Que Hanqian's personal profile

Que Hanqian (1902-1972), also known as Puyun, was a native of Quejia Village, Qingshuiqiao Township. After graduating from middle school, he attended the School of Law and Politics. In 1920, he joined the army, was admitted to the Wuhan Teaching Corps, and joined the Kuomintang. Soon after, he was admitted to the fourth phase of the Huangpu Military Academy. After graduation, he served as company, battalion, regimental commander, major general brigade commander, lieutenant general division commander, deputy army commander, army commander, and Guangzhou Military Academy. Guard commander, Pudong Corps commander and other positions. He was awarded the Yunhui Medal of the Kuomintang and the Baoding Medal of the Kuomintang for his military exploits, and also received the Brown Medal of the United States. He went to Taiwan in 1949 and served successively as Commander-in-Chief of Central Taiwan Defense, Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Taiwan Defense, Commander-in-Chief of Eastern Defense, and Commander-in-Chief of Penghu Defense. He resigned due to illness in 1952 and died in Taipei Veterans General Hospital in 1972.

In the eight years of the Anti-Japanese War, Que Hanqian went through 10 battles and repeatedly made extraordinary achievements. In the Battle of Guangde in 1938, Que led his troops to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese army. They fought hand-to-hand repeatedly and intimidated the enemy. In the winter of 1939, the Japanese army invaded the north from Guangzhou. Que Hanqian, while holding on to the original position, sent out a surprise force to launch a counterattack with friendly forces, and captured Wengyuan and Huaxian in one go, forcing three Japanese divisions to retreat hastily to the outskirts of Guangzhou, creating An exciting victory in northern Guangdong. In 1944, he led two divisions to airlift Burma to relieve the Allied forces from the siege of Myitkyina. In the same year, as the deputy commander of the 54th Army, he led all the soldiers in a bloody battle to break through the natural dangers of the Nujiang River, which was tightly fortified by the Japanese army. He broke through the defense line of Gaoligong Mountain at an altitude of 3,000 meters, regained Tengchong, an important town in western Yunnan, and created a victory for the total annihilation of the Japanese invaders. The glorious record of the regiment. Que Hanqian was famous both at home and abroad, and was promoted to commander in the battle.

As a senior general of the Kuomintang, Que Hanqian once caused serious losses to the Chinese revolution. From 1930 to 1934, he participated in the blockade and suppression of Jinggangshan and faithfully implemented Chiang Kai-shek's policy of "burning, killing, pacifying and destroying", causing serious damage to the revolutionary base area. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he actively participated in the anti-Japanese movement * fought together, captured Jiaodong, fought in western Liaoning, and defended Shanghai, making great contributions to Chiang Kai-shek.

Que Hanqian is good at calligraphy and has profound attainments. During his long military life, he had to practice hundreds of big characters every day, never finishing his homework, never taking a break, even when he was ill. In 1959, he held a personal calligraphy exhibition at Zhongshan Hall in Taipei. Its original version of "Song of Zhengqi" is composed of four thousand characters in Xing, Cao, Kai and Li. It is known as the "Bayun" style and is highly praised by experts.