Chapter 15 foreword

Ba Jin repeatedly emphasized that the "Cultural Revolution" should be summed up, and <<Records of Random Thoughts>> is such a historical record. ———Ke Ling: "Three People's Talk in Random Thoughts" A, Ba Jin read and reread the letterhead whose handwriting was somewhat blurred and the pages had turned yellow.He remembered that it was a letter he wrote to his wife in Beijing before heading to Northeast China when he went to North Korea to participate in the creation group of Chinese writers going to North Korea in 1952!He never dreamed that this letter would survive to this day.

B, Ba Jin read this, his heart is still in tears.After he left the Fengxian May 7th Cadre School and returned to Shanghai, he had already learned about Peng Dehuai's recent situation from the tabloids distributed by the Red Guards.The commander of the Volunteer Army who met artists like them in the tunnels of North Korea was also shocked and persecuted in the hurricane of the "Cultural Revolution".Thinking of Peng Dehuai, Ba Jin suddenly felt that the unfair treatment he received during the "Cultural Revolution" was nothing at all. C, Ba Jin's "Three Comrades", has gone through the cold and heat, added and deleted many times, almost soaked in the painstaking efforts of this literary master.When he came back from the Korean battlefield, he was always conceiving this manuscript in his mind. He hoped to write "Three Comrades" into a tear-jerking work.

D, Ba Jin's angry protest surprised Hong Kong's "Ta Kung Pao".Because they do not want to delete Ba Jin’s works, Pan Jidong, as the responsible editor and friend of Ba Jin’s "Caprice Records", naturally does not want to change the original text of the actors, but because of some unexpected pressure, he finally had to do so Do.Now when Ba Jin showed a rare anger for an old man for an article, everyone in the newspaper was shocked by it.Only then did they realize that there was no need to abridge the article "In Memory of Mr. Lu Xun".