During the arduous revolutionary period, many bold and loyal revolutionary heroes emerged, who sacrificed their lives for righteousness and killed themselves for the sake of their ideals and ideals, such as Fang Zhimin, Liu Yuxi, and other senior generals of the Red Tenth Army, who refused to surrender after being captured by the enemy, and finally made heroic sacrifices and were remembered by the people. The person we want to talk about today is Fang Zhimin's solid revolutionary comrade-in-arms, and he was fortunate to live after the founding of the People's Republic of China, he is Shao Shiping.
Shao Shiping was born in 1900, his family has been farming for generations, coupled with the early death of his father, the family conditions are relatively poor, but fortunately, the family members have strong affection, at the age of 16, with the financial support of relatives, he entered yiyang County Li Higher Primary School, coincidentally, Fang Zhimin was also studying in this school at that time, the two saw each other and soon became close friends. The young Fang Shao and the two saw the corruption of the government at that time and the darkness of society, and wanted to change this situation, so they set up the Nine District Youth Club, led the students of the school to carry out various patriotic activities, and the patriotic enthusiasm of the two also infected many people. Three years later, Shao Shiping graduated from a high primary school and entered middle school, and under the influence of the May Fourth Movement, he became more yearning for revolution, and he joined the newspaper "Poyang Lake Society" that published revolutionary publications, expressing his desire to change the dark situation in words.
At the age of 23, Shao Shiping entered Beijing Normal University, where he continued to organize the student patriotic movement. During his time in Beijing, under the influence of Li Dazhao, Qu Qiubai and other early Communist Party leaders, Shao Shiping gradually realized that only the Communist Party's ideas could save the people. Not long after, the vigorous National Revolution began, and Shao Shiping followed the trend, followed the original ideal in his heart, and joined the Communist Party. After the defeat of the Great Revolution, Shao Shiping did not give up his faith because of the bloody massacre of the enemy. He returned to his hometown and launched a peasant movement carried out by the peasants in his hometown to carry out armed struggle against the enemy who was encircled and suppressed.
During this time, he again met his best friend from his youth, Fang Zhimin, and the two brothers and comrades-in-arms once again fought side by side, launched a rebellion in Jiangxi, and later created a base area in northeastern Jiangxi. Together with Fang Zhimin, he cracked down on the local gentry and landlords and chaebols in the base areas, and distributed the land to the landless peasants. "There is a good proposition of Zhu Mao on the top, and a jackal on the bottom. The first hero Fang Zhimin, the second general Shao Shiping. The folk song "Two and a Half Guns To Make a Revolution and Bring Down the Local Tycoons for the People" is a good reflection of the praise of the people in the base areas and the two Shao people. Under their leadership, the base areas continued to grow and develop, forming the "Fujian, Zhejiang, and Gansu" base areas, and the Red Army in the base areas was also expanded into the Red Tenth Army, and its strength increased greatly. After that, together with Fang Zhimin and others, he led the Red Army to break through the many encirclements and suppressions of the Kuomintang army, and made no small contribution.
After arriving in northern Shaanxi, Shao Shiping entered the Red Army University to study, stayed in the school after graduation and entered the management, after which he made great achievements in education, and held important leadership positions in yan'an's famous red institution - Shaanxi North Public School and anti-Japanese Military and Political University. In the course of the Subsequent War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he also went to the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region and served as the director of the Grain Bureau and the Industrial and Commercial Bureau. During the Liberation War, Shao Shiping was sent to the northeast and served as deputy secretary of the provincial party committee and deputy political commissar of the military region in Liaoji Province and Nenjiang Province at that time.
After the founding of New China, Shao Shiping became the first governor of Jiangxi Province, leading the people of his hometown to carry out post-war economic construction, making important contributions to the development of Jiangxi's economy, he also attached great importance to education, and opened the famous "Communist Labor University" in Jiangxi. Shao Shiping devoted himself to the construction of his hometown of Jiangxi until his death in 1965.