Deputy chief of staff of the Eighth Route Army, 八路军, killed in a Japanese sweep of the Taihang Mountains, the most senior Eighth Route Army officer to die in the war. A county in Shanxi became 左权县.
General Zuo Quan was the highest-ranking Eighth Route Army commander to die in the War of Resistance against Japan.
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His epitaph by 彭德怀 contains 壮志未成，遗恨太行, 'his great aim unfulfilled, he left his regret in the Taihang'. The county named after him was called 辽县 until September 1942.
