Chairman Mao's body was placed in Crystal coffin permanently preserved not his last wish before his death
Chairman Mao's body was lying in the crystal coffin, and was carried onto the hearse by Chen Changjiang, Wang Zupei and four others, and placed in the memorial hall for permanent preservation for future generations to pay homage.
As we all know, there are also many bodies of great men in the world that have been preserved, such as Stalin , Lenin, Dimitrov ... Did Chairman Mao want to learn from them and save his body forever during his lifetime?
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This idea is of course wrong. As early as 1956, not long after a difficult period ended, Chairman Mao signed the Cremation Initiative. He had already thought about his affairs after him, and never thought about his body left like those great men.
In our eyes, Chairman Mao is the great leader of the proletarian revolution, but in Chairman Mao’s own eyes, he always feels that he is an proletarian revolutionary, and the words “great” and “leader” are too heavy.
Although we have long known that Chairman Mao would not put his body in the crystal coffin, many people are puzzled, why did he not want to be buried in the cemetery but choose to cremate?
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Today let us recall this past of Chairman Mao.
Proletarian revolutionaries must break the feudal world. Chairman Mao went to the Forbidden City three times and refused to enter, and was not buried after his death. Babaoshan
Born in 1893, Chairman Mao walked step by step from a flat-headed boy to the stage of history. He led the Chinese people out of difficulties and into a new historical era.
Chairman Mao chose his temporary office location at Xiangshan . The environment here is suitable. When spring comes, there will be red maple hanging on the branches. Chairman Mao originally wanted to stay in the western suburbs of Beijing, but with the increase in affairs, the suburbs are obviously inconvenient for office and handling confidentiality, so a leader suggested setting up the office location in the Forbidden City.
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Where is the Forbidden City? The place where the power of emperors in China is concentrated in all dynasties is the highest symbol of identity in the entire feudal history of China.
In 1987, the Forbidden City was listed as a world cultural heritage. In Forbidden City , the status of the Forbidden City can be imagined. Countless historical stories have occurred there, carrying countless thrilling power wars. The Forbidden City also treasures many palace cultural relics collections, which have indelible literary and historical value.
Moreover, the Forbidden City is convenient for office work, so everyone listed the Forbidden City as Chairman Mao’s new office location, but does Chairman Mao really want to go to the Forbidden City to work? impossible!
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First of all, Chairman Mao advocates Marxist dialectical materialism thought. He is the representative of the proletariat, and the Forbidden City represents the thousand-year feudal autocratic rule in China. Chairman Mao’s failure to enter the Forbidden City represents the confrontation against ancient feudal autocracy.
Secondly, he agreed with the suggestions of domestic ancient building protection scientists and decided to protect this group of buildings.
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At that time, the famous Chinese architect Liang Sicheng was also involved. He planned to expand a central administrative region on the basis of protecting ancient buildings, that is, to establish the central administrative region in the western part of the ancient city, but this proposal was contrary to the proposal of Soviet experts.
In order to take care of foreign experts, Chairman Mao agreed to the suggestions of Soviet experts, but after the implementation, the experts of ancient architecture could not sit still. Many central buildings in ancient city were demolished, and this scope even expanded to Tiananmen on the east and west sides of Chang'an left and right doors, as well as the north door of the Forbidden City, east and west rooms, Dagaoxuan Hall in front of the Xili Pavilion and archway. These are all buildings and witnesses of Chinese history. It has an important impact on China's future historical and cultural research. How can it be easily demolished?
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After Chairman Mao learned about this, he went to the Forbidden City in person. He was walking around the outside without disturbing the residents, and finally protected the Forbidden City intact.
He has always been on the road of communism, strictly prohibiting the restoration of feudalism, and set his office at Zhongnanhai , less than 800 meters away from the Forbidden City, and did not enter the Forbidden City to visit.
. Burial is a custom and system inherited by the Chinese nation from the feudal era. The Chinese advocated being buried in peace, and later generations could also use tombstones to mourn. In order to break through feudal customs, Chairman Mao was unwilling to enter the place where the state leaders were buried after their death - Babaoshan.
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He is the most loyal proletarian revolutionary.
Chairman Mao advocated cremation to protect production land
On the afternoon of October 1, 1949, there were crowds of people on Tiananmen Square , and the moment it was recorded in history happened that day.
Chairman Mao stood on the Tiananmen Gate Tower, surrounded by central leading cadres, and in front of him were 300,000 soldiers and civilians. Everyone sang and danced, listening to Chairman Mao’s announcement: "The People’s Republic of China and the Central People’s Government, established today." At that moment, the whole country celebrated, and Chairman Mao's announcement shocked the whole world. The afterglow spread out was like the shout of an oriental dragon, and we finally stood up.
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However, the newly established New China faces huge challenges, and has been in war for years and economic decline, Chiang Kai-shek has established government influence in Nanjing. Political and cultural development, and some international countries have provoked and eyed China...
We urgently need to maintain the stability of the entire country and make China truly a great country that plays an important role in the international community and becomes a trustworthy place for the people at home. Chairman Mao and all leaders need to make great efforts to do this.
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As time goes by, the new China has been continuously developed. In order to expand grain production and ensure normal grain planting land, the central leaders have carried out land reforms within the country and suggested abolishing burials and protecting production land.
Chairman Mao signed a cremation initiative with several leaders. Anyone who signed the signature must ensure that the deceased first realizes his or her cremation wish.
So far, Chairman Mao’s cremation plan was officially made public. He even told the staff around him that they hoped that they would scatter their ashes into Yangtze River in the future, because it was where Chairman Mao grew up, where he came and went back to where he was Chairman Mao’s vision.
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Chairman Mao is not afraid of life and death. He once said: "Everyone is going to die, this is a concept!"
In 1963, Chairman Mao regretfully sent off Luo Ronghuan, one of the ten founding marshals of the founding country who had been with him for many years. This made him very sad to write a seven-character poem. One of the sentences was, "You are unfortunately gone now. Who can you ask if the country has any problems?" and told the people around him: "Don't be in front of me when I die."
Chairman Mao hopes that everyone will see their beautiful appearance, and does not want everyone to be sad. It is this kind of emotion that makes his idea of cremation stronger and firmer.
is in turmoil and loses a close friend. Chairman Mao passed away, but the last wish of cremation is shelved. For Chairman Mao, there is no need to talk much about life and death, but the death of two people made him feel heartbroken.
One is Premier Zhou, and the other is President Zhu.
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Chairman Mao closed his eyes, tears flowed down in silence, and nothing was said. Decades of fighting side by side, wind and rain, disappeared in one night, and people could not be resurrected. Chairman Mao, who was already ill, had repeated his illness and could not stand and attend Premier Zhou's memorial service.
Since Premier Zhou's death, Chairman Mao was often taciturn. On the afternoon of July 6, 1976, he suffered another blow and President Zhu passed away.
Chairman Mao was silent for a long time after hearing the news and asked Hua Guofeng: "What disease does the boss have? Why did he leave so quickly?" then said: "Zhu Mao, Zhu Mao, you cannot separate. Now that the boss Zhu has gone to see Marx, I am not far away."
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The death of his friend hit Chairman Mao a huge blow, but he cared about the people and dragged his sick body to continue working. In the early morning of July 28, 1976, Tangshan, Hebei , without any warning, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake occurred. This earthquake buried more than 240,000 living lives in the rubble. Chairman Mao was extremely heartbroken and cried loudly.
These things continue to erode Chairman Mao. On September 9, 1976, Chairman Mao, a great man, passed away. He could finally have a good rest with peace of mind.
After Chairman Mao’s death, the central leadership held an emergency meeting. Since Chairman Mao had signed a cremation initiative before, Premier Zhou and other leaders also carried out cremation. Chairman Mao’s cremation seems to be imperative, but no one wants to see Chairman Mao’s body be cremated.
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So Hua Guofeng made up his mind in the midst of debate and decided to say: "No matter what others say, we should protect Chairman Mao's body and preserve it for generations, so that generations of people can pay homage to Chairman Mao."
Wang Dongxing, present, also proposed: "Preserving Chairman Mao's body is a solemn task. We must protect Chairman Mao's body better than Lenin."
Finally, at the suggestion of everyone, Chairman Mao's crystal coffin was successfully formed, and a memorial hall was built to put Chairman Mao's body in it for future generations to admire.
Chairman Mao’s last wish to cremate was not realized. This is inevitable. He cares about people’s livelihood and has made too much for China and the cause of communism. Whether before or after the founding of the People’s Republic of China, his great achievements cannot be erased. Everyone is reluctant to cremate him into the Yangtze River.
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Chairman Mao was not afraid of life and death. In the 1960s, he was able to propose the law of immortality in matter and optimistically told his comrades around him: "After I die, you can hold a celebration meeting to celebrate the victory of dialectics." But for us, his death is the most important loss.
Now generations of Chinese people can have a place to admire and commemorate Chairman Mao, just like the spark of revolution has a place to live.
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We respect Chairman Mao’s decision, but we are reluctant to part with him. This is the reason why Chairman Mao’s body has survived to this day.
That’s all about Chairman Mao’s historical memories today, see you next time.
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