Many people know Hua Guofeng, but few people know the meaning of the three words "Hua Guofeng", Hua Guofeng was originally named Su Zhu, born in Jiaocheng, Shanxi, in his early years he devoted himself to the anti-Japanese resistance, fighting guerrillas in the Bagua Mountains of Jiaocheng, and officially joined the anti-Japanese guerrillas in 1938.
At the same time, the original name Su Zhu was changed to "Hua Guofeng", which means "the vanguard of the anti-Japanese struggle to save the country", during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he successively participated in the Battle of Fenxiao, the Battle of Huangya and the Battle of Gujiao, and later participated in the Liberation War, and became the leader of Xiangyin County in Hunan in early 1949.
Hua Guofeng later became a leader at the level of Zhengguo, but from his resignation in 1981 until his death in 2008, during these 21 years, Hua Guofeng lived a peaceful old age and rarely appeared in public, so that few people knew about Hua Guofeng's living conditions during this period.
In his later years, Hua Guofeng lived in an ordinary courtyard in Beijing, living the life of an ordinary person, like many Beijing masters, Hua Guofeng liked to plant some flowers and plants at home, according to Hua Guofeng's granddaughter Su Jia, Hua Guofeng's favorite plant was the vine.
There are many vines planted, there are many varieties, and every harvest season is a harvest, but the harvested grapes are basically given away, he himself can only occasionally eat one or two grapes due to diabetes, due to illness, Hua Guofeng's diet in his later years is very simple.
Hua Guofeng gets up at six o'clock every day, gets up and exercises in the yard, and then eats breakfast, breakfast generally has milk or eggs, plus flower rolls or white noodle steamed buns, sometimes eat grilled steamed bun slices, and the dishes are usually greens.
Lunch is generally based on pasta, generally Shanxi people like pasta, such as shinobi noodles, cat ears and knife noodles and other noodles, Hua Guofeng likes, from this aspect can also see Hua Guofeng's love for his hometown, after lunch Hua Guofeng will take a lunch break.
After waking up, according to the arrangements and physical condition of the day, Hua Guofeng met with some people, who were generally fellow villagers in Shanxi and old subordinates in Hunan at that time, as well as descendants of some friends, and sometimes met with some incumbent leaders, and these four types of people were common.
Hua Guofeng and the visiting guests are talking about some things in life, or reminiscing about the past, in these aspects Hua Guofeng is very strict with himself, life is simple and simple, dinner is generally porridge or burnt cakes, hua Guofeng in life and ordinary old people there is no difference.
He is not only strict with himself, but also for his children, none of his children have gone abroad, no one has done business, and all four children have their own successes, Hua Guofeng is very pleased with this, especially China's development is getting better and better, after the success of Beijing's Olympic bid, Hua Guofeng has always hoped to see the Beijing Olympic Games with his own eyes.
Unfortunately, since 2008, Hua Guofeng has been hospitalized many times due to illness, and only returned home from the hospital on August 1, originally planning to go to the August 2 Olympic rehearsal, but due to physical reasons, he could not go, and then he was hospitalized again, and this time he entered the hospital and never came out.
It was not until he died in hospital on August 20 at the age of 87, with the regret of not being able to see the Beijing Olympic Games, and Hua Guofeng's ashes were stored in Babaoshan Cemetery for three years, and at the request of his children, they were buried in Hua Guofeng's hometown of Baguashan in November 2011.