This was the first major military parade after the liberation of the Chinese people.
On March 25, 1949, at Xiyuan Airport in Beijing, officers and men of the People's Liberation Army who had just come down from the battlefield were inspected by Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Zhu De, and other leaders. This is the first large-scale military parade in the history of the People's Liberation Army.
At the scene of the military parade, Mao Zedong accidentally saw a burly woman, happily stepped forward to shake her hand, and said humorously: "Li Jianzhen, are you still alive?" ”
Chairman Mao Zedong received Li Jianzhen at the airport
Many years later, Li Jianzhen recalled the scene at that time and said excitedly: "At this moment, I am extremely excited to meet (Mao Zedong) alive at the Beiping Airport after liberation!" ”
Who is this Li Jian really? Why was Mao so familiar and concerned about her?
It turned out that Li Jian was really a very remarkable great woman. She met Chairman Mao Zedong several times. On the battlefield, she saved the lives of 2 lieutenant generals; after the founding of New China, she was the first female provincial party secretary and female director of the provincial people's congress. Today, I would like to share with you the story of the first female provincial party secretary of New China.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="9" >, from child daughter-in-law to the first female county party secretary in the Soviet District, met Mao Zedong for the first time</h1>
Li Jianzhen was born in 1907 to a poor family in Fengshun County, Meizhou, Guangdong Province. The parents had 12 children, sold 8, and died 2. When she was 8 months old, she sold 8 copper coins to others as a child bride. The "little husband" was 8 years older than her. She is generally older than the younger brother (little uncle) of the "little husband". When she accompanied her uncle to study, she secretly learned a little culture. By the time she was in her 10s, she could go up the mountain to chop wood and go down to the ground to farm. The masculine personality slowly appeared.
Deng Xiaoping received Li Jianzhen
In May 1926, Peng Pan, executive committee member of the Provincial Agricultural Commission and director of the Hailufeng Office, came to Fengshun and stayed at Li Jianzhen's home. Under the education and influence of Peng Pan, she joined the Peasant Red Guards. In June of the following year, he joined the party organization. He participated in the armed insurrection led by the Dongjiang Special Committee and the Fengshun County CPC Committee.
At the end of 1929, Li Jianzhen moved to Fujian and successively served as the secretary of the Raohepu Central County Party Committee and the secretary of Changting County, becoming the first female county party secretary of the Central Soviet District.
One afternoon in June 1930, Li Jianzhen went to the Tingzhou Gospel Hospital to report to Zhang Dingcheng, then chairman of the Western Fujian Soviet Government. In a building behind the hospital, she met Mao Zedong for the first time, who was recuperating. When Mao Zedong heard that she was leading a working group to do mass work and carry out agrarian revolution, he smiled and said, "Oh, you female comrade is not simple!" ”。 She saw Mao Zedong approachable and reported in detail on her work. Mao Zedong also said: "The secretary of the county party committee must manage his family well, always keep the masses in mind, put the interests of the masses in the first place, and be responsible to the masses to the end." Li Jianzhen has always remembered this and remembered it all his life.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="34" > Second, I saw Chairman Mao Zedong again during the Long March and saved the lives of 2 lieutenant generals</h1>
In October 1934, when the Red Army's Long March departed, Li Jianzhen was assigned to the headquarters of the central organ directly under the central government as the chief of the democratic movement section. During the Long March, He Cheng, minister of the General Health Department, proposed to find a comrade who could fight local tycoons and find people's husbands and grain to serve as an instructor for the cadre recuperation company. As a result, the command recommended Li Jianzhen.
Li Jianzhen during the Red Army period
One day, when it was almost time to reach the Luding Bridge, suddenly enemy planes attacked. After a bombardment, many horses died, many civilians and porters were injured, no one carried the stretcher, and no one picked up the medicine box. Li Jianzhen was sweating profusely. At this moment, Mao Zedong came over and asked with concern about the situation and difficulties of the wounded. Mao Zedong looked at the medicine boxes on the ground and hurriedly beckoned the guard squad to leave someone to help carry the wounded and pick up the medicine boxes.
Li Jianzhen saw Mao Zedong's careful arrangements and worried about his safety. Hurriedly said, "Chairman Mao, go fast, leave us alone!" Mao Zedong waved his hand and said, "You all dare to stand up here, I am afraid of something!" He saw the guards carrying the wounded and picking up the medicine box before he got on his horse and walked forward. Looking at Mao Zedong's distant back, Li Jianzhen's eyes filled with tears...
When Li Jianzhen was serving as an instructor of the Red Army cadre recuperation company, he also saved the lives of 2 founding lieutenant generals. One was Yao Zhe, who was the regimental commander of the Red Third Army, and the other was Zhong Chibing, who was the political commissar of the Red Third Army.
During the attack on Loushan Pass, Yao Zhe was seriously injured and remained unconscious. When the troops retreated, they prepared to leave him in the homes of ordinary people for treatment. After Li Jianzhen knew, he resolutely disagreed. Specially arranged a civilian, a horseman, and the guards of the Yao regimental commander, including themselves, to take turns to carry the yao regimental commander for tens of kilometers and snatch him back from the hands of the god of death.
Li Jianzhen was with the masses when he went deep into the base to investigate
Zhong Chibing, the political commissar of the regiment, suffered serious leg injuries in the battle, was amputated, and came to the cadre recuperation company. During a surprise attack by the enemy, the two men in charge of carrying the stretcher heard the gunshots and ran away. Li Jianzhen summoned a guard, carried a stretcher with himself, and braved the "whizzing" sound of bullets around him to carry the wounded political commissar of the regiment to safety. Many years later, when Zhong Chibing, who was a lieutenant general, saw Li Jianzhen, Lao Yuan said gratefully: "Without you Sister Li, there would be no me today!" ”
Together with his comrades-in-arms, Li Jianzhen brought the recuperation company safely from the Long March to Yan'an. In 1937, she and her husband Deng Zhenyuan went south to participate in the War of Resistance. In August 1943, her husband was honorably killed in battle. At that time, there was a misinformation that Li Jianzhen had also died. When Mao Zedong learned of this, he was very saddened. However, on March 25, 1949, 12 years later, when Mao Zedong saw Li Jianzhen, he recognized her at a glance and happily joked: "Li Jianzhen, are you still alive?" ”
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="35" > third, became the first female provincial party secretary of New China and the female director of the provincial people's congress</h1>
On October 1, 1949, Li Jianzhen participated in the founding ceremony. In 1950, she followed Marshal Ye Jianying to Guangdong to work. He served as the head of the Guangdong Land Reform Work Group and the secretary of the party group. She carried out pilot work in Xingning, Jieyang and Longchuan counties. Since then, she has served as the first secretary of the Party Committee of Central Guangdong District, a member of the Standing Committee of the Cpc Guangdong Provincial Committee, the secretary of the Secretariat of the Provincial Party Committee and the secretary of the Supervision Commission. In particular, in 1978, she served as the secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee and the secretary of the Provincial Discipline Inspection Commission. Became the first female provincial party secretary of New China. In December 1979, she was elected as the director of the Provincial People's Congress, becoming the first female director of the Provincial People's Congress in New China.
Marshal Ye Jianying received Li Jianzhen
Li Jianzhen returned to Guangdong and has always maintained a hard and simple style of life. The blanket she used was a blanket that the organization had assigned to her when she was married, and it had been used for 57 years; the towel was torn and she was reluctant to replace it, but cut off the tattered section and continued to use it...
After her husband's death in 1943, Li Jianzhen did not start another family. Husband Deng Zhenqian and his ex-wife have a son named Deng Donglin. Li Jianzhen cared for him very much, and when he went to school, Li Jianzhen always took the bus when he picked him up and dropped him off from school. She told her son that "personal matters, you can't use a public car." After graduation, my son has been working at the grassroots level and has never used his mother's banner to engage in privileges and seek personal gain.
Li Jianzhen's brother was originally a cadre of the Xiaosheng Supply and Marketing Cooperative in Fengshun County. In 1985, retirement age was reached. At that time, his son Li Jianqiang was very eager to "take over the succession" and handle the "transformation of agriculture into non-agriculture". However, Li Jianqiang is already 41 years old, does not meet the age requirements of "farming to non-agriculture" under 40 years old, he thinks that it is only 1 year old, so he went to his aunt Li Jianzhen to intercede. Li Jianzhen said: "Your affairs, your requirements, I can't open my mouth, let alone write notes." ”
Li Jianzhen's only photo with her sacrificial husband
Li Jianzhen's secretary Li Hanjin recalled that Li Jianzhen suffered from bladder cancer in 1971 and needed regular treatment and re-examination. At the age of 70, while fighting the disease, she insisted on undertaking heavy work, often working overtime until late at night, and was full of blood for work.
On March 30, 1992, Li Jianzhen, a legendary old man, died in Guangzhou at the age of 85.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="36" > conclusion</h1>
Li Jianzhen did not have the opportunity to study when she was young, but she loved to learn. During the war years, he loved to sing mountain songs and write mountain songs, and published "Three Hundred Mountain Songs of Li Jianzhen". Among them, there is a sentence "Bright and elegant primroses, a pot of clear water can settle down", which is the lyrics of the mountain song created by Li Jianzhen praising daffodils, which are widely sung among the local cadres and masses, which can be described as a true portrayal of her high wind and bright festival. She, like a daffodil, blooms fragrantly, leaving behind a fresh breeze and righteousness.
Li Jianzhen equestrian sculpture
She handed over her whole life to the party and the people, was upright, upright and clean, and selflessly dedicated her life. This is precisely the revolutionary spirit and fine qualities that we still need to inherit today and in the future!