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It is written in the front that after eight years of arduous war of resistance, the Chinese people finally defeated the Japanese invaders and were proud and proud. After the war, the whole country was eager to recuperate and build the country. However, the peace was short-lived, and a full-scale civil war broke out just ten months later. For three years, the country was in turmoil, the people were in dire straits, and the Kuomintang regime was in turmoil. It finally ended its rule over mainland China with its retreat to Taiwan. History has taken a dramatic turn. From the victory of the Anti-Japanese War to the end of the civil war, his father Zhang Gaofeng worked as a Ta Kung Pao reporter and correspondent, covering Chongqing, Pingjin, and Northeast China. He experienced many important events during the period and published a large number of reports. Especially his experience in Northeast China, one of the main battlefields of the Civil War, and in Peiping, the political and cultural center of the north, were the most important stages of his journalistic career.

Zhang Xueming and his family were in the Shuai Mansion in their early years. Zhang Xueming, known as the "Two Fatty", was not very favored. It is said that there is a superstitious story: On the day Xueming was born in 1908, Zhang Zuolin dreamed of Du Laoqiang (Du Lishan), his bandit accomplice who was trapped and killed by him. But later, apart from Zhang Xueliang, the most "famous" member of the Zhang family was Zhang Xueming. On the eve of the liberation of Tianjin in January 1949, Zhang Xueming did not take his family to escape, which shows that he knew something about the CCP. This is not unrelated to the fact that his father-in-law, Mr. Zhu Qiqian (the founder of ancient Chinese architecture, former Minister of Internal Affairs and Acting Prime Minister of the Beiyang Government) stayed in the mainland.

On December 1, 1945, Tianjin Ta Kung Pao published an editorial titled "Revisiting the Elders from the North", saying: "We have not seen each other for more than eight years, and today we are reunited with the elders from the North. We are really gratified and moved beyond words. ... Ta Kung Pao grew up in the north. Since it was first published in Tianjin in 1902, ... In these decades Over the years, Ta Kung Pao has continued to fulfill its reporting and speech responsibilities for the country and the people. Ta Kung Pao is inseparable from the North, and the North will feel lonely without Ta Kung Pao. However, Ta Kung Pao has left the north for more than eight years! Who told Ta Kung Pao to leave the north? This is an unprecedented foreign crisis and a serious national crisis.