Lao Qin wrote yesterday "In 1980, foreign female reporters asked: How long will the statue of Chairman Mao in Tiananmen Be hung?" Deng Xiaoping answered: Forever" about Deng Xiaoping's August 23, 1980 interview with Italian journalist Orynne Farage, about the portrait of Chairman Mao on Tiananmen Square. He said that this portrait will be hung forever, and the people of Chinese will always commemorate Chairman Mao as the founder of the party and the country.
In addition, Deng Xiaoping also talked about the Chairman Mao Memorial Hall.
He said with a serious face: "The construction of chairman Mao's memorial hall is actually against Chairman Mao's own wishes. ”
Deng Xiaoping's remarks were based on evidence.
As early as April 27, 1956, in order to save land resources and break the stereotype of heavy burial, Chairman Mao was the first to take the lead in signing the proposal of "Advocating Cremation", which opened the curtain of the national funeral reform.
Deng Xiaoping therefore told Farage: "At that time, Chairman Mao proposed that all people be cremated behind their bodies, leaving only ashes and no remains. Chairman Mao was the first to sign it. We all signed. ”
What Deng Xiaoping said was the truth.
At the signing meeting, Chen Yun was absent because of the incident, and he later wrote a special letter to Yang Shangkun, strongly requesting a replacement signature.
Zhou Enlai's attitude was the most resolute when he signed.
He told those around him: "From retaining the body to not retaining the body is the first revolution; from keeping the ashes to not keeping the ashes is the second revolution." ”
He made the most radical revolution – leaving behind a will without ashes.
In fact, all the revolutionaries of the older generation, from the day they joined the revolution, have long since devoted their whole body and mind to the cause of the proletarian revolution, putting life and death aside, and have no time to think too much about the matters behind them.
On May 17, 1964, when Chairman Mao met with foreign guests at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, he said: "I have fought for more than 20 years, and due to chance, I have not been killed by the enemy. ”
Those who do not understand Chairman Mao's revolutionary experience will think that Chairman Mao always stays in the rear, strategizes, wins decisive victories, and there is no danger.
However, with a little use of his mind, you can imagine that from the very beginning of taking up the barrel of a gun to organize an autumn harvest uprising and shouldering the enemy hard, Chairman Mao must also personally experience the battle front.
On closer examination, Chairman Mao's time with the gun can be traced back to 1911, when he was only 18 years old.
Lao Qin previously wrote "In 1950, Chairman Mao's first standard portrait was announced, and a blacksmith saw the shout: He is my soldier", which mentions that during the Xinhai Revolution, he signed up for the Hunan New Army and became a soldier of the left team of the first battalion of the 50th standard of the 25th Mixed Association.
Because Puyi later announced his abdication, the young Chairman Mao thought that the revolution had succeeded, so he left the army and returned to the campus.
Lao Qin said in another article titled "Guo Moruo Said That Young Mao Zedong Looked Like a Woman, But Did Not Know That He Was Proficient in Boxing and Fencing, and Was a Football Champion", that even on campus, young Mao Zedong once led the student volunteer army of the Hunan First Division with wooden guns to use offensive tactics and suspicious tactics to drive away about 3,000 remnants of the Beiyang Warlord Mixed Brigade stationed not far from the First Division.
After the autumn harvest uprising, Chairman Mao was the main leader of the army, and he had no choice but to lead the troops to charge into the battlefield and forge ahead in the rain of bullets and bullets.
Among them, the most dangerous one is the battle of Dabaidi.
It was February 1929, chairman Mao and Zhu Laozong led the main force of the Red 4th Army to gannan and western Fujian, and were surrounded and intercepted by the enemy Li Wenbin's brigade and Liu Shiyi's brigade at Ruijin's Dabaidi. Chairman Mao led the guard platoon to charge the enemy positions, and Zhu De led the independent battalion and direct subordinate units lying on the hillside as the general reserve to rush down the hill, and the battle was unprecedentedly fierce, and our army finally put it to death and came to life, but also paid a heavy price.
On January 9, 1965, the famous American journalist Edgar Snow visited China again. When Chairman Mao talked with him, he mentioned the hardships of the war years, and Chairman Mao said: "I have long been prepared to die, how many times it seems that I am dying, the guards around me were killed, and the blood splashed on me, but it was all right." ”
Chairman Mao said that the guards around him were killed by the enemy, and it happened twice.
Once, when crossing the Dadu River, enemy planes kept dropping bombs in the sky, and his guard commander was killed.
Another time, when the Long March detachment entered the territory of Tianquan County from Xingjing County in Sichuan Province, the enemy planes hovered and strafed overhead, and Chairman Mao's guard squad leader Hu Changbao was hit by the enemy plane's dive bombs, and the blood splashed chairman Mao's body.
In addition, like Lao Qin's mention in "The Enemy Is Coming, the Situation Is Urgent, Chairman Mao Is Ready to Sacrifice, and the General of Our Army Arrives on Pegasus", Chairman Mao led more than 800 people of the Central Column to meet the vanguard troops of the Kuomintang Twenty-ninth Army in Tianci Bay, which is also extremely dangerous.
On March 21, 1948, Chairman Mao's passing in distress in Chengnanzhuang, Fuping County, Hebei Province, was even more astonishing—he had just come out of his room, and the house behind him was blown up by enemy planes.
However, Chairman Mao was always calm and idle, and did not hesitate to deal with changes.
In May 1965, Chairman Mao met with Ho Chi Minh in Changsha and offered to go to Vietnam to see the Vietnamese people's struggle against US imperialism. Ho Chi Minh waved his hand in fright and said, "The bombing of the US imperialists is too fierce, or wait for the situation to be better before you go." ”
Chairman Mao said disapprovingly: "I just want to see the bombing, and when the situation improves, I will not go." ”
Regarding the aftermath, after the death of Marshal Luo Ronghuan in 1963, Chairman Mao's former head nurse Wu Xujun had a long talk, he said: "Life, old age, illness and death are eternal laws, thousands of sails on the side of the sinking boat, the head of the sick tree in front of Wanmu Chun, I ate more fish when I was alive, and after death, the ashes should be sprinkled into the Yangtze River to feed the fish." ”
By the way, Lao Qin wrote in "1950 Shaoshan Land Reform, What Ingredients Did Chairman Mao's Family Draw?" In an article "Qing Arrival Book" makes people feel nostalgic, it is written: Chairman Mao gave up his family for the country, and he returned to Shaoshan during the Spring Festival of 1921, abandoned his family's house and field property, and led the whole family to carry out the revolution together. Later, there were 6 martyrs in his family, and they were all close relatives, including his wife Yang Kaihui and son Mao Anying.
Chairman Mao was a well-known filial piety, and when his mother Wen Suqin died, the words he wrote in the "Sacrifice to the Mother" wept blood and tears, and the sound of tears was moving.
In 1959, he made another trip back to Shaoshan, specifically to visit his parents at his ancestral grave.
Because he had not returned for many years, he searched for a while and could not find the specific location of his parents' graves, and finally, with his memories, he looked around and finally came to a low grave.
Without any sacrifice, he casually folded a few pine branches and placed them in front of his parents' graves, and performed three prostrations with deep affection.
Bidding farewell to the graves of his parents, the accompanying staff whispered, "Do you want to repair the graves?" ”
Chairman Mao shook his head and said, "Don't fix it, every year you just have to come up and cultivate soil." ”
Compared with his beloved wife Yang Kaihui, because she sacrificed for the revolution, Chairman Mao, after receiving the bad news of Yang Kaihui's sacrifice, wrote the words "Kaihui's death, a hundred bodies can not be redeemed" and sent 30 silver dollars to erect a tomb monument for Yang Kaihui for the people of Bancang.
Lao Qin said in the article "In 1950, Mao Anying returned to Hunan to collect debts, chairman Mao: This debt cannot be repaid for a lifetime" that in 1950, Mao Anying returned to Changsha to prepare to pay homage to his mother's grave.
The grave of the martyr Yang Kaihui was already dilapidated.
The county party committee reported to the provincial party committee the current situation of Yang Kaihui's cemetery and asked for instructions to properly repair it.
Huang Kecheng, then secretary of the Hunan Provincial CPC Committee, did not dare to make assertions and hurriedly asked Chairman Mao for advice.
In the end, with the approval of Chairman Mao, a simple repair was carried out at the expense of 80 yuan.
In December 1954, the headquarters of the Volunteer Army prepared to transport Mao Anying's bones back to Beijing for burial when the fighting heroes huang Jiguang, Yang Gensi, Qiu Shaoyun and other combat heroes, as well as the remains of cadres at or above the regimental level who died in Korea, had been transported back to China for burial. ”
Chairman Mao's outlook on life and death is so open-minded.
But then why did the CCB build the Chairman Mao Memorial Hall?
Zhou Fuming, a former personal defender of Chairman Mao, was a guest at a forum in 2008, and he recalled that on September 9, 1976, Chairman Mao passed away, and we cried so much that we didn't cry. At our repeated requests, the Central Committee agreed to our demand that "Chairman Mao's remains be preserved permanently."
Zhou Fuming also said that the person who made the decision at that time was Hua Guofeng.
Hua Guofeng believes that "it is of greater educational significance to protect Chairman Mao's body for a long time and let the masses of the people admire him from generation to generation," and his proposal has won the full support of Ye Jianying and other revolutionaries of the older generation.
In his famous interview in 1980, Farage asked Deng Xiaoping: "Since the construction of the Chairman Mao Memorial Hall is against Chairman Mao's own wishes, will the Chairman Mao Memorial Hall be demolished in the near future?" ”
Deng Xiaoping waved his hand and said, "It is not appropriate to build it, but if it has already been built, I am not in favor of changing it." ”
Yes, the body of a great man of a generation should be like his portrait, which should be admired by the masses of the people from generation to generation and passed on through the ages.