This photo was taken on October 1, 1949. At 3 pm that day, the red flags in Tiananmen Square in Beijing were floating and crowded. 300,000 soldiers and civilians gathered here to celebrate the birth of New China.
In the photo, Chairman Mao was standing in front of the crowd, with a loudspeaker in front of him. I saw him look solemn and read a sentence in the dialect of his hometown Hunan - "The Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China is established today!"
Before he finished speaking, the flash flashed quickly. Xinhua News Agency reporter Chen Zhengqing used the camera in his hand to permanently record this sacred moment and freeze it into a photo " Founding Ceremony ".
In the photo of "The Founding Ceremony", Chairman Mao is the most prominent, and Premier Zhou and Lin Boqu are also among them. However, if we take a closer look, we will find that a person who should have been present is missing, that is Zhu De! On the day of the founding ceremony, Zhu De, as the commander-in-chief of the military parade, attended the ceremony throughout the whole process, and then climbed the Tiananmen Gate Tower with Chairman Mao and others. In that case, why is there no him in the photo?
So, where did Zhu De go and what important thing made him miss such an important and historic moment? Let’s take a look together below.
When it comes to Zhu De, I believe everyone is familiar with it. He was born in poverty and was born in 1886 in a tenant farmer family in Yilong, Sichuan. The difficult environment of his childhood made him see too much suffering in the world, so he hated the old society where "people cannibalize" and was determined to change it.
In the early years, Zhu De tried to "save the country by joining the army". He entered the Yunnan martial arts lecture hall , joined the China Tongmenghui , and followed Cai E and to participate in the Xinhai Revolution and the armed protest against Yuan's country protection movement. Zhu De, who made many military achievements, was promoted to brigade commander of the National Revolutionary Army. However, after staying in the warlords for a long time, he realized that this place was filled with many feudal habits and could not truly change the old society.
So Zhu De, who was successful and famous, resolutely rushed from Sichuan to Shanghai to find Chen Duxiu and begged him to allow himself to join the Communist Party of China.
But Chen Duxiu thinks that Zhu De is an old warlord, so what is the proletarian revolution? Of course, he didn't want Zhu De to join and politely rejected Zhu De. Although Zhu De knew that it was impossible for him to join the party in the country and was a little depressed, he did not give up.
Later, Zhu De found out that there was a branch of the Communist Party of China traveling to Europe in France, and he traveled thousands of miles, experiencing time and effort to travel across the ocean to Europe, and found Premier Zhou, the head of the branch of the European Union, and made every request, and then he successfully joined the Communist Party of China.
In mid-July 1927, the first cooperation between of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China was declared broken due to the conviction of Chiang Kai-shek. The Kuomintang reactionaries massacred a large number of Communists. In times of crisis, in the face of revolution and life saving, many people with unstable wills "sell insults and seek honor" and defected to the Kuomintang.
Zhu De returned from Europe, holding military power at that time and was very influential in the National Revolutionary Army. However, in the face of the crisis, he put aside fame, wealth and temptation, and chose to follow the party firmly without hesitation.
So Zhu De and Premier Zhou and others launched the Nanchang Uprising , but the uprising soon failed due to reactionary suppression. There were only 800 people left in the team of thousands. Faced with the defeat, many soldiers were depressed and discouraged, and wanted to give up the uprising and disperse.
At the critical moment, Zhu De stood up and encouraged everyone:
The Revolution failed, and our rebel army also failed, but we still want to revolution and must not give up. If you want revolutionary people to follow me, if you don’t want to go home, I won’t force you. But I want to say that a true revolutionary can not only withstand the test of victory, but also withstand the test of failure. After the failure of the Russian Revolution in 1905, it was dark, but the darkness was very short, and the revolution was successful in 1917. As long as we persist in the struggle, China will also usher in its own ‘1917’!
In fact, few of the officers and soldiers present understood what "1905" and "1917" were. However, Zhu De's words were very contagious, like a never-ending fire that shone into their hearts in an instant.
800 people were originally teams that lost their souls, but because of Zhu De's words, most of them chose to stay. As a result, they became the first force of our party's armed revolution, and finally developed into a million troops that no one expected after 22 years.
Since then, Zhu De has become one of the important leaders of our party and our army. During the battle, he led the way many times and was at the forefront of the armed revolutionary struggle.
It was January 1933. In the deep winter, the biting cold swept through Poyang Lake . The water and grass on the lake surface were all condensed with a layer of white frost. The fourth "encirclement and suppression" launched by Chiang Kai-shek on our party's Jiangxi base area was also at a fierce moment.
In the area of Jinxi , Wu Qiwei, a general of the Kuomintang reactionary faction, built a large number of fortifications in Changgangbu, Zaoshu and other places, and launched a fierce attack on Red Army .
Wu Qiwei was "prepared", so he was full of confidence. He thought that with his advantages in weapons, equipment and support, he could annihilate the Red Army, but he obviously underestimated the combat effectiveness of the People's Army.
The commander-in-chief of the Red Army Zhu De personally directed the battle. Faced with the fierce enemy, he divided the troops into four groups and used guerrilla warfare and mobile warfare to allow the soldiers to attack the Kuomintang reactionary army from different directions.
Kuomintang reactionaries massacred the revolutionary masses and communists, oppressed and exploited the people, and the Red Army soldiers hated these guys to the core. Therefore, as soon as the battle started, each of them was brave and fearless and charged.
In such an almost "one-sided" situation, the battle started at 1 pm. By around 4 pm, the Kuomintang reactionary troops led by Wu Qiwei could not hold on and collapsed across the board.
Wu Qiwei and his "dog-legged" were all panicked, while the Red Army soldiers took advantage of the victory and became more and more brave as they fought. As the enemy was about to be wiped out, a "buzzing" sound suddenly came from the horizon, and the enemy's fighter planes rushed over from afar to support.
Red Army soldiers lack effective air defense methods and have no choice but to crawl on the ground and avoid their sharp edge. Everyone was watching the enemies that could be eliminated immediately and ran farther and farther away. One was more anxious than the other, but they were afraid of the enemy planes, and no one dared to act rashly.
At this moment of stalemate, a tough voice suddenly came from behind: "Comrades, don't be afraid, let's chase! As long as we are mixed with the enemy, the enemy planes will not dare to shoot, they can only be anxious! We must not let an enemy run away!"
At this time, everyone looked back and found that he was tall and honest, standing on a small mountain, majestic, and was the commander-in-chief of the Red Army Zhu De!
enemy plane dived down at this time, and machine gun kept firing into the ground, and the bullets were fired out "click". However, in the rain of bullets, Zhu De was not afraid at all, did not dodge, ignored his own safety, and waved to the soldiers.
Not even the commander-in-chief is afraid, what else do we fear? The soldiers were immediately inspired and immediately got up from the ground with a "wow" sound. Then, the roaring shouts of killing trembled in the mountains and forests. The officers and soldiers shouted: "Chasing quickly, don't let the enemy run away!"
Red Army soldiers rushed towards the enemy like a tide. The reactionary army was defeated in the battle and was already scared to the strong morale Red Army below.
or run around like a headless fly, collapsed into a mess; or squatted on the ground with his legs limp and surrendered directly; a very few enemies chose to resist stubbornly, but the bullet was instantly shot dead by the Red Army before it was released.
The Red Army sang and advanced all the way, chasing the enemy for dozens of miles, and finally won a complete victory. Zhu De's command and his encouragement to stand up in times of crisis undoubtedly played an important and even critical role.
In addition to leading the way in the military, Zhu De also firmly supports the truth in politics, supports Chairman Mao’s correct decisions many times, and forged a deep revolutionary friendship with Chairman Mao.
It was October 1934. After the failure of the fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression", the Red Army was forced to start the Long March . The troops arrived in Zunyi, Guizhou after thousands of difficulties and dangers and held the famous " Zunyi Conference ".
At this famous meeting, Chairman Mao solemnly criticized the "left" opportunistic line of Bogu , Li De and others. However, the other party was dissatisfied and refuted sternly, saying that Bo Gu, Li De and others were the candidates they favored by the Soviet Union, and Chairman Mao's move was a serious anti-party act.
At an important moment, Zhu De slapped the table violently and supported Chairman Mao clearly and said:
I was going to say that it is not the right thing. Now you still have to insist on your wrong leadership. Then I will tell you clearly now that I support Mao Zedong. Since the Jinggangshan struggle, I have followed Comrade Mao Zedong to revolutionize, and in the future I will always follow him to the end! On the Long March, Chairman Mao proposed to go north to Gansu and Shaanxi to avoid the Kuomintang's pursuit and suppression, and also seek opportunities to fight against Japan. Zhang Guotao refused to obey orders and advocated going south, plotting to plan a division, trying to establish a pseudo-central privately, and proclaiming himself chairman.
For this reason, Zhang Guotao once threatened Zhu De by shooting, forcing him to take sides, asking him to join his own camp, and oppose Chairman Mao together. If Zhu De has his own firm belief, how could he easily shake it?
Zhu De was not afraid of Zhang Guotao's threat, and looked directly at Zhang Guotao with bright eyes, and replied firmly like gold and stone:
The Central Committee's decision to go north to fight against Japan was passed by me, and I must not object to it! You can shoot me or even split me in half, but you will never be able to cut off my relationship with Comrade Mao Zedong. People often say that Zhu Mao and Zhu Mao. Foreigners think that we are the same person, so how could Zhu oppose Mao?
It is precisely because of Zhu De and others' firm support and support for Chairman Mao's decision and their efforts to fight against Zhang Guotao that Zhang Guotao's separatist conspiracy was eventually shattered, thus ensuring the integrity of the Party and the Red Army and avoiding unnecessary losses from the revolutionary forces.
Along the way, the Communist Party’s armed forces have changed from the Red Army to the Eighth Route Army and then to the People’s Liberation Army. Zhu De has always been the commander-in-chief of the entire army. He led the troops, sang triumphantly, and defeated one stubborn enemy after another who was blocking the road to revolution.
In 1949, Chiang Kai-shek fled Taiwan with his remnants. Chairman Mao and others discussed the establishment of a new China, established the capital of Beijing, and held the founding ceremony on October 1 of that year. On the magnificent Tiananmen Square , 300,000 soldiers and civilians gathered here to celebrate the founding of New China .
Zhu De served as the commander-in-chief of the military parade and attended the ceremony throughout the whole process. Then, together with Chairman Mao and others, he went up step by step along the ancient brick stairway on the west side of the Tiananmen Gate Tower and climbed the tall city tower.
However, when Chairman Mao announced that "the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China was established today", there was no Zhu De in the frozen photo. It is obvious that other leaders who came with each other can see them in the photos, why is Zhu De missing?
In fact, this matter is not complicated, it is just caused by a small accident. It was this accident that caused Zhu De not to appear in the photo, but this accident was extremely touching.
It turns out that on the day of the founding ceremony, there were more than 600 people climbing the Tiananmen Gate Tower. viewing platform space is limited. When Chairman Mao is about to speak, Xinhua News Agency reporter Chen Zhengqing wanted to find the most suitable angle and perfectly record this historic moment.
But because there are too many people, Chen Zhengqing could only squeeze back little by little in the crowd, and carefully leaned his body back as much as possible so that the camera could find the best camera position.
Chen Zhengqing leaned against the railing closest to Chairman Mao, and half of his whole body had been raised out of the railing. As long as he moved a little further back, he would probably fall directly from the city tower.
However, Chen Zhengqing held the camera with both hands at this moment, focusing on finding the angle, and was completely unaware of the coming danger. At a critical moment, Zhu De, who was originally standing behind Chairman Mao, noticed the danger of Chen Zhengqing's situation.
So Zhu De's pupils shrank, and he immediately stepped forward and pulled Chen Zhengqing tightly. Chen Zhengqing was startled and glanced at the back, feeling scared. He was about to thank Zhu De, but Zhu De hugged his legs and signaled that he didn't have to talk and continued shooting.
Finally, with the assistance of Zhu De, after a few seconds, Chairman Mao spoke, and the flash passed quickly. Chen Zhengqing took this famous photo of "The Founding Ceremony" with great historical value, recording an important moment in the history of New China.
Although Zhu De had been absent from this photo forever, his spirit quietly poured into the photo itself, making people feel awe-inspiring whenever they think of it, and at the same time they were extremely moved.
