In recent years, our Ministry of Foreign Affairs has become more and more adept at shining on the domestic and foreign stages, known as the "First Day of the Nation", and each of their members has a distinct personal imprint, in a sense, it is indeed shrouded in a star-like aura.
This characteristic of our Ministry of Foreign Affairs is actually inherited from China's first diplomatic mission, the first Foreign Ministry of New China founded by Premier Zhou Enlai.
Although our protagonist today, Mr. Qiao Guanhua, did not join the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at that time, he played an important role that cannot be ignored in the preparation and establishment of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and in some foreign affairs in the early days of the founding of New China.
In addition to the genius communication skills displayed in diplomatic work, Mr. Qiao Guanhua, whose bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees are all from the Department of Philosophy, also has a tragic temperament and has captured the hearts of many girls.
Among them is not only his first wife, Ms. Gong Peng, but also Zhang Hanzhi, the "last famous woman in China" who divorced his husband.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="6" > the virtuous couple who supported each other during the difficult years, and finally lost the gap between life and death</h1>
Qiao Guanhua was born in Yancheng, Jiangsu Province, a wealthy landlord family, the family has land and workshops, so the father and brothers have no worries about Qiao Guanhua's academic training - at the age of 6, the family school focused on training, which opened Qiao Guanhua's life of a bully.
After graduating from high school at the age of 12 and skipping the college entrance examination at the age of 15, two months later, the bun of Tsinghua University in high school was sent to the gate of the Qiao family with gongs and drums.
Oh, the Faculty of Philosophy! A profession that is hard to listen to. The villagers listened to the village chief recite the contents of the newspaper aloud, and the eyes of praise, boasting, and envy were cast on Qiao Guanhua.
However, this is just the beginning.
After graduating from the Department of Philosophy at Tsinghua University, Qiao Guanhua studied at Tokyo Imperial University and the University of Tübingen in Germany, and finally graduated with a doctorate in philosophy.
Meanwhile, Ms. Gong Peng, a wife who will be with Qiao Guanhua for 27 years, has just graduated from the History Department of Yenching University.
Two young people, born from very different backgrounds and learned differently, but because of the same belief, they were finally rolled together by the wheel of history.
In 1943, Qiao Guanhua went to Chongqing to serve as the editor-in-chief of Xinhua Daily, and met Gong Peng, who was also working as a reporter for this agency. In the work of getting along day and night, the two young people cherish each other and finally tie the knot.
Chairman Mao also praised the two as "born beautiful double flying swallows, thousands of miles of marriage revolution." Their union is not only the fruit of love, but also a good story of China's diplomatic history. Gong Peng has a deep background, and his parents are outstanding democratic revolutionaries.
Under Gong Peng's suggestion, Qiao Guanhua's role positioning of himself began to gradually become clear: from the initial pure theoretical philosophy, and finally adjusted to the direction of diplomacy.
If Ms. Gong Peng had not died, I believe that Qiao Guanhua's subsequent political career would never have been so difficult.
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On September 20, 1970, Ms. Gong Peng fell seriously ill and passed away. This clever and wise woman discovered her husband's abilities, gave a direction to go forward, and even when she knew that her time was running out, she still wanted to make a guarantee for his future life.
Because she knows that her husband, who has lived in the ivory tower for a long time, is good at learning, and is good at finding a way out of the rules, but she is not good at how to deal with it when there is no direction and no reference, especially in politics.
It's just that her husband cried bitterly before she opened her mouth and didn't want to listen to it anymore, and Gong Peng's arrangement could only be abandoned.
After Gong Peng's death, Qiao Guanhua sent love to work. The two highlights of his life occurred during this time.
The first is that in November 1971, the 26th session of the United Nations General Assembly resumed China's permanent seat on the Security Council, and Qiao Guanhua laughed;
The second was the Sino-US Joint Communiqué drawn up by Kissinger and Qiao Guanhua on behalf of both sides during the US President's visit to China in February of the following year.
In 1973, Qiao Guanhua met a beautiful woman in the bookstore, and the two fell in love at first sight, and she was Zhang Hanzhi, who later became Minister Qiao's wife.
At that time, Zhang Hanzhi was 38 years old and was still the wife of Hong Junyan. In order to be with Qiao Guanhua in a bright and upright way, Zhang Hanzhi, who had long lost enthusiasm for the first marriage and had been separated for 8 years, finally filed for divorce.
Zhang Hanzhi was known as "China's last famous lady" in the last century, and people who have seen her have praised her as beautiful and intelligent, which is the "Shanghai style" of walking.
But in addition to appearance, we should objectively look at Zhang Hanzhi's own ability: the English teacher who has been the chairman since 1963 was recommended by the chairman to enter the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and was the focus of the first batch of female diplomats in New China.
If she hadn't bent on marrying Qiao Guanhua, the first ambassador in the history of New China to Canada would probably have been a woman.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="30" > the spark of love that bursts out at the age of 60 is particularly enthusiastic, and he will not hesitate to drive his children out of the house</h1>
The lover has divorced for himself, and Qiao Guanhua can't bear it anymore and proposes to his children to marry Zhang Hanzhi.
A pair of sons and daughters strongly opposed. There is both the disapproval of the father who lost his mother two years ago and the fact that his father married another wife, as well as dissatisfaction with Zhang Hanzhi himself.
Although the chairman asked his adopted daughter to be an English teacher in the face of his former friend Zhang Shizhao, zhang Hanzhi's origin was unknown to everyone who did not know? It is the illegitimate daughter born to the salesman of Yongan Company in order to make a small opening.
Not to mention that it is not acceptable to have a head and tail with a father without divorce.
Seeing that his lover was disliked, Qiao Guanhua was also furious, accusing his children of dividing people into three, six, nine, and so on, and the salesman was not also the people? He also said that her birth could not be chosen by herself, and others should have pity for her.
The two sides do not give in to each other, and they both feel that they are the truth, and the more noisy they are, the more fierce they are. In the end, Qiao Guanhua was embarrassed and angry, and threw the children's luggage out of the door, saying that since he was an adult, he should stand on his own and would not need to appear in the courtyard of No. 51 Shijia Hutong in the future.
A pair of children were extremely angry, dragging their luggage and leaving.
At the end of 1973, a couple who were married for the second time but were still as enthusiastic as teenagers finally married and lived a life like a fairy couple at No. 51 Shijia Hutong, until the two died one after another.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="39" > conclusion</h1>
After Qiao Guanhua's death, Zhang Hanzhi stayed alone in the empty room and often saw the people sitting for half a day, and it took nearly 10 years to come out; and before Zhang died, she left her last words not to be buried with Qiao Guanhua, because she was worried that one of Qiao Guanhua's children would not go to the grave for her own reasons.
Before he died, he let his father and son centrifuge because of his own sake, and finally after his death, Zhang Hanzhi made a concession for his lover.
The love between the two is indeed precious, and from some angles, it can be regarded as breaking through many barriers and finally keeping each other.
However, looking closely at Qiao Guanhua's resume, without Gong Peng's escort, his subsequent political career was simply a "disaster", and he even attacked Premier Zhou without standing against the people, and even more unclear with the "Gang of Four".
Therefore, the saying "marry a wife and marry a virtuous" cannot be wrong at any time.