On January 3, 1976, Ma Yanlong was working at a farm in Fujin, Changping, Beijing, but the superior suddenly called him to prepare and wait for the central government to pick him up.
Premier passed away, and the makeup artist devoted to sort out his face for him
Ma Yanlong didn't know why. He thought that the superiors were going to send him to work in other farms, but this would not have allowed the central government to send a car to pick him up! However, Ma Yanlong still honestly packed up his simple salute, including the box for storing his remains repair tools. Before he arrived at the farm, he was a remains makeup artist.
8 At at night, Ma Yanlong got into the car to pick him up, and the car drove straight to the hospital.
Ma Yanlong realized that it was the leader who unfortunately passed away and wanted to sort out his appearance for the leader.
But he didn't expect that the next news would be so desperate.
Because after they walked into the ward, someone told Ma Yanlong : "Prime Minister Zhou has passed away. Please organize his appearance and make him more decent."
This news was like a thunderbolt from the clear sky, catching Ma Yanlong off guard.
In that era, Premier Zhou and Chairman Mao were the most loved leaders of the people. Before this, Premier Zhou was hospitalized due to illness, and his condition always touched the hearts of the people across the country.
Ma Yanlong once met Premier Zhou. Premier Zhou was elegant and approachable, and people couldn't help but feel respectful. Facing Ma Yanlong's profession, Premier Zhou not only did not have any contempt or taboos, but instead valued him very much.
Premier Zhou said to Ma Yanlong : "Plastic surgery is a very meaningful thing, you must do it well!"
Even today, there are some people who are taboo practitioners related to funerals, let alone those days. When Ma Yanlong was engaged in this industry, his family and friends stopped him, and some of them even stopped interacting. However, Premier Zhou can objectively view and respect Ma Yanlong's profession. This feeling of being recognized almost made Ma Yanlong burst into tears, and he loved Premier Zhou even more from then on.
Now, someone told him that the Prime Minister had failed to rescue due to illness and said goodbye to the motherland and the people forever. How can this not be heartbreaking? After Ma Yanlong reacted, tears could not help but rolled down, and the staff in the ward who had already cried once, she shed tears again when they saw this scene. It is conceivable how much damage Premier Zhou’s death will have on everyone.
After grief, we still have to do a good job. Ma Yanlong looked at Premier Zhou's face for the last time. Due to the long-term torture of illness, the Prime Minister's face was very thin, his face was covered with age spots, his beard was messy, and he looked like he was vicissitudes of life.
"You can't let the Prime Minister leave like this!" Ma Yanlong made up his mind to do his best to organize his past for the Prime Minister.
He asked everyone else to go out, made a quiet space for him, opened the toolbox, and almost devoutly sorted out the appearance of the Prime Minister.
He cut off the Prime Minister's excessively long hair with scissors, wiped the Prime Minister's face with alcohol and cotton, repaired the Prime Minister's eyebrows with a knife, and then shaved the Prime Minister with a razor... After cleaning the Prime Minister, he also carried out procedures such as combing his hair, dressing, and applying makeup. Ma Yanlong checked it several times until he saw the Prime Minister's face, which was thin but also showed kindness and firmness, and then he came in.
When the people who came in saw that Premier Zhou looked calm, and seemed to have a smile. Orchids were placed beside the hospital bed, as if the Prime Minister had slept until orchids were coming from it.
Prime Minister's lover Deng Yingchao saw such a husband and laughed while crying: "Enlai, go to bed, let you sleep more during your lifetime, you always say there is still something to deal with. Now, you have to sleep enough, wait for me, and see you in the next life."
Premier Zhou once said to his lover : "I have always been a firm materialist , only you, I hope there will be a next life."
Later, in 1992, when Deng Yingchao died of illness, it was also the remains of Ma Yanlong for her. This loving couple will definitely be very happy in the next life, right?
After Ma Yanlong sorted out for Premier Zhou, he took Premier Zhou's beard away and kept it at home for treasure. For him, Premier Zhou was not only a beloved national leader, but also a confidant who recognized his work. In the Grand Marshal of
10, he sorted out his remains of 8 people.
Ma Yanlong had actually sorted out his face for many leaders and orders, so this is also the reason why the country thought of him to put on makeup for Premier Zhou. However, since putting on makeup for Premier Zhou, many people have seen their faces like Premier Zhou during their lifetime, and people have remembered him.
However, Ma Yanlong did not look down on people because he became famous. He returned to the farm to participate in labor and strictly implemented Chairman Mao’s theory of “hard work on his mind and hard work on his muscles”. In addition to work, he did not forget to study the collation of his face, hoping that more people could leave “decently”.
arrived at September 9, 1976 , and Ma Yanlong, who was working, received another notice that someone would pick him up to Zhongnanhai later. Ma Yanlong felt a little "sudden" in his heart. Is it bad for this time? You know, this year, two leaders, Premier Zhou and President Zhu De, have passed away, and as far as he knows, the only one who is seriously ill now is the leader Chairman Mao.
Ma Yanlong was nervous all the way, After arriving in Zhongnanhai, I met the staff and learned that his guess was correct. Our great leader, Chairman Mao, passed away.
He respected and loved Chairman Mao as well. After the grief, he put on makeup for Chairman Mao with the same devout respect. When Chairman Mao passed away, he was 83 years old and his whole face became more haggard. Under Ma Yanlong's hands, Chairman Mao's cheeks gradually plump and his expression was very peaceful, which was no different from falling asleep.
The staff around Chairman Mao cried when he saw Chairman Mao like this. What they gave Mao The Chairman met with Nixon. In that photo, Chairman Mao was blushed. Because establishing diplomatic relations with the United States means that China has better development opportunities, the Chairman was happy from the bottom of his heart. And Ma Yanlong reappeared a cheerful, confident and happy Chairman Mao.
Now we go to see Chairman Mao’s remains, and we all thank Ma Yanlong for his efforts.
In addition to sorting out the remains for Premier Zhou and Chairman Mao, Ma Yanlong also put on makeup for many national leaders. Among them, the famous leaders are Deng Xiaoping, Chen Yonggui and other leaders . When Deng Xiaoping passed away, Ma Yanlong was also very sad when he learned the news. He volunteered to be Deng Xiaoping's makeup artist, so that Deng Gong also left "decently".
and Chen Yonggui, who once served as Vice Premier of the State Council and was in charge of national agriculture. After his death, Ma Yanlong also put on makeup for him. Ma Yanlong also respected this civilian prime minister very much. In addition to basic makeup, in order to better fit Chen Yonggui's image, Ma Yanlong also went to several wards to borrow white towels and wrapped Chen Yonggui The head.
Because Chen Yonggui came out of Dazhai, even if he became the Prime Minister in the future, he was wearing a coarse cloth clothes with a white towel wrapped on his head, which was a typical old farmer in Shanxi. It can be seen that Ma Yanlong used his heart.
Later, Ma Yanlong put on makeup for them when the ten marshals died. Except for Lin Biao who died in the early years and Peng Dehuai who was in another place, there were 8 of the ten marshals, all of which were made up for them personally.
Except After these countries' leaders, after many celebrities from the cultural circles in the country passed away, their families specially found Ma Yanlong and asked Ma Yanlong to put on makeup.
Among these people, including the mother of former Prime Minister Li Peng, in order to express his gratitude, Li Peng presented his mother's photo to Ma Yanlong; after putting on makeup for Lu Xun's younger brother Zhou Jianren , Zhou Jianren's son specially gave the collection of "Lu Xun's Poems" to Mr. Ma; after putting on makeup for Mao Dun , Mao Dun's son was so moved that he said "Thank you".
The national leaders who have sorted out their remains include Soong Ching Ling , Hu Yaobang, Li Xiannian, Dong Biwu, etc. Among the celebrities, there are Chen Jiageng , Guo Moruo , Ye Shengtao , Li Kuchan , etc. They are simply a professional makeup artist.
But in fact, Mr. Ma’s job is not body plastic surgery . He was originally studying pathology. It is also unexpected to become a plastic surgeon in the body.
pathologist accidentally became a plastic surgeon
Ma Lao was born in Beijing in 1933, and his ancestors were Luoyang people. After he was born, in order to give him a good name, his father specially spent three ocean to find fortune teller to calculate his birth date and horoscope, and named him "Yanlong". The fortune teller also said: "This child's fate can be 'close to the Dragon', so you can train it well." Although the family does not understand the theory of fortune teller very well, they regard the fortune teller's words as the treasure and cultivate Ma Yanlong with all their hearts and efforts.
In Beijing in 1933, intellectuals from all walks of life gathered here. Their advanced ideas and profound knowledge were circulated in the Beiping city at that time. Ma Yanlong grew up in this kind of environment with a strong cultural atmosphere. His family also devoted all their strength to support him in school, making him a "cultural person".
Wait until After the founding of New China , Ma Yanlong thought for a long time and applied to the Health Cadre School of the Military Commission of the People's Liberation Army of China. At that time, the number of people applying for this school was as high as 2,800, and the examination procedures were very complicated, including competition, oral examination, first examination and re-examination, and physical condition also had to pass. With excellent conditions, Ma Yanlong passed various exams and successfully entered the hospital's pathology department.
For people at that time, being able to work in the hospital and eat "public meals" was already a "capable person".
But God will give great responsibilities to this person, and he will definitely not let his life go smoothly.
From 1966, Ma Yanlong was transferred to the morgue of Beijing Hospital , and was responsible for picking up and dropping off the bodies every day. A doctor with a bright future will have a gap in his heart when doing these physical tasks.
Ka Yanlong believes in Buddhism. He feels that all beings are equal and work is equal. With the idea of being at ease when you come, Ma Yanlong was carrying the corpse, and taking advantage of his position to study how to better put on makeup for the deceased and let them leave decently.
In fact, before this, as a doctor, Ma Yanlong had already put on makeup for the Secretary of the CPC Chahar Provincial Committee Yang Gengtian . Marshal Nie Rongzhen also specially asked others to pay tribute to Yang Gengtian's body. After that, the farewell ceremony for the body became an indispensable process for the central leader to die.
Then, when patriotic overseas Chinese Chen Jiageng passed away, he also put on makeup by Ma Yanlong. At this time, Premier Zhou encouraged him to "do it well!"
According to Mr. Ma himself, he was able to accept makeup on the body so calmly because he saw his parents put on his grandmother when he was a child. At that time, after his grandmother passed away, her face was thin and she was afraid to see her.
But his parents carefully put on makeup for his grandmother until his grandmother's face returned to its original state. This incident shocked Ma Yanlong. It turned out that it could really make the deceased so peacefully and calm, which also had a certain impact on his future work.
With the memory of my childhood, coupled with this experience of working in the morgue, I have become an outstanding makeup artist. Later, Ma Yanlong trained on the farm, which made him develop a mentality of not being surprised by favors and disgraces. In the future, whether it is to put on makeup for national leaders, celebrities, or treat ordinary people, he will always be sincere and concentrate on serving patients.
I personally think that Mr. Ma’s character is great. Because until the current environment, some people will feel unlucky when they mention professions such as funeralists and mortalists and , and even their families will be discriminated against because of their professions.In the era when Ma Lao was young, people's thoughts were even more closed. It is conceivable how much pressure Ma Lao was under at that time.
But even in the face of an unfriendly outside environment, Mr. Ma and other practitioners are insisting on doing their own work. They faced the dead who had lost for various reasons, carefully sorted out their voices, appearances and smiles during their lifetime to the living, and let the dead leave "decently".
Their work is great. I pay tribute to Mr. Ma and wish him good health and longevity! Salute to all relevant professions and thank them for their efforts!
