Looking at the world, China should be the country that attaches the most importance to the aftermath, influenced by the traditional culture and thought of the past, Chinese generally has the idea of "the dead are heavy", and will attach great importance to the future affairs of the deceased.
In Chinese funeral rites, the respect for the deceased in the past is reflected in the value of coffins and funerary products, and after the modern popular cremation is reflected in the location of the cemetery, such as the ashes of many revolutionary martyrs were buried in babaoshan Cemetery.
It symbolizes an honor and accolade.
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However, whether it is burial or cremation, it is necessary to ensure the integrity of the body or ashes of the deceased, which is the respect for the deceased. However, in 1991, the central government received a surprising request, and Zhang Feng, the wife of the founding general Pi Dingjun, proposed that the organization would agree to move her husband's ashes out of Babaoshan and bury them in two different places.
Of course, Zhang Feng would make such a request for a reason, and the reason dates back to before the death of General Pi Dingjun.
In 1976, General Pi Dingjun was hospitalized for eye disease and was about to undergo eye surgery, but in July, when our army was about to conduct a three-service exercise, he had heard that he had not been present, and the morale of the soldiers was low, so he decided to attend this time no matter what.
The doctor repeatedly refused his discharge invitation out of concern for his physical condition.
But General Pi had already made up his mind and still insisted on being discharged from the hospital.
No one expected that there would be an air crash when taking a helicopter to the exercise site, and General Pi Dingjun was killed at the age of 62, and then the organization recovered Pi Dingjun's bones in accordance with the relevant regulations, cremated it and buried it in babaoshan Cemetery.
As a person who was eligible to be buried in the Babaoshan Cemetery after his death, pi Dingjun's first half of his life can be described as vigorous, after the fall of Henan, he was sent to the western Henan region, which was under the control of the Kuomintang around 1944, and they spared no effort to slander the image of the Communist Party in the people, resulting in the people having no trust in the officers and men of our army, so our army also encountered many difficulties when it first entered western Henan.
However, Pi Dingjun did not have the slightest fear, faced the difficulties, successively seized the airfield and railway under construction from the Japanese army, rescued tens of thousands of enslaved migrant workers, and proved the determination of the Eighth Route Army to defend the people with actions, so that all problems could be solved.
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After establishing a base area in the local area, Pi Dingjun always paid attention to contact with the masses, and he often told his subordinates that the masses of the people were often the key to the victory of the troops, and although the people were unarmed,
However, it can provide the materials and intelligence that the Eighth Route Army needs most, and only by maintaining close ties with the masses can it go a long way.
Under his correct leadership, the base areas in western Henan have gradually developed and grown, and the people's lives have become better and better. In the end, Pi Dingjun also fulfilled his promise, annihilated all the local Japanese and Japanese puppet army troops, and let the local people regain their land.
The local people's revolutionary fighting spirit in western Henan is also very high, not only because of the communist party's policy incentives, but also because of Pi Dingjun's own personality charm.
Their enthusiasm played a great role in the anti-Japanese cause of our army during the war.
Pi Dingjun had a deep affection for the people of western Henan, and many years later the local people had already lived a stable life, and General Pi also went to work elsewhere, but the local people never forgot his kindness. Therefore, after learning of Pi Dingjun's death, the local people sent several representatives to find Zhang Feng, hoping to bury the ashes of General Pi Dingjun in western Henan.
Give everyone the opportunity to commemorate the worship.
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This feeling of the local people is understandable, after all, Pi Dingjun can be described as a regenerating parent for them, and Pi Dingjun himself also has a different feeling for Yuxi.
So after meeting yuxi's hometown, Pi Dingjun's wife Zhang Feng, after some careful consideration, finally proposed that she hoped to divide the cemetery where her husband was originally buried in Babaoshan into two, and send one to Yuxi for burial.
Let the local people have the opportunity to worship him, and the other part will be buried on the stove mountain, which is where the air disaster occurred in Piding.
After careful consideration in the organization, it was finally decided to respect the wishes of the family, take out the ashes of General Pi, and send them to two different places for burial according to Zhang Feng's request. After placing her husband's ashes, Zhang Feng recalled her husband's tortuous life and felt a lot of emotions in her heart.
In the end, she personally wrote an inscription for Pi Dingjun, summarizing General Pi's revolutionary career with "nine deaths and one life", which is also the most appropriate description, after all, General Pi was still bent on contributing to the country and the organization until his death, such an old revolutionary deserves our admiration and memory.