Hangzhou, August 26 (Zhang Yuhuan, Huang Linfeng, Guo Qiyu) "You see this photo, the girl in red who shook hands with Premier Zhou is me. In 1972, WHEN US President Richard Nixon was accompanied by Premier Zhou Enlai to Hangzhou, the then 10-year-old Hu Ningfang's family met the premier and left a precious group photo. Standing in front of this group photo from 46 years ago, Zhou Bingde, former vice president of The China News Agency, founding president of the Daluan Xiangyu Charity Foundation, and niece of Zhou Enlai, took Hu Ningfang's hand and took a group photo again.
Zhou Bingde and the Hu Ningfang family, who took a group photo with Premier Zhou 46 years ago. Photo by Peggy Liu
On the 25th, in order to commemorate the 120th anniversary of the birth of Premier Zhou Enlai, the "Zhou Enlai and Hangzhou" commemorative exhibition opened in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. On the same day, Hangzhou ushered in a heavy rain, but the exhibition still attracted many citizens to brave the rain to come to the exhibition. At the scene, Tan Tianxing, deputy director of the United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee, and Zhou Bingde jointly unveiled the exhibition.
Tan Tianxing and Zhou Bingde jointly unveiled the exhibition. Photo by Wang Gang
It is understood that Zhou Enlai came to Hangzhou more than 30 times before his death. After liberation, Zhou Enlai also visited Hangzhou dozens of times, especially in Hangzhou to preside over Sino-US ice-breaking negotiations, making historic contributions to the normalization of Sino-US relations. Through more than 100 precious photos left by Premier Zhou Enlai in various periods in Hangzhou and the stories behind the photos, the exhibition presents the past of Premier Zhou Enlai in Hangzhou in a panoramic way.
The exhibition is divided into six sections, namely "Zhou Enlai and the Kuomintang Cooperation West Lake Negotiation", "Zhou Enlai and the Sino-US Icebreaking Hangzhou Negotiation", "Zhou Enlai Cares about the Construction and Development of Hangzhou", "Zhou Enlai's Hangzhou Diplomacy", "Zhou Enlai's Style" and "Zhou Enlai and the People". At the exhibition site, the organizers specially looked for people who had been in the same frame as Premier Zhou, hoping to recall the style of the great man through the photos and explore the stories behind the old photos.
With a different feeling for Premier Zhou, Lu Qi, a 98-year-old hemorrhoid expert, also braved the rain to come to the exhibition site. When Premier Zhou arrived in Hangzhou during the Spring Festival in 1963, it was Lu Qi, then a hemorrhoidian at Zhejiang Medical University, who treated the premier.
"At that time, when the premier returned to Beijing, he wanted to take me back with him, and Sister Deng personally came to our house to ask for my lover's opinion." Lu Qi recalled that after returning to Beijing, he lived in Premier Zhou's house, "The life of the premier and Sister Deng is very simple and approachable. Looking at the precious group photo of Zhou Enlai and Lu Qi more than 50 years ago, Zhou Bingde said to Lu Qilian several times, "Please take care."
The "Home Style of the West Flower Hall" report will attract many viewers. Photo by Wang Gang
In addition, Feng Zhenghai, a former male volleyball player who has seen Premier Zhou 7 times, and Shi Hanju, an 88-year-old teacher from Maojiabu, also appeared at the exhibition site, and the light and shadow of history overlapped with reality at this moment.
"This exhibition has received support from all sides, and many people in the photos have also come to the scene, which shows that the people have a lot of feelings for Premier Zhou, and I am really very moved." Zhou Bingde said.
Yellowed old photos recreate the fanghua stories that belong to that era. In the afternoon of the same day, Zhou Enlai's niece and executive director of the Zhou Enlai Research Association of the Central Literature Research Office also appeared at the "Family Style of the West Flower Hall" report meeting to tell the visitors and listeners about the past life in Zhongnanhai.
Zhou Bingyi, niece of Zhou Enlai and executive director of the Zhou Enlai Research Association of the Central Literature Research Office. Photo by Wang Gang
"I lived in the West Flower Hall in 1949, moved out and lived in again, and lived for nearly 20 years." Zhou Bingyi recalled that Premier Zhou and Deng Yingchao were strict with themselves in their work and life, and they were also very strict with their families and relatives, and never arranged work for their relatives with the convenience of their positions. "I remember when I was in school, other children were usually picked up by car, but my uncle asked the driver to pick us up by bicycle, sometimes by tricycle. He said you can't use the bus for private use, which is what I have been taught by example since I was a child. ”
Zhou Bingyi said: Premier Zhou's strict requirements for his relatives have established a good family style. "My aunt had a sentence that I remember very clearly, she said that my uncle was not the prime minister of a certain person, nor was he the prime minister of the Zhou family, he served the people of the whole country."
It is reported that the commemorative exhibition will last until September 2. The commemorative exhibition was jointly organized by the Zhejiang Branch of China News Service, the Party History Research Office of the Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Hangzhou Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection, the Propaganda Department of the Hangzhou Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Party History Research Office of the Hangzhou Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, and the Zhejiang Library, and co-organized by the Hangzhou Integrity Network and the Hangzhou West Lake Museum. (End)