贺琼,1914年生于湖南省会同县王家坪乡。少年时在湘西重镇洪江求学,受进步思想潮流的影响。1933年,赴长沙求学。其间,积极投身爱国学生运动。抗日战争爆发后,她头蓄男式发型,身着军服,腰系皮带,英姿不亚男儿,到洪江等地,四处奔走呼号,发动人民抗日救亡。1938年底加入中 He Qiong, born in 1914 in Huijia County, Hunan Province Wang Ping Township. When he was a teenager, he studied in Hongjiang, a city in western Hunan Province, and was influenced by the trend of progressive thinking. In 1933, went to Changsha to study. In the meantime, actively participate in the patriotic student movement. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, she set off a man’s haircut, dressed in military uniforms, waist belt, unrivaled son, went to Hongjiang and other places, running around for a call sign, launched the people’s anti-Japanese national salvation. Joined in late 1938