First of all, the "Little Chen Yi" here does not mean that this person's military ability directly pursues Chen Yi and is known as "Little Chen Yi", but his name is also called Chen Yi, in order to distinguish him from Chen Yi, everyone calls Chen Yi the Great Chen Yi and calls him Little Chen Yi.
We all know that Big Chen Yi, that is, Chen Laozong was awarded the rank of marshal in 1955, and Xiao Chen Yi was a major general. However, this major general was different from other major generals in that he had never led a soldier or fought with a gun.
Xiao Chen Yi's gun is his pen, and he is a cultural general. If it was now, it should be civilian, but at that time, there was no such thing as a civilian position.
Chen Yi
However, after the liberation war began, Xiao Chen Yi was no longer called Chen Yi and changed his name to Chen Yi. Since then, Chen Yi has also specifically referred to Mr. Chen.
Because of the change of name, when Chen Yi saw Mr. Chen, he also gave a special explanation. Mr. Chen did not think there was anything wrong with it, and thought that there were more people with the same name and surname. For example, Russia has a large and small "Tolstoy", France has a large and small "Dumas", and China has a large and small "Chen Yi", which is also very good.
However, this "Little Chen Yi" only served as a major general for three years, and after three years, he was stripped of the rank of major general and expelled from the military.
Chen Yi, a native of Zunyi, Guizhou, was born in 1912, joined the revolution at the age of 17, and joined the Party at the age of 19. As a cultural man, unlike other generals, he participated in the revolution by not participating in the uprising, but by joining the "Youth Anti-Imperialist League", a peripheral organization of the Left League, and two years later, in 1931, he officially entered the Left Writers' Union.
Chen Yi officially became a soldier in 1937, that is, after the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Red Army was reorganized into the Eighth Route Army, and he joined the Eighth Route Army and became a soldier of the Eighth Route Army.
At that time, the Eighth Route Army had a school for military and political cadres in southern Jinnan, and Chen Yi served as the director of the school affairs department, then the propaganda officer of the Northern Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, and later, became the director of the Jiluyu Daily Newspaper.
After the 1940s, he was transferred to the director of Dazhong Daily and the director of the Shandong branch of Xinhua News Agency. In the Eighth Route Army, he served as the propaganda director of the 115th Division, engaging in propaganda work under Lin Biao.
Anyway, judging from his resume, he was engaged in cultural propaganda work in the military, and he did a particularly distinctive job, and no one in the army at that time knew "Xiao Chen Yi."
After Japan's surrender, the East China Bureau was established, and Chen Yi served as the propaganda director of the East China Bureau. At that time, the Kuomintang was fighting for the northeast, and Chen Yi was left in Shandong. He found Mr. Chen and took the initiative to ask to go to the northeast.
He said to Mr. Chen at that time that in Shandong, many people can do their work well, and in the northeast, people like him are needed even more. More importantly, the secretary of the East China Bureau at that time was Rao Shushi, and Chen Yi wanted to work with Luo Ronghuan even more, because he was familiar with Luo Ronghuan and it was easier to carry out his work.
At that time, it was undoubtedly more difficult and arduous to go to the northeast, Chen Yi took the initiative to ask, and Chen Agreed. So Chen Yi went to the northeast to meet Luo Ronghuan. Luo Ronghuan was very happy, because what was missing at the Siping front at that time was political work cadres, and Chen Yi not only came by himself, but also brought a group of cadres, which was simply a charcoal in the snow.
Therefore, as soon as Chen Yi arrived in the northeast, he was sent by Luo Ronghuan to the Siping front, and then met Lin Biao, commander-in-chief of the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army. At that time, Lin Biao was worried about the lack of political work cadres, and a group of political workers came, and immediately set up the Field Political Department of the Northeast Democratic United Army, and Chen Yi was appointed deputy director and acting director.
After the Liaoshen Campaign, Chen Yi was promoted to political commissar of the Logistics Department of the Northeast Field Army, working under Huang Kecheng, deputy commander of the Field Army and commander of the Logistics Department.
After the founding of New China, Chen Yi was then the minister of culture of the General Political Department of the People's Liberation Army, and worked until 1958. In the meantime, in 1955, our army implemented the rank system, and Chen Yi was awarded the rank of major general because of his remarkable achievements in army culture and propaganda.
However, according to Chen Yi's rating, the award of major general is a bit low, because his rating is at the rank of quasi-corps, and the vast majority of this level has been awarded the rank of lieutenant general.
Chen Yi's work as Minister of Culture of the General Political Department was outstanding, and the General Political And Cultural Troupe, the Bayi Film Studio, the People's Liberation Army Pictorial, and the People's Liberation Army Literature and Art Were all founded and founded under the leadership of Chen Yi.
It can be said that these groups and media have influenced the generations after the founding of New China, and in the last century, the impact was very great. The General Political And Cultural Troupe has produced many big names, because there are too many, and I will not list them here.
It was this accomplished cultural general who, in 1958, suddenly became a rightist, was transferred away from his favorite General Political Department and Culture Department, and went to the Qiqihar Horticultural Experimental Station as a deputy station chief, a position that is really difficult to relate to his expertise.
In this way, Chen Yi, a military cultural wizard, was deprived of the right to engage in military culture. In 1961, with the intervention of Luo Ronghuan, Chen Yi was transferred to the vice chairman of the Heilongjiang Provincial Writers Association, but at that time the rank was at the army level and the level of the main division.
As vice chairman of the Heilongjiang Writers Association, Chen Yi wrote the novel "White Mountains and Black Water" and the film script "The Battle of Western Liaoning".
However, after the Beidaihe Conference, Chen Yi was transferred away from the Writers' Association and went to the Twin Cities Tractor Station as a deputy station chief. It was a funny arrangement again, but the era was "normal".
It was not until 21 years later, in 1979, that Chen Yi's punishment was revoked, and he was restored to his military rank and original rank, serving as deputy secretary and propaganda director of Shanghai Municipality, deputy director of the Standing Committee of the Shanghai Municipal People's Congress, and mayoral treatment.
This is a bit interesting, big and small Chen Yi, have been the mayor of Shanghai, of course, xiao Chen Yi only enjoys the mayor level treatment, not the mayor.
Chen Yi completed his legendary life on July 26, 2002, at the age of 90.
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