Chapter 3 1 Harbin (1935-1937, one to two years old)

The world in 1935 was a changing world.In this year in the world, Persia changed its name to Iran, Britain's Baldwin became Prime Minister, the Mexican Revolution failed, Italy's Mussolini held eight positions and invaded Abyssinia, and France's Laval became the prime minister. The prime minister, Norway discovered a new continent in Antarctica, Germany's Hitler tore up the Treaty of Versailles and expanded its military power, Czech Masalik resigned from the presidency, Turkey's Kemal was re-elected as president for the third time, and the Philippines became independent from the United States.In this year in China, Chiang Kai-shek, who was disastrous to the country and the people, was an expert in fighting internally, vigorously "suppressing the Communist Party" and expelling the Communist Party from the Central Plains; but an outsider in fighting against the regime protected by the Japanese devils, staring on the sidelines and powerless: Inside the Great Wall, Yin Rugeng established the Jidong Government ; Outside the Great Wall, Puyi proclaimed himself emperor in "Manchuria" in the first year, which was exactly two and a half years after the "September 18th Incident" in 1931, and it was also two and a half years after Chiang Kai-shek lost power and humiliated the country and implemented "non-resistance" , 1935 arrived, two and a half years turned into three and a half years, "Manchukuo" turned Northeast China into an area of ​​"remnants", and I am one of the "remnants".

On April 25, 1935, I was born in Harbin, Northeast China.At that time, it was the 24th year of the Republic of China, exactly three years and seven months after the "September 18th Incident", and Northeast China was already "Manchuria" under the control of the Japanese devils.According to history, I was born as a "survivor", just like Confucius was born as a "survivor".However, Confucius was a "survivor" and did it over and over again. He was a "survivor" for different Chinese rulers, but I was born as a "survivor" for the last emperor of China who was sheltered by the Japanese devils. Therefore, I am more than Confucius. The master is still useless.

When I was born, it was still popular to use the lunar calendar to calculate, so it was always the time of March 23 in the year of Yihai (7 to 9 o'clock in the morning), and my nickname was "Anchen".Pigs born in the year of Yihai have their birthdays on March 23 according to the lunar calendar until I found out that it was April 25, 1935 before I was 20 years old. After that, I gave up on the lunar calendar. The lunar calendar is too outdated.Unexpectedly, when I was about 60 years old, my second sister came from mainland China. She asserted that my birthday was not March 23 but March 3 of the lunar calendar. My second sister has always had a good memory. My birthday is on April 5th in the Gregorian calendar.No matter how you count, I was born in April 1935. Around April of this year, many "celebrities" were born in the world: Pavarotti, the world's top three tenors, and singer "Elvis" Presley. , the director Woody Allen, the film star Arlandron who did not take off the clothes, and the film star Bi Reynolds who took off the nude photos, etc. all belong to this category; in 1935.Of course, there are also people born in 1935 who are virtuous and unworthy. Dalai Lama and Jiang Xiaowen are examples of unworthy people.The Kuomintang in power in Taiwan, born in 1935, is also in the right line. From the "Judicial Yuan" Shi Qiyang down, they are all unscrupulous people, not only pigs, but a litter of pig ears!

Although I was born in Harbin in Northeast China, my hometown has a long history.When I was a child, every time I saw the New Year, my family would hold out the "Li Family Genealogy" on the altar, list it together on the incense table, and be worshiped by burning incense.This genealogy was later brought to Taiwan and kept by me.According to the "Li Family Genealogy", my distant origin is actually Usa, Yunnan.According to "Yuan History" Geographical Chronicles: "Uzzah, Man's name. It governs six tribes including Usha and Umeng. Afterwards, the descendants of Wuman got all their land, because they took the distant ancestor Usha as the name of the tribe. Until the eleventh year of the Yuan Dynasty It was attached at the beginning of the year, and Uzaru was established in the thirteenth year." Uzaru includes the present Zhenxiong County of Yunnan Province and Weining County of Guizhou Province; in the Ming Dynasty, it was changed to Usawei, which is now Weining County. The "Li Family Genealogy" says that it was moved from Wusa to Weixian (Weifang) in Shandong during the Hongwu period of Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty.In the autumn of the fourteenth year of Hongwu (1381), Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty sent Fu Youde as the general who conquered the south and led 300,000 troops to conquer Yunnan. The northward movement of the people was forced.My ancestors were probably Hmong.According to the research of anthropologist Ling Chunsheng, etc., the tributary of the Miao nationality crossed the sea to Taiwan and became part of the Gaoshan nationality. Therefore, I am a member of the Gaoshan tribe in Taiwan. Currently, the Fuklo and Hakka who claim to be true Taiwanese are much different from the Gaoshan tribe. Come on, it is actually a fake Taiwanese, or a Taiwanese who takes the lead.

After my ancestors in Wusa, Yunnan, moved to Weixian County, Shandong Province, they lived as ordinary people for many generations. Although they lived in Weixian County for 500 years, they did nothing good and did no evil. Grandpa (grandfather) came out, and there was a big change. Grandpa's name is Li Fengting, and he doesn't know how to write these three characters.He was born in Weixian County, around the first year of Xianfeng in the Qing Dynasty (1862), that is, around the first fifty years of the Republic of China.When he was a child, he caught up with the famine and became a beggar with his mother.One day when a dog came to bite him, his mother was afraid that he would be bitten, so she used her body to protect him, but her mother was bitten to death.He wandered for a while, unable to make a living, so he drove the carriage for the people of "Xiaguandong", and also went to "Xiaguandong".The so-called "Xiaguandong" specifically refers to poor people from Shandong, Hebei and other provinces smuggling to the northeast outside Shanhaiguan.The Northeast is the hometown of the Manchurians. After the Manchurians entered the customs and established the Qing Dynasty, the Northeast was designated as a restricted area. Except for the distribution of criminals, Han people were prohibited from going to the Northeast.So at that time, China's Northeast, just like Britain's Australia, was just a stronghold of criminals.Wu Hancha referred to in "Whether Ji Zi is safe" in Gu Zhenguan's "Golden Hazel Song" is the most famous prisoner.However, the Northeast is vast and abundant, and its affluence does pose a great temptation to the poor in Shandong, Hebei and other provinces.This kind of temptation made the ban on the restricted area a waste of paper, and a large number of Han people "went to the Guandong" one after another, galloping between white mountains and black waters, just like the United States "going to the west". In 1904, Japan and Russia fought a war. The strange thing is that these two countries fought, but the battlefield was in a third country—Northeast China.At this time in the Northeast, there were already four million people in the front line, which created a lot of resistance in Japan and Russia to carve up the Northeast.The Manchurians never imagined that the Han people who were forbidden to visit their hometown, but in the midst of all kinds of accidents, guarded their hometown for them!Among these pioneers, there is a strong man with a Shandong accent, which is my grandfather Li Fengting.

Grandpa lived to be 83 years old, 60 of which were spent in Northeast China. His life was full of actions and legends.He has been a carriage driver, a worker, a farmer, a watchman, a grave watcher, a hooligan, a bandit, a bandit beater, a silver house owner, etc., with many names.Although grandpa is illiterate, he is bold, careful, clear-headed, and is a famous and powerful character.A story about his strength is as follows: After he was over seventy years old, he lived with his uncle (uncle) and aunt (aunt) in the suburbs. One night, a group of bandits came and surrounded the house and shouted outside the wall to open the door.The uncle and the aunt were already pale with fright, but the grandfather was extremely calm.He ordered the elders and aunts to blow the siren loudly in the room, but he picked up a weapon used by Zhang Fei, the Zhangba Snake Spear, and ran from the front door to the back door, and from the back door to the front door, screaming at the bandits.The bandits were confused. They never expected that there was such a stubborn old man who was not afraid of death, holding a Zhangba snake spear, insisting on defending his homeland, and he had no intention of giving in.Probably they were overwhelmed by such a heroic action that they had never imagined, and finally they decided to retreat. A bandit shot Grandpa from the wall. Hit the wardrobe.This wardrobe has been with us, and finally shipped to the old capital.A round hole on the cabinet is an old bullet mark, and this old mark shows what great courage in the world is.

Another story about his strength is: when he was a hooligan, he set up a game in the farmland one day and became a banker.Among the people who gathered to gamble, there was a rogue named A who was unlucky and lost every round. First he lost all his cash, then his horse, then his luggage, and then his coat.In the end he lost the fire, pulled out his knife, and cut off a piece of meat on his thigh—began to "bet on meat".Meat gambling is a rogue gambling method. When a gambler loses money, if the banker loses to him, he cannot lose money, only meat.Wei Zhongxian, the great eunuch of the Ming Dynasty, was a young rascal, and when he lost as a gambler, he performed meat gambling. What he cut was not his thigh, but his genitals! (If the banker loses, he must also have his genitals cut!) Generally speaking, when a gambler performs meat betting, the banker must lose a lot of money to eliminate the disaster, so as not to lose meat if he loses.A certain A performed meat gambling this time, and the bloody thighs were thrown on the table, and everyone turned pale.Unexpectedly, at this moment, Mr. Li Fengting, who is the banker, said without changing his expression: "Good boy! You are doing this! You are cutting off the flesh on your legs! You have guts! But you have to figure it out for me. Eat yours, I, Li Fengting, won't eat it! You bet on meat, according to the rules, don't I pay you only if I lose? Isn't it too late to cut it if I lose? Isn't it too late to cut it if I win? But in order not to be afraid You, in order to be better than your kid, I’ll show you the cut first! If I cut it off, I’ll win, and it’s worthless!” As he spoke, he drew his knife and cut off the flesh from his thigh.I can't confirm this story of ruthless versus ruthless, but it is said that it is a masterpiece of grandpa.This masterpiece reminds me of the story of "Qi Zhihao Brave" in "Lu Shi Chun Qiu" who cut each other's flesh and drank wine.

There is also a story about grandpa and grandma (grandmother) getting married.Grandpa was a bandit, was injured, lay in a cave, was seen by grandma, rescued him vigorously, and later got married, grandma is from Rehe, also surnamed "Li", because the same surname is not married in Chinese tradition, so it is used to hide the truth , changed his surname to "Lu".Grandma doesn't look very good, and whenever grandpa scolded her, he scolded her as "poor mountains and rivers, ugly women and troublesome people"! "Ugly women and troublemakers"! "Ugly woman and troublemaker" has a very personality. Before she passed away at seventy, she was angry with her eighty-two-year-old husband and did not speak. Surrounded by their children and grandchildren, they took a group photo, but even though they took pictures, they still did not speak.

Before my grandfather passed away, he lived with my family, and I often went to his house to play. I was four to six years old at that time, and watched him build a shed in the backyard by himself.Watching him burn opium (tobacco is too expensive to smoke, so he just burns opium into small black pills and swallows it), and I have a very good relationship with him.In the last old calendar year he lived, I kowtowed to him continuously since New Year's Eve, once in a while, and then laughed at each other.Grandpa said: "What's the matter with this kid this year? Why does he keep kowtowing to me forever? Look at this, he's going to kowtow to me."

After the year passed, on the hundredth day of grandma's death.Grandpa went to the temple to watch grandma do Buddhist rituals. After the Buddhist rituals were finished, he said to the monks: "I won't come again. If I come again, I will trouble you!" That night, grandpa came to my house and spent the night with grandpa.Grandpa talked about Beijing opera to grandpa and dad, and they talked happily.After talking, it was time to go to bed, and Dad went back to the room.Soon the uncle came knocking on the door and said that the grandfather said he was dying, so everyone rushed over to find a shroud to wear for the grandfather (there are many pieces of shroud, and it is very troublesome to wear. The habit is to wear it before the death of a person. Once the death, it is not easy to wear But after such a toss before dying, it is really possible to die quickly), in a panic, the shroud was not found, at this time grandpa said which box the shroud was in, everyone found it, put it on for grandpa, and he died.He died so soberly and neatly, which is really a master's way of dying.

Soon the coffin was delivered. This coffin was ordered by my father before my grandfather was alive. It is made of cypress trees with thousands of years old, which is top-grade.At that time, it was popular to prepare shrouds and materials before his death, and the elderly had to try them on and lie down once, even grandparents tried them.When my grandfather tried it, he was very happy. People in their era attached great importance to "cautious death" and "delivery to death", and they did not shy away from it.Only later people were so far away from death, ignored death, and died so unprepared (after the ancient Chinese emperor ascended the throne, he prefabricated the inner coffin - "椑", which means that people must live without forgetting death, and must always face death "椑" is not only placed in the imperial palace, but also with the convoy when going out on tour, with a "椑car" to follow the emperor. This system was not abolished until the Ming Emperor of Tang Dynasty. It can be seen that the ancients were not taboo about their own coffins) . At the time of the funeral, grandpa’s descendants and daughters-in-law lined up in a long queue. The grandpa was the eldest son, the first, followed by father, third uncle, fifth uncle, sixth uncle, eldest brother, and me. All males took the lead.Behind me are aunt, mother, third aunt, third aunt (that is, fifth aunt, because she is mother's younger sister, so she is only called third aunt), sixth aunt and so on.This ranking order fully shows the Chinese tradition of male superiority to female inferiority. Li Xien, the vice president of Northeastern University, said that the person he admired in his life was my grandfather. In my life, I often "have a ancestral style" in terms of bravery, toughness, shrewdness, power, and boldness. This is also from admiration for my grandfather. Perhaps my uncle's village pedantry made my grandfather dissatisfied, and the uncle himself would like to help my younger brother to study in a better school. So, with the help of my father and brother, my father was admitted to National Peking University.Originally, his native place was Wei County, Shandong Province, but because he received public funds from Jilin Province, his native place was changed to Fuyu County, Jilin Province.At that time, it was only my father who changed it, so he was the only person in Jilin Fuyu, and my grandfather and we were still Shandong Weixian.This situation was not ordered to be unified by the household registration authority until I arrived in Taiwan in 1949. Since then, I have also been Jilin Fuyu.This small matter reflects the evolution of freedom of origin.When the power of the government is getting stronger and stronger, even this little freedom is not tolerated in Taiwan. My father's name is Li Dingyi, and his style name is Jiheng. He was born in 1899 (12 years before the Republic of China). In 1920 (the ninth year of the Republic of China), he entered the Department of Chinese Literature of Peking University.It was the first year after the May 4th Movement, and it was the golden age of Peking University.Cai Yuanpei was his principal, and Chen Duxiu, Hu Shi, Zhou Shuren (Lu Xun), Zhou Zuoren, Qian Xuantong, Shen Yinmo, etc. were his teachers.Among his classmates who later became more successful were Lu Kanru and Feng Yuanjun who were involved in the history of Chinese literature, Wei Jiangong who was involved in the Mandarin Movement, and his classmates were Zhou Dewei and Chen Xueping.Dad himself was not very good at reading.He graduated in 1926 (the fifteenth year of the Republic of China), and the Jilin provincial government wanted to send him to study abroad at public expense. He was already twenty-eight years old at the time, and he was eager to return to his hometown to support his family, so he refused.Because he graduated from the "Beijing Normal University", he returned to his hometown and was very popular. Not only did he become a lecturer at Northeastern University, but he was immediately hired as the principal of Harbin Jilin No. 6 Middle School. The salary at that time was excellent, far from being comparable to poor teachers in the future.At that time, the importance and respect for educators and intellectuals was far from comparable to that of the future.Dad said: The warlord Zhang Zuolin, on the birthday of Confucius, took off his military uniform and put on a robe and mandarin jacket. He went to various schools, bowed to the teachers, and said that we are rough and don't understand anything. It is all thanks to you to educate the next generation. The teacher was overworked, so he came here to thank me.Warlords did not dare to deliver precepts to people in the education field; nor did they dare to issue precepts for teachers to study.Compared with the Kuomintang, which gave precepts and precepts, the warlords are too cute. In addition to being the principal of Jilin No. 6 Middle School, Dad is also a part-time teacher at Jilin Women's Normal School and Jilin University.His only book, "History of Chinese Literature", was also written during this period.This "History of Chinese Literature" was later printed by me with a long preface and printed by Wenxing Bookstore. At that time, my long preface caused a big disturbance, and Wenxing Bookstore tore up the long preface to avoid being banned. The mother's name is Zhang Guizhen, from Yongji, Jilin (native of Hebei), and graduated from Jilin Women's Normal School.She is a student of her father in terms of seniority. Her father taught the upper class in Jilin Women's Normal School, but her mother was in the lower class, so she didn't teach her.Shen Ruoxia was among the high class students she taught, who later married Zhuang Yan, the vice president of the "Forbidden City Museum".At that time, it was popular for high-grade students to make friends with low-grade students and take pictures together. Shen Ruoxia and Zhang Guizhen took a group photo together. The photos are still preserved, but the friendship has long been "almost no contact"!Friendship between women is really unreliable.My mother was a prominent figure in school and a basketball player. At that time, not many girls went to the new school to study, so the female students were very popular. Dad had a student in Jilin No. 6 Middle School, named Cheng Lie, who later became a famous "legislator" in the Kuomintang.It is said that my father was expelled by the principal for pursuing my mother.After decades of interruption, the teacher-student relationship was restored in Taiwan. His son Cheng Guoqiang was also a student of his father at Taichung No. 1 Middle School.The expelling of the two generations of grievances has become a good story.A while ago Cheng Guoqiang’s 60th birthday, I didn’t participate in the wedding and funeral celebrations, but I was deceived and invited me to speak at the banquet, I said: “It’s fortunate that my father succeeded in chasing my mother back then, and fortunately Cheng Lie failed, otherwise there would be no such thing in this world. Li Ao, and I am Cheng Guoqiang." The hearer laughed. When my mother gave birth to me, she had already given birth to four daughters in a row. This situation, at that time, was already a bit precarious.In the Han Dynasty of China, there was a saying "you can't steal the door of five daughters" (even a thief would not steal a house with five daughters). What's the point of giving birth to a daughter in four places?Fortunately, I was born at the right time, so that my mother immediately "resurrected from defeat", and helped her a lot.After giving birth to me, my mother reverted to her old ways and gave birth to two younger sisters. At that time, my status in the family was at its peak, and it was not until my younger brother was born that the two powers were separated.Six women and two men are my compatriots.Eldest sister Li Min, graduated from Beijing Fu Jen Catholic University, famous obstetrician and gynecologist, married Zhou Kemin, now in mainland China; second sister Li Xun, graduated from Beijing Yenching University (later changed to Peking University), engineering expert, married Tang Keqin, Now in mainland China; third sister Li Lin graduated from Taipei Normal University, married Shi Jin, and is now in the United States; fourth sister Li Zheng, graduated from National Taiwan University Nursing School, married Zhang Liyu, and is now in the United States; elder sister Li Jia, graduated from Taichung Jingyi College, Married to Chen Dage, now in the United States; younger sister Li Ying, graduated from the Taipei Practice School, married Ye Chengyou, now in the United States; younger brother Li Fang, graduated from Taichung No. 1 Middle School, married Wang Ziyi, and immigrated to Canada. The name of my grandfather (we call him Master) was Zhang Quanquan, which is full of significance of the times.He was tall, handsome, and majestic.He has a big photo, which has been hanging at home. The eyes in the photo seem to be staring at you no matter which angle you look at, which is daunting. It reminds you of George Orwell's "1984". Big Brother". The master is the chief of the next branch of the Harbin police station. He is upright and doesn't like flattery.His boss was on the stage, but he ignored and didn't buy it; his boss collapsed, but he ran to "burn the cold stove". My grandmother (we call her grandma) was a fat lady, so she couldn’t keep her back straight when she was too fat. The master was a majestic figure with straight clothes and a straight back, and he often said to grandma: “Old lady, straighten your back, straighten your back! "Grandma didn't pay much attention to him.The only thing grandma cares about is that the master likes to beg for his concubine. The master likes to beg for his concubine. He was talking about it, but later he really asked for one, but the concubine left soon.The master still didn't give up and wanted to beg for it, but he died soon after.After the master died, grandma lived with us until she died. Grandma only gave birth to three daughters and no sons, which is probably the main reason why the master wants to marry his concubine.The three daughters are the eldest (mother, the second eldest), the second (we call it Sanyi), and the third (we call it Laoyi).The third aunt married the fifth uncle and gave birth to a boy and a girl.The old aunt married Li Zizhuo and gave birth to a son.Li Zizhuo is the only Kuomintang among my elders, and he is also a "foreign relative".My family has no connection with the Kuomintang. Under the dominance of one party, our family background is clean, which can be seen here. From 1926, when my father graduated from Peking University and returned to the Northeast, to 1936, when I was one year old, the ten years were the most important ten years in our hometown in Northeast China.In the past ten years, my grandfather retired, my father got married, my grandfather died, my mother gave birth to four sisters and gave birth to me.Count: grandpa, grandma, grandma, father, mother, fifth uncle, third aunt, fourth aunt, old aunt, old aunt, eldest sister, second sister, third sister, fourth sister and me, plus four persons from the family of grandpa and aunt , and as many as nineteen people.It is conceivable that the burden is heavy for the father to rely on everything to save and support from his peers. Before the September 18th Incident, the Northeast was in a golden age; after the September 18th Incident, not all that shines is gold.Dad had always planned that the whole family would leave the Northeast and enter the pass, where they would not be ruled by the Japanese devils. However, due to various difficulties, they failed to do so.In 1937 (the twenty-sixth year of the Republic of China), he finally achieved the grand move of his family to the south. The nineteen members moved to Beijing (the Kuomintang was changed to Beiping), and completed his "Leaving Manchuria".At this time, I left Harbin at the age of two, and my home is no longer on the Songhua River in the northeast.