蔡畅同志是湖南湘乡人。她有一个很好的母亲叫葛健豪。辛亥革命后,母亲受革命思想的影响,虽年逾五十,却还进学校读书。1913年的秋天,她带着儿女,来到了长沙。当时,“湖南女子教育养习所”是长沙一所有名的女子学校,母亲进了师范班,蔡畅进了文化班。一年多以后,葛健豪回到湘乡永丰镇创办了一个“观音阁女学堂” (即后来的湖南省湘乡县第二女子职业学校),15岁的蔡畅就在这所学校当音乐体育教师。观音阁女学堂招收了不少穷苦人家的女子,葛健豪希望她们有一技之长,可以独立谋生。可当地的豪绅很不满意,发生了几次冲突后,豪绅们把葛健豪辞退了。1916年,葛健豪带着两个女儿和外孙女,二次来到长沙,蔡畅考取了周南女校。 Comrade Cai Chang is a native of Hunan. She has a good mother called Ge Jianhao. After the Revolution of 1911, her mother was influenced by revolutionary ideas. Although she was over 50 years old, she went to school. In the autumn of 1913, she came to Changsha with her children. At that time, “Hunan Women’s Education Institute” is a well-known women’s school in Changsha, the mother entered the teacher training class, Cai Chang into the culture class. More than a year later, Ge Jianhao returned to Yongfeng Township in Xiangxiang to set up a “Guanyin Pavilion Girl School” (later Hunan Xiangxiang Second Female Vocational School). At the age of 15, Cai Chang was playing music in this school Physical education teacher. Guanyin Pavilion female students recruited a lot of poor people, Ge Jian Hao hope they have a skill long, you can make a living independently. The local gentry is not satisfied, after several conflicts, the gentry dismissed Ge Jianhao. In 1916, Ge Jianhao with two daughters and granddaughters, came to Changsha twice, Cai Chang won the Zhounan school.