Joined the Army at the Age of Eighteen
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I was born on the 15th day of the third lunar month in 1933 in Suoli Town, Gancheng County, Hunan Province, which is now the main urban area of Jishou City, the capital of the Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture in Hunan Province. Although I have left my hometown to work and live in the north for sixty years, my local accent is hard to change. I speak Mandarin that is both spicy from Hunan and vinegary from Shanxi. People often hear my accent and ask me where I am from. I answered that I was from Xiangxi, and the other party said: "Ah! I see, it's the place where bandits are found." Some people even jokingly added: "You are not a bandit, are you?" In fact, this is a misunderstanding, which was influenced by film and television dramas such as "The Suppression of Bandits in Western Hunan", "The Suppression of Bandits in Wulong Mountain" and "Once Upon a Time in Western Hunan" that were released continuously in the 1990s. The bandits described in these film and television dramas are not bandits in the traditional sense.
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