Chapter 56 56. Long Yingtai will only interview some small people

■Long Yingtai wrote a book and conducted interviews. Is there any lack of methodology? □Interviews are good, but Long Yingtai made a big mistake. She only interviewed some small people, that is, low-level people.In fact, to find out the truth, you have to start with high-level figures.High-level figures grasp the dynamics and trends, and only from them can the overall situation be seen.The stories of 1949 are often not individual or fragmentary, but intermittent, a group, and the development of one generation, two generations and three generations.Take Chen Bulei, the number one literati around Chiang Kai-shek, as an example. The first generation of patriot Chen Bui is the Kuomintang, the second generation of patriot Chen Lian is the Communist Party, and the third generation of traitor Chen Shimeng is the DPP.The climax of the three generations of stories is that Chen Bulei committed suicide for the Kuomintang, Chen Lian committed suicide for the Communist Party, and Chen Shimeng killed the country for the DPP.For the sake of kindness, let me listen to the memory of one of Chen Lian's students in Beiman Girls' High School in Beijing:

The other time was when I arrived at school early in the morning and heard that Mr. Tian, ​​who taught Chinese, and Mr. Chen Lian, who taught history, were arrested. The students organized a strike. I immediately joined because I liked Mr. Chen Lian. It was unfair to arrest such a good teacher! ... After liberation, a school-wide party was held in the wind and rain playground. This kind of school-wide party that was not held in the auditorium seemed less formal on the surface.But Mr. Chen Lian suddenly appeared on the stage wearing a gray cotton military uniform of the People's Liberation Army, which caused the audience to welcome it like a boil!Mr. Chen's appearance was still shy, so out of tune with the military uniform.Obviously that military uniform was too big for her petite girl, and she was so unaccustomed to raising her hand to salute the military, but the long and continuous cheers and applause from the audience showed how much she was welcomed and loved by her classmates!Mr. Chen waited with a calm smile for the audience to hear her talk about her experience after being arrested.

Mr. Chen Lian was arrested together with her husband.Because she is Chen Bulei's daughter, she made a special call to Nanjing to ask Chen Bulei, "What should I do if his daughter has rebellious behavior?" Chen Bulei replied: "Investigate and deal with it according to the law!" , escorted her to Nanjing and began to put her under house arrest at home.She could only speculate on the actual changes in the situation from the Kuomintang newspapers, and she also realized that the Kuomintang could not survive in Nanjing.Chen Lian said that he had never surrendered, and announced to Chen Bulei: "You go the way of your Kuomintang, and I will go the way of my Communist Party!" Finally, when the Kuomintang retreated to Taiwan, Chen Bulei committed suicide, and Chen Lian regained his freedom to join the People's Liberation Army .

Chen Lian's husband worked in a newspaper office after liberation, and was classified as a rightist when he was anti-rightist.Chen Lian worked in the East China Bureau for many years, and committed suicide by jumping off a building during the Cultural Revolution. It's a pity that Mr. Chen Lian thought that he and his father were on a "ghostly different road", but he didn't expect that the father and daughter would end up with "the same goal by different routes"! Chen Bulei and Chen Lian knew each other even after they died, and they would never have imagined that the third generation of the Chen family would be such a weirdo who "did not go the same way" and "did not go the same way".What a representative "1949" story, it's a pity that Long Yingtai can't write it.Long Yingtai's age is too young, and she can't reach "1949" even on tiptoe.Only those who are able to meet their prosperity can do it, so that they can be written realistically. For example, the one who wrote about Chen Lian above is Chen Lian's student Li Ji.Li Xun is none other than my second sister.