The tomb of Comrade Zuo Qi, the founding major general, is located in Fushouyuan, Shandong.
Zuo Qi (1911-1998), a native of Yongxin, Jiangxi, joined the regiment in 1929, joined the party in 1932, joined the Red Army in the same year, and served as the captain of the propaganda team of the Political Department of the 49th Regiment of the 17th Division of the Red Sixth Army during the Red Army, and participated in the 25,000-mile Long March. During the Anti-Japanese War, Zuo Qi successively served as the operational staff officer, reconnaissance section chief, chief of staff of the 717th Regiment, and political commissar of the 359th Brigade Headquarters of the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army. During the Liberation War, he successively served as deputy political commissar and commander of the Fifth Army Division of the Jinsui Military Region, and director of the Political Department of the Second Column of the Northwest Field Army. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he successively served as deputy political commissar and director of the Political Department of the Xinjiang Military Region, and deputy political commissar and adviser of the Jinan Military Region. In 1955, he was awarded the rank of Major General, and was awarded the Order of August 1 of the Second Class, the Order of Independence and Freedom of the Second Class, and the Order of Liberation of the First Class.
During the Long March, Zuo Qi shot down an enemy plane with a rifle, and regiment commander Xiao Ke and political commissar Wang Zhen made a special phone call to congratulate them, praising that "the shooting down of a plane by rifle is the first of its kind in the whole army." They were commended by a circular. In December 1938, Zuo Qi was seriously wounded in battle, and Dr. Bethune performed an amputation on him, and he became a one-armed general. In 1989, Zuo Qi's name was listed in the "Who's Who of Chinese Calligraphy and Painting Seal Carving" and became a famous left-handed calligrapher in the army.