On August 8, 2008, the 29th Olympic Games were grandly opened in our capital Beijing. This is the first time our country has hosted the Olympic Games, and at this time, everyone feels extremely proud and proud of Chinese.
During the Beijing Olympic Games, there was such an old man who also paid special attention to the Olympic Games and very much wanted to go to the Bird's Nest site to witness the opening of the Olympic Games. Although before the opening of the Olympic Games, his family helped him prepare live tickets for the opening ceremony early. But he still failed to get his wish and did not come to the scene in person, which became his last regret before his death.
Fireworks at the Beijing Olympic Games Olympic Rings
The old man's name was Hua Guofeng, and Chairman Mao had done something to Hua Guofeng
"You do things, I'm assured."
Such high praise. He is also the second supreme leader of the country after Chairman Mao to climb the tiananmen tower on the song "Sailing the Sea by the Helmsman".
This issue will take you into Hua Guofeng's later years and see the story between Hua Guofeng and the Beijing Olympic Games.
Take the initiative to resign, bid farewell to the old man and return home, and begin retirement in his old age
In September 1980, at the Third Session of the Fifth National People's Congress, Hua Guofeng took the initiative to resign, resigned from the post of vice premier of the State Council, and in June 1981, at the Sixth Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, resigned as chairman of the CPC Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission. Since then, he has resigned from all government affairs and begun to idle in a courtyard in Beijing's Xihuangchenggen, starting his retirement life.
This is a small courtyard of two entrances, very quiet, in the middle of the front yard, there is a lush small orchard, the melons, fruits and vegetables in it, grow very vigorously, these are Comrade Hua Guofeng and his wife personally planted.
When Comrade Hua Guofeng first moved into this small courtyard in 1980, this small courtyard can be described as wild grass and overgrown with weeds. He took everyone to open up the wasteland in this two-entry courtyard, planning to open a vegetable garden and grow his own vegetables to eat. According to the recollection of Hua Lao, when he opened up this small courtyard, he felt particularly happy, and through the common labor of everyone, he witnessed this small courtyard, from wild grass to lush greenery.
This small courtyard passed, less than half a year to open, the small vegetable garden in the beans crawled full of scaffolding, cucumbers also revealed small yellow flowers, the loofah by the wall climbed up the wall. The vegetable garden leads to the parlor, which is decorated as a shaded corridor lined with peppers and rape flowers, and the top of this corridor is also a bracket built by Hua Lao himself, which is hung with gourds and grapes. The backyard is planted with a variety of fruit trees, and the whole courtyard is full of rich pastoral atmosphere.
Hua Lao also has a deep study of agricultural cultivation. Whether it is a small yard of vegetables or various fruit trees, when to fertilize, when to water, when to produce fruit, Hua Lao has a particularly accurate grasp.
Elder Hua and his wife lived very regularly in their later years, and every day at five or six o'clock, Elder Hua's wife would get up early, work in the vegetable garden she planted for a while, then cook, and wait until seven o'clock to wake up Comrade Hua Guofeng. After breakfast, Hua Lao will spend a lot of time writing and reading newspapers.
Whether it is current politics, economy, military, people's livelihood, or international newspapers, he will carefully look at each one and each one. When Hua Lao reads the newspaper, he will be very devoted, and often see that he has forgotten the time for lunch.
After each lunch, Elder Hua would go out with his wife near the small courtyard of his house and chat together. Or two young granddaughters who accompany them home after school, and occasionally visit neighbors' houses. At night, Elder Hua will watch the simulcast on time without moving, and after that, he will also go to bed after watching other TV programs.
Hua Lao's life is also very simple. Although the clothes on his body have been worn for decades, they have long been torn, but he still sews and mends them, and then continues to wear them. For decades, he was never willing to add any new clothes or furniture.
I remember once, he accidentally found that his dirty clothes were rushed by the staff around him to wash, and he didn't want to trouble the staff around him because of these small things of his own. So he changed his dirty clothes, hid them everywhere, did not let the staff find them, and then secretly handed them to his wife to wash.
In his later years, Hua Lao's two hobbies: growing grapes and practicing calligraphy
In his later years, Hua Lao had two biggest hobbies, namely planting grapes and practicing calligraphy.
Since the official retirement of Hualao in 1982, Hualao, who is idle at home, has traveled to various botanical gardens in Beijing, and whenever he sees a thriving vine, he will pull up the planters and share with them the experience of planting and management.
Among the many flowers and plants planted by Hualao, Hualao's favorite and best planted one is the grape. According to the introduction of the staff of this small courtyard, under the grape rack of Hua Lao, at most, there were fifty or sixty varieties planted, and when it came to the autumn of harvest, the grapes were really fruitful, and their families could not eat them at all. It will be given to the neighbors and the soldiers in the army to eat.
Fruitful grape racks
Hua Lao is also a good hand at repairing grape racks, and for each plant of grapes, Hua Lao can always prepare and build the most suitable grape racks according to the growth of grapes. Even when he was unable to do so, Elder Hua would stand aside and personally direct the people who came to help and how to prune and take care of these grape racks.
Another hobby of Hua Lao is that he loves to practice words. In the living room of Comrade Hua Guofeng's home, a banner hangs with the words "Clean" written on it. This font looks very atmospheric. No one could have imagined that this was the work of Hua Lao when he was 85 years old.
Elder Hua himself would often say that in that era of his youth, the soldiers were in chaos, and there was no special time for him to study and practice words, so he often used his fingers and small wooden sticks as pens, and his legs and the ground as paper.
After hualao retires, you often practice writing alone in your study, and often write late. Hua Lao's font is a school of its own. At that time, Han Xuewu, who was very prestigious in the calligraphy circle, saw Hua Lao's font during a visit to Hua Lao, and once commented on it"
Your words have both the broad and magnificent body of the face, the simple and simple mao of the shenxiong, and the skinny and firm body of the willow body, and the bone strength is open! ”
Elder Hua wrote the most about Chairman Mao's poems. On one of the walls of his study hung poems written by chairman Mao.
I was thrilled to hear about the Olympic Games in 2008
On July 14, 2001, Hualao was very excited when he heard the announcement by the President of the Olympic Committee, Mr. Maranchi, that Beijing had become the host city of the 2008 Olympic Games. He felt sincerely happy that China, which has undergone reform and opening up, is now prosperous and strong, and he is also full of confidence that the country will become better and better. At the same time, he hopes that he can see the beijing Olympic Games with his own eyes and witness the Olympic Games held in our country, a historical feat that has attracted national attention.
In 2001, there were only seven years left before the opening of the Beijing Olympics. He often jokes with people around him that living to 08 years and watching the opening of our country's Olympic Games is the goal given to him by the state, and if he does not live until 08 years, the country will not beat him away. However, the world is unpredictable, and Hua Lao still failed to fulfill his wish and fulfill this last wish.
Before the Start of the Olympic Games, he was seriously ill and his last wish was not fulfilled
Originally from 1996, after Hua Lao had a serious illness, his body was not as good as a year. At the end of June 2008, Hua Lao was admitted to the hospital because of his own physical reasons, about this hospitalization, at first, did not cause too much attention from the family, thinking that this time, as usual, is a common daily small problem, thinking that after treatment, it will soon recover and be discharged. At this time, no one could have imagined that Hua Lao was almost at the end of his life.
In his later years, Hua Guofeng
On August 1, after treatment in the hospital, Comrade Hua Guofeng's condition stabilized and he was taken home by his family. At this time, according to the opening of the Olympic Games, there was only one week left, and the family also helped Hua Lao and booked tickets for the opening ceremony in advance. The family waited expectantly, and a week later the Beijing Olympics opened.
On August 2, the day of the rehearsal of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, someone gave Hua Guofeng a ticket for the rehearsal and invited him to watch the rehearsal together, but Hua Guofeng politely refused. I don't know whether it was Elder Hua's premonition or his own physical condition that he knew, Elder Hua postponed to this friend:
"I don't go to the rehearsal and wait to see the formal performance together." However, the weather was unpredictable, and the next day, Hua Lao was sent to Beijing 301 Hospital again because of his deteriorating condition.
On August 8, the opening day of the Beijing Olympic Games, although Elder Hua was not able to attend the Olympic Games in person, he still watched the opening of the Olympic Games in front of the TV set at this critical moment of illness. On this day, the lights of the Bird's Nest Stadium are particularly brilliant and colorful.
At the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, the Chinese team entered
At 19:50 on the evening of this day, guests from the Olympic Committees of various countries, in the welcome of music, walked to the podium and waved to the audience, and there was also a burst of warm applause at the scene. By 20:00, Hua Lao followed the countdown to the scene and shouted 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. The opening ceremony officially began.
Although Hua Lao was not present, the 90,000 spectators of the stadium witnessed this great moment in history. But his heart was still full of excitement, and this great moment frequently brought him to tears.
In front of the hospital's television, Hua Lao listened to the national leader announce the opening of the Olympic Games and delivered a speech to this effect. Listen to Liu Huan and the female singer Sarah Brightman in London, England, sing the theme song of the Olympic Games "Me and You" affectionately, and listen to the foreign singer skillfully sing the lyrics inside: "I am with you, heart to heart, living in the global village." For the dream, a thousand miles, meet in Beijing...", at this time, Hua Lao's heart was even more excited, proud of the song sung by two Chinese and foreign singers.
Every program at the Olympic Games rippled through Hua Lao's heart. The program "Picture Scrolls" shows the origin and development of Chinese history and culture. The "four treasures of the study room" in Chinese culture are displayed to the eyes of the people of the world in such a unique way. Among them, the aesthetics of the East and the East are outlined, which is still admired by people's research. There is also the program "Characters", which uses "three thousand disciples of Confucius" to hold bamboo janes and print movable type to show the world.
Program "Picture Scroll"
While watching, Hua Lao was happy and amazed at the country's current prosperity and strength. At this time, the people of Hualao are also looking forward to the improvement of Hualao's condition, and take Hualao to the scene to see our athletes and wonderful performances at the Olympic Games.
On August 20, 2008, twelve days after the opening of the Beijing Olympic Games, Hua Guofeng left the world forever at the age of 87. In the last days of his life, his heart was still worried about the Olympic Games.
After Comrade Hua Guofeng's death, his ashes were transported to his hometown of Jiaocheng, Shanxi, and buried in the land of his hometown, and his wish to return to his roots was fulfilled, but the wish to visit the Scene of the Beijing Olympic Games in person has never been realized, which has also become his last regret before his death.