Chapter 42 Memories of "May Fourth"

In 1919, I was a first-year student at Union Women's University in Peking. In the first few days of the "May Fourth Movement", I had already taken a leave of absence to live in the German Hospital in Dongjiaominxiang, and accompanied my second brother Weijie - after he got scarlet fever, he had an ear operation. On the afternoon of May 4th, my female worker came to bring me a change of clothes and told me that there were hundreds of students parading on the street with white flags and shouting slogans. It's leaking.At dusk, another relative came and told me excitedly that in order to prevent the Beiyang warlord government from signing a treaty to sell Qingdao, college students in Beijing gathered a procession, shouted slogans on the street and distributed leaflets, and finally rushed to the traitor Zhang Zongxiang Zhao's house was set on fire, and many students were arrested.I was both excited and indignant when I heard it. After he left, my heart was still beating passionately.There was a strong wind blowing outside the window that day, and the strong fragrance of Sophora japonica gave me a headache!

The next day, I went home from the hospital with my second brother and went to school to cancel my leave.The student council has completely changed. Everyone stood in the courtyard and talked passionately, and everyone put in intense work.I was selected as a clerk.Our student union is a member of the Beijing Federation of Women's Scholars.Those attending the Beijing Federation of Women's Scholars and the Beijing Student Federation were mostly students from senior classes. We only participated in text propaganda, advocating class strikes, strikes and publicity to the citizens.Xiehe Women's University is a church school, which has always blocked a thick embankment from the current political trend.The school's education for students is: "Listen to the sermon attentively", "Read with peace of mind", and ignore the rest.But the power of this patriotic movement of unprecedented magnitude has finally broken through this embankment.We have also fought against the pious American principals and teachers who have always been inviolable.

We insist on school strikes and demonstrations, school strikes and publicity.In order to boycott Japanese products, we cut classes to make some daily necessities, embroidered some handkerchiefs and sold them, which was opposed and ridiculed by American principals and some American and Chinese teachers.However, there are contradictions among the imperialists. The American imperialists have not shown the most ferocious face to oppose the Chinese students' opposition to Japanese imperialism. Therefore, the school, which has always been like a monastery, has also become a federation of women's academic circles. The place where the delegates meet.At the same time, the students were all excited and nervous. As soon as they heard any urgent news, they dropped their books and rushed out of the classroom. No one could stop them!We waved flags in groups of three or four, propagandized on the streets, and entered stores along the door and door, and faced suspicious and enthusiastic faces, saying that the people must unite to oppose the aggression and oppression of Japanese imperialism and the warlord government. The principle of traitorous behavior.In twos and threes, we held our big piggy banks and stopped the passing foreign cars in front of the deserted and desolate Tiananmen amidst the wind and dust, asking everyone to donate a few coppers to help us rescue and comfort those patriotic students who were arrested.Our brigade went to participate in the interrogation of the arrested students in Beijing courts. We began to write various forms of anti-imperialist and anti-feudal articles in vernacular, and published them in various newspapers and periodicals.

Before and after the May 4th Movement, the trend of new ideas was unprecedentedly high, and new newspapers and magazines were springing up like bamboo shoots after rain.We are all greedily competing to buy, to borrow, and to pass it on to each other.Among them, I like the novels written by Mr. Lu Xun in "New Youth", such as the novels, which sharply criticize the ethics of cannibalism and expose the darkness and misery of the old society. After reading it, people feel sympathetic and shocked. After the "May 4th Movement", many young people who woke up in this great movement saw clearly that they must revolutionize the reactionary regime and that they must follow the path of the Russians in order to save the country.They bravely threw themselves into the fiery revolutionary struggle, walked the indomitable and arduous road, and finally saved the motherland together with the workers, peasants and soldiers.

Some of them died gloriously for the revolution, and some are now serving the people diligently in various positions in the emerging motherland.The other group of young people, including myself, are like a small stream near both banks in a torrent that rushes for thousands of miles. It cannot overcome the resistance of the river bank, and only moves slowly along the bank with bamboo and sawdust... Chairman Mao said Good: "If the intellectuals are not united with the workers and peasants, nothing will be achieved." During the May Fourth Movement, I didn't know that the May Fourth Movement was influenced by the October Revolution and influenced by people with communist ideas. Leaders like Comrade Li Dazhao and others.My background in a bourgeois family, the enslavement education I received in American imperialism, and my own weak nature all made the impact of the May Fourth Movement on me limited to literature—replacing the old ones with new ones at this point. After the "May 4th Movement", I was even more "closed to myself", looking for the source of my creation from simple and childish memories.

My life away from the masses has made me take a detour for decades and become an empty-headed writer.But now I am not sad, as long as I am alive, and when I am with workers, peasants and soldiers, I will always feel excited and excited.I think that under the leadership of the party, I can still work hard to integrate with the workers, peasants and soldiers, learn from them, and transform myself so that I can do my best to serve the people in my own post. "We Woke Up Spring". )