Chen Jiannan, born on March 16, 1927, to a peasant family in Zhangtang Village, Sunyuan Town, Sihong County, begged for food with his father Chen Mingpan when he was a child, and herded cattle for landlords in his childhood, living a life of hunger and cold.
In 1939, during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Zhang Aiping, then secretary of the Yuwan Border Provincial CPC Committee, inspected Zhangtang Village accompanied by Zhao Min, the head of the Hongze lake special zone, and set up an office of the New Fourth Army of the Eighth Route Army in northeast Anhui to work at the home of the enlightened landlord Chen Yunju. The establishment of the Eighth Route Army's New Fourth Army Office in Northeast Anhui marked the formal formation of the National Anti-Japanese United Front on the banks of Hongze Lake, and Jin Ming, Liu Ruilong, and other Communists also led their troops to Zhangtang. The anti-Japanese flames in northeastern Anhui, with this as the leading center, burned more and more vigorously, and the poor peasants around them also joined the party organizations. Chen Jiannan's father, Chen Mingpan, joined the Peasant Rescue Association and became a backbone, and together with Sun Yuan, Du Da Niang, Wang Sanniang, and others, under the leadership of the Communist Party, actively mobilized the masses to reduce rent and interest rates.
On April 28, 1940, Liu Shaoqi, secretary of the Central Plains Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, inspected northeast Anhui at the invitation of Director Zhang Aiping and arrived in Zhangtang many times to guide the work. At this time, the base area in northeast Anhui was still in a turbulent period of intertwining Japanese and pseudo-stubborn dogs, and once during the inspection work in Zhangtang, Liu Shaoqi was swept away by the enemy and skillfully broke through under the cover of Du Daniang. Chen Mingpan of Zhangtang was arrested by the local puppet army Liu Qishan in collusion with the Japanese devils for participating in the Peasant Rescue Association, and was pulled to the pine forest east of Zhangtang and brutally killed. The killing of his father, which sowed the seeds of indelible hatred at the 13-year-old Chen JiannanXin Center, joined the children's group. Later, the puppet army that colluded with the Japanese to kill his father was duly punished and was executed by the special office.
Chen Jiannan, who avenged his father's murder, worked even more energetically in the revolutionary ranks. At that time, Zhangtang had long become the cradle of the revolution that people wanted, and there were crowds and songs everywhere. One of the songs that Chen Jiannan is most familiar with in the children's group is: "The children's group is very important, the Communist Party leads us to take the right path, fight devils and seek liberation, and the revolutionary fighting spirit is the highest; holding a red gun, standing guard and putting on a guard to check the road, brushing slogans to engage in propaganda, acting and singing everywhere, the role of the children's group is really not small." Chen Jiannan was very diligent and often carried water from the brick well in Zhangtang west to drink for the chiefs living in Zhangtang, and everyone loved him very much. This well, which is well-known far and wide, was rebuilt in the spring of 1942 by liu ruilong, director of the bureau, led by the military and civilians to rebuild the "Love People Well" in order to solve the problem of the masses' draft water. Now it has become an important place for the Patriotic Education Base of Sihong in Suqian, and it is also a strong testimony of the Huaibei District Party Committee and the Bureau in Zhangtang.
Marshal Chen Yi said: "The victory in the Huaihai Campaign was pushed out by the common people with their trolleys." Chen Jiannan also joined the revolution from the front of the branch to the battlefield of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
In the spring of 1944, Chen Jiannan joined the local armed forces, carried a stretcher for the New Fourth Army, and used his only valuable donkey to transport grain and grass to the troops, sacrificing his life and death to support the front line, and contributed to the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan. In 1946, the Kuomintang Chiang Kai-shek launched a civil war, and the central area of the Huaibei base area fell. Under the leadership of Chen Jianbang (a local cadre who later served as secretary of the party committee of the Sihong organ and director of the civil affairs bureau), Chen Jiannan insisted on fighting guerrillas on the spot. In order to escape the search and arrest of the returnees, they wandered around the homes of Wang Sha, Erhekou and Wang Cunhua of NandaWangzhuang on the edge of Hongze Lake, digging lotus roots and catching fish and cutting grass for a living, and suffered all their sufferings and sins. It was not until Rao Zijian led the Huaibei Advance Detachment back to Huaibei that the situation improved and he was able to return home to work in the local and Huaihai Campaign.
At the end of 1949, Chen Jiannan was conscripted into the army in response to the party's call for the future of the branch, and was incorporated into the 25th Regiment of the Suxian Headquarters in Anhui Province, 2 battalions and 6 companies, as a rifle machine gunner, and trained in Xuzhou. In 1950, when US imperialism launched the War of Aggression against Korea, the Party Central Committee issued an order to "resist US aggression and aid Korea, defend the family and defend the country", Chen Jiannan asked for war, in April 1951, he went to Korea with honor, and in November he was incorporated into the 7th Company of the 13th Station of the 13th Station of the Rear Service Command of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army. On the Korean battlefield, in a defensive material battle, the enemy was gloriously wounded and wounded, and the battle merits were honored.
In Chen Jiannan's "Certificate of Meritorious Service of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army", it is recorded that on June 29, 1952, he was awarded the first class meritorious service once, on July 15, 1953, he was awarded the second class meritorious service once, and on April 20, 1954, he was awarded three and three other meritorious service once..." The first two awarding units were "the political office of the thirteen major stations of the rear service headquarters of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army", and the third time was the "political office of the fifteenth station of the rear service headquarters of the Chinese people's volunteer army". He was also awarded three military merit medals by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and on the Korean battlefield, he was honorably inducted to join the Communist Party of China.
After the victory of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Chen Jiannan did not take credit for demanding organizational arrangements, and in October 1956 he took the initiative to ask for demobilization to return to his hometown to participate in socialist construction. In Zhangtang, he successively served as the leader of the production team and the deputy secretary of the branch, and was commended by his superiors many times because of his serious and responsible work, proactive and not afraid of hardship. In October 1960, he attended the Jiangsu Provincial Agricultural Socialism Advanced Representative Conference and won the Labor Medal, Number 3935. In the 1970s, a reporter from Xinhua Daily made a special interview and reported on Chen Jiannan's glorious deeds.
In August 1996, Chen Jiannan, who had entered his old age, participated in the Sihong County New Fourth Army Historical Research Association, often telling revolutionary stories for young people, conducting traditional education, and caring for the healthy growth of young people. He died on 19 April 2004.