Source: Historian's Teahouse
A general under the command of Zhou Gong
In 1938, when the spring was cold, a handsome and thin man returned to Hong Kong from France, who was the talented man of Tsinghua University that year, surnamed Qiao and named Guanhua. Earlier, the young man, who was not yet 25 years old, passed the doctoral examination in Germany, the kingdom of philosophy. But this gentleman didn't get the degree in hand, and he had returned to his homeland. The young man declined the invitation of his mentor, Jin Yuelin, and instead of going to Kunming's top university like his classmate Qian Zhongshu, he stayed in Hong Kong.
Soon, he became the region's premier observer of international issues and a "tree" for a while. Its international commentary, with literary brilliance, thought, passion, and high level, is eye-catching, and even the No. 1 person in Yan'an is quite favored by it.
This young man is working a small island the size of a palm, in fact, all of this seems to be here for something. Why? It wasn't until one day in the autumn of 1942 that the clouds were cleared. "Comrade Qiao Mu, you're finally here!" a pair of powerful hands stretched out. Looking at the chief figure of the Southern Bureau of the Communist Party of China, Qiao Guanhua was a little inexplicably moved. The first meeting at No. 50 Zengjiayan in Chongqing left a deep impression on Qiao Guanhua.
Qiao traveled from Hong Kong to Chongqing this time through the "five thousand miles of clouds and moons", during which he had brushed shoulders with death more than once, and it was a great luck to be able to come to Zhou Enlai's side. Zhou Gong learned that Qiao had a stomach upset, Lou Shanguan overturned the car, and he was tired of saddle horses all the way, but he instructed like an elder: "You have to rest more, I am afraid that my stomach is sick, I must check and treat, and I will talk about work problems later." ”
During the break, Qiao went to Zengjiayan several times, and here, he also met many characters, such as Dong Biwu and Guo Moruo. Qiao and Dong are first acquaintances, and Guo is reunited - Qiao Guanhua certainly remembers that their first meeting was in Dongyang a few years ago.
In 1942, the "Xinhua Daily" was revised in accordance with the spirit of rectification, and Zhou Enlai appointed Qiao Guanhua as an editorial board member and editor-in-chief of the "International Review".
It was in Chongqing that Joe began to show his skills. On November 19, 1942, Xinhua Daily published an international review called "All Roads Lead to Rome, Berlin, and Tokyo," which brilliantly analyzed the situation in World War II and compared Tojo's clamor in the Japanese parliament to "a small mouse born on Mount Tai, which took a lot of effort, but the results were extremely pitiful." Since then, the name "Yu Huai" has become a frequent visitor to the column.
For several years, it appeared here almost every two weeks. At the end of his second commentary, "Spring Tide", the author suddenly came to the fore: "As long as there are osmanthus flowers in the north and south, the laurel crown should be worn on the head of the great Soviet Red Army." During this period, in addition to focusing on international commentary, Qiao also took time to work at the "Mass Weekly" in Hualongqiao in the suburbs as much as possible, or participated in the activities of the foreign affairs group. In addition, Qiao also translated Feuerbach's Theses and Shelley's poem "Hope", and contributed to the magazine "Hope" edited by Hu Feng.
During this period, his international reviews frequently caused a sensation, such as "The Situation is Stronger Than People" and "People Create the Situation...... In 1945, the Battle of Luzon opened a new page in the history of the war. When victory was in sight, Qiao Guanhua also wrote more brilliantly, "Welcoming People's Spring", "Can No Longer Delay", "The Road to Crimea" and so on came out successively. The latter said: "No one can predict when the flood behind this floodgate will overflow, still less can it predict which floodgate will seize and come out? This is a historical floodgate; this side of the floodgate is the power of the people, and on the other side of the gate is the people's mortal enemy, and the sky above the gate shines with the people's century."
This is a magnificent painting of the past and the present, and this is a fateful struggle, so when will this struggle begin?" Later, Master Qiao's self-said to himself: "I often think of Qu Yuan's two sentences: 'Ascend to the Nine Heavens and Fu the Comet, and the Long Sword embraces Young Ai'. ...... Fascist wars are like us sweeping away the filth of the world with a broom star in the sky and raising our swords to protect the new era. ...... It's not interesting to write dry articles. ”
In just one or two years, Qiao Guanhua has become a powerful pen under Zhou Gong. Also deeply valued by Zhou Gong are Xia Yan, Chen Jiakang and Hu Cheng. They are all the backbone writers of Xinhua Daily. They were once nicknamed the "Four Great Talents," and as soon as this theory spread, they were immediately criticized by Zhou Gong: They must not have gang tendencies, they must not be arrogant in their talents, and they must unite their comrades. This quickly became history, but it left a faint trace on 1943.
Qiao Guanhua in the Chongqing period relied on blessings and misfortunes. The so-called disaster is that there was a serious illness and almost no cure. The so-called blessing is that because of this serious illness, he finally shook a woman's heart. This woman is Zhou Enlai's English secretary Gong Peng. For this reason, Mao Zedong, who came to Chongqing to negotiate, specially joked: "The two of you are 'born beautiful and beautiful Shuangfeiyan, and thousands of miles of marriage are involved in the revolution'!" In the 27 years since, they have both appeared on the same stage. The following year, their eldest son was born, perhaps neither of them could have imagined that this child would be the successor to their diplomatic career.
In 1945, when the number one person in Yan'an came to Chongqing, he also brought his secretary Hu Qiaomu with him. In this way, a northern arbor, a southern arbor, one is Mao Zedong's personal secretary, and the other is Zhou Enlai's celebrity, and when they meet together, the problem comes. Nanqiao and Beiqiao are both Yancheng villagers and old friends of Tsinghua University, so they can say anything, but the name of "Qiaomu" is both poetic and influential, who is willing to give it up? Therefore, Mao Zedong asked Beiqiao to restore the surname Hu and let Nanqiao restore his original name, so a Hu Qiaomu and a Qiao Guanhua were distinguished in this way. It's just that Qiao Guanhua was quite unconvinced by this, and said to Hu Feng's wife Mei Zhi in the future: "Hu Qiaomu snatched the name 'Qiaomu' from my original name, which is really annoying." Of course, it is impossible for Qiao Guanhua to know at this time that after he returns to Beijing in the future, he will still be under the command of this person who called him "angry" (General Administration of Press and Publication).
It was also during the Chongqing period that there was a big and small turmoil between Qiao Guanhua and Hu Feng, that is, the discussion on the issue of "national form". In this discussion, Hu Feng once again demonstrated his "tough guy style", but this became a lingering hidden danger in his future career.
At that time, the Southern Bureau was directly in charge of the situation in the vast areas of central and southwestern China, that is, the main areas (middle and upper reaches) of the entire Yangtze River Basin, and corresponded to Yan'an, which led the Yellow River City (middle and upper reaches). Therefore, Chongqing, Kunming, Changsha, Wuhan, Chengdu, Guilin, Hong Kong, etc., were almost all under the direct control of Zhou Gong. At this time, almost all the scientific research institutions of famous universities and most of the high-level intellectuals gathered here. This means that in the future, most of the intellectual elites and members of the school department will come out of here, come from Zhou Gong, and become celebrities from all walks of life. For example, the "Guo, Mao, Ba, Lao, Cao" in the literary world and four of the "Five Great Marxist Historians" (Guo, Qian, Lü, and Hou) are all here.
Two superstars of the foreign affairs system
After working underground in Hong Kong, Qiao Guanhua finally returned to Beiping. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Qiao served as deputy director of the General Office of the Government Council, and also deputy director of the Foreign Policy Committee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Since then, Qiao, who is only 36 years old, has stepped onto the diplomatic stage of New China, representing the most populous country on the world stage.
The first major activity of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was to attend the United Nations Security Council in December 1950 to discuss the issue of the Chinese government's accusation of armed aggression against Taiwan by the United States. Qiao Guanhua appeared on the same occasion as his teacher, Chiang Kai-shek's representative and former professor of history at Tsinghua University.
The latter involuntarily spoke in authentic English from beginning to end. Wu Xiuquan, a Confucian general personally ordered by Zhou Enlai, immediately asked to speak, and after receiving permission, he said: "I don't know if this speaker is Chinese, and a Chinese does not use Chinese to speak at international conferences, is he still qualified to be a Chinese?" There was a lot of commotion at the meeting, and Jiang's face was flushed. It's just that I don't know how Qiao Guanhua feels about this situation.
The second big move came quickly, and that was the negotiation of an armistice in Korea. At the end of June 1951, Zhou Enlai personally ordered the generals and designated Vice Foreign Ministers Li Kenong and Qiao Guanhua to participate in the armistice negotiations. Shi Zai: Before going to the DPRK, the Supreme Leader personally met with Li and Qiao and had a long conversation on the issue of negotiations. At the beginning of July, before everyone left, Zhou Gong also repeatedly explained: "Do what you should do, stop at what you can't stop." After the negotiations began, the Volunteer Army was divided into three lines: on the first line was Deng Hua (deputy commander) and Xie Fang (chief of staff), who directly negotiated with the United States and South Korea; on the second line, Qiao Guanhua, who was responsible for implementing the spirit of the central authorities' instructions and putting forward specific negotiation plans; and on the third line was Li Kenong. For the sake of safety, Li Kenong was called "captain" and Qiao Guanhua was called "instructor".
Here, this Qiao "instructor" lives alone in a small courtyard, and there is a Lingxiao flower in the courtyard, so he calls himself "the owner of Lingxiao Hall". The US plane has attacked many times, and the owner of the museum has been repeatedly in danger, but he has "stood still". However, in the early autumn of the peninsula, I occasionally felt cool, and the owner of the museum wrote a letter to Wang Bingnan, director of the General Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, an old friend:
Brother Bingnanren: Autumn is in the middle of the year, winter clothes have not yet arrived, and the northeast is just around the corner, so why not consider it? If we send a special envoy here, why don't we consider it? Could it be that materialism has degenerated to this point?...... Remembering Premier Zhou, cherishing Chairman Mao, and sending a message to those who have a heart, they should send winter clothes.
For an armistice negotiation that has attracted the attention of the world, the owner of the Qiao Pavilion was able to use a small limerick poem, which was really a very graceful and suave thing, quite like the old Zhou Gongjin's "talking and laughing, and the tree was wiped out". The Ministry of Foreign Affairs can be said to be one of the most brilliant units in the central ministries and commissions, however, it is here that there are very few people who can stand out from Qiao's right. It was also here that the careful and thoughtful Duke of Zhou arranged for Qiao's wife Gong Peng to visit relatives in North Korea, and soon the two had the advent of their son-in-law, named "Songdu", which means that Songshan was pregnant and born in the capital.
In 1954, the negotiation struggle finally ended. Joe returned to China and embarked on a new journey, namely two heavyweight conferences: the Geneva Conference and the Bandung Conference.
As for the "Cultural Revolution", in this era of "from chaos to great governance", "Master Qiao" began an extremely brilliant diplomatic career with his rare talent and opportunities.
It is reported that in the early days of the "Cultural Revolution", the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was quite quiet for a time. It was only on September 9 of that year that the revolution at the mouth of foreign affairs escalated. The rebels showed their might. Qiao Dun became the target of the two factions, and every day he had to write an "ideological report" to the rebels, and he also wrote his own "review" and posted it in big-character posters. There was a time when Joe's house was raided and he was sent out on the street by the rebels to sell newspapers.
At the end of 1968, when the international situation changed, Qiao Guanhua resumed his work and devoted himself to intense foreign affairs activities. In 1971, China's diplomatic efforts made significant progress and began its honeymoon period with the United States.
This year, US presidential special envoy Henry Kissinger visited China again. Qiao Guanhua went out again and contacted his "old friend" (both of whom are doctors), and this time it went well. On 26 October, when Kissinger was about to leave for China, Zhou Enlai made an exception and said happily in English: "Doctor, you are welcome to come back soon and share the pleasure of the talks!" Qiao accompanied Kissinger to the airport in a Hongqi car, and on the way, he deliberately asked: "Doctor, do you think that China will be able to resume its seat in this year's UN General Assembly? At present, the UN General Assembly is voting on this!" The doctor said without hesitation: "I don't think you will be able to enter the UN General Assembly this year!" Qiao laughed. In fact, on the way to the State Guesthouse, Qiao learned the "latest and best" news from Zhou Gong.
On the same day, Ji Pengfei received a telegram from the United Nations, inviting the Chinese delegation to attend the 26th session of the United Nations General Assembly. In the afternoon, when Zhou Enlai and others were holding a meeting in the Great Hall of the People, Wang Hairong walked in and said: Chairman Mao said, please Prime Minister, Ye Shuai, Minister Ji, Minister Qiao, Xiong Xianghui, Zhang Wenjin, and me and Tang Wensheng, go to him now.
During this meeting, the Supreme Leader said: We will send a delegation and let Master Qiao be the head of the delegation. Master Qiao knows several foreign languages, can write articles, and has good eloquence, and he is the head of the regiment.
Qiao Guanhua had just experienced the pain of losing his wife, and he was hand-picked, so he was ordered to lead the group. The day before his departure, on the evening of November 8, Mao Zedong summoned relevant people to give repeated guidance. Zhou Enlai reminded him: Chinese delegates should wear Mao suits, not suits, you represent China!
At the meeting, Qiao Guanhua had a verbal exchange with Malik, a representative of the former Soviet Union. Ma attacked China and the United States for "engaging in a wonderful duet of negaminiism" on the issue of disarmament, saying that "China's leaders have turned everything upside down in pursuit of their own narrow goals." Ma made such a bad remark, which shocked many representatives of Asia, Africa and Latin America. Qiao Shi stood up unhurriedly, walked up to the podium, and began his majestic speech: "Who is singing and making peace with US imperialism? In the north of China, a large number of Soviet armed forces, including rocket troops, are stationed in the Mongolian People's Republic; in the east of China, the United States maintains many military bases and nuclear bases in Japan and Okinawa. Does this count as a duet?
The Soviet leaders believe that only what the United States and the Soviet Union say is counted, and what is this not a duet?" The Soviet deputies said to others that the Soviet Union was not a superpower, but their speeches vividly showed the face of a superpower riding on the heads of others to claim hegemony and point fingers. "The Soviet representatives were probably accustomed to being old men in their little world, and they thought that no matter what they said, others had to listen, otherwise they would be anti-Soviet. Distinguished representatives of the USSR, you are wrong. This is not anti-Soviet, this is against the chauvinistic attitude of your great powers, against your social-imperialist policy. "The Chinese just don't buy your accounts." Your baton is gone, and the days of superpower domination of the world are over. ”
At the end of the speech, there was thunderous applause. Ma was refuted incoherently, and after coming to the stage, he just waved his arms frantically, and Qiao Guanhua, who was already in the audience, laughed, leaving Ma stunned. A journalist captured the scene, and since then, a photograph titled "Joe's Laughter" has been circulated in the history of world photography.
Returning from the United Nations, Joe was busy preparing for Nixon's event, followed by the negotiations on the joint communiqué. For the Sino-US "Shanghai Communiqué", Qiao Guanhua put a lot of effort into it. This communiqué has also become a classic document in the history of world diplomacy and international relations.
In the same year, Qiao Guanhua participated in the negotiations on the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Japan. Since then, the road has been smooth, and there are no dangers. In 1973, Joe was elected as a member of the "Big Ten" Central Committee, and in the same year, Joe, who had been single for 3 years, captured the heart of another woman. The year of the sixtieth year is the groom, and the infinite scenery Qiao Guanhua. The following year, Qiao asked to be the director of the Chinese Liaison Office in the United States, and the leader said: "You know too much, it is not appropriate to be the ambassador to the United States." Qiao immediately took over the helm of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Xiao Qiao's name before and after his death
However, all this also corresponds to the sentence: the extremes of things must be reversed, and the moon is full and lost.
Around 1975, Zhou Gong's illness became increasingly serious, and Qiao's opportunities to meet him became less and less. Coupled with all kinds of changes, he had a certain uneasiness in his heart. On the morning of January 8, 1976, there was a special commotion in the Beijing Hospital. Soon, Qiao Guanhua knew that the leader who had always cared for him had been separated forever, so in the cold and windy Beijing in mid-January, in the big hall with the door open, Qiao Guanhua, who had been tired for a week, insisted on keeping Zhou Enlai's spirit for three days, and finally was admitted to the hospital due to excessive fatigue and wind chill and high fever.
In June of that year, the "Gang of Four" had a large number of Qiao Guanhua. When Qiao Guanhua returned from attending the UN General Assembly, he felt that everything had changed over the years. On October 6, the "Gang of Four" was arrested. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has put up a large number of big-character posters exposing and criticizing the "Gang of Four", and some of them directly mention Qiao's name. The picture "How did the Empress of the Red Capital come out?" is particularly shocking. On October 17, Qiao Guanhua, who had just returned to China, was unimpressed: "Defeating the 'Gang of Four' is a big deal, and it doesn't matter if I am personally censored." We have bugs, too!" and said, "I'll check for the bugs I should check." What should be made clear will also be made clear. Soon, however, the relevant authorities found a list in Wang Hongwen's home, and everything was unclear.
It was a list of cabinet formations, drawn up by Jiang Qing, Zhang Chunqiao, and Yao Wenyuan, with Wang Hongwen's handwriting corrected on it. According to this list, Qiao Guanhua, who was originally only a member of the Central Committee, is about to be promoted to a member of the Politburo by leaping to the next level, which is not insignificant. As soon as the list came out, the situation changed drastically, and Qiao was "naturally" reviewed by the central task force. On November 11, Qiao Guanhua met with the new Mongolian ambassador to China to discuss the submission of credentials. This was Qiao Guanhua's last foreign affairs activity and the end of his diplomatic career. Coincidentally, Qiao Guanhua, who retired from his ministerial post, really got a new post - the Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries. According to the above list, this unit should be under the rule of his wife Zhang Han.
Everyone was puzzled: How could Qiao Guanhua be like this? Yu Gong, Zhou Gong is his leader, and he is the pillar of the state; Yu Private, Zhou Gong is his protector and his mentor and friend. He was able to grow from a journalist to a diplomatic star, and how much effort Zhou Gong had put in! How could he be like this to his benefactor! However, the ironclad evidence is so, what can I say now!
Since then, Qiao's career overturned, lingered on the sickbed, and finally died. After Qiao's court was snubbed, old friends from that year began to visit one after another: Xia Yan, Feng Yidai, Zheng Anna and his wife, Huang Miaozi Yufeng and his wife, Wu Zuguang and Xin Fengxia and his wife...... However, opponents from all sides also began to take advantage of the situation to grab braids, buckle hats, and beat sticks, which made Qiao's overwhelmed. Fortunately, thanks to the concern of Deng Xiaoping and other comrades, Qiao's family was still able to provide for his old age and receive medical treatment for his illness.
On the afternoon of September 21, 1983, a leader visited Qiao Guanhua in the hospital on behalf of the Central Committee, and Zhang Hanzhi leaned into his ear and said: "Do you have anything to say to the Central Committee?" Qiao Guanhua just smiled and said to the old comrade-in-arms: "Thank you for coming to see me." Then he turned his head sideways and said to Zhang Hanzhi: "Don't say it, don't say anything." Two days later, the fourth page of the People's Daily published a telegram:
Beijing, 22 Sep (Xinhua) -- Comrade Qiao Guanhua, adviser to the Chinese Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, died in Beijing at 10:40 a.m. today at the age of 70 due to lung cancer.
This is true of the full text of the obituary. More than 40 words.
Qiao's long-time colleagues Zhang Wenjin and Zhou Ying are very familiar with Qiao. When Zhou Ying (then political counsellor in Canada) recalled Qiao Guanhua's remarks in the spring of 1975, he still remembered that he had said: Jiang Qing's leadership of the "Cultural Revolution" was highly praised and reused; and you also know the current situation of the "Cultural Revolution" that Premier Zhou was seriously ill and seemed to be dying soon.
Looking at history, we have to admit that history and human nature do have their dark side. It is not advisable to criticize officials with moralism, especially to criticize literati with "shamelessness". But we still have to respect history and face humanity head-on. Even if they are celebrities and great people, they are still human beings, and they have their own limitations. Qiao's career in his later years was bumpy, in addition to personality reasons, there are probably personality reasons?
"The Last Celebrity" and others
Since ancient times, talented people have been amorous. Qiao Guanhua is an official, but he is also a poet and literati. Love, especially in this generation.
Qiao Shi has been associated with three women in his life, and his first love is pianist Yao Jinxin. Yao's family is no longer a Yang person, but his brother Yao Yilin is a man of the year in the future. Yao and Qiao Tonggeng were admitted to the Department of Foreign Languages of Tsinghua University in 1930 (Qiao was one level higher). At that time, Tsinghua University enrolled only more than 200 students every year, and there were only 120 female students.
is such a school flower, Qiao Guanhua has no reason not to know her name. But history is often a joke: the two have been in the same school for three years, and they never know each other. When I really got to know each other, it was in Hong Kong in 1940. Qiao and Yao staged "Love in a Fallen City", but fell in love with each other to no avail. Yao went abroad and married Chen Shixiang, a former top student of Peking University and a famous American scholar in the future. It's just that the two were not happy after marriage, and when Yao returned to China later, Qiao's was already a celebrity in foreign affairs.
It was his second lover who became Qiao's original partner - Gong Peng. Coincidentally, the year Qiao graduated, Gong was also admitted to Yenching University, which is separated by a wall from Tsinghua University. Although Gong Peng was in Yanyuan, among the comrades-in-arms who participated in the revolution with her back then, there was a talented student from Tsinghua University named Yao Yilin. Gong's first husband, Liu Wenhua, like Qiao, is also a young man studying in Germany. In the future, Liu became Zhu De's secretary, and she herself became Zhou Gong's secretary. Gong Peng's sister Gong Pusheng and brother-in-law Zhang Hanfu will also be Qiao's old colleagues in the future.
Gong Peng is as beautiful as a celestial person. During the Chongqing period, even after she became "Qiao Gong", there were countless young Americans who bent their waists for her. In the future, Gong Peng became the chief spokesman of the foreign affairs system with his first-class foreign language skills, and he was the leader of the crowd regardless of his talent, temperament or appearance.
It's a pity that Gong Peng died young, leaving Master Qiao, who was in the prime of life, alone and empty. The second lady, Zhang Hanzhi, appeared with him. It is worth mentioning that it is also this Mrs. Zhang. In the year of marriage, Qiao Chu was promoted to the sixtieth year, and there were eight chapters in thirty. For the sake of this year-old love, Qiao Guanhua let it go. The result of the marriage between Qiao and Zhang, in Qiao, was the father and son turning against each other, colleagues entangled, and he was even quite dissatisfied with Deng Ying's super sister.
Looking at it now, among Joe's three lovers, Zhang is probably neither the most talented nor the most beautiful, but he is the most famous. There is no other reason, the Zhang family has an abnormal family background, and there is a wonderful pen that can produce flowers. This member of the Chinese Writers Association, after fading out of the front line, has been reminiscing about the passing years for 20 years, and has attracted the world's attention with reminiscences, "Me and Qiao Guanhua", "The Years Drifting with the Wind", "Wind and Rain - Remembering Father, Remembering Chairman, Remembering Guanhua" has come out successively, creating a beautiful aura for it, especially "Crossing the Thick Red Door" has brought a rare reputation to the author.
Qiao and Zhang's year-old love has also been interpreted as the modern reincarnation of "Liang Zhu". All the writings on this matter in the following decades were played according to this caliber. So much so that many famous players who have always had insight into the inside affairs of the high-level also said that this "confidante" "used the pen of pear blossoms with tears" to "defend and avenge grievances" for Qiao. In fact, there is no "falsehood" in the inside, so how can there be "arguments"?
It is precisely because of this wonderful pen that Zhang's attention to the present as a "celebrity in the last days". However, history has proved that the more popular the characters are during their lifetime, the easier it is to break out after their deaths. How many characters with a divine halo will inevitably lose their "divine" nature and reveal their true "human" nature after being invited to the altar.
In January 2008, almost 70 years after Qiao Guanhua returned from Europe, Zhang finally did not cross the "thick red door". After that, a long article called "Unbearable to Look Back: Before and After My Divorce with Zhang Hanzhi" was published in Hong Kong's "Ta Kung Pao". As soon as this article came out, it became a sensation. Although this article has no beginning and no end, it unveils the tip of the iceberg. The author, Hong Junyan, like Qiao Shiyuan and Gong Peng, was born in Yanjing. There is obviously too much contrast between Zhang Hanzhi seen by Hong Wen and Zhang Hanzhi, a well-known public figure in the world. How difficult it is to "know people and talk about the world"!
In fact, all this is not known until the "coffin is covered". Reading his previous texts, especially "Crossing the Thick Red Door", it seems that it is not difficult to glimpse the author's unspeakable secrets. In "Wind and Rain", the author admits that when Zhou Gong was most helpless, she "said things against her will, did things against her will, and hurt good people for the sake of her own survival and 'future'". As for what was said and done, only the person concerned knows.
Husband and wife are birds of the same fate. Qiao Guanhua is not like this. "Just after Kissinger left Beijing, a political catastrophe finally happened. The movement that lasted until the spring of the following year (1974) involved Qiao Guanhua. At a meeting in the Great Hall of the People, Qiao Guanhua was dazed by the surging turbidity waves, and he said things against his will, exposing and criticizing Zhou Enlai's so-called right-leaning mistakes in the negotiations on the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States and China and Japan.
In the autumn of 1975, Qiao Guanhua went to the 305 Hospital to report to Zhou Enlai, and took this opportunity to analyze his cowardice to Zhou Enlai and admit that his speech at that meeting was wrong. Zhou Enlai said very tolerantly: "You can't be blamed for this, that's the general situation, everyone has talked about it." He was forgiven by Zhou Enlai. (Cao Jinjie's "Literary and Merry Tales "Er Qiao").
This matter is basically not bad, but it is inevitable that there is a suspicion of avoiding the important and trivial: In 1974, Master Qiao had already passed the age of sixties, read countless people, and "went through the wind and rain and saw the world" a lot, and he had already had a good understanding of personnel disputes and the ups and downs of the Huan Sea.
Now that the deceased are long gone, what can future generations say? With regard to history, we should have "sympathy for understanding" and warmth and respect; we should also return history to the truth and celebrities to their humanity, and we should not arbitrarily exalt and exalt the meaning of beauty. Thinking that "once you are a celebrity, everything will be fine", I am afraid it is too outrageous.
It's all a thing of the past. The past is not a dusty one, but we will eventually look forward. Freeze history again in 1938, the ambitious baby doctor, the moment he stepped off the sea ship, looked at the northern sky. Indeed, at that time, he was bathed in the spring breeze of the south.