Among the founding generals, there were many people with the same surname, the most famous of which were "Sanyang", "Sanliang" and "Sanxiao". However, there have always been different statements about the names of the three generals, Xiao Jinguang, Xiao Ke and Xiao Hua.
In fact, these two surnames are universal, and most people with the surname "Xiao" now originally had the surname "Xiao". Judging from the former residences of these three generals, Xiao Ke and Xiao Hua both use the word "Xiao", so they should be called "Xiao Ke's former residence" and "Xiao Hua's former residence".
Although Xiao Jinguang wrote "Xiao Jinguang's Former Residence" at the door, in the introduction inside, the word "Xiao" is used, so it is more common to use the word "Xiao".
Admiral Xiao Jinguang: A founding navy veteran full of literature and art.
General Xiao Jinguang was not only an excellent naval commander, but also a versatile artist. He studied in the Soviet Union as a young man and was very familiar with the culture of the Soviet Union.
In the Dalian negotiations in 1951, he surprised the Soviet delegation by playing "Katyusha", which also made the negotiation process go smoothly. His children also inherited his artistic genes, each of them knew a few instruments.
In the Mid-Autumn Festival in 1971, the whole family gathered together and held a family meeting, which was very lively. And his daughter-in-law is the well-known singer Li Guyi.
In addition, Xiao Jinguang also has a deep attainment in calligraphy and painting, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, he often gathers with some famous painters, ** calligraphy and painting art, and asks them to create works for the navy.
His paintings are lofty and majestic, and many professional painters find it difficult to match.
General Xiao Ke, during the agrarian revolution and the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, was unrivaled, but when he was awarded the title in 1955, he was only awarded the rank of general, which made countless people regret it.
However, for these, General Shaw looked very lightly. He once said: "I was born in 1907 in a scholarly family in Jiahe County, Hunan, and received a good education since I was a child.
After joining the Red Army, I have always been able to keep my hands on the papers, and I am a rare literate person in the Red Army. As early as the Red Army period, Xiao Ke had planned to write a book to show the history of the development of the Chinese revolution with the growth process of a Red Army guerrilla force in the Luoxiao Mountains as the main line.
However, due to the long-term war, the writing of the book was stopped, and it finally took more than two years to complete the first draft, called "Luo Xiaojun". However, it was a time of war and the book was never published.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the book was dragged down due to busy work and dissatisfaction with many details.
After General Xiao Ke retired in his later years, he revisited and revised in detail his old work "Bloody Luoxiao", which was published in 1988 and renamed "Bloody Luoxiao".
In the selection of the 3rd Mao Dun Literature Award in 1991, "Bloody Luoxiao" won the Honorable Mention. Despite some misinformation, "Bloody Luoxiao" won an official award in that Mao Dun Literature Award, but in fact only won an honorary award.
A total of five official award-winning works were selected for that year's Mao Dun Literature Award: "Ordinary World", "Muslim's Funeral", "Young Son of Heaven", "Urban Romance" and "The Second Sun", while Xiao Ke's "Bloody Luoxiao" and Xu Xingye's "Golden Ou Lack" were awarded honorary awards.
Despite only an honorable mention, this is already quite a remarkable achievement. In addition, after his retirement, General Xiao Ke also presided over the editing of a series of military history materials, created documentary works such as "Xiao Ke's Memoirs" and "Zhu Mao's Red Army Profile", and hosted the magazine "Yanhuang Chunqiu".
He also led more than 100 scholars to compile the 100-volume masterpiece "General Chronicles of Chinese Culture" and "Encyclopedia of China" over a period of eight years.
Let's focus on the youngest general, Xiao Hua. He was born in 1916 in Xingguo County, Jiangxi Province, and was the youngest of all the founding generals.
General Xiao Hua was born into a poor family, and his parents were both local communists. As a result, he was influenced by the revolution from an early age and began to help his parents pass on information at a young age.
At the age of 13, he was elected secretary of the Xingguo County Committee of the Communist Youth League of the Young Communist Party, and at the age of 17, he became the political commissar of the International Division of the Young Communist Party and became the well-known "baby commander".
General Xiao Hua was not only good at military affairs, but also a talented literary artist, who presided over the creation of a large-scale literary epic "Long March Songs". In 1964, to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Long March, he wrote 12 poems about the Long March despite his illness and invited four composers to compose music for these poems.
In the end, they selected 10 poems and created a majestic large-scale literary epic "Long March Songs".
The outstanding achievements of General Xiao Hua, General Xiao Ke and General Xiao Jinguang in the field of culture are extraordinary. The premiere of their work "Songs of the Long March" caused a sensation and has been performed more than 1,000 times around the world, and is deeply loved by people from all over the world.
It has been performed seven times, and it is highly praised as a Chinese classic work in the 20th century, and it is also a landmark classic work in the history of choral singing in China.
Their achievements are admirable, even for professionals who have been in the cultural world for decades.