Well-known martial arts novelist and Ming Pao founder Cha Liangyong (pen name Jin Yong) went to his funeral today (November 13). Jack Ma, Chairman of the Board of Alibaba, Dong Jianhua, Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and Cai Lan, his former friend, sent him on his last journey.
On October 30, Mr. Jin Yong passed away at the Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital at the age of 94.After Jin Yong's body lay in a Hong Kong funeral parlor for a day, the funeral ceremony began at 9 o'clock this morning.The sidewalk outside the funeral home was lined with wreaths from social groups and citizens to bid farewell to the literary master.
At 10:45, everyone left the funeral home. Six staff members carried Jin Yong's coffin onto the hearse. The coffin was wrapped in light blue embroidered cloth.Jin Yong's son, Zha Chuanti, held his father's posthumous photo, with his head lowered and a solemn expression, standing at the rear of the car watching the coffin onto the hearse.
The all-black hearse was decorated with lilies of the valley. A number of police, security and funeral committee personnel maintained order at the scene and allowed the hearse to leave slowly.Ma Yun and others got into the family car and delivered Jin Yong's coffin to Baolian Temple.
According to Hong Kong media reports, Jin Yong's cremation site is not a general public cremation site, but the Haihuiling Pagoda of Po Lin Temple on Lantau Island.The Haihui Pagoda is generally not open to the public, it is only used by people in the temple and believers who have a close relationship with Po Lin Monastery.This morning, the altar of the Haihui Spirit Pagoda is ready. On both sides of the gazebo, there are elegiac couplets with the upper body like a plantain and the heart like a lotus flower.After Jin Yong's body is cremated, the ashes will be placed in the columbarium of the Haihuiling Pagoda.
According to the website of the Liaison Office of the Central Government in Hong Kong, after the death of Cha Liangyong, Li Keqiang, Han Zheng, Sun Chunlan, Huang Kunming, Zhu Rongji, Wen Jiabao, Zhang Dejiang, Li Lanqing, Liu Yandong, Li Yuanchao, Wang Hanbin, Liao Hui, etc. also expressed their condolences in different ways, and expressed their condolences in different ways.Condolences to his relatives.
On November 12, Jin Yong's funeral was held in a Hong Kong funeral home.Inside the mourning hall, Li Ka-shing, the founder of the Changhe Department, wrote on the wreath that Li Ka-shing's literature moves all living beings.The wreath elegiac couplet sent by Ma Yun was written by one person in Jianghu and one person in Jianghu. The wreath sent in the name of Alibaba Group also said that money is hard to buy, faith in the world, and business is also chivalry.
According to Jin Yong's last wish, only relatives and friends were invited to attend the funeral, no religious ceremony was used, and there was no mourning speech, everything was kept simple.■
