Thousands of people went to Babao Mountain to mourn Mr. Shu Yi
Yan Mingguang Photo/ Reporter Zhang Enjie
On the morning of April 27, thousands of people came to the East Auditorium of Babaoshan Funeral Home in Beijing to send Mr. Shu Yi, the son of Lao She and former director of the Museum of Modern Chinese Literature, on his last journey.
At 8:00 a.m. on the same day, a reporter from Beijing Youth Daily came to the Babaoshan Funeral Home and saw hundreds of people waiting in line outside the gate of the East Auditorium, some holding chrysanthemums and some flipping through Shu Yi's life commemorative book.
On both sides of the door of the East Auditorium, there are long ribbons hanging, which read, "Moral heirlooms are like a family, and the style of the article will last forever", and the middle banner is "Deeply miss Mr. Shu Yi" eight big characters.
In the farewell hall, Shu Yi's body lay in a lily bush, covered with the flag of the Communist Party of China, and a huge portrait of Shu Yi hung in the middle of the farewell hall. Including Tie Ning, Qian Xiaoqian, Li Jingze and other leaders of the China Writers Association, as well as Li Bin, an old actor from Beijing, three people stood in a row, bowed to Shu Yi's body three times, and successively stepped forward to express their condolences to Shu Yi's wife Yu Bin, sister Shu Ji, and sister Shu Yu.
On both sides of the farewell hall are gifs of seagulls spreading their wings and soaring on the mighty sea, it is reported that this is because Shu Yi was born in Qingdao, grew up in the rough sea, and he has a strong attachment to the sea; and the soothing Russian music recalls his youth when he studied in the Soviet Union.
One of the remembrances
Under shu Yi's efforts, the Babaoshan Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery built the Yan Baohang Monument
On the morning of April 27, at the farewell ceremony for the body of Shu Yi, the son of Lao She, Yan Mingguang, daughter of Yan Baohang, an intelligence worker on the HIDDEN front of the COMMUNIST Party, slowly walked into the farewell hall with the support of everyone. She took off her top hat from her head and bowed three times to Shu Yi's body, and at this moment, she took off her glasses and wiped her tears with a tissue. Immediately after, she circled around Shu Yi's body, looking back at Shu Yi's remains from time to time as she walked, until she walked to Shu Yi's wife Yu Bin, took Yu Bin's hand and hugged her headache and cried. While crying, she inquired about Shu Yi's physical condition before her death, and handed Yu Bin the latest picture of Lao She father and son she had brought from Shanghai.
"Yu Bin, do you know?" Lao She and my father Yan Baohang were good friends when they were teenagers, and in 1926 Lao She, my father, and Ning Encheng, who later became the president of Northeastern University, studied together in Britain. Yu Bin said with tears: "The friend of life and death! ”
In the nearby lounge, the Beiqing Daily reporter interviewed Yan Mingguang. At the age of 95, after hearing the bad news of the death of her best friend Shu Yi, she immediately decided to come to Beijing to send her old friend on the last trip. "I had heart surgery and had a serious cerebral infarction in October last year, and I was critically ill and rescued. In such a physical condition, my family advised me not to go, and to always commemorate Shu Yi in my heart. But I insisted on coming, and I must see Shu Yi for the last time. Yan Mingguang choked up and said, and her family accompanied her to rush from Shanghai to Beijing by high-speed train on the 26th.
Yan Mingguang pointed to the photo in his hand and recalled, "This is a group photo of my father Yan Baohang and Lao She in England in 1926, together with their friend Ning Encheng. They studied in Britain, and later the situation in northeast China was tense, so they all returned to China one after another to participate in the Anti-Japanese Salvation Movement. Lao She, who was a teenager as a teenager, participated in the camping activities of Changbai Mountain in Northeast China with my father, and their friendship lasted for a long time. ”
It is worth mentioning that the sincere friendship of the previous generation has also been inherited to the next generation. Shu Yi also has deep feelings for Yan Baohang's family. In 1991, Yan Mingguang, as a special envoy of Deng Xiaoping and Deng Yingchao, went to the United States to meet with Zhang Xueliang, hoping that he would be able to return to China to visit relatives and friends in his lifetime. "At that time, General Zhang Xueliang entrusted me to set up an education foundation in the name of my father, Yan Baohang. In this way, since the establishment of the Yan Baohang Foundation, Shu Yi has single-mindedly used his greatest strength to care about and support the development of the Foundation. In the past 30 years, he has personally participated in all the activities of the Foundation for Poverty Alleviation and Education. Yan Mingguang said.
Yan Mingguang also clearly remembers that Shu Yi took the opportunity of holding a grand commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the victory of the World Anti-Fascist War in 2015 to write a report to the leaders of the country, stating the great contributions made by the intelligence workers of the CCP's hidden front represented by Yan Baohang in the Anti-Japanese Salvation Movement, and he hoped to erect a monument to Yan Baohang at the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery. In this way, Shu Yi's wish was finally realized, and he asked Wu Weishan, director of the National Art Museum, to give Yan Baohang a free statue, and later, one piece of the work was displayed in the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery and one was donated to Russia. Later, Wu Weishan personally went to the ward and told Shu Yi: "I have completed the task you gave me, rest assured!" ”
Shu Yi is so enthusiastic about public welfare cultural undertakings, overworked and sudden cerebral hemorrhage and admitted to the hospital. I visited him several times, and I looked at his condition and thought there was hope for a cure. He shook my hand and was able to gesture with his eyes, 'I was very touched to see me!' We had been looking forward to the day he would wake up, but he was gone, leaving us forever. ”
Remembrance two
Field research formed a PROPOSAL of the CPPCC
The issue of preserving the rations of more than 200,000 people
After Shu Yi's death, the funeral committee received hundreds of condolences and telegrams from all walks of life. Among them, a condolence telegram signed by Ye Shuyuan was written very warmly and emotionally. Ye Shuyuan is a retired civil servant in the water conservancy system of Santai County, Sichuan Province. He wrote in a condolence telegram, "Around 2006, after being introduced by a friend of Ms. Zheng Bixian, an overseas Chinese writer in France, I met Mr. Shu Yi. He was a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference at the time, and I reported to him the disrepair of the 'Yongheyan' water conservancy project in Sandai County. He personally came to Santai County to do research, and I accompanied him to investigate the 'Gaojia Bridge' designed by Huang Wanli, a new Chinese water conservancy expert, and built by santai people, and after repeated investigation, he formed a feasible CPPCC proposal and proposal, and finally helped us win tens of millions of maintenance funds in Santai County. ”
Ye Shuyuan told the Beiqing Daily reporter that with this fund, around 2010, the implementation of rectification, now more than 100,000 acres of grain fields everywhere a mesonary irrigation stream sound, crops every year drought and flood to ensure the harvest, "Fucheng wheat winter" the annual taste is full of laughter and the joy of harvest, behind this, is Shu Yi's appeal to save the ration problem of more than 200,000 people.
"It is worth mentioning that I also accompanied Shu Yi to inspect the ancient city wall of Tongchuan. When he saw the ruins of the ancient city wall that had been damaged by real estate development, he said ' Loser! ' The leader on the side was choked up and did not say a word. When he saw the picture of the tomb of the Three Tai Jiang Han 'Dogs Taking Care of Rats and Nosy', he said: 'This is a treasure!' Don't be destroyed again!! Shu Yi is such an outspoken scholar of cultural relics protection, and I was touched by his sincerity. Ye Shuyuan said that since then, he and Shu Yi have often had contacts, and they have called and greeted each other at the beginning of the year.
During the exchange, Shu Yi also learned that Ye Shuyuan had been providing education assistance services for orphans and disabled children in the Daliangshan area of Sichuan since 1989, and he offered to join. "He often reminded me to do what I can to do public welfare, and not to make myself unbeatable." In 2014, Ye Shuyuan took several orphans and disabled children from Daliangshan to visit Shu Yi's home after participating in the CCTV Spring Festival Gala performance. Shu Yi wrote several calligraphy and paintings for the children, encouraging everyone to study hard, have a great future in the future, contribute to society, and know how to be grateful.
Article/Reporter Zhang Enjie Photo/Reporter Wang Xiaoxi
Co-ordinator/Liu Jianghua