Chapter 131 "With the sound of gongs and drums, grievances are like a sea"

"With the sound of gongs and drums, the grievances are like a sea, and the festival is like a mountain, which will always set an example for the world; "Thousands of articles, pouring blood into pearls, pouring out heart into jade, spelling out life to cast a silver altar." This is an elegiac couplet written for Zhong Dianfei after he died of liver disease and kidney cancer on March 20, 1987.This pair of elegiac couplets sums up the ups and downs of Zhong Dianfei's life. In 1957, Zhong Dianfu suffered a disaster in "The Drum and Drum of Movie" and received the following severe punishments: expelled from the party, dismissed from office, demoted to four levels, and sent to farms to supervise labor.

The life of Zhong Dianfu rightist is so miserable: After Zhong Dianfu was convicted, of course his immediate family members were most directly involved.His wife Zhang Zifang and his mother-in-law brought five children, four boys and one girl, and moved from the dormitory in the government building to the one-story courtyard in the back alley.Zhong Dianfu's monthly living expenses are 26 yuan, and each child is 10 yuan. In addition to Zhang Zifang's monthly salary, the total is more than 100 yuan to support a family of eight. One can imagine the hardship of material life.For many years, he has been living on stick noodles and steamed buns. Instead of buying vegetables by the catty, he buys the vegetables in bundles.When the children came home from school, they immediately took off their cloth shoes and replaced them with wooden clogs to save on shoes. During the difficult three-year period, the Beijing Film Studio where Zhang Zifang worked got a batch of chickens from other places. ), each employee is limited to one.Zhang Zifang calculated and calculated, but she couldn't come up with the six dollars to support five hungry children and an old and weak mother! "If you sweat a dime, you can't bear to spend it." ①

After four years of supervised labor at the Baigezhuang Farm in Tangshan City, Zhong Dianfu was finally transferred back to Beijing to work in the reference room of the China Film Association.In 1963, he was stripped of the title of "rightist" and became a "capped rightist". Before Zhong Dianfei could breathe a sigh of relief, the gongs and drums of the "Cultural Revolution" sounded.As a "rightist who took off his hat", he became the "inevitable target" of "revolutionary criticism".So, he became a "cow", entered the "cowshed", and was then driven to work in the "May 7th Cadre School" in Xianning.

It was not until 1979, when the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was held, that Zhong Dianfu's grievance was cleared.Zhong Dianfu smiled wryly: "My party age has been determined to be forty years now, and I have not been in the party for more than half of the time." Zhong Dianfu started to work on film criticism again, and he was elected as the president of China Film Critics Society.He began to have his own academic assistant Zhong Chengxiang. Zhong Chengxiang described the situation when he first reported to the Zhong family in this way:

On a Sunday a few years ago, I was ordered to report to the home of Mr. Zhong Dianfu.At that time, he was still living at No. 6 Zhenxing Lane.In the bustling downtown area of ​​Beijing, there is such a narrow alley that the three of them cannot pass side by side.No. 6 is a very simple small courtyard where several households live together. Since Mr. was expelled from the former government dormitory in 1957 because of the article "Drums and Drums of Movies", he was "personally called" and classified as a "big rightist". A family of eight has been living in a few small bungalows here.I stepped into the small courtyard, walked through the grape trellis planted and erected by my husband, and walked into his "studio" softly.This is a small and dilapidated house that is elegantly furnished and quiet.The east and south walls are full of bookcases, and the north wall is next to the window, which is a large desk. On the wall is an awe-inspiring portrait of Lu Xun, which was painted by the famous painter Qiu Sha.On both walls is a couch for visitors to sit on.In the corner, several pots of vigorous cloud bamboo are lovely.Mr. is writing a book at his desk.

Zhong Chengxiang also recalled: "At home, the desk lamp on his desk is the earliest to turn on and the last to be turned off. In the morning, I always get up and run before six o'clock, while my husband is already writing on the desk, or Concentrate on your studies. Mr. always taught me that a person lives a day, and if he does not make progress in his studies, he will be ashamed of his life." In his later years, Zhong Dianfu endured illness and wrote a million-word film theory work, making an indelible contribution to the development of the Chinese film industry. To his relief, his second son, Acheng, shocked the Chinese literary world with his novels and entered the ranks of writers.

The death of Zhong Dianfu has caused a wave of grief in the Chinese intellectual circles.Professor Gan Xifen of Renmin University of China used these two sentences to describe Zhong Dianfu's character: