(Ling Media/Comprehensive Report) The body of Jiang Zemin, former general secretary of the Communist Party of China, was brought back to Beijing from Shanghai on the evening of 1. CCTV released images showing that Jiang Zemin’s body inside the crystal coffin was wearing his signature black-rimmed glasses. The specifics of Jiang Zemin’s funeral are being compared with that of former leader Deng Xiaoping, but there will be no farewell ceremony for the body. The possibility of a future burial in Beijing is extremely high.
When Jiang Zemin’s body arrived in Beijing, the current general secretary Xi Jinping led other high-level officials to greet the coffin at the airport, bowed three times to Jiang Zemin’s body, and watched the coffin go to the hearse.
Jiang Zemin’s body was escorted to the resting place and, according to usual practice, will be admitted to the People’s Liberation Army General Hospital (No. 301 Hospital). According to the announcement of “Comrade Jiang Zemin’s Funeral Committee”, at 10 am on the 6th, the Central Committee of the Party, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, the State Council, the National Committee of the Political Consultative Conference of the Chinese people and the Central Military Commission held a memorial meeting for Comrade Jiang Zemin in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. At that time, all Chinese citizens observed a three-minute silence. Sound the siren for 3 minutes wherever there is a siren and sound the air defense siren for 3 minutes. But at the end of the announcement, he said there would be no farewell ceremony for Jiang Zemin’s body, nor did he explain how to deal with the body.
Jiang Zemin passed away 17 days before the official news of his death was announced online
The failure to hold a farewell ceremony for Jiang Zemin’s body raised questions: Jiang Zemin was rumored to have died on the Internet before the official announcement of his death.
Seventeen days before Chinese official media broke the news of Jiang Zemin’s death on November 30, news of Jiang Zemin’s death had circulated. Qin Feng, grandson of former Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing and Hong Kong satellite TV reporter, posted on Weibo on November 13 that “the river flows eastward. The river flows eastward,” but the post was later deleted.
In the past, the arrangements after the death of CCP leaders were not exactly the same: Mao Zedong’s body was placed in Chairman Mao’s memorial hall on Tiananmen Square, the ashes of Deng Xiaoping and former chairman Liu Shaoqi were missing at sea, former chairman Li Xiannian was buried in Babaoshan, former Central Committee chairman Hua Guofeng, former state chairman Yang Shangkun was buried in his hometown.
The crystal coffin originated from the Christian tradition of the cult of the sacred corpse. The remains of world leaders are still kept in crystal coffins for future generations to pay their respects. In addition to Mao Zedong, it also includes Lenin in the Soviet Union, Kim Il Sung in North Korea, Kim Jong Il and his son, Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam, Angola Neto, former Guyana President Burnham and Venezuelan President Chávez .
Original url of Lin Media: Jiang Zemin will not hold a farewell ceremony for his body, the probability of a future burial in Beijing is high
