Regarding the children of poor families who were born lonely and poor to a generation of famous generals, Feng Yuxiang has personally experienced and presided over many major events in history in his life. Daughter-in-law Yu Huaxin said that every change in the general is a change in progress that benefits the country and the people. Loving the country and the people, from thought to action, runs through the life of the general.
Yu Xinqing was feng Yuxiang's secretary general and Feng Yuxiang's relatives. As the first director of the Ceremony Bureau of the Central People's Government, Yu Xinqing, together with comrades from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, formulated the original set of diplomatic etiquette system for China, and was the founder of the national protocol and etiquette work in New China.
Born in Jinan in 1934, he graduated from the Department of Chinese of Fudan University. Father Yu Xinqing designed a series of activities for the founding ceremony. The daughter-in-law Yu Huaxin is not only the daughter-in-law of Feng Yuxiang, but also one of the most authoritative people in the study of Feng Yuxiang in China, representing the works "Legendary General Feng Yuxiang" (published in 2007) and "The Soul of General Feng Yuxiang Returns to China" (published in 1981).
Old Man Yu Huaxin
The family is prominent, but very low-key. One door three generations, four out of the general. A hundred years of family history follows the history of the country, and the Feng Yuxiang family is one of them. From the children of poor families born lonely to a generation of famous generals, Feng Yuxiang has personally experienced and presided over many major events in history in his life. Zhou En: "He went through a tortuous road and finally walked towards a new-democratic China. "The descendants of the Feng family, adhering to Mr. Wang's legacy, passed on the torch. A few days ago, the reporter came to Dalian to meet Feng Yuxiang's daughter-in-law Yu Huaxin and listened to her talk about the Feng family's feelings of home and country for a hundred years.
The Black Sea is shipwrecked and the stars will fall
Feng Yuxiang returned to China to participate in the new CPPCC meeting, and the passenger ship caught fire and was killed on the way
In 1948, Feng Yuxiang and his wife Li Dequan, who were "inspecting water conservancy" in the United States, received an invitation from the Communist Party of China to return to China to participate in the preparations for the People's Political Consultative Conference. On July 31, 1948, Feng Yuxiang's family broke through the siege and persecution of Kuomintang agents and boarded the "Victory" in New York.
Feng Yuxiang's daughter-in-law, Yu Huaxin, said that Feng Yuxiang never knew that the luxury passenger ship he was riding on was paid for by the Communist Party of China. Even Li Dequan learned about it after he joined the Communist Party of China in 1958.
On the boat, Feng Yuxiang said: "After I go back this time, I will be a primary school student, and everything will start from scratch." ”
However, at two o'clock in the afternoon of September 1, the passenger ship sailed on the Black Sea, feng Yuxiang and his wife were telling their children about their visit to the Soviet Union, a thick smoke drilled into the open special cabin, Feng Yuxiang and his wife rushed out of the hatch one after another, and then passed out in the cabin. After the rescue of his children, Li Dequan escaped from death, but a generation of famous generals Feng Yuxiang passed away.
Yu Huaxin said that the truth of Feng Yuxiang's death has long been a mystery. The most widely circulated saying at that time was that he was playing a movie in the cabin and accidentally burned the film, causing a fire. However, this is not the case. In the summer of 1982, Lai Yali, the secretary who returned to China with Feng Yuxiang, and his wife Zhu Hong went to Qingdao for recuperation and met with Feng Hongda and Yu Huaxin. He told us that the Soviet Union finally had an investigation report - the fire was caused by high explosives, otherwise it is difficult to explain why it was a multi-point fire at the same time, but it is still unclear who did it. The only thing that is certain is that the shipwreck was not an accident, but a murder. Yu Huaxin said that Feng Yuxiang's wife Li Dequan had not been informed of this conclusion until his death. In 2007, the 125th anniversary of Feng Yuxiang's birth, Yu Huaxin published "Legendary General Feng Yuxiang", which for the first time disclosed the details and truth of Feng Yuxiang's death in the Black Sea, causing a great sensation at home and abroad.
Yu Huaxin said that although the general was unable to return to China and did not see the birth of new China, his life was patriotic and patriotic.
On September 1, 1949, one month before the founding ceremony, the memorial service for the first anniversary of the death of General Feng Yuxiang was solemnly held. Premier Zhou Enlai and more than 600 other people attended the meeting. Premier Zhou spoke highly of him in his eulogy: "Mr. Feng Yuxiang transformed from a typical old soldier into a democratic soldier, and he went through a tortuous road and finally walked towards a new democratic China... Mr. Feng resolutely refused the temptation of US imperialism to him, resolutely left the United States to prepare to return to China's liberated areas, accepted the call to participate in the New Political Consultative Conference, and unfortunately died in the middle of the way, which is worthy of everyone's commemoration. ”
From the children of poor families born lonely to a generation of famous generals, Feng Yuxiang has personally experienced and presided over many major events in history in his life, and has been named "General of Change". In this regard, Yu Huaxin said: Every change in the general is a change in progress that benefits the country and the people. Loving the country and the people, from thought to action, runs through the life of the general.
After Feng Yuxiang's death, his wife Li Dequan returned to Beijing to attend the first plenary session of the Chinese Political Consultative Conference and served as the first minister of health of the People's Republic of China.
Three generations of one gate and four generals
Feng Yuxiang's grandson has been promoted to vice admiral
Since the beginning of Feng Yuxiang, Feng Men's descendants have been full of talents.
Mr. and Mrs. Feng Yuxiang with four children. The neutral was Feng Hongda, who later became Yu Huaxin's husband.
Yu Huaxin said that Feng Yuxiang was very strict with his children, and repeatedly instructed his children before his death: "We must love ourselves and live by our own hands." The descendants of the Feng family have always remembered this. The eldest son, Feng Hongguo, stayed in the Soviet Union in his early years and joined the Communist Party of China; the second son, Feng Hongzhi, studied in Germany and was an expert in water pumps; the youngest son, Feng Hongda, served as deputy commander of the Navy's North Sea Fleet with the rank of major general; and his daughter Feng Lida built the first immunization center of our army, served as vice president of the Naval General Hospital, and also held the rank of major general.
In 1948, after Feng Yuxiang was killed in the Black Sea, with the consent of Mao Zedong and Zhu De, Feng Hongda entered Leningrad University in the Soviet Union to study, and then transferred to the Naval School of Baku in the Soviet Union.
In 1953, Yu Huaxin studied at the Department of Chinese of Fudan University. In this year, Feng Hongda returned to China after graduating from the Naval Command major of the Naval Academy in Baku of the USSR and was assigned to the East China Sea Fleet. In Shanghai, where the troops were stationed, he met Yu Huaxin, the daughter of his father's old department, Yu Xinqing. After that, Feng Hongda was transferred from Shanghai to the Qingdao North Sea Fleet. In 1958, Feng Hongda and Yu Huaxin were happily married.
Feng Hongda successively served as the navigator and deputy captain of the "Anshan Ship", the vice president of the Dalian Naval Academy, and then was appointed as the president.
Yu Huaxin said that during his tenure as president, he saw that the navy lacked special training ships at that time and began to prepare for the construction of 81 ships. The 81st ship, the "Zheng He" training ship, is the first ocean-going navigation training ship designed and built by China itself, and it is also the first ocean-going navigation training ship built by the naval academy since the establishment of the People's Navy, and is known as the "first ship of the Chinese Military Academy".
In 1984, on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the founding of New China, the naval contingent at the military parade was personally organized and trained by Feng Hongda.
At the end of 1987, Feng Hongda was appointed deputy commander of the North Sea Fleet, but he was unable to take up his post. Yu Huaxin said that at that time, his husband was so ill that he could not afford to sleep. By 1993, Feng Hongda, who had been ill for six years, died suddenly at the age of 62 due to ineffective medical treatment.
Yu Huaxin and Feng Hongda have a son and a daughter.
The fourth general of the Feng family was Feng Danyu, the son of the two. In 1976, Feng Danyu, who was still in the first year of junior high school and was only 14 years old, joined the army. "At that time, the policy allowed him to join the army at this age, and he joined the army to find a way." Yu Huaxin said.
When he first joined the army, Feng Danyu was a car soldier. A few years later, he was transferred to the Qingdao Anti-Danger Rescue Brigade, engaged in salvage shipwrecks and lifesaving tasks at sea. For his outstanding performance, he was rewarded several times.
In 1980, Feng Danyu was admitted to dalian naval academy through self-study. At that time, the People's Navy Daily made a key report on the title of "Feng Danyu, who only had the first grade of junior high school education, was admitted to college." "After he was admitted to college, his family didn't know about it." Yu Huaxin said, "Feng Danyu said afterwards that because he was only at the junior high school level before, the learning process was full of hardships. ”
After graduating from university, Feng Danyu took the initiative to ask for the grassroots. According to the unified distribution, Feng Danyu came to Qingdao to exercise on a small warship. In the 1980s, Feng Danyu was transferred to the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense. In 2003, at the age of 41, Feng Danyu was promoted to major general and served in the General Armament Department of the People's Liberation Army, becoming one of the youngest generals in the army at that time. Feng Danyu is currently the deputy commander of the people's liberation army navy in Chinese. According to public reports, on the morning of June 28, the Navy held a ceremony in Beijing to promote the rank of general, and with the approval of the Central Military Commission, Feng Danyu, deputy commander of the Navy, and five other officers were promoted from the rank of rear admiral to the rank of vice admiral.