Chapter 54 22. Me and the 1950s (1)

In May 1957, at the critical moment of "Ming Fang", I received a notice at the factory that the municipal party committee would send a car to pick me up to go to the office to read a document.I waited for several hours and was informed again that I would not go. I later understood that this was a key plot of my fate.Chairman Mao wrote the article "Things Are Changing" on May 15 of that year, raising the issue of anti-rightism and criticizing revisionism, and showing it to senior cadres. , The transformation of the guiding ideology from the rectification movement of subjectivism to the rampant attack of the rightists.At that time, there was a saying that for those people inside and outside the party who should be protected, you can greet them in advance and show them this article.How did I change from possibly being heavily protected, after an afternoon, up to two hours, to no longer being protected?I can't know the details, and I can't tell whether it's a blessing or a curse.But I can conclude that this is not the matter of the municipal party committee.Zhang Dazhong, the deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Municipal Party Committee at the time, and the former secretary of the Youth League Municipal Party Committee, later told me clearly that the Municipal Party Committee Propaganda Department had never asked me about my being a rightist.He said that Yang Shu, secretary of the Municipal Committee of Culture and Education, also suggested that the "problems" in Wang Meng's movement should be caught by the city's propaganda, culture and education, but the relevant party committee departments disagreed.The meaning is not difficult to guess.Comrade Liu Ren, the deputy secretary of the Municipal Party Committee who presided over the work, also cared for me.I was transferred to Xinjiang by the Writers’ Association in the 1960s. He didn’t know about it beforehand, but he found out later and was very upset. People around him told me that he said to himself several times: “Why did you get transferred to Xinjiang? "

I don't know what's wrong with memoir writing here. Since I started writing in 1953, my recollections have revolved too much around personal encounters.In fact, I don't like to blindly talk about personal bad things, grievances, gains and losses, kindness and resentment, sourness, depression, and bitterness.Especially for a writer, if his writing is inseparable from his personal gains and losses, sorrows and joys, and the trivial things around him, it is annoying and not annoying, and it is not shameful to be ashamed. Or look at the world, look at China.Fifties, are you kidding me?New China, land reform, anti-rebellion, rectification of finance and economics, stabilization of prices, liberation of Hainan Island, marching into Tibet, resistance to U.S. aggression and aid to Korea, Battle of Shangganling, the unstable new China withstood the powerful American war machine, farewell to Leighton Stuart, re-evaluation of the white paper, Sino-Soviet friendship , the death of Stalin, the first National People's Congress, the formulation of the constitution, the Huaihe River must be repaired, ideological reform, college reform, criticism of "Wu Xun Biography", Hu Shi, Yu Pingbo, Pancasila (Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence) Bandung The meeting, the five-year plan, the three major revolutionary movements, the three major socialist transformations, muster all our energy, strive for the top, and build socialism more quickly, better and more economically; in the mid-1950s, the goal of surpassing Britain in 15 years was proposed... how much ambition, how much Measures, how many new regulations, new tricks, how many attempts, how many victories, how many prospects!Tianxingjian, self-improvement!

My youth was high profile.The Soviet-style statement is from victory to victory, the honor, wisdom and conscience of the times, and the solidarity of the rock.The Chinese way of saying is that wherever the light shines, the sky and the earth are not as big as the kindness of the party, and the people's country is forever.I am often in the self-feeling of satisfaction, admiration, self-confidence, pride, obedience, holding the steering wheel of history, and fighting at the forefront. The rubbish in downtown Beijing was cleared, Wangfujing Department Store was built, Huichahai Stadium, Shichahai Swimming Pool, Jiaodaokou and Xinjiekou Cinemas were built, and brothels were banned—see the documentary film "Sisters and Sisters Stand Up", banned Yiguandao—see the documentary "Is Always Harmful to Humanity", which made me and many people cheer.

I didn't expect to criticize "The Legend of Wu Xun" at first, because I didn't find any problems when I first watched the film, especially Xiao Tao played by Wang Bei, such a self-sacrificing woman moved me even more.Later, it was criticized, and Yang Er, namely Xu Liqun, wrote a powerful critical article, which made me even more enlightened. Xu Liqun was the third secretary of the Youth League Committee. At first, it was Rong Gaotang.The second term was Li Chang, and I was transferred to the Communist Youth League Committee during Li Chang's time.The third is Xu Liqun, he is gentle and gentle.He went to East Germany for an interview, and when he came back, we were all excited and our eyes sparkled.

"Biography of Wu Xun" was criticized to the point of being "incomplete".Wu Xun and Xiao Tao, especially the image of Xiao Tao on the screen, still makes me sad.I have also watched Chan Juan played by Wang Bei, in the drama "Qu Yuan", she is also kind, pure, and tragically dedicated.Later I learned that she married the writer Bai Hua. Criticizing Yu Pingbo's "Research on a Dream of Red Mansions" greatly encouraged me, and the support for the little people made many little people, including Wang Meng, eager to try. Criticize Hu Shi for being too far away from me.Boldly assuming and carefully verifying, it does not seem to have any profound meaning, including reactionary meaning.I have long read Lu Xun's satirical writings on Dr. Hu, and I don't like Hu very much.I just feel that my generation is so happy, and the generation that chose the revolution is even happier than ever before.And the previous generations or all the previous Chinese people were too unlucky.I still remember some of Mao Dun’s words about thought remolding. He said that the thoughts of people of their age are like a suitcase covered with emblems from various places.And the new ideas of revolution are also covered on it, mixed with all kinds of old traces.

I was quite shocked to criticize Hu Feng.As early as the eve of Liberation, I read from left-wing publications in Hong Kong the words about the debate between the party's literary theorists and Hu Feng, but I didn't get the point.I didn't expect to become a counter-revolutionary group, and thought the struggle was too harsh and shocking.