Ye Ting
Ye was born on April 10, 1896 (August 4 of Guangxu 22nd year in Qing Dynasty[3]) at Zhoutian village, Danshui town, in Guishan county, located in the Guangdong province.After returning to his hometown, Ye's father rented 11 mus' of farmland and planted fruit trees to make a living.[3] Under the influence of the Second Guangzhou Uprising, Ye led his schoolmates to cut their queue hairstyles and was expelled by his school.At the end of 1916 after earning a place on the Dean's list, Ye was recommended for admission to Baoding Landforce Military Academy.During his studies at the military academy, Ye gained access to a number of new ideas through reading New Youth and other journals and books.[3] Ye wrote to New Youth journal and raised the idea that "the root of morality" is at consciousness", and expressed his ideal of "reviving the dirty world and helped the weaks and the drowns".Ye was ordered to guard the forecourt of the Marshall House and helped Sun's wife, Soong Ching-ling, to escape danger.Ye formulated an officer and recruit training plan, and strictly applied a “4 exercises” and "3 lessons" rules to the army.Ye was the first one to attack the position of Wu's army, with other troops following in an attempt to improve the outcome of the battle, eventually taking Hesheng Bridge.After Wuchang was attacked and occupied, the second division entered the city faster than Ye's, and Liu Chi was then ordered to be the Wuhan garrison commander.On August 1, 1927, with Chen Yi, Zhou Enlai, He Long, Zhu De, Ye Jianying, Lin Biao, Liu Bocheng and Guo Moruo, he participated in the failed Nanchang Uprising, when the Chinese Red Army was founded.During the New Fourth Army Incident, Ye, wanting to save his men, went to Shangguan Yunxiang's headquarters on January 13, 1941 to negotiate terms.[citation needed] On April 17, the Jin Sui branch of the Central Committee of the CCP (Chinese: 中共中央晋绥分局) held a public memorial at the Lan County airport.