At the foot of the Qinling mountain in the southern suburbs of Chang'an District, Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province, walk along the rambling highway to the intersection of Dongxiang Road, and you will see a slightly grand cemetery.
People who don’t know the truth often mistakenly think it is a martyr’s cemetery when they look at this cemetery. However, many people would never think that the name of this cemetery is " Zhang Lingfu Cemetery ".
Zhang Lingfu was born in August 1903 in Dongda Village, Dongda Township next to the cemetery. His original name was Zhang Zhonglin , whose courtesy name was Lingfu, and later changed his name to Zhang Lingfu and his courtesy name was Zhonglin. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Zhang Lingfu participated in the battles of Shanghu, the Battle of , the Battle of Nanjing, the Battle of Wuhan, the Battle of , the Battle of Lanfeng, the Battle of , the Battle of Changsha, the Battle of , the Battle of Changde, the Battle of Shanggao, the Battle of Xiangxi, and other battles, and made many achievements.
In 2005, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Zhang Lingfu's eldest son Zhang Juli rushed to Beijing and received a anti-Japanese commemorative medal issued by the government for his father.
To be honest, Zhang Lingfu made contributions during the Anti-Japanese War. However, with the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Zhang Lingfu soon became the pawn of Chiang Kai-shek's civil war. On May 16, 1947, Zhang Lingfu, who was then the commander of the 74th Division of the National Army, was defeated and died in the Battle of Menglianggu at at the age of 44.
After Zhang Lingfu's death, our army upheld the humanitarian spirit and buried him properly nearby. As time goes by, where is Zhang Lingfu buried? It is already difficult to find. There have been news reports that Zhang Lingfu's burial place was located in a sheep pen in rural Yinan, Shandong. His descendants had disputes with local villagers in order to move Zhang Lingfu's tomb.
Since Zhang Lingfu's corpse buried in rural Yinan, Shandong, what's going on with this Zhang Lingfu Cemetery in Chang'an District, Shaanxi? It turns out that the Zhang Lingfu Cemetery in Chang'an District, Shaanxi is just a tomb of clothing and clothing, which is the joint tomb of Zhang Lingfu and his original wife Xing Qiongying. The union between Zhang Lingfu and Xing Qiongying was the result of his parents' arrangement. Therefore, after Zhang Lingfu became famous, he abandoned this "whole wife".
On the tombstone of Zhang Lingfu Cemetery, it says "The Tomb of General Zhang Lingfu and Mrs. Xing Qiongying's joint burial", and there are photos of them put together on it.
According to local villagers, the land occupied by Zhang Lingfu Cemetery is actually the cemetery land in Dongda Village (Zhang Lingfu’s birthplace). When this cemetery was built, Zhang Lingfu’s descendants went to Mengliangkou to retrieve a piece of land. Behind the left rear of Zhang Lingfu Cemetery, there is a two-story building. This is the villagers' memorial hall in Dongda Village, which stores the ashes of the deceased villagers. The construction of Zhang Lingfu Cemetery cost more than 600,000 yuan, covering an area of nearly two acres.
This Zhang Lingfu Cemetery has aroused widespread heated discussion in the society. A villager explained that the main reason why Zhang Lingfu's cemetery was built is that Zhang Lingfu is a celebrity in Dongda Village. There was no response when building the cemetery, and the relevant departments at the higher level did not publicly express their intention not to allow the construction, nor did they come out to stop it.
The villagers at that time did not think that there would be something wrong with building a cemetery for Zhang Lingfu. However, as the matter ferments fermented, there were more and more opposition and scolding. Why is this? Some people even questioned: "Why is a controversial senior Kuomintang general who enjoys super-standard treatment and similar to that of a revolutionary martyr in the village cemetery?"
It turns out that the problem lies in the tombstone in Zhang Lingfu Cemetery. The inscription reads "The shadows of Lianshui and Huaiyin float into the shadows, Meng Liang's pillow on the pillow" and "The 44th spring rewards the family and country, Chen Yi mourns the heroes" and so on.
is obvious, Zhang Lingfu was "extended"! In other words, the people who built the cemetery for Zhang Lingfu were not divided, and there was a problem with the "historical view".
Everyone knows that during the War of Liberation, Zhang Lingfu led the reorganized 74th Division to the East China battlefield to fight a civil war, attacked Lianshui , and captured Huaiyin , and gained fame for a while.The inscription says: "The three words "The silhouette of Lianshui and Huaiyin float into shadows!" "The silhouette of the floating into shadows" are surprising. The person who said this has a problem with the position, and he looks at the problem completely from Zhang Lingfu's perspective, or even from the perspective of the Kuomintang.
In the inscription, there is the saying "Forty-four springs reward the family and country, Chen Yi regrets to mourn the heroes". Let's not say whether "Forty-four springs reward the family and country" is used on Zhang Lingfu, right? Just say "Chen Yi regrets to mourn the heroes", which is completely fabricating history.
Everyone knows that after the news of the victory of the Battle of Menglianggu came, Chen Yi immediately wrote a poem: "Menglianggu has a ghost and god, and the 74th Division fled without a land... I am happy to see the elite of the thieves, and our army is all heroes!" How could this be regretful? How is this mourning? What kind of "hero" is Zhang Lingfu?
The construction of Zhang Lingfu Cemetery caused such great controversy. As a scholar in Shaanxi who has been engaged in party history research for a long time said, from the construction of a cemetery for Zhang Lingfu, we can see the importance of strengthening grassroots party building work at present. This issue must be taken seriously by management departments at all levels.
Another scholar said: "This incident has expanded its popularity for the local area, but ultimately lost its reputation. The pursuit of controversial historical figures is likely to cause confusion in people's understanding of right and wrong and ethical values."
According to news reports, at around 10 a.m. on September 20, 2016, the Zhang Lingfu Cemetery located in Dongda Village, Chang'an District was destroyed, and the tombstone was written with eight big words "The villain of killing his wife, the sinner of the people" in red paint. The person involved said that the reason he did this was to arouse everyone's reflection and discussion on history through his own actions.
Now, the popularity of Zhang Lingfu Cemetery has slowly dissipated, but this matter requires us to take history seriously, reflect seriously, resolutely correct "historical nihilism", and resolutely correct those distorted "political view of achievements" and "GDP view".
