At the beginning of 1972, Marshal **, who had been suffering from cancer for two years, ushered in the last moments of his life, and in the last days, **'s internal organs were accompanied by bouts of severe pain every day, but he showed the tenacity that a revolutionary soldier should have, and never let out a moan.
During his serious illness, his old comrades-in-arms came to the hospital to visit him one after another, especially during his serious illness, he visited him almost every day.
On the afternoon of January 4th, ** had the last conversation in his life, and he said to the family members who were guarding the bedside with difficulty".Red army. The enemy will be defeated in the end. ”After saying this, ** fell into a coma, and everyone present shed tears.
In the early morning of January 6, **'s heart finally stopped beating, and the doctors had a bold proposal to open his chest and massage his heart.
**Also in the hospital at the time, he sighed and rejected the doctor's proposal: ".Even if his heart is back beating after a heart-opening massage, it will only last for a while, which will only increase his pain, and it is better to let him leave peacefully. ”Eventually, doctors had to accept this reality.
*'s memorial service was held on the 10th, **after learning the news of **'s death, he was extremely sad and temporarily decided to participate in **'s memorial service.
Looking back on his life, in addition to always adhering to the belief of communism, he has always adhered to the ancestral family rules of the Chen family, and has always followed this for the education of his younger generations.
Figure: **Marshal's memorial service.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, ** became one of the top ten marshals of the founding of the People's Republic of China, with a high and powerful position, but he never relied on his identity to seek any convenience for his family.
*Formerly known as Chen Shijun, he was born in 1901 in a scholarly family in Sichuan. His father, Chen Changli, was a literati, and he knew a little about piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, poetry and songs. In particular, calligraphy is also well-known in the local area.
Mother Huang Peishan is also a beautiful lady and attaches great importance to the education of etiquette and morality. Under the influence of this family environment, ** has shaped the excellent quality of upright and upright since childhood.
When he was five years old, he was sent to a private school by his father Chen Changli, and since then he has started a life of "morning ploughing and night reading, and he is familiar with books". ** Brilliant from an early age and has a memory that is stronger than that of his peers.
The poems and songs taught by the teacher, as long as he read them three times, he can recite them word for word, and he has also been praised by the teacher many times, and is called a "prodigy" by everyone.
However, Chen Changli believes that it is far from enough to only learn the knowledge in books, and often instills in him the ideas of "four dimensions" and "loyalty for the people" in his spare time, encouraging self-cultivation and morality, and paying more attention to the suffering of the people. Later, ** also used this set of theories to educate his children, which gradually formed the unique family culture of the Chen family.
Due to the declining Chen family, Chen Changli could only take ** to his maternal grandfather Huang Fuqin. Huang Fuqin was an inspector in the late Qing Dynasty, a small official with a big sesame seed, but he could cover the sky with one hand in a small place.
Huang often ordered his men to torture prisoners, and his father told him that most of these prisoners were oppressed by the landlord class, and because they had no money to pay rent and taxes, they were sent here by the landlords.
Figure** in youth.
** is very sympathetic to these people, he thinks that these ** oppressed the people at the end of the Qing Dynasty and were not constrained by the "thinking" that his father said, let alone the official way of "being loyal to the people".
He asked his grandfather many times to intercede for these prisoners, but his grandfather thought that he couldn't distinguish between right and wrong, and reprimanded him fiercely every time. After a long time, ** no longer mentioned this matter to his grandfather, but he has begun to realize the decay of officialdom in his heart, and he is inspired to grow up to be a good official for the country and the people.
*'s academic performance has been very good, and the teacher values him very much, but the teacher thinks that the name "Chen Shijun" he used at that time is not good, so he personally came to visit Chen Changli and quoted the famous sentence of Zhu Xi, a Song ** scholar: ".Scholars can't do without Hongyi, and there is a long way to go. ”
The general meaning of this sentence is that when the country is in crisis, students should develop a life of fortitude in order to serve the country. Chen Changli respected the teacher's opinion very much, so the name "Chen Shijun" became history.
Because he became more and more disgusted with his grandfather's way of being an official, Chen Changli left his grandfather's house with **, and during that time, ** witnessed the ugliness of the old society and the suffering of the working people at the bottom, and the seeds of revolution began to sprout.
In 1918, he was successfully admitted to the "Sichuan Work-Study Preparatory School for Studying in France" founded by Wu Yuzhang, and went to France for work-study a year later.
In France, he came into contact with Marxist literary works, and some of the theories put forward in these works fit perfectly with the original world view, and he also met progressive young people such as Cai Hesen in France, and joined the Chinese Socialist Youth League.
Later, he was arrested by the French police for participating in various activities organized by the Communist Party and escorted back to China. In August 1928, **, who was already a member of the Communist Party, went to Shanghai to report to work, and his cousin Chen Xiuhe and brother Chen Mengxi were both officials in the Kuomintang at that time, and they were given a certain amount of protection.
In a hotel in the British Concession in Shanghai, when he got together with many brothers of the same clan, he mentioned the ancestral rules of the Chen family: ".Do you remember the ancestral motto of 'Loyalty to the people'? Our brothers are all officials, and we must be clean officials of the people in the future. ”
The brothers agreed very much with the words of **, and later they also fulfilled the ancestral rules of the Chen family with actions, and Chen Xiuhe, Chen Mengxi, and Chen Jirang, who served in the Kuomintang army, led their troops to revolt and made great contributions to the founding of New China.
Figure: When participating in the revolution.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, individual cadres of our party began to lose themselves in a peaceful environment, became corrupt, and fought for power and profit. However, we have always adhered to the principle of abiding by our hearts for many years, and we will always keep in mind the ancestral family rules, party discipline and state law.
*Wrote a poem for this:"Be cautious and cautious, humble and self-restrained. The car behind is good at choosing the road, and the car in front is repeated. ”
Even in the era of peace, **'s integrity has not diminished at all. The teachings of his predecessors as a child have been deeply ingrained in his blood. It can be seen that the influence of family style on ** is huge, and it is not difficult to understand why ** can teach children well, in fact, this is just a kind of inheritance of Chen's family style.
At the beginning of 1923, for the sake of the revolutionary cause, ** left his hometown, **'s parents looked at their son's distant back and fell into deep thought. Chen Changli and Huang Peishan are still enlightened parents, and they are very supportive of the career they are engaged in. Who knows, ** has been gone for more than 20 years, and the next time the second old man meets ** again is after the founding of New China.
Every festive season, ** will always think of his parents, even if they know that their son will not come back, Chen Changli and his wife will still prepare ** dishes and chopsticks at the table.
Our party's revolutionary road was not easy, and it encountered many ups and downs during this period. The most important of these was Chiang Kai-shek's "April 12 Coup", which led to a nationwide manhunt for Communists. **'s parents are scared at home every day, and often pray for **, hoping that he will be safe.
Later, ** participated in the Nanchang Uprising, and the rebel troops were surrounded and intercepted by the Kuomintang army, ** lost contact with the family for a while, and **'s parents did not want to eat at home.
When the People's Republic of China was just founded, he served as the mayor of Shanghai, and although he was already in a high position, he was always humble, self-disciplined, and honest.
Although Shanghai was already a metropolis in China as early as the first period, during the war years, Shanghai also suffered heavy losses. When I first took over Shanghai, the whole city was devastated.
Figure: Shanghai after the founding of the People's Republic of China.
Since our party does not recognize all the unequal treaties signed by the imperialist countries with the Qing Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, the consulates of the great powers in Shanghai have been withdrawn one after another, and the new Chinese regime has been hated by the imperialist countries.
The lives of the people of Shanghai are facing great difficulties, and in the face of this situation, as the mayor, he actively set an example and took the lead in eating a big pot of rice in the canteen of the institution.
* children wear old clothes, and a single garment often has to pass through multiple children. Even **'s wife, Zhang Qian, usually wears clothes with patches.
Once Zhang Qian was sick and hospitalized, the doctor saw the patches on her clothes and thought she was just an ordinary person, until he registered the information, he found out that she was the mayor's wife. Under the leadership of **, all Shanghai citizens saved money and survived the difficulties in only one year.
In 1950, **'s sister Chen Chongkun took Chen Changli and Huang Peishan to Shanghai to visit**The second brother is the mayor of Shanghai, and now he can rely on the second brother to enjoy happiness in Shanghai. ”
But ** said to her seriously: ".As a citizen of New China, we must learn to be self-reliant and not be a parasite. Although I am the mayor, I am essentially a Chinese citizen, no different from ordinary people. ”
There are many famous schools in Shanghai, and Chen Chongkun is very eager to study and live in colleges and universities. So, Chen Chongkun expressed his desire to go to college in Shanghai to **, and hoped that his second brother could write a note for himself.
* Rejected my sister's request in one bite:"I can't write you this note, I am the mayor of Shanghai appointed by the party, if you want to go to university, you have to take the exam yourself, and if you can't pass the exam, you will go back to Sichuan. ”
Chen Chongkun later became a trainee in the Shanghai Health Personnel Training Course, and after the training, he was assigned to work at the Shanghai Health and Epidemic Prevention Station, but Chen Chongkun's desire to go to university was always in his heart.
The people of Shanghai welcome the arrival of the People's Liberation Army.
Later, a crash high school was opened in Shanghai, and as long as you can enter an accelerated middle school, you can hope to enter a university campus after graduation. So Chen Chongkun found ** help again.
* Say: ".Accelerated middle schools are for the children of those who have made great contributions to the liberation of the country, how can you compare with them? ”Since then, Chen Chongkun has never mentioned going to college to **, started a family in Nanjing, and lived a plain life.
Chen Changli and Huang Peishan, who came to Shanghai with Chen Chongkun, were very excited to see ** again after more than 20 years, ** looked at their white-haired parents, and felt very uncomfortable.
But at this time, he is no longer the young man he was twenty years ago, and now he has the whole of Shanghai on his shoulders. After a simple greeting for warmth, ** arranged for the second elder to live at home.
* and Zhang Qian are usually very busy with work, and rarely can take time to accompany the second elder. Zhang Qian squeezed out half a day in her busy schedule and accompanied the second elder to go shopping in downtown Shanghai, and then she couldn't squeeze out time anymore.
Chen Changli is used to life in the countryside, and he can't stay at home, so he always wants to go out for a walk. However, Shanghai is not as good as the village of his hometown, the transportation network extends in all directions, Chen Changli has just come to Shanghai for a few days, and he is not familiar with the place, and he will get lost if he is not careful.
So Chen Changli contacted his nephew Chen Rennong, who also worked in Shanghai, and hoped that he could accompany him to visit Shanghai. Chen Rennong understood his uncle's mood very well, so he took half a day off and made a special trip to accompany his uncle around. After some discussion, the uncle and nephew decided to keep this matter a secret, and they resolutely did not let ** know.
In the next three weeks, Chen Rennong had to take half a day off every week to accompany his uncle to play in Shanghai, until the Saturday of the fourth week, Chen Rennong suddenly received **, inviting him to come to his home for dinner after work, Chen Rennong immediately realized that the "secret" of himself and his uncle may be known by **.
As a result, as soon as Chen Rennong walked into the home of **, he seemed to feel a sense of oppression. Although ** entertained him very warmly, it could still be seen from his eyes that Mayor Chen's stomach was holding back his words.
After dinner, ** said: ".We're having a family meeting today, and there's something I have to say. ”The family reunion is finally getting down to business.
Figure**Photo with his parents.
"Shanghai has just been liberated, social security is still relatively chaotic, Shanghai is very likely to have the Kuomintang left behind, it is not right for you to go out without permission from me, which also brings pressure to the security personnel. ”
* Then he said to his parents: ".You have to abide by the discipline of the party, let's have a 'three chapters of the law'. First, you must not use the bus at will, second, you cannot use the name of my mayor to go out to do errands, and third, if you have no important things, do not go out. ”
After listening to his son's words, Chen Changli smiled: ".We just 'obey'. ”In the next three months, **'s parents really did follow **'s requirements and spent most of their time at home.
Because he did not adapt to life in the city, Chen Changli missed the life of his hometown more and more, so he expressed his desire to return home to live.
Before parting, ** also told his father: ".You can come to Shanghai at any time, and the law and order in Shanghai may be very stable in the future, but the first two articles of the 'Three Chapters of the Law' cannot be changed at any time. Remember, that's supporting my son's work. ”
After hearing this, Chen Changli also smiled and said to **Don't worry, Dad won't embarrass you at any time. ”
The quality of self-denial and leading by example has deeply influenced the younger generations, and the education of the younger generations has always strictly adhered to the Chen family style, which has had a profound impact on the children of the younger generation.
*'s eldest son, Chen Haosu, recalled: ".When I communicated with my father, I talked about old poems the most, and whenever he had a new work, he would ask us how we felt and teach us with the sentences in the poems. ”
"Relying on the king's words to seal the marquis, one will succeed and ten thousand bones will wither",This is a poem that is often mentioned when educating children. This poem mainly describes the hard-won success of the revolution, and hopes to warn children not to rely on the merits and status of their parents, and to always put the people in the highest position in their hearts.
Picture ** and his wife Zhang Qian.
In terms of learning, the Chen family has always been more democratic, and as for what school their children go to and what majors they study, they never interfere. ** He was very studious when he was a child, and he also passed on a trait to his offspring. ** has never worried him about learning.
Although the Chen family's "policy" is very relaxed in terms of learning, in terms of conduct, ** is very strict with their children. ** Never agreed to the children's requests for enjoyment, and even more so to prevent them from developing all bad habits. In this family environment, the three children of ** thrived and later became elites in various fields.
* The second son Chen Danhuai recalled: ".My father is usually very low-key, since we were in elementary school, he warned us not to reveal our origins outside, if the school wants to fill in the resume, the "father" column should be filled in "Chen Xueqing". ”
*'s three children also understood their father's intentions very well, and never regarded themselves as the descendants of the founding marshal, and never relied on their father's identity to seek care for themselves in their later work and life.
* In daily life, I often transmit the idea of "serving the people" to my children, and on Chen Haosu's sixteenth birthday, **I wanted to give him a meaningful gift, and after thinking about it, I bought a copy of "**Anthology" from the bookstore, and wrote a sentence on the title page:
"To read his writings, we should learn from his noble character, his keen thinking, his arduous style, and his great spirit of serving the people all his life. ”
Once, the youngest son of **, Chen Xiaolu, was reciting ***'s "Qinyuan Spring-Snow", when he read it"Count the romantic characters, but also look at the present day"., ** interrupted Chen Xiaolu:"Xiao Lu, do you know what *** is trying to express? ”
The third son of Figure ** - Chen Xiaolu.
Chen Xiaolu looked at the ** curiously, and then said: ".This sentence reveals a basic principle of historical materialism, that is, "the people are the driving force for creating history", so the people are the real 'romantic figures', and you must serve the people when you grow up. ”
Chen Xiaolu always remembered his father's teachings, and many years later he publicly stated: ".One of the things my father said to us the most was that 'the purpose of our party is to serve the people.' ”
In 1961, Chen Danhuai was admitted to the Harbin Military Engineering College, and when he learned that Chen Danhuai was about to contribute to the national defense of New China, he was very happy.
But on the day when Chen Danhuai was about to go to this university to report, he was busy with official business and couldn't see him off, so he wrote "Show Danhuai, and tell Haosu, Xiaolu, and Xiaoshan".
"You are a proletarian, diligence and thrift are my sect, you must learn Marxism-Leninism, and work hard in politics. Thou shalt learn technology, and thou shalt be proficient in thy profession, and thou shalt not learn to be a fool and become deaf. The people cultivate you, repay your deeds, and if the motherland is in trouble, you should be the vanguard. ”
Chen Danhuai also strictly followed his father's teachings, studied very hard at the Harbin Military Engineering Institute, and worked in the ground-to-air missile force, air force and other departments after graduation.
Chen Xiaolu is the most favored of all the children, and after serving as the chief of China, he has less leisure time, and he can always find time to tutor Chen Xiaolu in his homework. I often told him about my revolutionary experience.
* Teach him often: ".We must gain experience in the actual struggle and be good at analyzing the situation, so that we will not lose our way at the critical moment. ”
In April 1968, at the suggestion of ***, ** sent Chen Xiaolu to the army farm of the Shenyang Military Region to experience life. Because he was accustomed to life in the city, Chen Xiaolu was very uncomfortable after arriving at the army farm.
But he still worked hard to overcome all difficulties, usually worked with his comrades-in-arms, trained together, and won the praise of the leadership for his outstanding performance, and won the title of "Five Good Soldiers" for two consecutive years.
Pictured: A photo of Su Yu and his son-in-law Chen Xiaolu's family.
Chen Xiaolu lived a very frugal life, leaving home with only 100 yuan, and in two years, he only spent 16 yuan. Because of his outstanding performance, Chen Xiaolu was approved to join the Chinese Communist Party in 1970 and officially enlisted in the army in May of the same year.
Once, ** met the leader of Chen Xiaolu's unit *** at a meeting, so he asked about his own son's situation. * Say: "."Chen Xiaolu's performance in the army is very good, and he has been promoted to an instructor. Hearing such news, ** smiled with relief.
* The way of teaching children has also been passed on, in 1975, Chen Xiaolu and Su Yu's daughter Su Huining became husband and wife, the two red second generations after marriage, in terms of educating children, but also in accordance with the family rules and ancestral teachings set by the father, always keep in mind that "serving the people is the purpose of our party".
Although Marshal ** died of illness in early 1972, his spirit of hard work, uprightness, and honest government has become the most valuable wealth he left to his younger generations.