In 1971, Dr. Kissinger made a secret visit to China in order to restore diplomatic relations between the United States and China. In a formal negotiation has not yet begun, Kissinger suddenly to Premier Zhou Enlai put forward a request: "Your Excellency the Premier, your country Mawangdui No. 1 Han Tomb excavation results shocked the world, the female corpse is indeed the world's rare treasures ah! I have been commissioned by a well-known person in our scientific community to exchange a substance not found on earth for some charcoal around the female corpse, I wonder if your country is willing to do so?"
Hearing this, Premier Zhou Enlai casually asked, "Your Excellency, Secretary of State, I wonder what your country's Z F will exchange for?" Kissinger said, "Moon soil, that is, the soil brought back from the moon by our spacecraft, which should be considered something not found on earth!"
Premier Zhou laughed: "I wondered what it was, but it turns out to be something at the feet of our ancestors." Kissinger was startled and asked suspiciously, "What? You had someone on the moon long ago, when? Why don't you publicize it?"
Premier Zhou Enlai laughed, pointed his finger at a tooth sculpture of Chang'e running to the moon on the coffee table, and told Kissinger earnestly, "How come we didn't announce it? As early as 5,000 years ago, we have a Chang'e flew to the moon, built on the moon Guanghan Palace to live, do not believe, we have to send people to see her! What, these things that our women and children know, you, a Chinese generalist, still don't know?" Premier Zhou Enlai's witty and humorous reply made the erudite Dr. Kissinger laugh.
2, "Parker" origin
50s, once, Zhou Enlai and an American reporter talk, the reporter saw the Premier's office has a Parker pen, will be a little sarcastic, proudly asked: "Premier, your Excellency, but also superstitious about our fountain pen? " Hearing this, Zhou Enlai said wryly, "This was given to me by a North Korean friend. This friend said to me, "This was used by the U.S. Army at the Panmunjom surrender signing ceremony, so keep it as a souvenir!" I felt that the origin of this pen was very meaningful, so I left this pen from your country." The American reporter's face reddened all the way to his ears.
3. A one-sentence movie instruction manual
In 1954, Zhou Enlai attended a conference in Geneva and informed the staff to play a colorful Yueju opera film of "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" for the participants. In order to enable foreigners to understand the Chinese drama film, the staff wrote a 15-page manual for Premier Zhou's review. Zhou Enlai criticized the staff, "You don't look at the object, you are talking to a cow". The staff said unconvincingly: "to the foreigners to see this kind of movie, that is to the lute it" that depends on how you play the method", Zhou Enlai said, "you want to use more than a dozen pages of the instructions to play, that is a mess, I give you a different way to play it, you only need to write on the invitation A sentence: "Please enjoy a color opera film, China's Romeo and Juliet on the line." After the movie was shown, the audience was mesmerized and burst into applause from time to time.
4, coquettish to Mao Zedong
May 1960, Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and his entourage regard C Changsha, after work, to the riverside walk. Look away from the head of Orange Island, a hundred boats, ten thousand sails, Mao Zedong, the mouth accounted for a couplet: "Orange Island, Chau by the boat, the boat line Chau not", this couplet relative to the static, far-reaching mood, three breaks, two "thimble", "Chau" and "thimble", "Chau" and "thimble". The words "Chau" and "boat" are harmonized, making it extremely difficult to cope. Mao Zedong said to Zhou Enlai, who was beside him, "Enlai, I've exhausted my talent for a while, how about you add to it?" Zhou Enlai, who was quick-witted and well-versed in geography, understood Changsha and came up with a good line within a hundred paces: "Tianxin Pavilion, Pigeon in the Pavilion, Pigeon flying in the Pavilion does not fly." Tianxin Pavilion is a scenic spot in Changsha, opposite to Orange Island. That is neat and smooth, the whole couplet is one, the two great men smiled at each other.
5, August 28, 1973, China **** Ten held in Beijing, Mao Zedong attended the meeting has been suffering from leg disease and can not stand. After the meeting, in order not to let the delegates see the cracks for their own health worry, Mao Zedong has been sitting on the seat, want to let the delegates first exit. If the chairman did not leave, the delegates would not leave first. It was the attentive Premier Zhou Enlai who saw what was in the Chairman's mind and broke the deadlock by wittily saying that Chairman Mao wanted to see everyone out of the meeting. Mao, on the other hand, was deliberately obstinate, saying, "If you don't leave, I won't leave either." With that, the delegates turned back one step at a time, reluctantly waving goodbye to the chairman.
6. Once, an American reporter received by Zhou Enlai asked wistfully, "Your Excellency the Premier, why do you Chinese call the road that people walk on a road?" After hearing this, he did not hasten to retort with harsh words, but said wittily, "We walk the road of Marxism, simply called the road." This American reporter still did not die, and continued to ask the difficult question, "Mr. Premier, in our United States, people walk with their heads tilted up while why do you Chinese walk with your heads bowed down, and how can this be explained?" Premier Zhou smiled and said: "This is not strange, the problem is very simple, you Americans are walking downhill, of course, to tilt their heads and walk, while we Chinese are walking uphill, of course, is to lower their heads and walk." The reporter then asked, "China now has 400 million people, how many toilets need to be repaired?" This is pure nonsense, but, in such a diplomatic occasion, and inconvenient to rebuff, Premier Zhou gently smiled and answered to: "Two! One for men and one for women."
7, special souvenirs
50s, once Premier Zhou received an American reporter's interview. During the interview, the reporter inadvertently saw an American-made Parker pen on the Premier's desk. The reporter then asked in a somewhat sarcastic tone, "Your Excellency, Premier, why do you, as Chinese people, still need to use our American-made fountain pens?" Premier Zhou listened and said wryly, "Talking about this fountain pen, it's a long story, this is a North Korean friend's anti-American war trophy, as a gift to me. I have no merit, I refused to accept. The North Korean friend said, stay as a souvenir. I found it meaningful and left this fountain pen of your country." The American reporter was dumbfounded.
8, Premier Zhou talked about laughing and eating "Nazi"
In the early 50s, once Premier Zhou hosted a banquet for foreign guests at the Palace of Qinzheng in Zhongnanhai. Guests of the Chinese cuisine of the variety of styles, flavors of the unique, the taste of the fresh and delicious are full of praise. At this time, a soup dish came up, the soup of asparagus, mushrooms, red cabbage, water chestnuts and so on are carved into a variety of patterns, color, aroma and taste are excellent. However, the slices of asparagus were carved according to the national pattern, and turned over in the soup coincidentally turned into a fascist symbol. Your guest saw this, could not help but be shocked, busy to Premier Zhou for advice. Premier Zhou was also surprised by this question, but he then explained calmly: "This is not a fascist symbol! This is a traditional Chinese pattern, pronounced 'Wan', symbolizing the meaning of 'longevity', which is a good wish for the guests! Then he said wryly, "It doesn't matter if it's a fascist symbol! We all come together to destroy fascism and eat it!" Before the words fell, the guests and hosts laughed, the atmosphere became more enthusiastic, and the soup was consumed by the guests.
9. Premier Zhou's Wise Words to Repel Opponents
Premier Zhou, in his decades-long diplomatic career, has always been known for his high moral standing and humor. No matter what kind of occasions and what kind of opponents he encountered, Premier Zhou was able to use his words with his superhuman wisdom, and his opponents were not able to take advantage of his words. Once Premier Zhou was invited to visit the Soviet Union. During a meeting with Nikita Khrushchev, Premier Zhou criticized him for his revisionist policies. Instead of responding positively, the wily Khrushchev irritated Premier Zhou on the sensitive issue of class origin, saying, "You criticize well, but you should agree that I am from the working class, but you are from the bourgeoisie." The implication was that the Premier was speaking from a bourgeois standpoint. Premier Zhou paused only for a moment and then calmly replied, "Yes, Comrade Khrushchev, but at least the two of us have one **** in common, and that is that we have both betrayed our respective classes." Surprisingly, the poisoned arrow shot by Khrushchev was turned around and directed toward the Hepburns. It is said that this remark was immediately rumored in all **** Producer countries.
10, Premier Zhou's tongue-lashing of Mikoyan
On one occasion, Premier Zhou returned from a meeting in Geneva on a side trip to Moscow. At a reception held in his honor, he toasted the Soviets in English. At this point, Mikoyan (Vice Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR) complained, "Zhou, why don't you speak Russian? Your Russian is very good!" The remark was obviously unfriendly. Premier Zhou's method was to ignore it for the moment, and he replied, still in English, "Mikoyan, it's time for you to learn Chinese." to urge Mikoyan to tell the reason why he was not learning Chinese. Mikoyan took the bait and complained, "Chinese is too difficult to learn." As soon as this was said, Premier Zhou said briskly, "That's all right, come back to our embassy next time and we will be very happy to teach you." At once, Mikoyan was put in a kind of student's position.
11, vs! Cow playing the piano
On one occasion, Premier Zhou Enlai negotiated with the Kuomintang Z F. The negotiator was not only a good friend, but also a good friend to the Kuomintang. In front of our righteousness, the other party not only did not accept, but also said that negotiating with us is "playing the cow to the cow"! Premier Zhou Enlai immediately had an idea, using the words thrown by the other side, will trick, skillfully back to the other side: "to! Playing the piano to a cow!" Here, Premier Zhou Enlai skillfully restructured the idiom of "playing the qin to the cow" thrown by the other side, turning it into a connotative "对! The cow plays the qin!"
The idiom of "playing the piano to a cow" was skillfully restructured to become a connotation-rich "Yes, the cow is playing the piano!
12. In late April 1960, Premier Zhou Enlai negotiated with India on the Sino-Indian border issue, and the Indian side raised a provocative question: "Has Tibet been China's territory since ancient times?" Premier Zhou Enlai said, "Tibet has been China's territory since ancient times, far from it, at least in the Yuan Dynasty, it has been China's territory."
The other side said, "That's too short a time."
Premier Zhou Enlai said, "China's Yuan Dynasty is 700 years away from now, if 700 years are considered a short period of time, then, the United States has only 100 years of history up to now, is it true that the United States can not be a country? [ Transferred from Ironblood Community / ]
This is obviously absurd."
The Indian representative was dumbfounded.
In Zhou Enlai's rebuttal, two contrasting materials were used to negate the other side's point of view. 700 years compared with 100 years, you have to deny 700 years and recognize 100 years is obviously untenable, the result is that to recognize 100 years you have to recognize the fact of 700 years. Contrast has great power here.
13, a press conference, Premier Zhou Enlai introduced China's construction achievements. A Western reporter asked, "How much money does the People's Bank of China have?" This involves state secrets, and it is impossible to tell them straight. The Premier frowned and quickly replied, "There are 18 dollars and 88 cents." Everyone in the room was stunned. The Premier explained, "The People's Bank of China's currency denominations are 10 yuan, 5 yuan, 2 yuan, 1 yuan, 50 cents, 20 cents, 10 cents, 5 cents, 2 cents, 1 cent,*** ten main and auxiliary RMBs, totaling 18 yuan, 80 cents, 80 cents. The People's Bank of China, backed by the people of the country, has outstanding credit and strength, and the RMB is one of the most reputable currencies in the world." As soon as the words fell out of his mouth, the whole audience burst into loud applause. The Premier intentionally avoided the substance of the question by replacing "total amount" with "total denomination", thus blocking the mouths of foreign journalists without jeopardizing the harmonious atmosphere of the reception. The use of misinterpretation, so that the language is sharp and funny, fully demonstrating his superior adaptability and superior language art.