In recent years, people have received mixed evaluations of the historical figure Zhang Xueliang, with some people thinking that he was an anti-Japanese national hero, and others calling him a "general of non-resistance" because of Zhang Xueliang's performance during the September 18 Incident. But if we judge a person from a historical perspective, we should not only stand on the one thing he has done to generalize, after all, who is not at fault? What's more, because of the particularity of the background of that era, many things cannot be easily concluded until now.
So what does Zhang Xueliang think of his life? He once commented on himself, saying that if his family was not patriotic, how could it end up like this? The "fate" he refers to when his father Zhang Zuolin refused to cooperate with the Japanese, and was destroyed by a Japanese bomb while riding a train. And Zhang Xueliang also forced the top leader at the time to resist Japan because of the Xi'an Incident, and was later placed under house arrest for 52 years. Therefore, it is undeniable that the father and son of the Zhang family paid a heavy price for patriotism.
The official position of Zhang Xueliang as a "national hero" and the role he played in the Xi'an Incident was written into the textbook, so as to educate future generations to cherish our hard-won country. Even if he is given the identity of a "national hero", Zhang Xueliang is just a mortal, with his own family and married life. He married three women in his life, namely Yu Fengzhi, Gu Ruiyu and Zhao Si Miss Zhao Yidi. And these three women also gave birth to four sons and one daughter for Zhang Xueliang.
Zhang Xueliang's first wife, Yu Fengzhi, gave birth to three sons and one daughter. The eldest son, Zhang Luxun, was born in 1918 and died in 1954 at the age of 37. The second son, Zhang Luyu, was born in 1918 and died in a car accident in the United States in 1958 at the age of 40. The third son, Zhang Luqi, was born in 1919 and died in an accident in 1931 at the age of 12.
Gu Ruiyu did not give birth to any children for Zhang Xueliang, and Zhao Yidi, the fourth Miss Zhao, gave birth to Zhang Xueliang's fourth son, Zhang Lulin, in 1930, and he is also Zhang Xueliang's only living son, who is now 88 years old. As an aerospace expert, Zhang Lulin previously worked for the U.S. Space Administration.
In 2015, there was a TV series called "Young Marshal" ready to be filmed. This film commemorates Zhang Xueliang's contribution to the nation and the country during the Xi'an Incident. At that time, the fame of the actor's article was very popular, and the crew planned to let the article play Zhang Xueliang to improve the fame of the movie. At that time, out of respect, the crew also sent someone to ask Zhang Lulin's opinion.
Unexpectedly, Zhang Lulin objected to the article playing his father, the reason is these 6 words: he (the article) is a cheating person! It turned out that Zhang Lulin at that time learned about the relationship between the article and Yao Di from the news, so she made such a decision.