Zhang Weihong indeed had set her sights on Tian Xinhua. Zhang Weihong came from an ordinary "big yard" family in Beijing; her father was an unremarkable staff member of the armed department, and her mother was an ordinary collective worker. She had two older brothers and an older sister, and being the youngest in the family, hers was considered an average family in Beijing—not poor, but not wealthy either.
However, Zhang Weihong showed an exceedingly high political consciousness and revolutionary zeal from a young age. Her greatest loves in life were the green military uniform and Chairman Mao badges. Since becoming a proud member of the Red Guards at the age of twelve, Zhang Weihong had immersed herself daily in the fervor of criticizing and rebelling against the "old ways."
