When Zhang Xueming entrusted Zhang Shizhao to write a letter asking Chairman Mao to write an inscription for the People's Park, how many people knew about Zhang Xueming?
Perhaps the fame of the elder brother Zhang Xueliang is too big, the younger brother Zhang Xueming is considered by many people to live under the aura of the brother, Zhang Xueming's life is respectful of the brother, under the care of the brother also lived out of the self, the only regret is that he did not meet with his brother in his old age.
Today, No. 50 Mu Nan Road, Heping District, is Zhang Xueming's former residence in Tianjin. Built in 1925, the main gate sits north and faces south, and the general layout is: the front is the main building, and the rear is an auxiliary room. The main building is a western-style building with a sloped roof, the exterior wall is made of purple and red machine brick masonry, and the interior decoration is luxurious.
Tianjin is important to Zhang Xueming, although he spent his later years in Beijing, he did a lot of influential things in Tianjin and experienced several role changes here.
Mayor of Tianjin before liberation
On November 8 and November 26, 1931, Japan caused two riots, known in history as the Tianjin Incident. Zhang Xueming, then mayor and police chief of Tianjin, was aware of the japanese plainclothes team's insatiability, and he went to Beiping to report to Zhang Xueliang on the security situation in Tianjin and the activities of the Japanese army.
According to the analysis of the situation, Zhang Xueming said: "Before coming to Beiping this time, we conducted research, and only by fighting is the way out, and there is no future without fighting. After returning to Tianjin, Zhang Xueming followed Zhang Xueliang's instructions, deployed his defenses in advance, and strengthened his vigilance.
On the evening of November 8, Japanese plainclothes troops set out from the Japanese Concession and attacked the municipal government, the municipal police station and other places. Because Zhang Xueming had made preparations earlier, he killed and wounded more than 50 enemy members and captured more than 100 prisoners that night. By the early morning of November 9, Zhang Xueming led his team to repel the plainclothes attack, killing and capturing more than 600 people, and the rest fled back to the Japanese concession.
Director of People's Park
After the liberation of Tianjin on January 15, 1949, Zhang Xueming returned to Tianjin. In 1950, Zhang Xueming wrote to Premier Zhou Enlai, hoping to give himself a chance to study. Soon, he entered the North China People's Revolutionary University and returned to Tianjin after graduation as the director of Tianjin People's Park.
A Newspaper in Hong Kong at the time taunted Mr. Zhang, saying he had fallen from the mayor's throne into a gardener's mud pit. Zhang Xueming said with boldness: "Chinese, which accounts for a quarter of the world's population, are all gardeners who build socialism, and it is the ignorant people who make a big fuss. ”
In 1954, Zhang Xueming commissioned Zhang Shizhao, director of the Central Research Museum of Culture and History, to send a letter to Chairman Mao Zedong, requesting an inscription for the park. On September 19 of the same year, Chairman Mao replied to the letter and attached the four characters of "People's Park" written in his own handwriting. This is the only plaque inscribed by Chairman Mao for the domestic park. Chairman Mao's handwritten inscription and reply to the letter read: "Mr. Xingyan: Huishu respectfully understands." I wrote the four words of People's Park in accordance with the instructions, but I don't know if it is suitable? Annoyance to mr. Zhang. Ode to The Good Day. ”
Recognized foodie
Zhang Xueming was not valued by Zhang Zuolin since childhood, and he did not give high hopes, so Zhang Xueming thought more about life, according to his family, Zhang Xueming likes to eat, pay attention to eating, and prefer to cook by himself. The menu of Zhang Xueming's family banquet is often deliberated and formulated by him personally, and many state-level special chefs have been instructed by him. Every New Year's Festival, to welcome relatives and friends, Zhang Xueming must personally go to the kitchen to perform skills.
Zhang Xueming's family recruits chefs to take two dishes, one is fried and pinched vegetables, and the other is vinegar and pepper fish. Stir-fried parlor must not produce soup, and vinegar pepper fish should be made with a strong soup flavor. One with a soup flavor and one that cannot produce soup are two extremes that can best test the level of the same chef.
He gave high praise to the grilled wild duck in Tianjin Tianyifang, the jar meat of Wenhuazhai and the lamb bun of Dongmen Face.
Zhang Xueming is a recognized gourmet who has studied major cuisines.
Zhang Xueming has a cheerful personality, carefree, because he loves to eat, so fat, body shape, someone gave him a nickname called "two fat people", every time he hears someone call him so, he is "laughing and questioning", not angry.
He left a deep mark on Tianjin, the bungalow on Mu Nan Road, and the People's Park on Huizhou Road.