Chapter 152 "Trouble" caused by a pair of couplets

Mr. Zhang You also recalled an absurd story in the "Anti-Rightist Movement" in the personal experience he sent to the author: There is a rightist named Wang Yan'an, who used to be a lecturer at a business school, and was sent down to supervise the labor in the green grassland pasture.When we were studying together in the rightist training class, he performed very well. The class leader wanted to use him as a model, and suggested that the ranch remove the rightist hat from him.So I was sent to the ranch to do a survey to solicit opinions from the party committee. I went to the ranch to convey the opinions of the leaders of the intensive training class, and introduced Wang's performance in the class.The person who received me was a person in charge of the party committee in charge of political work. After listening to my message, he said: "Among the reformed rightists in my field, Wang's performance is also considered average, and there is nothing outstanding. They are active and willing to work hard, able to endure hardships and overcome difficulties, and they have also studied breeding techniques. There is some progress, but there is still a long way to go according to the requirement of "reformed". For the rightists, labor reform is just a means, the purpose is to reform the mind. But there are still problems with Wang's thinking, and the reformation is not enough..."

I asked him what specific performance he had, and if he could give an example.Then, he pointed out that Wang posted a self-written couplet on the door of his house during the Spring Festival that year. The first couplet is: "Although the hut is small, there is a golden mountain"; the second couplet is "Jinxiu Xiaotang Ju Yukun"; love the people". He asked me to analyze what's wrong with this couplet.After listening to it, I think this couplet is very good.So, I asked him again: "What's wrong with this couplet?" The person in charge said: "After we read it, everyone analyzed it for a long time. The more we analyzed, the more we felt that there was something wrong. This is to vent our dissatisfaction." He asked again: "Which sentence can this be seen from?" He said: "You don't know about this. A small watchman's house next to him was allocated to his family of four. The house was small and not good. He compares the home of the rightists to the rich and noble family of "Jinshan" and "Yukun". The sentence "Jinxiu Xiaotang" is both ironic and complaining. He wrote "love the country and love the people" not sincerely, the implication is that he does not love The Communist Party. These all show that in his thoughts and in his inner world, there is still a lot of dissatisfaction, so he is not yet a rightist who has 'really' reformed."

After listening to the person in charge's logical analysis of this couplet, I couldn't help but laugh.Due to my "identity", I didn't dare to argue with him, nor did I express my approval. I asked to go with him to the gate of Wang's house.I looked at this small one-story house of less than ten square meters, and the couplets that caused trouble were still sticking to them after being turned white by the wind and sun.At that time, I was really moved, and there was an emotion in my heart that I couldn't express.In those days, as long as someone linked a certain sentence with political and ideological motives, they would analyze and reason and list endless crimes. No matter how capable theorist is, you can't even try to refute him. Isn't that what the rightists do? !Disappointed, I returned to the training class and reported to the leader.The leader was also helplessly discouraged.The suggestion to take off Wang's hat, with the end of the training class, will disappear on its own...

Afterwards, I asked Wang why he wrote such a couplet?Wang said very calmly: "At that time, I was able to move my family here with a small house, and the whole family could reunite and enjoy themselves. I was very satisfied and happy, because my boy's breast name was 'Jinshan', and my girl's name was 'Yukun'." , I love children very much, and I put the child’s name in the couplet to express the love of the parents, and I have no other ideas.” It can be seen that the person in charge of the ranch is really ashamed of himself and politically sensitive, and made a political joke out of him!

Mr. Zhang E from Shanghai wrote to the author on September 17, 1996: I used to be a foreign sailor and served as the second officer of the pilot. I have traveled all over the world.At the beginning of 1953, a passionate young man who was only 25 years old quit his high-paying job and returned to China to study. He was admitted to the Department of Medicine of Zhejiang Medical College that year.As a patriotic returning sailor and returning youth, he was included in the rightist army at the end of the anti-rightist struggle. After going through hardships in the work unit, needless to say, all my hard-earned savings were searched.After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, my situation improved day by day. I was elected as a representative of the people of Baoshan County, elected as a member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, and served as the principal of Baoshan Medical School.

Mr. Zheng Shengrong from Fujian Province wrote to the author on September 8, 1997, pointing out: The book "Historical Elegy - The Beginning and End of the Anti-Rightists" only talks about the rightists who have suffered disasters and never involves the middle-rightists, which makes people feel a little lacking.Although the center-rightists did not suffer as much as the rightists, the influence on some people is irreversible for life. Center-rightists are not only a large group in the anti-rightist movement, numbering as many as 350,000, but they are also subject to the same criticism as rightists, but the final qualitative treatment is different.Some have not been reinstated for the demotions (reductions in salary levels) they received during the movement.Because judging from the written correction notice document, it is written in black and white that "restore the original salary level treatment". It should be based on the current salary level. If you drop one level, you will be given a promotion by one level, and if you are down two levels, you will be given a second level promotion. ; But in actual implementation, instead of adopting this approach of seeking truth from facts, it depends on whether your current salary level has reached the level before it was lowered in 1957. If you have not reached it, you will be given a promotion. The promotion was resumed.This kind of unrealistic approach that does not proceed from the objective reality of history has led to many people who have been degraded and punished, and have not been truly recovered so far.Because for more than 20 years, most people, because of their active work and good performance, were promoted to the first to second level of salary when the promotion salary was adjusted nationwide, just like the majority of employees.

It just so happened that Zhou Huayi, a reader in Qu County, Sichuan, wrote in a letter on May 20, 1996, expressing his suffering as a "Center-Rightist": In 1957, I was not classified as a "Rightist", but I became a "Center-Rightist".As the name suggests, the so-called middle right refers to those who follow the rightists in the middle of the middle and shout, and there is only a slight difference from the rightists - there are seven hairs in a hair. I'm lucky not to be wearing a rightist hat.During the rectification movement, I was a probationary party member, a member of the League, and the principal of an elementary school. After the "central right" was marked, the probationary party member, member of the League, and principal of the elementary school were all cancelled.Since the rectification movement, I haven't lived a quiet life!

Sichuan reader Zhou Huayi also pointed out in his letter: Since the "People's Daily" published an editorial in August 1957, "The Rural Areas Should Be Opened Up, Controversy and Debate," the rectification movement quickly turned into a movement for the whole people.In fact, the rural areas are also classified as rightists, but they are called differently. They are called "bad elements" or "four types of elements". In essence, they are rightists. Old scale, sixteen two system). There are more than 200,000 townships, more than 2 million brigades, and more than 20 million production teams in the country. I don't know how many "bad elements" and "four types of elements" have been designated.

My family lives in Group 5, Village 1, Baocheng Township, Qu County, Sichuan Province.During the rectification movement in 1957, two "bad elements" (essentially rightists) were designated.One of them was poor for generations, and he was seventeen without any pants.At the Mingfang meeting, he said: "There is no way to plant double-cropping rice. Two crops are not as good as one." Work comrades arrested him, saying that he destroyed double-cropping rice, and put on the hat of a bad element. The other is a carpenter. He said at the song release meeting: "The construction of the mountain pond has taken up good land and good soil, but the construction of the mountain pond has not played a role. It basks in the sun during the day and reflects the moon at night." The comrades at work arrested him again. Said that he destroyed the water conservancy construction, and also put on the hat of "bad element"!