During the Agrarian Revolutionary War, many women also joined the Red Army, and women such as Deng Yingchao, Cai Chang, He Zizhen, and Zhong Yuelin experienced the Long March, which was very difficult. Most of the above-mentioned female Red Army women did not hold very high positions in the ranks, and most of them worked as confidential secretaries and women in the party group, not as high-ranking generals in the Red Army who participated in commanding operations.
There is a female Red Army officer, she is a senior general of the Red Army, and the highest position in the ranks of the Red Army is the director of the General Political Department of the Red Fourth Front Army, this position is a high-ranking position, and belongs to the main leader of the Red Fourth Front Army, she is Zhang Qinqiu. It is worth mentioning that Chen Geng, Xu Shiyou, Wang Jian'an and other high-ranking generals of our army were once Zhang Qinqiu's subordinates, which shows that she has very deep qualifications in the revolutionary ranks.
Zhang Qinqiu, who is an all-round talent in culture and martial arts
Zhang Qinqiu, a native of Tongxiang, Zhejiang Province, was born in November 1904 in a well-off family, and was gifted and intelligent from an early age, liked to learn, and her parents supported her very much in studying. In November 1924, through the introduction of Qu Qiubai's wife Yang Zhihua and others, Zhang Qinqiu joined the Communist Party and became one of the early party members.
In April 1931, according to the organizational arrangement, Zhang Qinqiu came to the Eyu-Anhui Soviet District to participate in the revolution, and she was very knowledgeable and had profound theoretical knowledge, and was appointed director of the political department of the Military and Political School. At first, the trainees had doubts about Zhang Qinqiu's ability and doubted whether this woman really had the ability, but she was not a vase, and she conquered the trainees with her words and deeds, which made people dare not underestimate.
Although Zhang Qinqiu is a woman, her training ability is not worse than that of men, and she often participates in field training with male soldiers, from scratching and rolling to tactical command, she can learn as soon as she learns, and she can draw inferences from others. When organizing the propaganda team, Zhang Qinqiu often taught the team members to dance, gave cultural lessons to the propagandists, and wrote propaganda scripts.
In November 1932, after the Xiaohekou Conference, Zhang Qinqiu was appointed director of the Political Department of the Red Fourth Front Army, becoming one of the main leaders of the Four Front Army, a position held by a Chinese woman in the ranks led by the Chinese Communist Party during the entire war period.
Zhang Qinqiu dared to speak out, and in the face of the various behaviors of the leader surnamed Zhang, she put forward a lot of opinions in person, regardless of personal safety. When the Red Four Front Army arrived in the mountainous area of Daba in Sichuan, Shaanxi, the leader surnamed Zhang dismissed Zhang Qinqiu from the post of director of the political department and demoted him to the post of secretary of the county party committee in a certain place out of retaliation. Therefore, Zhang Qinqiu was also the first female county party secretary in the ranks of the Red Army in Sichuan, Shaanxi and Suzhou District, and in the face of injustice, she did not consider personal gains and losses, and wholeheartedly served the party and the people.
The first generation of female ministers of New China
In July 1936, before the Red Army crossed the grassland three times, Zhang Qinqiu married Chen Changhao, political commissar of the Red Fourth Front Army. After the defeat of the Western Route Army, Zhang Qinqiu was captured by the enemy, and after the enemy learned that she was a high-ranking general of the Red Army, he escorted Zhang Qinqiu to Nanjing and imprisoned her in the "Capital Introspection Yuan".
During the Kuomintang-Communist Cooperation in the War of Resistance, after Premier Zhou's negotiations with the Kuomintang, Zhang Qinqiu and other imprisoned Communist Party members were released and returned to Yan'an, the holy place of revolution.
After the founding of New China, Zhang Qinqiu had left the army and served in government departments as deputy minister of the Ministry of Textile Industry, and she did not participate in the awarding of titles. As everyone knows, Li Zhen is the only female founding major general of New China, and Zhang Qinqiu's qualifications are much higher than her, and if she participates in the awarding of the title, she must not be lower than the general by virtue of the post of director of the Political Department of the Red Fourth Front Army.
In the post of vice minister of industry and textiles, Zhang Qinqiu has been working for nearly twenty years, during her tenure she worked diligently, never took credit and was not proud, led delegations to visit abroad many times, whenever there was not enough translation during the visit, Zhang Qinqiu could also replace the translation post and act as an interpreter for the accompanying technicians, which was rumored to be a good talk at the time.
In the early years, Zhang Qinqiu had experience in mobilizing female textile workers during the Shanghai Revolution, and after the founding of New China, she tried in many ways to solve the difficulties of female textile workers, mobilize their enthusiasm, and let women go out of family life, enter social work, and open up insights and ideas.
In weekday work, Zhang Qinqiu shares weal and woe with the employees, does not want to go to the cadre canteen to eat, chooses to eat in the canteen with the majority of female employees, year after year, as long as he is at work, this rule has not changed.
During the special period, Zhang Qinqiu's situation was not very good, and she chose to commit suicide by jumping off the building on April 22, 1968 to show her innocence, until June 1979, the organization rehabilitated her.
epilogue
Zhang Qinqiu is a respectable heroine who dedicated her life to the cause of communism and deserves the respect of every one of us. In the history of the Red Army, Zhang Qinqiu is the only female general of the Red Army recognized by the authoritative "Chinese Military Encyclopedia", and has an important position in the history of our army.