the origin of August 1st Army Day

On April 12th and July 15th, 1927, after Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Jingwei launched the "Qing * * *" campaign in Nanjing and Wuhan successively, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Provisional Political Bureau in Hankou, and decided to use the National Revolutionary Army under the control and influence of the * * * production party to hold an uprising in Nanchang, and appointed Zhou Enlai as the secretary of the former enemy committee of the uprising leading organ.

on July 27th, Zhou Enlai held an important meeting in Nanchang attended by leaders of Zhu De, Liu Bocheng, Yun Daiying, Peng Pai, Ye Ting, Nie Rongzhen and Jiangxi Party organizations, and established a staff committee with Liu Bocheng as the chief of staff and Zhou Enlai, Ye Ting and He Long as members, and set up the general headquarters of the Rebel Army, with He Long as the chief commander and Ye Ting as the chief commander of the former enemy.

At 2 a.m. on August 1st, Zhou Enlai, Zhu De, He Long, Ye Ting, Liu Bocheng and others commanded various insurgents to attack the Kuomintang troops stationed in Nanchang. After more than four hours of fierce fighting, more than 3, people were wiped out, more than 5, guns, more than 1 million bullets and several cannons were seized, and Nanchang City was occupied. On the morning of the same day, a joint meeting of members of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang, representatives of various provinces, autonomous regions, special cities and overseas parties and departments was held in Nanchang, and the Declaration of the Central Committee was adopted, and a revolutionary committee of the Chinese Kuomintang composed of 25 members, including Soong Ching Ling, Zhou Enlai, He Long, Ye Ting and Zhu De, was established, and the Declaration of the August 1st Uprising and other documents were adopted, proposing "Down with imperialism", "Down with old and new warlords" and "Land to the tiller". At the same time, the uprising troops were reorganized, still using the designation of the Second Army of the National Revolutionary Army, with He Long as the commander in chief. Because the enemy attacked Nanchang with heavy troops, the Central Front Committee decided that according to the scheduled plan of the Central Committee, the uprising troops left Nanchang from August 3 to 6, sent troops south, passed Linchuan, Yihuang and Guangchang, and went straight to Chaoshan area in Guangdong.

The uprising troops defeated the interception of the reactionary Kuomintang troops in Ruijin and Huichang, Jiangxi Province, then passed Changting and Shanghang in Fujian Province and Dapu in Guangdong Province, and occupied Chaozhou and Shantou in late September. The main forces marched westward to Tangkeng through Jieyang. At the beginning of October, the westward troops and the troops staying in Chaoshan were besieged by the superior enemy, most of the uprising troops were scattered, and some of them broke through to Hailufeng to join the local peasant armed forces; The other part, led by Zhu De and Chen Yi, was transferred to southern Hunan through southern Jiangxi and northern Guangdong to carry out guerrilla warfare. In January 1928, with the cooperation of local party organizations and peasant armed forces in southern Hunan, the "Nianguan Uprising" was held in Yizhang. Because of the "co-suppression" by the superior enemy, the uprising troops and peasant armed forces withdrew from southern Hunan, and arrived in Jinggangshan in April of the same year to join forces with the troops led by Mao Zedong to form the Fourth Army of the Chinese Workers and Peasants Revolutionary Army, which was later renamed the Fourth Army of the Workers and Peasants Red Army.

on July 11th, 1933, the provisional central government of the Chinese Soviet * * * and the People's Republic of China decided on August 1st as the anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Red Army of Workers and Peasants, based on the recommendation of the Central Revolutionary Military Commission on June 3th. On June 15th, 1949, the People's Revolutionary Military Commission of China issued an order, stipulating that the word "August 1st" should be used as the main symbol of the military flag and emblem of the China People's Liberation Army. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, this anniversary was renamed Army Day of China People's Liberation Army.