Chapter 100 Ai Qing became a "rightist poet"

As a member of the "Ding Ling and Chen Qixia Anti-Party Clique", the poet Ai Qing was also branded as a "rightist". On September 4, 1957, when the "People's Daily" reported news criticizing Ai Qing, it carefully used the following "four'" headlines: "Ding Ling's partner Li Youran's old friend Jiang Feng's brother Wu Zuguang's confidant Ai Qing has been running among the reactionary groups for a long time" The Jiang Feng and Wu Zuguang mentioned here are not only "rightists", but also the "leaders" of a "small rightist group", namely "Jiang Feng small group" and "Wu Zuguang small group".

The report "exposed" Ai Qing as "Ding Ling's partner": Ai Qing "cries for grievances" for Ding Ling everywhere, and "complains" for Ding Ling.Ding Ling often uses Ai Qing to learn about various situations and decide on countermeasures.At the beginning of the rectification movement, Ding Ling said to Ai Qing: "I will keep silent first, and I will not speak, so that they (referring to the party) will not know my bottom." And said: "Ai Qing, when you speak, you are telling them that they are afraid and dare not Giving opinions, for fear of reprisal." She also said that she said so herself.Ding Ling also told Ai Qing that the party was going to censor Jiang Feng, and ordered Ai Qing to tell Jiang Feng: "Don't talk nonsense now." Ai Qing followed Ding Ling's instructions one by one.

In order to cover up their anti-Party activities, Ding Ling and Chen Qixia sometimes did not communicate directly, and Ai Qing once tipped off the news and passed on the news.Ai Qing also sympathized with Chen Qixia very much, and felt sorry for Chen Qixia's criticism from the party. The report "exposed" Ai Qing as "Li Youran's old friend and Jiang Feng's brother": Ai Qing and Li Youran are anti-Party "old friends", and they often abuse the Party leaders together.Ai Qing and Jiang Feng are like brothers.After Jiang Feng was criticized by the party, Ai Qing said everywhere that the party "wanted to beat Jiang Feng to death politically"...

The report "exposed" Ai Qing as "Wu Zuguang's confidant" in this way: Ai Qing and Wu Zuguang "talk about everything" when they are together.In front of Wu Zuguang, he slandered the horrors in the party, saying that "there is no democracy in the party" and "there is no warmth in the party", and said: "It's better if you are not a party member," "The party is ruthless and only punishes people." Said to Wu Zuguang: I regret joining the party, and joining the party is not free.He also said: "What's the benefit of joining the party? Joining the party is not just being pointed and scolded by others."... Ai Qing will definitely be expelled from the party.Ai Qing even spread absurd remarks such as "it is difficult to be a person in the party" and "a group of people will be punished, and a group of people will be punished" even at the party meeting.

Ai Qing is actually a pseudonym, which he used for the first time in 1933 when he wrote the long poem "Dayanhe—My Nanny". Ai Qing, formerly known as Jiang Haicheng, was born in Jinhua Mountain, Zhejiang Province in 1910.It is said that he suffered from dystocia, "restraining his parents", and became an unpopular child since he was a child. He can only call his parents "uncle and aunt". Ai Qing first studied painting.At the age of eighteen, Ai Qing was admitted to the Painting Department of Hangzhou National West Lake Academy of Arts.The following year, he went to France for a work-study program, specializing in painting.

In April 1932, Ai Qing returned to China and joined the Chinese Left-wing Artists Alliance in Shanghai to organize the "Spring Earth Painting Society".On July 12th of this year, French police raided the "Spring Earth Painting Club" in the French Concession in Shanghai, and Ai Qing was arrested together with twelve young artists. In prison, Ai Qing wrote his famous work and long poem "Dayan River", and he became a poet from then on. Ai Qing was released from prison in October 1935. In 1940, Ai Qing met Zhou Enlai in Beibei, Chongqing, and asked to go to Yan'an.

In the following year, Ai Qing went to Yan'an with four writers, and finally arrived at the destination after going through forty-seven inspections along the way. Mao Zedong respected Ai Qing's arrival very much.Mao Zedong talked with Ai Qing many times.Ai Qing attended the Yan'an Forum on Literature and Art and listened to Mao Zedong's speech... Ai Qing has both revolutionary experience and a famous poet, so he has extensive influence in the Chinese literary and art circles. However, because he "complained" for Ding Ling, he was included in the "Ding Ling and Chen Qixia Anti-Party Clique".

Among the many articles criticizing Ai Qing, I noticed Xu Chi's "Can Ai Qing Sing for Socialism?" published in the "People's Daily" on September 24, 1957? "One article. Xu Chi wrote: Over the years, Ai Qing's mood has been very dark.Being punished by the party for making mistakes, he thought he was in adversity.However, like Ding Ling, he also often shows others his translated poem collections and collections of his poem essays published in foreign countries, and uses them as comfort in adversity and as a source of pride for the party. Xu Chi focused on criticizing Ai Qing's fable poems, and compared these fable poems with Liushahe's "Cao Mu Pian".

Xu Chi first criticized Ai Qing's "Yellow Bird": The poem "Yellow Bird" was written in 1953 and published in "Beijing Daily" on August 26 last year. ...the magpie took over the branch...the little sparrow jumped to his side, showing a flattering air.The magpie said to the little sparrow, "She looks like a monster, and there is a monster in her singing. Although we chatter, we talk in an orderly manner." The little sparrow said: "Yes, yes, yes"... ...for a long, long time there was no sound...the breeze...the yellow bird was singing again.

This is a satirical fable.Always mocking someone anyway.Ai Qing obviously compared herself to a yellow bird, so what about magpies and sparrows?I have to ask who he is referring to? Then, Xu Chi criticized Ai Qing's "The Dream of the Flower Grower", saying "this is Ai Qing's "Grass and Trees"": "The Dream of a Flower Grower" tells that a person only raises rose flowers, and he raises hundreds of species.At night, he dreamed of peonies, water lilies, morning glory, pomegranates, white orchids and other flowers to complain. The pomegranate said: "Indifference contains contempt." Stubborn soul." In the end all the flowers said: "To be understood is happiness."

Rose said: Actually, they are also very lonely. The person who grows flowers wakes up from his dream, feels emotionally, and is dissatisfied with his preference, saying: "I myself feel more and more that the world is too narrow." This sentence actually means that the poet feels that he is not free. .This is Ai Qing's "Grass and Trees", which is no less vicious than Liushahe's. Xu Chi criticized Ai Qing's again, saying that it was "similar to Liushahe": To write about a mynah, listening to the cicadas sing songs in the morning and "know it" in the morning, and sing hot hymns at noon; "Song, the starling said: "When I listen to your song, I am very bored. The reason is that it has no change. Without change, no matter how good the song is, it will be boring. Your refusal to rest has scared me. , I'm moving tomorrow." In this fable, isn’t Ai Qing’s evaluation of our poetry the same as the rightist Li Baifeng’s “narrow field”?And "moving tomorrow" is similar to Liushahe. I don't know what capitalist free world Ai Qing is going to move to!Ai Qing suddenly fell in love with the form of fable.This is very consistent with Feng Xuefeng's fables and the notorious Liushahe's Vegetables and Trees in terms of form, content, thoughts and feelings. Although Ai Qing suffered because of the "rightists", Ding Ling became the winner in the end, Chen Qixia became the winner, Liushahe became the winner, and Ai Qing also became the winner. In 1978, Ai Qing published his poem "Red Flag" in Shanghai's "Wen Wei Po", which meant his return to the literary world. The author met Ai Qing during a meeting in Beijing and took pictures of him.He suddenly asked: "Is your camera loaded with film? Open it and let me see!" After that, he burst out laughing.With his humor and laugh, he is a total winner.