At the Spring Festival Gala of CCTV in 2017, the director ingeniously arranged a special session of "Tribute to the Old Red Army", inviting five old Red Army members who participated in the Long March.
Among them, the female Red Army wang Dingguo attracted special attention.
Wang Dingguo was born on February 15, 1913, and on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve 2017, it was her birthday.
The audience celebrated her 105th birthday with hundreds of millions of Chinese people at home and abroad.
On that happy night, she was called "China's oldest surviving female Red Army."
Looking at the old man's smiling and healthy appearance, many people do not know that she has created many miracles in her life.
She wrapped her feet when she was a child, joined the Red Army at the age of 16, and when she crossed the snowy mountains on the Long March, one of her toes was frozen, and she was stunned that she was not left behind, gritting her teeth, three over the grass, four over the snowy mountains.
She also participated in the arduous operation of the Western Route Army, was twice broken by enemy shrapnel in Shimen and Liangzhou, experienced nine deaths, and not only successfully saved herself, but also saved senior red army commanders and fighters, including Zhang Qinqiu, and a number of female Red Army fighters.
She developed cancer at the age of 75, but she eventually overcame the disease and lived another 30 years.
In addition, she retook the Long March Road at the age of 91, inspected the ecology of the Yellow River at the age of 94, and planted trees at the age of 99...
The strong and optimistic female Red Army soldier died at 11:06 a.m. on June 9 this year at the age of 107.
Behind her, she left a countless honors and aura.
She is a proletarian revolutionary, a former confidential secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Central People's Government, deputy director of the Office of the Party Committee of the Supreme People's Court, a member of the Fifth to Seventh National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, one of the double hundred figures in 2009, and was selected as a candidate for "Moving China" in December 2016.
The most amazing thing is that she was originally an illiterate peasant girl, but in her later years she sorted out more than 5 million words of historical documents, and she was obsessed with calligraphy and painting.
When she sorted out these historical documents and created calligraphy and paintings, she told reporters with infinite affection that she could become a writer because her husband had poured his heart and soul into her.
Her husband is Xie Jueya, one of the "Five Elders of Yan'an", a famous jurist and educator, an outstanding social activist, a pioneer in the legal field, and the founder of the people's judicial system.
Xie Jueya was born in 1884, 9 years older than Chairman Mao, had a deep foundation in ancient Literature, and taught at the Hunan First Division. Chairman Mao had great respect for him and treated him with the courtesy of a teacher.
Xie Jueya had an arranged marriage, and when he married her first wife, Ho Dun-so, he was only 15 years old and Mrs. Ho was 20 years old.
They lived together for 20 years and gave birth to four boys and three girls, including Xie Lianbo, Xie Zigu, Xie Qunying, and Xie Bingru.
In 1919, after Xie Jueya embarked on the revolutionary road, the marriage survived in name only.
In July 1934, Xie Jueya and Guo Xiangyu, a female Red Army soldier, were married in Ruijin Shazhouba.
After his marriage, Xie Jueya was appointed secretary general of the central government; Guo Xiangyu worked as a mailing clerk in the secretariat of the Central Bureau.
It was a beautiful and happy time.
But only for three months.
In October 1934, due to a serious strategic error, the main force of the Central Red Army was forced to leave the Long March in the Soviet Zone.
Xie Jueya, who is already 50 years old, has followed the main Red Army on a journey.
Guo Xiangyu wrapped his small feet, which was a full "three-inch golden lotus", unable to follow the troops to move, and was forced to stay.
In March 1935, Guo Xiangyu fought a guerrilla war in the Yongding and Shanghang areas of western Fujian, and because of his small feet and inability to run fast, he fell into the clutches of the enemy.
When the enemy learned that she was the wife of Xie Jueya, the secretary general of the central government, he was overjoyed and tortured her all over the place, hoping to learn some useful information from her mouth.
But she was unyielding and did not answer.
The fierce enemy dug a deep pit outside the prison, lowered her head down and her feet up, and threatened to fill it if she did not speak.
Guo Xiangyu was fearless and didn't hum a single sound.
The enemy, who was ashamed and angry, frantically filled the pit and killed Guo Xiangyu alive.
Outside the pit, only a pair of small feet were exposed.
When Xie Jueya first heard the bad news, he destroyed all five of them, and wrote a poem "Huanxi Sha Yi Guo Xiangyu", which contained the sentence "Guangyu Qianqiu Yu Bixin".
In 1937, Xie Jueya was appointed as the representative of the Eighth Route Army office in Lanzhou, and in Lanzhou he met Wang Dingguo, who had returned from the operation of the Western Route Army, and the two had feelings for each other, and later married with the approval of Chairman Mao.
The two loved each other and gave birth to xie piao, Xie Fei, Xie Lie, Xie Yun, Xie Yaxu, Xie Hong, xie Yaxia, five men, two girls and seven children.
With the help of Xie Jueya, Wang Dingguo not only got rid of his blindness, but also learned to write poetry, practice calligraphy and painting.
On February 15, 1963, Wang Dingguo's 50th birthday, the 79-year-old Xie Jueya gladly wrote a poem to his wife He Shou, calling himself "looking down on the wind and clouds and I am also immortal".
Xie Jueya served as minister of internal affairs of the Central People's Government of new China, was later elected president of the Supreme People's Court, and in 1964 was elected vice chairman of the Fourth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
Xie Juezaixian went on June 15, 1971, at the age of 87, and walked through 34 years of happiness with Wang Dingguo.