" Dashuai Mansion " located in Shenyang refers to the Zhang family mansion of Zhang Zuolin . Since the 1980s, it has been open to the public as a local attraction.
DaShip Mansion
On March 26, 2007, a special tourist came here. Faced with the request of the scenic spot staff to "please show the ticket", the man smiled and said in a strong Taiwanese accent: , "I don't have to buy tickets."
The staff was confused when they heard this, and what the man said next surprised him even more.
This man with a Taiwanese accent claimed to be Zhang Zuolin's grandson. This time he came from Taipei to visit his grandfather's grave, but because he didn't know where the cemetery was, he found the Grand Marshal's Mansion.
The grandson didn’t even know the grandfather’s cemetery. Where did this man with a Taiwanese accent come from? Is he really Zhang Zuolin’s grandson?
Mysterious Taiwanese tourist
When he heard that the man refused to give up the ticket, the ticket salesperson looked up and down at the tourist, seeing that he did not look like a local, but his accent looked like a Taiwanese compatriot.
When the man looked at him again, he still looked like he "you don't have to buy tickets". The ticket seller was a little confused. There was never a rule for "free tickets from Taiwanese compatriots" in their scenic spots!
Thinking that this man might have come from afar and didn't understand the scenic spot policies of Shenyang, the ticket seller patiently explained to him: "Sir, all the scenic spots here need to be purchased to visit."
The man saw that the ticket seller did not understand what he meant, so he admitted: "Let me just say it, my name is Zhang Lushi, and I am Zhang Zuolin's grandson. I came to visit the mansion and then sweep the graves for my grandfather."
Zhang Lushi
Hearing the man said this, the ticket seller was a little confused.
The other party claims to be Zhang Zuolin's grandson and wants to go to the Grandmaster's Mansion where his grandfather lives. It seems that he shouldn't buy a ticket.
However, now the Marshal's Mansion is no longer a private residence of Zhang, but is owned by the country. According to the regulations of the scenic spot, all tourists need to buy tickets, and it is not mentioned that the descendants of the Zhang family can make special things when visiting.
The incident happened suddenly, and the ticket seller could only report the situation to the director.
Director Zhang Li learned about Zhang Lushi's thoughts and warmly received him. Not only did he take him to the park for a visit, but he also specially kept him for a meal.
During the visit, Director Zhang introduced Zhang Lushi to the protection work of the Marshal's Mansion in recent years, and asked him about the situation of the Zhang family.
For example, who are his father, mother, and grandmother, his own rough growth experience, etc.
Zhang Lushi
Of course, Director Zhang's move was also out of caution. Although the other party claimed to be a descendant of Zhang Zuolin, he could not tell the truth at a glance, and could only judge it through other information.
After all, before this, there was a storm in Shenyang about "Zhang Zuolin's Ninth Son", which was a hot topic at that time.
That happened in 1993. At that time, a man named Zhang Zhongcheng applied to the police station to change his name to "Zhang Xuezhong" and claimed to be Zhang Zuolin's ninth son. As soon as the media promoted this matter, it quickly caused a sensation in Shenyang.
There are more and more rumors in the market. The old director Yang Jinghua at that time could not stand it anymore and wrote an article with detailed arguments to expose the lies of the so-called "Zhang Zuolin's ninth son".
Unexpectedly, facing a large amount of historical evidence, Zhang Xuezhong not only refused to retreat, but instead sued Director Yang.
In the end, after investigation and verification by the public security organs, Zhang Xuezhong's fake identity was proved, and the matter ended with Zhang Xuezhong withdrawing the lawsuit.
The former director had suffered a loss in the "descendants of the Zhang family". This time, Zhang Lushi appeared again, and the current director Zhang Li had to act cautiously.
Zhang Lushi
According to Zhang Lushi, his father's name is Zhang Xuejun, he is Zhang Zuolin's sixth son, and his grandmother is 小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小
This information does match historical materials. Zhang Zuolin had many wives during his lifetime, and the fifth wives were the most favored.
Because her full name is Zhang Shouyi , people often call her "Madam Shou". This lady is also the biological mother of Zhang Xuejun, the sixth son of Zhang Zuolin. The above information of
is consistent. In order to confirm whether Zhang Lushi is Zhang Xuejun's son, the scholar asked him some questions about Mrs. Shou back then.
Many people know that Zhang Zuolin was plotted against by the Japanese in Huanggutun and died because of this. There are rumors that in order to confuse the Japanese, the one who secretly managed Zhang Zuolin's funeral was this Mrs. Shou.
According to what Zhang Lushi said, Mrs. Shou was his grandmother, and I believe she would also reveal some situations that were unknown to outsiders back then.
Zhang Lushi said that his grandfather was bombed in Huanggutun by train. After the accident, his subordinates sent him, who was injured, to the residence of his grandmother, Mrs. Shou in the Marshal's Mansion.
Zhang Zuolin
Scholars asked again: "There are rumors among the people that Zhang Zuolin believed that Huanggutun was attacked by his own people, and before he died, he said 'beat'! Is this true?"
In response to this, Zhang Lushi bluntly said: "It's fake. Grandma once said that his grandfather was seriously injured by the bomb at that time, and was hit by shrapnel in his throat. He quickly stopped sending him back to his house, and he did not leave any last words."
Next, Zhang Lushi told the staff present what he learned from his grandmother Mrs. Shou.
As he said, grandfather Zhang Zuolin died suddenly when he was attacked.
uncle Zhang Xueliang is still in the pass. In order to stabilize the situation, waiting for uncle to come back, grandmother Mrs. Shou insisted on blocking the news and concealing it from the Japanese.
only said to the outside world that my grandfather was slightly injured, and it was not until 13 days later that my uncle rushed back to Fengtian to mourn.
After hearing this introduction, the director basically confirmed Zhang Lushi's identity. At that time, these historical details were not disclosed, and not many people knew the inside story. From this point of view, Zhang Lushi should be indeed Zhang Xuejun's son.
After that, scholars learned a lot of inside story of the Zhang family from Zhang Lushi, which greatly enriched the mainland's historical understanding of the Zhang Zuolin family.
The displaced Zhang Xuejun
The father was Zhang Zuolin, the "King of Northeast China", and his biological mother was the most favored Mrs. Shou. As their son, when Zhang Zuolin was alive, Zhang Xuejun lived a free and generous life.
Zhang Zuolin took a photo with his family
However, since Zhang Zuolin's death, Zhang Xuejun's life has become more and more distracted with the decline of the family.
Zhang Zuolin was bombed and killed, and then his eldest son Zhang Xueliang successfully took over his father's business and became the new commander of Northeast Army .
However, the good times did not last long. The Japanese deliberately launched an incident, and soon the Northeast fell, and the Zhang family also lost their hometown.
Since then, Zhang Xuejun has also begun to live in a foreign land.
In order to force Chiang Kai-shek to fight against Japan, in the sixth year after he lost the Northeast, Zhang Xueliang launched the Xi'an Incident . After
, he was also under house arrest by Chiang Kai-shek, and the Zhang family has since lost the "head".
At this time, the Zhang family had long lost its former glory. For the sake of life, Zhang Xuejun came to Tianjin.
later became a translator of Military Control Commission in Tianjin, responsible for contacting the United States.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, KMT transferred Zhang Xueliang's house arrest to Taiwan. Out of concerns about the safety of his elder brother, Zhang Xuejun and his seventh brother Zhang Xueying also rushed to Taiwan after hearing the news.
Zhang Xueliang
After the two arrived in Taiwan, they inquired from each other, but found nothing, which annoyed the top leaders of the Kuomintang and finally had to leave temporarily. After
, Zhang Xuejun traveled to Hong Kong and Macau. In order to support a large family, he worked as a teacher and coach, and even went to the construction site.
After Zhang Xuejun's hard work, the family lived in Macau.
However, the weather has been testing the situation, and after living a stable life in Macau for more than ten years.
Suddenly someone revealed the old story of Zhang Xuejun working as a translator at the Tianjin Station during the Anti-Japanese War, and accused him of maintaining close contact with the Military Control Commission.
As soon as this incident happened, Zhang Xuejun was targeted by the Macau authorities, and the situation was once very dangerous.
At that time, Zhang Lu had a friend who happened to be from Beijing to Macau and settled not far from his house. One day, the man went out for dinner and was shot and killed when he came back by the door of Zhang's house.
Zhang Xuejun felt uneasy and had to leave the place of right and wrong quickly. In desperation, the family returned to Taiwan after many twists and turns.
Zhang Lushi (first from left)
When learning about Zhang Xuejun's deep relationship with the Kuomintang, the staff in charge of the reception could not help but become alert and began to reconsider the purpose of Zhang Lushi's trip.
Aware of everyone's doubts, Zhang Lushi hurriedly explained: "That was slandered. I can guarantee that my father has never done anything to harm the Chinese and Northeastern people."
In fact, Zhang Xuejun was accused in Macau, which is very likely to be designed by Taiwan.
is to make Zhang Xuejun's family unable to live in Macau and return to Taiwan as soon as possible.
At that time, Zhang Xuejun's family had just returned to Taiwan from Macau. A colleague who had worked with him at the Tianjin station came to him and repeatedly advised him to work for the Taiwanese authorities as the "Zhang Family".
Zhang Xuejun is unwilling to be tricked by the Taiwanese authorities, and he is even more unwilling to ruin the reputation of the Zhang family. He rejected the requests of the Taiwanese authorities many times and never participated in any political activities.
It is precisely because of his desperate attempt to keep a distance from Taiwan's political forces that Zhang Xuejun's family has attracted a lot of cold eyes.
Zhang Lushi said that in the years when his father took their family to Taiwan, he always encountered a wall when he went out to find a job. When others learned that he was Zhang Xueliang's sixth brother, they often mocked him.
Zhang Xueliang
Fortunately, Zhang Xuejun is willing to endure hardships. He traveled to the construction site for seven or eight years, accumulated some funds, and opened a building materials company.
Later, the transaction became better and better, and he started a trading company with others and made the business to the United States.
In the eyes of outsiders, Zhang Xuejun's company can be more and more extensive, because it is due to the big brother Zhang Xueliang's wealth.
Little do you know that in Taiwan, many of Zhang Xuejun's troubles are brought about by the identity of "Zhang Xueliang's younger brother".
In response to this, Zhang Lushi explained that in Taiwan, Zhang Xueliang, who was under house arrest, has always been promoted as a negative person. As the Zhang family, they are often ridiculed and excluded.
It is precisely because of the special identity that Zhang Xuejun always reminds his children to be cautious, talk less and ask less when outside, and try to avoid trouble.
Due to his own background, Zhang Lushi's marriage was also affected.
It turns out that when he was young, Zhang Lushi had also fallen in love with a girl, just when they were about to get married.
The other party’s parents learned about Zhang Lushi’s uncle and nephew relationship and immediately refused to get married, and the marriage fell through.
Zhang Lushi
However, after years of hard work, no matter how sad the days have passed, Zhang Xuejun's family's life has improved significantly in material terms.
However, material abundance cannot make up for the mental absence after all.
For Zhang Xuejun's family who had been wandering outside for half a century, although there have always been ancestral tablets at home, it is always their regret to pay tribute to the ancestral tombs in their hometown in Northeast China.
Long road to return home
Zhang Lushi said that his grandmother, Mrs. Bang, always missed the days when she lived in the Northeast in her later years. She often told her grandson to go back and have a look when she had the chance.
Grandma's yearning for her hometown deeply touched Zhang Lushi's heart. He imagined his hometown more than once, but Zhang Lushi was still a little timid in his heart that he really wanted to embark on the road back to his hometown.
After Zhang Xueliang's death, many relatives from the Zhang family began to return to China to find their clan, but most of them were as tourists.
When Zhang Lushi's family heard that someone pretended to be Zhang Zuolin's ninth son, they were very angry. Zhang Lushi's mother also felt that future generations should return to the mainland to worship their ancestors.
Zhang Zuolin
In 2007, Zhang Lushi followed a business group to the Northeast for inspection, transferred from Taiwan to Hong Kong, then arrived in Harbin, and then to Shenyang.
Because there was very little information that could be found in Taiwan before, Zhang Lushi didn't know the situation in Shenyang, and he didn't know the specific location of the Zhang family's ancestral tomb. Fortunately, the Marshal's Mansion was still there, so he thought about coming here to try his luck.
After coming to the Marshal's Mansion, Zhang Lushi was very moved. He did not expect that the Marshal's Mansion would be preserved so completely and became a famous local attractions to the public.
Not only that, after learning that Zhang Lu was in a desire to find his ancestral grave for memorial service during this trip, the museum staff also enthusiastically helped him contact relevant parties.
Finally, with the help of relevant departments, Zhang Lushi finally found the Zhang family’s ancestral tomb located in a small village in Panjin.
This cemetery is called " Zhang's Cemetery ". Because there were nine tombs in it before, the locals also called it "Nine Helmets".
Zhang Family Cemetery
The reason why Zhang Family Cemetery is in the small village of Dawa is because Zhang Zuolin's father Zhang Youcai's cemetery is here.
However, Zhang Youcai is not from Dawa Village.
It turned out that when Zhang Youcai died, his family was relatively poor at that time, so his relatives just buried him in the Jiazhang Temple.
Unexpectedly, a few years later, there was a flood in the local area, and Zhang Youcai's coffin was washed into Dawa, so his family erected Zhang Youcai's grave here on the spot.
In 1912, Zhang Zuolin's second brother Zhang Zuolin died in a gun battle with bandits. In order to bury his second brother, Zhang Zuolin buried his second brother and his father in a place and built the cemetery.
After the Japanese army captured the Northeast, the cemetery was once deserted and damaged, but the site was preserved.
In 1984, the local government repaired the Zhang Cemetery and included it as a county-level cultural relic protection unit.
In 2000, Zhang’s Cemetery was upgraded to a municipal cultural relics protection unit, ushering in its second renovation.
Zhang Lushi's tomb sweeping
When Zhang Lushi came to his hometown thousands of miles to see the Zhang family cemetery, he was very surprised. He originally thought that the cemetery that had not come to for decades to worship his ancestors and visit his tombs might have been deserted, but unexpectedly it was neat and magnificent.
There is a large stone tablet at the entrance of the cemetery, with four big words "Zhang's Cemetery" engraved on it. Zhang Lushi recognized this as the handwriting of his uncle.
There is also a looking column on both sides of the entrance, engraved with the inscriptions "The predecessors lie on auspicious land" and "The descendants have produced heroes for generations" respectively.
In front of the Zhang family cemetery, Zhang Lushi, who was the descendant of his life, respectfully laid a wreath respectfully, and tears filled his eyes several times...
After worshiping the ancestral tomb, Zhang Lushi followed the local staff to the next worship site - Yimafang, to visit the tomb for his grandfather Zhang Zuolin.
Zhang Lushi had heard from his family before that the location of his grandfather Zhang Zuolin was finally buried was not clear.
Original uncle Zhang Xueliang had built a tomb for his grandfather Zhang Zuolin in "Marson Lin".
However, before the official burial was officially completed, the Japanese captured the Northeast. Even grandmother Mrs. Shou didn't know where her grandfather was buried.
staff told Zhang Lushi that Zhang Zuolin Cemetery, now located in Yimafang, is the tomb where Zhang Zuolin was buried.
Zhang Zuolin Cemetery
Zhang Zuolin died suddenly that year and did not build a tomb for himself during his lifetime.
Zhang Xueliang wanted to bury his father's glory, so he asked the Feng Shui master to choose a "treasure land" to build the Marshal Forest as Zhang Zuolin's tomb. The construction of the
mausoleum took three years and cost a huge amount of millions. It was originally planned to be officially buried on November 24, 1931. However, on September 18 of that year, the Japanese suddenly launched an incident, the Northeast fell, and the burial was not completed.
At that time, the Japanese came in full force, and the Zhang family retreated into the pass with the Northeast Army. When they left, they did not take Zhang Zuolin's coffin away.
When the Japanese Kwantung Army entered the Grand Marshal's Mansion, they directly "invite" the coffin that had been parked in the mansion.
Although Zhang Xueliang had many negotiations with the Japanese side on this issue, due to various reasons, the issue of burial of Zhang Zuolin has not been properly resolved.
Until 1937, Zhang Jinghui, who had defected to the Japanese as the Prime Minister of the puppet Manchukuo, thought of his swornship with Zhang Zuolin, and tried every means to put pressure on the Japanese side, which ultimately forced the Japanese to let go of the issue of Zhang Zuolin's burial.
However, although the Japanese agreed to Zhang Zuolin's burial, they were afraid of Zhang Zuolin's prestige during his lifetime.
He was firmly not allowed to be buried in the marshal forest built by Zhang Xueliang for him, and in the end the coffin had to be buried in Yimafang.
After listening to the whole story of the matter, Zhang Lushi was filled with emotion when thinking about the rise and fall of the family over the past century.
According to local worship customs, Zhang Lushi solemnly sprinkled a bottle of white wine in front of the tomb. After that, Zhang Lushi cried bitterly, hugged the tombstone for a long time and refused to leave. Everyone present was moved by it.
Zhang Lushi
As the spread of news of Zhang Lushi returning to his hometown to worship his ancestors, the authenticity of his identity has also caused controversy, and various statements are rampant.
However, the second year's "family recognition meeting" completely dispelled people's suspicion.
It turns out that not all Zhang Zuolin's descendants are scattered overseas. His youngest son Zhang Xuequan family stayed in the mainland.
Because Zhang Xuequan and Zhang Xuejun are originally the same mother, the relationship between the two families is naturally closer.
So Zhang Lu really thought that as long as he could formally recognize his uncle's family who stayed in mainland China, all the rumors questioning his identity would naturally be self-defeating.
However, because many years have passed, Zhang Xuequan has long passed away, but fortunately his wife Ma Yunlan is still alive.
When the relevant staff told the elderly Ma Yunlan about the marriage recognition meeting, the elderly were very excited. She said that she would like to meet Zhang Lushi as long as she had the chance.
On May 15, 2008, accompanied by his relatives, Ma Yunlan came to the scene of the recognizing meeting.
As soon as he saw Zhang Lushi, the old man's eyes turned red and he choked and said to Zhang Lushi: "You look like your father and have big eyes. Is your mother okay?"
Zhang Lushi
Zhang Lushi was also very excited and quickly explained:
After some greetings, Zhang Lushi and Ma Yunlan and his family talked about their respective experiences after they parted, and they were filled with emotion.
With the help and promotion of the Party and the government, these two Zhang blood relatives who have been separated for half a century were finally successfully recognized each other. Zhang Lushi and Ma Yunlan's family also expressed their sincere gratitude for this. After
, in an interview with reporters, Zhang Lushi admitted that he had gained a lot of touch when he came to the mainland to find relatives. What moved him the most was the mainland's objective evaluation of the Zhang family.
Originally, before coming to the mainland to find his roots, Zhang Lushi was always a little nervous because he didn't know what attitude the mainland would have towards the Zhang family.
As for his experience in Taiwan, the Zhang family is often treated with tinted glasses.
In many film and television works in Taiwan, Zhang Zuolin has a negative image. He is not only a brave and unscrupulous bandit, but also likes to kill, set fire and oppress the people.
As for Zhang Xueliang, let alone Zhang Xueliang. Taiwan media have always promoted him as the "culprit" that caused the Kuomintang to lose the mainland.
However, through this root-seeking journey, Zhang Lushi greatly enriched his understanding of the family's rise and fall experience over the past century. At the same time, Zhang Lushi deeply recognized and was deeply moved by the objectivity of the evaluation of the Zhang family in mainland China.
History should not be forgotten, right and wrong should be justified, and objective evaluation is the attitude a nation should have towards the past.
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