The Xi'an Incident made posterity always remember two heroic figures, the first was the young marshal Zhang Xueliang, and the second was the Northwest Tiger Yang Hucheng.
After the release of Chiang Kai-shek, both were arrested, and Zhang Xueliang was able to spend his old age in peace, but Yang Hucheng was brutally killed on the eve of the liberation victory.
Both of them were buried thickly after their deaths, and the scenery of the cemetery had its own advantages, the young marshal's cemetery was rarely paid tribute, and Yang Hucheng's tombstone had been full of flowers, what caused the huge difference between the two after death?
Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng
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The cemeteries of Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng are now completely different pictures, one is quiet, one is solemn; one is Western, one is Eastern; one is luxurious, one is simple. From the site selection to the layout, the difference between Yang Hucheng and Zhang Xueliang can also be seen in the posthumous cemetery.
The Tomb of the Young Marshal is worthy of the name of the Young Marshal, and its burial place in the "Valley of the Temple" in Hawaii, USA, has now been transformed into a famous local park.
The location of this place can see Zhang Xueliang's intentions, behind the cemetery is a mountain, in front of the sea, in the middle of the mountainside, standing on the cemetery the view is incomparably wide.
If you walk into the cemetery and don't look closely, you really think it's a landscape in a seaside park. But at the time of Zhang Xueliang's burial, it was not such a scene.
Zhang Xueliang sent people to spend a lot of time and money to repair the landscape here. Because it was buried with Miss Zhao Yidi, the garden was planted with Miss Zhao Yidi's favorite flowers, and it is still romantic today.
Tomb of Zhang Xueliang
More than twenty years have passed, and this park has been repaired several times, although it is much more low-key, it can still be seen that the luxury of that year. This style was also what Zhang Xueliang liked before his death. The main body of the tomb is a cross, with the names of Zhang Xueliang and Zhao Yidi engraved on the granite stone slabs, and two stone seats have been erected.
The overall style is a Western style, with a slightly Chinese feel. In the direction facing the cemetery, zhang Xueliang's intentions are seen, and the tombstone is the direction facing the motherland, expressing Zhang Xueliang's regret that he has not been able to return to China for life.
Zhang Xueliang carefully designed a cemetery for himself, but few people came, and the whole cemetery was as quiet as this park.
Zhang Xueliang Cemetery
In contrast, Yang Hucheng's cemetery is a different picture, flowers can be seen at any time in front of the tombstone, and many people deliberately run to Yang Hucheng's cemetery to pay tribute.
After Yang Hucheng's death, it was not his family who buried him, because Chiang Kai-shek ordered the killing of Yang Hucheng's entire family and his entourage when he left the mainland. Except for one of his young sons who were out of town, he escaped a disaster.
After Yang Hucheng's death, it was with the help of the Communist Party that he was able to move the tomb from Chongqing to Xi'an, and compared with Zhang Xueliang, Yang Hucheng was lucky to be buried in his homeland at the end.
Yang Hucheng's tomb is now a key cultural relics protection unit in Xi'an and an important practice site for red education.
General's Cemetery
The first impression of Yang Hucheng's cemetery is solemnity. At the gate, you can see the big characters inscribed by General Ye Jianying for Yang Hucheng's cemetery, which is also General Ye Jianying's nostalgia for this old friend.
The entire cemetery consists of multiple tombs, including Yang Hucheng and his wife, son and retinue. The entire cemetery is covered with red bricks and green tiles, with an introduction to Yang Hucheng's personal life experience. In front of the main tomb, there is a towering tree, the monument is five meters high, and the painting of Xu Xurusheng is carved on it. It is a typical Chinese cemetery, and the placement of the entire facility is extremely exquisite.
Yang Hucheng's cemetery is usually open to the public, some citizens will spontaneously go to Yang Hucheng's cemetery to lay wreaths, and even some parents will drive their children from Downtown Xi'an to commemorate this anti-Japanese hero in the northwest.
The young marshal's cemetery was rarely visited, and General Yang Hucheng's cemetery was crowded, what exactly caused such a situation?
General Yang Hucheng's early revolutionary memorial site
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Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng are completely two different lives from the perspective of life experience, whether it is family or growth experience, one is the prince of the prince, and the other is the bitter root of the peasant family.
The personalities of the two people can also be seen in the style of the cemetery, and it is really shocking that such a different life can come together to launch the world-famous Xi'an Incident.
The current situation of the cemetery can also see people's most authentic evaluation of the lives of these two people, Yang Hucheng cemetery shows the respect of posterity for Yang Hucheng, Yang Hucheng's personal experience is a valuable spiritual wealth for future generations.
Yang Hucheng
Yang Hucheng was born in a poor family in the countryside of Pucheng, Shaanxi Province, and compared with Zhang Xueliang's overlord father, Yang Hucheng's father was an ordinary farmer. Yang Hucheng's family was tortured by local landlords in every way, exploited layer by layer, and lived a difficult and uneasy life.
When Zhang Xueliang was still studying under his father's barracks, Yang Hucheng dropped out of school early and went to other places to work for short-term work and subsidize his family.
When Yang Hucheng's father was killed at the age of 15, Yang Hucheng began to really take on the heavy responsibility of the family, Yang Hucheng's juvenile experience is the true portrayal of many people's lives in that era, people who have learned about Yang Hucheng's experience will feel the same, compared to Zhang Xueliang, the second generation of officials, many people naturally have a sense of closeness to Yang Hucheng.
The experience of youth allowed Yang Hucheng to observe the lowest level of society, realize the cruelty of society, be compassionate, and rise in his heart to resist the flame of cruel rule.
After his father's death, Yang Hucheng established the "Mid-Autumn Festival" in the local area to rob the rich and help the poor, and he soon became famous. After the Xinhai Revolution, Yang Hucheng, who was determined to defend his family and defend the country, joined the Qin Longfu Han Army and made great achievements, and after retiring from this unit, he returned to his hometown with military salary and wanted to continue to support his mother.
However, the world was in chaos, how could he give Yang Hucheng a quiet hometown, and soon he was oppressed by the landlord again, and he really couldn't bear it and beat the landlord who bullied his family.
Yang Hucheng, who caused a human life, like all heroes in history, can only leave his hometown and wander the rivers and lakes in order to survive, and Yang Hucheng, who broke into the rivers and lakes, is still heroic and courageous, helping others.
His heroic deeds also made later generations feel admiration, in that era of their own lives, it is really rare to have such a heart to help the weak and the poor, and many posterity feels deep admiration for Yang Hucheng, and also relishs yang Hucheng's heroic deeds.
Yang Hucheng, who broke into the rivers and lakes, gradually surrounded by a group of subordinates who were dead to him, and in 1917, following the footsteps of Sun Yat-sen, he led this team to join the Shaanxi Jingguo Army and served as the commander of the first detachment of the Third Road of the Army, officially starting his military career.
In 1922, faced with the large army being scattered by the warlords of his direct lineage, Yang Hucheng led the team to begin to live a life under the fence and went into exile many times.
In 1926, Liu Zhenhua led an army of 100,000 to attack Xi'an City, and Yang Hucheng, in the expectations of the people, took 5,000 people to defend Xi'an City, and insisted on making Yang Hucheng famous in a war for eight months, with the title of "Northwest Tiger".
In 1929, he defected to Chiang Kai-shek and served as the commander of the 17th Division, concurrently serving as the chairman of Shaanxi Province, and Yang Hucheng officially took charge of the northwest. Zhang Xueliang, like Yang Hucheng, was able to dominate the side by relying on the hard battles he fought when he was young, and in that era of warlord melee, whoever had a strong fist was the boss.
However, posterity now respects Yang Hucheng so much that it is seen that compared with Zhang Xueliang, who was rapidly promoted in the background of his father, every rise of Yang Hucheng relies on his own blood battle, and Yang Hucheng's successful experience also inspires future generations to work hard.
Although Yang Hucheng was an old man in northern Shaanxi and a peasant, he had not read for several years, but his theoretical study was far better than Zhang Xueliang's.
Chang
When Zhang Xueliang was young, he also actively studied the advanced ideas of the outside world, but when his teacher Guo Songling died, Zhang Xueliang could only rely on drugs to meet his spiritual needs, and finally completely degenerated into a feudal warlord.
And Yang Hucheng, even in the most difficult times, he firmly believed in Sun Yat-sen's Three People's Principles, the most determined follower of the Northwest Three People's Principles at that time, and it was precisely by relying on the support of spiritual strength that he could hold Xi'an.
Later, he came into contact with the Communist Party, his wife was a Communist Party member, and with his wife's guidance and his personal experience, he changed his mind and began to recognize Marxist ideas, and constantly learned the spirit of Marxism in practice, and even almost joined the Chinese Communist Party in Tokyo.
Zhang Xueliang and Chiang Kai-shek
Compared with Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng, posterity can clearly see the gap between the two in ideological construction, and can maintain their own ideological construction in the chaotic world, not to be disturbed by the world, in this regard, Yang Hucheng is still a model for modern people.
Compared with Zhang Xueliang, who lost the northeast, Yang Hucheng really did a good job for the people of Shaanxi. When Yang Hucheng first became chairman of the Shaanxi provincial government, he realized that the lifeblood of Shaanxi's development lay in water, and once a drought occurred, Yang Hucheng begged the central government many times, hoping to get as much assistance as possible from the central government.
It is becoming more and more difficult for the state finances, and it is becoming more and more difficult to obtain disaster relief funds, and Yang Hucheng also feels that once a disaster occurs, it is impossible to rely solely on the central government, and the people of Shaanxi must be self-reliant and self-reliant. Therefore, Yang Hucheng boldly used Li Yizhi, who returned from studying in Germany, and built the Jinghui Canal to truly alleviate the drought problem in Shaanxi.
In order to build the facility, Yang Hucheng took out 400,000 yuan from the military expenditure, and raised funds in many ways, and it took only 15 months to build it, creating a miracle of Chinese architecture at that time. as
Without Yang Hucheng's support, Li Yizhi would not have been able to build multiple water canals after that and fulfilled his ideal of serving the motherland.
These water conservancy facilities have enabled the irrigation area of Shaanxi Province to reach about 3 million mu, effectively solving the drinking water problem of the people of Shaanxi and laying a solid foundation for the supply of the rear of the War of Resistance Against Japan.
Jinghui Canal
In the process of building water conservancy projects, Yang Hucheng's spirit of hard work won the trust of the people of Shaanxi, and everyone realized that Yang Hucheng was really a good official and a good general who did things for the people. During the period when Yang Hucheng was in power in Shaanxi, the deeds of the people's livelihood played a non-negligible role in the development of Shaanxi later.
Yang Hucheng can be respected by future generations because he did practical things for the country and the people and used Marxism to guide ideas, which are rare in history. His early childhood experience, heroic deeds and successful experiences encouraged the people of Shaanxi not to be willing to be defeated by fate and bravely realize their dreams.
Nowadays, many people pay homage to the tomb of General Yang Hucheng, in fact, they also hope that they can obtain spiritual strength from Yang Hucheng and let their spirit be baptized.
The young marshal and Yang Hucheng were two people from the beginning, until the end of their lives, they only met briefly and then separated. Compared with Zhang Xueliang's past affair, the spiritual wealth that Zhang Xueliang really left to posterity is far less than yang Hucheng.
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