1844, Feng Yunshan came to northern Guangxi. He is "far from the center of Confucianism and its influence, away from densely populated town fairs, away from the most fertile farmland and the most powerful landlords." Thousands of charcoal burners, miners, farmers and village women living deep in the mountains became the earliest believers of Hong Xiuquan and Feng Yunshan in worshipping God.
These people also include a large number of female believers. On June +085 1 year 65438+1October1day in 5438, with the beginning of armed confrontation between Hong Xiuquan and the Qing court, they had an unheard-of identity-female soldiers. These women from Hakka are as brave as men in the battle because they don't bind their feet. Zeng Guofan, who once suppressed the uprising of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, suffered the hardships of Hakka women and even called these heroic Hakka women "Bigfoot Barbarian War" with hatred.
1927, on the lawn of Wuhu lianghu academy, the atmosphere was solemn. The opening ceremony of the sixth phase of Huangpu Military Academy is being held. Different from the past, this time, a group of female soldiers in military uniforms and more than 4,000 male soldiers passed the reviewing stand.
This is an epoch-making feat and a sword that the revolutionary army stabbed the feudal camp. There are 130 female soldiers in this batch. They are the first female soldiers in China's modern history. "W" is the abbreviation of "WOMAN" in English. And the appearance of this "W" in China at that time, the society and the families of female soldiers caused as strong a shock as 12 typhoon!
The first women's group: 1935 was established during the Long March and consisted of more than 2,000 female soldiers. After the establishment of the women's group, female soldiers, regardless of their age, will shave their heads, wear gray uniforms, hats, belts, leggings, sandals, guns and knives, just like male soldiers. On the battlefield, the Women's Corps took the lead and made many contributions to the revolutionary cause in China.
First, China's first female general (Major General)
Li Zhen, a native of Liuyang, Hunan Province, was born in February 1908 and joined the revolution in February/926. He used to be the organization minister of the Red Sixth Army Corps, the director of the political department directly under the Eighth Route Army 120 Division, the secretary-general of the political department of the Volunteers, and the deputy procurator-general of the military procuratorate. 1955 In September, he was awarded the rank of Major General. She is the first female general in our army. 1990 died in March.
Second, China's first female lieutenant general (the world's first female lieutenant general)
Nie Li, a native of Jiangjin, Sichuan, was born in September 1930. 1960 joined the army. He used to be a technician of the Fifth Research Institute of the Ministry of National Defense, deputy director of the Naval Bureau of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Ministry of National Defense, deputy director and secretary general of the Science and Technology Committee of the National Defense Commission, and vice chairman of the All-China Women's Federation. 1September 1988, he was awarded the rank of major general.1July 1993, he was promoted to lieutenant general. She is the first female lieutenant general in our army and even in the world.