Editing Lin Biao (section)

===Youth===
[[File:Lin Biao Blue Sky White Sun.jpg|thumb|Lin Biao in [[Kuomintang]] uniform|200px]]
Lin Biao was the son of a prosperous merchant family in [[Huanggang]], [[Hubei]].<ref name="L69">Leung 69</ref> His name at birth was "'''Lin Yurong'''".<ref name="L&D" /> Lin's father opened a small handicrafts factory in the mid-late 1910s, but was forced to close the factory due to "heavy taxes imposed by local militarists". After closing the factory, Lin's father worked as a [[purser]] aboard a river steamship. Lin entered primary school in 1917,<ref name="Lin164">Lin 164</ref> and moved to Shanghai in 1919 to continue his education.<ref name="L&D">Lazitch and Drachkovitch 265–267</ref> As a child, Lin was much more interested in participating in student movements than in pursuing his formal education.<ref name="Lee170">Lee 170</ref> Lin transferred to Wuchang Gongjin High School ({{zh|labels=no|s=武昌共进中学}}) at 15.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://cpc.people.com.cn/GB/64162/126778/126780/7490123.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180307013953/http://cpc.people.com.cn/GB/64162/126778/126780/7490123.html |archive-date=7 March 2018 |script-title=zh:林 彪--资料中心--中国共产党新闻网 |website=People.com.cn |language=zh-cn |quote="{{lang|zh-Hans|15岁转入武昌共进中学}}"}}</ref> Lin joined a satellite organization of the [[Communist Youth League]] before he graduated high school in 1925. Later in 1925 he participated in the [[May Thirtieth Movement]] and enrolled in the newly established [[Whampoa Military Academy|Whampoa (Huangpu) Military Academy]] in [[Guangzhou]].<ref name="L69" />

As a young cadet, Lin admired the personality of [[Chiang Kai-shek]] (Jiang Jieshi), who was then the principal of the academy.<ref name="Lee170" /> At Whampoa, Lin also studied under [[Zhou Enlai]], who was eight years older than Lin. Lin had no contact with Zhou after their time in Whampoa, until they met again in [[Yan'an]] in the late 1930s.<ref>Barnonin and Yu 240</ref> Lin's relationship with Zhou was never especially close, but they rarely opposed each other directly.<ref name="MMW140" />

After graduating from Whampoa in 1926, Lin was assigned to a regiment commanded by [[Ye Ting]]. Less than a year after graduating from Whampoa, he was assigned to the [[Northern Expedition (1926–1927)|Northern Expedition]], where he rose from deputy platoon leader to battalion commander within a few months. During this time Lin joined the [[Chinese Communist Party|Communist Party]].<ref name="L69" /> By 1927 Lin was a colonel.

When he was twenty, Lin married a girl{{Clarify|reason=presumably a woman?|date=September 2021}} from the countryside with the family name "Ong". This marriage was arranged by Lin's parents, and the couple never became close. When Lin left the Kuomintang to become a communist revolutionary, Ong did not accompany Lin, and their marriage effectively ended.<ref name="Lee170" />