Chapter 134 Ruthless - Leave an inkstone for me to write on, okay?

Ma Yifu is the deputy curator of the Central Museum of Culture and History. His home was raided during the "Cultural Revolution".Before the raiders swept away, he begged, "Leave an inkstone for me to write on, okay?" But what he got was a slap in the face.Ma was 84 years old at this time, and he died shortly after. During the "Cultural Revolution", Qian Jiaju attempted suicide and broke a rib. He was not given medical treatment, and was dragged to denounce the next day because he "suicide in fear of crime" and "excluded himself from the people".At the criticism meeting, Qian Jiaju put up a five-dollar sign and had to arrange and clean the venue by himself.After the meeting, upon approval, he was formally suspended for self-reflection and became the target of a dictatorship, sweeping the yard every day and forced labor.Later, arresting "traitors" became popular, and Qian Jiaju was designated as a "traitor" because he was arrested in 1928.He went home and complained to his eldest son: "The biggest mistake I made in my life was joining the Communist Party of China when I was young."Unexpectedly, this sentence was exposed by his own son. For this reason, he added another crime and punishment, stipulating that before working every day, he must plead guilty to Chairman Mao.

Hong Qiusheng is an expert in calligraphy and painting mounting, known as the "miracle doctor" of ancient calligraphy and painting. He has mounted countless masterpieces, such as Song Huizong's landscapes, Su Dongpo's bamboo, Wen Zhengming and Tang Bohu's paintings.In the past few decades, most of the hundreds of ancient calligraphy and paintings rescued by him belong to the national first-class collection.The name paintings he collected with great painstaking efforts only ended up with the words "four olds" during the "Cultural Revolution" and were burned.Afterwards, Mr. Hong said to people with tears in his eyes: "More than one hundred catties of calligraphy and painting have been burned for a long time!"