He was also the founder of both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, but was later expelled from both parties at the same time
Since the founding of New China, many people of insight have made great contributions to the rise of the Chinese nation, because of the difference in political beliefs, some eventually became the Communist Party, some became the Kuomintang, but few people know the dual identities of the Communist Party and the Kuomintang.
The one we are talking about today is very big, not only has a dual identity, but also is the founder of the two parties, who is this person? He is Tan Pingshan!
Tan Pingshan was born in Guangdong in 1886, the family is poor, the family of five brothers and sisters, he ranked second. The father worked hard every day and could only maintain a state of subsistence, so he wanted to provide for a child to study and become an official to change the family's situation. Tan Pingshan was brilliant since he was a child, so he was sent to the school hall by his father.
Tan Pingshan really lived up to expectations, and after graduating from middle school, he was admitted to the famous Normal Undergraduate School in Guangzhou, and it was also in this school that he received a large number of new ideas, and he hated the feudal system and threw himself into the anti-feudal wave.
After graduation, he worked as a mathematics teacher for a period of time, and after the founding of the Republic of China, he was elected as a member of the Provisional Council of Guangdong Province, and in 1917 he was admitted to the Philosophy Department of Peking University, during which time he met Li Dazhao and others. We know that the Communist Party of China was formally established in 1921, and Tan Pingshan returned to Guangdong after graduating from Peking University in 1920 and organized the Guangdong Communist Group.
Since he was the founder, why didn't Tan Pingshan attend such an important meeting of the CCP? In fact, not only did he not participate, Chen Duxiu did not participate, and at this time, Tan Pingshan was raising funds for the party in Guangdong schools!
So, how did Tan Pingshan, the founder of the Communist Party, become the founder of the Kuomintang again? On January 20, 1924, the Kuomintang was held at a large meeting, which was considered to be the time of the formal establishment of the Kuomintang, and in 1923, Sun Yat-sen decided to reorganize the Kuomintang and asked for the help of the Communist Party, Tan Pingshan was sent by the Communist Party to help Sun Yat-sen reorganize the Kuomintang, and even the Kuomintang's party program was drafted by Tan Pingshan.
The major turning point in Tan Pingsheng's life was the Nanchang Uprising, he was the advocate of the Nanchang Uprising and the supreme leader, but in this revolutionary activity, Tan Pingshan and Zhang Guotao had a very serious disagreement, although in the end, under the impetus of Tan Pingshan, the Nanchang Uprising was successful, but Zhang Guotao also wrote down this vendetta.
The Nanchang Uprising was destined to be a turning point in Tan Pingshan's life. As a senior member of the Kuomintang who participated in leading the Nanchang Uprising, he was definitely going to be expelled from the Kuomintang, and the result was exactly like this, but this was not the end, because of Zhang Guotao's influence, Tan Pingshan was expelled from the Communist Party in November 1927.
Although Tan Pingshan was expelled from the party by both parties at the same time, he did not give up on himself, but actively fought in the front line, actively supported the Communist Party during the Liberation War, and attended the important historical moment of the founding ceremony. Soon after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Tan Pingshan was elected as a member of the Standing Committee of the First National People's Congress, and in March 1956, he was also appointed vice chairman of the Third Central Committee of the Kuomintang Revolutionary Committee.