China News Service, Changzhi, June 30 Telegram: The final farewell: Tens of thousands of people spontaneously condolences Shen Jilan
Author Fan Lifang Gao Yuqing
At 7:30 on June 30, in the funeral home courtyard of Changzhi City, Shanxi Province, there were wreaths on both sides. On a screen about three meters high, Shen Jilan’s life was played in a loop. People who came to mourn from all directions wore masks, measured body temperature, and disinfected their hands. After receiving the little white flower with the word "mourning", they stood consciously. Several rows, stop in front of the big screen, together recall Shen Jilan's past. They looked dignified, tears in their eyes. Some people also raised the banner, "Grandma Shen went all the way." In the morning, tens of thousands of people came to express their condolences.
The condolences circled around the coffin and made a final farewell to Shen Jilan. Wei Liangshe
Due to the limited capacity of the memorial service venue, more people gathered outside to bid farewell to Shen Jilan. They came spontaneously and formed a long line. There were many white-haired old men, and the team could not see the end at a glance.
The public tears away from Shen Jilan. Wei Liangshe
At 8:30, the condolences entered one after another. The mournful sounds in the Yiran Hall, which seated more than 100 people. The portrait of Shen Jilan smiled, and the voice was there. The electronic screen reads "Sorrows in memory of Comrade Shen Jilan, the national merits of Ji Lan's spirit, I am famous for Changhong, and I have never changed my mind at the beginning of my life." In the center of the hall, the coffin is covered with party flags and white wreaths surround it.
At 9 o'clock, the farewell ceremony for Shen Jilan's body began.
The elegy sounded, the mourning was low, and all the staff at the scene bowed their heads in silence. On both sides of the hall, flower baskets and wreaths are neatly arranged to tell sadness.
The public tears away from Shen Jilan. Wei Liangshe
"Comrade Shen Jilan's life has witnessed the great leap of the Chinese nation from standing up, getting rich, and becoming strong, witnessing the historical progress of the democratic and rule of law of the Republic, witnessing the historical periods and new eras of socialist revolution, construction, and reform, The vicissitudes of the new journey." Sun Dajun, secretary of the Changzhi Municipal Party Committee, read out Shen Jilan's life and delivered a eulogy. Some people wiped tears from time to time. The condolences bowed to the body three, held the chrysanthemums, held a circle around the coffin, and bid farewell to Shen Jilan.
The public tears away from Shen Jilan. Wei Liangshe
Outside the funeral home, Changzhi citizen Li Taifeng was one of the people waiting in line to say goodbye to her body. She took her daughter and waited outside the door of Changzhi funeral home early in the morning, "I told her about Director Shen's deeds since she was a child. Director Shen is a laborer The representative of the people, no matter how the identity changes, always maintains simplicity. This quality of her is worth learning in her life."
On a screen about three meters high, Shen Jilan's life is played in a loop. Wei Liangshe
"She is our guide and guides the people all her life." Cao Songmiao, who came from Pingshun County specifically, said that she and her friend drove to the scene early in the morning, "just to bid farewell to Director Shen's last journey."
In the yard of the funeral home in Changzhi City, Shanxi Province, there are wreaths on both sides. Wei Liangshe
Due to the limited capacity of the memorial service venue, more people gathered outside to bid farewell to Shen Jilan. Wei Liangshe
Shen Jilan is a national model worker, an outstanding member of the Communist Party of China, a representative of the first to the thirteenth National People's Congress, a winner of the title of "Reform Vanguard", a recipient of the "Republic Medal", and is hailed as a witness of the Chinese People's Congress system. Living fossil". In the 1950s, she became famous both at home and abroad for leading rural women to work and proposing "equal pay for equal work for men and women." At 1:31 am on June 28, 2020, Shen Jilan died in Changzhi at the age of 91 due to ineffective medical treatment.
In the funeral home yard, someone pulled up a banner and said, "Grandma Shen went all the way." Wei Liangshe
The Taihang Mountain bowed its head in awe, and the water of the Zhang River was low and sobbing. Shen Jilan, who cares about the peasants and took root in the Xigou all his life, passed away, but the "Jilan spirit" persists. (Finish)