Among the top ten generals in New China, ** has a very high evaluation of General Xu Guangda, but his development is not good, not only suffered an unjust death in the special ten years, but even almost destroyed the ashes by Lin Shuai, which is really regrettable. 
In 1955, 47-year-old Xu Guangda became the youngest founding general, on the eve of the award, Xu Guangda learned that he was awarded the rank of general, he thought it was too high, and asked for a downgrade, so he made a request to his old boss **, hoping to reduce the rank, ** reported his opinion to the Military Commission.
After considering it, the Military Commission still decided to award Xu Guangda the rank of general, so Xu Guangda simply wrote an "application for demotion" to *** and the Military Commission, and Xu Guangda sincerely requested to reduce his military rank in the application, which fully demonstrated the noble feelings of an old party member and old revolutionary.
Xu Guangda wrote three reports requesting demotion, and after reading Xu Guangda's application, he said emotionally: "Xu Guangda is a mirror, a mirror of the Communists themselves. The Military Commission did not approve Xu Guangda's application for demotion, and insisted on awarding him the rank of general.
Although Xu Guangda's request for demotion was not approved, after the abolition of the military rank system, in 1965, when it was changed to an administrative rank system, Xu Guangda took the initiative to request a reduction in his rank and treatment, and finally approved his request.
Xu Guangda has been honest and upright all his life, never engaged in special, even his father's funeral is no exception, Xu Guangda has not returned to his hometown for more than 20 years since he participated in the revolution, One day in 1949, an old man took a newspaper to the Hunan Changsha Military Management Committee to find someone, and Xiao Jinguang, who was the director of the committee at the time, received the old man.
The old man pointed to Xu Guangda in the newspaper ** and said: "This is my five sons", Xiao Jinguang realized that the old man was Xu Guangda's father, Xu Guangda was a radish chong from Dongxiang, Changsha, ranked fifth in the family, and later with the help of Xiao Jinguang, the old man met the "five sons" Xu Guangda as he wished.
In 1950, Xu Guangda was approved to return to his hometown to visit relatives, he was very happy, but when he arrived at Dongshan Ferry, he was not happy, it turned out that the local cadres took the lead in welcoming everyone to greet him, and also made a welcome banner, Xu Guangda let people remove the banner, and then went home to reunite with relatives.
In 1957, Xu Guangda's father died, and his brothers and local cadres prepared a grand funeral and asked Xu Guangda to go home to preside.
Xu Guangda advocated frugality, did not want to be extravagant and wasteful, decided not to go home, let a political department officer go home to help handle the funeral, and finally his father's funeral was handled simply, a total of only 150 yuan, Xu Guangda never arranged work for relatives, but he sponsored 9 relatives' children to go to school.
In the special ten years, in January 1967, Xu Guangda was shocked, framed by Lin and the "Gang of Four", and was illegally detained, during which he endured more than a year of criticism and interrogation, and on June 3, 1969, Xu Guangda could not bear the torture and died in Beijing at the age of 61.
At that time, there was controversy over the disposal of Xu Guangda's ashes, Lin Shuai and others destroyed his ashes, and ** reported it after learning about it, and after learning about it, he made a final decision, saying: "Comrade Xu Guangda's urn should be placed where he should be placed." ”
On June 3, 1977, the ** Military Commission issued Document No. 6 to officially restore Xu Guangda's reputation and hold a ceremony for his ashes.