Our eternal Sister Wen Hui

Life of Comrade Xu Wenhui

Comrade Xu Wenhui (formerly known as Xu Hong), the president of the Beijing Founding Fathers Cultural Promotion Association and the daughter of Xu Haidong, the founding general, died in Beijing at the age of 81 at 15:40 on September 28, 2020 due to ineffective medical treatment.

Comrade Xu Wenhui was born on May 30, 1939 in Yan'an, Shaanxi Province. Less than half a year old, he followed his father Xu Haidong and mother Zhou Dongping from northern Shaanxi to the Jiangbei headquarters of the New Fourth Army in eastern Anhui. In the smoke and flames of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation, Comrade Xu Wenhui spent a difficult childhood.

In September 1947, Comrade Xu Wenhui followed his parents to Dalian City, Liaoning Province, where he was able to study in school, and moved to Beijing with his parents in 1956. Subsequently, he studied at the Beijing Aeronautical Institute and the Second Military Medical University of the People's Liberation Army. In 1961, Comrade Xu Wenhui joined the Communist Party of China. In 1964, he was assigned to the General Hospital of the Beijing Military Region and successively served as a military doctor and an attending military doctor. During the Cultural Revolution, Comrade Xu Wenhui was imprisoned and persecuted. She buried old photographs of the period of the Agrarian Revolutionary War and the War of Resistance Against Japan in her home, and preserved a number of precious historical images.

In the 1980s and 1990s, Comrade Xu Wenhui worked in a state-owned enterprise in Hong Kong. Later, he returned to Beijing to take care of his mother Zhou Dongping and his brother Xu Wenzhong, who was seriously ill. Immediately began to collect and sort out historical materials about the Red Twenty-fifth Army, the Long March Female Red Army, and General Xu Haidong. For more than 20 years, under her organizational coordination and unremitting efforts, she has filmed and broadcast the documentary "General Xu Haidong" (5 episodes), published the album "General Xu Haidong", and assisted the state postal department in producing commemorative stamps, stamp albums and postcards "The Founding General". In particular, in 2006, in order to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the victory of the Long March of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, she cooperated with the China Philatelic Corporation to produce the stamp album "Heroes of the Towel", which for the first time recorded the achievements of the Red First, Red, Red Fourth Fronts and the Red Twenty-fifth Army Four-Way Long March Female Red Army.

With the support and sponsorship of many comrades, Comrade Xu Wenhui has successively established the Beijing Founding Fathers Descendants Choir and the Beijing Founding Fathers Cultural Promotion Association. It undertook or co-organized with the Fraternal Research Association the 70th anniversary of the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War, the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Long March of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, and the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. During the epidemic period, Comrade Xu Wenhui had great love in her heart and actively donated anti-epidemic materials to her hometown Dawu. In recent years, it has held large-scale photo exhibitions of "Song of Loyalty" and "Heroes of the Towel", and sponsored the restoration of many revolutionary historical memorial sites of the Red 25th Army in Anhui, Hubei, Shaanxi and other places.

In the process of collecting historical materials and holding activities, Comrade Xu Wenhui has been to many old base areas, and the villagers in the old areas can often call out her and her brother's nicknames - "Xiao Songzi" and "Xiao Linzi", which makes her toothless and unforgettable. She sponsored primary schools in southern Shaanxi and northern Shaanxi, and donated computers and books to middle schools in Shaanxi and Qinghai. She often returned to Dawu's hometown, and together with her brothers, sisters, and younger brothers, donated most of her parents' relics to the museum in her hometown.

As a descendant of the older generation of revolutionaries, Comrade Xu Wenhui never forgot the teachings of his parents, never forgot that he wore a military uniform since childhood, and was loyal to the party, the state and the people all his life. Unwilling to increase the burden on the state, she hosted many of the events she or her children funded. She lives a simple life, never forgets to "pack" when eating out; she is humble and her exit is "brothers and sisters". When Comrade Xu Wenhui leaves us, we want to say to her: Go well, our eternal Sister Wenhui!

Comrade Xu Wenhui is immortal!