Chapter 97 Exposing the "Ding Ling and Chen Qixia Anti-Party Group"

As far as all walks of life are concerned, the literary world is the "hardest hit household" of the "anti-rightist movement". Writers are the most sensitive nerves of the times.Among intellectuals, the writer is the most diligent in thinking and the most diligent in expressing his thoughts in words.Writers have always taken print as their profession to "speech" in newspapers and periodicals, and because of this, writers have a wide range of social influence. Naturally, in those years when words were used to condemn the writer, the writer became a "Uyghur girl with a lot of braids".Especially when speaking in "printed characters", every word is there, it is easy to find "trouble", and it is not difficult to label someone as a "poisonous weed".Therefore, the proportion of "rightists" among writers appears to be high.

An analysis of the "Rightist" writers in 1957 can roughly be divided into "three anti-Party models": Typical anti-Party writers in the "Left League" period represented by Ding Ling and Feng Xuefeng; Typical anti-Party writers of the "Yan'an period" represented by Zhong Dianfu; Liu Shaotang, Wang Meng, and Liushahe are typical anti-party young writers who grew up after the founding of the Republic. ① The heavy bombardment of the "Ding-Chen Anti-Party Clique" is a major event in the "Anti-Rightist Movement" in the Chinese literary circle.

On August 7, 1957, "People's Daily" reported it with an unusually large headline: "Major Progress in the Anti-Rightist Struggle in the Literary and Art Circles Breaking through Ding Ling and Chen Qixia's Anti-Party Clique" This report shocked the whole country! According to the report: The literary and art circles are engaged in a struggle against the anti-Party activities of Ding Ling, Chen Qixia and others, to safeguard socialist literature and art, and to safeguard the unity of the literary and art circles. The party group of the Chinese Writers Association held twelve enlarged meetings from June 6 to August 6.From July 25th, the scope of the meeting was further expanded, and more than 200 party and non-party writers and literary and art workers participated in the meeting.At the meeting, the activities of the anti-Party clique headed by Ding Ling were exposed.

... The enlarged meeting of the party group was presided over by Shao Quanlin, vice chairman of the Writers Association and Secretary of the Party Group of the Writers Association.Zhou Yang, deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and Li Zhilian, secretary of the party committee of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, attended the meeting and delivered speeches.They pointed out that this is an extremely important struggle of high principled significance in the literary and art circles.Mao Dun, chairman of the Chinese Writers Association, and Xu Guangping, a famous social activist and wife of Lu Xun, also spoke at the meeting.They thought this meeting was of great educational significance, and pointed out Ding Ling's serious individualistic mistakes, and hoped that she would repent.

The report said: "Mao Dun said that Ding Ling still has the shadow of 'Ms. Sophie' in her body." The report said: "Xu Guangping said that Ding Ling's current behavior is very similar to Yang Yinyu, the principal of the Women's Normal University whom Lu Xun opposed more than 30 years ago." The report also added: "Liu Baiyu systematically exposed and analyzed the anti-party activities of Ding Ling and others. At the same time, he also checked some mistakes and shortcomings of the 1955 Writers' Association to Eliminate Counter-Revolutionaries and the struggle against Ding and Chen."

The most surprising thing is that the report stated: "If counting from 1942, the Ding and Chen Group has existed for fifteen years." That is to say, as early as in Yan'an, Ding Ling and Chen Qixia formed an "anti-party group". Ding Ling, a famous Chinese female writer.Originally named Jiang Bingzhi and Ding Bingzhi, she was born in Linli, Hunan Province in 1904 and grew up in Changde.She once said about her home like this: "I live in the courtyard with more than 200 houses. The beds are very big, and each bed has a window pane." It's over in the wine and sex." ①

Ding Ling was not "done".She studied in Changsha, Beijing, and Shanghai, and has published novels since 1927.Her work caused a sensation in the Chinese literary world, and she became a female writer from then on. Ding Ling joined the Communist Party of China in 1932, and the following year she became the Party Secretary of the Left-Wing Writers Union.At this time, she was only twenty-eight years old.That same year, she was arrested.Three years later, with the help of the CCP organization, he was released from prison and went to the Central Soviet Area in northern Shaanxi to be a security guard.The Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held a welcome party for Ding Ling in a large cave dwelling. Mao Zedong, Zhang Wentian, and Zhou Enlai all attended the welcome party.

In 1936, Mao Zedong happily wrote a poem "Linjiang Immortal" for Ding Ling: The red flag on the wall flutters down, and the westerly wind sweeps across the lonely city.Security guards are new. A banquet is held in the cave to entertain the prisoners.Who is similar to a fine pen? Three thousand Mausers.The array map opened to Longshan Mountain. Miss Wen yesterday, General Wu today. ① Ding Ling attended the Yan'an Forum on Literature and Art.After that, she wrote a novel reflecting the land reform in rural China in 1948, and won the second prize of the Stalin Prize for Literature and Art in 1951.This was considered a very high honor in the Chinese literary circle at that time.At that time, Ding Ling served as vice chairman of the Chinese Writers Association, secretary of the party group, and director of the Literature and Art Department of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.Among the female writers in China at that time, it can be said that she was the first person.

Chen Qixia is a literary critic.Qixia was originally his pen name, because his mother was suffering from typhoid fever when he was born, and dreamed of a burning red glow in the east while having a high fever. Chen Qixia is from Yin County, Zhejiang Province.He was nine years younger than Ding Ling and was born in 1913.He began publishing novels in 1931.Joined the Communist Party of China in Shanghai in 1935.He was arrested twice. Chen Qixia came to Yan'an from Chongqing in 1940.In 1942, he edited the literature and art section of the supplement of "Liberation Daily" in Yan'an, and Ding Ling was the editor-in-chief of the supplement.In Chen Qixia's own words, at this time he "became Comrade Ding Ling's assistant"②.This is probably the reason for dating the "Ding-Chen Anti-Party Clique" back to 1942.

Chen Qixia served as the secretary-general of the National Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the Association of Literary and Art Circles at the beginning of liberation.After that, he was transferred to the "Literary News" as the deputy editor-in-chief.In his own words, it was to "help comrades Ding Ling and Feng Xuefeng" ③ edit the "Literary News". Although the public case of the "Ding-Chen Anti-Party Clique" was aroused in 1957, it actually has a long history.