In the depths of the mountains in Xinfang Town, Yuanzhou District, Yichun, Jiangxi, there is a small mountain village called Gaofuling, where the mountains are stacked, the mountains are saga, the peaks are lined with beautiful peaks, the lush forests are lush, the surrounding mountains, in between which are terraced fields, streams and rivers are staggered, and there is a high mountain in the countryside on all sides of the village, and at the back of the village there is a high mountain called Yinziling, where a founding lieutenant general is buried, that is, Wei Zhou Chiping.
Every year during the Qingming Dynasty, on the winding road deep in the mountains, there are several cars driving up the mountain, through a long, curvy and steep mountain road, to the top of the scenic mountain, standing in front of the cemetery, they look at the houses of Gaofuling Village under the mountain looming, the verdant woodland is unobstructed, this is zhou Chiping when she was a child, where she used to herd cattle and collect firewood, and now, the general has fallen leaves and returned to his roots, with the high Silver Ridge as his home, quietly "looking" at this homeland where he was born and raised every day... His relatives laughed appreciatively.
Zhou Chiping, one day of the first lunar month in 1914, was born in Gaofuling Village to a poor peasant family surnamed Zou, and her family name was Yu Jiu on the family tree. Relying on the financial support of the clan to help the village, Yu Jiu attended a private school for 3 years, with the scientific name of "Zou Di", and later dropped out of school because of his family's poverty and went home to work as a farmer, and it was these 3 years of private school that changed his life.
In the early 1930s, the flames of the Red Revolution burned to his hometown of Gaofuling Village, when the village organized a peasant association and a Red Guard, and Zhou Chiping, who was only 15 years old, joined the team because he had read for several years, knew words, and was conscientious and responsible in his work, resourceful and brave, and was soon recommended as a traffic officer and scout.
During the third anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign in the Central Soviet Region, when the superiors called for "expanding the Iron Red Army," Zhou Chiping resolutely signed up for the Red Army, and after the third, fourth, and fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" struggles, he grew rapidly in the flames of the revolution, successively serving as a platoon commander of the Red Twentieth Army, the Red Fourth Army, a company political instructor, and a political commissar of the Red Third Army Regiment.
In the course of the battle, Zhou Chiping was very brave, took the lead as a soldier, commanded from the front, and was wounded many times in fierce battles; according to the regulations of the Red Army at that time, the principle of resettling wounded Red Army cadres and fighters on the spot was determined to be second-class disabled, and the leaders decided to resettle him back to his hometown gaofuling village to fight guerrillas.
However, he very resolutely stated to the leader that his cripple rank was high, in order to prove that his injury was very light, he endured the pain, raised his injured left arm in front of the leader to the level of his right hand, and returned the disability certificate and the disability money, and finally got his wish to stay in the Red Army, and later followed the army to participate in the famous twenty-five thousand miles long march, participated in the Eastern Expedition and the Western Expedition, and during the Western Expedition, as the political commissar of the Twelfth Regiment, he led his troops to annihilate an enemy battalion in the Battle of Mountain Castle, and made outstanding achievements.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Zhou Chiping successively served as director of the political department, political commissar, brigade political commissar, and director of the political department of the Shandong Column Detachment of the Eighth Route Army, political commissar of the Division of the Shandong Military Region, and deputy director of the Political Department of the Military Region.
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Zhou Chiping was ordered to advance into the northeast and successively served as political commissar of the Liaobei Military Region and political commissar of the Tenth Column of the Northeast Field Army; in the Liaoshen Campaign, Liang Xingchu, commander of the Tenth Column of the Northeast Field Army, and Zhou Chiping, political commissar, commanded the Black Mountain Blockade Battle, blocked the Liao Yaoxiang Corps of more than 100,000 people, and blocked the enemy's western aid in the Xinlitun area west of Shenyang, so as to form a trend of "closing the door and fighting dogs" against the Northeast Kuomintang Army, enabling the Northeast Field Army to encircle the enemy in battle and completely annihilate the enemy; after the liberation of Northeast China, Zhou Chiping served as the political commissar of the 47th Army. He marched south to participate in the campaign to encircle and annihilate the main force of Bai Chongxi's group. He then presided over the suppression of bandits in western Hunan Province.
During his time as political commissar of the 47th Army, Zhou Chiping met his lifelong partner Meng Jinxia.
Meng Jinxia, born in Chongqing in a family that did not land, had excellent academic performance since childhood, and later due to the gradual decline of her family, she was admitted to the "Sichuan Lichuan East Normal School" after graduating from junior high school. This school is equivalent to a vocational high school, has a long history, strong teachers, and Meng Jinxia continues to maintain a good academic performance.
In December 1949, when the People's Liberation Army (PLA) went south to occupy Chongqing, Meng Jinxia, who had previously participated in the school protection operation, and many classmates joined the army, and she came to the medical training team of the Ministry of Health of the 47th Army to study internal medicine business, and began her medical career. At the end of 1950, this field army unit eliminated most of the bandits in western Hunan Province, and more than 50,000 people of the whole army left Hunan and gathered in the Dandong area of Liaoning Province to receive combat training in Korea, and then entered the Korean War in April 1951.
At this time, Zhou Chiping had left the 47th Army and was transferred to the Political Commissar of the Volunteer Air Force. However, before leaving Hunan, when the military department entered the DPRK and swore an oath, Meng Jinxia spoke on behalf of the health personnel at the conference, which may have attracted the attention of Zhou Chiping, the political commissar on the rostrum.
Meng Jinxia performed medical treatment on the Korean battlefield, twice awarded the third class merit, and was a prominent ambulance worker. In April 1952, she participated in the volunteer army delegation to return to China to make a tour report, and the 47th Army selected a group of 5 people headed by the combat hero Wang Tianyi, of which Meng Jinxia was the only woman. Subsequently, he married Zhou Chiping.
Decades of military career, Zhou Chiping successively participated in the Agrarian Revolutionary War, the Long March, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the War of Liberation and the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and showed bravery and tenacity in the revolutionary ranks, wit and decisiveness, not afraid of bloodshed and sacrifice, outstanding battle achievements, soon grew from a peasant's son to a young senior general, he was seriously injured seven times, each time luckily escaped death, in 1955, Zhou Chiping was awarded the rank of lieutenant general, when he left his hometown for nearly 20 years, he returned to his hometown gaofuling to visit his mother. But he could no longer see his father and second brother who had been killed by the Kuomintang reactionaries.
It can be said that Zhou Chiping made outstanding military achievements in the first half of his life, but in his later years, he was involved in the "913 incident" of the "Cultural Revolution" and was punished, once removed from his post, imprisoned for isolation and examination, and his wife Meng Jinxia was also treated unfairly, and after review, she was exempted from prosecution, retained her party membership, retired from active service, and treated as a cadre at the prefectural and division level. He died in 1990 at the age of 76 and was buried in the mountains of Gaofuling Village, Xinfang, Yuanzhou, Yichun.
The family went to the cemetery of General Zhou Chiping to mourn, the front row second from the right: Mrs. Meng Jinxia, the front row second from the left: the general's daughter
Today, General Zhou Chiping's wife Meng Jinxia, although she is nearly ninety years old, still elegantly wears a cheongsam, she still has a heart for the pursuit of beauty, peeing and the cheongsam have an indissoluble relationship, she said, a good mentality, let her have a good body and good spirit, talent to live young, in her later years she lived very optimistic and happy.