On March 20, 1974, the magnificent Zhang Qian died in Beijing, and everyone may not know much about her identity, but when it comes to her husband, everyone knows it, that is, the founding marshal of the mainland - Chen Yi. The 17-year-old Zhang Qian made Marshal Chen Yi fall in love with her at first sight, and after that, Zhang Qian became famous in the diplomatic circle, known as the "First Lady of China's Diplomacy", but unfortunately died at the age of 52.
Growing up beautiful and extremely talented, Zhang Qian's life is enviable
On June 11, 1922, Zhang Qian was born in an ordinary family in Wuhan, in that era of extremely serious patriarchal thinking, how did Zhang Qian grasp her life step by step? Three times in a row, ask for attention. Logically, Zhang Qian should be like most girls who are poisoned by the idea of favoring sons over daughters, living a life that she cannot control, but fortunately, her parents are very open-minded and have sent her to study and school since she was a child.
After receiving the baptism of cultural knowledge, Zhang Qian began to decide the life she wanted, in school, she did not live up to the ardent hopes of her parents and teachers, her achievements were outstanding, and in addition to this, she also actively participated in anti-Japanese activities, she often took to the streets to support some anti-Japanese marches, it can be said that at this time, a seed for the country and the people sprouted in Zhang Qian's heart. However, because she was worried about her daughter's safety, Zhang Qian's parents locked her up after fruitless persuasion and did not allow her to participate in the parade again.
But Zhang Qian was willing to do this, even if she was locked up, she often sneaked out to support such activities, and joined her long-cherished team, the New Fourth Army. With her outstanding appearance and outstanding talent, Zhang Qian was soon warmly welcomed in the army and became a "baby knot" in the army, so that she was naturally not assigned to the front line by the organization, but sent to a post-war service regiment.
Although the conditions in the regiment were a little difficult, but also did not let Zhang Qian suffer a little grievance, the regiment also sent her a professional acting teacher, responsible for teaching her to learn acting every day, Zhang Qian with hard work and talent, soon came to the fore, became the fastest to learn in the regiment and the performance is also the best "star", since then, the organization often sent her to the first line of anti-Japanese propaganda to perform, but also by the generals warmly welcomed, at that time almost everyone knew that there was a big beauty in the anti-Japanese propaganda team.
Due to the influence of new ideas, Zhang Qian has an instinctive resistance to traditional arranged marriages, she has always insisted that love and fate must be in her own hands, so for her parents' arrangements and the pursuit of others, she has not compromised or accepted, has been doing things according to her own ideas and planning her own life, but the most interesting thing in life is that no one knows what will happen below, there will always be some people or some things to disrupt your plan, Zhang Qian is not surprised.
Marshal Chen Yi fell in love with Zhang Qian at first sight, and the intersection of the two began
In a performance during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in the last century, Zhang Qian met the most important person in her life and began her legendary life. Three times in a row, ask for attention. This person's name can be said to be unknown to everyone, and he is the famous founding marshal of the mainland - Chen Yi.
At that time, Chen Yi was not as prestigious as later, but he also became a small famous figure at that time with the achievements of the New Fourth Army in the anti-Japanese battle, one was outstanding and extremely talented, the other was a very famous anti-Japanese general, Zhang Qian and Chen Yi, how to see that they were both talented women, a match made in heaven, but in fact, their love was not so smooth, but encountered some small setbacks.
After watching the performance at the Chen Clan Ancestral Hall, Chen Yi fell in love with Zhang Qian at first sight, so he took pains to contact Zhang Qian, and then he found Zhu Kejing, who was the leader of the field service group at that time, and wanted to ask him for some information about Zhang Qian.
He said that this kind of chasing girls should be done by himself, and he can't use his power to oppress others, and he has to say that Chen Yi is still a careful man who understands this aspect very well. He also said to Zhu Kejing, if you really want to help, then help introduce it. Zhu Kejing did so, but he was afraid that Chen Yi would wait too long, and he was afraid that there would be other changes in the middle, so he took it upon himself to tell Zhang Qian directly about Chen Yi's love for Zhang Qian.
Zhang Qian knew that there was no god in an instant, and she didn't know what kind of feelings she had for Chen Yi, like worship and like, in this tangled situation, Zhang Qian did not give Chen Yi an accurate reply, so this matter was delayed for a long time. During this time, Chen Yi was not very panicked, he clearly knew that feelings could not be forced to come, giving each other a little time and space to buffer, just like the War of Resistance Against Japan at that time, this was bound to be a "protracted war".
So Chen Yi continued to write letters to Zhang Qian to express his love, but due to the reason of identity, Zhang Qian did not want others to say some gossip through this, so he found the leader, and wanted the leader to tell Chen Yi not to write letters again, his age was still young, and he did not consider the matter of feelings at present, but at this time, one of her friends knew about it, let her think about it again, don't draw conclusions so early, you can try to communicate with Chen Yi more, it is not suitable to communicate before you can know.
So Zhang Qian decided to talk to Chen Yi first. According to legend, that time their conversation lasted for 8 hours, Chen Yi told Zhang Qian about his life experience and emotional life, seeing Chen Yi so pushing his heart, Zhang Qian also began to resist Chen Yi as before. The turning point in their emotional road is also due to one thing, in a performance, because the performance needs to use the military coat, but there was no regiment at that time, the regiment leader let Zhang Qian borrow from Chen Yi, and there was no other way, Zhang Qian had to borrow.
Chen Yi very cheerfully agreed, lent the military coat to Zhang Qian, when sorting out the clothes after the performance, Zhang Qian found that there was a note in the pocket of the military coat, she took it out and looked at it, it said "Zan Chunlan" three words, and who is Chunlan? Yes, it is Zhang Qian's nickname, and this nickname others do not know, see here, Zhang Qian was deeply moved, in the future time, Chen Yi "hit the iron while it was hot", wrote a lot of letters and love poems to Zhang Qian to express his love.
In this way, under the very natural development, Chen Yi and Zhang Qian finally came together. In 1940, Chen Yi and Zhang Qian got married, and because Chen Yi was busy with work, they gathered less and left more, until the liberation of the whole country, Chen Yi became the mayor of Shanghai, and the two of them were able to stay together for a long time. Later, Chen Yi became the minister of foreign affairs, so Zhang Qian had the title of "First Diplomatic Lady".
After the long run of love, Chen Yi finally embraced the beauty, and the love of "Divine Eagle Hero" was enviable
Everyone knows that Zhang Qian's nickname of "China's First Diplomatic Lady" is due to Chen Yi being the foreign minister at the time, but then Zhang Qian really began to engage in diplomatic work. Three times in a row, ask for attention. Zhang Qian has always been engaged in acting work, especially after liberation, Zhang Qian wanted to go to Beijing to complete her dream of drama, but Chen Yi told her that he thought she had the potential to be a diplomat and wanted her to work in diplomacy in the future, but Zhang Qian was unwilling to give up her dream of drama and rejected Chen Yi.
Seeing that the persuasion was fruitless, Chen Yi found a helper - Song Qingling, he asked Song Qingling to help him persuade Zhang Qian to engage in diplomatic work in the future, Song Qingling agreed and then went to find Zhang Qian, probably due to better communication between women, after some persuasion by Song Qingling, Zhang Qian decided to give up her dream of acting and turn to diplomatic work. In 1958, Chen Yi wanted to meet with the ambassadors of various countries in China at that time, but he fell ill at the end of the bone, and out of helplessness, he had to let his wife Zhang Qian meet with the ambassadors of various countries instead of himself.
After the meeting, Zhang Qian, with her fluent conversation and generous temperament, made ambassadors of various countries praise one after another, and in this regard, Zhang Qian also began to formally embark on the road of diplomacy. In the follow-up diplomatic work, Chen Yi and Zhang Qian, the "divine eagle heroes", became famous. When the Cambodian prime minister visited China, the thoughtful reception of Chen Yi and his wife made the prime minister's impression of China very good, and the two sides also agreed to meet again in Cambodia at the end of the same year, and Chen Yi asked Zhang Qian to visit Cambodia on behalf of the Chinese side at that time.
Later, after the death of Marshal Chen Yi, Zhang Qian sorted out Chen Yi's articles and published them in the "Selected Poems of Chen Yi", and successive high-intensity work made Zhang Qian accumulate fatigue and eventually died in Beijing in 1974 at the age of 52. The life of Marshal Chen Yi and his wife Zhang Qian is a legendary life, their life like a "divine eagle hero" is enviable, whether in work or love, they support each other to the end, fully showing people the most beautiful love of that era.