Sacrificing and sweeping the tomb of the original match, referring to the daughter as Zhang's mother
On January 26, 1990, ** spent Chinese New Year's Eve at the Xijiao Hotel in Shanghai. During this time, he often thinks back to his past. Seventy years ago, he took a freighter to France for work-study and embarked on the road of revolution.
Now, when he comes here again, looking at Guotai Min'an and the children around him, his heart is full of emotion. The figure of his original wife Zhang Xiyu also instantly appeared in his mind.
One morning a few days later, ** took a walk in the yard as usual. As he walked, he suddenly stopped, and then asked the staff around him, "Are Zhang Xiyu's ashes still there?"
If so, I'll take it back to Babaoshan, Beijing. This is exactly what he has always hoped in his heart, hoping to keep her by his side forever.
The staff was surprised when they heard this, and he immediately reported the incident to Wang Liping, then deputy secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee. Wang Liping learned that Zhang Xiyu was the original partner of ***, so he immediately instructed the staff to tell *** to tell him: "The ashes will be placed in the Longhua Martyrs Cemetery." ”
**After hearing this, he was a little moved, and a few days later, he took his family to Longhua to pay tribute to Zhang Xiyu's cemetery. This is also the last time he swept the tomb for the original partner, looking at the original ** on the tombstone, he couldn't help but shed tears, and pointed to his daughter and said, "Call her Zhang's mother!" ”
Regarding the story of *** and Zhang Xijin, we must start from the first meeting of the two, and before that, it is necessary to understand Zhang Xijin's early experience.
Zhang Xiyu was born in Liangxiang Town, Fangshan County, Hebei Province in 1906, with an ordinary family background. His father, Zhang Jinghai, was the stationmaster of the Liangxiang Township Railway Station, and his mother ran a small local business.
The family has three daughters, and Zhang Xiyu is one of them. At that time, the rural areas were closed-minded, and it was generally believed that "a woman is virtuous if she is not talented". Fortunately, Zhang Xijin's father, Zhang Jinghai, deeply felt the importance of education, and he educated all three of his daughters.
When Zhang Xiyu was 19 years old, she was admitted to a university in Beijing, where she met Deng Yingchao. Under the influence of Deng Yingchao, she began to read Marxist works and gradually germinated the idea of joining the revolution.
At the end of the year, Zhang Xiyu resolutely became a member of the Communist Party of China and was able to meet with our party leaders Li Dazhao and Zhao Shiyan.
In order to strengthen the revolutionary strength of our party, Zhang Xiyu was organized and arranged to enter Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, where the revolutionary atmosphere was stronger.
Here, she met *** for the first time, it turned out that ** had joined our party during the work-study program in France in 1924, and this time she was arranged by the organization to return to China to organize revolutionary activities.
Zhang Xiyu was attracted by his eloquence and excellent organizational skills, and she often asked him for revolutionary questions. **Experienced and has a deep understanding of the revolution, he can patiently answer Zhang Xiying's questions every time.
With the passage of time, ** also has a deep affection for Zhang Xiyu. However, they are all still young, and none of them have confessed. In the revolutionary years, they gathered less and left more.
Soon after, ** went to the Soviet Union for further study, while Zhang Xiyu stayed in China, studying and participating in revolutionary activities. Although they were thousands of miles apart, they could only look at the bright moon and miss each other.
In the spring of 1927, the situation of the Northern Expedition was very good. In the case of an urgent shortage of cadres in the party, Feng Yuxiang transferred the *** who returned from studying in the Soviet Union to Feng Yuxiang's unit of the Northwest Army to serve as a coordinator.
After returning to China, ** immediately began to look for Zhang Xiyu, but due to various reasons, she was never found. At this time, Zhang Xiyu happened to be transferred to the Soviet Union to study, and the two missed it by mistake.
A few months later, ** learned the news of Zhang Xiyu in the Soviet Union, and his heart was full of emotion. However, at this time, he did not have time to think about the relationship between his children and daughters, because the revolutionary situation was extremely serious, Chiang Kai-shek staged a counter-revolutionary coup d'état, and ordered Feng Yuxiang to arrest the Communists in the army.
Under the persuasion of *** and other comrades, Feng Yuxiang did not obey Chiang Kai-shek's orders, but *** and others sent him out of the country, and then came to Wuhan ** Secretariat to start his work.
One morning, two months later, ** was sorting out his papers, when suddenly a young woman walked into his sight with luggage. After understanding, the staff knew her intention and brought her to ***.
As soon as the two met, they were immediately stunned, and then shouted each other's names at the same time and hugged each other tightly. It turned out that this woman was Zhang Xiyu, who had just returned from the Soviet Union and was ordered to work in the Wuhan Secretariat.
In that turbulent revolutionary era, the two met fatefully. Although there are a thousand words surging in their hearts, due to the needs of their work, they can only bury this emotion in the bottom of their hearts and wait until the night to confide it.
That night, they talked very deeply, and it was not until the dead of night that ** escorted her back to her residence. Despite their deep love for each other, they were well aware that the revolutionary situation was still grave and that danger could be encountered at any time.
Therefore, they choose to keep this love deep in their hearts. In the following days, Zhang Xiyu has been helping *** to complete the work of the secretariat, and the relationship between the two has become increasingly close.
Everyone around them thought they would get married sooner or later, but they never took that step. Their love is like the spark of revolution, burning silently, waiting for the day when the spring flowers bloom.
Zhang Xiyu and *** are destined to be in Shanghai for life, and their common ideals and common hobbies have brought them together. **Shy and solemn confessed to Zhang Xiyu and wrote a letter to express his true feelings, Zhang Xiyu was moved and gladly accepted.
In the presence of Mr. and Mrs. ***, they were married just after the New Year of 1928. That year, ** was 24 years old and Zhang Xiyu was 22 years old.
**Couple and *** couple used to form a party group, and the two families lived on the upper and lower floors. It is said that ** and Deng Ying can often hear the sound of the *** couple downstairs talking warmly.
This attracted the envy of all the comrades in the party, because before getting married, many young party comrades pursued Zhang Xiyu. **After marrying Zhang Xiyu, the relationship is even deeper.
Every time he performs a mission, Zhang Xiyu will cook at home and wait quietly for him to return, even if he waits until late at night, he has no complaints. After the defeat of the Great Revolution, the revolutionary situation in Shanghai was full of difficulties, and the Kuomintang military and police spies were all over Shanghai, often in danger.
**'s residence was exposed due to the traitor's betrayal, and ** and his wife have evacuated with Zhang Xiyu, but *** has not yet received a notice of evacuation. In the afternoon, ** was ready to go back to his residence after finishing his work.
However, his dwelling has been hunted and ambushed, just waiting for him to be caught in the net. Fortunately, ** was very vigilant, and when he walked to the door, he noticed that the atmosphere around him was very abnormal and felt wrong, so he gently pushed the door.
At this moment, a patrol officer lurking inside our party heard a knock on the door, and he took the initiative to respond loudly. **When I heard that I was not an acquaintance, I immediately left urgently and successfully avoided the danger.
**I still remember the years when I worked together with Zhang Xiyu in Shencheng. "We worked secretly in Shanghai, and our life was very hard, and we did everything for the revolution, and we never took pictures, and we didn't even have time to watch movies. "
However, sweet news always comes in the midst of hardship. Soon after, the news of Zhang Xiyu's pregnancy gave *** great comfort. In order to report the good news to the elders in the family, ** returned to his hometown in Sichuan with his wife to visit relatives at the end of 1928 after the approval of the organization.
Looking at his wife, who was fighting side by side, his heart was full of reluctance, but he understood that his wife had the same ambition as him, that is, to continue the revolution for the well-being of tens of millions of people until the final victory.
The two reunited in Shanghai, but they could not escape the fate of staying together for a short time. In the late autumn of 1929, ** went to Guangxi for the revolutionary cause, while Zhang Xiyu stayed in Shanghai to continue the mission, and the two separated again.
*** in Guangxi cares about his wife and often writes letters to pour out his thoughts, and so does Zhang Xiyu. However, thousands of miles away, a letter cannot send lovesickness. They are all eagerly looking forward to an early reunion.
A few months later, ** led the Baise Uprising in Guangxi and created our party's revolutionary armed forces. Subsequently, he returned to Shanghai to report to work. On the way to Shanghai, he was full of expectations, but he did not expect an unfortunate event.
When Zhang Xiyu was in labor, the organization sent her to Shanghai Baolong Hospital, but dystocia followed, and the doctors tried their best to make her give birth to the child. However, after a long delivery, Zhang Xiyu was infected by the virus and suffered from puerperal fever with persistent high fever.
**After learning the news, he immediately went to visit the hospital and looked at his wife who was in pain on the hospital bed, and he couldn't help but shed tears as a person who has always been strong. In the following days, he has been guarding his wife, and even pleaded with the doctor**, but in the end he still could not save her life, Zhang Xiyu died with regret at the age of 23.
At the same time, the premature child also died quickly, and this series of blows made *** suffer deeply. Due to work reasons, he and Zhang Xiyu didn't even leave a group photo, which made him miserable.
** Comrade did not give up on the revolutionary road because of difficulties and setbacks, and despite his grief, he still resolutely returned to Guangxi and continued to devote himself to the revolutionary cause. On the way, he entrusted Li Qiang, a special science and technology staff, to help bury his deceased wife.
After the victory of the revolution, Comrade ** was always concerned about his wife's grave and did not return to her resting place until after liberation. In the city, he searched everywhere, but fortunately, Comrade Li Qiang still remembered this incident and gave him important help.
Li Qiang told *** how they secretly buried Zhang Xiyu in the Jiangwan Cemetery in Shanghai, the tombstone was written Zhang Zhou's, and the person who erected the monument also used a pseudonym, which was to protect the revolutionary cause.
Accompanying Zhang Xiyu on her last journey were Comrade Deng Yingchao and her mother, as well as Zhang Xiying's sister Zhang Xiaomei. Hearing this, ** came to the cemetery without stopping.
However, when he arrived, the sight in front of him made him almost unsteady on his feet. It turned out that during the Anti-Japanese War, Shanghai was occupied by the Japanese invaders, Jiangwan Cemetery was also bombed, coupled with years of rain, Zhang Xiyu's tomb had long been dilapidated, and even the tombstone was flooded.
In the face of all this, ** is extremely painful in my heart.
With tears in his eyes, he took out the bones of his deceased wife from the box and carefully placed them in the coffin. He then buried the coffin in the place where they once lived together.
Because the revolution was not yet over, it didn't take long for ** to lead his troops into the battle to understand and magnify the southwest. In the early days of the founding of New China, although *** had married Zhuo Lin, he never forgot Zhang Xiyu.
It wasn't until 1969 that ** returned to Shanghai with Zhuo Lin and moved Zhang Xiyu's grave to the Shanghai Martyrs Cemetery. He also carved "Zhang Xiyuan's Tomb" on the original tombstone, and inlaid her only ** provided by Zhang Xiyuan's family.
** Busy for the construction of the motherland, put forward the great decision of reform and opening up, so that the rapid development of New China. However, due to his busy schedule, he was unable to visit the cemetery of his original wife.
It wasn't until 1990 that he came to Shanghai to inspect and watched the scene of family reunion, and couldn't help but think of the original match, and there was a beginning scene. When he heard that Zhang Xiyuan's tomb was in the Longhua Martyrs Cemetery in Shanghai, he was very excited.
In order to obtain accurate information, he immediately instructed the staff Ge Fei to go and shoot the video and ** of the cemetery.
**Seeing Ge Fei handing it over**, looking at Zhang Xiyu's face above, his heart was full of sentimentality. The daughter Deng Rong on the side was also very sad when she saw her father's sadness.
In order to ease the atmosphere, she looked at ** and asked, "Is she really so beautiful?" * replied with emotion: "It's even more beautiful than **." His words were full of deep nostalgia for Zhang Xiying.
A few days later, ** took a few children to Zhang Xiyu's grave to pay respects. Although he had already seen **, he still couldn't hold back his tears when he saw the ** of his wife on the tombstone again.
At this time, *** is nearly eighty years old.
** Pointing to her daughter, she said with a smile: "Just call her Mother Zhang." The daughter was no stranger to her father's past, and she immediately shouted loudly: "Mother Zhang! ”
The heart is filled with joy and relief. Then, the father and daughter offered the roses in their hands together to pay tribute to the martyr Zhang Xiyu. ** stood quietly in front of the tomb for a long time before leaving, and the children's "Mother Zhang" more fully reflected the deep love of *** for his wife.
It is worth mentioning that because of his advanced age, this is the last time he personally sweeps the grave of his wife, however, his love for his wife has not been reduced by half because of this.
On June 26, 1991, ** personally inscribed the name of the Shanghai Longhua Martyrs Cemetery where Zhang Xiyu was buried, and asked his children to go to the cemetery instead of him to pay respects and lay a wreath to Zhang Xiyu, who was buried here.
Although their marriage has only been for more than a year, *** has always remembered her in his heart and has never forgotten the days when they fought side by side.