The origin of August 1st Army Day

Its origin is: 1, 1, at 2 a.m. in August, 65437, the former enemy committee headed by Zhou Enlai and the Northern Expedition troops led by He Long, Ye Ting, Zhu De and Liu Bocheng reached 20,000. The armed uprising in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province fired the first shot of China's armed resistance against the Kuomintang reactionaries, which was the beginning of China's independent leadership of the armed struggle.

1928 In April, the Nanchang Uprising Army led by Zhu De and Chen Yi and the Autumn Harvest Uprising Army led by Mao Zedong joined forces in Jinggangshan to formally form the Fourth Army of the Chinese Workers and Peasants Revolutionary Army. 1 On June 30th, 933, the Central Revolutionary Military Commission decided that August1day would be the Chinese Workers and Peasants Red Army Memorial Day. In July of the same year 1 1, the provisional central government of chinese soviet republic approved this decision. Since then, "August 1st" has become the Army Day of China People's Liberation Army.