Chapter 12 2. Ding Ling and Hu Feng

The relationship between Ding Ling and Hu Feng is extraordinary. Their friendship can be traced back to the end of 1932. When they met for the first time, they "know each other like friends at first sight". In the summer of 1936, they met again under unusual circumstances.At that time, Ding Ling had been detained by the Kuomintang in Nanjing for three years, and finally got in touch with the party organization.Feng Xuefeng, head of the Shanghai underground party, appointed Zhang Tianyi to Nanjing to meet Ding Ling. After Zhang Tianyi carefully arranged, Ding Ling quietly arrived in Shanghai by train, and it was Hu Feng who came to pick her up at the station.Hu Feng rented a car and took Ding Ling to Jiande Apartment on North Sichuan Road.The two were very happy to meet each other. Hu Feng told her that the meal had been ordered and someone would deliver it. Don't go out alone. Xuefeng came to see her.Hu Feng was afraid that Ding Ling would be lonely, so he brought several newly published left-wing publications.The next afternoon, Hu Feng came to see her again, knowing that Xuefeng hadn't come because he was busy, so he talked to her about Xuefeng's situation, hoping she would understand.At that time, among left-wing writers in Shanghai, the "two slogans" debate was in full swing. Feng Xuefeng and Hu Feng were both under the banner of Lu Xun, while Zhou Yang and others were ridiculed by Lu Xun as "four men".

In the autumn of that year, Ding Ling went to northern Shaanxi, and she had no chance to meet Hu Feng in the Kuomintang-controlled area, and only passed on from fish to wild.Ding Ling entrusted Hu Feng with many things that needed to be done in the Kuomintang-controlled area, and regarded him as a reliable friend.At the end of that year, Mao Zedong wrote "Linjiang Immortal" as a gift to Ding Ling, which was the only poem Mao Zedong wrote to a writer.Fearing that it would be lost, Ding Ling sent it to Hu Feng in Chongqing and asked him to keep it for him.Hu Feng felt that the responsibility was heavy, so he packed it in a brown paper envelope with the word "writing brush" written on it, and put it in a small suitcase containing important manuscripts, so that he could carry it to hide from the air defense sirens at any time. In 1982, after losing many of his precious books and manuscripts through vicissitudes, Hu Feng miraculously preserved this precious cultural relic intact. After returning to Beijing from Sichuan, he returned it to Zhao and returned it to Ding Ling.At this time, 45 years have passed.

They met again, more than ten years later, in 1949. They came to Peiping one after another to participate in the preparations for the first National Cultural Congress. Ding Ling was a member of the preparatory committee, and Hu Feng was elected to the report drafting committee.During and after the Wendai Conference, they had more contacts, and that was the most frequent period of communication between the two of them. Personal friends belong to personal friends, and politics belong to politics. After liberation, Hu Feng remained arrogant and isolated, refusing to accept criticism of him, and became a "target" for flirting.As a senior party cadre in the literary and art circles, Ding Ling carefully kept a distance from him. She said in her 1956 "Book of Debate": "I am wary of Hu Feng. Hu Feng complained to me, saying that he was I suppressed it, and I said that we will never have sects. We are all under the leadership of the central government now, and no one dares to have sects.” Chen Ming said in a conversation with Xing Xiaoqun in April 2000, “Although Ding Ling and Hu Feng are good She is a friend, but she pays great attention to her relationship with Hu Feng, she knows the contradictions with Hu Feng in the party, so she is very careful not to let others take advantage of her."

Between Ding Ling and Hu Feng, cracks gradually appeared. The cracks originated from differences, differences in viewpoints, and differences in status. These differences and gaps are increasing day by day and gradually widening.It probably started from the very first meeting of the text generation. Ding Ling participated in that meeting with a positive and enthusiastic attitude, but Hu Feng was resentful and looked on coldly. He, a member of the "report drafting committee", refused to participate from the very beginning. When drafting a report on literature and art work in the Kuomintang-controlled area, Mao Dun specifically stated "Mr. Hu Feng's firm resignation" in his report at the conference, and in the part of the report on art and thought theory, he criticized Hu Feng and the "July" he represented without naming names. group.Lin Mohan talked about a past event in his later years: "In 1945, Hu Feng's journal "Hope" was published, and Shu Wu's article "On Subjectivity" was published, criticizing objectivism. They believed that Mao Dun was the representative of objectivism. There was a meeting to criticize Hu Feng's publications in the third hall. The meeting was presided over by Feng Naichao, and He Qifang, Feng Xuefeng, Mao Dun, Liu Baiyu, Hu Feng and others attended the meeting. I also participated in this meeting. The first person to speak It was Mao Dun, and he said angrily: What is subjective, I think he is a savage! He left after he finished speaking."

It can be considered that since the Wendai Conference, Hu Feng expressed an attitude of not cooperating with those in power in the cultural circles of New China, and has been "turning his back" since then, while Ding Ling has entered the circle of those in power in the cultural circles. All the way "popular".Their parting was a foregone conclusion. According to Hu Feng's strict personality, it is impossible for him not to have opinions on Ding Ling. In November 1954, during the joint enlarged meeting to criticize the "Literary News" held by the presidium of the Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the Presidium of the Writers Association, Hu Feng wrote to Fang Ran in a letter saying: "At the three meetings,...Zi Zhou (referring to Zhou Yang ) was the main one, and Sister Feng (by reference to Ding Ling) and Shuangmu (by reference to Lin Mohan) were all accomplices; they proposed sectarian and warlord rule." Later, some articles said that Hu Feng once called Ding Ling "Sister Feng" in a secret letter, probably from here.Obviously, "Sister Feng" here has a derogatory meaning, because she "conspires" with Zhou Yang, Lin Mohan and others.

But Hu Feng also understands that Ding Ling is different from Zhou Yang and Lin Mohan after all. One is that Ding Ling has a personal relationship with him, they are more intimate, and they are friends; An official.Therefore, Hu Feng had both criticisms and good words towards Ding Ling, treated her differently, and classified her as a "cooperator".After Hu Feng was arrested, the Central Propaganda Department and the Chinese Writers Association sent some people to the Ministry of Public Security to review Hu Feng's letters and diaries. Liu Baiyu found that Hu Feng's diary said that Ding Ling was a "powerful faction" in the literary and art circles, especially " can cooperate".

It is this "cooperation" that provides a favorable and powerful "excuse" for those who "want to commit crimes" in the future.