After the founding ceremony, there were still people isolated under the stage, and when Premier Zhou checked, it turned out that there was a reason for the incident
The conferral of titles and honors in 1955 regarding the new China was an eternal topic.
This is the first time in the history of the Platon Army that the military rank system has been implemented, and it is one of the important symbols of the modernization and regularization of the new generation of people's troops.
But most importantly, it is full of heavy respect for the founding generals.
However, many people do not know the details of the awarding process, let alone a small detail in the event.
Let's take the order and say it:
At 14:30 on September 27, 1955, a ceremony was held to confer the rank of general of the People's Liberation Army.
The venue is located on the northwest bank of Zhongnanhai, west of the Ziguang Pavilion State Council Auditorium.
It was known as the "platform" in the Ming Dynasty and was a place for ming emperors to watch archery competitions.
In addition, the famous "platform pairing" in history happened here. At that time, the "Cowhide King" Yuan Chonghuan gave the cowhide of the "Five Years of Pingliao" to the Chongzhen Emperor without any cover.
During the Qing Dynasty, this platform became the site of the emperor's military experiments and review of his ministers.
However, after the Qianlong Emperor ascended the throne, he ordered the demolition of the platform to build a pavilion called the "Purple Light Pavilion".
Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han Dynasty had 28 generals and Emperor Taizong of Tang had 24 heroes. The claims about the "Twenty-Eight Generals of Yuntai" and the "Twenty-four Yuanxun of Lingyange" are the reasons why these portraits are hung in Yuntai and Lingyange.
The Qianlong Emperor built the Purple Light Pavilion, and also asked the Imperial Painters of the Great Interior to depict the heroes of the Qing Dynasty, and then hung the portraits in it, called "the Founder of the Purple Light Pavilion".
It is not difficult to see from this that the choice of this place to confer military ranks on the people's army is of even more revolutionary significance.
There are 10 generals, 55 generals, 175 lieutenant generals and 797 major generals.
The order in which titles are conferred is Major General, Admiral, Lieutenant General, and Major General.
Apparently, Su Yu was the first person to officially wear the rank of the People's Liberation Army.
However, it must be pointed out that the generals who participated in the award were all generals in Beijing, and they wore the No. 50 style military uniform, and the No. 55 style dress was only worn when the general was awarded the medal.
After the ceremony, the awarding ceremony of garrison generals and school officers was held in 7 regions including Beijing, Nanjing, Lanzhou and Chengdu. The ceremony was originally scheduled for October to November, but for various reasons, the ceremony was postponed to November to December.
Since there were many generals attending the ceremony, that is, at 5 p.m., the ceremony of conferring the rank of Marshal of the People's Republic of China and conferring the Medal of Merit of the Chinese People's Liberation Army in the Revolutionary War was held, the time was very tight. As a result, the Prime Minister has had to mobilize the awards presentation again and again to speed up the process.
Finally, the award ceremony came to an end as scheduled.
However, by the end of the ceremony, the waiting line under the stage had dispersed, but there was still a lonely back standing.
Seeing him, Premier Zhou recognized Huang Mars, the second political commissar of the Soviet Military Region, and asked, "Why don't you go to power and accept your rank?" ”
Huang replied truthfully, "I didn't hear my name read. ”
Premier Zhou was very surprised, there is a yellow Mars in memory, how can there be no?
Huang was actually a predecessor who participated in the revolution. In 1930, he joined the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, served as the political commissar of the Eleventh Army, and participated in the first to fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" operations in the central revolutionary base areas. After the Long March, as the main force of the Central Red Army, he was ordered to stay in western Fujian and fought three years of difficult guerrilla warfare in the south. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, he served as the commander of the Third Regiment of the New Fourth Army.
It can be said that Huang was awarded the rank of lieutenant general, but he was the only one, how could there be no name for him?
Huang explained to the prime minister that he had just heard "yellow fire" again, but there was no "yellow Mars".
The Prime Minister immediately understood what the reason was.
The names of Huang Huoqing and Huang Mars are indeed very similar, but in terms of revolutionary seniority, Huang Huoqing is earlier.
In addition, after the end of the Long March, he also participated in the tragic western expedition, during which his contribution was no less than Huang Mars's contribution in the "Anhui Southern Incident".
The prime minister knew very well in his heart that Huang Huoqing had no rank.
It can only be said that the situation that occurs is that either the speaker is wrong or the listener is wrong.
He had people re-read The Yellow Mars one.
Only to see Huang Mars solemnly walk up to the rostrum, take the prime minister's inscription with both hands, give a military salute in parallel, and walk off the rostrum amid the applause of the crowd.
Let's talk about Huang Huoqing again.
Yellow Huoqing is 8 years older than Yellow Mars.
Huang Huoqing has a total of 8 brothers and sisters, and he is the fourth oldest.
In 1927, Huang Huoqing entered the Wuhan Workers' Movement Academy for training, and soon after was incorporated into the Second Battalion of the Independent Division reorganized by the Central Military and Political Academy. In June of the same year, he and his eighth sister were sent to the Soviet Union to study military affairs.
After returning to China in 1929, he served as a member of the Military and Political Committee of the Central Soviet Military Region and the director of the Red Ninth Army.
That is, when Huang Huoqing was the political commissar, Huang Mars had not yet joined the Red Army.
Huang Huoqing's director was later succeeded by Li Tao.
Chen Geng served as the principal of the Pengyang Infantry School, and Huang Huoqing served as his political commissar.
Since the beginning of the Long March, the infantry school has been organized into a cadre regiment, with Chen Geng as the regimental commander and Song as the poor commissioner, and Song was awarded the rank of general in 1955.
In addition, Wang Shusheng, Guo Tianmin, and Li Jukui, who participated in the Western Route Army campaign with Huang Huoqing, also received military ranks in 1955.
Huang Huoqing had no rank because he left the army after the founding of the People's Republic of China.
Huang's achievements after the founding of New China are very prominent, of which the "Three Yellows Law" refers to the fact that he, Huang Kecheng and Huang Jing successively served as the secretary of the Tianjin Municipal Party Committee, and among these three people, he managed the longest.
She has been working in Liaoning for nearly 20 years since then, and in 1978 Huang became chief procurator of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, one of the country's deputy procurators and leaders.
Huang Huoqing died in 1999 at the age of 99.