Preface
One day in the winter of 1962, at Hu Zongnan's funeral, senior Kuomintang officials and relatives of the Hu family waited in front of the coffin covered with flags.
Hu Zongnan's two young children seem to be ignorant and ignorant of the impact of their father's death on their future lives.
At the time of the funeral, eight heavyweights carried the coffin for Hu Zongnan's coffin. Hu Zongnan's eldest son walked in front with the spiritual throne in his hand.
Although Hu Zongnan's political situation was very poor during his lifetime and his life was very poor, the treatment after his death was so grand, in comparison, it formed a very sharp contrast.
Hu Zongnan's marriage
Before Hu Zongnan became a soldier, Hu's father married a relative in his hometown. Unfortunately, soon after marriage, Mrs. Hu died of illness.
Since then, Hu Zongnan has not remarried.
During this period, Hu Zongnan's people around him recommended him many women who were well-matched. The most famous genus, during the Anti-Japanese War, Chen Lifu once introduced Kong Xiangxi's second daughter Kong Lingwei to him.
However, these two marriage lines were not connected in the end.
After that, Dai Li pushed a woman to Hu Zongnan. This woman is Hu Zongnan's fellow villager, named Ye Xiazhai.
Ye Xiazhai is more than ten years younger than Hu Zongnan. She loved to read since she was a child, and she lived away from home in junior high school, and when she went to high school, her honest parents thought that girls didn't need to read so much.
In this way, Ye Xiazhai's school expenses were cut off.
But she was still hungry for knowledge, so she had to go to a school that did not pay tuition, the Hangzhou Police Academy, and became a student of Dai Li.
Because of Ye Xiazhai's good handwriting, she received special attention from Dai Li. Dai Li is a good friend of Hu Zongnan and knows what kind of woman he likes.
Through his connection, the two didn't get along for long, and they developed a deep relationship.
originally fell in love and got married, and it came naturally. But at that time, the Anti-Japanese War broke out, and Hu Zongnan told the people around him that he would never get married if he did not drive out the Japanese.
Therefore, the marriage of the two was delayed.
She then went to the United States to study, and she received her Ph.D. in political science from the University of Wisconsin in 1944.
After the end of the Anti-Japanese War, Ye Xiazhai returned to China and taught at a university in Nanjing. For so many years, she has been single, and she has never forgotten her agreement with Hu Zongnan.
In May 1947, Hu Zongnan led a large army to occupy Yan'an. He was very proud, but he never thought that Yan'an City was given up by our army on its own initiative.
During this period, Hu Zongnan flew to Nanjing to report the good news to Chiang Kai-shek. After drinking the celebration wine, Hu Zongnan remembered that he had not yet contacted his girlfriend Ye Xiazhai.
The two made an appointment to meet by phone, and then discussed the wedding immediately.
When Hu Zongnan proposed this idea, Chiang Kai-shek was surprised. After all, the war is not over, how can Hu Zongnan, as an important general of the Kuomintang, get married at this time?
But Chiang Kai-shek pondered that Hu Zongnan was 52 years old and it was time to start a family.
In this way, Hu Zongnan hurriedly bid farewell to Chiang Kai-shek, took Ye Xiazhai from Nanjing to Xi'an, and held a wedding in Xinglongling Villa.
This villa was originally Zhang Xueliang's residence, and the interior furnishings are very luxurious.
On the third day after the wedding, Hu Zongnan said goodbye to his bride and flew back to Yan'an, while Ye Xiazhai returned to Nanjing.
In early December, Hu Zongnan became a father. The eldest son, Hu Weizhen, was born in Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital. According to relevant records, on the night Hu Weizhen was born, one of Hu Zongnan's subordinates reported the good news to Hu Zongnan by long-distance telephone, and Hu Zongnan was very happy after hearing it.
Surprisingly, Hu Zongnan did not ask about the child's situation in the first sentence, but asked: "Is Mrs. An?" ”
At that time, the Kuomintang army suffered defeat after defeat, and Hu Zongnan's mood was very low. When his wife was born prematurely, Hu Zongnan was so distraught that he fell off his horse, causing him to be in a coma for a day.
After he recovered from his injuries, he rushed to the hospital to visit his wife and children. It is worth mentioning that after the meeting, Hu Zongnan's first sentence was still about his wife: "Is our new mother in good health?" ”
On April 4, 1951, Hu Zongnan's second son was born and named "Hu Weishan". The advent of the second son gave great spiritual support to Hu Zongnan, who had retreated from Taiwan and was politically frustrated.
According to Ye Xiazhai's recollection, when Hu Weishan was born, his eldest son Hu Weizhen had already gone to kindergarten. Every night Hu Zongnan is at home, while listening to his eldest son sing the songs he learned in kindergarten, he makes his younger son laugh, and in his spare time, he accompanies Ye Xiazhai to play bridge.
At the beginning of 1953, Hu Zongnan's eldest daughter Meimei was born. During that time, Hu Zongnan studied at a university in Taiwan, attending classes during the day and returning home to rest at night. It can be said that it is when he really starts to enjoy the joys of family life.
In October 1954, Hu Zongnan's second daughter was born. At this time, Hu Zongnan was already 60 years old, and he was very happy when he got a daughter again.
Hu Zongnan's life in his later years
In 1959, Hu Zongnan was ordered by Chiang Kai-shek to go to the "National Defense Research Institute" as the first researcher. It was a research institute of the Academy of Military Sciences, and Chiang Kai-shek was also its president.
During his time in the hospital, Hu Zongnan took it seriously, published several papers, and won the first place. After graduation, Hu Zongnan asked Chiang Kai-shek to take up a substantive job.
However, the positions given to him by Chiang Kai-shek were all idle positions in name.
In 1961, 66-year-old Hu Zongnan, who had always been in good health and rarely got sick, suddenly appeared in July of this year.
At first, Hu Zongnan was unimpressed. Later, his condition worsened, and he was treated by Ding Nong, a famous doctor in Taiwan.
Hu Zongnan listened to the doctor's words and made cuts in his diet. But in the winter of 1961, Hu Zongnan's physical condition declined rapidly.
In November of the same year, Hu Zongnan attended a meeting, and after arriving at the place, he could not go up to the second floor, and he was tired and tired, so he could only ask for leave to go back.
Even if his body reached this situation, Hu Zongnan did not reveal it to his family.
In February 1962, Hu Zongnan greeted guests during the festival, which caused his body to be unbearable. After being admitted to the hospital, many high-level officials from Taiwan visited the hospital.
A few days later, after being treated by doctors, Hu Zongnan's condition seemed to improve. On this day, the doctor reported good news to Ye Xiazhai, saying that Hu Zongnan would be discharged from the hospital soon.
In fact, it was just a "return to the light" before Hu Zongnan's death.
At 3:50 on February 14, 1962, Hu Zongnan died of a heart attack and did not leave a last word before he died.
The news of Hu Zongnan's death reached Chiang Kai-shek's ears. Chiang Kai-shek decided to hold a solemn memorial service for him.
The mourning was held on February 17 and more than 3,000 people attended the memorial. On the first day of the hanging, Chiang Kai-shek and his wife Soong Meiling came to the scene to comfort Hu Zongnan's wife and children.
On the morning of June 9, Hu Zongnan's coffin was buried in the tomb.
On the day of the funeral, Hu Zongnan's eldest son, Hu Weizhen, walked in front with a spiritual seat. Compared with his younger siblings, 14-year-old Hu Weizhen's impression of his father is relatively clear.
According to Hu Weizhen's recollection, one night, Hu Zongnan stopped his son Hu Weizhen. He suddenly asks what the child wants to do when he grows up?
Hu Weizhen replied that he wanted to be a soldier.
Hu Zongnan said that he wanted his son to be a husband in the future. Hu Weizhen didn't understand this, so Hu Zongnan said that people who can contribute to people are big husbands, such as big scientists, big engineers, and big doctors.
Hu Zongnan made contributions during the Anti-Japanese War. But during the War of Liberation, they stood on the opposite side of the people. The evaluation of him as a person is the passage that Premier Zhou said.
It was more than three years after Hu Zongnan's death, and Premier Zhou said that he had dealt with Hu Zongnan, a man who had been anti-communist all his life, or was mainly anti-communist.
However, the premier heard that Hu Zongnan had been a primary school teacher before entering the Whampoa Military Academy, and he had a sense of justice. After entering Whampoa, follow Chiang Kai-shek, which is not good.
But in Shanghai and the Yellow River Valley, he also fought against the Japanese invaders, defeated the southwest, and also fought against Chiang Kai-shek.
The evaluation of this person should be like Mr. Lu Xun's summary of the experience of "Dream of Red Mansions":
"Dare to describe truthfully, and there is no embellishment."
Hu Zongnan's retreat from Taiwan was in a very difficult political situation, and he never got any substantive work later. Correspondingly, after his death, he was in such a beautiful situation, which is in stark contrast to his life.
References: "The Great Biography of Hu Zongnan", "The Little Days of Hu Zongnan's Later Years", "Hu Zongnan, King of the Northwest"