"The little arrow first came out of the post, as if it wanted to bloom yellow. Delicate and elegant world is difficult to find, thousands of purple and red jealous fragrance. This poem, which vividly describes a man's deep longing for his beloved, is a love poem written by Chen Yi, one of the early leaders of the Chinese revolution and one of the later Ten Marshals, chen Yi, who was the mayor of Shanghai and the foreign minister of the People's Republic of China, to his lover Zhang Qian. That Zhang Qian, who is it? What kind of untold love story does she have with Marshal Chen Yi?
Zhang Qian, formerly known as Zhang Zhangzhu, was born in an ordinary family in Wuhan, China, but what matched that era was the patriarchal ideology of most Chinese families, and she would have been like countless ordinary women who were annihilated in the dust of history, marrying and having children directly, but because her mother was more enlightened, she sent her to school. Zhang Qian not only did not live up to her mother's ardent expectations, but also did a lot of deviant things: she did not stay in the classroom in a disciplined manner, but embarked on the road of serving the country and the people very early, and her frequent participation in anti-Japanese activities on the street made her mother worry about her safety. After several unsuccessful attempts at persuasion, Zhang Qian's parents locked her up. However, Zhang Qian did not admit her fate because of this, she took advantage of the fact that no one was paying attention, found an opportunity, slipped out, and defected to the New Fourth Army, the anti-Japanese contingent that she was thinking about.
Because Zhang Qian was beautiful and cultured, and was the "baby bump" in the ranks of the New Fourth Army, the organization did not arrange for her to go to the front line of the War of Resistance, but assigned her to a field service regiment of the New Fourth Army. The conditions of this service group were a little worse, but for Zhang Qian and other intellectuals, they still cherished it, and they arranged a teacher for her to perform, specifically teaching her to perform. As an intellectual, Zhang Qian's learning ability is naturally much stronger than that of ordinary people, so she quickly grew into a performance artist who can stand alone. Since then, on the front line of anti-Japanese propaganda in southern Anhui, everyone knows that there is a big beautiful woman named Zhang Qian.
Zhang Qian, not only a woman with a high sense of mission for the country and the nation, but also a woman who has a pursuit and exquisiteness for the future, so in the choice of the other half of life, she neither obeys her parents' arrangements, nor does she easily accept the pursuit of others. But there are accidents in everything, accidents that disrupt all your plans.
It was a performance at the Chen Clan Ancestral Hall, Zhang Qian met the most important person in her life, do you know who he is? Yes, this person is the famous Chen Yi. At this time, Chen Yi had become a small famous person because of his military achievements in leading the New Fourth Army against the Japanese army, but the love between Zhang Qian and Chen Yi did not go as smoothly as the idol drama, and Chen Yi also encountered many "small setbacks" when pursuing Zhang Qian.
After chen yi saw Zhang Qian's performance, he fell in love with Zhang Qian at first sight, and he could not wave her shadow from his mind for a long time, and then he went to find Zhu Kejing, the leader of the field service regiment, to understand Zhang Qian's situation. Zhu Kejing saw that Chen Yi had moved his mind, took the initiative to help, and wanted to help him introduce him, but Chen Yi was unwilling to force Zhang Qian to obey with a leadership posture, saying that the matter of chasing the girl could only be done by himself, and could not be forced by power. And if Zhu Kejing had to do something, then create more opportunities for him and Zhang Qian to have contact. However, Zhu Kejing did create an opportunity for Chen Yi to contact Zhang Qian, but he was afraid that Chen Yi would "do good things and grind more", so he directly told Zhang Qian what Chen Yi was interesting to her. What about Zhang Qian? I don't know if my feelings for Chen Yi are admiration or other feelings, I didn't have an idea for a while, so I didn't give Chen Yi a positive answer, and I hung out our Mr. Chen for a long time.
Chen Yi
And Mr. Chen, who was not afraid of heaven, did not panic at this time, because he not only knew that the War of Resistance Against Japan would be a protracted war, but he was also on the road of pursuing Zhang Qian, "the revolution has not yet succeeded, comrades still need to work hard", he was not frightened by setbacks, but continued to launch a love "onslaught" on Zhang Qian - constantly writing letters to her, but our boss Chen's love road is destined to be "good things and more grinding". Because Zhang Qian did not want others to gossip, she found the leader of the regiment and hoped that the leader of the regiment would give her a message to Chen Yi, saying that she was still very young and had no plans to fall in love, and hoped that Comrade Chen Yi would not bother her again in the future. Afterwards, she told a friend about her rejection of Chen Yi, who advised her to think about it more, so she was willing to have a good chat with Chen Yi.
It is said that they talked for a total of 8 hours that time, and Chen Yi told her about his revolutionary past and private emotional life, which gradually touched Zhang Qian, and Zhang Qian became less resistant to Chen Yi than before. However, without the help of revolutionary comrades, Chen Yi estimated that there would still be a detour to take on the road to pursue Zhang Qian, especially the "army coat incident" in which the feelings of the two people were sublimated. Once in a performance, it was necessary to use a military coat, and Zhang Qian did not have it for the time being, so the leader of the troupe "helplessly" asked her to go to Chen Yi to borrow it, and Chen Yi of course agreed to his request and gave her the coat. When Zhang Qian sorted out her coat, she found that the three words "Zan Chunlan" were written on a slip of paper that had leaked out of one of the pockets of the original military coat. Some people have to ask, who is "Chunlan"? In fact, "Chunlan" is Zhang Qian's nickname, and only those who are close to Zhang Qian call her.
Only to see the paper write: The small arrow with the fetus first came out of the post, as if it wanted to bloom yellow. Delicate and elegant world is difficult to find, thousands of purple and red jealous fragrance, that is, the scene we started. This "mistake" of Comrade Chen Yi completely touched Zhang Qian's heart, and this poem also became a work of love between Chen Yi and Zhang Qian. In order to consolidate the "fruits of revolutionary victory", a generation of Confucian generals Chen Yi did not stop his "attack", not only wrote many love poems such as: Spring light shines like a fool in the eyes, ashamed of my Jiangnan unified sharp division. Where is the twenty-year pride? Losing and Hongfang did not know it, and also gave himself a gentle pen name "Defu", which made Zhang Qian moved.
Although the love chase battle is good-looking, but the reunion ending between the talented son and the beautiful person finally becoming a family is what people want, in the spring of 1940, after a simple ceremony, Chen Yi finally hugged the beautiful person and married Zhang Qian, ending his long-distance running process on the love marathon. After marriage, because Chen Yi wanted to fight in the east and the west, Zhang Qian and Chen Yi were together less and more, until Chen Yi became the mayor of Shanghai, Zhang Qian was able to reunite with Chen Yi, and later Chen Yi concurrently served as foreign minister, so Zhang Qian was also nicknamed "China's first diplomatic lady".
Speaking of this, we can't help but sigh, because most of the people who say that Zhang Qian is the "first diplomatic lady" are because Zhang Qian is the wife of Foreign Minister Chen Yi, but she really gave up her acting career and started a diplomatic career. It turned out that just when Zhang Qian was preparing to go to Beijing to realize her dream of drama when she was young, Chen Yi felt that she was particularly suitable for diplomacy, so he suggested that she give up her dream of drama and specialize in diplomacy. But Zhang Qian had not yet figured it out, so he had a "conflict" with Chen Yi, and Chen Yi could not persuade her for a while, so he took the curve to save the country and invited Lady Song Qingling to persuade her. It may be that Zhang Qian finally figured it out, or it may be that the communication between women is more effective than that of men, in short, after talking with Mrs. Song Qingling's side, Zhang Qian finally agreed to "change careers" and has since made great contributions to China's foreign exchanges.
In 1958, as foreign minister, Chen Yi met with ambassadors for the first time, but the weather was unpredictable, and On the eve of the meeting, Chen Yi fell ill. In desperation, he had to ask his wife, Zhang Qian, to come out of the mountain and meet with ambassadors instead of him. At this time, Zhang Qian not only had a strong psychological quality baptized in the war years, but also helped her to learn English, Russian and other foreign language skills in order to prepare for diplomacy. In the end, her generous demeanor, fluent foreign language and posture of not letting her eyebrows be raised made the eyes of foreign guests light up, the international image of New China was further maintained, and Zhang Qian officially stepped onto the stage of Chinese diplomacy.
In July 1958, China formally established diplomatic relations with the Kingdom of Cambodia, and in August, Cambodian Prime Minister Prince Sihanouk visited China, and chen Yi and Zhang Qian, the "divine eagle heroes" who received him in the flames of war in China, were officially received. The warm hospitality of Foreign Minister Chen Yi and his wife Zhang Qian made Prince Sihanouk very impressed with China, and extended an invitation to Foreign Minister Chen Yi and his wife Zhang Qian to visit Cambodia during the Water Festival, which is from November 25 to 27. Foreign Minister Chen Yi happily accepted the invitation and promised that Zhang Qian would visit Cambodia on behalf of China at that time.
On November 23, 1958, Zhang Qian led 11 outstanding Chinese women from different industries to Cambodia for an eight-day state visit. In May 1961, Zhang Qian also accompanied Chen Yi to the Second Geneva Conference. During this meeting, there was a small episode that not only tested Zhang Qian's diplomatic wisdom, but also reflected the diplomatic trend at that time.
It was the story of a cocktail party that took place at this meeting, when Zhang Qian, who was busy talking with the wives of the representatives of various countries, suddenly found that Mrs. Harriman of the US delegation was walking towards her, but in terms of Sino-US relations at that time, any personnel of the Chinese delegation were forbidden to have contact with the US delegates, so in the face of the Americans' initiative to show goodwill, Zhang Qian fell into a dilemma: if there was a violation of the law in communicating with her, but if she ignored it, it would be very impolite. So the clever move, pretending not to understand foreign languages, taking advantage of Mrs. Harriman's time to find an interpreter, Zhang Qian changed the topic and chatted with another group of representative ladies. This incident fully demonstrates the sensitivity of Zhang Qian's diplomacy, and also reflects her calm and witty character.
In 1962, the wife of the Indonesian president Hatini visited China, Chen Yi and Zhang Qian accompanied him on a tour of the Summer Palace, Zhang Qian explained one of the scenes and one thing to Hatini, winning Hatini's good feelings for China. It can be said that Zhang Qian has made indelible contributions to China's diplomatic cause, especially to the diplomacy of Southeast Asian countries.
After Chen Yi's death from colon cancer, Zhang Qian also worked day and night knowing that she was also terminally ill, and finally put her lover and her revolutionary partner Chen Yi's painstaking work - various types of articles were compiled into drafts and completed a "Selected Poems of Chen Yi". She herself died on March 20, 1974, at the age of 52 due to overwork.
Throughout the lives of the two of them, we can't help but feel the touching love of sharing weal and woe, life and death, and we can also see zhang Qian's so-called talent as the "first foreign lady of China" in that era.