Mo Xiang Chang, the comrades in arms during the great revolution, and Gu San, his ex husband when he was a child's daughter-in-law This paper describes the military life and mental journey of the first female general of the Republic.

Chinese PinYin : Li Zhen