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==Early life== | ==Early life== | ||
On May 16 1896, Qiu Heng was born in the village of Quyang (曲阳) to a family of poor peasant farmers. Quyang and the wider province was going through a severe drought at the time so his family moved southeast to [[Xuhai]] in order to find work in that city. The family settled in the impoverished Wugou neighborhood, Qiu was enrolled in a local school while his parents found work as factory laborers. It was at this neighborhood school where Qiu met his lifelong friend [[Dai Hanjian]], another student of peasant background. His father died falling from a construction scaffold when Qiu was seven and the family sunk deeper into poverty. Social advancement seemed impossible, except through the army; as luck would have it one of [[Dai Hanjian]]'s maternal uncles was a lieutenant who helped the both of them enlist when they reached 17. | |||
==Military career== | ==Military career== | ||
===Qian service during Second Great War=== | ===Qian service during Second Great War=== | ||