"Who is this Huilan?" She is not a martyr, why can she be buried in the martyrs' cemetery with such honor, or next to General Yang Hucheng? ”
In the General Yang Hucheng Martyrs' Cemetery in the south of Xi'an, the staff members who did not know the truth muttered to a new tomb that had just been completed.
On top of the new tombstone, which sits next to general Yang Hucheng's mausoleum, reads: "The Tomb of Zhang Huilan, a member of the Shaanxi Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference."
Before dying, the owner of the new tomb told his children about his wish to be buried with General Yang Hucheng.
Her children truthfully relayed this request to the Shaanxi provincial government.
For a time, the Shaanxi provincial government made a mistake – such a request was not in line with the rules and regulations.
You know, the mausoleum of General Yang Hucheng is in the martyrs' cemetery. This old man is not a martyr, how can he be buried next to General Yang Hucheng?
However, after the provincial government has done research and discussed the deeds of the elderly Zhang Huilan before his death, it finally made a decision: approve it out of the box!
So, why did Zhang Huilan, as the widow of Yang Hucheng, keep a low profile to the point where many people don't know her name?
What outstanding contributions did she make to get the Shaanxi provincial government to approve it even if it violated the law?
(General Yang Hucheng Cemetery)
The story begins with an encounter of fate more than 70 years ago...
First, fate makes people
When the Xinhai Revolution broke out, Mayor Yang Hucheng became a patriotic young man with a warm heart.
Together with his friends in Shaanxi, he formed the "Mid-Autumn Festival", which grew to hundreds of people and threw themselves into the vigorous Revolution.
Later, because Yang Hucheng was dissatisfied with the collusion between the local bullies and the government, robbing the women of the people, and doing no evil, he once again summoned the members of the "Mid-Autumn Festival" to eliminate evil and promote good and crack down on evil forces.
Although Yang Hucheng was well-known for "acting heroically and fighting righteousness" in the local area, he was also retaliated against by the official uniforms, and he had to leave his hometown and embark on the real "revolutionary road".
Two years after Yang Hucheng left home, he had become a battalion commander in the Shaanxi Army with his outstanding talents.
Thinking of his mother, Yang Hucheng was finally able to return to his hometown and meet the mother who thought about him day and night all day.
Sun Yilian was extremely excited to see her son return, and excitedly prepared a big surprise for her son.
That is Zhang Huilan, Yang Hucheng's daughter-in-law who is about to pass through the door.
This surprise really made Yang Hucheng speechless for a while.
Originally, in order to explore The Road to Salvation in China, Yang Hucheng actively studied a lot of advanced knowledge and advanced ideas outside.
At this time, he had long since dissented from the "arranged marriage" system left over from the old feudal society and decided to love freely.
After Yang Hucheng joined the army, he became acquainted with his first wife, Luo Peilan.
Ropperland's skills such as riding horses, shooting, and bandaging the wounded are all good, and he is called "Mulan in the army" by the army.
(Photo of Operand with the child)
At the same time, she is also recognized as a "hero" in the military, and once braved artillery fire on the battlefield to save the lives of three soldiers.
How could such an excellent woman make Yang Hucheng, who is also a hero, not be fascinated?
The two soon fell in love, and on the way to the march, they voluntarily formed a bond, becoming a pair of envious couples in the army.
During Yang Hucheng's run away from home, his mother Sun Yilian was quite under the care of Zhang Huilan.
(Yang Hucheng's mother, Sun Yilian)
Once, Mrs. Sun was idle and bored, and returned to her mother's home, Sun Zhen, to relieve her worries.
Perhaps because of the impatience, Mrs. Sun fell ill.
Zhang Yangqing, who runs a drug store in the town, often visits her condition after hearing about it.
Zhang Yangqing is known in the town for being kind and reasonable. He praised Yang Hucheng's deeds.
When Zhang Yangqing took the initiative to visit, he called Sun Yilian an "aunt" in his own generation, and Sun Yilian instead called him "Yangqing Brother".
After the two met, they were very speculative, and Zhang Yang cleared Sun Yilian of seeing a doctor, and also let his daughter send her soup medicine.
Zhang Yangqing's daughter is called Zhang Huilan. Her encounter with Mrs. Sun completely changed her life.
Zhang Huilan has been well-behaved and sensible since childhood.
Mrs. Sun has no daughter and is very fond of Xiao Huilanna.
Once, during a small talk, Mrs. Sun touched Xiao Huilan's head with her hand in front of her mother's family and said, "If only there was such a daughter-in-law on the stall!" ”
As soon as these words came out, they quickly reached Zhang Yangqing's ears.
He had long admired Yang Hucheng, and now he was overjoyed to have the opportunity to climb the family affair!
(Yang Hucheng and Zhang Huilan)
He took the initiative to entrust someone to send a message to Sun Yilian, hoping that yang and Zhang's two families could marry each other.
In this way, Yang Hucheng's affair with Zhang Huilan was finalized under the mediation of the parents of both sides.
Originally everyone was happy about the thing, but unexpectedly made a "big oolong".
Yang Hucheng was very embarrassed now, and did not know how to solve this problem, because he was already married outside.
After learning the truth, not only Yang Hucheng was embarrassed, but even Sun Yilian was embarrassed.
She really likes Zhang Huilan and treats her as her own daughter.
If they retired from marriage, the Zhang family would be disgraced in that era; but if Huilan was allowed to cross the door, she could only do a partial room, and it would not be wronged her.
While Sun Yilian lamented that she had no connection with Zhang Huilan, Zhang Huilan firmly expressed her willingness to be Yang Hucheng's second wife.
Zhang Huilan had already heard about Yang Hucheng's deeds, knew that he was a great hero who stood up to the heavens and defended his family and the country, and he had been fond of him for a long time.
And Zhang Yangqing does not mind her daughter doing a partial room.
Yang Hucheng's heart was very touched, and this family affair was still settled.
2. Good wife and good mother
Although the marriage was fixed, Zhang Huilan was still young at the time, and she and Yang Hucheng were not completely married.
Subsequently, Yang Hucheng continued to lead troops outside, and Huilan stayed by Sun Yilian's side to take care of food and living.
It was not until Zhang Huilan was 15 years old that Yang Hucheng returned home to officially marry her.
How to deal with the relationship between the two wives made Yang Hucheng have a headache.
(Yang Hucheng)
Zhang Huilan, who understands the great righteousness, took the initiative to ask to stay with the old lady and continue to serve, saying that she could not help her husband at her side, or let Peilan's sister accompany her husband on the march.
Newlywed Yan'er, who has not yet enjoyed the sweet joy, is going to separate, and Huilan understands things that make people feel painful.
Mrs. Sun looked at her and relied more on her.
In this way, Hui Lan stayed at home alone every day and took care of her mother-in-law, waiting for three years, and finally waited for her husband to return.
But he didn't come back alone, and he was pregnant with Rokka's first wife.
Luo Peilan has long followed Yang Hucheng in the southern expedition to the northern war, and due to the hardships and illnesses in the military, it is not good for the fetus.
Yang Hucheng was too busy with frontline military affairs to take care of his wife, so he could only send her back to his hometown to take care of her first.
When Mrs. Sun saw her daughter-in-law returning from pregnancy, she naturally couldn't help but be overjoyed.
What surprised Yang Hucheng and Luo Peilan was that Zhang Huilan not only did not compete for the wind and jealousy, but also had a very thoughtful number of gifts.
As soon as she entered the house, after the three of them sat down, Zhang Huilan generously gave Luo Peilan a gift, toasted tea, and thanked Perrin's sister for taking care of her husband's hard work outside.
Zhang Huilan's actions also made Luo Peilan feel very touched in his heart, and the two have since become sisters and get along very well.
This also made Yang Hucheng's mother and son happy to blossom in their hearts.
(Yang Hucheng with Yang Zhengmin and Yang Zhengkun)
Soon after, Luo Peilan gave birth to a son under the care of Zhang Huilan.
Yang Hucheng was overjoyed and excited, and specially wrote a letter to Zhang Huilan, naming his son Yang Zhengmin, implying that he wanted to save the world's Li Min Cangsheng.
In the blink of an eye, Yang Zhengmin was already two years old and could speak, and Yang Hucheng was eager to see his son and Luo Peilan.
At this time, Yang Hucheng's army was stationed in Yulin, thousands of miles away from his hometown, and the middle area was controlled by other warlords, and there were bandits on the road.
It is easy for a woman with a child to cross these places to meet her husband!
Zhang Huilan stepped forward at this time and was willing to personally escort Luo Peilan's mother and son.
Sun Yilian had no choice but to agree, so Zhang Huilan and Luo Peilan embarked on the road of finding a husband together.
Although Zhang Huilan has never been far away, she is very smart.
They detoured through Shanxi to avoid all the danger zones and walked for nearly a month before entering Yulin.
(Yang Hucheng wrote a letter with Zhang Huilan)
After seeing Yang Hucheng, Luo Peilan excitedly told him:
In the past two years, it has been all thanks to the careful care of Huilan's sister to keep their mother and son safe, and without Huilan they may have been trapped in the mountains long ago.
Yang Hucheng looked at zhang Huilan, who was only twenty years old, and felt very grateful and guilty.
Over the years, he had been fighting abroad for a long time, and he had hardly returned home, relying on Zhang Huilan to take care of his mother and wife and children, and he and she had never met each other to say a few words.
He wanted to keep Zhang Huilan in Yulin for a long time, but Zhang Huilan lightly dropped a sentence: "No, the world is not peaceful, you have to go back to take care of your mother." ”
Two days later, Zhang Huilan embarked on the road home.
If you have a wife like this, why should your husband ask for it!
Third, the eyebrows of the scarf
Zhang Huilan, who returned to her hometown, continued to take care of her mother-in-law's living life with hard work and resentment, and Luo Peilan continued to follow her husband.
It wasn't long before Opellan gave birth to another daughter.
This is Yang Zhengkun, the first daughter of Yang Hucheng.
But the good times did not last long, and Opellan unfortunately contracted tuberculosis because of the poor living conditions of the army.
In order not to let the salvation people be infected by herself, she had to send her son back to her hometown and entrust him to Zhang Huilan to raise.
At this time, China is in the midst of a turbulent and changeable autumn. In order to prepare for the Northern Expedition of the National Revolutionary Army, Yang Hucheng took the initiative to attract the forces of the Beiyang warlords to the Shaanxi region.
Yang Hucheng's actions were hated by the warlords, and Liu Zhenhua led 100,000 Song troops to pounce on Xi'an to carry out crazy retaliation.
Yang Hucheng personally led the elite troops to fight, and the battle was extremely fierce.
Because the enemy army could not conquer for a long time, they came up with a poisonous plan to capture Yang Hucheng's family members as hostages to force him to abandon the city and surrender.
When the Song army rushed into the Yang family, they found that it was already empty.
Zhang Huilan, who was originally resourceful, had already seen the enemy situation and transferred to the house where Luo Peilan was located with her mother-in-law and Yang Zhengmin in advance.
This mansion was bought by Yang Hucheng for Luo Peilan's recuperation, but Luo Peilan was already terminally ill at this time.
Luo Peilan knew that it was not safe here, and he also knew that his life was short, so Zhang Huilan took the salvation people to move overnight.
It was not until Later, when Feng Yuxiang took the rescue troops to relieve the siege of Xi'an, that Zhang Huilan had the opportunity to come back to visit her.
Luo Peilan was already dying at this moment, and she touched Yang Zhengmin's head with her last strength and said:
"Thanks to your mother (Zhang Huilan)!" When you grow up, repay her well! ”
Four-year-old Yang Zhengmin nodded his head in confusion.
At the last moment of her life, she took Zhang Huilan's hand, entrusted her own pair of children to Zhang Huilan, and died.
(Precious photos of Luo Peilan and Yang Hucheng)
Zhang Huilan and her husband, originally love enemies, but love sisters.
Seeing her death, Zhang Huilan was also heartbroken and vowed to raise The Salvation People and Zheng Kun to adulthood.
Xi'an was eventually relieved, but the entire city's military and civilians paid a heavy price for this victory.
After 8 months of defensive battles, as many as 30,000 soldiers and civilians died in Xi'an.
The war brought unprecedented losses to Xi'an, and it was no longer able to support the Revolutionary Army's Northern Expedition.
Yang Hucheng deeply felt sorry for the people of Xi'an and the people of the whole country, so he had the intention of retreating and resigning to live in seclusion at home.
In particular, the bad news of Ropperland's death struck him deeply and made him completely lose his fighting spirit.
In the face of his friends and colleagues repeatedly asking him to go out of the mountain to take up his post, Yang Hucheng could not make up his mind and hesitated, so he consulted with his family.
Zhang Huilan couldn't stop crying sadly, and seemed to hold a strong force in her heart.
Yang Hucheng didn't know why, so he repeatedly asked her what was wrong.
Zhang Huilan held back tears and said:
"I cried that my father looked at the wrong person!" I thought you were a military hero, but I didn't expect such a weapon! Wives and children can't do without love, but we can't miss big things! ”
Zhang Huilan spoke amazingly, which Yang Hucheng really did not expect.
She was usually silent and obedient to her family, and she could actually say such sharp words to accuse him.
(Right: Elderly Zhang Huilan)
Zhang Huilan told Yang Hucheng that the reason why he and his mother were displaced was to let him have no scruples about winning the battle, but he flinched after the battle was won, and he was not sorry for the 30,000 soldiers and civilians who died.
Even more blame himself for not being able to do it, if Sister Perrin will definitely wake him up with two words.
These words were like a slap in the face, drinking and waking up Yang Hucheng.
He seemed to know this wife again, and at the moment he assured Zhang Huilan that he would go out tomorrow and let her take care of the family.
Seeing Yang Hucheng regain his strength, Zhang Huilan also wiped away her tears with satisfaction.
This was the Yang Hucheng he knew, a great hero who stood tall in the sky.
Fourth, kneel goodbye to Huilan
Even though Zhang Huilan has no regrets about dedicating everything to Yang Hucheng and this family, she is always not a person of the world with Yang Hucheng.
Yang Hucheng has always been more grateful to her than to love.
The next year, Yang Hucheng ushered in a double harvest of career and love.
He was not only promoted to commander of the Tenth Army of the Nationalist Army, but also married Xie Baozhen, a progressive schoolgirl.
Xie Baozhen has a cheerful personality and is passionate like fire, which is the most ideal life partner of Yang Hucheng.
(Xie Baozhen)
In later days, she also became the wife who accompanied Yang Hucheng for the longest time.
During this period, because of the turmoil of the times, the Yang family faced danger again. In order to avoid disasters, the Yang family could only run their own things, and Mrs. Sun went to a distant relative's house.
Zhang Huilan took the young Yang Zhengmin and Yang Zhengkun to Yang Hucheng.
Knowing that her husband had a new love, Zhang Huilan still treated Xie Baozhen like she had treated Luo Peilan before.
Perhaps for Zhang Huilan, it is a great happiness to be able to accompany her husband around and share the pressure of the family for him in this war-torn era.
Finally, Zhang Huilan's sincerity still touched Yang Hucheng, and the two also had their common child Yang Zhengren.
Now can be said to be Zhang Huilan's happiest moment. Although he and Yang Hucheng still gather less and leave more, they always have a beautiful vision of having a life of flesh and blood.
But soon an event that shocked China and foreign countries shattered all her illusions.
(Xie Baozhen and her four daughters)
After the defeat of the National Revolution, Yang Hucheng, who was on the cusp of the storm, cooperated more closely with the Chinese Communist Party.
He saw the future and hope of China in the Communist Party, and even intended to apply to become a Communist Party member.
To this end, Yang Hucheng is plotting a shocking plan with Zhang Xueliang.
These days, Yang Hucheng was busy with military affairs and neglected to take care of his family, so that he and Xie Baozhen's son Yang Zhengya unfortunately died, Yang Zhengmin was also seriously ill and hospitalized, and Yang Zhengkun also broke his leg because of naughtiness.
All the family burdens fell on Zhang Huilan's shoulders.
Yang Hucheng was full of guilt for Zhang Huilan. He originally wanted Zhang Huilan to come to his side to enjoy the blessings, but he did not want his family to be messed up by himself, and Zhang Huilan was even more guilty.
Zhang Huilan smiled, or the old saying: "With me, you can rest assured to go!" ”
Yang Hucheng left to accomplish something that would change the fate of China's life and death—the Xi'an Incident broke out.
In order to ensure his mother's safety, Yang Hucheng sent someone to take Sun Yilian to his side.
Mrs. Sun complained about her son's arrogance:
Since he had offended Chiang Kai-shek, he should not have let him go, and he should not have been so confused by eating rice for a few more years than Zhang Xueliang, only waiting to be retaliated against.
She was so angry that she was sick.
At the same time, Xie Baozhen was recuperating in Beiping, and the family affairs could only keep Zhang Huilan busy first.
(Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng in the Xi'an Incident)
She had to take care of both her husband and her mother-in-law, so much so that yang Zhengren, her own flesh and bones, who had scarlet fever, did not know.
It was too late to find out, and yang Zhengren had just been sent to the hospital and he lost his breath.
This heavy blow made Zhang Huilan, a woman with a strong will, unable to bear it, and her spirit was also insane.
Yang Hucheng's heart was like a knife. Because he could not take Huilan out for medical treatment freely during the special period, he had to let Xie Baozhen and Yang Zhengmin, who were far away in Beiping, return.
Yang Hucheng told Yang Zhengmin that the one he was most sorry for was Huilan's mother, who had paid too much for him over the years, but he couldn't do anything to help her.
Subsequently, Yang Hucheng arranged for Yang Zhengmin to take Zhang Huilan out to seek medical treatment.
Before leaving, Yang Hucheng saw Zhang Huilan sitting in a wheelchair still mentally confused, and he could no longer hold back tears.
It is said that the boy has gold under his knees, but Yang Hucheng "poofed" in front of his son and knelt down to Zhang Huilan:
"Hui Lan, just go like this, Tiger City can't stand you!"
(Young Yang Zhengmin)
Yang Hucheng sent Yang Zhengmin and Zhang Huilan to the railway station, and repeatedly told his son to take good care of his mother.
After that, Yang Hucheng and Xie Baozhen went abroad to investigate.
This parting between him and Zhang Huilan is actually a heavenly person who will never say goodbye...
V. "Unsung Hero"
Later, Yang Hucheng's unfortunate encounter must have been familiar to him.
After returning to China, Yang Hucheng and Xie Baozhen were imprisoned by the Kuomintang until the eve of the founding of New China, when they were secretly executed.
Even Xie Baozhen and their son Yang Zhengzhong and their daughter Yang Zhenggui, who was born in prison, were brutally murdered.
Years later, Yang Zhengmin couldn't help but sigh when talking about this past:
If it were not for Huilan's mother falling ill in time, she would have stayed behind, otherwise she would have been killed by the reactionaries when she returned from abroad with her father.
I am grateful not only for her nurturing grace, but also for saving her life.
When Yang Hucheng was imprisoned, Zhang Huilan's condition finally improved.
Yang Zhengmin got the opportunity and was taken to Yan'an by our party's underground workers to study, and married in Yan'an.
Yang Zhengkun graduated from high school under the care of Zhang Huilan, and was also encouraged by his mother to go to Yan'an to join his eldest brother and sister-in-law.
(Zhang Huilan with son Yang Zhengmin and daughter-in-law Chen Yin)
After the death of her mother-in-law Sun Yilian, Zhang Huilan devoted herself to raising Xie Baozhen's four daughters.
Before xie baozhen went abroad with her husband, she left her four daughters Yang Zhengmei, Yang Zhengying, Yang Zhenghan, and Yang Zhenglu in her mother's house.
Zhang Huilan saw that her mother's family life was difficult, so she took the initiative to take her four children home to raise them.
In addition to raising Yang Hucheng's relatives, Zhang Huilan also took Luo Peilan's relatives and Xie Baozhen's niece Xie Ji to take care of him, and raised Yang Hucheng's two nephews, Yang Zhengjin and Yang Zhengxiang, to adulthood...
Zhang Huilan, a weak woman, with her tenacious will, used her own hands to raise so many people?
She was a great wife, a great mother, a great woman!
Under Zhang Huilan's "irrigation", Yang Hucheng's six children left behind thrived.
Yang Zhengmin successively served as commander of the Military Region, vice mayor of Tianjin, and vice minister of the Building Materials Industry Department.
Yang Zhengkun, Yang Zhengmei, Yang Zhengying, and Yang Zhenghan also became CPPCC members;
Yang Zhenglu was also awarded the titles of "Good Daughter of the Party" and "Model Communist Party Member".
(Zhang Huilan and her children on the hospital bed)
Zhang Huilan's contribution to Yang Hucheng's family is greater than heaven, and she has also nurtured a large number of outstanding backbones for New China.
Are such outstanding deeds and contributions not eligible to enter the Martyrs' Cemetery? Of course eligible!
Before Zhang Huilan's death, she lay on the hospital bed and looked at the six unrelated but flesh-and-blood children around her, and for the first time made an "excessive" request to them:
"When I die, I want to... Buried by your father's side. ”
Hui lan's mother's life was too hard, although she was not their biological mother, she was more worthy of their respect than her birth mother.
To their mother's last wishes, they choked and said:
"Mother's kindness shines through the ages, we are grateful to you, and the people are grateful to you. You can't be with your father when you're alive, you must be buried together when you're dead! ”
Zhang Huilan died on February 7, 1993, at the age of 90.
Originally, after the Shaanxi provincial government received the application of Yang Hucheng's children, it was very difficult.
There are only two ways to bury Zhang Huilan and General Yang Hucheng:
The first is to bury Zhang Huilan in the martyrs' cemetery. But Zhang Huilan is not a martyr who does not meet the regulations;
The second is to move the mausoleum of General Yang out of the mausoleum, which is certainly impossible.
Under the efforts of Yang Zhengmin and other children, the provincial government was also touched by Zhang Huilan's deeds, which led to the scene at the beginning of the article.
The villagers thanked Zhang Huilan for her lifelong contribution and gave her a pair of elegy:
"A virtuous wife and a good mother respecting the elderly and caring for the young can be called Yi Fan, and they have worked hard all their lives to dedicate themselves to the country."
Yoko: "Unsung hero." ”
【Summary】
Zhang Huilan was originally a sad woman under the feudal society, and the feelings between her and Yang Hucheng were inevitably sad.
However, with her own efforts, she tried her best to relieve Yang Hucheng's worries, trained Yang Hucheng's children to become excellent party members, and indirectly made outstanding contributions to the Chinese revolution.
Her whole life was burning herself, warming others, and was a great woman of that era.
"Unsung hero" is the best interpretation of her life.