Mrs. Zhang Wen of Hong Xuezhi,Yue died, and her daughter said that she died peacefully and peacefully, **bitter.
At the end of March 2022, Mrs. Hong Xuezhi and 100-year-old Red Army Zhang Wen, who had traveled 20,000 miles with the Red Army troops on the Long March, died in Beijing at the age of 103 due to unsuccessful failure of multiple organs.
Zhang Wen's daughter revealed to **: Zhang Wen walked very calmly without any pain, which is gratifying.
Although Zhang Wen has left us, her life experience of 89 years of military age and 86 years of party age will forever become a precious wealth and spiritual pillar for future generations.
Zhang Wen's spirit will always live in our hearts. A few days later, Zhang Wen's memorial service was held in the East Auditorium of the Babaoshan Funeral Home. Although most of the leading comrades and veteran leaders were unable to arrive at the scene in person, they expressed their condolences through ** and laid wreaths and flower baskets to show their deep nostalgia for Zhang Wen.
Leaders at all levels of Jinzhai County and Lu'an City personally attended the scene to bid farewell to Zhang Wen on his last journey, and his hometown Hong Xuezhi expressed deep condolences for this. Zhang Wen lay peacefully surrounded by flowers and cypresses, covered with the bright flag of the Communist Party of China, as if he was sleeping.
The grieving crowd lined up quietly, paying tribute to Zhang Wen and condolences to the family in turn. The whole venue was shrouded in a mournful atmosphere, which filled people's hearts with mourning. Although Zhang Wen passed away, the story and precious "legacy" he left behind will live on forever.
Zhang Wen, a female Red Army from Sichuan, her life is full of loyalty to the party and the country. Her red military spirit was forged in the harsh environment of the Long March, and even at the last moment of her life, she still maintained this steadfastness and loyalty.
Zhu Dongsheng, Zhang Wen's former colleague, said that he would always miss Zhang Wen's care and love for him before his death.
Zhu Dongsheng deeply remembers that when the Dragon Boat Festival was approaching when he was 95 years old, his old mother, accompanied by the guards, came to visit him at his home in Beitaipingzhuang in person, and sent him the zongzi he wrapped himself, which made him feel extremely moved.
In an interview with **, Zhang Wen's daughter recalled yesterday's memorial service and was full of emotion. She said that her mother's memorial service was held in the East Auditorium, and only a few hundred biographies were originally prepared, but she did not expect that so many people came to mourn, and the people in the back queue did not receive them.
What is even more unexpected is that just one day before the memorial service, they received a notice from their superiors that every leader, including the chairman and vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, laid a wreath for their mother, which made them feel that the top leadership of the army attached great importance to the old Red Army.
I believe that this fine tradition of attaching great importance to and respecting revolutionary pioneers, heroes, and military personnel will certainly be widely disseminated in society. We must bear in mind history, maintain our original aspirations, carry forward and inherit the revolutionary spirit, and work together to live up to the heavy responsibilities and visions of the new era.
Although there are still many challenges ahead of us, and the burden on my shoulders is still heavy, I will persevere and redouble my efforts.
Li Dianren, former deputy political commissar of the National Defense University, deeply cherished Zhang Wen and praised her for "not letting her eyebrows go, fighting all her life, loving and charitable, worthy of the country and the people." ”
I believe that these two short poems are enough to perfectly summarize Zhang Wen's life. Zhang Wen is indeed a good predecessor who always sticks to his beliefs, never stops moving forward, and always cares about the country and the people no matter when and where.
Zhang Wen, a female Red Army born in 1919, her story is full of courage and tenacity. Although she was born into a poor peasant family in Hongkou, Sichuan, and her family only had four dilapidated houses and rented landlords' fields to survive, she began working as a small maid at the age of 9, taking care of the landlord's children to earn a meager salary and ease the burden on the family.
However, Zhang Wen was not crushed by life, but with her tenacious perseverance and unyielding spirit, she became a female Red Army on the Long March, showing the demeanor of a woman who does not let her eyebrows go.
In those difficult years, the young Zhang Wen was abused by the landlord and tasted the bitterness of life. However, a twist of fate soon came. In 1932, the Fourth Front Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army advanced into northern Sichuan, successfully established the Sichuan-Shaanxi Revolutionary Base Area, expelled the landlords and old wealth who had been rampant on the streets, and created a quiet and peaceful living environment for the common people.
Under the influence of a commander of the Red Fourth Front, Zhang Wen developed a yearning for the "Red Army" and "revolution". The following year, he and his second brother Xihan joined the Red Army without telling their parents and relatives, and became employees of the clothing factory under the Supply Department of the Fourth Army.
Hearing the news that Zhang Wen and his brother had joined the army, their parents did not blame them, but held their hands tightly and told them earnestly: "You are already a member of the Red Army, you must obey the command of the leader, study hard, work hard, and win glory for our Zhang Wenjia and the villagers in Hongkou." ”
The Zhang Wen brothers and sisters kept in mind the teachings of their parents and never lived up to their parents' expectations in their lives.
In the quilt factory, the young Zhang Wen showed extraordinary talent. She is not afraid of hardships, her hands and feet are nimble, and she can successfully complete her work tasks every day.
Not only that, but she also takes the initiative to help colleagues who are slower to help them complete their tasks. In everyone's eyes, Zhang Wen is a lively and lovely little girl who loves to sing hometown folk songs, and everyone affectionately calls her "the little girl who loves to sing".
Zhang Wen and his colleagues Zhang Daying and Zhang Deyi decided to stimulate production enthusiasm through competition in order to alleviate the pressure of logistics and supply. Their approach has been recognized by the leadership and has been vigorously promoted in the quilt factory.
After the expansion of the supply department, the three of them were transferred to three classes as female squad leaders because of their excellent work ability, and since then they have become the "three sheets" that have attracted much attention in the factory.
In 1935, the Red Fourth Front Army began the Long March to move westward. Zhang Wen, a female logistics soldier, also embarked on this journey full of hardships. Every day, she carried a heavy blanket and a ball of thread on her back, and walked the steep and rugged mountain road with difficulty.
Her feet were worn out, and blood blisters were grinding, and every time she touched the ground, it was like a pain in her heart, but she never complained about a word of bitterness, only lightly crossed the word "give up".
She learned the wisdom of the veteran, roasted the red sewing needle with fire, picked up the blood blisters, let out the blood, and then still hurried the next day. With her tenacity and perseverance, Zhang Wen showed the bravery and responsibility of a female logistics warrior.
Red Army soldier Zhang Wen and her comrades climb over a steep mountain in the dark. When they reached the top of the mountain at an altitude of more than 3,000 meters, the temperature dropped suddenly, and everyone put on all their clothes and continued to walk in the wind and snow.
Zhang Wen was no exception, but she was tortured by the cold wind and thin air, she felt like a boulder pressing against her chest, her breathing became more and more difficult, her limbs were weak, and she finally collapsed only 3 miles from the top of the mountain.
Seeing this, Zhang Wen's platoon commander immediately took off the heavy object Zhang Wen was carrying, and called another soldier, and the two of them worked together to carry Zhang Wen on their shoulders and move to the top of the mountain step by step. Many years later, Zhang Wen, who had entered old age, recalled that time again and said very painfully: "The temperature at the top of the mountain is even lower, and the oxygen is thin, once it falls, it is difficult to get up again. ”
By closely relying on his comrades-in-arms, supporting and reminding each other, Zhang Wen successfully crossed the snow and survived the mountain. In February 1936, after 8 days and 8 nights of grassland danger, they successfully reached Gannan and joined the Chinese Communist Party together.
A few months later, Zhang Wen's life took another major turn.
02, both a wife and a mother. During the short period when the Red Fourth Army was stationed in the picturesque Zhanhua, at the end of May 1936, the leadership of the Red Fourth Army decided to organize a sports meeting, and the women's squad was also invited to participate.
At the end of the event, the host suddenly announced a "surprise", he named Zhang Wen to lead the female comrades-in-arms to sing on stage together.
Zhang Wen, as the squad leader, stood up without hesitation after listening, led his comrades-in-arms to the rostrum, and sang "Song of Fighting Cavalry" and "Song of Catching Live Cows". The young girls' spirits were flying, and their beautiful singing echoed in the venue, deeply touching everyone present.
At the sports meeting, Hong Xuezhi left a deep impression on Zhang Wen. He even invited the commander of the Red Fourth Army and his wife to tell Zhang Wen for him. The first meeting between the two seemed very restrained, and there was no romance in asking and answering.
Despite this, Zhang Wen still silently agreed to Hong Xuezhi's marriage proposal.
They met in the midst of the war, and on the third day, they held a simple and lively wedding in the office of the Military Political Department. Zhang Wen and Hong Xuezhi's marriage seems"Suddenly", did not go through the stage of love, and there was no cumbersome marriage procedure, but their love withstood the test of war, was as strong as gold, and never separated in their lives.
In 1938, the couple, who had advanced in their respective units, were reunited in Yan'an; In 1939, Zhang Wen and Hong Xuezhi's eldest daughter was born, which made Hong Xuezhi ecstatic, and he named her "Xinghua".
However, because Zhang Wen needed to follow Hong Xuezhi through the Japanese blockade line to North China to establish a branch of Kang University, the confinement mother was faced with a difficult decision: should she follow the persuasion of others and send her daughter who was not yet a month old to the farmer?
Or do you choose to take the risk and take your daughter across the Japanese blockade with you?
In order to prevent his daughter from crying, Zhang Wen chose to follow the troops on a rapid march. During the march, she unfortunately tripped over a stone, but still insisted on getting up, while gently patting her daughter to soothe her emotions and doing her best to catch up with the large army.
Hong Xuezhi was directing the soldiers to advance when he suddenly heard his daughter's cry. He found Zhang Wen and said with rare seriousness: "You must leave your daughter behind." Zhang Wen's eyes immediately turned red, she hugged her daughter tightly, looked at Hong Xuezhi, and asked, "Do you really bear to leave her?" ”
Hong Xuezhi didn't answer, but Zhang Wen felt something from her husband's silence.
In the dark of night, with tears in her eyes, she and her husband found a home in a nearby farmhouse. Keeping in mind her daughter's features over and over again, carefully observing the surrounding terrain and place names, she handed her over to strange farmers and begged them to raise her as her own child if she and her husband died.
The next day, some comrades-in-arms saw that Zhang Wen was still depressed, and took the initiative to comfort her and said: "Don't be sad, when the whole country is liberated, you can come back to find the child." ”
When he parted with his eldest daughter, Zhang Wen never expected that it would be a full 12-year separation. Zhang Wen and Hong Xuezhi have eight children. In the hearts of the children, their mother Zhang Wen is a very strict person.
Finally, after the founding of New China, Zhang Wen got her eldest daughter Xinghua back as she wished.
If I had known this, I wouldn't have come back. Zhang Hua never had time to solve the misunderstanding with his daughter, so he let Xinghua keep complaining about her, until Xinghua became a mother himself, and gradually understood Zhang Wen's troubles back then, and became intimate with Zhang Wen again.
03, Always Passionate About Helping Others: The war is over, but the "battle" of female warriors continues. In addition to taking care of his own children, Zhang Wen is also very concerned about the education of the next generation in New China.
In 1981, Zhang Wen was transferred to the Logistics Administration of the People's Liberation Army, responsible for the management of kindergartens in the General Logistics Department. She attaches great importance to the situation of teachers and students in the kindergarten, often conducts in-depth field research, and timely feeds back suggestions and opinions from the grassroots to leaders at all levels.
Zhang Wen learned that there was a middle-aged teacher who had worked in the kindergarten for 20 years, and although he had dedicated his youth, he still lived in a dilapidated kindergarten dormitory. He immediately reported to his superiors and accompanied the leaders to the teachers' homes for field visits.
After the inspection, the leaders pondered for a long time, and then approved the expansion plan of the 61 kindergarten. In the same year, Zhang Wen was elected as a director of the China Children's Foundation, paying more attention to the growth of Chinese children.
During Zhang Wen's hospitalization, relatives and friends came to visit him when he heard the news. When asked about Zhang Wen's needs, she smiled and said, "Actually, I don't lack anything, I just hope you can donate some money to the children of China." ”
Zhang Wen's professionalism and love touched everyone present, and they immediately took action after returning home, mobilizing relatives and friends to donate to the club.
Zhang Wen derided himself as a "poor director" and "all relying on one mouth", and often advertised "reaching out" to acquaintances, but he was not disgusted, but received more attention and help from everyone for Chinese children and the China Children's Foundation.
After Zhang Wen saw the difficult situation of outstanding college students in the old revolutionary base area, he came up with the idea of subsidizing poor students. After discussing with her family, she decided to work together to sponsor eight poor students to complete their studies.
Eventually, these students successfully entered the society and became useful pillars of the country.
Zhang Wen practiced her philanthropic philosophy with practical actions, and when she found that the staff around her were in difficulty, she always did not hesitate to lend a helping hand and provide them with financial support.
At the suggestion of her eldest son, she donated a computer classroom to Hongkou Primary School in her hometown, which brought a qualitative improvement to the local teaching environment. In August 2008, the students of Hongkou Primary School wrote a letter to Zhang Wen to express their gratitude for her selfless contribution.
Grandma Zhang Wen, a person who still cares about the growth and learning problems of the next generation at the age of 103, uses her actions to do her best to help children move towards a better tomorrow.
Her dedication is an example to all of us, and we should learn from her and pay tribute to her.
The Red Journey of the Tieliu Women" or "The Old Red Army, General Hong Xuezhi's Wife Zhang Wen Cares for the Next Generation and Enthusiastically Helps Teachers and Students", both record her tenacious and unyielding spirit and firm belief in the revolutionary cause.