——The east wind curls over the sublime, and the fragrant mist is empty and the moon is in the corridor.

Flowers are a symbol of beauty, and Zhou Xiangyu loves flowers all his life. However, as a great man of a generation, he has a unique noble sentiment, and even his unique taste, which may not be beyond the reach of ordinary people.

Begonia flowers, trees, stout, cylindrical, pubescent when young, gradually shedding, reddish-brown or purple-brown when old. Begonia flowers are known as "national beauty". It is an endemic plant in China, mostly growing in plains and mountains at an altitude of 50 to 2,000 meters. It has a deep love affair with Zhou Xiangyu.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, because Zhou Xiangyu saw that there were so many blooming begonia flowers and the "unstained pavilion" in the courtyard of the West Flower Hall, he chose the courtyard of the West Flower Hall in the northwest corner of Zhong Nan Hai as his place to work and live. In order to beautify the courtyard, he specially equipped a master florist. At that time, there was a small courtyard on the north side of the basketball court in the front yard of the West Flower Hall, and there was a flower conservatory in the courtyard, so even in the cold winter, as long as Zhou Xiangyu met with VIPs or presided over a meeting, the florist could always put a few pots of gorgeous flowers in the reception room or venue, so that the reception place or venue was full of vitality and the fragrance of flowers was overflowing.

In April 1954, the Geneva Conference was convened for peace in Indochina and the Korean Peninsula. Zhou Xiangyu led the Chinese delegation to Geneva, which was the first time that a representative of the People's Republic of China appeared on the stage of an international conference and the first time that he participated in an important international conference as a major country.

Since the United States was adopting a policy of total hostility to China at that time, it did not want any outcome of the conference at all. Under the obstruction of the United States, the meeting lasted more than 40 days. Just when Zhou Xiangyu made friends inside and outside the meeting in Geneva, coordinated and communicated with many parties and worked hard, the begonias in the courtyard of the West Flower Hall in China bloomed. Mrs. Zhou, who was at home, saw that she was thinking about people, so she cut off a huge flower, put it in a thick book and pressed it, and then put it into an envelope together with a red leaf picked from Xiangshan in Beijing the previous year, and wrote "a piece of red leaves, send it to you missing" on a small note, and then asked the staff who went to Geneva to give it to Zhou Xiangyu.

After Zhou Xiangyu received his wife's begonia flowers and red leaves, he knew that Mrs. Zhou was missing him, but he was too busy with work, and he could only sleep for three or four hours a day, so he had no time to write letters, so he instructed the staff to come to Geneva Street, buy back a very valuable local peony flower, and then press it himself, and then put it together with the begonia flowers and red leaves brought from China and put it in an envelope, and ask the staff to bring it back to China and hand it over to Mrs. Zhou.

In this way, begonia flowers, peony flowers and red leaves have become witnesses of their lovesickness. Therefore, Mrs. Zhou attaches great importance to these flowers and red leaves, and deliberately composed the begonia flowers, peony flowers and red leaves together to form a pattern, and then put them into a mirror frame and hang them on the wall of her bedroom.

In the ten years of Dong Luan, Zhou Xiangyu endured humiliation and did his best to support the crisis. In the days when the black clouds were overwhelming the city and wanted to destroy it, he was getting thinner and thinner, but he couldn't help it, and he could only hope that the begonia flowers would give him some comfort. Everyone loves the house and Wu, loves Zhou Xiangyu, and loves begonia flowers.

After the end of Dong Luan, there are obviously more begonias in Beijing. Later, in April 1988, when the begonia flowers in the West Flower Hall of Zhong Nan Hai in Beijing were in full bloom again, Mrs. Zhou once again saw the flowers and thought about the people, and wrote the famous "Memories of the Begonia Flowers in the West Flower Hall":

"Memories from the Begonia Flowers in the West Flower Hall"

Spring has arrived, the flowers are blooming, and the begonia flowers in the West Flower Hall are in full bloom again. The owner of the flower has been gone, gone for 12 years, left us, and he is not coming back. Don't you love begonia flowers? In the early days of liberation, you happened to see this courtyard with begonia flowers in full bloom, and you fell in love with the begonia flowers, and you fell in love with this courtyard. You've lived there for 26 years, I've lived longer than you, and it's been 38 years now.

Begonia flowers are still blooming brightly, beautifully, and lovely. The fruit it bears is delicious, sweet and sour, the red begonia that blooms white flowers, the yellow begonia that blooms safflower, the fruit is abundant, hanging full of branches, it really looks like a mountain of flowers and fruits.

After autumn, when the begonia is ripe, everyone picks it off and eats it, and some make it into fruit jam, which is very delicious to eat. When you are here, the begonia flowers bloom, and you often take a few minutes to take a walk and watch during the busy work during the day; At night, when you are tired from work, sometimes you walk and stand in front of the begonia tree next to the road, always look up and look at it, get some beauty and fragrance of flowers from it, take a little rest, and then go back to work. When you go for a walk, sometimes you ask me to join you, sometimes you join the comrades who work around you. You look at the back of the flower, as if it was just yesterday, right in front of my eyes. We are admiring the begonia flowers we all love, side by side, but not yesterday, but 12 years ago. Twelve years have passed, and those 12 years would have been short; However, occasionally I feel that it is a long and long time.

When the begonia flowers bloom, it is so loved, but when the flowers fall, it is quiet, and the petals fall all over the ground. Some people say that falling flowers look better than flowering. Gong Zizhen said in "Jihai Miscellaneous Poems": "Falling red is not a ruthless thing, turning into spring mud is more protective of flowers." "You like begonia flowers, and I like begonia flowers. When you attended the Geneva conference, the begonia flowers in our house were in full bloom, and because you couldn't see the beautiful flowers that bloomed that year, I deliberately cut a branch, pressed it in a book, and brought it to Geneva through the wild goose. I think you can take a look at the begonia flowers in the middle of such a busy work, which may make you have some aftertaste and rest, which is also a kind of enjoyment.

You're gone, but when the begonia flowers bloom, there are often people who love flowers to see the flowers. In front of the flowers, everyone admires the flowers, while remembering you and missing you, as if you are still among us. You left this compound, left them, left us, and you will not come again. Where have you been? I think you must have followed the warm wind of spring and the snow of the harsh winter, and you have gone deep into the mountains and plains of the motherland, and also drifted into the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, and through the migration of the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, you have entered the boundless ocean. You are not only serving our country and the people of our country, but you have always fought side by side with the people for the cause of progress of all mankind and for the peace of the world.

When you say goodbye, I know you. You are worried about the party, the country, and the people, and you buried your hatred in your heart and left with you. However, you did not expect that the power of the people, the awakening of the people, and the backbone and excellent leaders of our party would soon crush the "Gang of Four" in one fell swoop. After the "Gang of Four" was smashed, the motherland is now blooming the flower of reform and opening up, which is getting better, bigger, and stronger, and is bearing abundant fruits, making our country prosperous and bringing happiness to our people. Baidu takes a look at the latest chapter of "Men's World Masterpiece Literature" to read for free for the first time.