Now, this once famous cemetery has been almost completely destroyed. On the only one acre square slope, the tombstones built by Zhang Jiluan's descendants stand alone in the overgrown place.
The year before the public sacrifice, Zhang Jiluan, then editor-in-chief of Ta Kung Pao, died in Chongqing, and the highest levels of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party sent messages of condolence at the first time. Chiang Kai-shek and Zhou Enlai personally went to the funeral to express their condolences to reporters.
At that time, there was a public sacrifice, and the drama club from the city set up a stage to sing for a few days, and invited the cooks from several surrounding villages to the village to receive the guests who came to mourn Zhang Jiluan.
Before the start of the public sacrifice, a military band composed of 50 or 60 people in military uniforms played, and the plane in the sky circled low over the cemetery.
Letters of condolence piled up, and there was a sea of people around the mausoleum. People who came to watch the excitement trampled on hundreds of acres of wheat fields around them.
Zhang Jiluan's ancestral home was in Yulin, Shaanxi Province, and he was buried in xi 'an at that time because Fan Chuan, where the cemetery was located, was specially designed to welcome his chosen "land of geomantic omen".
According to local legend, it is backed by a high mountain, and there are two canals flowing on both sides, so it is called "Shuanglong Play Pearl".
In the literature, it is known as "a beautiful land in heaven, waiting for great sages".
After this public sacrifice, a "magnificent" mausoleum was built on the Yuan Shang in the east of the village.
There is a high fence, and there are several stone piers at the door. "Two or three people can't help it."
Walking into the gate, a brick road connects with a long step.
There was originally a row of lush acacia trees outside the courtyard wall of the cemetery, and there were also two lush flower walls on both sides of the brick road leading to the tombstone.
Inside the cemetery, there are two peach blossom gardens. At the end of the steps, around the tombstone, there is a big pine tree, which was specially moved from the surrounding mountains.
At the beginning of the cemetery, there was once a company stationed here to guard Zhang Jiluan's grave.
A few years later, these troops followed the war and disappeared.
This huge cemetery has never been guarded.
After liberation, especially after the Great Leap Forward, several people's communes around rushed to send people here to cooperate with steelmaking.
Soon, Robinia pseudoacacia, poplar and Qinling pine in front of the cemetery wall were cut down by powerful people and sent to the indigenous steelmaking stove.
The major pages of Ta Kung Pao were reorganized one after another, and the press broke with the past.
In the city dozens of kilometers away, the descendants of the Zhang family have no time to take care of these at this time.
It was not until the beginning of the Cultural Revolution that these stone tablets carved with stones from the south of the Yangtze River, together with stone strips and blue bricks built on the foundation of the tomb, were completely smashed and became the leftovers used by villagers to build houses.
Finally, in the movement of "Breaking the Four Old Houses", a tractor of the production team pushed down the grave and razed half the adobe to the ground.
The whole cemetery instantly turned into farmland, which was divided into two halves according to the boundary and distributed to two different villages.
In the chaos, the villagers suddenly found that I don't know when, Zhang Jiluan's cemetery has been dug up.
The open cemetery is like a "quadrangle" with a hall and two small rooms. There are only a few stones scattered on it, a teapot, a pair of mahjong and a pipe.
This is all the funerary objects preserved in this huge mausoleum.
In the following decades, Zhang Jiluan's grave lay in this messy field, with cracks exposed.
Even after the Cultural Revolution, no one was willing to redecorate this tomb, which was only half covered with mud.
1994, a local reporter visited here and was shocked by the tragic situation of the cemetery.
In his subsequent report, he wrote: "The tomb of Zhang Jiluan, a generation of journalists, has long been reduced to a tomb in the middle of nowhere, without any signs, and is inaccessible.
A piece of residual soil, facing the lonely sunshine in late spring, is unbearable to mourn. "1999 One day, my granddaughter living in Hong Kong suddenly called and told her niece Li, an old man who used to work in Ta Kung Pao, to look for the cemetery, only to find that the building was gone and the cemetery was deserted and chaotic, leaving only half of the earthen bags.
"The grave must be rebuilt, which is my responsibility." The girl said on the phone, "I can only pay 10 thousand Hong Kong dollars." Can you help me do it? " Li immediately promised to come down. In order to approve a piece of land, she took a bus from Xi 'an downtown to Chang 'an county, and I don't know how many times she ran.
At first, the local * * * thought that Hong Kong businessmen were returning to their hometowns to invest, and their enthusiasm was very high, but the result was only 1 10,000 Hong Kong dollars, and they were immediately "extremely disappointed".
After several negotiations, Li finally got an acre of land.
This is the location of the tombstone at the end of the cemetery.
Although it is still far from the original 40 mu scale of the cemetery, she already feels "very satisfied".
Li wrote the words "the tomb of my late father" according to the tone of the monument to the elders by future generations.
As for the stone tablet at the back, I finally chose two condolences from * * * and Zhou Enlai and set them up.
The last inscription was written by liying at the request of one of his colleagues in the Hydropower Engineering Bureau.
As for the craftsman who built this tombstone, Li Zaicun inquired for a long time and finally found Xing Bingnian, who had been a stonemason for decades.
Within a few months, experienced masons not only built tombstones, but also moved the altar originally placed in the cemetery from the feeding room of the production team back to the cemetery.
He transported it back to the village during the Cultural Revolution.
At that time, because the altar was too big, he couldn't figure out what to do, so he left this stone platform in the breeding room.
Now, this altar, which has lived with cows, horses and donkeys raised by the production team for decades, has finally returned to the tombstone.
As a child, he often went to Zhang Jiluan cemetery to play, so Xing Bingnian paid special attention to the work of rebuilding tombstones.
When the tombstone was built more than half way, he took the initiative and spent 35 yuan on the craftsman across the hall to carve a small stone tablet with the words "according to the Lord" written on it and added it to the top of the tombstone.
He saw these words from Li's Collected Works.
"This is a message of condolences from Premier Zhou." Li also listened to another suggestion from Xing Bingnian. According to her original drawing design, the earthen bag of the cemetery should be wrapped with cement mortar, but Xing Bingnian said that the cemetery wrapped with cement mortar can't grow grass, and the population is not prosperous.
Recalling his 50-year-old son, Li was moved. He immediately assured Xing Bingnian that more grass would grow in the soil in the cemetery.
1In the autumn of 999, a new tombstone was finally erected.
In 2004, Yucun, adjacent to Zhu Lin Village, took the lead in leasing the land around the mausoleum to brick kilns.
Subsequently, the production team of Zhu Lin Village rented the land belonging to its own village and built a pig farm.
When the farm started construction, a dirt road in front of the tomb was cut off.
In the view of Director Cao of Duqu Street in Chang 'an District, this newly-built farm is obviously a "project to benefit farmers" that can drive economic development.
Today, there are more than 5,000 breeding pigs in this "ten thousand lean pig breeding base in Shaanxi Province".
Outside the fence of the yard, two ditches used to discharge pig manure are dirty and smell strong.
As for Zhang Jiluan, "when this project was approved, everyone didn't know him".
No one knows who this cemetery in the gap between pigsty and brick factory belongs to, and no one knows how many brilliant memories the owner left in the history of China.
In April 2008, a memorial service was held here to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Zhang Jiluan's birthday/KLOC-0.
Representatives from Shaanxi Journalists Association, Shaanxi Daily, xi Daily, Hong Kong Ta Kung Pao Shaanxi Office, xinmin Evening News Agency and Yulin Daily, as well as students majoring in journalism from Northwest University and Xi Foreign Affairs College 100 people made a special trip to Duqu Town, Chang 'an District to pay tribute to this respected journalist, and Mr. Zhang Jiluan's grandson Zhang Zheming also made a special trip from Shanghai to commemorate his grandfather.
At 9 o'clock in the morning, all the people bowed to the portrait of Mr. Zhang Jiluan at the memorial site set up in Duqu Town, Chang 'an District to express their mourning and reverence.
After listening to Mr. Zhang Jiluan's life story, people's respect for him increased a little.
Mr Zhang Jiluan's relatives and representatives from all over the world read out commemorative speeches. After a simple memorial service, the group took flowers and went to Mr. Zhang Jiluan's cemetery 6 kilometers away.
At the worship ceremony, Yin Weizu, chairman of Shaanxi Journalists Association, felt that Mr. Zhang Jiluan was engaged in journalism at a critical moment when the Chinese nation was facing a life-and-death choice. Starting from the national justice, he published a series of articles exposing the crimes of the Japanese aggressors and called on the Kuomintang and the Communist Party to cooperate and fight together.
He advocates "literati discussing politics", and with extensive knowledge and profound writing skills, he has written a number of good comments and articles with thorough analysis and sharp writing style.
"Today, what can comfort Mr. Ji Yun is that our country has stood on its own feet among the nations of the world as an independent, democratic, prosperous and civilized country, and journalism has also created a brand-new situation of reform and development." Hao, president of Xi Daily, said that Mr. Zhang took the road of saving the country with words in his early years, wrote frank articles with a sharp pen, and became a well-known journalist and political commentator at home and abroad.
Mr Zhang's ancestral home is Yulin, Shaanxi. He has made outstanding contributions to China's modern journalism and is the pride of Shaanxi people. After his death, Mr. Wang was buried in Duqu Zhuyuan Village in Chang 'an, and his spirit will last forever.
He said: "The purpose of remembering Mr. Wang is to safeguard the will and cause of the sages. We will strive to run Xi Daily and Xi Evening News well to further demonstrate the social responsibility and credibility of mainstream media. " The news director of Xinmin Evening News said: Mr. Zhang has served the country all his life and made suggestions to the people. His Ta Kung Pao is well-known at home and abroad.
He put the interests of the country and the nation first, or argued for it, or generously discussed politics, and charged at the front line of the news, showing the great mind of a patriotic intellectual.
Since 2004, the report that "the pig farm forcibly occupied the owner's cemetery" has often been reported in newspapers, but until now, standing in front of Zhang Jiluan's grave, the noise and smell are still coming.
"We can't help it," said Cao, director of Du District Street in Chang 'an District. "We can't afford the millions of yuan needed for relocation, and it is difficult to find industrial land." At a meeting in Chang 'an District at the end of May, 2065438+00, several solutions to the problem were put forward again.
In addition to spending a lot of money to move the pig farm, another option is to move Zhang Jiluan's tomb to the "historical celebrity area" in Chang 'an District, Xi.
In fact, before pig farms and brick factories were built, people from all walks of life began to call for the protection of Zhang Jiluan's tomb.
In February, 2000, Bai Rui, a representative of Xi Municipal People's Congress, suggested protecting Mr. Zhang Jiluan's tomb and gradually restoring its original appearance.
In this regard, Chang 'an County * * * replied at that time that it had "provided an acre of cultivated land where the tomb was located" for free, and welcomed relatives and friends to "invest in the construction of Mr. Zhang's cemetery".
On June 27th, 2002, Yin Weizu, member of Xi CPPCC and chairman of Shaanxi Journalists Association, put forward suggestions for the protection and maintenance of Zhang Jiluan's tomb. At that time, An * * * replied that Chang 'an District * * * "has organized the Cultural Management Institute, Land Bureau and Duqu Town to build a cemetery, and planted flowers and trees around the cemetery".
However, even in such a "protected" state, pig farms and brick factories have been successfully built.
Zhang Jiluan's grandson, Zhang Zhe Ming, visited the cemetery 1990. At that time, he was a little sad in the face of the remnant scenery. When he went to the cemetery on the 20th anniversary of Zhang Jiluan's birthday/KLOC-0 in 2008, he felt extremely angry. "The road was occupied, and pig farms and brick factories surrounded the whole cemetery ..."
Under the constant appeal of the media and people of insight, Yang Jianqiang, the mayor of Chang 'an District, Xi City, made an on-site inspection at 20 1 1, asking the deputy mayor to take the lead and the relevant departments and sub-district offices to take charge. The district finance invested to do a good job in cemetery restoration, isolation fence, road construction, tree planting and greening, and "gradually transfer pig farms and gradually close brick factories".
"Three drafts of the design drawings for rebuilding the cemetery were made, but the relocation could not go on, and it was finally put there." Zhang Quan, director of Duqu Sub-district Office, said a few days ago that he didn't know what happened in front of Zhang Jiluan's grave, but he knew Zhang Jiluan, so he also paid attention to protecting it. "The neatness of the cemetery is the result of irregular cleaning by the staff."
Zhang Quan said that he was looking for a powerful company for the design of the new cemetery. According to the design plan, the new cemetery will open a door in the west of the brick factory, that is, in the east of the cemetery. However, family members disagreed with this design and insisted on relocating pig farms and brick factories.
But the fact is that pig farms and brick factories belong to Du Qu and Wang Mang, so it is not easy to "move".
Duqu Sub-district Office introduced that it had negotiated with the pig farm many times on the relocation issue, and the other party also agreed to relocate, but there was no land use index inside Duqu.
A document shows that the breeding farm to be relocated covers an area of 50 mu and has an investment of 8 million yuan. In 2007, it was identified as the "provincial lean pig breeding base". Brick factory belongs to a building materials company, covering an area of 70 mu.
A staff member of the street office told this reporter that there are more than 5,000 pigs in the farm at most, and the relocation will cost about 8 million yuan to100000 yuan.
As for the brick factory, the annual output value is more than 3 million, which is "simply unaffordable".