Dissatisfied with the aggressors' tyranny and the people's living hardships, she angrily put down the scroll in her hand and wrote it, joined the army with her alumni to fight against foreign enemies, and later met her lifelong partner, General Yang Chengwu, and the two spent decades together.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, she served as an adviser to the Political Department of the Beijing Garrison District, continued to contribute to the construction of New China, and died at the age of 98 and enjoyed the treatment of regular military service.
The excellent children of her parents are also extraordinary, and there are three generals among her children, so who is this person? What are some of the legendary experiences in her life?
Zhao Zhizhen was born in November 1920 to a poor peasant family in Yi County, Hebei Province, to authentic peasant parents.
As the saying goes, the children of the poor have long been in charge, the poor family has been more sensible than other children since she was a child, in order to reduce the burden on the family, at a young age, she will work with her parents in the field to help her parents reduce the burden.
Although she is a girl, her parents have never had the idea of preferring sons to daughters, and her parents know that reading is the only way out, even if the family is difficult, they have to provide her with school.
After completing primary school, Zhao Zhizhen was admitted to Peking Girls' No. 2 Middle School with excellent results, and during her schooling, she was exposed to a large number of progressive ideas in school.
In 1935, when the "12.9" movement broke out vigorously in Peiping, Zhao Zhizhen led the pioneers to actively participate in the student movement, working day and night with his classmates to make flags and write slogans for the parade.
In 1937, when the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression broke out in full swing, when she saw the streets and alleys constantly fighting in the enemy's aggression, watching the poor people live a lifeless and secretive life, the humiliation and unwillingness hidden in her heart poured into her mind, she secretly swore in her heart that she must fight the enemy.
In 1938, Zhao Zhizhen officially joined the Communist Party of China and began his revolutionary career.
Soon after joining the revolutionary ranks, she and her classmates with the same ambition rushed to the Taihang Mountains to join the army against foreign enemies, and what she never expected was that the general Who greeted them, Yang Chengwu, finally became her lifelong partner.
When General Yang Chengwu, who received them, saw these fifteen- and sixteen-year-old girls, he was reluctant to accept them in his heart, after all, the war was cruel, not to mention that they were only fifteen or sixteen-year-old female students.
Under the stalemate between the two sides, Zhao Zhizhen and his classmates said to Yang Chengwu: "At the time of the life and death of the nation, how can we stay in the classroom and read with peace of mind?" When the country is in trouble, it is the responsibility of the puppet, and we must also be soldiers to fight devils and contribute our own modest efforts to the anti-Japanese resistance. ”
The other students followed suit, and finally persuaded Yang Chengwu.
Zhao Zhizhen was assigned to the Ministry of Democracy Movement as an officer, and since then she has shuttled through various villages and corners, vigorously publicizing the anti-Japanese patriotic ideas, actively mobilizing the masses of the people, and recruiting more anti-Japanese fighters for the organization.
In the subsequent work contact, the two are also mutual affection, after in-depth understanding, she found that she actually has a little admiration for the man in front of her who has experienced hundreds of battles, and Yang Chengwu also has great appreciation for Zhao Zhizhen in his heart.
Not long after, Yang Chengwu finally made up his mind and wrote to Zhao Zhizhen to express his intentions, hoping that the two could have further exchanges.
Yang Chengwu did not expect Zhao Zhizhen to agree, and the two people who were happy with each other held a simple and lively wedding in November 1938 under the witness of their comrades-in-arms.
After the founding of New China, Zhao Zhizhen has also been contributing to the construction of the country, serving as an adviser to the Political Department of the Beijing Garrison District, and later won the Second Class Red Star Meritorious Service Medal.
People say that good parents are more likely to raise excellent children, and Zhao Zhizhen's seven children are also very good, and three of her many children are very extraordinary.
For example, yang Junsheng, a daughter born in 1941, was admitted to the Harbin Military Engineering Institute with excellent results at the age of 20, and then became a senior engineer through his unremitting efforts.
In 1983, she was transferred to the Armed Police Headquarters, and Yang Junsheng, who worked hard at work, was awarded the rank of major general.
His son, Yang Dongsheng, was successfully admitted to Tsinghua University in 1965 and majored in engineering, majoring in engineering, and entered the army two years later, and was awarded the rank of major general in 1998.
Born in Beijing in 1949, Yang Dongming joined the army at the age of 17 and was awarded the rank of major general, serving as deputy commander of the Air Force, and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general at the age of 58.
In 2018, Zhao Zhizhen left us forever in Beijing due to ineffective medical treatment, missing the age of 98.
In her 98 years of life, she and her husband have experienced various ups and downs in life together.
From the green silk to the twilight years all the way to the old, from driving the invaders out of China to building a new China, their families, whether parents or children, have made great achievements in their respective fields, and their spirit of silent dedication has also been remembered by the world and history.