Chapter 146 Du Chongshi recalls the "wind and rain years"

After the publication of "Historical Elegy - The History of the Anti-Rightists", the author received many letters from Mr. Du Chongshi, the "May 7th Warrior" in Shanghai, and presented me with his long memoir "The Wind and Rain Years" published in Hong Kong. On the title page of "The Wind and Rain Years", he wrote the following words for me: The ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle said: "Tragedy is about a person who encounters a misfortune that should not be encountered." And I am the one who encountered this kind of misfortune.American futurist Alvin?"If we don't learn from history, we will be forced to repeat it," Toffler said.

For him who has gone through the stormy years of the catastrophe in 1957, borrowing the words of Aristotle and Toffler, he expresses his inner voice. Mr. Du Chongshi has an unusual background.A corner of his legendary life can be seen just from a short note sent to him by the Literature Research Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in June 1986: Please confirm whether this telegram was sent in 1950, how your job was arranged after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and your resume. Please recall in your busy schedule and reply as soon as possible, thank you.Yours sincerely!

Mailing address: mailbox 1740, Beijing Contact person: Li Jing Du Chongshi confirmed that in 1950, when he was in Sichuan, before He Long arranged for him to work, he called Beijing to ask Zhou Enlai for instructions.Zhou Enlai saw at a glance that "Du Ruishi thought it was Du Chongshi's mistake" in the telegram. This detail not only shows Zhou Enlai's carefulness, but also shows that Zhou Enlai is quite familiar with Du Chongshi. Du Chongshi was from Guang'an, Sichuan, and Deng Xiaoping was also from there.After he graduated from Shanghai Xinhua University of Arts, in 1933, at the age of twenty, he served as the secretary of Yang Sen, the commander of the 20th Army of the Kuomintang.

In the spring of 1938, during the second Kuomintang-Communist cooperation, he was stationed in Yan'an as Yang Sen's representative.In Yan'an, he was received by Mao Zedong and entered the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University to study.Since then, he has had many contacts with the top leaders of the CCP... In the spring of the following year, at the age of 26, he served as the director of the Chengdu Office of the 20th Army and the major general of the Sichuan Kang Appeasement Office. In 1949, when the Chinese People's Liberation Army marched into the Southwest, he played an important role.The 20th Army of the Kuomintang is stationed in Sichuan.He was engaged in secret work and was sent into Chengdu by Li Kenong, Minister of Social Affairs of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, to instigate rebellion against the 20th Army of the Kuomintang.

In mid-December, under the order of Zhou Enlai, Du Chongshi entered Sichuan with He Long and served as He Long's political representative... However, in 1957, while working in Shanghai, he fell into a "secret scheme" amidst his great advocacy: "At the beginning of the study of the rectification movement, the director of the 'play' said: Chairman Mao taught us to help the party to rectify the movement by 'knowing everything, saying everything, saying nothing, and those who hear it. Let’s set off and conduct criticism and self-criticism in a gentle manner to achieve unity.” I really listened to these words and believed every word and every word to be true, because these words came from Mao Zedong’s mouth.

"The eloquent speeches of the rectification directors are better than the hypocritical suitors. I was ignorantly forced by them to play the 'role' they needed." He was criticized by the general assembly and fought by the small ones.He said: "Chairman Mao taught us to help the party to rectify the wind. We should 'know everything and say everything, and those who say it are innocent, and those who hear it should be warned'. What is wrong with me. I don't know who is like the 'path cutter' who suddenly appeared in the black pine forest , Nostrils 'hum' said: What words are not guilty, words are actions, you have already taken action, how innocent. I retorted: Words are actions, Chairman Mao never said such words.

"I was really ignorant at the time, and I didn't know where the phrase 'words are actions' came from. Afterwards, I heard that this was the famous saying 'words are actions' of Guo Moruo. Ke Qingshi, secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, based on this sentence' Famous words 'to guide the anti-rightist struggle." After he was labeled as a "rightist", an episode happened at home, which was so touching: I have always known that my wife loves the child the most, and I never use it as a way to educate the child. Even if the child makes a mistake, I just explain the truth to the child, correct the mistake, and don’t make it again, let alone let the child cry downstairs alone. ignore.I asked Sissy to follow me, and while holding Mimi, I went upstairs and said: Good children don’t cry.We went to reason with our mother, why we beat the child with the red scarf.

When I walked into the bedroom, I was stunned by the scene in front of me: my wife was leaning on the sofa with her head bowed in thought, with tears in her eyes.I sat beside her in amazement, and said softly: "Rong, why did you beat Mimi, and you were crying too (wife's name is Surong, the zodiac sign is monkey, Rong is my pet name for her)." At the same time, Mimi Mi came down from my arms and snuggled up next to me.The wife still bowed her head in silence.I said repeatedly: "Rong, I know you never hit a child. Did Mimi be too naughty when you hit her this time?" When Mimi heard me say this, she seemed to be more wronged and sobbed harder, intermittently. Said: Dad...Dad, I'm not...not naughty, I want to sing, but my mother doesn't allow me to sing.If I can't sing the songs taught by the teacher well, I won't get five points.I said: Dad teaches you to sing, and you are guaranteed to get five points.Mimi's little face showed hopeful joy.The wife said in an impatient tone: "I won't allow her to sing this song."

"What song?" I asked. "Socialism is good." The wife replied. I said, "Socialism is good. The adults are singing too, and the child wants to sing, so there is no need to beat her." The wife said in a slightly complaining but still tender tone: "Ah! Maverick, do you know that in this song 'the imperialists ran away with their tails between their legs' has been changed to 'the rightists ran away with their tails between their legs'. I told this little thing not to sing, and Dad would be sad to hear it. She is disobedient and still sings."

As the wife spoke, her tears could not be restrained from falling down one by one.At this time, I felt that what attacked me was my wife's thoughtful and affectionate love for me, and I couldn't help crying close to her.The children watched their parents weeping and wiping each other's tears with their handkerchiefs.Instead, Mimi stopped crying and pulled her younger sister close to my wife and me, pulled my wife and me by the corners of our clothes and said, "Dad, mom, don't cry, my sister and I won't cry anymore. I will definitely listen to my mother, No more singing."

Not only was he labeled as a "rightist", but his history was reversed, and he became a "historical counter-revolutionary"! In this way, he was arrested and imprisoned by Shanghai Huangpu Public Security Bureau in 1958, and sent to Anhui to reform through labor.As a "double element" of "rightists" and "historical counter-revolutionaries", he suffered double humiliation. He did not return to Shanghai until 1976, and was finally rehabilitated in 1980.In his letter to the author on September 15, 1996, he said profoundly: "Hugo said in it: 'When a person's heart is full of darkness, evil grows from the darkness. It is not the person who commits the crime, but the person who creates the darkness.' Looking back at my life, my heart is full of What he saw was not darkness but light. However, he suffered the undeserved bad luck of his wife leaving home and being separated from his family. Could it be that the one who committed the crime was the one who made the light? This is really beyond my logic..." On January 21, 1996, as the screenwriter of the film "Havoc in Heaven", I attended the press conference of the film "Havoc in Heaven" at the Great Wall Hotel in Beijing. At the meeting, I met the famous "May 7th Warrior" and playwright Mr. Wu Zuguang.Coincidentally, I also had a copy of "Historical Elegy - The History of the Anti-Rightist Movement" in my handbag, which I gave to him - because there is a section in the book dedicated to his "May 7th Elegy". On February 6, Mr. Wu Zuguang and his wife Xin Fengxia wrote to me.The letter said: Thank you for the book you gave me at the Great Wall meeting that day. When I went home the night before, I saw a letter from a reader. It happened to be about reading your book and expressing sympathy for me. It shows that your influence is great. I am very grateful . There are many things that you cannot possibly know. During the "anti-rightist movement" and "Cultural Revolution", my wife Xin Fengxia suffered the worst in my family... I also mailed the book "Wu Zuguang and Me" for reference. In comparison, What I have suffered is much lighter than hers. ... Your writing can clarify the upside-down history of this generation. You have made great contributions to future generations and have immeasurable merits. I sincerely admire you. Mr. Wu Zuguang also forwarded to me the letter written by the reader Baiming.Readers wrote: Recently, I read a book "Historical Elegy - The Beginning and End of the Anti-Rightist Movement" written by Ye Yonglie. In the fifteenth chapter "Art Elegy", you were introduced, saying that you were born in Beijing in 1917 and are from Wujin, Jiangsu.In 1941, he was widely praised for writing the drama "Returning on a Snowy Night".In 1945, when you edited the supplement "Western Night Story" of "Xinmin Daily Evening Magazine" in Chongqing, you published Mao Zedong's "Qinyuanchun·Snow", and you were mistakenly labeled as a "small family group" in the "anti-rightist movement" The "commander".Those critical articles are simply nonsense, and the most incomprehensible thing is why the respected Mr. Lao She (Shu Qingchun) would write those boring and sharp articles to you.Later, you were sent to the Great Northern Wilderness to supervise labor. In 1961, you took off the title of "rightist", but you were dragged into the so-called "second-rate hall" during the "Cultural Revolution". After the Spring Festival, you will have your 80th birthday. I wish you health, happiness and peace in your old age. The old poet Gong Liu was also a "May 7th Warrior" in 1957.He wrote to the author from Anhui on October 5, 1996 after he read "Historical Elegy: The Beginning and End of the Anti-Rightist Movement": "Indeed, this is the first work to describe the anti-'right' panorama. "I'm going to write a personal 'coronation history'..." Chen Yi, former head of the Propaganda Department of the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee, called the author on May 31, 1996 and said: "Recently, I read your "Historical Elegy - The Beginning and End of the Anti-Rightist Movement". I am also a 'rightist'! It is very meaningful that you wrote down this piece of history. "If these histories are not written down, everyone will gradually forget... In 1957, I was working in the army. Chairman Mao once called me a 'leftist' in three speeches. However, later I was Labeled as 'rightists'!" In "Historical Elegy - The History of the Anti-Rightists", there is a section dedicated to Mei Duo and Yao Fangzao, the "rightist couple".I was going to deliver books to them, so I called them in advance.Yao Fangzao immediately said: "I have heard that you have published this book. It is said that four pages in the book are about us, thank you!" It can be seen that they are quite well-informed--the "May 7th Warriors" are very familiar with each other. "Notify" the news soon. A "May 7th fighter" in Zibo, Shandong, learned from a "right friend" from other places that the book "Historical Tragedy - The Beginning and End of the Anti-Rightist Movement" was published, but Zibo could not buy it.He wrote to the author, saying that he had been a "rightist" for twenty years and that he wanted to read it very much.The author immediately sent him a copy. Although Mr. Ge Wujue, the former vice-chairman of the Ningxia Federation of Literary and Art Circles, was not a "May 7th Warrior", he wrote in a letter saying: "I am reading a book, and the material is informative and rich. I can add things about Lan Ling." I thought his opinion was good.Lan Ling was originally one of the two "little people" who challenged Yu Pingbo, but he also became a "May 7th Warrior" in 1957, which is indeed worth writing about. In the book "Historical Elegy - The History of the Anti-Rightists", many pages have been written about Mr. Lu Yuwen.The "anonymous letter incident" about Lu Yuwen is a sensitive topic, but it cannot be avoided anyway.In the book, I tried my best to use the public reports on Lu Yuwen's incident by People's Daily at that time, and tried to write as objectively as possible, fully reflecting various views on Lu Yuwen's "anonymous letter incident" at that time. Since Mr. Lu Yuwen had passed away, in 1989 I hoped to interview relatives of Lu Yuwen through the Central Committee of the Kuomintang Revolutionary Committee.The Central Committee of the Revolutionary Revolution informed Lu Yuwen's son, Mr. Lu Cunxue, of the correspondence office in Guilin, Guangxi.I once wrote to Mr. Lu Cunxue, and he replied on January 9, 1990, sending Mr. Lu Yuwen's resume.I quoted this resume in the book "Historical Elegy: The Beginning and End of the Anti-Rightist Movement". After the publication of "Historical Elegy - The History of the Anti-Rightists", although he had been transferred from Guilin to Beihai, Guangxi, he soon learned about it.He sent me a letter and a greeting card on February 1, 1996.In his letter he wrote: I heard that your documentary literary masterpiece "Historical Elegy - The Beginning and End of the Anti-Rightist Movement" has been published. Because Beihai City is located in a remote place and its culture is backward, it is a pity that I did not see this book in bookstores. Shang Ji ten years ago, when I was working in Guilin Kuomintang, you contacted me through the Kuomintang Central Committee, asking for the information of my father, Mr. Lu Yuwen, and said that you would go to Guilin for a meeting while on a business trip, but unfortunately you did not get your wish.According to my friend, you mentioned me in this book and used the information I provided at the beginning. Your eager desire to read it is unstoppable, and I respectfully present you with a copy of this book, as a wish and to comfort the spirit of my late father. I have read almost all of Mr.'s documentary works, and I admire Mr.'s rigorous and objective attitude towards creation, comprehensive and detailed collection of materials, in-depth and difficult interviews, and smooth and simple writing.You have done a lot of great things for the Chinese people in the development of Chinese history.I think that your works are extremely valuable reference materials for the study of China's contemporary history and party history. I have been involved in the work for forty-seven years, and I was caught in the bottom of the "anti-rightist" wave, and I feel deeply. The above is by no means flattery. On March 5, 1996, Mr. Lu Cunxue wrote again: "The letter and the gift of "Historical Elegy - The End and End of the Anti-Rightist Movement" were received before and after the Spring Festival. Thank you for your timely reply and the concern expressed in the letter. "A few days after I sent the letter, I first got a copy of this book from a friend, and with an extremely urgent and complicated feeling, I read it in a hurry, sometimes late at night. Your book brought me back nearly forty years In the "extraordinary spring" when the dark clouds rolled in the past, as the party involved in the bottom of the water in the two completely different experiences of the father and the son in that storm, I am so sad and full of emotions. It is impossible for me to tell you in this letter. Tell them one by one, if there is an opportunity and fate, I would like to have a long talk with you." Mr. Lu Cunxue profoundly pointed out: "Your book deals with all the 'removal of hats' of the 'right' and almost all of the 'correction' later, but it does not mention that after a few batches were picked in the early 1960s, a considerable number of people have been left unattended, hats From 1957 to 1978, it was second only to life imprisonment. People sentenced to life imprisonment have cases and judgments, and can be commuted, released on parole, and released for medical treatment. ', actually deprived of the right to work, the right to be elected, the right to relocate, and the right to marry (who would dare to fall in love with the 'rightist'? The story of "Legend of Tianyun Mountain" is rare after all). If... I'm afraid these people really It's time to be "never turn over"! Taking people's fate at will is so casual, how can it not make people shudder? The "anti-rightist" has made hundreds of thousands of people not satisfied, and the "Cultural Revolution" will make him tens of millions 100 million people, and got 'on the verge of collapse' and 'all-out civil war'... No wonder Zhang Bojun said that 'the darkest era in Chinese history has arrived'. You said 'there would be no "Cultural Revolution" without the "Anti-Rightist Movement"', which is indeed the case. But what is the internal connection of the theory and the route? How could there be such a soil suitable for the growth of superstitious, barbaric, crazy, cruel, xenophobic, and non-ancient toadstools in this ancient land of China? Didn’t it have a profound history? Is it rooted in cultural tradition consciousness?" Mr. Lu Cunxue also pointed out: "Chinese people are ugly because they are pitiful, and they are even more pitiful because of their ugliness. It should end! We should learn to think and discern. "I hope that while you are writing, you will also become an explorer of historical theory. Someone needs to do academic theoretical work in this area."