In 1991, Meng Dongbo and his wife took a photo in front of the old house.
Meng Dongbo old house
On September 25, Meng Wanzhou returned home. Meng Wanzhou's surname comes from her mother, Meng Jun, whose grandfather was Meng Dongbo, a former director of the Ministry of Metallurgy's Infrastructure Department and vice governor of Sichuan Province. Meng Dongbo was born in Ganlu Township, Wuxi County, and his previous experiences as a teenager were in Wuxi.
The Meng family has high requirements for children's learning
The old house of the Meng family is a three-room bungalow, close to Ganlu Primary School, located on the side of the ganlu temple and the bridgehead of The Hanlin Bridge, which is a narrow and long shape of the Old House of the Qing Dynasty, which is still well preserved. At present, the Meng family has no descendants living here and is in the process of renting out.
"Impression Ganlu" is a self-media public account built by the local literature and history enthusiast group, and one of the main writers, Sun Weiguo, has combed through information related to the Meng family in several interviews. Just recently, I also went to the old house to take a look around. "Meng Dongbo's mother, Ganlu Street, is known to many people, and everyone can't call her by name, so they all call her 'Old Lady Meng.'" Sun Weiguo, who is a Ganlu person himself, has visited and verified that 'Old Lady Meng' has been living in Ganlu since liberation, and her ability is particularly strong, and she is the leader of many social activities such as local women's liberation, mutual assistance and cooperation, production and self-help, and Meng Dongbo has shown excellent activity ability and her mother's relationship when she was young.
"Old Lady Meng" usually opens a porridge shop to sell porridge, poor people come, the old lady does not charge money, in the whole Ganlu Street, the popularity is very good. It is understood that she has relatively high requirements for her children's learning and is a local family that pays great attention to "progress".
Meng Dongbo or Meng Dongpo?
Meng Dongbo is a widow, the family conditions are very difficult, his family's close neighbor is a family of lacquermakers, in 1992 Meng Dongbo once returned to Wuxi Ganlu to visit relatives and sweep the grave, specifically visited the family of Zou Gendi, who was a painter neighbor at the time, and Zou Gendi, who is 81 years old this year, has been helping the Meng family to take care of the old house for decades, cleaning the old grave every generation.
"Meng Wanzhou's mother, Meng Jun, was originally named Meng Fengming, and Meng Shuiming was Wanzhou's uncle. On April 9 this year, Meng Shuiming and several family members returned to Ganlu to visit the tomb for several days, during which they specially visited the ancient town of Dangkou, bluntly saying that their hometown had changed too much, and also visited the Lingshan Resort, Nianhua Bay, Liyuan and other places. Yu Jianming, deputy mayor of Ehu Town, Xishan District, is one of the people involved in the local reception. There is a more important reason for him to receive, that is, his mother-in-law is Zou Gendi.
Yu Jianming introduced that Meng Dongbo himself went out to participate in the revolution at the age of 17, before that, life was very hard, Zou Gendi's father often took care of his family's life, and intended to pass on the craft to Meng Dongbo. Meng Dongbo and the Zou family also kept in touch until his death. The descendants of the Meng family also know Zou Gendi. Zou Gendi met Meng Wanzhou in the compound of the Sichuan Provincial Party Committee in Chengdu many years ago, "When she was a child, she was a little chubby and very cute, and everyone called her little fat." "Meng Dongbo's descendants are very prominent, and the eldest son is the deputy director of Chengdu Customs. Zou Gendi also helped the Meng family clean up the old grave in Ganlu Yanshuizhuang this year, just next to Baimidang.
A real estate certificate related to Meng Dongbo circulating on the Internet has recently been screened, and the name of the property owner displayed on it is Meng Dongpo. So is it the East Wave or the East Slope? Yu Jianming confirmed, "It should be called Dongbo, the real estate certificate is an old certificate that has not been renewed, the location shown above is in the north hengtou lane of Ganlu Township, Xishan District, and there are Yu Guang, Meng Fengming, Meng Shuiming, Meng Diming and several "co-owners", with an area of 54.3 square meters. In the dialect of Ganlu, Dongpo and Dongbo were pronounced exactly the same, and it is not surprising that the name Dongpo is called Dongpo. (Evening News reporter Tao Jie)