Each era will create a group of heroes who belong to that era, and they will exchange their lifelong dedication for the respect and admiration of future generations. After the late Qing Dynasty, China began a history of humiliation for nearly a hundred years, with social unrest and wars. But it is precisely because of this that patriots have sprung up one after another, dedicating their lives to the country and the nation.
After the late period, there was such a pair of grandchildren, although they were born in different periods, their patriotic feelings were surprisingly consistent. Among them, the grandfather was born in the late Qing Dynasty, named Chen Yihuai; the grandson was born in the Republic of China period, named Chen Geng, what kind of family can be talented, and what kind of legendary story did their grandfather and grandson experience?
Chen Geng
The times create people, and strive to become famous
In the late Qing Dynasty, in Xiangxiang County, Hunan, there was a famous and famous family, that is, the Chen family.
However, the rise of the Chen family was not passed down from generation to generation. In the beginning, the Chen family was just a very ordinary rural family, engaged in farming and labor for generations, living a hard life, and could not get rid of the life of not having enough to eat and no clothes to hide.
In Chen Yihuai's generation, at the beginning, like his grandfather and father, he worked in the fields from an early age and lived a self-sufficient life by relying on the crops he cultivated. But since he was a child, he is not a person who is willing to be satisfied with the status quo, he has ideas and courage, and he has taught himself martial arts at a very young age and practiced a martial art.
One day, he was working in the fields, looking at the yellow land and sighing, knowing that he had the ability and ambition, but he could only work in the field every day, why couldn't he not serve the imperial court and achieve something. The country is already in the middle of a crisis, as a good boy, at this time do not come out, when to come out?
Suddenly, he faced the yellow land under his feet and said solemnly: "Chen Yihuai, if you don't go out and make a career, you will be sorry for yourself, for being a person, and sorry for your hometown." In this way, he told his thoughts to his family in its entirety, but the old-fashioned rural families would agree to his risk.
Chen Yihuai found that no matter how to persuade his father, he would not get support, but the family held him more tightly, and he believed that he had the determination and ability to make a career in such a social environment and achieve himself. So, in a hurry, the hoe in his hand fell to the ground and resolutely ran away from home.
Leaving his hometown, he first arrived in Changsha. It just so happened that at that time, Hunan Province was recruiting new recruits, and he successfully passed the examination by virtue of his martial arts, and became a firehead soldier among the Xiang soldiers under Zeng Guofan.
This result is already very satisfying for him who has just stepped out of the house, and he is convinced that gold will shine, even if it is only a logistics now, but it is only a short experience.
Since he had been armed with martial arts since he was a child, his martial arts were soon discovered by the commanders—everyone in the army knew that the fire-headed soldier Chen Yihuai could also stand on the three tables erected and pick up four wooden barrels filled with water with his teeth. It is difficult not to be appreciated by the governor for such a top-notch performance. In this way, he was promoted from a fireman in charge of cooking to a combat soldier.
The kung fu paid off, and he finally got the opportunity to fight on the battlefield. He took every battle with the most serious attitude and firmly seized every opportunity to fall from the sky.
With his detached ability and extraordinary performance, he made countless military achievements, was promoted by the imperial court, and from the beginning of the fire-headed soldiers, he climbed to the position of general step by step, and was respected by people.
After becoming famous, Chen Yihuai, who had come down at ease, once again thought of his life in his hometown when he was young, and remembered the vows he had made in the face of the yellow land. He thought to himself, it is time, since he has fulfilled himself in this life and fulfilled his original vows, he can unload his armor and return to his hometown.
As time went on, Chen Yihuai missed his previous comfortable life in the countryside more and more. Finally, unable to contain his mood, he handed the recital to the imperial court and pleaded with the imperial court for approval to return home.
Retreat to your hometown and share the joy of the world
After receiving the "royal approval" of the saint, Chen Yihuai immediately packed up his luggage and returned to his hometown happily. He used the money he had accumulated in half a lifetime to buy hundreds of acres of land and spent a lot of money to renovate his ancestral home. Suddenly, the Xiangxiang Chen family jumped from the original poor people's family to a famous and prestigious family on the rich side, and the scenery was beautiful for a while.
At that time, Chen Yihuai was already more than thirty years old. Because of his outstanding military achievements, his image in the hearts of the local people is excellent. Under the matchmaker's words, he married a girl surnamed Liu, who was nearly ten years younger than himself, and soon gave birth to a son, named Chen Zhaochun.
Soon after, his wife became pregnant again, but this time the heavens did not seem to care for them so much, and Liu Shi gave birth to his youngest son and died of illness, and his younger son also died prematurely.
A few years later, Chen Yihuaicai continued the string, and he selected a female knight in the army, surnamed Xiong, who was a Sichuan girl. After the two married, they did not have children again in their lives, and Chen Xiong's life regarded the sons born to her husband's ex-wife as their own and loved them endlessly.
Chen Zhaochun, as the only son of Chen Yihuai, is deeply valued. He was just 12 years old, under the auspices of his father and stepmother, married, after the marriage of the first child unfortunately died, but soon had a second child, that is, the famous founding general - Chen Geng.
Excellent family style, sowing the seeds of revolution
Chen Yihuai struggled for most of his life, not only leaving a solid family foundation for his children and grandchildren, but also establishing a good family style. His son Chen Zhaochun was a very brash and honest man.
Because of the famine, the people in the village were miserable and hungry. Under the leadership of Chen Yihuai, the children of the Chen family distributed hundreds of acres of land in their families to the people of the same township, and only a few acres of land were left in their own homes for daily food and clothing.
The Chen family, starting from Chen Yihuai, to his son Chen Zhaochun, to his grandson Chen Geng and others, all of them are such a character. It is precisely because the Chen family has such an excellent family style that the Chen family is still full of talents until the grandson's generation, and every child has the ambition to serve the motherland and serve the country.
Not only that, after returning to his hometown to start a family, Chen Yihuai spent all his thoughts on raising his sons and grandsons, and when the children were young, he began to teach them to learn martial arts and martial arts, which also made his sons and grandchildren have the potential to become martial artists from an early age.
Especially when the eldest grandson Chen Geng was a child, he had to follow his grandfather every day to learn martial arts, and he was proficient in sticks, punches and feet. In addition to martial arts, Chen Yihuai also attached great importance to the education of cultural knowledge, personally sending his grandson to a private school to study and learn advanced ideas and knowledge.
After Chen Yihuai's son Chen Zhaochun became a family, he inherited his ideas, instilled more ideas into the children to devote themselves to the revolution, and even personally sent their children to the battlefield.
Carry forward, the back wave is better than the front wave
When Chen Geng was a child, his grandfather and father attached great importance to his education. His father, Chen Zhaochun, sent him to a military academy for training early. At the same time, in order to let his son have a companion, he also sent a son of his friend, Tan Zheng, to the military school for further study.
But Chen Yihuai,who had idled down and devoted himself to raising his grandson, had changed greatly. You know, after the eldest grandson was born, he was deeply valued by Chen Yihuai, and Chen Yihuai almost put all his efforts on this grandson.
In addition to personally teaching him to learn martial arts and treating his grandson, he was no longer as dashing and wanton as he was to himself, as early as when Chen Geng was 14 years old, he took care of his family affairs, hoping that he would start a family and continue the incense as soon as possible.
However, during Chen Geng's study, Chen Geng was extremely close to Tan Zheng, and when he was young, Tan Zheng often stayed in Chen Geng's home, and the two not only had a relationship comparable to that of brothers, but also had similar interests, fantasizing about serving the country together, and their hearts planted the seeds of revolution early. At that time, Chen Geng had the heart to become a parent!
Therefore, his grandfather Chen Yihuai made the act of betrothed to Chen Geng for Chen Geng, which also made Chen Geng very dissatisfied. He was so disgusted by his parents that arranged marriages that he repeatedly consulted with his grandfather, wanting him to change his mind and understand his ambitions.
But Chen Yihuai, who is bent on his grandson, can hear the words that the grandson wants to go against his own will. After many negotiations, Chen Geng still failed to convince his grandfather. In desperation, he actually did the same behavior as his grandfather did when he was young at the time of the candlelight in his cave room- running away from home.
In order to deal with the embarrassing stalemate he left behind, Chen Yihuai was helpless, mediated through local leading figures, and gave the woman a sum of money to send her home, ending this completely man-made trouble.
Let's talk about Chen Geng after running away from home. This time, as if the gears of fate had once again continued to turn, he had come to Changsha, and like his spirited grandfather, he had recruited soldiers and joined the revolution, fortunately, his starting point was much better than that of his grandfather Chen Yihuai, and he began as a second-class soldier.
After joining the revolution, Chen Geng became angry and tried to be strong, and with his solid foundation in martial arts in the past, he soon stood out among the recruits who joined the army and received the attention and attention of the leaders at the higher levels.
Soon, coinciding with the external enrollment of the Whampoa Military Academy, Chen Geng was successfully admitted to the Whampoa Military Academy with the encouragement of his superiors, and his good friend Tan Zheng also followed him and joined the National Revolutionary Army, and the two began their revolutionary careers together.
After graduating from the Whampoa Military Academy, Chen Geng joined the Communist Party of China and participated in the Crusade with the Communist Party. Because of his outstanding achievements, Chen Geng was once again valued by the organization. This time, the organization sent him to the Soviet Union to learn advanced espionage techniques.
He attaches great importance to every learning opportunity provided to him by the organization, aiming to learn more advanced technologies and save the motherland in the waters.
After returning from his studies, Chen Geng participated as a major general in the Nanchang Uprising, the Long March of the Red Army, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and the War of Liberation. He and Tan Zheng supported each other and achieved mutual achievements, and for decades of revolution, they fought desperately for the motherland, always stood on the front line of the battlefield, made countless battle achievements, and were deeply trusted and loved by Chairman Mao.
After the founding of New China, the Party Central Committee decided to commend the soldiers and generals who had made remarkable achievements in the revolution, and Chen Geng and Tan Zheng were awarded the rank of great general together, becoming the founding generals of Our country's outstanding military achievements. Compared with his grandfather Chen Yihuai, Chen Geng obviously has more remarkable merits, and it is worthy of the yangtze river after the wave pushing the front wave, and the blue is better than the blue.
epilogue:
In the same way, Chen Yihuai created a great foundation for the Chen family; and his grandson Chen Geng devoted himself to the greatest cause of mankind, struggled with a group of the best heroes of the same era, laid the foundation of the country, established a new China, and liberated all the poor people who were not willing to eat and be hungry like Chen Yihuai, and embarked on the road of happiness.
Who would have thought that the original ran away from home would be inherited, and it would be inherited from generation to generation. This pair of grandchildren prospered a family, a family selfless dedication to a country, created a beloved hero, but also left a strong mark in the long river of Chinese history.
In this sense, the grandson is greater than the grandfather. The Chen family is blue out of blue, and better than blue.
Although there is not much historical information about Chen Geng's grandfather Chen Yihuai today, there are even posts on the Internet saying that Chen Yihuai is just a pipe belt, which is a rumor and inaccurate. However, the Biography of General Chen Geng and the Hundred Battles General Star Chen Geng record that Chen Yihuai was a general.
The phrase "division commander level" was said by Chen Geng in a speech in Yan'an in 1944. This statement is officially documented and remains to this day. It can be seen that the Chen family in modern China is really a shogun family that has been passed down from generation to generation!