Chapter 35 Lin Xiling became a "rose with thorns"

Not long after Tan Tianrong’s big-character poster appeared at Peking University, on the evening of May 23, 1957, college students gathered in the square to listen to an inspiring speech by a sharp-edged female college student. What is strange is that this female player is not a Peking University student, but from Renmin University of China. Although there was no accurate on-site record of her speech at the time, the Xinhua News Agency's long newsletter "Recognition of Poisonous Weeds--Students of Renmin University of China" published by "People's Daily" on June 30, 1957 refuted Lin Xiling's speech. Fallacies and Lies" (authors Zheng Boya, Ding Baofang), but there is a summary of her speech.As we all know, reports on "rightist" speeches in that special year often underwent some "processing".Now transcribe these "processed" words below:

She said: "Hu Feng's opinion is basically correct. The party's proposal of letting a hundred flowers bloom and a hundred schools of thought contend is basically consistent with what Hu Feng proposed." "True socialism is very democratic, but we are not democratic here. I call this society socialism based on feudalism." On June 24, 1957, the "Beijing Daily" published the article "Strong Retaliation" by the newspaper's reporter Gu Xing, exposing Lin Xiling's "reactionary words and deeds": "It seems to me good that ministers of bourgeois countries can be dismissed."

"The eradication of counter-revolutionaries has expanded." This "Lin Xiling", whose real name is Cheng Haiguo, is a fourth-year law student at Renmin University of China. Cheng Haiguo took "Lin Xiling" as her pen name. It is said that it was because she admired two "little people" of Yu Pingbo who rose up to criticize and study the authority, Li Xifan and Lan Ling, and took a word from their names.Li Xifan and Lan Ling suddenly jumped from "little people" to authoritative figures in the literary world due to good opportunities, and she also hoped so.She wrote a paper "On Balzac and Tolstoy's World View and Creation", and sent it to Li Xifan and Lan Ling...

Lin Xiling became very active, and had many contacts with the literature and art department of "China Youth Daily", "Literary News", "Literary Learning" and other newspapers.She wants to be a woman writer.She is full of confidence in her future.When she spoke, it seemed a little "crazy" to others. At this time, in June 1956, the "China Youth Daily" shot her a cold arrow: it published "Abscesses in the Deep of the Soul" signed by "Study the Truth"! This cold arrow greatly angered Lin Xiling. She, who once stood up in self-defense, fought back.

She accused China Youth Daily of slandering and framing her. She has support.Wu Yuzhang, the respected old president of Renmin University of China, and Hu Yaobang, secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League of China, all met with Lin Xiling to comfort her. Even after Lin Xiling was labeled as a "rightist", the "China Youth Daily" published the article "Ma Lin Xiling from Personal Career to Politically Reactionary Black Sheep" by Sun Lichao and Ding Gang on July 12, 1957. When Lin Xiling was carrying out the "general liquidation", she also had to admit that publishing the article "Abscesses Grow Deep in the Soul" was "a bit rough":

"At the time, the criticism of China Youth Daily was a bit rough for a young man who could still be won over, and some facts were also inconsistent, so I publicly reviewed it twice in the newspaper, in order to give her a chance to contact In reality, she completely reinvented herself, and the newspaper paid for her travel expenses, allowing her to live in the Yumen Oil Mine for a period of time..." In this way, in August 1956, Lin Xiling went to Yumen, Gansu Province as a "special correspondent for "China Youth Daily"... She probably had the experience of being attacked for no reason by the "China Youth Daily", so when Da Ming Da Fang started, she ran around for the wronged Hu Feng and demanded to correct the mistakes of the "Left" in the anti-revolutionary movement ——She is a student of the law department, and she deeply felt that various movements in China at that time could not be followed!

She has eloquence and literary talent.She is also emerging in the midst of making a big splash. When criticizing Lin Xiling, the newspaper revealed that Lin Xiling once claimed to be an "angular youth", and her "rightist" classmates praised her as "the embodiment of bravery", "a rose with thorns", "China's Nascar", "a Independent thinking", which reflects her characteristics from a certain angle.Among the female students at that time, she was indeed brave and bold. Lin Xiling was called "the black sheep" in 1957.Yes, she was a provocative student leader.She ran around in various colleges and universities in Beijing and delivered speeches endlessly, which had a wide range of influences.

Years like "digging out".When criticizing Lin Xiling, the "People's Daily" published "Lin Xiling with Abscesses in His Soul" on July 15 in the name of "Comprehensive Draft of the Newspaper", spending a lot of space to "expose" Lin Xiling's "reactionary Family", in order to prove that Lin Xiling became a "rightist" because of "class nature". What is intriguing is that the same Lin Xiling, and the same mainland Chinese newspaper, described her family in completely different ways in 1957 and 1986! In 1957, "People's Daily" published "Lin Xiling with Abscesses in His Soul" described it as follows:

What kind of person is bourgeois rightist Lin Xiling (formerly known as Cheng Haiguo)?How did she embark on the road of anti-party and anti-socialism?This is inseparable from her family background, living environment and bourgeois ideology. Lin Xiling often boasted that she was born in a poor peasant family, and she suffered hardships, suffered hardships and worked hard since she was a child.She claims to have "working class consciousness", joined the revolution at the age of thirteen, and is now a girl of twenty-one. The actual situation is this: Lin Xiling's father was the director of the pseudo-tax bureau in Wenling County, Zhejiang Province. On the eve of liberation, he ran away with his concubine and abandoned his original wife.Her father also worked as the dean of the China Esperanto Institute (correspondence), an English teacher and a newspaper editor.The family had lived in the city for a long time, and only moved to the countryside at the end of 1948. During the land reform period, they were allocated six acres of land, so they were considered "poor peasants".Lin Xiling's mother was a "pious Christian" and used to be a primary and secondary school teacher.Lin Xiling said that she had worked, but what is the actual situation?On the eve of liberation, due to the deterioration of her parents' relationship, her father cut off their supplies, so she had to work and study part time.The so-called workmanship is nothing more than helping her mother do some manual labor such as packing cigarettes and carving umbrella handles.After her mother was abandoned by her husband, she pinned all her hopes on Lin Xiling, asking her to study hard so that she could flourish and excel in the future.Lin Xiling's thoughts received from his father and mother were summed up as "If a person does not do it for himself, he will be destroyed by heaven and earth", "If a person is not a person, he will not leave a legacy forever, but he will also leave a bad reputation forever."

In those years, my father was an official of the Kuomintang and "fleeed" to Taiwan. Of course, it was a "reactionary family"! However, in the 1980s, Taiwan became "sweet" again in the mainland.In 1986, the "Shanghai Political Consultative Conference News" published Xu Zhucheng's "Lin Xiling Whirlwind" article, which talked about Lin Xiling's family in this way: "Her father, who was also a progressive religious figure before liberation, preached in Taiwan before 1949..." Sometimes "reactionary families" and sometimes "progressive people", as if kneading dough, according to political needs, you can knead it as you like!

In fact, such "contrast" goes beyond Lin Xiling. The author once interviewed Liang Wenqian, the eldest daughter of Liang Shiqiu.She was regarded as the daughter of Liang Shiqiu, a "reactionary literati", and was mistakenly classified as a "rightist" in 1957. Now she is the daughter of Liang Shiqiu, a "famous writer in Taiwan". CPPCC members! The author also interviewed Zhang Juli.He is the eldest son of Zhang Lingfu, commander of the 74th Division of the Kuomintang.Back then, he was repeatedly criticized as the son of a "reactionary general", but now he has become an important united front target and the person in charge of the Xi'an Revolutionary Revolution! In fact, the family backgrounds of Lin Xiling, Liang Wenqian, and Zhang Juli have not changed, but it is because politics and policies are changing! In the anti-rightist movement, Lin Xiling became a figure who was "discussed by the whole country".Everyone thought that this "smelly rightist" would be "notorious for thousands of years" from now on. Completely unexpectedly, in 1983 came the amazing news: Lin Xiling was allowed to go abroad! When she went abroad, Renmin University of China still insisted that she was a "rightist" who could not be "corrected"! The scapegoat of politics cannot conceal the brilliance of talent.After she was labeled as a "rightist", although she was completely isolated from the outside world, it provided her with an excellent opportunity to study hard.After she went abroad, she was hired as a senior researcher by the French National Academy of Social Sciences! Lin Xiling's father is in Taiwan, and of course she hopes to visit relatives in Taiwan.Of course Taiwan welcomes her, because she is a well-known "rightist" in mainland China. In September 1985, her father was seriously ill in Taiwan, and Lin Xiling was allowed to fly to Taiwan. In Taipei, Lin Xiling received a grand reception, and she was expected to give a speech as an "anti-communist righteous"-Lin Xiling has always been good at speeches. However, Lin Xiling said this: "'Anticommunist' is as much a 'rightist' as I detest both hats." "I will neither be a 'united front tool' of the Communist Party, nor will I be an 'anti-communist righteous man' of the Kuomintang." Lin Xiling also said: "What I am most concerned about is that people on both sides of the strait, especially separated relatives, should come and go freely. In this regard, I think the Communist Party's 'three links' policy is popular and enlightened, not a 'united front conspiracy' , but an objective fact. But the KMT’s ‘Three No’s Principle’ is too rigid and unpopular, and I hope it will be corrected as soon as possible.” Lin Xiling only lived in Taiwan for more than a month, and then left there. Since then, Lin Xiling has been declared "persona non grata" by Taiwan. The three characters Lin Xiling have disappeared from the newspapers and periodicals in mainland China since 1957.At this time, mainland Chinese newspapers reported Lin Xiling's trip to Taiwan one after another. Since then, mainland China has taken a liking to Lin Xiling again—although the "profound criticism" of Lin Xiling in 1957 is still deeply imprinted in people's minds. Inspired by Lin Xiling, among the students of Beijing Russian Language Institute, an "icebreaker" sailed out... On October 17, 1997, the train went west, heading for Changsha from Zhangjiajie, Hunan.Accompanied by the rhythmic click and friction sound of wheels and rails, I listened to Professor Luo Yongnian's memories. Professor Luo Yongnian is now teaching at Zunyi Medical College.I got acquainted with him at the 3rd Chinese and Foreign Biographical Literature Symposium held in Zhangjiajie.At the meeting, there was no opportunity to go into detail.This time, while riding in the same car, I interviewed him... In 1957, Luo Yongnian was the "captain" of the "icebreaker" of the Beijing Institute of Russian Language. The "icebreaker" sank in the stormy waves of the "anti-rightist struggle", and he became a "rightist" from then on. At that time, he was a sophomore college student.He said that he was influenced by Lin Xiling at the time and started a publication with several classmates during the Da Ming Da Fang.The publication was named "Lenin Icebreaker" because the Soviet Union built an atomic icebreaker named "Lenin" to break ice in the Arctic Ocean.As a student of the Russian Language Institute, I naturally cared about the Soviet Union, so I used "Icebreaker Lenin" as the title of the journal. In fact, this publication is nothing more than a poster posted on the outer wall of the dining room with big-character posters.Most of the manuscripts are signed by pen names, such as "Sichuan people", "Yan Jun" and so on. Unexpectedly, this small publication caught the attention of the school, and even sent someone to secretly take pictures with a camera! According to reports, as soon as this poster was born, the title "Icebreaker" made the "leftists" very dissatisfied: because socialist China is full of spring, does it need an icebreaker?You named the publication "Icebreaker", obviously thinking that socialist China is "solid ice"? ! Although this "icebreaker" is the "Lenin", it is nothing more than a "disguise" in the name of revolution! However, it was the time of "leading snakes out of their holes", so the "leftists" just quietly took photos for archiving. If they didn't take photos of this poster-style publication, it would be covered by other big-character posters in a few days. After the trumpet of the "anti-rightist struggle" sounded, the "icebreaker" was besieged by "leftist" posters. Will the next issue come out? "Captain" Luo Yongnian decided to "suspend the voyage" - not to leave. Knowing that the situation was not good, Luo Yongnian secretly burned all the manuscripts: because the person who copied the big-character poster was not necessarily the author of the big-character poster, and the big-character poster used a pseudonym. The "icebreaker" sank under heavy artillery fire. The "crime" that the "leftists" added to the "icebreaker" was mainly "attacking the Soviet Union": Luo Yongnian and his partners, as students of the Russian Language Institute, learned of Khrushchev's secret report very early Knowing that Sino-Soviet relations have deteriorated... Although shortly thereafter, Mao Zedong publicly and violently "attacked the Soviet Union."However, in 1957, "opposing the Soviet Union" was one of the "six criteria" listed as poisonous weeds. Luo Yongnian was designated as an "extreme rightist".He was first sent to work on a farm, and then he was sent to Guizhou on September 30, 1960...