Zhou Bingde, born in Harbin in 1937, is the niece of ***. Zhou Bingde is the eldest daughter of Zhou Enshou, the third brother, who has lived in Zhongnanhai since he was 12 years old, Zhou Bingde has lived by his side for more than ten years, and the couple has no heirs, and Zhou Bingde has become the descendant of the Zhou family who is most closely related to ***. Zhou Bingde was the vice president of China News Service and a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
1. Zhou Bingde is the first daughter of the descendants of the Zhou family
Zhou Bingde, the eldest of the 6 children of Zhou Enshou, the younger brother of ***, is the niece of ***, born in Harbin in 1937, and is the first daughter of the 4th generation of the Zhou family.
Second, Zhou Bingde was the pearl of the Zhou family at that time
The Zhou family has always been prosperous for men and few for women. In terms of ***, there are 5 grandparents and brothers, and there are no women; There are 4 brothers in the father's generation, and there are no women; When it comes to ***, there are 3 brothers in his generation, and there are still no women. Therefore, Zhou Bingde is the first daughter of the 4th generation of the Zhou family. Therefore, her birth made the entire Zhou family very happy. **'s fourth aunt Yang lives in Tianjin, and specially asked someone to help her write a letter to Harbin to express her congratulations on her granddaughter's arrival in the world; **'s second brother Zhou Enpu wrote the words "My family is Tianding, Zhoumen is happy" for the birth of this niece; Zhou Enshou also deliberately went to Jilin to find a classmate who was the director of the Jilin Provincial Department of Education at the time and was also a classmate of Nankai to help her name her daughter. After careful consideration, the director intercepted two words in Qu Yuan's work "Ode to Orange" as her name.
3. Zhou Bingde came to Zhongnanhai at the age of 12
In June 1949, when the People's Republic of China was founded, 12-year-old Zhou Bingde came to the capital Beijing with his parents, and came to the founding prime minister and her own uncle. Because when New China was first born, it was still very difficult economically, so from the party and state leaders to the ordinary grassroots administrative workers, they only worked without receiving salaries, and only received a small monthly allowance. The children and immediate relatives of the leaders are organized to arrange their lives. Zhou Enshou is a family with many children, and the allowance is not high, so he has certain difficulties in supporting the children and taking care of the family. Therefore, he left Zhou Bingde by ***'s side.
Zhou Bingde's father is the third brother of ***, who did peripheral work in Tianjin before liberation. In 1949, his family came to Beijing and officially participated in the revolutionary work. **Find the younger brother's leader and make a "special" request, the younger brother's position should be as low as possible, and the treatment should be as little as possible. "My father is a general clerk in a trade union and a warehouse, and my family's house is very small, with two small bungalows that are sunny and unventilated, adding up to 20 square meters. The three of Zhou Bingde's sisters and brothers lived in the house of their uncle ***, and it was not until they got married and started a family in 1964 that Zhou Bingde moved out of Zhongnanhai.
Fourth, Zhou Bingde's class for the children of cadres from the High School Attached to the Women's High School went to school and took the bus to go home to his uncle and aunt's house on the weekend
Zhou Bingde called his aunt Deng Yingchao "seventh mother", because his uncle ranked seventh in the big ranking. She has lived with her uncle and aunt who have not given birth in her life for 15 years, and Deng Yingchao once said: "Bingde has the deepest relationship with us. But their siblings were not pampered because of this. Zhou Bingde usually lives in the school, and she attends the cadre children class of the Girls' High School Attached to the Normal University, and everyone in the school lives in the bunk beds in a large room. "I remember very clearly, the food of seven yuan a month must be very ordinary, and it is rare to have any meat, often stewed eggplant, stewed cabbage, and a little oil star. I wear a big padded jacket, and sometimes I wear a wind-up skirt in the summer. ”
Sometimes when she had to go home on Saturday and saw that other classmates had cars to pick her up, she had to take the bus back by herself, and she had to reverse in the middle. When she went back, the little girl was a little unbalanced, so she said to her aunt, "You see that everyone has a car to pick up ......."The aunt said, "You remember, you are an ordinary student, and when you grow up, you will be an ordinary laborer." Just because Uncle is Prime Minister doesn't mean you have any idea of privilege, you can't have any specialization. ”
This kind of "civilian" education since childhood left a very deep impression on their siblings. His younger brother Zhou Bingjun and younger sister Zhou Bingjian study at Bayi School, and usually give them two cents and take the bus to school. Once you've spent your money on a popsicle, you'll have to walk to school. When they saw that other children had a car to pick them up, they asked the teacher for a letter and an envelope, and wrote a letter to their aunt Deng Yingchao, which read: "Seventh mother, we are on vacation, please send a car to pick up, because there is luggage." "In the afternoon, Uncle Wei came on a bicycle, and after finding them, he packed up the quilts and went to the school gate to find two tricycles to take them home. After going back, the seventh mother blamed herself a little and said that she would remember to help them transport their luggage back in the future, but she taught them: "The tone of asking for a car is really not small!" But the car is used by the uncle's work, and you are the common people. ”
Fifth, Zhou Bingde went to Guizhou with her husband to work and live, and others didn't believe that she was ***'s niece
After Zhou Bingde got married, he went to Guizhou with his husband, where the conditions were very difficult. "Someone once knew my identity and didn't believe it, and they talked to each other and said, she can't be ***'s niece, how can **'s niece suffer the same sin as us? If it's any relative, it's also something that can't be beaten, and the surname is Zhou. ”
Sixth, Zhou Bingde once said that his uncle asked us to live a simple life like the people of the whole country
We have all come step by step under the teaching of my uncle. Among our brothers and sisters in the Zhou family, we are ordinary people, no one is a big official, no one makes a lot of money in business, and there is no small car or big house. Zhou Bingde said: After decades of reform and opening up, China has become rich and strong, and the people's lives have become well-off. Except for the sixth sister, all five of us are retired. I can't be idle when I retire, and I often go to schools and groups around the country to appeal for inheritance of the red tradition and preach the spirit of ***.
Zhou Bingde was thinking all the time, those ** filthy officials spent thousands of dollars on a meal, **millions, are they worthy of those martyrs who shed their blood for New China? Is it worthy of the expectations of the older generation of revolutionaries such as my uncle?
As the descendants of the red, we feel that the red tradition can not be lost, especially in the tide of reform and opening up, in the face of unhealthy social atmosphere and corruption, how much we need to have a strong spiritual pillar! Zhou Bingde believes that the spirit is a strong spiritual pillar Zhou Bingde said.