Chapter 28 Xi'an Second Military Medical University Literature Salon

In 1968, with the enlistment of a large number of educated youths, literary and artistic circles with urban youths as members gradually formed in the army.They took advantage of the rest of the military camp to go to and from each company and battalion, exchanging novels and yellow papers in their hands.On Sundays and holidays, educated youths from different cities gather together in groups to exchange gossip and manuscript novels and poems. At Tangshan Artillery School in Nanjing, Yang Jianguo, an educated youth in Beijing, used a flashlight in his bed at night to write about 40,000 words of the script "Measuring the Flag Red" reflecting the life of surveying and mapping soldiers.And sent it to Xu Xiaohuan, a friend in the Air Force, and Shen Weiguo, an artilleryman in Henan, and others.Due to the huge writing project, Xu Xiaohuan and others called it "Climbing to the Peak" in their letters.In addition, Yang Jianguo and others also used letters to exchange poems in old style.

In the × Army of the Beijing Air Force, Xu Xiaohuan, an educated youth from Beijing, entered the army's amateur propaganda team to play the cello and the Zhongruan.Because the performance was over, he wrote a "Farewell Letter to Zhongruan" and put it in the piano box. Later, this prose was opened and found by the female soldiers in the next performance. This article became a sensation and everyone knew Xu Xiaohuan's name.Later, Zhongruan female soldiers wrote "Continuation of Zhongruan's Farewell Letter", which was also widely circulated.Xu Xiaohuan later wrote narrative prose such as "Taihang Mountain Performance Journey" and "Military Literature and Art Officers".

In military hospitals and medical universities, urban soldiers are relatively concentrated.In these units, the pace of life is relatively slow, the movement is relatively free, and they are stationed in large and medium-sized cities, so there are more literary and artistic circles, and literary activities are more active.Xi'an Second Military Medical University is such a unit. Most of the students at the Second Military Medical University are urban soldiers, among whom the children of high-ranking cadres, especially female soldiers, account for a large proportion.From 1970 to 1973, the literary circle within the Second Military Medical University was active.These literary creations have a relatively uniform color of the children of high-ranking cadres and old Red Guards.

At the Second Military Medical University, young female students who love literature, He Xinping, Huang Hong and others gathered to discuss literature and pass manuscripts.There are also some people who secretly write some new poems and circulate them in the circle. The notebook of Huang Hong, a worker, peasant and soldier student, contains fragments of records of the salon activities of that year, and it is full of various aphorisms, epigrams, and poems by unsigned authors. Regarding the relationship between the sexes: "The kinder a girl is, the easier it is to lose her virginity." ( ) Regarding art: "Beauty and utility are equally useful." (Bishop Myrière's talk about growing flowers instead of vegetables) etc.

It is interesting to make a general classification and statistics of the content in the notebook, from which we can learn some content of the activities of the Literature Salon of the Second Military Medical University at that time. The excerpt covers: Quotations and Poems of Lu Xun, "Biography of Marx", Yao Wenyuan's Essay "Against Boring Life", etc., "Six Crisis" (Nixon), "Biography of Kakue Tanaka", "Little Spark Collection", (Fucik), " Martyr's Poems", "Gulia's Road", Pushkin's Poems, Lermontov's Poems, Shelley: "To the Skylark", Wen Jie: "I Miss Beijing", Guo Xiaochuan: "Marching to Difficulties", He Jingzhi: "The Window of the Westward Train", Bing Xin: "Stars", "Spring Water", "Fables of Krylov", "The Forsyte Family", "Hard Times",,, "Eugenie Cole Langtai", "The Falling Corner", (Mao Dun), "John Christophe"...

Handwritten poem part: "Chen Yi's Poems" Ode to Haiyan (line 69) The Song of Haiyan——Dedicated to the Generals of the Cultural Revolution (Prose Poetry) Ocean Trilogy (148 lines) Ethical tides (line 120) Sailing sails (line 207) boat (12 lines) To the sea (line 92) Haiyan ring (line 44) true friends (line 69) Friendship (50 lines) Let Youth Shine (Collective Creation by May Fourth Poetry Club of Peking University) Ode to the Red Guard (18 lines) Life and Death (10 lines) Praise of Xiao Jiye (line 59) Daughter of the Army (line 230) Long Live the Red Guards (line 80)

How to deal with life? (line 42) Break and move forward (line 720) Father, Son, Family (three poems in old style) When I sing "The Internationale" (line 69) Between waves (line 74) Believe in the future (Author: Index Finger) "Chairman Mao's Unpublished Poems" (22 poems) Dedicated to "unpredictable" people (line 19) What is youth? (line 74) For Mao Zedong, how dare we sacrifice (line 24) Huang Hong and Yu Feifei are classmates and members of the school dance team at Beijing Eleven School (a boarding school for children of cadres of the Central Military Commission).This time they were assigned to the same squadron at the Second Military Medical University.Yu Feifei is an active member of the literary salon.She learned to write ancient poems from male student Guo Zhibin (an old high school student).She once wrote a poem in memory of a certain uncle (who died in a plane crash), which was circulated in circles.Guo Zhibin wrote an old-style poem for Yu Feifei, which is purely a playful work, and the end of each paragraph is concluded with the word "Fei", such as "...Meng Sifei", "...Zhuang Sifei".When discussing Yu Feifei's qualifications for joining the party at the party branch meeting, someone cited this poem as evidence that Yu Feifei had bourgeois ideology and was not qualified for joining the party.As a result, Yu Feifei failed to join the party.

During the summer and autumn of 1971, in this "small circle", everyone learned to write ancient poems and exchanged new poems with each other.Yu Feifei has "Ugly Slave", ""Self-Deprecating" Borrowing Xin Qiji's Rhyme", long poems in vernacular (missing title) wheels spinning whistle Smoke kisses. a carriage, row of seats a pair of sisters They shared a friendship... Mu Xiao's vernacular poem "I Love the Ocean" (50 lines): I am a young sailor, Excitedly dancing the sculls in my heart... "Recalling Qin'e Campus" by Huang Hong:

Campus night, Yingxin sings, and the piano sounds together. "Qinyuanchun Gift to Huang Ning" (Note: Huang Ning is Huang Hong's elder brother, and he is a surveying and mapping soldier): The ice peak pierces the sky, and there are camels riding across the mountains. And a gift of Mu Xiao's two old-style Qijue poems and a vernacular poem "Conversation" (100 lines) Silent nights are always a time for conversation.