On August 20, 2008, a great heart stopped beating in Beijing. The owner of this heart is Hua Guofeng, an outstanding proletarian revolutionary in China. After Hua Guofeng's death, the wreaths of honor were piled up outside the hall, and the crowd to pay homage to the remains was a sea of people.
On August 22, 2008, the 305 Hospital of the People's Liberation Army set up a spiritual hall for Comrade Hua Guofeng, who died two days ago, so that people from all walks of life could come and mourn this old man who had spent most of his life working for the Chinese revolution.
At 7:00 a.m. on August 31, comrade Hua Guofeng's body was escorted by the honor guard of the three armed services, accompanied by his wife and children, from the spiritual hall set up by the 305 Hospital to the East Farewell Hall of the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery. The Central Committee will hold a memorial service here to bid farewell to Comrade Hua Guofeng. The East Farewell Hall of babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery was the last journey of his life.
The farewell ceremony for the remains began at 9:30 a.m. The East Auditorium of the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery was arranged in black, appearing solemn and heavy.
The portrait of Comrade Hua Guofeng is placed in the middle of the black flannel, and the several large white characters above "Mourn Comrade Hua Guofeng with Deep Sorrow" stand out against the background of the black flannel, which cruelly tells us that this great proletarian revolutionary has left us.
Comrade Hua Guofeng in the portrait has a kind smile, which shows the open-minded character of this old man before his death. Comrade Hua Guofeng's body was placed in the middle of the auditorium, with a bright red party flag covering his body, flowers and cypress surrounding his body. If it just looks, he seems to have just fallen asleep and never left us.
In the small auditorium of the East Farewell Hall, wreaths sent by people from all walks of life were filled, including leading organs such as the CPC Central Committee, the State Council, the National People's Congress, the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and the Central Military Commission, as well as senior leaders of the CPC.
These wreaths silently tell the old man's deeds in his lifetime, as if to tell those who have come to mourn: lying here is a respectable proletarian revolutionary.
Hua Guofeng
Comrade Hua Guofeng's funeral specifications were held at the level of the Central Standing Committee. The specifications of Comrade Hua Guofeng's funeral are not only high, but also the number of people attending is also very large.
There were many central leaders who attended Comrade Hua Guofeng's farewell ceremony alone, including not only leading comrades of the Ninth Standing Committee of the CPC Central Committee, the CPC Central Committee, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, the State Council, the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and the Central Military Commission, but also important members of the third generation of the Central Leadership Collective who have retired.
The farewell ceremony attended by so many central leaders is unprecedented, and it can also be seen from the side that Comrade Hua Guofeng has influenced in the central leadership.
Although the specifications of the farewell ceremony of the remains are high, they are also reasonable. After all, he has been running for the party, the country, and the people all his life. At about 11:30 a.m. on August 31, Comrade Hua Guofeng's memorial service was held. Escorted by several honor guards in dresses, coffins wrapped in bright red party flags were removed from the farewell hall for cremation.
At Comrade Hua Guofeng's funeral, in addition to many senior central leaders who are serving and retired, more people from all walks of life are still people from all walks of life, including elites from all walks of life and ordinary people.
Many of them are middle-aged and elderly people who are about 50 or 60 years old, who were born before and after the founding of New China and witnessed the contributions made by Comrade Hua Guofeng to the party and the people. The death of Comrade Hua Guofeng is a big blow to their generation. Among these people, the most memorable was a middle-aged man in his fifties in the square.
At first, he pulled up a banner in white on a black background in the square, and sixteen large characters were written on the banner. In the crowd of people, he stood still and determined, and stood on the square with a banner.
Later, many people were also infected by the man and spontaneously took turns to help him pull the banner. Although the banner is only sixteen short words, it is also an accurate evaluation of Comrade Hua Guofeng.
Gradually, more and more people came to the square to hear the news, and more and more wreaths were laid, and at the beginning the wreaths sent by the people were also placed in the spiritual hall, but later, there were too many wreaths, so they had to be placed outside the hall. Many people held photos of Comrade Hua Guofeng in their hands, or two or three people pulled up banners.
Everyone spontaneously gathered together to mourn in their own way this person who had made great contributions to the party, the country and the people. The masses of people who came to the square to mourn Comrade Hua Guofeng all came voluntarily, they came from all over the country and from all over the world. As soon as everyone heard the news of Comrade Hua Guofeng's death, they rushed to Beijing in thousands of miles and rivers just to give him one last ride.
These masses, who spontaneously gathered in the square, prove the most powerful evidence of Comrade Hua Guofeng's important position in the hearts of the masses of the people before his death. Even though Comrade Hua Guofeng has long since withdrawn from the political stage and faded from people's vision for many years, his image in the hearts of the masses of the people is still very high and his weight is still very heavy.
In the process of waiting to enter the spiritual hall, the masses from all over the country and all walks of life all looked sad and their eyes were full of tears. There were also several people who were slightly older, and even covered their faces and wept, exhorting each other, and their heartache overflowed into words. When everyone gathered together, they couldn't help but recall the contributions that Comrade Hua Guofeng had made to China.
Everyone said what you said, and I said what Comrade Hua Guofeng did before his death. Although everyone knows that life, old age, illness and death are common human feelings and inevitable, the departure of great people from the world is still painful. The masses of the people represent the people, and they do not talk about politics, they only talk about facts. The people's evaluation is the most simple and the most true.
Because there were too many people who came to attend Comrade Hua Guofeng's farewell ceremony, the original end time was once delayed. The masses of the people who entered the East Farewell Hall walked with heavy steps to the body of Comrade Hua Guofeng, and everyone looked at Hua Guofeng, who was covered by the party flag and surrounded by flowers, which was both cordial and strange.
At 11:30 a.m., the farewell ceremony for the remains ended. When Hua Guofengtong's coffin was removed from the farewell hall and sent to be cremated, the people in the square still did not want to leave. Everyone still held aloft the portrait of Comrade Hua Guofeng and the memorial banner he had made, standing in place and watching the hearse slowly pass in front of them.
At the funeral, people who came to mourn came and went, and everyone came to Hua Guofeng for the last trip with a deep heart, either mourning or silence. Some people have heavy faces, some people have red eyes, and some people cry loudly. However, there was a man at the funeral who always had a resolute face, a gentle look, and a dignified and calm appearance. She is Comrade Hua Guofeng's wife, Han Zhijun.
She was sad, Mr. Han's eyes were a little swollen from crying, and his face was very haggard. As the wife of Comrade Hua Guofeng, she had to receive people who came and went at the funeral, and she also had to shake hands with everyone and talk. She maintained the same solemnity and etiquette as she usually attended the event, calmly like a leaf falling in autumn.
Han Zhijun
Among the guests who came to mourn, there were many comrades-in-arms who had fought side by side with Hua Guofeng, and it was inevitable that they would recall the revolutionary years when they shared weal and woe together and struggled for the same goal. But now it is separated from the sky, and many guests can't cry. In the face of the guests who could not cry, Han Zhijun always personally received and comforted them.
When Comrade Hua Guofeng died, Han Zhijun was already seventy-eight years old. At the age of seventy-eight, he still had to endure the grief of losing his husband and receive guests, and Han Zhijun's body could not hold up for a long time. Her steps slowed down and her body shook a little. The people present could not bear to see that Mr. Han was so tired, and they all urged her to go to the conference room to rest.
However, Han Zhijun always shook her head and refused, and she said gently: "So many people take time out of their busy work to mourn, and some of them have rushed from thousands of miles away. ”
After saying this, Han Zhijun turned to his daughter next to him and said, "Take care of the guests who come to the farewell party for a longer period of time." She also repeatedly stressed that her body was fine, telling everyone not to worry about her. But everyone could see the exhaustion and haggardness on her face.
Like Hua Guofeng, Han Zhijun is also from Shanxi. Like Hua Guofeng, Han Zhijun was a great proletarian revolutionary who cried out for backward China on that dark day. Because of the difference in the time of participation in the revolution, there was not much intersection between Han Zhijun and Hua Guofeng.
It was not until 1948, because the work scheduling of the two people working in Jinzhong at the same time, gradually became familiar.
In 1948, Han Zhijun, who had graduated, worked in the jinzhong prefectural committee. In October of that year, Hua Guofeng came to luxian to work as the propaganda director of the Jinzhong Prefectural Committee. Although the two had heard each other's names before, there was little intersection because of their respective work. When Han Zhijun and Hua Guofeng worked in the same place, the intersection between the two gradually increased.
At that time, Han Zhijun was only seventeen years old, which was the time when young girls were energetic and agile. Seventeen-year-old Han Zhijun is very fond of literature and art, and she often organizes her classmates to perform dramas for the masses in the Liberated Areas. Although she is a girl, she often plays a male role because her image is full of heroism. It is such a girl who often plays male roles that attracts the attention of Hua Guofeng.
He felt that this girl was very different from someone else's girl. It seems that everything was a coincidence, after Hua Guofeng saw Han Zhijun's airport performance, Han Zhijun's third uncle, Tian Zeren, who was then the secretary of the Luxian County Party Committee, introduced Han Zhijun to Hua Guofeng.
After the two have been in contact for a while, the two have the same personality and similar interests. In late November, with the blessing of everyone, Hua Guofeng and Han Zhijun were married. Since they were married, Hua Guofeng and Han Zhijun have joined hands with each other and moved forward together, and the ups and downs have gone through fifty-nine spring, autumn, winter, and summer. Such a lifetime of love between one or two people is really enviable.
In the last days of Hua Guofeng's life, Han Zhijun has been with him, taking care of his living, and also claiming to be Hua Guofeng's "old nanny". Hua Guofeng's death was undoubtedly a huge blow to Han Zhijun, but she still insisted and sent the person she loved most on the last journey in the most decent way.
When it comes to Comrade Hua Guofeng, many people feel that he was a transitional person between the mao zedong and deng xiaoping eras. Such a view cannot be said to be inaccurate, but it is also somewhat one-sided, and it cannot reflect Comrade Hua Guofeng's contribution to the country and the people.
On February 16, 1921, Hua Guofeng was born into a family of tanners in Jiaocheng County, Shanxi. In 1937, the July 7 Incident shook the whole country, and everyone was indignant, including Hua Guofeng, who was only sixteen years old. At the age of sixteen, he resolutely threw himself into the anti-Japanese movement, leaving his life and death behind. In 1938, Hua Guofeng officially became a member of the Communist Party of China.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Hua Guofeng went deep into the strength of the poor people at the bottom, and he went deep among coal miners, peasants, women and children, and aroused the anti-Japanese enthusiasm of the masses with sincere and passionate words. He united these forces together, concentrated small forces into large forces, and played an important role in the anti-Japanese resistance.
At that time, the conditions for the War of Resistance were very difficult, and many of the comrades who participated in the War of Resistance against Japan were workers or peasants before, had not received formal military training, and suffered great losses in battle. Hua Guofeng gathered these anti-Japanese armed forces together, improved their military quality to the greatest extent in the shortest possible time, and made great contributions to the development and expansion of local anti-Japanese forces and the development of anti-Japanese work.
After the founding of New China, his main work place was transferred from Shanxi to Hunan. No matter where he works, it cannot affect Hua Guofeng's enthusiasm for work. After coming to Xiangtan, he first carried out investigation and research to gain an in-depth understanding of the actual situation in Xiangtan. Then he mobilized the masses and carried out his work.
Because of the preliminary investigation and research, the later work has taken many detours and the progress is relatively smooth. It didn't take long for the situation in Xiangtan to become completely new, and many other tasks in Xiangtan, such as the establishment of the government, the suppression of bandits, disaster relief, and land reform and production, were carried out under the leadership of Hua Guofeng.
No matter what kind of work he does, Hua Guofeng's principle is that he must seek truth from facts. He believed that practice was the only test of truth. If you don't go to the grassroots level to investigate and research before you do the work, it is a closed door. Such an approach will not only fail to truly solve the problems of people's lives, but will also cause a large waste of resources such as manpower and material resources.
On the point of seeking truth from facts, Hua Guofeng has always done a good job. Later, Hua Guofeng served as the first secretary of the Hunan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China. In the leadership position of Hunan Province, Comrade Hua Guofeng has made significant contributions to the development and construction of Hunan Province.
In terms of agriculture, he not only attaches importance to agricultural production, but also attaches great importance to farmland water conservancy infrastructure. Under the presidency of Comrade Hua Guofeng, Hunan has newly built a number of large-scale water conservancy projects such as the drainage of Dongting Lake and the Shaoshan Irrigation District. Yuan Longping's hybrid rice was also carried out with the strong support of Hua Guofeng.
In terms of industry, grasping industrial production and engaging in transportation construction have become the focus of his work. With the efforts of Hua Guofeng, Hunan, which originally had a relatively weak industrial base, has made great progress in industry.
In the medical field, he vigorously promoted the rural barefoot doctor and cooperative medical system. In terms of culture and education, Hua Guofeng has always paid attention to implementing the principle of "a hundred schools are released, and a hundred schools of thought are contending", while also paying great attention to protecting and developing the local characteristic culture of Hunan. These things he did in Hunan are really seeking the welfare of the people of Hunan and thinking about the future of Hunan's development with sincerity and sincerity.
Today's Hunan is already a large province with developed economy, convenient transportation and cultural diversity, and all this is inseparable from the contribution made by Comrade Hua Guofeng in Hunan.
In the 1970s, Comrade Hua Guofeng was transferred to the Central Committee. In the work of the State Council, he did his best to assist Zhou Enlai in correcting the ultra-"Left" trend of thought that was prevalent throughout the country at that time.
It was also he, at a time when China's historical development was crucial, who stood up without hesitation and resolutely fought to the end against those who harbored ill intentions. In the end, their conspiracy did not succeed, saving the Party and saving the cause of socialism in China.
It was Comrade Hua Guofeng who played a decisive role in this struggle against those who harbor ill intentions; it was Comrade Hua Guofeng who pushed the CPC and China's cause to open a new chapter.
In 1980, Comrade Hua Guofeng ceased to concurrently hold the post of Premier of the State Council. Gradually, he faded from the political arena until he stepped down from his leadership position.
In order for the new China to have a better development, in order to see the beautiful goal they fought for in those years, he was willing to give up the so-called high position. This is also why, at Hua Guofeng's farewell ceremony, there will be a banner that reads, "Considering the overall situation with a frank mind, and having a great reputation and outstanding achievements will always exist."
Hua Guofeng, who retired from his leadership position, was very low-key and lived a quiet and beautiful old age with his wife Han Zhijun. It is said that after retirement, Hua Guofeng was afraid of being recognized by others when he went to the street, and he has always been so low-key. Although he retired at home, he is still very concerned about reform, opening up, and socialist modernization.
In his own yard, he desperately hoped that these two things would bring a better country to the Chinese people.
From 1921 to 2008, during the eighty-seventh year of Comrade Hua Guofeng's life, he devoted his life's energy to China's revolution, China's construction and China's reform. After his death, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China called him "an outstanding member of the Communist Party of China, a tried and tested loyal communist fighter, and a proletarian revolutionary." ”