Chapter 106 Attachment: children's ups and downs

Among Wang Guowei's children, the second son, Wang Zhongwen, is the smartest, hardworking and naughtiest.In high school, Wang Zhongwen entered Gezhi Middle School, a missionary school in Shanghai.Every year, the Christmas school holidays are celebrated, and Wang Zhongwen and a few good friends ask Confucius' birthday to be celebrated on holiday, but the school ignores it.On the birthday of Confucius, Wang Zhongwen and two classmates did not go to class, and the school posted a notice the next day expelling the three of them.Wang Guowei had no choice but to let him go to the post office to find a solid job.Like Wang Guowei, Wang Zhongwen did not go to college, and he was self-taught.He worked well in the grassroots post office and was soon transferred to the general post office.He learned Russian by listening to the radio, and he was able to read original books.

At the end of 1949, Wang Zhongwen was transferred to the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications as Deputy Director of the Secretariat. At the beginning of 1950, Wang Guowei's manuscripts and relics were donated to the Beijing Library, and many of them have become "treasures of the town hall".Since Wang Zhongwen had previously participated in a training class of the postal inspection department, which was under the jurisdiction of the Central Committee, he was designated as a "special suspect" during the trial in 1951, so he was transferred to Di'anmen to sell stamps.So he devoted all his spare time to learning, and soon became famous in the research and textual research of Ci.He constantly exchanged letters with famous scholars such as Tang Guizhang, Xia Chengtao, and Wang Liqi; he published "Revised Interpretation of Cihua in the World" and "Revised Revision of Two Main Cici in Southern Tang Dynasty"; "Literary Heritage" column of "Guangming Daily" has his small articles almost every period.

In 1957, in view of Wang Zhongwen's achievements in CI research, Nanjing Normal University wanted to transfer him to teach, but the Beijing Post Office did not let him go.In this regard, Wang Zhongwen was labeled as a rightist and dismissed from public office.The family members were also implicated because of this. The second son Wang Qingtong, who was still in the army at the time, was classified as a rightist and sent to Guangxi Forest Farm for reform; Wang Qingshan, who was still in college, also became a rightist and was exiled to a Xinjiang farm. Later, under the recommendation of Qi Yanming, head of the ancient books group of the State Council who was eager for talents, Wang Zhongwen quietly came to the literature group of Zhonghua Book Company with the support of Jin Canran, editor-in-chief of Zhonghua Book Company, as an unnamed "temporary worker".In the Chinese version of literature books, many books with great difficulty have been processed by Wang Zhongwen.As for "Poet Yuxie", "Zhushantang Cihua·Ci Pin", "Huifeng Cihua·Huifeng Cihua·Huifeng Cihua", "New Edition of Tang and Five Dynasties Ci", etc., he directly collated and sorted out.His "Li Qingzhao Collection Annotations" is praised by the academic circle as "a model for sorting out ancient books".It is a pity that most of Wang Zhongwen's annotated works are not signed or signed by other names, such as Wang Xuechu, Wang You'an, Wang Quan, etc., so that Wang Zhongwen's name is almost forgotten by the world.

Wang Zhongwen's most accomplished work in Zhonghua Book Company was editing and revising Mr. Tang Guizhang's "Quan Song Ci".His editorial attitude is extremely serious, and he almost broke through the threshold of the Beijing Library.He devoted all his efforts for four years to add about one-third of the new content to the original book.But at that time, a temporary worker who was also suspected of being a "secret agent" could not sign the book.Scholar Chen Hongxiang told Wang Zhongwen's son Wang Qingshan that Mr. Tang Guizhang told him in person that Wang Zhongwen was very knowledgeable, and he was deeply disturbed that "Quan Song Ci" did not have his signature.So after the Cultural Revolution, Tang Guizhang had to give him a name anyway.Later, when it was republished, it was signed by "Edited by Tang Guizhang, edited by Wang Zhongwen", and his achievements were recorded in the postscript.This has become a good story in the history of Zhonghua Book Company where the author requested the editor to sign the name.