Chapter 43 sad

In 1937, when Chen Duxiu learned of the death of "the most outstanding female revolutionary among the Chinese Trotskyists—Li Cailian", he said in a letter to Zhao Ji: "The death of Cailian makes me very sad. In my life, I encountered Such things are not uncommon, but I have never felt so uncomfortable, maybe I am old..." In 1938, Wang Xinggong invited Chen Duxiu to teach at Wuhan University, but because of Chen's situation at that time, the matter was finally dropped.In his letter to Chen Zhongfan, Chen tactfully stated the whole story: "It is not convenient for Wuhan University to hire me to teach, and what I have learned is useless to teach others."

At the beginning of August 1940, when Chen Duxiu was hospitalized in "Yannian Hospital", his home in Shiqiang Yuan was stolen, and the manuscript of "Primary School Literacy Textbook" and other unpublished manuscripts were stolen.In addition, his beloved thing - the four-character Yangwen seal script seal carved by Yang Pengsheng for him when he was in Wuchang was also looted. In September, the Chen family's theft case was solved, and most of the stolen clothes were recovered, but the seals and manuscripts could not be recovered.The thief confessed that when he opened the box and saw it was a manuscript, he was afraid of exposing himself, so he set it on fire.

The day after the Chen family was stolen, Chen Duxiu sighed in a letter to Yang Pengsheng: "My younger brother is an old and sick foreigner, and has no relatives, but just sits and waits for his orders!" In his later years, Chen Duxiu said: "My whole life was almost spent in political career", and "most of my political career" was a "failure"; It is ashamed and angry to say that it failed to deal a fatal blow to the politics of corrupt officials." In July 1941, after Chen Duxiu heard that his friends Zhou Guangwu, He Zhiyu, Tai Jingnong, and Wei Jiangong were drunk together on Qu Yuan's memorial day, he wrote a poem to Wei Jiangong saying: "The poet went to Miluo in vain, not as drunk as Liu Ling. "

Because the manuscript was stolen, Chen Duxiu could only rewrite "Primary School Literacy Textbook".Before he died, he happened to annotate the word "toss".After Chen's death, his old friend Zhu Yunshan wrote a poem of mourning: "Frozen until the end will never change, and the old scholar will be judged after the coffin is closed." In his later years, friends persuaded Chen Duxiu to continue writing his autobiography. He shook his head and said, "It's not that I won't write my autobiography, but I can't publish it if I write it. What can I do?"