As the "Mother of the Nation", Song Qingling contributed most of her life to the National Revolution, and her life can be said to be heavier than Mount Tai. In 1981, Mr. Soong Ching Ling died in Beijing, completing her wonderful life, at this time, people from all walks of life across the country went to mourn, all of them felt sad and sad about the departure of Mr. Soong Ching Ling.
At that time, Deng Yingchao and other central leading comrades presided over and arranged the funeral of Song Qingling, but instead of holding the funeral according to the time originally planned by the leader at that time, it was 5 minutes ahead of schedule.
First, Song Qingling's past review
Speaking of Song Qingling, we must understand her life. Born in Shanghai on January 27, 1893, Soong Ching Ling's father was a close friend of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, who helped Dr. Sun Yat-sen in the democratic revolution and was a very patriotic progressive.
Under the guidance of his father, Soong Ching Ling also gradually acquired progressive ideas, forming lofty revolutionary ideals and obvious national pride. After graduating from university, she began to work as a secretary around Dr. Sun Yat-sen, and later, she and Dr. Sun Yat-sen exchanged feelings and began to form a revolutionary partner and work together in China's democratic revolution.
After Soong Ching Ling married Sun Yat-sen, she has been behind the scenes for Sun Yat-sen's work, she helped Sun Yat-sen deal with telegrams, sort out documents, take care of Mr. Sun's daily life, and became Mr. Sun's right-hand man. At this time, Soong Ching Ling had closely linked herself with the fate of the motherland and the people, and she learned a lot of revolutionary knowledge and experience from Dr. Sun Yat-sen's side, established her lofty revolutionary ideals, and firmly took the road of saving the country and the people.
Later, Sun Yat-sen fled Japan and returned to China to launch a war against Yuan Shikai and a movement to protect the country and the Law, and Soong Ching Ling accompanied him and supported her husband's various revolutionary activities. Throughout the process, Mr. Soong Ching Ling supported Sun Yat-sen's revolution with his words and deeds, and was consistent with Sun Yat-sen in many revolutionary views.
In March 1925, the death of Sun Yat-sen, the "Father of the Nation", dealt a heavy blow to the revolutionary cause of the Chinese people, and also caused Soong Ching Ling to lose her husband. For a woman, the loss of her husband is an incomparably tragic thing, but the strong Mr. Soong Ching Ling continues to uphold the legacy of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, adheres to his Three People's Principles and three major policies, and with lofty revolutionary ideals and tenacious revolutionary spirit, she forges ahead in the wind and rain, has the courage to shoulder the heavy responsibilities of the times, and fights for the interests of the people.
In 1949, the people's republic of China was founded, as vice president of the state Song Qingling for the construction of new China, at this time, she devoted herself to the cultural education, health and welfare of women and children in the motherland, for the legitimate rights and interests of women, legal status, for the healthy growth of children, created indelible deeds.
In 1981, Song Qingling's condition deteriorated and eventually died in Beijing. The death of Mr. Soong Ching Ling is a loss to the Chinese people, and "life for the public" is the true portrayal of her life; she abandoned the erroneous line of Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist Government, stood on the side of the masses of the people, and realized the value of her own life.
At that time, the central government attached great importance to Mr. Song Qingling's outstanding contributions and decided to hold a state funeral to mourn Mr. Song Qingling.
2. Preparations before the funeral
Following The central government followed Mr. Song Qingling's last wishes, held a funeral in Shanghai, and buried the bones in the Cemetery of Nations. At that time, it was not easy to hold this funeral smoothly, thanks to the preparations made by the central leading comrades in advance.
In fact, long before her condition deteriorated, the central leadership found Li Jiachi and conducted in-depth exchanges on Mr. Song's condition. When the central leading comrades learned from Li Jiazhi that Song Qingling had suffered from cancer and had reached the point of being incurable, they decided to prepare for Mr. Song's future events. The central government plans to hold a state funeral for Soong ching-ling in Shanghai, because Shanghai is Mr. Song's hometown and the place where she last hopes to land.
Soon, Song Qingling's condition deteriorated and he had reached a moment of crisis. The central government asked Li Jiachi to formulate a burial plan as soon as possible, and this problem was difficult for Li Jiachi, after all, Shanghai belonged to the local government at that time, and since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the local government really did not have the experience of undertaking state funerals. Therefore, this funeral has attracted the great attention of the Shanghai leaders, who have planned in advance and tried not to make the slightest mistake.
There is no doubt that the specifications of the state funeral must be grand, but Song Qingling wanted everything to be simple before his death, and the central government followed this principle and planned to hold this funeral in a simple way.
After the completion of the funeral-related plan, the central government approved it, and the relevant comrades in Shanghai actively took action. On the evening of May 29, 1981, Mr. Soong Ching Ling passed away in Beijing, and the Central Committee held a memorial meeting for her in Beijing, and then sent her coffin to Shanghai for a funeral.
Third, the reason for the early funeral
The relevant leading comrades who organized the funeral set the funeral time at 10 o'clock in the morning according to the originally scheduled plan, but what is puzzling is that Deng Yingchao temporarily decided to set the funeral time at 9:55.
It turned out that at that time, in accordance with Song Qingling's funeral everything from Jane's last wishes, the central government only invited 200 people to attend the funeral, and these people were representatives of the industry that Mr. Song Qingling engaged in during his lifetime. The funeral went according to the original plan, but it wasn't long before the situation changed and something unexpected happened.
Originally, Deng Yingchao and others had some rest time after getting off the plane and making some preparations, but considering the particularity of the funeral, they still wanted to go to the funeral site in advance to see to ensure that there were no flaws.
Since it was summer and shanghai was exceptionally hot, the elderly and student representatives who had come to bid farewell to Soong Ching Ling had lined up early to express their high respect for the revolutionary. Despite the hot weather, people insisted on waiting for the funeral to take place.
After Deng Yingchao came to the funeral site, he saw the waiting crowd and found that some of them were sweating, and even in this team there were elderly people and young children. In this regard, Deng Yingchao could not bear it, and immediately made a decision, that is, to hold the funeral 5 minutes in advance, so that the send-off team would no longer wait so hard.
Subsequently, the comrades in charge of the funeral reported this situation to the superiors, and after the superior leaders learned about the actual situation, they agreed with Comrade Deng Yingchao's opinion and scheduled the funeral to be held at 9:55.
Although it was five minutes ahead, it continued Song Qingling's spirit of great love. Because there are elderly people and children in the farewell team, in such a hot environment, they are likely to have the risk of heat stroke, if Mr. Song Qingling knows that someone at his funeral has heat stroke, he will also have the same choice as Deng Yingchao! Therefore, Deng Yingchao once said:
I'm sure she'll understand me doing it.
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IV. Song Qingling's "Great Love"
A lady who can be called a "gentleman" must have made an extraordinary contribution and had a profound impact on society. In modern history, Song Qingling is one of the few ladies who are called "Mr." All this is inseparable from her "great love", she dedicated herself and did everything for the motherland and the people.
Mr. Song Qingling is a person with great love, she was born in a rich family in Shanghai, it can be said that she did not have to run and work all her life. Her eldest sister married into the Kong family, the rich side, and the younger sister married Chiang Kai-shek, gaining the reputation of "first lady". She was the only one who, in order to find a way to save the country and the people, did not hesitate to spend her youth and shed her blood for the revolutionary cause of the motherland.
In the days with Sun Yat-sen, she faced the arrival of Chen Jiongming's rebels and insisted on covering her husband's safe evacuation, while she herself attracted the attention of the enemy. With her great love and her broad mind, she has inspired groups of revolutionaries one after another.
Only later, she chose to stand on the side of our party and chose a bright path.
As a woman, she has endured the pain of losing her husband, endured the loneliness of her family being separated from her, and in the face of conflicts of interest, she has insisted on her original intentions. Due to Chiang Kai-shek's hostile attitude toward the CCP, Soong Ching Ling was also pushed to the cusp of the storm, and she also became the "enemy" of the Soong family. However, Song Qingling, who had lost her affection and affection, did not slack off in the slightest, and she continued to carry out relevant work and devote herself to the establishment and construction of new China.
In addition, she also devoted herself to the child welfare cause of her motherland, using her own strength to rescue displaced children and help them grow up healthy and happy. In the eyes of Song Qingling, children are the future of the motherland, and only by working hard for this can we create a bright future for the motherland. Her foresight and open-mindedness have deeply influenced us and amazed us.
Based on this, Soong Ching Ling has won the respect of all sectors of society and won the support of the people, and she has always been an outstanding comrade-in-arms of Dr. Sun Yat-sen and a tacit partner of the Communist Party of China. At the same time, he is a person with "great love" who infects people with his own practical actions.
Today, Mr. Soong Ching Ling has left us forever, and it is precisely because of the efforts of these revolutionary predecessors that we have a happy and beautiful life today, and we have a natural connection with them and are inseparable.
The great man has gone, and her noble character and spiritual quality of serving the public all her life are worth learning from us. We live in today's beautiful society, and we should inherit the spirit of great people, inherit and carry them forward, and continue to strive for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.