Chinanews.com, Beijing, June 16 (Reporter Kan Feng) If you study Buddhism, or love poetry, or are obsessed with calligraphy, you are no stranger to a name-Zhao Puchu.
He is one of the founders of the China Democracy Promotion Association and was once called a "national treasure" by Premier Zhou Enlai.
Zhao Puchu's life is legendary, with many auras of honor.
He is an outstanding Buddhist leader, a well-known social activist dedicated to friendly exchanges between China and foreign countries for a long time, and a well-known writer, poet and calligraphy master at home and abroad.
Zhao Puchu, who has been patriotic all his life, has always been a close friend of the Communist Party of China, sharing weal and woe.
As a patriotic religious leader, Zhao Puchu and the older generation of leaders of the Communist Party of China have a lot of daring stories.
In the early days of the founding of New China, Zhao Puchu served as the Deputy Minister of Civil Affairs of the East China Bureau in Shanghai. Because of the disaster relief activities, he handled numerous money.
In 1951, the anti-corruption, anti-waste, and anti-bureaucratic "three evils" movement began. Although Zhou Enlai and other CCP leaders trusted Zhao Puchu very much, he was still listed as a key inspection subject according to the policy.
However, Zhao Puchu had a cool breeze, and after verification, there was no confusion.
After Zhou Enlai learned about it, he praised: "Zhao Puchu is the treasure of the country!" Since then, there has been the saying that Zhao Puchu is a "national treasure".
In fact, the Chinese Communists not only respected this close friend, but also cared for him.
In September 1949, Zhao Puchu, as a representative of the religious circles, went to Beijing to attend the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
As a devout Buddhist, Zhao Puchu has been a vegetarian all year round. This time he went to Beijing for a meeting. He was worried about the inconvenience of eating and drinking. He even prepared to eat only "meat side dishes". Eat vegetarian dishes.
But when he went to the banquet, when he wrote his name on the registration book, the staff immediately said: "You are Zhao Puchu, there is a plain table here." It turned out that the careful Zhou Enlai specially arranged a plain table for Zhao Puchu.
Many years later, this "attentiveness" also appeared in Fuzhou, Fujian in the early 1990s.
According to Sun Haishan, member of the Standing Committee of the Fuzhou Municipal Party Committee and Minister of the United Front Work Department, once Zhao Puchu visited Fuzhou, Xi Jinping, then Secretary of the Fuzhou Municipal Party Committee, attached great importance to the reception work. The director personally reviewed the menu and provided pure vegetarian food for Mr. Zhao Puchu." Sun Haishan said.
The details are heartwarming.
In fact, in various periods of the Chinese revolution, construction, and reform and opening up under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, there are countless stories about the unity and cooperation and mutual respect of the Communist Party of China and patriotic religious figures.
As General Secretary Xi Jinping said, “To form a united front with religious circles under the banner of patriotism and socialism is our party’s distinctive feature and political advantage in handling religious issues. We must adhere to political unity and cooperation and mutual respect in faith. Get in touch, talk more, help more, convince people with reason and emotion, attract and unite people by solving practical difficulties." (End)