1927, the "Red Army" appeared on both sides of the gate of the peasant government in Huang An County (now Hong 'an), which was the first time in the history of our country to use the word "Red Army" to refer to the revolutionary armed forces led by China.
1928 On May 25th, China Central Committee decided that the National Revolutionary Army of Workers and Peasants was officially named the Red Army. After 1930, it was gradually renamed the Chinese Red Army of Workers and Peasants. During the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, the Chinese Red Army of Workers and Peasants continued to grow and develop, and successively formed the First Front Army (once called the Central Red Army), the Fourth Front Army, the Second Front Army and the Northwest Red Army.
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The word "Red Army" first appeared in a couplet. 1927, Chiang Kai-shek launched the "4. 12" counter-revolutionary coup. On June 1 13 of the same year, the peasant self-defense forces in Huang An County (now Hong 'an County) and Macheng County of Hubei Province led by China captured Huang An County occupied by the Kuomintang, which was known as the Jute Uprising in history and was established immediately.
Wu Lanchang, a famous calligrapher in the county, was very happy, so he wrote a couplet and posted it on the door of the farmers' government in Huang An County. The couplet reads: "I hate the soldiers in the greenwood, pretending that the sky is high and the clouds are light, and the dead are buried;" After recovering Huang An County, let us see the blue sky and purple air, and all the people gathered around the Red Army. ".
The couplets are neatly engraved with the words "green, blue, white, black, red, yellow, blue, purple, light and red", which are full of feelings and describe the situation at that time and the passion of the people's revolution very aptly. What is particularly rare is that the word "Red Army" is used in couplets. This is the first person to call the army led by China the "Red Army".