Portrait of Peng Pai, leader of the peasant movement in Hailufeng On January 1, 1923, the Farmers 'Association was established in Haifeng County, Guangdong, with Peng Pai as president. Peng Pai was one of the early important leaders of the Communist Party of China and an outstanding farmer leader. In his early years, he traveled eastward to Japan to study and actively participated in the patriotic movement. Shortly after returning to China, he took off his student clothes, changed into coarse cloth clothes, and wore a bamboo hat. He went deep into the countryside and determined to engage in the peasant movement. He was praised as the "King of Peasants" by Guangdong farmers.