Just two years ago, Zuo Quan left only one photo before going to Yan 'an, when his daughter Zuo Taibei was born less than 100 days.
When he grew up, Zuo Taibei cried when he saw this photo. She imagined her father, but it was vague.
Finally, after retirement, Zuo Taibei decided to visit his father's comrades-in-arms, return to the revolutionary road, and compiled a biography.
Decades have passed, although Zuo Taibei, who is over the age of ancient times, has long been washed away by time, but with this Memoirs, his father's heroic spirit has been preserved forever. ...
Zuo Taipei was born in Liao County and was named "Taipei" by his father's revolutionary comrade-in-arms Marshal Peng.
But Zuo Taibei has lived with her mother since she was a child and has never seen her father since she can remember-all her knowledge of Zuo Quan comes from other people's reports.
Someone told her that her father was a "hero of the Anti-Japanese War", and Zuo Taibei kept it firmly in mind.
After Zuo Quan's death, his wife Liu Zhilan, who was only 25 years old, went through a period of depression.
In the Liberation Daily of 1942, Liu Zhilan also published an article mourning her late husband: "I don't want to believe the news that you have been killed several times. I am willing to live for 20 years, and I still hope that you can gallop in Taihang Mountain. If you come back from a serious injury, I will be proud of your disability. " Among them, grief makes people cry.
Later, considering the hardships of being single, the organization advised her to remarry. So a few years later, Liu Zhilan remarried to Cheng Shouzhong, the former secretary-general of Zuo Quan, and Zuo Taibei grew up to be 9 years old under their support.
1949, Mr. and Mrs. Peng, childless, took Zuo Taibei to their side and wanted her to receive a better education.
Zuo Taibei was sent to Beijing Bayi Primary School. At that time, she didn't realize that she was different from other students. Until one time, the school organization reported to Chairman Mao that only seven students were sent, including Zuo Taibei.
What excites Zuo Taibei even more is that when Chairman Mao met her, he not only inquired about her family and life in detail, but also gave her great encouragement, which made other students envious.
Later, when she went to Tiananmen Square to watch the fireworks, she met Premier Zhou. Premier Zhou also kindly said to her, "Are you Beibei?" You should learn from your father when you grow up! "
So Zuo Taibei, who grew up under such influence, continued his father's blood and initial heart and was bent on joining the army to serve the country.
After the college entrance examination, she found her adoptive father and said, "I'm going to apply for Harbin Military Industry." But Peng did not suggest it.
But Zuo Taibei didn't give up so easily. She still wrote Harbin Military Industry on the volunteer list. She waited for the news with confidence, only to find that a few days later, Zuo Taibei was informed that her political trial had failed.
Unwilling Zuo Taibei immediately found Chen Geng, president of Harbin Military Industry. Chen Geng is also very happy to learn that Zuo Quan's daughter is visiting. He said, "I think you are a starving baby. I didn't expect you to be so big now." Your father and I were bunk beds at Huangpu Military Academy! "
Zuo Taibei exchanged a few pleasantries with him, and then informed him of his purpose: "Uncle, I have passed the admission line of Harbin Military Industry, but the notice says that there is something wrong with the political examination. What is this? "
Chen Geng was very surprised after listening: "How can the hero's daughter fail the trial?" He called the relevant person in charge to ask, only to learn that the original problem was Bo Er who had joined the Kuomintang in Zuo Taibei.
Chen Geng soon made a guarantee for Zuo Taibei. He said to Zuo Taibei, "For your father's sake, Harbin Military Industry won't want you!"
So things were settled, and Zuo Taibei was admitted to the Academy of Military Engineering. Only in this way can I deeply understand the weight of the father I have never met in the party and understand how heavy the word "hero" is.
From 65438 to 0965, after graduation, Zuo Taibei successfully entered the Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, realizing his wish to serve the motherland. As a result, the love that belongs to her life has quietly come.
According to Zuo Taibei, "When I first met my husband Sha Zhiqiang, he wore an old military uniform with two big patches on his body, which looked particularly simple." But in fact, Sha Zhiqiang graduated from high flyers, Tsinghua University. At that time, the gold content was very heavy.
After meeting, Zuo Taibei's personality and quality also touched Sha Zhiqiang, and they soon established a love relationship. After marriage, the couple lived happily, and Zuo Taibei's career flourished. She not only helped poor households in Taihang Mountain area, but also made many contributions to improving the poverty situation in the old areas-Zuo Taibei tried to get close to her father.
Just when Zuo Taibei thought that life would go on like this,1one day in May, 982, his mother Liu Zhilan carefully handed her several documents, including eleven letters from her father to her mother.
Mother recalled: "The year you were born was the most tense time of the revolution. I remember that the day before your father left was the eve of the Hundred Regiments War. While he is busy with the battle deployment, he also comes to help you wash diapers and feed rice soup. Later, he went to the front and wrote to me from time to time ... "
Since then, every time Zuo Taibei saw these letters, he couldn't help crying. Zuo Taibei began to imagine his father, who was eager to know about his past revolutionary experience.
199 1 year, Liu Zhilan was diagnosed as lymphoma and needed daily chemotherapy. On her deathbed, Liu Zhilan once again thought of her first husband, Zuo Quan. She endured the pain and wrote this passage: "Life is like a blink of an eye, full of ups and downs until you close your eyes ..."
After the death of his mother, the only thoughts left to Zuo Taibei were those eleven letters from home.
Time flies. In 2000, Zuo Taibei gloriously retired from the post of deputy director of China Aviation Industry Comprehensive Planning Department, and she had more time to follow her inner guidance.
So Zuo Taibei simply put all her energy into finding her father's revolutionary hometown and sorting out his biography, and her husband Sha Zhiqiang also gave him great support and respect.
Zuo Taibei opened those letters again. After years of precipitation, she has a more emotional understanding of her father: "It turns out that her father is not only a hero, but also a caring husband and a loving father."
In Zuo Quan's letter, there are love and memories of her daughter: "I remember when we sat together, Beibei was very naughty, sitting on the ground for a while and crawling from her mother's arms to her father's. I was really happy at that time! I hope you can report more about her when you write. "
Also, three days before his death, he wrote his last letter to his beloved wife, with thoughts and helplessness: "Dear Lan Zhi, I have known her for a long time, but it has been longer since we separated. We have been separated for 20 months, but I don't know when we will be together. I miss it very much! " Now that decades have passed, the stationery has long been yellowed, but the feelings contained in it have not diminished.
Zuo Taibei, 200 1 65438+6 1 year-old, decided to send a reply to his parents across time and space. She wrote with childlike anxiety: "Now, under the lamp of my desk, I recall the past with mixed feelings."
In this letter, which will never reach the recipient, she told her father: "After you left, your family kept the news of your death from your grandmother. It was not until a few years later that the troops sent people to express their condolences. Grandma took out the pension and letters sent by Premier Zhou at that time, and everyone knew that she was clear in her heart, but she rarely showed grief in front of people. " Write here, Zuo Taibei's tears have dyed through the writing paper.
In 2002, Zuo Taibei completed an important task, that is, sorting out those letters and publishing them as A Letter from General Zuo Quan.
Since then, Zuo Taibei has also started a "revolutionary journey" to find his father's footprints. Together with Liu Taixing, the son of Liu Bocheng, she walked several times along the breakthrough route of129th Division's "Cross-Ridge Campaign".
As she walked, she imagined what her father looked like in those days, and whether he had also walked this road under his feet.
Zuo Taibei said, "In this process, it is the closest moment I feel to my father. Even the chirping yellowbird in the tree is like an angel sent by my father talking to me. "
In July 2006, Zuo Taibei participated in another activity about the children of martyrs, "Love the Long March-Revolutionary Charity Tour". Based on the principle of "five noes" and following the revolutionary frugality, this group of revolutionary descendants who are over 60 years old have embarked on the journey of crossing 1 1 provinces and regions for more than 8,000 kilometers.
Zuo Taibei said in an interview: "Every time I participate in such activities, I will leave a deep impression of' My father is a national hero with strong character'. I believe that the people will always miss him! "
In those letters and more than 40 articles written by his father during the Anti-Japanese War, in the places where his father fought and in the gratitude of fellow villagers, Zuo Taibei slowly pieced together a complete and flesh-and-blood hero-Zuo Quan.
Different from those stories of filial piety, she can only get to know her father in her memory in this way, which is so unique but profound.
20 19 On June 25th, 79-year-old Zuo Taibei passed away in Beijing, and she walked the last leg of her life safely. Although the martyr's daughter passed away, she left a document to future generations, which is the mark of the times.
It is these precious documents that can let us know about the lost heroes and the heroic and heavy history, and let us remember: don't forget the national humiliation and revitalize China. You know, there are many fathers like Zuo Quan, who made sacrifices for the victory of the nation and the reunion of countless families.