He joined the army at the age of nineteen, studied medicine at the age of thirty, and successively served as a clerk for Li Hongzhang, a regimental commander for Yuan Shikai, and a border guard under Duan Qirui. Finally, in order to resist japan, the sixty-year-old wrapped the application for joining the party in a cotton jacket, took his righteous son to break through the heavy blockade of the Japanese Kou, braved the rain of bullets and bullets for a day and a night, and joined the revolution.
In the 1940s, when he was over 60 years old, he followed the 359th Brigade of the 120th Division to the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region. He climbed mountains and mountains to find herbs, worked day and night to prescribe medicines, and treated a large number of local soldiers and civilians, and was deeply loved by soldiers and civilians.
When you leave,
The People's Liberation Army Daily published an article for seven consecutive days thanking him for his "life-saving grace"!
As a token of gratitude, Wang Zhen, commander of the 359th Brigade, personally presented him with a leather jacket.
After liberation, he was ordered to build Nanniwan and was personally received by Chairman Mao. Xie Jueya gave a poem praising him for his old age and strength, saying that he was: an old monkey in the Huaguo Mountain. In 1955, he was awarded the rank of lieutenant colonel, the oldest lieutenant colonel in the republic, Jiang Weiping.
Grumpy old Chinese medicine doctor
Jiang Weiping was born in 1878 to an ordinary poor family in Fangshan County, Hebei Province, and when he was young, he cut firewood, planted vegetables, and worked as an apprentice in a clothing store. At the age of 19, Jiang Weiping regarded Li Hongzhang as an idol and joined his "foreign affairs army", full of thought that following Li Hongzhang could save China. Unexpectedly, after working as a service attendant for a while, Jiang Weiping felt that the Qing army was very corrupt and there was no hope at all for the matter of saving the country. And he also had some bad views of Li Hongzhang himself, so he left the army.
Later, he ran to Yuan Shikai's Beiyang Army as a soldier, because he could endure hardships, plus he was not afraid of death, and soon became a deputy regimental commander.
However, Jiang Weiping had a fiery temper in his life, and he could not rub sand under his eyes, and he was even less accustomed to the misdeeds of people in the army. Once, the commander of a cavalry brigade and a regiment flirted with a fourteen-year-old girl, and when he learned of it, he asked a group of people to beat up the regimental commander, and as a result, he was removed from the army.
Later, Jiang Weiping ran to Duan Qirui's border defense army for a while. But the warlords fight back and forth, not against foreign devils, but only against their own people. Jiang Weiping was angry and didn't want to do it again. After returning to his hometown, he remembered that his brothers in the former army had been slightly injured because of the battle, and they could not be treated in time, and the infection worsened, and finally gave up their lives in vain.
So after returning to his hometown, he began to study Chinese medicine with his teachers.
Jiang Weiping is quite talented in studying medicine, and he cultivates the land while studying on his own, plus the guidance of some famous teachers. However, in three or four years, there have been small achievements.
After the Outbreak of the May Fourth Movement, Jiang Weiping first ran to participate in the student movement. After turning around, he set up a "Red Cross Hospital" in the village. It lasts for three months and treats the villagers free of charge.
After the September 18 Incident, he took in a young man in exile in the northeast, adopted him as a righteous son, and changed his name to Jiang Zhigang. In 1938, an anti-Japanese detachment of the Eighth Route Army passed through Fangshan, Hebei Province. When Jiang Weiping heard about it, he happily pulled Jiang Zhigang and invited him to join the army. Jiang Zhigang knew his old man's fiery temper, and without saying anything, he agreed.
After a long journey of day and night, the father and son finally arrived at the eighth route army station.
Bao Sen, the head of the Eighth Route Army, believes that Jiang Weiping is too old. Would like to ask him to go back
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Leave Jiang Zhigang behind.
Jiang Weiping immediately rolled his eyes, stood at the door of the Eighth Route Army garrison to make a "generous statement," and delivered a patriotic speech!
Bao Sen had no choice, so he asked his superior Song Shilun for instructions, and Song Shilun finally agreed to keep Jiang Weiping.
Sixty-year-old joined the army's hot-blooded "old eighth road"
The Eighth Route Army pays the most attention to military appearance and military discipline, and those who are soldiers are generally not allowed to grow a beard. But
Jiang Weiping was an old man from the Qing Dynasty who insisted on not shaving under the pretext of not using a razor.
The leaders saw that he was so old, and smiled. Initially, the leaders did not agree to let him go to the front, but he had to insist on going to the front, because the purpose of his medical studies was to save lives and help the wounded.
In October 1938, Jiang Weiping was transferred to Wang Zhen's unit. At that time, the troops considered that he was very old and afraid that he would not be able to move, so they assigned him a horse. It just so happened that at that time, because of the enemy's blockade, there was a lack of Western medicine, so Jiang Weiping rode to the horse to turn around the mountain, looking for herbs everywhere, and asked the mountain people about the remedies for curing the disease.
During the War of Resistance Against Japan,
Through Jiang Weiping's careful collection and sorting out of anti-inflammatory, anti-plague, typhoid fever and other diseases of folk herbs and prescriptions, a total of more than 300 kinds.
Later, in the Battle of Wutaishan, in which the 359th Brigade surrounded and annihilated the Japanese army, Jiang Weiping did not get out of the line of fire for seven days and seven nights, personally boiled soup medicine, and treated wounded soldiers. Using his own Danfang to stop bleeding, reduce inflammation, and prevent purulent infections for soldiers, it greatly reduced the mortality rate of combatants.
Later, Jiang Weiping was transferred to Yan'an. Before leaving, the local people and soldiers were desperate, so they published articles in the People's Liberation Army Daily for seven consecutive days to express their gratitude. In 1942, Jiang Weiping responded to Chairman Mao's call and went to "Nanniwan" and "Jiulongquan" to cultivate land. Served as the farm chief of the 719th Regiment of the 359th Brigade.
He gets up early every day and is greedy, doing as much work as young people, not afraid of suffering, not tired, and his mental head is better than that of ordinary young people. Hsieh wrote a poem praising him:
Soldiers and farmers are happy, their hands and feet are worried; Kyushu has walked all over the Gui xuan garden, and there is an old monkey in the flower and fruit mountain.
In 1944, jiang Weiping, as a model worker in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region, went to Yan'an to participate in the "Heroic Model Conference" and was received and commended by Chairman Mao.
The following year, he became Vice President of the First Branch of the Bethune International Peace Hospital. Led his medical staff to save more than 1,200 wounded soldiers and civilians in the Battle of Shijiazhuang.
Jiang Weiping was awarded the rank of lieutenant colonel in 1955 and the Order of Independence and Freedom of the Third Class and the Liberation Medal of the Third Class, and it was a very solemn thing to participate in the awarding ceremony, and everyone shaved their beards clean and neatly dressed up. But
After the leaders knew about Jiang Weiping's special experience, they specially approved him not to shave.
So, this is the appearance of the white-bearded old military doctor we see in the photo today.
In 1948, the organization persuaded Jiang Weiping to retire, but he refused. Later, he was transferred to Zhangjiakou Army Hospital. In 1964, Jiang Weiping became ill with overwork and died at the age of 86.
epilogue
Jiang Weiping was diligent and thrifty all his life, and after liberation, he worked in the hospital, planting flowers and vegetables in the open space behind the hospital. This, he said, would not only beautify the environment, but also allow everyone to improve their lives.
Jiang Weiping has always hung the sickle and nine-tooth nail rake used in the "Nanniwan" when he was in the "Nanniwan" to hang on the wall of his home. Remind the family to "remember the bittersweet", live well, and can not forget the original.
Because he often exercises himself like a young man, he always looks so old and energetic.
In the twenty-five years since he joined the revolution, Jiang Weiping has always believed firmly, forged ahead, and wherever the organization points, he will go wherever he goes. He treats his work seriously and is very generous to his hometown, donating funds to his hometown many times and providing free medical treatment.
After his death, all walks of life in Zhangjiakou held a solemn public sacrifice ceremony for him, and nearly 10,000 people from all walks of life participated in the public sacrifice!