On September 9, 1976, the great leader of the People's Republic of China, Chairman Mao Zedong, passed away, and the people of the whole country were immersed in endless grief.
However, no one expected that a month later, before people had come out of the shadow of grief, they heard a very pleasant news: the central leaders headed by Hua Guofeng and Ye Jianying smashed the Gang of Four with lightning speed, and Jiang Qing was also arrested.
When the people of the whole country were excited, an old man in Shanghai who heard this news also had a long-lost sense of relief in his heart: She was Chairman Mao Zedong's second wife, He Zizhen.
Mao Zedong's death hit He Zizhen very hard, and it took her a long time to gradually come out of her grief. The news of Jiang Qing's downfall did not make He Zizhen have any special reaction.
Shanghai, He Zizhen's former residence
Only one sentence was said: "I may be able to work, even if it is to write a memory", although this sentence is very common, but it makes people feel extremely sad, because she suppressed too much sadness and bitterness.
At this time, He Zizhen was already a sixty-seven-year-old man with white hair, and she had already passed the retirement age, and the pain left by the war made her body very weak.
He Zizhen old age photo
He Zizhen looked back at the past, decades were fleeting, she had not worked for a long time, not that she did not want to, but could not. Although she suffered from injuries and illnesses, she still looked forward to contributing to the people.
In fact, the Central Committee has never forgotten her, and in June 1979, He Zizhen was added to the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and she was exactly seventy years old that year. At that time, He Zizhen was still in the hospital, and after she learned the news, she was very excited and said with tears in her eyes: "It turns out that the party and the country have not forgotten me."
He Zizhen lived in Shanghai for nearly three decades, during which time no one from the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government never came to visit her. This time, the secretary of the municipal party committee personally visited the hospital and told her the news of becoming an additional member of the CPPCC.
This late honor undoubtedly brought hope and excitement to this old man who was in a bad mood, and made her rekindle her bleak life. He Zizhen has been forgotten for decades, and at this time he has gradually come out of the shadows.
Jiang Qing
In the days that followed, He Zizhen was in a good mood, and she not only worked hard to receive treatment, but also actively cooperated with doctors and nurses, hoping that her body could get better, and she could return to work as soon as possible to contribute to the people.
In fact, everyone knows that Jiang Qing's influence on the second half of He Zizhen's life is very large. But whether it was the darkness and silence of the past, or the light and hope of the present, He Zizhen never made any evaluation of Jiang Qing.
He Zizhen's photo in Beijing
Even now that Jiang Qing has fallen, He Zizhen still does not say a word. In the autumn of 1979, He Zizhen came to Beijing as an additional member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, which was the first time in her life that she set foot on the land of Beijing, and it was also her biggest long-cherished wish in decades.