Chapter 119 Memories of Liuping for a year after the July 7th Incident

Yesterday, student Sun Youyun came and showed me an article "Fragmented Memories Before and After Yenching University was Sealed" written by Hou Renzhi in the book "Beijing Under the Japanese and Puppet Rule" edited by the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Feeling full of resentment and resentment, as a Chinese, I will not easily forget the brutal Japanese imperialist aggression against my motherland fifty years ago!Wen Zao and I left Yenching University in the summer of 1938. At that time, Peking was already under the rule of the Japanese invaders. However, because Yenching University was established with donations from the American Christian Church, it was not disturbed before the Pearl Harbor incident. Therefore, we have never endured the difficult conditions mentioned in the article by Mr. Renzhi. I only remember two things: We only returned to China from Europe via Siberia a week before the July 7th Incident—1936-1937 It is the year of Wenzao’s vacation, and every professor at Yanda has a one-year vacation after seven years of teaching. Visit universities such as London University and Oxford University in the UK, especially to understand the practice of Oxford University’s tutorial system, that is, to select students with excellent grades from the third and fourth grades of undergraduates and give them special guidance.I specifically mentioned this matter because two students under the guidance of Wen Zao, Zhu Nanhua and Fang Chuo, privately asked us to go to the rear.We went to discuss with Principal Leighton Stuart whether we could use his car to take the two of them to a specific location in the western suburbs at night, and he readily agreed.After arriving in the western suburbs, we never heard from these two students.The second event was in the summer of 1938, we bid farewell to Yanda University and went to Yunnan in the rear.At this time, Principal Situ repeatedly asked him to stay, saying that he had been to Wuhan to meet Chen Lifu, the Minister of Education of the Nationalist Government. Chen Lifu repeatedly urged him: "Yan University must persist in North China." Therefore, he advised us not to do so. Leave, so as not to disturb the hearts of the people.In fact, we never thought that the war of resistance would be extended to eight years, and Yenching University was still open at that time, and middle school graduates under the Japanese and puppet rule still applied for Yenching University one after another.Because I am pregnant with my little daughter Wu Qing, her birth date is expected to be in November of 1937.We stayed again.But although Yanda University was not disturbed, we went in and out of Chengguan and saw the tragic situation of the people of Peiping under the Japanese and puppet rule. At the same time, Peking University and Tsinghua University had moved south, and we suddenly lost many friends.Wen Zao is a student of Tsinghua University. He always felt that waiting for the victory of the Anti-Japanese War at Yanda University was not a good strategy, so we got a lecture on social anthropology at Yunnan University with Yinggeng's money through the efforts of several Tsinghua students. He resolutely left Peiping in the summer of 1938.

The day before yesterday, because I was sorting out old books, I suddenly found a picture written by President Wu Leichuan of Yanda University as a gift to us. I was so happy that it was written by our beloved Mr. Wu half a century ago!It recorded a poem by Pan Bo: Useless force, there are still thousands of miles in the Central Plains!Hu Yuyu still lives here?It's easy to pass the time in the gap, and I'm afraid that Heqing will not wait for the worried people.When you hear my words, rise up.The green shirt scratches its head in the world, lamenting the rise and fall of the years, the mountains and rivers left!Such a world needs to be rectified, and there should be a different world, so you and I know what is wrong?Talking big words rarely accomplishes anything. Liu Ji still listened to him back then, watching from the sidelines and laughing away.

The following is another title of "Pan Bo's Golden Hazel Song": "Mr. Wen Zao will have a trip to Yunnan. All the students of the Sociology Department of Yenching University are sentimentally attached to their teachers. They bid farewell to each other and seek to present something as a token of respect. This painting belongs to Yu Shu. How can Yu Shu be used as a gift?" Mr. Wen Zao valued this piece today, so he must declare the respect of all the students who valued it, but it has nothing to do with Yu Shu, otherwise he will be scolded by addicts, and it is worthless. Attached to this prophecy, In June of the 27th year of Bo Yican, Wu Leichuan of Hang County got to know each other."

There are two stamps printed on the bottom, the handwriting is elegant and smooth, just like Mr. Wu himself.We have been carrying it with us since 1938, from Yunnan to Sichuan and Japan, and brought it back to China, but because it was hidden too closely, I didn’t know where it was hidden. It was not found until yesterday. It’s a pity that Wen Zao can’t read it again. up! Now that I receive the above words again, I will never forget that on Christmas Eve in 1937, in the cold wind, a group of male and female students came to my small building in the middle of the night and sang the Christmas carol "Silent Night". Looking at the youngest daughter Wu Qing who just passed the full moon, while listening quietly, shed tears of thanks, I think it was not for her, I would have left long ago!Haven't heard this beautiful song yet!

Just in the winter of this year, there was a male classmate named "Kitten" who often came to the door of the professors' house in the middle of the night to collect the clothes and bedding we donated to the guerrillas in the western suburbs. I remember Wen Zao's The mother also took a mattress from her own bed to donate. The above only talked about our school experience in the year after the fall of Peiping.Others, such as how we went from Yunnan to Chongqing, then went to Japan, until after the founding of New China, I came back in 1951.These things have been detailed in Wen Zao's autobiography, so I won't repeat them here!

What I miss is the two students Zhu Nanhua and Fang Chuo who voted in the liberated area. They should show up after liberation, but I never got any news. Later, I heard from the Fang family that they probably arrived in the west of Beijing. He was stopped and killed by the garrison of Beiyang warlord Lu Zhonglin!What a respectable and lovely young man, in my heart, they will always be two martyrs!