Chapter 24 Lei Haizong: Fragments of History (1)

Lei Haizong (1902～1962), courtesy name Bolun, was born in Yongqing, Hebei Province. He was a famous historian and taught at Tsinghua University for a long time. After the department adjustment in 1952, he taught at Nankai University. The three fragments of Lei Haizong's life were recorded by his students as follows: ——After the class bell rang, I saw a little old man leaning on a cane, moving his legs step by step, and sitting on a chair behind the podium with difficulty.Looking at his painful appearance, I couldn't help feeling a little bit of compassion.At that moment, the idea of ​​class struggle disappeared like a kite with a broken string.At this moment, the classroom is unusually quiet...

This was the spring of 1962, and Lei Haizong was on the podium again at Nankai University. —He went into the classroom and took off that old fedora hat and put it on the corner of the desk with the school badge always stuck upside down, and he really didn't have time for that.Look at him, gasping for breath, before the red tide on his face receded, he wrote "Society and Economy of the Warring States Period" on the blackboard, and he talked about it casually, and he spoke so briskly, fluently, and vividly, which made people feel sick. Every single character in history comes to life, every single thing bumps back and forth against the walls...

In 1932, Lei Haizong was recruited back to his alma mater, Tsinghua University, to offer a course of "General History of China". The image depicted in the "Professor's Impression" in the student publication "Tsinghua Weekly" at that time. ——At the meeting, teachers and senior students made critical speeches.Because of the speaker's southern accent and hoarseness, he couldn't hear what he was saying.However, the serious atmosphere of the venue, the excitement of emotions, and the loud slogans really felt like a bayonet. ...The last is the self-criticism of the person being criticized. Because he is too far away to see the appearance of the person, he only heard him say: "My name is Lei Haizong, and I have been against the Soviet Union and the Communist Party for more than 20 years..."

This is after Lei Haizong was classified as a "rightist" in 1957. In order to carry out class education for freshmen, the school arranged for freshmen to attend a meeting to criticize Lei Haizong. From 1932 to 1962, a scholar's life was cut off in 1957. Mrs. Lei remembered that in the summer of 1957, an "Anti-Rightist" conference was held in Tianjin. At the meeting, Lei Haizong was classified as a "rightist". ".The next day, he suddenly had two toilet bowls of blood in his stool. "He lay down, and no one dared to enter our house since then. The two of us faced each other in silence all day long. We couldn't eat well, and we couldn't sleep." The Department of History asked him to do a self-criticism. .

After Lei Haizong took off his "rightist" label, people from the department came one after another and told him that no one taught this class and that class, "I wish he could become Sun Dasheng". In the spring of 1962, Mr. Lei, who had suffered from chronic nephritis for 3 years, was severely anemic, swollen all over his body, and had difficulty walking, came to the classroom by tricycle and went to the podium again. He Bingdi, a great historian, studied in the History Department of Tsinghua University in the 1930s.He believes that due to the intense research and discussion on Chen Yinke in the academic circles in the past 20 years, many scholars now believe that Chen Yinke is the core of the so-called "Tsinghua History School", but "in fact, the Tsinghua History Department in the 1930s was by no means centered on Chen Yinke. of".