As the first revolutionary military academy cooperated by the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, in 2024, the Whampoa Military Academy will usher in its centennial, and both sides of the strait will celebrate.
Some people may ask, Whampoa Military Academy, isn't that the old yellow calendar during the Northern Expedition, and it still exists?
In fact, the Army Military Academy, which is now located in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan Province, is, to some extent, seen as a continuation of it.
This is the display of military uniforms at the Taiwan Army Military Academy last year to commemorate the 99th birthday of the Whampoa Army, covering all stages from the Northern Expedition to the Anti-Japanese War.
Founded in 1924, the Whampoa Military Academy is a new army officer school established by Sun Yat-sen in Whampoa, an eastern suburb of Guangzhou, with the help of the Communist Party of China and the Soviet Union. Chiang Kai-shek was the president, and Zhou Enlai was the director of the Political Department. In 1926, the Whampoa Military Academy was reorganized into the Central Military and Political School, but it is still customarily called the Whampoa Military Academy.
At that time, in the face of a great shortage of modern military talents, Sun Yat-sen decided to adopt the Comintern's suggestion to "build up its own military strength."
Before Chiang Kai-shek's betrayal of the revolution in 1927, the teachers and cadets of the Whampoa Military Academy included not only the Kuomintang, but also many Communist Party members and Communist Youth League members. It can be called a model practice of KMT-CCP cooperation.
However, due to limited resources, we can only start with short-term courses and give priority to solving the problem of "being". Therefore, the most open Whampoa Military Academy is more like a short-term training class. As for the powerful generals who came out of Huangpu, their abilities were not mainly taught by Huangpu, but they became more and more powerful after graduating from "learning war in war."
However, if you want to talk about the "cradle of generals" in the Republic of China era, the recognized first place should actually be the Baoding Army Officer Military Academy (when I first dated my husband, it was at the site of the Baoding Military Academy; The second was the Military Museum in Beijing. If you want to ask why it is so "non-mainstream", in addition to hobbies, maybe it is more because these places have a sense of atmosphere, or - free to visit! ）
Compared with the Baoding Military Academy, the more well-known Huangpu Military Academy can only rank second.
Unlike the Huangpu Military Academy, which is engaged in "crash courses", the Baoding Military Academy, founded in 1912, is a more formal and perfect modern army military academy. However, because it did not last long, it was discontinued early in 1923. In terms of presence, it is indeed inferior to the Whampoa Military Academy.
Okay, let's go back to Taiwan's army academy, which is known as the continuation of the Whampoa Military Academy.
After Chiang Kai-shek betrayed the revolution in 1927, the Whampoa Military Academy was restructured into the "Central Army Military Academy". In 1946, it was renamed the "Army Military Academy of the Republic of China"; In 1950, the Kuomintang authorities, who fled to Taiwan, "re-established" in Fengshan District, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan Province, established the Taiwan version of the "Republic of China Army Military Academy", which later generations are accustomed to calling - Army Military Academy.
At the "resumption of school" ceremony, Lao Jiang Zeng wrote down the Whampoa school motto "Dear and sincere" with a stroke of his pen, and gave a passionate lecture to the students: "Back then, we defeated the warlords and defeated Japan with a Whampoa Military Academy. Today, we also want to use a Whampoa Military Academy to 'recover the mainland.'" ”
Since then, the Army Military Academy has continued to this day under the signboard of "Taiwan Whampoa."
Although Lao Jiang's speech carried obvious reactionary content, he also emphasized that the Whampoa Military Academy was the mainstay of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and the heroic history of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression was an incomparably glorious page in the history of the Whampoa Military Academy.
However, at the centennial celebration of the Whampoa Military Academy held by the Taiwan Army Military Academy, Lai Ching-te, a "Taiwan independence diehard," went to the scene to deliver a high-profile speech and even took a car to inspect the cadet phalanx.
In addition, in the introduction to the 100th anniversary concert festival, there are chapters such as "Eastern Crusade" and "Northern Expedition", but there is no mention of the confrontation with Japan, and it seems that it is deliberately avoiding the identity labels of "Chinese nation" and "Chinese".
You must know that since its founding by Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the Whampoa Military Academy has always adhered to the lofty ideals of national reunification and national rejuvenation.
Since the Army Military Academy claims to be a continuation of the Whampoa Military Academy, the grand opening of the activities to commemorate the 100 th anniversary of the founding of the Whampoa Military Academy should be the inheritance and promotion of the above-mentioned "Whampoa spirit."
Not to mention that if Mr. Sun Yat-sen has a spirit meeting in the sky, even if Kai Shengong sees this situation, it is estimated that he will definitely cheat the corpse...
So, why does anti-Japanese seem to have become a "sensitive word" for some green camp forces?
On the one hand, today's Taiwan Army Military Academy has invited many instructors from the Self-Defense Forces to serve as foreign advisers.
But more, take a look at these contemporary Taiwanese middle school textbooks below.
In Taiwan's middle school history textbooks, Japan is referred to as the "mother country," which not only helped Taiwan to carry out "industrialization," but also promoted Taiwan to break bad habits, form a "new style," help Taiwan build infrastructure, improve education, develop production, and so on -- all praise Japanese colonial rule, while deliberately downplaying the connection between Taiwan Island and the mainland of the motherland, as well as the national identity of the Chinese people, and ignoring the blood and tears of Taiwan's ancestors who were enslaved and oppressed, and the heroic resistance struggle that lasted for half a century.
Even the war crimes of militarist Japan's aggression against East and Southeast Asia have been excused by Taiwan textbooks.
To be honest, even contemporary Japanese people themselves may be embarrassed to write like this.
The following is the 2017 edition of Japan's history textbook, which still uses the words "accelerated aggression against China".
In addition to flattering Japan, Taiwan's history textbooks are constantly engaging in "de-Sinocentrism" -- replacing "Chinese history" with "East Asian history." The history of China is interspersed with the history of Japan, Korea, and Vietnam.
After receiving this kind of education, those Taiwanese students will inevitably gradually see China as a "neighbor" rather than a "motherland", equate the influence of Chinese culture on the island of Taiwan with the East, the West and other cultures, and then form the idea of "natural independence" from an early age, and the spiritual level and the identity of Chinese have been separated.
At the same time, under the poisonous influence of the culture of licking one's face and insisting that Japan call it its "mother country," the atmosphere of "anti-China and flattery to Japan" in Taiwan Province has become stronger and stronger. It is said that a long time ago, the Taiwanese movie "Odyssey Balai" produced in 2012 mainly interpreted the tragic history of the Taiwanese aboriginal Saidek people's resistance to Japanese colonial rule (Wushe Incident).
Soon after "Odyssey Balai" was released in Taiwan, it was constantly yin and yang by the green camp. Later, when the DPP came to power, the film fell completely silent...
Finally, let's go back to the Taiwan Army Military Academy, which is known as the continuation of the Whampoa Military Academy.
To mention the most well-known graduate of this military school in Chinese mainland, perhaps it should be the Taoyuan City Councilor - Yu Beichen, who was given the name "Brother Tufang" by our netizens.
Yu Beichen's ancestral home in Shandong, born in Taipei in 1968, graduated from the 59th Mechanical Department of the Taiwan Army Military Academy. Former commander of Taiwan's armored brigade, he was a major general of the Taiwan Army before entering politics.
In a program in August 2022, he "commented" on the military exercises in Chinese mainland - the PLA military exercises are just a show, do you really think that Taiwan's houses are all earthen houses like yours? Taiwan is full of high-rise buildings, and your chariot can't drive out at all!
As a result, Yu Beichen got its name - "Brother Tufang".
The rest of his thunderous remarks include, but are not limited to-
As a guest of the show, when the host asked him how high the interception rate of Tiangong was, Yu Beichen, as a guest, opened his mouth and came: Usually the interception rate of one shot of Tiangong is 70%, and said that although the interception rate is very high, but just in case, we intercept three times together, and the interception rate is 210%, centripetal block, how can it not be stopped, three interceptions and one shot, it must be blocked!
Over 200% interception chance
210%？ I really didn't figure it out after thinking about it for a long time, 100% of it was already done, and what did the remaining 110% block? It's lonely.
and the most recent time on the show, at the live broadcast of "Zhang Yating Spicy Evening News", Yu Beichen, as usual, still emphasized that the PLA is not good with a "relaxed face". But this time, his perspective is very strange, and he made the following professional "prediction" - the PLA will definitely get lost when attacking Taiwan, because their Google must not be connected and there is no way to navigate.
At the same time, he also said that after the PLA landed in Taiwan, there was no lunch, and he had to go to the supermarket to grab rations...
The Army Military Academy has cultivated such a "major general", let's call him a "laughing craftsman"....
It is no wonder that the alumni association of the Taiwan Army Military Academy to commemorate the centennial celebration of the Whampoa Military Academy did not invite Yu Beichen to attend...
A discerning person can see the problem at a glance
The material comes from Singapore's Lianhe Zaobao.