In the history of New China, there are husbands and wives who are both at the level of the state, such as Zhou Enlai and Deng Yingchao, and both are of the vice-state level, such as Li Fuchun and Cai Chang, and the father and son, one at the level of the state and one at the level of the vice state, such as Ye Jianying and Ye Xuanping.
However, to say that three generations of a family are deputy state level, I am afraid it is not easy to find, the inn today to introduce you to one.
The eldest parent of the family, named Liao Zhongkai, is a native of Huizhou City, Guangdong Province.
In China's modern history, Liao Zhongkai was definitely a well-known figure, Sun Yat-sen founded the League, Liao Zhongkai and He Xiangning and his wife were important participants, becoming the earliest batch of important elders of the Kuomintang, and Chiang Kai-shek had to be respectful when he saw him.
At the first congress of the Kuomintang, Liao Zhongkai was elected secretary general of the base camp of the Navy and Army Marshal and a standing committee member of the Kuomintang Central Committee, and has always been one of Sun Yat-sen's most important assistants. After the founding of the Whampoa Military Academy, Chiang Kai-shek was the principal and Liao Zhongkai was the party representative, and from the party's point of view, Liao Zhongkai was the highest person in charge of the Whampoa Military Academy.
In the Kuomintang, there has always been a struggle between the left and the right, and when Sun Yat-sen was alive, the struggle between the two factions did not dare to make too much trouble, but after Sun Yat-sen's death in 1925, the two factions began a blatant struggle. Liao Zhongkai, a representative of the left-center wing of the Kuomintang, supported cooperation with the Soviet Union outside and the Chinese Communist Party at home, and was assassinated by the rightists on August 20, 1925, just five months after Sun Yat-sen's death.
It is said that on August 18, two days before Liao Zhongkai's murder, at a meeting, Wang Jingwei quietly handed him a note suggesting that he might be harmed and asked him to pay attention to safety. But Liao Zhongkai ignored it and replied: "Sacrificing for the party and the country is the long-cherished wish of revolutionaries. ”
Because of Liao Zhongkai's huge influence, when he came out of the funeral, more than 200,000 people from all walks of life spontaneously came to see him off.
Liao Zhongkai's untimely death was deplorable, but his wife inherited his legacy and carried it forward.
Among the progressive women of the Kuomintang, the most prestigious is undoubtedly Sun Yat-sen's wife, Soong Ching-ling, and the second in line should be Liao Zhongkai's wife He Xiangning.
Born in Hong Kong, He Xiangning married Liao Zhongkai at the age of 19, and began a revolutionary career with her husband, becoming one of the few female elders of the Kuomintang.
He Xiangning is best known for the story of giving Chiang Kai-shek women's clothes.
It was during the Songhu War of Resistance in 1932, when the Nineteenth Route Army and the Japanese Army fought a bloody battle in Shanghai, but Chiang Kai-shek explicitly refused to support the Nineteenth Route Army (of course, Chiang Kai-shek also had all considerations and could not be killed with a pole), He Xiangning was indignant and sent Chiang Kai-shek a set of his own clothes, as well as a poem: "Calling himself a boy in vain, willing to be enslaved." Send mountains and rivers without war, and all the worlds will be ashamed. My women, may I die on the battlefield. Put me in your clothes and change your clothes! ”
In this Songhu War of Resistance, there were two people who could not fail to mention, one was Du Yuesheng, and the other was He Xiangning. With their influence, the two raised a lot of supplies for the soldiers on the front line, and also organized a medical rescue team to treat the wounded day and night.
After the outbreak of the All-out War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in 1937, He Xiangning, who was 60 years old, stood up again and initiated the establishment of the Chinese Women's Anti-Enemy Support Association, which served as its chairman and became the largest women's anti-war group during the War of Resistance.
Due to long-standing differences with Chiang Kai-shek, on the eve of the founding of New China, He Xiangning was invited to go north and participate in the CPPCC meeting. Later, He Xiangning served as vice chairman of the National People's Congress and vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, becoming one of the few female vice-state officials in New China.
Liao Zhongkai and He Xiangning had a son and a daughter, and the son's name was Liao Chengzhi, which means "inheriting the revolutionary will". Because of his parents, Liao Chengzhi joined the Kuomintang at the age of 16, but at the age of 19, because Chiang Kai-shek launched a counter-revolutionary coup, Liao Chengzhi quit in anger and joined the Chinese Communist Party.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Liao Chengzhi served as vice chairman of the National People's Congress, and like his mother, he was a vice-state official.
Liao Zhongkai's daughter, named Liao Mengxing, served as Song Qingling's secretary and was Song Qingling's most powerful assistant. Liao Mengxing's husband is also worth mentioning, named Li Shaoshi, who served as Zhou Enlai's secretary, but unfortunately, during the Chongqing negotiations in 1945, he was mistaken for Zhou Enlai by Kuomintang agents and unfortunately died.
In addition, Liao Mengxing also has a niece, named Chen Xiangmei, who is the wife of Chennault, the captain of the American Flying Tigers.
Liao Zhongkai's grandson, named Liao Hui, served as vice chairman of the 10th and 11th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and was at the vice-state level like his grandmother and father.
From this point of view, although Liao Zhongkai died young, his wife, son, and grandson all reached the rank of deputy state and achieved very remarkable achievements, and Liao Gong should also be relieved under the Nine Springs.
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