Zhang Chunlian's life is legendary. According to some sources, Zhang Chunlian had participated in deciphering the telegram of the Japanese army preparing for the air attack on Pearl Harbor, but because the Americans did not take it seriously, Zhang Chunlian's work did not have the desired effect. After the end of the War of Resistance, civil war broke out. Zhang Chunlian began to become less active: after all, when she joined the military command, Zhang Chunlian was holding the psychology of resisting foreign enemies, and the brutal rule of the Chiang Kai-shek regime at home made Zhang Chunlian unwilling to serve the military command.
However, the rules of military command, only the dead can get rid of, which makes Zhang Chunlian dare not openly express her attitude, so Zhang Chunlian began to "release water" mode: as long as the case that passes through her hands, she can not handle it. This work attitude made Zhang Chunlian soon unpopular, so when Mao Renfeng was the director of the bureau, he took advantage of the opportunity of the new official to take office and sent Zhang Chunlian to the countryside of northern Shaanxi to lurk in the name of appointing Zhang Chunlian to carry out the task.
Mao Renfeng knew the strength of the northern Shaanxi border guards and believed that this trick could serve the purpose of killing people with a knife. Unexpectedly, after Zhang Chunlian arrived in northern Shaanxi, she exerted her passive and sluggish attitude to the limit: she did not contact the headquarters and did not engage in any intelligence work, so that Zhang Chunlian was once suspected of betraying the military command. However, Zhang Chunlian was not very down-to-earth in northern Shaanxi: because she was not convinced of our party's policies, she was worried that her many years of experience in military unification would lead to our party liquidating her.
Therefore, under the condition of avoiding interference from military command, Zhang Chunlian also had to consider concealing her identity. In the end, she chose to marry an honest farmer. In order to completely cover her eyes, Zhang Chunlian strives to make herself a country woman, and for this reason, Zhang Chunlian and her husband have given birth to eight children. In this way, Zhang Chunlian lurked in the mainland for thirty years.
Until the early 1980s, seeing the twilight years, Zhang Chunlian revealed her true identity - she was a spy who survived a special era of ten years, and it should be unique. Zhang Chunlian's situation attracted the attention of the public security organs, and after some investigation and research, the public security organs finally made a decision not to pursue the case in accordance with the spirit of the instructions of the superiors.
The public security organs held that Zhang Chunlian had made meritorious contributions to the state during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and during the civil war, her passive attitude toward things could be regarded as having already possessed the psychology of sympathizing with the revolution, but because she did not recognize the policy in time and abandon the dark and cast light, she took a detour; after the founding of New China, Zhang Chunlian's latent work existed in name only and did not cause any substantial harm to the people's power, so the public security organs made a decision not to pursue the matter.