The Three Masters of Huangpu refer to the three most prominent figures among the first batch of cadets of the Whampoa Military Academy, namely Jiang Xianyun, Chen Geng and He Zhihan. The first two were staunch Communists, while He Zhihan had a transformational process, first from the Communist Party and then from the Communist Party.
Jiang Xianyun
Jiang Xianyun (1902-1927), the character Xiangyun, alias Wushan. A native of Dapingtang, Xintian, Hunan Province, he is a student of the first batch of the Whampoa Military Academy. He entered the school with the first place with excellent results, and during his time in school, he was both excellent in character and learning, and was deeply respected by the principal Chiang Kai-shek (Zi Jieshi). He served as the secretary of the Political Department of the Whampoa Military Academy, the secretary of Chiang Kai-shek's attendants, and the secretary of the General Political Department of the Northern Expeditionary Army. In May 1927, he was heroically killed in battle with the Feng army in Linying, Henan.
Chen Geng
Chen Geng (1903~1961), the most famous of the Whampoa Sanjie, was a major general of the Republic. Born in 1903, his original name was Chen Shukang. A native of Xiangxiang County, Hunan Province. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1922. In 1924, he entered the first phase of the Whampoa Military Academy. After graduation, he stayed on as a deputy captain and company commander. He participated in the suppression of the rebellion of the Shang Dynasty and the crusade against Chen Jiongming. In 1926, he went to the Soviet Union to study. In 1927, he returned to China to participate in the Nanchang Uprising and served as a battalion commander. Later, he went to Shanghai to do intelligence work in the CENTRAL Central Committee organs. During the agrarian revolutionary war, he successively served as the commander and commander of the 12th Division of the Fourth Front Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, the principal of the Red Army Infantry School, the leader of the Red Army Cadre Regiment, the captain of the 13th Brigade of the Shaanxi-Gansu Detachment, and the commander of the 1st Division of the Red First Army. Participated in the Long March. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he successively served as the commander of the 386th Brigade of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army and the commander of the Taiyue Column of the Taiyue Military Region. During the Liberation War, he successively served as the commander of the Fourth Column of the Jinji-Hebei Luyu Field Army, and the commander and political commissar of the Fourth Corps of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.
He Sincerely Han
He Zhihan (1900-1972), a native of Yueyang, Hunan, graduated from the first phase of the Whampoa Military Academy, together with Jiang Xianyun and Chen Geng and called Huangpu Sanjie, organized the Sun Wen doctrine Society and served as the secretary general of the Huangpu Alumni Association, and later served as the lieutenant general of the Political Training Department of the Military Commission, and for a long time was in charge of the intelligence system of the National Government, known as one of the four pillars of the Fuxing Society. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he served as director of the First Department of the Political Department and secretary general of the Political Department of the Military Commission of the National Government; in 1950 he took over as the head of the competent department for transportation affairs in Taiwan, resigned in 1954, and served as the "national policy adviser" of the administrative organ in Taiwan; after 1961, he served as the chairman of the Kuomintang Central Design and Evaluation Committee, the political council member of the Taiwan regional administrative organ, and a member of the Kuomintang Central Review Committee; he died in 1972. During the May Fourth Movement, he joined the Marxist Research Society organized by Dong Biwu and participated in the Eastern National Congress held by the Soviet Union as a representative of Chinese laborers.