The oldest female Red Army in the Long March was named Yang Jinlian, also known as Bandengzhuo, a Tibetan. 1875 was born in a serf family in Xiaojin County, Sichuan Province. 1In May, 935, the Red Fourth Front Army marched westward into the upper reaches of Minjiang River. Yang Jinlian, 60, joined the Red Army with a son and two women under the guidance of Chen Zairu, the Soviet female director of Lifan County. Yang Jinlian works as an interpreter in the family team of GongSiJun. On the Long March, while trying to do a good job in translation, publicity and explanation, she also mobilized Tibetan people as much as possible to raise food and necessities for the troops. 1936 Yang Jinlian arrived in northern Shaanxi smoothly. At that time, she was 62 years old and was the oldest female Red Army member who had participated in the Long March.
The youngest male Red Army in the Long March was named Xiang Xuan and was born in Sangzhi County, Hunan Province in 1926. His mother is He Mangu (He Ying's sister) and He Long is his uncle. He joined the Red Army at the age of seven and became the youngest male Red Army to complete the Long March at the age of nine.
The youngest female Red Army in the Long March was called Wan Manlin. She was born in a poor family in Nanjiang, Sichuan on 1926. She joined the Red Army with her brother on 1933. At the age of eight, she embarked on the Long March. At the age of 9, she had followed the soldiers of the Red Army cooking squad to pick firewood, choose vegetables and deliver meals. Wan Manlin's Red Fourth Front Army set out from the Sichuan-Shaanxi revolutionary base area, crossed the snow-capped mountains and grasslands, went through all kinds of hardships, and finally completed the Long March with the big brothers and sisters of the Red Army soldiers, witnessing the meeting of the three main forces of the Red Army in Huining, Gansu.