In 1988, the Taiwan Strait experienced an unprecedented shock. After decades of isolation between the two sides, Taiwan's "senior legislator" Hu Qiuyuan went to the mainland to visit relatives and friends. In his speech, he publicly expressed his support for the reunification of the motherland and the end of national divisions. . The
incident immediately triggered a strong response from both sides of the Taiwan Strait. Different from the warm welcome attitude on the mainland, the "Taiwan independence" elements in the Taiwan authorities were deeply angry and publicly stated that they would execute Hu immediately after his return to Taiwan.
Hu Qiuyuan's mainland visit to relatives As an important event in the process of getting along with each other across the Taiwan Strait, it changed the direction of Taiwan-Strait relations and made an indelible contribution to the promotion of the cause of reunification to a certain extent.
1. First visit to the mainland, an ice-breaking journey
Before Mr. Hu Qiuyuan visited the mainland, the struggle between the two sides was still in the day-to-day stage. However, with the reform and opening up, the mainland began to change its attitude towards Taiwan and gradually opened up. Channels for cooperation and coexistence.
Despite this, under the control of the Kuomintang, Taiwan still maintains a hostile stance towards mainland China.
As a "senior legislator" in Taiwan, Hu Qiuyuan obviously has a completely different attitude from some radicals in the Kuomintang. Hu Qiuming is a very staunch unificationist. As early as the mid-to-late 1980s, Hu used to speak a lot in public. For the first time, it expressed support for cross-strait reunification. Now it seems that this is actually a positive signal released by Mr. Hu Qiuyuan for his first visit to the mainland.
In April 1988, Hu Qiuyuan served as the honorary chairman of the "China Unification Alliance", consultant and honorary leader of the "Association for the Promotion of Taiwanese Foreigners Returning to Hometowns to Visit Relatives", which is equivalent to making sufficient "name" preparations for returning to the mainland. Surrounded by the name of this group, the Kuomintang relaxed its "supervision" on Hu Qiuyuan, and it was precisely because of this that Hu Qiuyuan's "returning home plan" went so smoothly.
On September 12, 1988, Mr. Hu Qiuyuan, his wife Jing Youru, his eldest daughter Hu Caihe and representatives of the "Unification Alliance" flew directly from San Francisco to Beijing. As this flight landed at Beijing Airport, it also marked the end of the Taiwan Strait. A new stage has begun.
After Mr. Hu Qiuyuan arrived in Beijing, he met with Li Xiannian and Deng Yingchao, and revisited his alma mater.
During this period, he repeatedly stated to the outside world that the reunification of the motherland was an inevitable trend. Just as the plane landed at Capital Airport, Hu Qiuyuan told reporters: "If you are patriotic, you cannot disapprove of reunification. If you do not If you support reunification, then He is not qualified to talk about patriotism and interfere in national affairs. "
When meeting with Deng Yingchao, Hu Qiuyuan said to Deng Yingchao: "The most important thing is that China must be united and reunified without further delay."
in Peking University , Hu Qiuyuan emphasized that if China can be unified, it will soon become rich and powerful.
During the 36 days of his visit to the mainland, the message conveyed by Mr. Hu Qiuyuan was all over his footprints, and the slogan of unity echoed throughout his journey.
A trip to visit relatives. This visit to relatives quickly melted the 40-year-old ice between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait.
Hu Qiuyuan's first visit to the mainland became the first ice-breaking trip between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait after 1949.
In the turbulent 1980s, the arrival of Hu Qiuyuan made the two sides of the Taiwan Strait present a different scene from the past. Cross-Strait relations seemed to reveal a little sunshine among the dark clouds.
Until now, the motherland still calls Mr. Hu Qiuyuan’s trip to visit relatives an important “ice-breaking trip.”
However, on the other side of the strait, the face of the Kuomintang authorities was not so good.
Especially the notorious Lee Teng-hui . As early as September 21, 1988, before Hu Qiuyuan returned to Taiwan, Lee Teng-hui, then chairman of the Taiwan Kuomintang, couldn't wait to put forward the suggestion to expel Hu Qiuyuan from the party, and also A regular meeting of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang was specially held for a special discussion. Under his forced implementation, the meeting decided to expel Hu Qiuyuan from the Kuomintang.
You must know that Hu Qiuyuan has been a veteran member of the Kuomintang for nearly half a century. He did not expect that he would be stabbed in the back by Lee Teng-hui in his later years.
In fact, the root cause of Lee Teng-hui's dissatisfaction with Hu Qiuyuan's family trip was that it hindered Lee Teng-hui's "Taiwan independence" process.
advocates "cross-strait" reunification, which is contrary to the "Taiwan independence" concept advocated by Lee Teng-hui. In order to win the favor of the Japanese and obtain more Japanese investment capital, Lee Teng-hui has been working non-stop since he took charge of the Kuomintang. They are making "political investments" for "Taiwan independence" inside and outside.
In his investment this time, the most critical link is to put the two sides of the Taiwan Strait in a state of complete opposition, or even maintain a state of hostility. Only in this way can he set off an anti-China and anti-China public opinion war on the island, thereby guiding Taiwan The masses are on the road to division.
Hu Qiuyuan's ice-breaking trip broke Lee Teng-hui's plan and eased the originally tense cross-strait relations. This made Lee Teng-hui's public opinion war lose its original role, and his "political investment" was also lost.
Some die-hard "Taiwan independence" elements who follow Lee Teng-hui are more violent than Lee Teng-hui. They make remarks, Hu Qiuyuan, as a high-level official in Taiwan, privately "visits" the mainland, which is essentially a "sentence" to the Kuomintang. , they claimed that Hu Qiuyuan should be "brought to justice" and the best way was to "execute him" immediately.
However, what is ridiculous is that these radicals have searched and searched and found no "law" to deal with Hu Qiuyuan. They can only hastily impose a "two-year restriction on leaving the country" as a punishment to restrict Hu Qiuyuan from leaving Taiwan.
Regarding the treatment of "Taiwan independence" elements, Hu Qiuyuan only responded lightly:
"I went to the mainland in an open and aboveboard way. It was bright when I came and it was bright when I left. No matter what, both sides of the Taiwan Strait must be unified. The most important thing is that I am a Chinese Man, as long as the Chinese don’t fire me, I will be a Chinese to the end! I believe that no one will expel my nationality again, and I will do my best as a Chinese.”
Mr. Hu Qiuyuan’s words were resounding, and the “Taiwan independence” elements had no choice but to do anything to him. In 1992, Mr. Hu Qiuyuan returned to the mainland again, just like him. It's the same sentence, he is a Chinese, and he is still doing his best as a Chinese.
As the first Taiwanese high-level official to visit the mainland, Mr. Hu Qiuyuan himself is one of the representatives who has studied hard for China since his early years.
2. Firm belief in unification
Why Hu Qiuyuan is a firm unificationist has a lot to do with his personal growth experience.
In 1910, Hu Qiuyuan was born in Hujiawan Village at the foot of Mulan Mountain in Huangpi, Hubei.
In 1925, Hu Qiuyuan was admitted to the National Wuchang University to study science and engineering. Shortly after enrolling, he joined the Communist Youth League and was responsible for editing the "Wuhan Review". He was 15 years old that year.
After joining the Communist Youth League, Hu Qiuyuan received an education in progressive ideas. Under the influence of progressive ideas, the "Wuhan Review" he edited criticized the reactionaries, especially the "April 12" counter-revolutionary coup launched by Chiang Kai-shek He was criticized, and it was precisely because of this that he was hunted.
3 years later, Hu Qiuyuan came to Shanghai and entered Fudan University in Shanghai. This time he realized that the current China needs the power of ideas to guide the Chinese revolution and mobilize the people to participate, so he changed science and engineering to literature and embarked on On the path of pursuing ideological truth.
Soon, his excellent results were recognized by Fudan University. In 1929, he was sent to Japan's Waseda University to study political economics.
Studying in Japan was the pursuit of progressive Chinese students in that era. Japan developed rapidly after the Meiji Restoration . This made many young people in China think about where Japan's rapid development came from. It was precisely in this way that Under the influence of ideological trends, most progressive young people will choose to go to Japan to study and find a way to save the country.
Hu Qiuyuan also went to Japan to study with this ideal in mind, but not long after, in 1931, the outbreak of the September 18th Incident changed Hu Qiuyuan's choice.
anti-Japanese!
Hu Qiuyuan resolutely gave up his studies abroad at government expense and returned to Shanghai to fight for the anti-Japanese cause with his own writing.
In the following years, despite being hunted by the enemy, Hu Qiuyuan still moved behind the anti-Japanese front, making his own contribution to the anti-Japanese war with writing.
In 1936, Hu Qiuyuan devoted himself to the Kuomintang's official propaganda business and became a famous "pen" within the Kuomintang. It was precisely because of his achievements in the literary world that he won the favor of the Kuomintang's senior officials. In 1948, Hu Qiuyuan Elected as a legislator.
Whether he is overseas or serving in the Kuomintang, Hu Qiuyuan has the most determined ideal, which is to maintain traditional Chinese culture.
Because of this, he had many debates with many literati from other schools in the literary world.
In 1963, as a "legislator", he founded "China Magazine" on his own to vigorously promote traditional Chinese culture. Although it has the attribute of being a party-oriented education of the Kuomintang, its inheritance of Chinese cultural ideas can be seen.
With the strong support of the Kuomintang, Hu Qiuyuan and Li Ao broke out a debate on "Chinese and Western culture", and the debate on Chinese and Western culture indirectly broke out the debate on Taiwan's local literature .
The debate between Hu Qiuyuan and Li Ao lasted for nearly ten years. During these ten years, Hu Qiuyuan never changed his belief in the inheritance of Chinese culture due to external comments, which also allowed him to gain support from Taiwanese local writers.
Looking back on Mr. Hu Qiuyuan's early experience, under the baptism of the Anti-Japanese War, Hu Qiuyuan became more determined in the importance of the cause of national reunification. He also knew very well that only national unity and a strong country can protect the people from war. of suffering.
Studying during the rise of China was the ideal of the progressive youth of that era. Hu Qiuyuan also held this ideal. During the Anti-Japanese War, he repeatedly called for the early formation of an anti-Japanese united front and was invited to participate in the "Eighth The drafting of the First Declaration fully demonstrates his patriotism.
After moving to Taiwan, he was even more distressed by the separation between mainland China and Taiwan. No matter how the situation developed, his determination for the cause of national reunification remained firm.
Regarding the Zhenbao Island incident and the Diaoyu Islands issue, he has always firmly believed that both sides of the Taiwan Strait must work together to solve these external problems and jointly resist external aggression and threats.
After the Zhenbao Island incident broke out in 1969, Hu Qiuyuan published an editorial in "China" advocating cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, supporting the People's Liberation Army in defending its territory and not surrendering to the Soviet Union.
When the Diaoyutai Incident broke out in 1970, "China", sponsored by Hu Qiuyuan, became the most powerful publication of the "Diaoyu Islands Protection Movement".
The ideal of the reunification faction stems from his attachment to the motherland and his expectation for national rejuvenation .
In today's comments, both sides of the Taiwan Strait have always believed that Hu Qiuyuan was a very important historian, political commentator and writer in modern China and even contemporary China. On May 4, 2004, Hu Qiuyuan, who was 94 years old, won the "Chinese Literature and Art Award". Lifetime Achievement Award".
Wuhan University In order to commemorate Hu Qiuyuan and respect the young like the couple, they specially established the "Hu Qiuyuan·Respect the Young as the Scholarship" and "Hu Qiuyuan·Respect the Young as the Library" to show respect for Mr. Hu Qiuyuan.
Mr. Hu Qiuyuan has been fighting for the cause of national reunification all his life.
's early experiences strengthened his patriotism and belief. Although the "political situation" of the Taiwan authorities has been turbulent, he has never given up his demands and slogans for reunification.
As mainland China moves towards reform and opening up at an increasingly faster pace, Mr. Hu Qiuyuan also realizes that the estrangement between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait will eventually be eliminated. Indeed, as he expected, the relationship between mainland China and Taiwan in the 20th century It gradually moved towards normalization in the 1990s.
Three, Unified Wind
Hu Qiuyuan's family visit is known as the ice -breaking journey. Since then, cross -strait exchanges have been closely linked, from cross -strait trade to open exploration of relatives, to open tourism and university exchanges.
's communication on both sides of the strait has gradually moved towards the road of solidarity. Although the Tsai Ing -wen authorities have been in a tension on both sides of the strait at some time for their own political speculation and the influence of the United States, and the influence of the United States, and the influence of the United States and the United States. The road to unification will not be changed. When
, Mr. Hu Qiuyuan once returned to the mainland to visit relatives, once pointed out very clearly that the great cause of the nation will inevitably come, and those who are against historical trends will eventually be abandoned by history. For decades,
has also visited the mainland for exchanges and interviews after the term of office or steps down.
In fact, not only the official level is consistent, but the views of everyone are the same at the civil society and the party.
On October 25, 2005, in the 60th anniversary of Taiwan's "Restoration", Taiwan's 183 political parties, Taiwan's protection of the Chinese Union Party officially renamed China Unified Promoting Party . This political party is the party. Zhang Anle was founded. In his opinion, unity is an inevitable trend on both sides of the strait, and it is not distorted.
, although the current Taiwan authorities still swim on the edge of "Taiwan independence", as the mainland's strength continues to grow, there are more and more ways to suppress the "Taiwan independence" forces, and it is becoming more and more powerful. The national unity cause will be realized in the near future.
In a sense, Hu Qiuyuan, as the first person in the ice breaking, conveyed a message to both sides of the ice break, that is, "we are a family", and this concept is also accepted by the people on both sides of the strait at the same time. During the 40 years of separation, the hearts of the people on both sides of the strait have indeed been closely linked and have not been separated. Soon after
, Mr. Hu's last wish will be realized. The shallow strait will eventually become the nearest bridge on both sides of the strait.
References:
1. "Tour of the Sea: Hui Qiuyuan Literature and Art Views"; Author: Ji Yirui; "Taiwan Research Collection" 2022, No. 2;
2. Combat; Author: Jiejiang Ridge; Journal of Hubei Institute of Economics, 2015, No. 3
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