After the defeat of the first revolutionary civil war, the China * * * Production Party held an armed uprising in Nanchang, Jiangxi on August 1927. After Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Ching-wei betrayed the revolution in succession in 1927, they frantically slaughtered the producers and revolutionary masses in China in an attempt to destroy the revolution with bloody slaughter. Because the central government neglected the extreme importance of mastering the army in the first revolutionary civil war, most of the troops were controlled by the Kuomintang. The armed forces that China's * * * production party can master or influence are mainly concentrated in the Second Army of the Fourth Army of the National Revolutionary Army under the command of Kuomintang Zhang Fakui, including He Long and Ye Ting. In the face of the grim situation after the failure of the Great Revolution,1In July, 927, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Provisional Political Bureau in Hankou, and decided to launch a military riot of the Second Army of the National Revolutionary Army in Zhang Fakui, and set up a former enemy committee with Zhou Enlai as its secretary. Later, it was discovered that Zhang Fakui was on Wang Ching-wei's side. The Central Committee immediately gave up the illusion of relying on Zhang Fakui and decided to launch military actions against the Kuomintang governments in Nanjing and Wuhan independently, namely the Nanchang riots. On July 27th, Zhu De, Liu Bocheng, Hui, Peng Pai, Ye Ting, Nie and other leaders of Jiangxi Party organizations attended an important meeting in Nanchang, and a staff committee with Liu Bocheng as the chief of staff, Ye Ting and He Long as members, and He Long and Ye Ting as the commander-in-chief of the former enemies was established. 1 in August, Zhou Enlai, He Long, Ye Ting, Zhu De and Liu Bocheng, under the control and influence of China * * * Production Party, led an army of more than 20,000 people and declared an uprising in Nanchang, Jiangxi. After more than four hours of fierce fighting, more than 3,000 people were annihilated, more than 5,000 guns, more than 654.38+0,000 rounds of bullets and several cannons were seized, and Nanchang City was occupied. After the victory of the uprising, the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Nationalist Party, composed of 25 members including Soong Ching Ling, Zhou Enlai, He Long, Ye Ting and Zhu De, was established, adopted the Declaration of the August 1st Uprising and other documents, and put forward revolutionary slogans and programs such as "Down with imperialism", "Down with old and new warlords" and "Land to the tiller". Subsequently, according to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China's scheduled plan, the uprising troops left Nanchang from August 3 to 6 and marched south to Chaoshan, Guangdong. The purpose of doing this is to prepare to join the peasant uprising army in Dongjiang, Guangdong Province, which is rich in revolutionary tradition, launch the agrarian revolution, March into Guangzhou, restore the revolutionary base areas in Guangdong Province, seize the seaport, obtain international assistance from * * *, and resume the Northern Expedition. Uprising troops defeated the interception of reactionary Kuomintang troops in Ruijin, Huichang and other places in Jiangxi, then passed through Changting, Fujian, Shanghang and Tai Po, Guangdong, and occupied Chaozhou and Shantou in late September. The main force marched westward, passing Jieyang to Tangkeng. At the beginning of 10, the westward troops and troops stationed in Chaoshan were besieged by superior enemy forces, and most of the uprising troops were scattered, and some broke through to Hailufeng to join the local peasant armed forces; The other, led by Zhu De and Chen Yi, moved to southern Hunan through southern Jiangxi and northern Guangdong to carry out guerrilla warfare. 1928 1 With the cooperation of local party organizations and peasant armed forces in southern Hunan, the "Nianguan Uprising" was held in Yizhang. Because of the "co-suppression" by the superior enemy, the uprising troops and peasant armed forces withdrew from southern Hunan and arrived in Jinggangshan in April of the same year to join forces with the troops led by Mao Zedong to form the Fourth Army of the Chinese Workers and Peasants Revolutionary Army. Later renamed the Fourth Army of the Workers and Peasants Red Army.

Although the Nanchang Uprising failed, it fired the first shot of armed resistance against the Kuomintang reactionaries, which was the beginning of China's independent leadership of the revolutionary war and the establishment of the revolutionary army, and the starting point of the second revolutionary civil war.

On July 1933 and 1 1 day, the central workers' and peasants' democratic government made a resolution to designate August 1 day as the Chinese workers' and peasants' red army memorial day, and the August 1st Army Day was commemorated for the first time in the same year. 1 949 June 15, the China People's Revolutionary Military Commission issued an order, officially stipulating August 1 day as the Army Day of the China People's Liberation Army, and designating August1day as the main symbol of the flag and emblem of the China People's Liberation Army.