preface
When it comes to Zeng Guofan, I think everyone is very familiar with it, and the foreign affairs movement mainly carried out by Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhang and others has a far-reaching impact. The Zeng family to which Zeng Guofan belongs is also a capable family, and his descendants have made great achievements in all walks of life, among which Zeng Xianzhi is the wife of Ye Jianying, the founding marshal of our country, and has also become the secretary of Deng Yingchao and Song Qingling.
Although Zeng Xianzhi's life encountered many ups and downs, she wrote a legendary life with her perseverance, and also used her own personal experience to prove to the world that women can also carry the banner of revolution and leave a strong mark in the history of China's revolution.
01
In 1926, the Whampoa Military Academy began to recruit female cadets for the first time from all over the country, and after strict screening, a total of 195 women were selected, and Zeng Xianzhi was one of them. At this time, Zeng Xianzhi, who was only 16 years old, had already established a firm revolutionary belief and embarked on a life of unrepentant revolutionary fighting.
Although Zeng Xianzhi was born in the Gaomen family and was a descendant of the Zeng family of Zeng Guofan, she did not wantonly indulge because of her prominent family lineage, but instead read poetry and books since childhood, modest and courteous.
During his studies at Hunan Women's Normal College, Zeng Xianzhi, under the guidance of Xu Teli, came up with the idea of devoting himself to revolutionary battles, and successfully passed the selection at the age of 16 and entered the Whampoa Military Academy, and had the honor of becoming the first batch of female soldiers in China's modern history.
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In July 1927, Zeng Xianzhi graduated early and participated in the Guangzhou Uprising in December of the same year. After that, she resolutely chose to go to Hong Kong and continue to contribute to the revolutionary cause. During this period, Ye Jianying and Zeng Xianzhi admired each other and developed a good feeling for each other, and in 1928 they married, even though the age difference of 13 years was still not prevented from getting married.
However, after their marriage, the two hid their personal feelings deeply behind the national righteousness, still focused on the revolutionary cause, and the time spent with each other was not long, most of the time was separated, and each of them carried out and carried out the tasks assigned by the party.
In 1929, Zeng Xianzhi attracted the attention of the reactionaries during a revolutionary movement, and then was arrested, she did not succumb to the torture of the enemy, but always adhered to the revolutionary ideas. Under the active rescue of the party organization, Zeng Xianzhi successfully escaped from difficulties, and then forced to study in Japan due to the tense domestic situation.
Unfortunately, Japan was also investigating revolutionaries at the time, and Zeng Xianshi, who had only recently been released from prison, was arrested and imprisoned again. At the critical moment of life and death, Zeng Xianzhi's identity background saved her life. It turned out that the Japanese side had more respect for Zeng Guofan, and Zeng Xianzhi was precisely a descendant of the Zeng family, so he was lucky to escape the disaster.
03
In 1931, Zeng Xianzhi finally returned to China, and the repeated imprisonment did not dampen her revolutionary enthusiasm, but on the contrary strengthened her revolutionary ideals. After returning to China, Zeng Xianzhi and her husband Ye Jianying were finally reunited, but this meeting after a three-year absence did not last long. The couple soon separated again due to organizational arrangements, and this time the separation was exactly 7 years.
In 1938, Zeng Xianzhi and Ye Jianying reunited and gave birth to their first and only child, which was the future famous Ye Xuanning. In the turbulent years at that time, the birth of her son brought Zeng Xianzhi not only joy, but also more worry, she did not give her son too much companionship, but put more energy into the revolutionary movement.
In 1941, Zeng Xianzhi went to Yan'an to study, and she thought that she could be reunited with her husband this time, but at this time Ye Jianying had already married and remarried.
After years of ups and downs, Zeng Xianzhi has long grown into a tenacious and decisive revolutionary female fighter, and she did not dwell too much on this marriage that no longer had an emotional basis, but turned around and continued to devote herself to the revolutionary movement, and devoted all her energy in the second half of her life to the revolutionary cause.
After this, Zeng Xianzhi served as Deng Yingchao's secretary, and also climbed the Tiananmen Tower and witnessed the founding of New China with many great people. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, she actively participated in the women's movement, and her son also inherited his mother's will, has been committed to the construction of new China, and was awarded the rank of major general.
epilogue
Zeng Xianzhi died of illness in Beijing in 1989 at the age of 79, throughout Zeng Xianzhi's life, she was born prominent and talented, and more importantly, she cultivated her courage after suffering hardships. Although she encountered many ups and downs in her feelings and destiny, she was always strong and unyielding, and finally wrote a legendary life with excellent personal ability and perseverance.