Chapter 142 cultural revolution

After quarreling with Mao Zedong, Liang Shuming began to live in seclusion and rarely spoke. In November 1956, at the climax of "Speaking Out Greatly", many friends believed that Liang Shuming should speak out and vent his anger, but Liang Shuming held his breath and decided to sit on the sidelines for a while. Many of those friends were labeled as "rightists", but Liang Shuming escaped by luck. In 1966, the "Cultural Revolution" swept across the country, and Liang Shuming was also doomed. His home was confiscated and he had to live in two small dilapidated houses in the Beijing Drum Tower Bell Foundry. "hat.

When Liang Shuming talked about the experience of the Cultural Revolution with the American scholar Professor Ai Kai, he said that at that time, "I felt a little unhappy, and I passed it in a few days."In fact, Liang Shuming also suffered during the Cultural Revolution. When his house was occupied, he could only sleep on the concrete floor. Tie it around your waist to avoid catching cold.Liang Shuming was also pulled to accompany Dou on the street, and he also "flyed on a plane", and he was sweating all over when he came back.Once someone from Shandong came to investigate a person Liang Shuming knew and asked him to expose him. Liang Shuming replied truthfully, but he couldn't say anything. They said he was dishonest, and he slapped his glasses to the ground with one slap.

The Red Guards raided Liang Shuming's house and burned all the antique calligraphy and paintings that Liang painstakingly collected. Liang just watched coldly from the sidelines.But when the Red Guards brought out two hardcover volumes of "Ci Hai" and "Ci Yuan", Liang came out to stop them.He explained that these two books were borrowed from students from other places, and if they were burned, they would not be returned to their original owners.The Red Guards ignored it, and said contemptuously: "No need, for our revolutionary Red Guards, the "Xinhua Dictionary" is enough." Since hardcover books are not easy to burn, the Red Guards tore up and burned them page by page.

During the Cultural Revolution, it was popular among the revolutionary masses to paint the red sun, and the streets were full of the rising sun and the sea, and the shops on Qianmen Street were all glowing red.Liang Shuming also went to the street to buy paints, and followed suit to paint on the walls outside.When the group dug the air-raid shelter, Liang Shuming also actively participated in it. Once, he blamed himself for being late and wrote it down in his diary. Mr. Liang Shuming's "Cultural Revolution" doggerel: