In 1981, under the roots of the Imperial City in Beijing, two elderly people over half a hundred years old were dressed in tight clothes and were holding hands to visit the vegetable market. Suddenly, a cry of surprise rang out from the crowd: "Look! Isn't this our beloved Prime Minister Hua Guofeng! ”
So, all of a sudden, people came from all over and surrounded the two old men. In just a few minutes, the wet market, which was still full of shouting, was instantly transformed into a small "star-chasing meeting".
The old couple who are surrounded by people in the middle is Premier Hua Guofeng and Han Zhijun, the "first lady" who has been with him for decades.
The "First Lady" is surprisingly low-key in her daily life
When it comes to Hua Guofeng's name, for people in the 1970s and 1980s, almost everyone knows it, and everyone knows it. As the successor personally appointed by Chairman Mao, and indeed very serious and responsible for his work, in the minds of the people, Hua Guofeng has always had a very strong force for the people, and the degree of well-known naturally goes without saying much.
However, compared with Hua Guofeng's great fame in the folk, Han Zhijun, who was later crowned as the "first lady", was much less famous in terms of "fame".
The reason is nothing else, only because Han Zhijun's personality is too low-key, so in the more than 60 years of working with Hua Guofeng, Han Zhijun has always played the role of "a low-key woman hidden behind Hua Guofeng".
Why are people familiar with Han Zhijun keen to use the word "low-key" to describe her? In fact, it is not difficult to see the reason from the details of life. Since marrying Hua Guofeng at the age of 17, no matter whether Hua Guofeng's official position has become larger or smaller, Han Zhijun has always maintained a very low-key style of doing things, and has been careful and considerate to Hua Guofeng for decades.
Even after Hua Guofeng entered the State Council in 1971 and improved his status and living conditions, Han Zhijun still insisted on riding his bicycle to and from work every day, and personally prepared three meals a day for Hua Guofeng, without practicing "privilege" at all.
In this way, Hua Guofeng has no worries about developing his career outside and realizing his personal ambitions. Han Zhijun, on the other hand, runs the whole family with no complaints.
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, the two have spent the most precious 60 years of their lives hand in hand, truly proving with practical actions what is called "holding the hand of the son, and growing old with the son".
Have an 11-year-old age difference in "flash marriage" love
Looking back at the beginning of hua guofeng's and Han Zhijun's fairy-like marriage, everything has to start from Han Zhijun's performance in Luxian County in 1948. At that time, Hua Guofeng, as the director of the Propaganda Department of the LuXian Prefectural Committee, naturally undertook the task of communicating with the cultural troupe in order to coordinate the follow-up performances.
At that time, Han Zhijun, who was a member of the literary troupe, was famous for singing a good play, and he also loved women to dress up as men in the play. Therefore, during the period when the cultural troupe stayed in Luxian county to perform condolences, Han Zhijun and Hua Guofeng began to have formal contacts.
Under the familiarity, Hua Guofeng found that although the 17-year-old female doll in front of him was grinning in private, some boys had a temperament, but they could always "bring their own light" in the performance, and their eyes would always be unconsciously attracted to her.
Therefore, from this time on, the seeds of love began to sprout quietly in Hua Guofeng's heart.
On the other hand, because of the influence of his parents since childhood, Han Zhijun has always been extremely concerned about the revolutionary cause, not only joined the Communist Party at the age of 15, but also always committed to dedicating his strength to the revolution.
After marriage, Hua Guofeng's career developed step by step, and gradually grew from the propaganda director of Xiaoxiang Township to the secretary of the provincial party committee of Hunan Province and the first political commissar of the military region.
Therefore, when he heard that the third uncle wanted to introduce himself to Hua Guofeng, Han Zhijun agreed without even thinking about it.
In this way, in the case of mutual pleasure, in January 1949, the 28-year-old Hua Guofeng and Han Zhijun, who had just turned 18, officially "flashed marriage" and became a newlywed couple with an age difference of 11 years.
In the face of Hua Guofeng, who has personal ambitions in politics, Han Zhijun resolutely gave up his love for literary and artistic career in order to better assist her husband, and concentrated on becoming a housewife.
The first lady who is almost "0 presence" in the eyes of others
Compared with her husband's fame, in the eyes of others, Han Zhijun, as a wife, can be described as almost "0 sense of existence", which is not only very simple in daily life, but also extremely low-key and humble in treating people and things.
Even though her husband has been promoted to the "number one" of the provincial party committee, Han Zhijun is still like this. At first, he was not interested in making any appearances, so he rarely appeared with Hua Guofeng.
Second, in life, he also loves to "be calculating", often riding a bicycle, bargaining with the greengrocers for a dime and two corners of the offer, looking extremely "grounded".
Not only that, when He was around Hua Guofeng, Han Zhijun would also transform into her husband's "private chef". In order to make Hua Guofeng, who was born and raised in Shanxi, better adapt to life in Hunan, Han Zhijun specially studied a large number of Shanxi pasta, and finally even attracted the old chef of the unit canteen to become his "apprentice".
Han Zhijun, who has no identity shelf like this, can no wonder he will be regarded by others as a "first lady" with almost zero sense of existence.
As the days passed, Hua Guofeng, who grew older, completely faded out of the political arena and began to live a plain and simple "0 presence" life with his wife.
A righteous two sleeves of fresh wind, calm and plain ninety autumn
After all, he was once the head of the provincial party committee and a special assistant to Premier Zhou, so after Hua Guofeng retired, many people persuaded the old couple to make some demands to the state, such as upgrading some treatment or some privileges.
In the face of such a proposal, the second elder replied to everyone very calmly: The state has given us allowances, and our children have wages, so what is the use of us asking for money? What's the use of more money?
In just one sentence, the old two mouths were full of righteousness, and the attitude of the two sleeves of the breeze jumped on the paper. Even after Hua Guofeng's death in 2008, Han Zhijun, as his wife, still did not use any privileges.
Regarding the resettlement of her husband after birth, Han Zhijun very calmly stated four principles - not to occupy cultivated land, not to destroy cultural relics, not to destroy the environment, and not to fight with the people for land. It's admirable to be so bold.
From marrying Hua Guofeng at the age of 18 to now being alone at the age of 90, Han Zhijun dedicated his life to the revolution and to her husband.
Although looking back at the 59-year married life of the old couple, there is no major event that has taken place before and after the moon, but it is such a plain as water but supporting each other, and the mode of getting along with each other as a guest is enough to make the world admire.