Gong Peng, a talented and open-minded woman, she balances family and work very well.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, both Gong Peng and her husband Qiao Guanhua held important positions in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and because of Gong Peng's outstanding performance, the State Council wanted to promote Gong Peng to assistant minister.
Faced with a great opportunity, Gong Peng refused, and she retreated behind the scenes and recommended her husband Qiao Guanhua.
During Gong Peng's serious illness, she was full of worries, always worried about how her husband would face life after she was gone.
Gong Peng is a good wife, a good mother, but also the spiritual pillar of Qiao Guanhua, after her death, Qiao Guanhua's life is also full of hardships than ever.
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Gong Peng is a talented woman, which is inseparable from the cultivation of her scholarly family and the cultivation of her parents, her father is called Gong Zhenzhou, a famous party member during the Xinhai Revolution, and also served as a brigade commander of the army, who was nicknamed "Iron-Blooded General".
Gong Peng's mother was called Xu Wen, also a well-known talented woman, Xu Wen's father Xu Yusheng was a pioneer of the Western affairs movement, and growing up in such a prominent family, Gong Peng naturally would not be bad.
In his childhood, Gong Peng has been wandering with his parents, and his father has been running on the road of revolution for many years, but he has not neglected the teachings of Gong Peng, he taught Gong Peng the principles of life, and also made her feel the warmth of the family.
In 1933, at the age of 19, Gong Peng was admitted to the history department of Yenching University, and soon after entering the school, Gong Peng was quickly elected minister of finance and later became the chairman of the extracurricular activities committee.
Mao Zedong, Snow, Gong Peng
In 1936, Gong Peng, infected by his father's revolutionary beliefs, secretly joined the Communist Party of China, and the following summer, after graduating from Yenching University, Gong Peng went to shanghai to teach at Santa Maria Girls' High School, but Gong Peng only worked in the girls' middle school for six months, and then bid farewell to his parents and went to Yan'an.
Before going to Yan'an, Gong Peng never showed any abnormality in front of his parents, but as a revolutionary father, he understood his daughter's thoughts very well.
Before Gong Peng left, her father said to her in a serious tone: "If you want to choose the road, if you think it is right, you don't want to turn back, if you want to turn back, the door of the house will not open towards you." ”
Her father's words deeply affected Gong Peng's future life, and also made her go farther and farther down the road of revolution.
Gong Peng
Gong Peng is not only an ambitious talented woman, but also an unusually beautiful woman, and she was elected as a school flower by her classmates when she was in college.
The Canadian International Friends Humanities Juvenile Chapter, once a close friend of Gong Peng, described Gong Peng in his personal biography: she was a long-stemmed flower in a damp basement.
Wang Bingnan's German wife Anna also praised Gong Peng in her memoirs:
"The clever Gong Peng, born beautiful, like the beauty depicted in the painting, among foreign journalists, Gong Peng is welcomed for his extraordinary temperament, profound knowledge and reasonableness."
In fact, in addition to her outstanding appearance, Gong Peng is also very talented, she speaks English fluently, and her articles are also extremely well written.
Sometimes people look at the beautiful Gong Peng, and it is difficult to combine her with a bold and resolute woman.
Gong Peng held a banquet to entertain a delegation of Egyptian journalists
Many people do not know that such a talented girls' school flower is actually the first heroine in the 129 Movement to sign up for the death squad.
She also served as Peng Dehuai's secretary, as Mao Zedong's English translator, and as Zhou Enlai's press spokesman, and she moved forward on the road of revolution without hesitation, and her career was thriving.
But life is difficult, a person will not always be smooth, in the career of The proud Gong Peng, soon by life grinding.
In 1942, Gong Peng had a high fever, three consecutive days of treatment did not reduce the fever, and finally transferred to Chongqing Central Hospital for treatment, the doctor initially identified it as a cold, but Gong Peng, who received two days of treatment in the hospital, never showed any signs of improvement.
During this period, Gong Peng's left leg to the buttocks were red and swollen, and in order to be safe, Gong Peng went to the hospital again for treatment, and the doctor at this time found that the reason for Gong Peng's illness was that the syringe infection caused her body to suppurate in a large area.
After falling ill again, Gong Peng was transferred to Chongqing Municipal People's Hospital, and the doctor operated on Gong Peng, squeezing out all the pus and blood in the red and swollen area, and her high fever subsided, but the wound of the operation could not be healed.
During Gong Peng's hospitalization, bad news followed, first her father died in Guilin, and soon after, her husband Liu Wenhua, who had been married to Gong Peng for 29 days, also died of a sudden illness on the march.
Liu Wenhua
In fact, Liu Wenhua's illness is not serious, he was initially suddenly cecumculitis caused duritis, it is reasonable to say that this is a small disease, but at that time Liu Wenhua was on the march, the medical conditions were too poor, resulting in him did not get effective treatment and died.
After losing his beloved father, Gong Peng, who was treated in the hospital, was greatly shocked, and for the sake of Gong Peng's body, Zhou Enlai concealed the news of Liu Wenhua's death.
Gong Peng took a photo during his visit to East Germany.
At that time, Gong Peng did not know that her husband had died, and she could have been reunited with her newly married husband, but for the sake of revolutionary work, she resolutely chose to transfer to Chongqing to work.
Although Zhou Enlai concealed the news of Liu Wenhua's sacrifice, YanDa's classmates did not know Gong Peng's physical condition, and she wrote a letter to Gong Peng, which did not directly state that Liu Wenhua had been sacrificed, but wrote vaguely as follows:
"The revolution is long-term, but what does a little sacrifice count?"
This comforting word made Gong Peng suspicious in her heart, and she took the letter to the "Zhou Mansion" to inquire, and Zhou Enlai had to inform Liu Wenhua of the news of his death.
Gong Peng (first from left) and Zhou Enlai
At the first bad news, Gong Peng was devastated, her father who loved her was gone, and her husband, who loved her deeply, was gone, and the two blows instantly crushed Gong Peng.
Before his death, Liu Wenhua had anticipated that his wife would not be able to accept his departure, so he left this letter to Gong Peng:
"My wife, I'm thinking about her, if something happens to me, let her marry someone, as long as she doesn't break away from the revolution, she will always be worthy of me." 」
Liu Wenhua's words of advice made Gong Peng cry on her back, and she lay on the bed for a day and a night to ease the grief.
After the grief, Gong Peng perked up, and she knew that only by living well and doing the revolution to the end could she be worthy of the dead Liu Wenhua.
Gong Peng took a group photo with some personnel of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
After that, Gong Peng also sent a letter to his old classmate, asking her for help to plant some small trees next to Liu Wenhua's tomb, and Gong Peng felt that this was the last thing he could do for her husband as a wife.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="119" > Gong Peng of Qiao Guanhua</h1>
After losing two loved ones in a row, Gong Peng picked up her spirit and threw herself into work, she worked tirelessly, trying to forget the grief, and it was in the autumn of this year that she met her second husband, Qiao Guanhua.
Qiao Guanhua became Gong Peng's colleague, they always worked and fought together, after a long period of contact, Gong Peng had a little more appreciation for this gentle and elegant talent, and Qiao Guanhua also fell in love with this beautiful talented woman at first sight.
Qiao Guanhua and Gong Peng
Isn't it a fate for these two talented women, from strangers to colleagues, and then from colleagues to objects of mutual admiration, and they work together under the leadership of Zhou Enlai?
It was only at that time that Gong Peng lost her husband not long ago, qiao Guanhua was a shy young man, even if the two admired each other, but they could only bury this relationship deep in their hearts.
It was not until the appearance of Qiao Guanhua's old friend Feng Yidai that the relationship between Qiao Guanhua and Gong Peng was further advanced.
Feng Yidai is an old friend of Qiao Guanhua, Feng Yidai's wife is also an old classmate of Gong Peng, by chance, Mrs. Feng met Gong Peng on the street, and the old classmates who had been separated for many years met again, and Mrs. Feng immediately invited Gong Peng to sit at home.
Gong Peng poses with Mao Zedong
During this period, when Mrs. Feng chatted with Gong Peng, she learned that she had lost her father and husband one after another, and she also had great sympathy for her.
As a result, Gong Peng became a regular guest of Lady Feng, Qiao Guanhua became a regular guest of Feng Yidai, the two of them often went to the Feng family as a guest, and the Feng family and his wife looked at the young man and woman, and they had the idea of matchmaking in their hearts.
Feng Yidai and his wife took turns to work for Qiao Guanhua and Gong Peng, asking them if they had a good feeling for each other, and with the help of the enthusiastic Red Lady, Qiao Guanhua soon fell in love with Gong Peng and decided to enter the palace of marriage.
New wedding photo of Gong Peng and Qiao Guanhua
In November 1943, Qiao Guanhua and Gong Peng were happily married, and the wedding of the two was very simple, calling a few friends to get together, eating some candy and peanuts and rice, even if it was a happy event, Dong Biwu also wrote a poem for the couple to celebrate.
After marriage, Qiao Guanhua and Gong Peng moved to Building 50 zengjiayan in Chongqing, where they lived in a small room, dark and damp.
The house in Building 50 was originally Ye Jianying's residence, and after Ye Jianying returned to Yan'an, it became the new house of Qiao Guanhua and Gong Peng.
Gong Peng (first from right) accompanied Zhu De at the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army to meet with international friends.
Although the two lived in poverty, gong Peng felt very happy for a long time after marriage, and Qiao Guanhua's gentleness soothed her inner pain and healed her loneliness.
At the end of 1943, Gong Peng became pregnant with her and Qiao Guanhua's love crystal, but even if she was pregnant with a child, Gong Peng did not rest.
She and Qiao Guanyu were so busy working that they didn't even buy the child's clothes and diapers, until Gong Peng was about to give birth, and the two of them thought about the child.
Gong Peng with the child
At that time, southerners had a habit of using old clothes for the clothes and diapers worn by babies, and it was said that old clothes did not hurt the skin, so Gong Peng found Feng Yidai's home for help.
Coincidentally, at that time, Feng Yidai's wife was also pregnant with a child, also waiting for the old clothes to change to diapers, seeing Gong Peng come to the door for help, Feng Yidai planned to change his old long shirt.
At this critical moment, someone sent a large bag of clothes from Shanghai, which was full of the old clothes of the eldest son of the Feng family, so Feng Yidai divided the clothes into two parts, one for himself and one for Gong Peng.
In July 1944, Gong Peng successfully gave birth to the first son with Qiao Guanhua, named Qiao Zonghuai, nicknamed "Paris", and after having a child, Qiao Guanhua was even more fond of Gong Peng's mother and son.
In order to let Gong Peng sleep more at night, Qiao Guanhua made a bunk in the bedroom, and as long as the child made a fuss at night, he would get up to take care of Gong Peng's mother and son.
After the full moon of Little Paris, Gong Peng and his wife immediately threw themselves into work, because there was no time to take care of Little Paris, and the couple sometimes put him in Red Rock Village, and sometimes locked him up at home.
In 1953, Gong Peng gave birth to a second child with Qiao Guanhua, named Qiao Songdu, because she was a lovely daughter, and Qiao Guanhua was extremely protective of her.
After liberation, Gong Peng and Qiao Guanhua's careers also became better and better, until the Cultural Revolution in 1966, Qiao Guanhua and Gong Peng were affected, and their lives were also in danger.
Group photo of Gong Peng's family
Qiao Guanhua was ordered to sell newspapers on Wangfujing Street, Gong Peng's home was raided, she was beaten, and her movements were restricted.
When Premier Zhou learned of what happened to Gong Peng and his wife, his heart was extremely sad, and he used a different method to protect Gong Peng and keep her from harm.
At one meeting, Premier Zhou loudly greeted Gong Peng, who was sitting in the back, and said, "Gong Peng, you sit in the front." ”
Zhou Enlai's skillful maintenance made Gong Peng's situation much better, but Gong Peng was unwilling to show off Zhou Enlai's special care for her, and she did not want to embarrass Zhou Enlai.
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Zhou Enlai, Wang Bingnan, Gong Peng and international friends were in Chongqing.
During those difficult days, Qiao Guanhua and Gong Peng encouraged each other and comforted each other, and after experiencing hardships, Qiao's family would gather together to listen to Gong Peng play an "International Song".
Whenever this time comes, Qiao Guanhua will take his daughter Qiao Song to stand next to and sing the "International Song", and when the song is finished, Gong Peng will take a deep breath, smile and tell her husband and daughter: "After resting, continue to fight in the afternoon." ”
Gong Peng (second from right) receives a delegation of women from haute-Savoie, France
In 1969, Gong Peng, who had been tortured many times, fell ill, and the doctor diagnosed Gong Peng with hypertension and cerebral hemorrhage, so Gong Peng was admitted to Beijing Hospital for treatment, and his former friends went to visit Gong Peng, and they were all shocked by her haggardness and vicissitudes.
Feng Yidai recalled Gong Peng's condition and said: "The news from my friend is that Gong Peng's health is not good, her legs are swollen badly, her blood pressure is unstable, and we are all worried about her. ”
Because of the deterioration of her health, most of the time Gong Peng is in pain, she is entangled in illness, rarely when her mind is clear, but occasionally sober, Gong Peng will tell Qiao Guanhua to live well after she leaves.
Every time he talked about this topic, Qiao Guanhua would burst into tears, and he cried and comforted Gong Peng: "Darling, we don't talk about this, you will be fine, we will not be separated." ”
Whenever this happened, Gong Peng would call his son and carefully instruct him: "Your father is very talented, but he lacks experience in politics, and you must help him a lot." ”
In May 1970, Gong Peng's condition deteriorated, one night, she got up alone to go to the bathroom to go to the toilet, but suddenly fainted and could not move, Qiao Guanhua in her sleep was awakened, and immediately sent Gong Peng to the 301 Hospital for treatment.
Gong Peng in Chongqing
Who knew that when Qiao Guanhua arrived at the hospital, the attending physician was not there, resulting in Gong Peng not getting timely treatment, and after the doctor came to check for Gong Peng, he was finally diagnosed as: the cerebral artery blood vessel rupture and lost the ability to think.
The news of Gong Peng's accident also reached Zhou Enlai's ears, and he personally rushed to the hospital to take the pulse of Gong Peng, and also instructed the establishment of a rescue team.
After an operation, Gong Peng's face has lost its former beauty and vitality, her head is wrapped in bandages, her face is extremely haggard, Zhou Enlai saw this and said sadly: "I don't want to see Gong Peng like this, I am sad to see it." ”
After that, a blood vessel in Gong Peng's skull ruptured, she lost the ability to think, the whole person was in a coma, she could not eat independently, and could only rely on machine support to maintain her life.
After being hospitalized, Gong Peng is no longer Gong Peng, she seems to have only one body left, even her mind has been lost, the doctor did her best to let her survive, but is the surviving Gong Peng still the smart and beautiful Gong Peng of the past?
Gong Peng meets in Geneva, Switzerland
Gong Peng stayed in the hospital for more than four months, and Qiao Guanhua guarded her for more than four months, but in the end he could not resist the arrangement of fate.
On September 20 of the same year, Gong Peng died in the hospital at the age of 56, and her 27 years with Qiao Guanhua came to an end.
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Gong Peng died, and the flame of love in Qiao Guanhua's heart was also extinguished briefly, and for a long time, he could not come out of his grief.
Many times, when Gong Peng's friends and foreign friends came to visit Qiao's house, Qiao Guanhua would tell each other over and over again: "Gong Peng is dead!" Gong Peng is dead! ”
No matter what happened to Qiao Guanhua later, it is undeniable that he and Gong Peng have been married for 27 years, and the two are in love with each other.
Qiao Guanhua
In the 27-year marriage, Qiao Guanhua and Gong Peng loved each other as they first saw each other, and they called each other "Darling" when they were at home, and their affection was strong.
This title was listened to by her daughter Qiao Songdu, who curiously asked her mother what "Darling" meant, and Gong Peng told her daughter without changing her color: "It is convenient for two people to use a name at home, and this nickname will only be used between me and your father." ”
It wasn't until he grew up that Josson understood the meaning of "Darling", these two short words, including the love of his parents, but also included the hardships and storms they had gone through.
According to his daughter Qiao Songdu' recollection, during the time when his mother Gong Peng died, his father Qiao Guanhua seemed to be enchanted, and he often wrote Su Shi's "Jiang Chengzi" alone, writing over and over again: Ten years of life and death are two vague, do not think, unforgettable.
When the children fell asleep crying because they missed their mother, Qiao Guanhua would sit up in the middle of the night and then take a magnifying glass and look at the old photos with his wife over and over again.
Seeing the sad place, Qiao Guanhua will cry loudly, and the neighbors will also be infected by his sad emotions.
Gong Peng on the upper floor of Tiananmen Square
Gong Peng's death brought pain to Qiao Guanhua, but also brought pain to her daughter Qiao Songdu, for Qiao Songdu, a series of changes in her father's later years and the rupture of the family became the past that she was most reluctant to recall.
Three years after Gong Peng left, Qiao Guanhua suddenly found his daughter Qiao Songdu and hesitantly said something like this: "I want to find a partner, you are all busy outside, I am very lonely alone, I still want this home, you and your brother do not leave me." ”
For his father's words, Qiao Zonghuai and Qiao Song were a little surprised, but they did not stop his approach, and when the outside world came the accusation that qiao's children opposed their father's remarriage, Qiao Song felt extremely aggrieved.
Jossondo
Qiao Song said: "My brother and I did not oppose my father's remarriage, but only put forward our own opinions on my father's choice at that time. ”
In the summer of 1973, at the request of his father, Qiao Guanhua, Qiao Zonghuai moved away from home and found another house to live in outside, but many years later, some people with hearts said that Qiao Guanhua's children took a large number of items from the family when they moved away.
This claim was debunked by Josson, who insisted that she and her brother had not taken the family's valuables, and that for many years the brother had kept only a record signed by his mother.
In June 1974, Qiao Guanhua was appointed foreign minister, and two years later he was dismissed, and in the most difficult time for Qiao Guanhua, his children silently returned to their father's side.
To this end, Qiao Guanhua also said to outsiders: "When I was at my reddest, my children left me, but when I was at my most difficult, they came to me again." ”
A group photo of Qiao Guanhua and Zhang Hanzhi in his later years
In March 1977, Qiao Guanhua was hospitalized for a sudden myocardial infarction, and in August of the following year, he was diagnosed with lung cancer, and after learning of his condition, Qiao Guanhua was initially surprised, but later he slowly accepted the bad news.
After being diagnosed with lung cancer, Qiao Guanhua was admitted to Beijing Hospital for treatment and underwent lung cancer resection surgery, which caused him physical losses and serious injuries.
In the spring of 1982, Qiao Guanhua's lung cancer recurred and metastasized, and he had to be hospitalized again.
The Mid-Autumn Festival in 1983 was Qiao Guanhua's last night on earth.
That night, he woke up from his coma, stroked Zhang Hanzhi's hair with his hand, and murmured, "After I die, I will find a place with mountains and water that is as quiet as Suzhou." ”
A group photo of Qiao Guanhua and Zhang Hanzhi
At about 10:00 a.m. on September 22, 1983, Qiao Guanhua died in Beijing Hospital at the age of 70.
After Qiao Guanhua's death, his ashes were placed in the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery, and three days later, he was extremely missing of her husband Zhang Hanzhi and took away Qiao Guanhua's ashes, put it in the bedroom, ate and lived with himself, in order to alleviate the feeling of longing.
After the Spring Festival in 1984, Zhang Hanzhi began to look for a final destination for her husband, but because Qiao Guanhua was poor all his life, he did not leave any property for Zhang Hanzhi except for leaving two thousand yuan for his wife.
Zhang Hanzhi knew in her heart that with these two thousand pieces, she could not let Qiao Guanhua bury well.
In desperation, Zhang Hanzhi asked a few friends for help, and finally accepted the help of a friend in Suzhou, and set Qiao Guanhua's cemetery in the Taihu Peninsula In The Taihu Peninsula in The Overseas Chinese Cemetery in Sha Village, Dongshan Tengwan Lake.
Qiao Guanhua's last wish before his death was to be buried in a place with mountains and waters after death, and this cemetery is located in an excellent location, backed by a mountain and facing Taihu Lake, which is just in line with Qiao Guanhua's wish.
On the day of the Qingming Festival, Zhang Hanzhi went to the cemetery with Qiao Guanhua's ashes, personally buried his lover, and also buried Qiao Guanhua's affection for her.