sentences:  People of the province fondly referred to this period as the Golden Age of Guangdong and called him 南天王 (the Celestial King of the South).Becoming chairman of the government of Guangdong in 1931, he turned against Chiang Kai-shek in the south after the arrest and release of Hu Hanmin and allied with New Guangxi Clique army commanders; another civil war might have broken out as a result if there had been no September 18 Incident in Shenyang, which reminded all sides of the necessity to unite.From 1931-36 he was Commander-in-Chief of the 1st Army Group.