In literary works, there is an image that everyone is familiar with and likes very much, that is, "two-gun old woman". Some people may think that the two-gun old woman is an image of literary and artistic creation, in fact, the two-gun old woman has a prototype, her name is Jiao Ziying.
Jiao Ziying was born in 1905 in Jiaohe Village, Taiye City, Hubei Province. In 1905, in the late Qing Dynasty, thousands of years of feudal ideas were deeply rooted in people's minds, especially for women, and the traditional feudal etiquette imprisoned women's physical and mental freedom and equal status.
However, with the victory of the Xinhai Revolution in 1911, the Qing Dynasty was completely overthrown, and the emerging wave of ideology and culture poured into China, and Jiao Ziying was enlightened to understand that only by overthrowing the feudal landlord class could he truly turn himself into a master.
In 1929, Jiaohe Village was involved in the revolution, and Jiao Ziying served as the director of the village women's association, leading the women of the village to advocate the freedom of marriage, and took the lead in dissolving their own arranged marriages.
The following year, the Soviet government of Daye County was established, and Jiao Ziying became the minister of labor, and married the farm chief C, realizing an independent marriage. After marriage, the husband and wife both joined the Red Army and received commendations from the organization for their hard work.
During a job, her husband handed a pistol to Jiao Ziying for safekeeping, making her a double gunner who originally had a gun. At that time, she rode on a horse, holding a double gun, and the people she saw praised her for her heroic posture and majesty, which is the origin of the image of the old woman with two guns.
Later, in many anti-encirclement and suppression campaigns, Jiao Ziying served as a guerrilla leader, traveled around, and gradually lost contact with the organization. During this period, Jiao Ziying's guerrillas strictly observed discipline, and the members of the group preferred to eat bark and chew grass roots rather than take a needle and a thread from the masses. They lurked in the mountains and went down at night to preach revolutionary doctrine to the masses. They also distributed the grain and clothing they had seized from the local tycoons to the poor masses, winning the love of everyone, and Jiao Ziying, a female guerrilla leader in the southeastern Hubei region, "rode a white horse, shot with both hands, and specially beat the local tycoons to support the poor." At one point, the enemy offered a reward of 2,000 oceans to capture Jiao Ziying.
It was not until 1937 that the team led by Jiao Ziying found an organization. Because Jiao Ziying's husband Zeng Paijia had already died at that time, the leader saw her age and suffered so much, and persuaded her to start a family again. Later, under the organization's arrangement, Jiao Ziying and the guerrilla leader Jiang Youshu married.
Unfortunately, a "Pingjiang massacre" caused the couple to break away from the party organization and had to stay in the rural areas of Hunan to engage in agricultural production and secretly look for the party organization. In 1941, Jiao Ziying and his wife were arrested and imprisoned, but fortunately a Hubei villager let them go, so they came to the West Gate of Yichun and made a living by doing business. Unfortunately, Jiang Youshu left Jiao Ziying on the grounds of "inability to have children", and she joined an acrobatic troupe by chance, and married the regiment leader Yue Banglin, and has since lived a life of making a living by acrobatics.
In 1955, the circus was disbanded, Yue Banglin became a cleaner, Jiao Ziying became a nanny, and the two lived in a low-key manner, never thinking of reaching out to the organization for help. It was not until 1975 that Jiao Ziying was recognized by an old comrade-in-arms, and since then a generation of legendary heroines has been excavated, and the number of visitors has continued.
Decades of ups and downs, several life-and-death twists and turns, and the re-establishment of several marriages have all marked this legendary woman's pursuit of freedom and equality and her loyalty to the organization.