Fan Wuzi (士會) was the ancestor of fan surname, Fan Wuzi (范武子), the grand master of the Jin Dynasty in the Spring and Autumn Period, the general of the army to Zhengqing, and the surname of Fan was the ancestor. The population of the contemporary Fan surname has reached nearly 4.6 million, which is the fifty-first surname in the country, and the ancient historical celebrity of the old Fan family has Fan Zeng, a strategist at the end of the Qin Dynasty, who is called Ya Father by Xiang Yu, who assisted him in establishing the Western Chu Hegemony and sealing the Marquis of Liyang. In the Song Dynasty, there was Fan Zhongyan, who served as the prefect of the author's hometown of Raozhou, and he composed the "Record of Yueyang Lou", in which "the world is worried and worried, and the world is happy and happy" is known as a famous sentence throughout the ages.
And the founding general Of the Fan surname Hubei people, Hubei plays a very important role in modern times, the Wuhan Wuchang Uprising in 1911 pushed the Xinhai Revolution to a climax, and finally overthrew the imperial system that lasted for thousands of years, in 1912, the Qing Emperor abdicated, the Red Fourth Front Army was established in Qiliping, Huang'an, Hubei on November 7, 1931, Hubei has 232 founding generals, including two founding generals surnamed Fan, who were Major General Fan Zhongxiang, former political commissar of the Artillery Of the Beijing Military Region, and Major General Fan Baoshun, deputy political commissar of the Sixty-seventh Army. They built up their outstanding contributions during both the revolutionary period and the liberation period.
1. Fan Zhongxiang. He was one of the five first founding generals surnamed Fan, and in 1955 he and Fan Ming (a native of Shaanxi), Fan Ziyu (a native of Hunan), and Fan Yangchun (a native of Fujian) were awarded the rank of major general. Born in 1911 in Niefan Village, Tianmen County, Hubei Province, he joined the revolution in 1927 and served as the political commissar of the Special Regiment of the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. During the Liberation War, he served as the commander of the 21st Division of the 7th Army of the First Field Army. The Seventh Army, in August 1948, was formed by the 7th Column of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia-Jinsui Joint Defense Military Region in the Lüliang area of Shanxi Province, with Peng Shaohui as its commander and Sun Zhiyuan as the political commissar, who participated in the annihilation of the Majia Army, the construction of the Tian(Shui)Lan (Prefecture) Railway, and the operation of entering Sichuan with the 18th Corps.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as the commander of the 4th Training Base of the People's Liberation Army Artillery in 1950, the first commander of the artillery of the Beijing Military Region in 1955, and the death of Major General Fan Zhongxiang in 1993 at the age of 82.
Another Hubei fan surnamed founding general is promoted major general, he is Hubei Fan Baoshun, he was born in 1914 in Tianmen, Hubei, in 1932 joined the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, Fan Baoshun from Hubei conquest to Hunan, and then to Jizhong and Yan'an, in 1941, Fan Baoshun advanced into Dabie Mountain to join Yao Zhe, as a cavalry political commissar. In 1942, he was ordered to return to Yan'an to study, and after graduation, he served as the political commissar of the 44th Regiment of the Central Plains Military Region.
It is worth mentioning that Fan Baoshun participated in the liberation of Shijiazhuang, served as the political commissar of the 204th Division of the 68th Army of the Volunteer Army in the Campaign to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and served as the director of the Political Department of the 68th Army of the 20th Corps after returning to China in 1954, and was awarded the rank of colonel the following year. In 1961, he was promoted to major general as the deputy political commissar of the 67th Army of the 20th Corps, and the predecessor of the 67th Army of the 20th Corps was the 2nd Column of the North China Military Region, and the 68th Army belonged to the North China Military Region and the 20th Corps. In 1949, the 6th Column of the North China Military Region was reorganized into the 68th Army, and the 2nd Column was reorganized into the 67th Army, both under the 20th Corps of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.
In 1961, Fan Baoshun was promoted to the rank of major general. Fan Baoshun died in 1987 at the age of 74.
Xiaobian noted that there are nine founding generals surnamed Fan, from seven provinces, and hubei and Henan have two founding generals surnamed Fan, which is the province with the largest number of founding generals surnamed Fan. The highest-ranking fan surname is Lieutenant General Fan Chaoli from Henan, who was once the deputy commander of the Jinan Military Region and enjoys the treatment of a full-time official in the Grand Military Region.