page_title: Zeng Xianzhi
section_title: Early life and education
hierarchical_section_title: Zeng Xianzhi / Biography / Early life and education
caption_attribution_description: English: Zeng Xianzhi, Born in 1910, died in 1989, The photo was made in her teen years. 中文: 曽宪植，叶剑英的夫人，曾国荃的重孙女。这张照片拍摄于她的少女时期
context_page_description: Zeng Xianzhi was a Chinese revolutionary and politician.
  In the late 1920s and early 1930s, girls in schools was a new thing, but Zeng was a member of the girls' basketball team in school. She became a "student soldier" in a branch campus of Whampoa Military Academy. Zeng was one of the first female soldiers in China during the Revolution. After the establishment of the Communist State, she spent over 40 years working in the All-China Women's Federation. She devoted all her life to the Chinese women's rights movement.
context_section_description: Zeng was born on January 23, 1910, at Baishutang (百恕堂) in Changsha, Hunan, with her ancestral home in Xiangxiang (now Shuangfeng County). She was a descendant of Zeng Guoquan, a renowned general in the late Qing Empire and one of three brothers of Zeng Guofan. She had five siblings. Her siblings were, in order of birth: Zeng Xianpu (曾宪朴; 曾憲樸; 1908-1966), Zeng Xiankai (曾宪楷; 曾憲楷; 1908-1985), Zeng Xianzhen (曾憲榛; 1911-1997), Zeng Xianzhu (曾宪柱; 曾憲柱; 1919-1986), and Zeng Xianju (曾宪矩; 曾憲矩). In 1916 she attended Changsha Gudaotian Normal School (长沙古稻田师范学校; 長沙古稻田師範學校). Under the influence of Xu Teli, she threw herself into China's revolution. In 1926, she was accepted to the Wuhan Central Military and Political Academy. Whilst still nominally at school she participated in the Northern Expedition.
caption: Young Zeng Xianzhi
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