Ye Ping, witness our first military parade and the birth of the title "Chairman Mao"!
Author: Gao Bin, Front Line Magazine of Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China.

From November 7 to 20, 1931, the first national congress of the Soviet Union of Chinese workers, peasants and soldiers was held in Yeping Village, Ruijin. The congress announced the establishment of the provisional central government of chinese soviet republic. The picture shows the former site of the Central Bureau of the Central Soviet Area.
During the National Day holiday, the circle of friends was repeatedly screened by videos and photos of the National Day military parade in the 70th anniversary of the founding of New China.
The neat lineup, loud slogans, roaring locomotives and roaring planes of previous National Day military parades have made countless Chinese people proud and excited.
Before the founding of New China, there were several military parades in the history of our army, such as the "August 1st" military parade, the Xiyuan military parade and the Yan ‘an airport military parade. When and where was the earliest military parade? When did the title "Chairman Mao" begin?
In the former site group of Yeping Revolution in Ruijin, Jiangxi, the reporter found the answer.
Yeping Red Army Review Platform —— Witness the first military parade in the history of our army
Yeping Revolutionary Site Group is located in Yeping Village, Yeping Township, Ruijin City, Jiangxi Province. It is the birthplace of chinese soviet republic and one of the best-preserved revolutionary site groups in China. The Yeping Revolutionary Site Group has reserved a site-the Red Army Review Desk.


In preparation for the first National Congress of the Chinese Soviet Union to review the Red Army, the Red Army Review Platform was a simple and convenient platform made of bamboo and wood.
In front of the reviewing stand is the spacious Yeping Red Army Square. The ground is covered with lawns, and a line of big characters is highlighted on the ground-along the blood of the Red Army. There is also a towering Red Army Martyrs Memorial Tower and a solemn Red Army Martyrs Memorial Pavilion next to the square.

The 13-meter-high Red Army Martyrs Memorial Tower designed by Qian Zhuangfei has a pentagonal tower base and a shell-shaped tower body.
On November 7, 1931, it was the celebration day of the October Revolution in the Soviet Union. On this day, the first congress of workers, peasants and soldiers in chinese soviet republic was held at the Xie Ancestral Hall in Yeping Village, Ruijin, Soviet Union. A grand military parade was held before the opening of the conference, which was the first large-scale official military parade recorded in the history of our army.
In order to prepare for the parade, Ceng Shan, then chairman of Jiangxi Soviet, and Deng Xiaoping, then secretary of Ruijin County Party Committee, led Ruijin people to open a square that could accommodate more than 10,000 people in a forest in the northeast of Yeping Village, and built a Red Army reviewing platform with bamboo and stone.
In the middle of the reviewing platform, there is a huge red cloth hanging across the reviewing platform of the Red Army of the First National Soviet Congress, with portraits of Marx and Lenin hanging behind it, and flags of the Chinese Red Army of Workers and Peasants on both sides. In order to prevent the invasion of enemy planes, this military parade was specially arranged at 7: 00 am on November 7.
The troops participating in the reading are mainly representatives of the Red Army’s various regiments and armies, the Red Army’s camp schools, and representatives of the security forces. More than 600 delegates, including the Red Army troops from various Soviet areas and the All-China Federation of Trade Unions located in the Kuomintang-ruled areas, attended the celebration together with the people from Soviet areas who came to watch the ceremony.
At 7 o’clock sharp, Mao Zedong, Zhu De, Xiang Ying, Ren Bishi, Wang Jiaxiang, Peng Dehuai, Chen Yi and Ceng Shan boarded the reviewing stand in turn, and the military parade officially began.
Mao Zedong, general political commissar of the Red Army, dressed in a Chinese tunic suit, presided over the military parade.
Teams of heroic Red Army soldiers, columns of Red Guards and Young Pioneers shouted "Long live the Red Army!" "Long live the Soviet Union!" "Long live the Communist Party of China (CPC)!" Slogan, neatly through the reviewing stand parallel attention.
Accompanied by Chief of Staff Ye Jianying, Zhu De, Executive Chairman of the General Assembly and Commander-in-Chief of the Red Army, rode to inspect the troops and personally led the troops under review to take the oath. The whole military parade lasted about an hour.

Memorial Pavilion of Red Army Martyrs in Yeping Revolutionary Site Group
Ran Ran, the Oriental Red Sun, rose, the military parade ended successfully, and people quickly evacuated according to the predetermined plan. At this time, several planes of the Kuomintang attacked, but no abnormalities were found. After dropping several bombs, they flew in the direction of Changting, Fujian, and bombed the fake venue where the Preparatory Committee for the Conference was arranged.

On an ancient tree next to Comrade Mao Zedong’s old residence in the former site of Yeping Revolution, there is still a bomb that the enemy dropped and failed to detonate embedded in the branch.
Mao Zedong said humorously at that time: "Chiang Kai-shek is really a friend, knowing that we set up the Soviet Union today, held a military parade, and sent a special plane to entertain us!"
Yeping Revolutionary Site Group —— Witness the birth of the title "Chairman Mao"
After the military parade, from November 7 to 20, 1931, the first national congress of the Chinese Soviet was held in Yeping, Ruijin. Attending the meeting were representatives from the Central Soviet Area, western Fujian, northeastern Jiangxi, Hunan and Jiangxi, Hunan, Hubei and Jiangxi, Qiongya and other Soviet areas, as well as representatives from the Red Army, the All-China Federation of Trade Unions and the All-China Seamen’s Trade Union, totaling 610 people. On behalf of the Soviet C.O., Mao Zedong made a Report on Political Issues to the General Assembly. The Congress adopted the Outline of the Constitution of chinese soviet republic, the Land Law of chinese soviet republic, the Labor Law of chinese soviet republic and chinese soviet republic’s Decision on Economic Policy. A Central Executive Committee composed of 63 members including Mao Zedong, Xiang Ying, Zhang Guotao, Zhou Enlai and Zhu De was elected.

Former Residence of Comrade Mao Zedong in Yeping Revolutionary Site Group
After the conference, Ruijin was renamed as "Ruijing" and Ruijin County was designated as a county directly under the Soviet Provisional Central Government. Ruijin thus became the red capital of chinese soviet republic.
On November 27th, 1931, in the dense forest of Yeping Village, Mao Zedong presided over the first plenary meeting of the Central Executive Committee of chinese soviet republic. The meeting elected Mao Zedong as the chairman of the Central Executive Committee and the chairman of the Central People’s Committee according to the procedure stipulated in the Soviet Organic Law.

Chinese soviet republic temporary central government office former site
At that time, Ren Bishi, the host of the conference, stepped onto the rostrum and proposed on the spot: "Please ask Chairman Mao to speak!"
For a time, everyone didn’t react to who he called, and then everyone turned their attention to Mao Zedong. In the warm applause, everyone shouted "Chairman Mao!" The title of "Chairman Mao" is also called open.
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The picture comes from "Grateful Endeavour, A New Chapter of the Cradle Spectrum of the Republic" —— All-media Jiangxi reporters of the National Party Journal Shen Jinxiang and Gao Bin.












