Chapter 45 sad
In 1938, Chen Duxiu suffered a recurrence of stomach problems and high blood pressure, and could not even write with his head down.By 1940, his condition became more and more serious, and he could not use his brain. After writing for a long time, he felt pain in his head and tinnitus intensified.Soon, Chen was diagnosed with a heart attack. His heart could no longer expand by half a finger, otherwise he might not live for three years.His condition fluctuated from good to bad, his blood pressure was very unstable, sometimes increased to over 210, and he was often dizzy.
On the morning of May 12, 1942, Chen Duxiu treated high blood pressure with traditional Chinese medicine folk prescription of broad bean flower tea.However, the broad bean flowers I took this time encountered rain during picking and dried after several days. Some of them were fermented, and the water turned black when soaked.In the early morning of the next day, Chen Duxiu was ill and insisted on finishing the article "The Future of the Oppressed Nation", when Bao Huiseng came to visit.Chen was very happy, and asked his wife to go out and cut two catties of meat, and came back to make a bowl of braised pork and a bowl of pork with green beans.After Chen Duo ate some, his stomach became unbearably bloated at night, and he couldn't sleep. In the middle of the night, he vomited up all the food he had eaten during the day.
On the evening of May 17, when Chen Duxiu went to the bathroom, he fainted due to constipation.He woke up an hour later, sweating all over his body.Two hours later, he fainted again and developed a fever.
On May 22, Chen Duxiu passed out three times in succession.Deng Zhongchun received a booster shot before he regained consciousness.The next day, Western doctors Zou Bangzhu and Kang Xiguang from Jiangjin County Hospital went to Heshanping and used liver oil to relieve Chen Duxiu's bowel movements, but his condition did not improve.
On the morning of May 25th, Chen Duxiu knew he was going to die, and said to He Zhiyu, "I want to say goodbye to you. Thank you for looking after me." He Zhiyu's nose was sore, and he said, "It should be." After a short rest, Chen Duxiu said: "You will handle my book and give it to Peking University." He nodded quickly.Chen Duxiu lay down for a while, and said: "My manuscript, you discuss with Songnian, Fuwu and others." He leaned forward and said: "Don't worry."
Chen Duxiu looked at Pan Lanzhen and said: "She is still young, Zhiyu will help her find a job, don't sell me for money. If you meet a suitable one, find another one. From now on, you will be independent and live on your own." The five ancient bowls presented by friends and part of the manuscript fee were left to her.With tears streaming down her face, Pan Lanzhen agreed with sobs.
After a while, Chen Duxiu asked Pan Lanzhen to call Chen Songnian.After Chen Songnian came in, Chen Duxiu said calmly: "Go home later, and take back my coffin and grandmother's coffin." Chen Songnian cried and agreed.
On May 27, 1942, Bao Huiseng rushed to Heshanping and learned that Chen Duxiu had fallen into a coma since 9:00 am.Bao Huiseng stood in front of the bed, staring at the unconscious Chen Duxiu. In the corner, there was a pile of potatoes that Pan Lanzhen had grown himself, adding to the sense of desolation in the room.
In the afternoon, Deng Zhongchun flipped through Japanese medical books and suspected that Chen Duxiu had central cerebral hemorrhage.In the evening, Pan Lanzhen called Bao Huiseng to come in. She held Chen Duxiu's head in one hand, took Chen Duxiu's hand in the other, and said, "Old man, Mr. Bao is here!" I feel it, I shed tears.At 9:40 p.m. on the same day, Chen Duxiu died suddenly in loneliness at the age of 64.
Chen Duxiu’s funeral was organized by his former friends. The medical expenses and funeral expenses donated by people from all walks of life totaled 33,750 yuan, of which Chiang Kai-shek donated 10,000 yuan, Zhu Jiahua 5,000 yuan, Duan Xipeng, Wang Xinggong, and Chen Lifu 2,000 yuan each. Yuan.In addition, Hu Xiaoshi, Ouyang Jingwu, Gao Yuhan and others also gave gifts.The total expenditure for medical expenses and funeral expenses was 38,753.01 yuan, and the overspend of more than 5,000 yuan was paid in advance by the Peking University Alumni Association.Chen's quilt, coffin, and cemetery belong to Jiangjin local capitalists Deng Chanqiu and Deng Xiekang's uncle and nephew Zhang Luo. On June 1, Chen Duxiu's coffin was buried in Kangzhuang Cemetery at the foot of Dingshan Mountain outside Daximen, Jiangjin County.Thirty to forty people from the ruling and opposition parties participated in the funeral, including Duan Xipeng, deputy minister of education and member of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang, and one or two hundred people from the left and right neighbors who met unexpectedly. .Chen's tomb faces the Yangtze River in front, with green hills in the back, surrounded by orange groves on the left and right, and the words "Tomb of Mr. Chen Duxiu" are engraved on the tombstone.
When Chen Duxiu's coffin was transported to Kangzhuang, the cemetery, special personnel from the Kuomintang Garrison Command came to monitor it in person.The Party Headquarters of Jiangjin County also repeatedly questioned Deng Xiekang about his relationship with the deceased. Deng replied: "We are just friends." Then asked: "When did you know him?" I know you." Asked: "Why are you so enthusiastic about his funeral? Buy a coffin for him and handle the funeral?" Answer: "But because Mr. Chen has made great contributions to the cultural world since the May 4th Movement. Now Jiangjin is poor Because of his death, he was depressed after death, and Mr. Chen's friends are all poor scholars, so we can't find out. We are local gentry, and we admire him as a man. Now that he died there, we can't bear to see his body lying in the room, so we can't collect it. You came forward to help him." Ask: "Do you have any political relationship with Chen?" Answer: "I am a businessman, and I am engaged in banking business, a simple businessman. My uncle—Deng Chanqiu—specializes in Believe in Buddhism and have no political relationship at all!"
After Chen Duxiu died of illness, news rarely appeared in the newspapers. "Ta Kung Pao" commented: "The death of such a generation of outstanding people, at this time and here, really feels extremely lonely."
Jingchen wrote in the article "Chen Duxiu I Know": "If Chen Duxiu's bad news came ten or twenty years ago, it would undoubtedly cause great excitement in China or even the whole world; but at this time, his Death is nothing more than a small tile thrown into the great water, which only stirs a few ripples on the surface of the water. It is an untimely death, and this is the saddest scene for the fall of a strange man."
Wang Senran said that those who worked with him on the New Culture Movement were either prominent in the party or the country, or worshiped by the society, "Mr. Wuhu! Full of enthusiasm, sprinkled in the empty forest, have perseverance in life, useless, I will not be Mr. Unfortunately, I am shocked and weep for the nation."
In June 1947, according to Chen Duxiu's last will, Chen Songnian entrusted a charitable wood merchant in Fujian to carry Chen Duxiu's coffin back to his hometown Huaining on a wooden raft along the river.In order to prevent the Kuomintang from destroying it, Chen Songnian wrote on the coffin "Chen Qiansheng" the name of Chen Duxiu when he took the imperial examination.At this time, the world seemed to have forgotten Chen Duxiu.Someone said with emotion: Chen Duxiu "Jiangjin is lonely, and Anqing is also lonely."Chen Songnian joined the tomb of Chen Duxiu and his first wife Gao Xiaolan, and set up a monument "First examine the tomb of Chen Gongzhongfu", which was destroyed during the "Cultural Revolution".
At the end of the 1970s, the relevant local departments in Anqing allocated 200 yuan to repair it hastily, and erected a new stele in the name of Chen Duxiu's descendants. In the tomb where the wife was buried together, Zi Yannian, Qiao Nian, Song Nian, and He Nian wept and stood."Until 1987, the relevant local departments allocated another 20,000 yuan to expand Chen Duxiu's cemetery, and erected a new monument with a height of 2 meters and a width of 70 centimeters, and wrote "The Tomb of Chen Duxiu".Chen Duxiu's tomb was expanded twice, and a "non-character stele" was erected, waiting for future generations to comment.
In 1984, Luo Xuepeng accompanied the poet Sun Jingxuan to Jiangjin to visit Chen Duxiu’s cemetery. A local farmer pointed to a large vegetable field full of green and oily chard in front of the door and told them: “Chen Duxiu’s tomb is here. I dug it out and planted vegetables." Then he said in amazement: "Chen Duxiu is a bad person, and if he is a bad person, why do so many people come to see him?" Sun said: "Chen Duxiu is not a bad person." The farmer asked: "Not a bad person Is he still a good man?" Sun pondered for a moment, then said, "He is a good man who has made big mistakes." The farmer's eyes bulged out.
When Sun and Luo heard that there was a tombstone of Chen Duxiu in his pigsty, they immediately followed him into the pigsty.It really is Chen Duxiu's tombstone!The top of the tombstone is missing the left corner, and the word "du" in "Mr. Duxiu's Tomb of Chen" on the stele has lost the word "犭" and has become a character "worm (Shu)".This tombstone has been used as a ring slab, and it is spread in the pigsty together with the rest of the slate. It is full of feces and urine, which is unsightly...