On this day, 53 years ago, on February 15, 1972 (January 1, 1972 in the lunar calendar), Edgar Snow, a friend of the China people, passed away. On October 1, 1970, Mao Zedong and Snow (1st from left) were on the Tiananmen Gate Tower. On the Weiming Lake of Peking University, there was a mausoleum hidden by green pines and cypresses. On the tombstone, Comrade Ye Jianying's calligraphy was engraved: "Tomb of Edgar Snow, an American friend of the people of China." On February 15, 1972, Snow passed away. Mrs. Snoff complied with his last wish and buried part of his ashes on the Weiming Lake of Peking University. On July 19, 1905, Edgar Snow was born at the home of a printing house owner in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. He worked in a newspaper after college. In 1928, he went to Shanghai, China, where he served as the editor of Shanghai's "Miller Min Translation Theory" and concurrently served as a reporter for the Chicago Tribune and other newspapers in China, covering various parts of China. 1933-1938 He taught at Yanjing University in Peiping in 1999. When he visited northern Shaanxi in 1936, he was received by Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, etc. He later wrote the book "A Journey to the West" to introduce the China revolution and the Red Army's 25,000-mile Long March to the United States and the world. He returned to the United States in 1941. Later, he visited China many times and wrote a large number of reports introducing China, which contributed to enhancing understanding and friendship between the people of China and the United States. Snow was a journalist and a soldier. Wherever the front line of battle was, Snow went to the world, using his pen to report the truth of China: After the September 18th Incident, Snow immediately rushed to the northeastern front line and personally interviewed Zhang Xueliang, commander of the Northeast Army, in Shenyang. From Harbin to Qiqihar, he personally interviewed the scene and reported the crimes of the invaders. After the January 28th Incident in Shanghai, Snow risked his life and faced bullets and artillery fire to interview the 19th Route Army and the people of Shanghai who bravely resisted the enemy. He wrote excellent battlefield reports and enthusiastically praised the China people's War of Resistance. When the "January 29th" Movement broke out, Snow, a professor at Yanjing University, participated in the march with patriotic students and sent an exclusive news to New York's Sun, enthusiastically praising the "January 29th" Movement as another "May 4th" Movement. At that time, the Kuomintang reactionaries imposed a news blockade and released various slanders and rumors. Snow broke through layers of obstacles and went to the Soviet Area in northern Shaanxi to interview the truth about Red China. From revolutionary leaders such as Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Zhu De, and Peng Dehuai to ordinary soldiers of the Red Army, Snow had direct conversations and vivid descriptions. At this time, his feelings also changed greatly. He deeply felt: "China has found the greatest unity of the nation and the soul of the nation at this most urgent moment." Snow wrote the world-famous "Journey to the West". For the first time, it truly reported to the world the glorious image of the Communist Party of China and the Workers and Peasants Red Army, which shocked the whole world. After the Kuomintang reactionaries created the "Southern Anhui Incident" and launched a new anti-communist upsurge, Snow immediately sent an urgent telegram from Hong Kong to expose the truth of the "Southern Anhui Incident" to the world. For this reason, the reactionary Kuomintang government disqualified Snow as a journalist, and he was forced to leave the China he deeply loved. However, Snow always missed China. After the founding of New China, he visited China three times and enthusiastically reported on the achievements of New China. Lu Xun once said: Snow "loved China far more than some of his compatriots himself." As Snow said when he was first forced to leave China: "Part of me will always stay with the brown mountains of China, the jasper-like terraces, and the island temples hidden in the morning mist; Stay with those sons and daughters who have trusted me and loved me, with those dark-faced, ragged, and clear-eyed children, with my peers and friends, and especially with those humble, unpaid, hungry, despised, peasant infantry..."Close. Edgar Snow and his sister In August 1938, Zhou Enlai and Deng Yingchao met Snow's father James and son Edgar Snow in Luojia Mountain, Wuchang, and they were proud of the harmonious and happy family of his wife Foster and his dog Gobi. Edgar Snow, second wife Lowes and two children