Account Of The Female Army

The appearance of Female Red Array is a milestone in the history of Chinese women's movement. The first female army rised from the jinggang mountains base. After Red Army enter into Sichuan-shanxi Revolutionary Base, The number of female red army increased quickly. In order to adapt to the needing of the developed revolutionary situation and Women's Movement, The Chinese Communnist Party established woman independent division. Most of the female red army in the Long March were born in the family of serfs and poor peasants, a few of female red army came from the feudal family. Most of them came from hunan province, jiangxi province, anhui province, henan province, fujian province, Sichuan province and shanxi province, most of them are very young. Many Female Red Army is Han nationality, a few of them are Tibetan and Turkish. For nationality's liberation and themselves liberation, most of Chinese women joined army. Although the number of the Female Red Army is very small in the Long March, They took a lot of responsibilities. In addition to fighting with the enemy, the female red army must undertake to much logistic support work, such as propagandizing and uniting the masses, tending the wounded, transporting, constructing roads, raising food and money, making quilts and clothes, so they made the great contribution for the revolution. Nevertheless, the female red army didn't receive any special careness, on the contrary they received the discrimination and the neglect and so on unfair treatment. Most of them were suppressed and persecuted in a long period after the Long Larch. Although, they insisted on their loyalty to the Communist Party of China and the revolutionary of china. they are true female heros.