On the shadow wall of Zhongnanhai, the five big characters "Serving the People" shine brightly, which is inscribed by *** himself. These five characters are not only the fundamental purpose of the party, but also the spiritual belief of the state.
What is little known is that ** and *** once opposed hanging a plaque called "**People**", so there are the five words of *** title. Today, the plaque remains unfurled.
**and***Why oppose hanging this plaque in Zhongnanhai? What is the real reason behind it?
Zhongnanhai has a history of more than 20 years as a place to work and rest, and the most eye-catching thing is those words - "serving the people".
However, when it was first moved in, Zhongnanhai was just an ordinary place with no special signs.
In October 1949, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, other organs and units hung up their own signs, only the plaque of Zhongnanhai has not yet been placed. This gave Qi Yanming a headache.
As an important place in the country, Zhongnanhai should have a decent plaque at the door. In order to achieve this goal, Qi Yanming worked hard. They searched all over the country for the golden silk wood needed to make plaques, and found large writing pens in antique markets.
After some careful preparation, Qi Yanming finally found rice paper and wrote "**people**" on it. Then, he ordered someone to engrave these big characters on the golden silk nanmu and made a beautiful plaque.
He was very satisfied with the plaque, and the more he looked at it, the more he liked it. Subsequently, he hurried to Zhongnanhai and erected the plaque outside the Xinhua Gate.
Originally looking forward to the praise of the leader, Qi Yanming was complacent. However, he didn't expect that this plaque would be criticized instead. When I saw this plaque, I thought that it was inconsistent with the status of the people, just like the yamen of old China, which was easy for the masses to resist us.
After receiving the recognition and support of the first, the decision of the first has been smoothly implemented. He deeply realized that the state must not indulge in the whirlpool of power, which will only make the people farther and farther away from us.
To this end, he launched a campaign to "serve the people" to make the people truly feel the concern of ***. This concept is the core of the world, and it is also the principle that we always adhere to.
In January 1949, Fu Zuoyi rebelled, and Peking was peacefully liberated. **Decided to move from the Xibaipo station to Beiping. ** He once objected to living in Zhongnanhai and compared this relocation to "entering Beijing to take the exam".
Although it successfully entered Beijing, the initial foothold was chosen in the more remote Xiangshan area. So why not go straight to Beiping?
On the one hand, it is to ensure the safety of the chairman, after all, Beiping has just been liberated, and the reactionary forces are still active, even more than 10,000 people, so going directly into Beiping will bring greater risks.
When Ye Shuai and others took over Beiping, they inspected the selected station, Zhongnanhai. However, due to many wars, Zhongnanhai has been dilapidated and needs to be extensively renovated, so it cannot be moved in in the short term.
Therefore, it was decided to make Xiangshan a temporary station.
When *** decided to let *** move out of Fragrant Hills, they did not expect the chairman's deep love for this place. He even expressed his determination to leave.
Due to the distance between Xiangshan and the city, every time I returned from handling affairs, it was already late at night, and sometimes the chairman would even choose to stay overnight in Zhongnanhai.
For the sake of China's health and the convenience of Zhongnanhai's office, as the organs have moved into the urban area one after another, ** and others suggested that the chairman move into the urban area. After all, the long-term residence of the country's leadership outside the city will have a negative impact on **.
Although Zhongnanhai is strategically located in the center of the city, the chairman has repeatedly refused to move in because it was once a symbol of the feudal dynasty and was inhabited by Cixi, Yuan Shikai and others.
On the contrary, the chairman prefers the seclusion and seclusion of Xiangshan, and finds it more comfortable to work here.
China has entered a new era, and the existence of Zhongnanhai has clashed with the idea of a new China. The chairman was therefore reluctant to move into Zhongnanhai. In the case of not being able to convince the chairman, ** and Mr. Zhu discussed and decided to solve the problem by a show of hands and the minority obeying the majority.
Ye Shuai, as the mayor of Beijing at the time, attended the meeting. He stressed that if the office is located in Zhongnanhai, it will give it a new historical significance.
We shouldn't dwell too much on the past, he said, and that's probably what the people are looking forward to. ** and other comrades agreed, believing that Zhongnanhai was not only the ideal place to work, but also a symbol of preserving China's history in another way.
Xiangshan, the former witness of history, now bears the reluctance to say goodbye. In the end, he obeyed the arrangement and chose to say goodbye, but with unwavering determination.
In the chairman's mind, the overthrow of the "three mountains" is only a part of the revolution, and what is more important is to completely break the old regime and prevent a repeat of Li Zicheng's mistakes and blaze a new trail.
That's why he was staunch against Zhongnanhai, a place that symbolized the old royal garden.
** and *** against the plaque, their point of view is justified. New China should show a new look, and the people are not on top, but to serve the people.
Serving the people means that we must be people-centered, and nothing can be separated from the people.
On the shadow wall in front of the Xinhua Gate in Zhongnanhai, the five characters of "serving the people" are still engraved. This is not only the chairman's leadership style, but also his deep friendship for the people.
The purpose of hanging it here is to warn party members and cadres at all times that they must keep in mind their original intentions, put the people in the highest position in their hearts, always maintain the true character of "public servants", and abandon the "official master" mentality of the past.