Chapter 15 5. Let's look at the party group expansion meeting

According to the recollection of the participants of the expanded party group meeting of the Chinese Writers Association, at the beginning of the meeting, it was not to criticize Ding Ling, nor Chen Qixia, nor even to investigate anonymous letters, but to pursue Hu Feng elements. On June 5, 2002, Xu Gang recalled to the author: In the beginning, the meeting was small in scale and the content was to criticize Hu Feng. It's not small, there are about a dozen desks, and there are more than 20 party members and cadres above the thirteenth level, including Yan Chen, Bai Lang, Wei Junyi, Kang Zhuo, Li Youran and others.That meeting mainly investigated two people, Yan Chen and Li Youran, and their relationship with Hu Feng elements.Asked about the relationship between Yan Chen and Wang Yaping, Yan Chen said that we were only drinking tea together, and asked again, he still said that we were drinking tea together.Bai Lang even patted the table with Yan Chen.Later, Li Youran was asked to talk about his relationship with Lu Li, a Hu Feng member. Li said, I love Lu Li, and I still love him very much.Lu Li is a poet of the "July" school. His poems are fresh and philosophical. He was the chairman of Tianjin Literary Association in the early days of Liberation, and he was criticized by name at that time.The meeting was chaired by Liu Baiyu, and Zhou Yang attended as a leader, sometimes speaking a few words.Xu Gang was young at that time, and he sat near the door. Ding Ling sat closer to the door than him. She often stood up, walked back and forth, and rubbed her waist and spine with her hands, probably because of her back pain.After this meeting was held two or three times, the scale expanded and the number of people increased. The venue was changed to the long conference room in the middle of the upstairs of the Writers Association, which could accommodate more than 30 people. Lead by the director, all come to participate.At this time, the anonymous letter began to be traced, and each person sent a copy. It was written to Liu Shaoqi in the name of "a staff member of the Writers Association" in April 1955, and the content reflected Zhou Yang's sectarianism.At this meeting, the "Ding Ling and Chen Qixia Anti-Party Clique" was proposed.The content of the meeting was kept secret, and some people were found among the participants, and several groups were formed to organize the minutes of the meeting.Xu Gang and Yuan Jing are in the same group. Yuan Jing is ten years older than Xu Gang. At that time, she was still a resident writer of the Chinese Writers Association, and was transferred to Tianjin Writers Association in 1957.They held meetings during the day to take notes, sorted them out overnight, and printed them into books. They often started working after dinner, and they didn't finish until one or two in the morning.Xu Gang didn't know much about history, someone suggested Yao Pengzi at the meeting, and Xu Gang wrote it as "Yao Pengzi". Fortunately, Yuan Jing was in charge.Later, it was replaced by a dedicated staff member.Later, the meeting was expanded to seventy people, and the venue was changed to the All-China Women's Federation Auditorium, which can accommodate a hundred people. After Zhou Yang spoke at the last meeting on September 6, everyone stood up and applauded enthusiastically.

At that time, No. 22, Dongzongbu Hutong, where the Chinese Writers Association was located, had no auditorium in the yard. The Writers Association usually used the auditorium of the General Administration of Publishing, which was located in the same alley to the east, or the auditorium of the All-China Women's Federation located in Baozhuzi Hutong. After the meeting, the party group of the Chinese Writers Association wrote a report on the meeting on September 30 and reported it to the "Central Propaganda Department and transferred to the Central Committee". After a careful study of this "Report", it is not difficult to find that the method of holding this meeting is very strategic.

The meeting was originally aimed at Ding Ling, but it didn't go straight to the point at the beginning. The "Report" stated that this meeting "started with an 'anonymous letter' to the central government to accuse the inspection of the "Literary Daily". , because some leading comrades in the literary and art circles shirked their responsibilities and blamed the "Literary Newspaper", which was the result of the central government's "partial listening and partial belief". The anonymous letter also slandered the party organization of the Writers Association, slandered the Writers Association's adherence to principles and criticized the "Literary Newspaper" and Chen Qixia's party members are "following the tide", "seeing the wind to steer the rudder", and "taking advantage of the fire to rob". It complained and defended Chen Qixia who was punished and Comrade Ding Ling who was criticized."

Following the clues, the meeting quickly turned its attention to the topic: "Many comrades at the meeting presented a lot of strong evidence to prove that this anonymous letter was most likely written by Chen Qixia herself, because the ideas in the anonymous letter are completely incompatible with Chen Qixia's statement is consistent, and only Chen Qixia knows all the facts and plots mentioned in it. And this letter was copied and sent by someone else, so it is certain that someone cooperated with him in conspiracy. The meeting started from the discussion of the anonymous letter and the The exposure and criticism of Chen Qixia's anti-Party activities further exposed the abnormal relationship between Chen Qixia and Ding Ling, and the anti-Party clique headed by Ding Ling and centered on her and Chen Qixia."

First, the anonymous letter was traced, from the anonymous letter to Chen Qixia, and then from Chen Qixia to Ding Ling, and the relationship between the two of them was traced. The world is over.The succession and transition are logical, there is no "premeditation" at all, it is definitely not arranged in advance, it is a matter of course, and the masses exposed it.In this way, the host of the meeting seamlessly wrapped himself up tightly and washed himself clean. The "Report" went on to say that starting from the fourth meeting on August 6, "the activities of this anti-Party clique and Ding Ling's erroneous thinking and behavior were severely and sharply criticized." Previous The third meeting was just a feint, just a foreshadowing. It was not until the fourth meeting that the real intention was revealed, and the participants suddenly realized.Chen Qixia retreated to the second place, and the heroine Ding Ling appeared on the stage. It turned out that this was the real target. The demon mirror locked her firmly, and everyone in the audience was shocked!Ding Ling herself was the most surprised: how did I find out about me, and it was an "anti-party", and there was a "group"!

It was at the fourth meeting that the issues of "undercurrent against the Party" and "small cliques" were brought up. Immediately afterwards, starting from the fifth enlarged meeting on August 8, the number of participants and the scale of the meeting were further expanded.The host Liu Baiyu said: "Our meeting will report to the leaders, who feel that it is necessary to conduct ideological criticism and rectify the literary and art circles in this way. Therefore, the Central Propaganda Department decided to expand the meeting and invite the Central Ministry of Culture, the National Federation of Literary and Art Circles and several other associations. Responsible comrades of the party will participate." The expansion of the meeting scale means that the nature of the problem has escalated, the firepower of the struggle has escalated, and the spearhead of the struggle is directly directed at Ding Ling.

In her letter to the Party Committee of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China dated August 16, 1956, Ding Ling listed a large number of materials to show that before and at the beginning of the enlarged meeting of the Party group in 1955, the conclusion of the "anti-Party clique" had been affirmed.She said: "During the entire meeting, those who follow this conclusion will get the support and encouragement of the chairman of the meeting. Those who have a little doubt will be severely criticized, and those who make a little defense will be ignored, or even denounced as an attack on the party. , so that the development of the entire meeting became one-sided. At the earliest, Tian Jian committed suicide due to panic, and was later punished. Ma Feng spoke at the eighth meeting and was severely criticized, referring to him as an unsteady party. There were 11 speeches at the meeting again. Kang Zhuo said in the mouth of the leaders (Comrade Zhou Yang) that he broke away from the anti-party alliance earlier, and he got their encouragement and support again and again at the meeting.”

After the enlarged meeting of the party group, Ma Feng made up his mind to leave Beijing and return to Shanxi to engage in creation.Li Na, who is very popular with Ding Ling, used to be a student of the Institute of Literature. She ran from Yunnan to Yan'an and joined the revolution because of her admiration for Ding Ling.This kind and quiet woman has never experienced such a scene. Xu Gang recalled that she rubbed her skirt back and forth on her legs uneasily. She told Xu Gang, "I'm afraid!" And Chen Xuezhao, a Hangzhou female writer who used to live and write articles in the Institute of Literature, exposed a large amount of Ding Ling's materials, and the firepower of criticism was very fierce.This woman who looks quiet and doesn't live in Beijing often has so many powerful shells in her hands, which surprised Ding Ling and the meeting participants. They had to get to know her again and look at her differently.

Originally, Kang Zhuo was also a member of the "anti-Party clique". Someone at the meeting revealed that Kang Zhuo and Chen Qixia were Ding Ling's "civil servants and military generals" and Ding Ling's anti-Party "right and right hands". Literature and Art News, became Ding Ling's two "independent kingdoms".However, because Kang Zhuo actively exposed and then criticized violently, he became an activist and a backbone force in exposing and criticizing Ding Chen.In the "Report" of the Party Group of the Chinese Writers Association, there is a special section about him: "Comrade Kang Zhuo also participated in the activities of this small group at a time (mainly when he was the Secretary-General of the Central Institute of Literature), but he was checking He was active in the struggle of the "Literary News" and later in the struggle to eliminate the Hu Feng clique and all other counter-revolutionaries. He raised his awareness during the campaign and felt that many of Ding Ling's words and deeds in the past were anti-Party , the relationship between him and Ding Ling was not normal, so he voluntarily provided Ding Ling's materials to the party before the meeting, and made serious self-criticism on his mistakes at the meeting."

Kang Zhuo was first promoted to join the Chinese Writers Association's anti-revolutionary group of five (Liu Baiyu, Yan Wenjing, Zhang Xi, Ruan Zhangjing, Kang Zhuo), and later became a member of the party group of the Chinese Writers Association.In the 1957 rectification movement and anti-rightist movement, Kang Zhuo fought back twice, and thus earned the nickname "Tang Zhuo".Political struggles have distorted the souls of many kind people. Ding Ling had never seen such a posture before, she was at a loss for what to do when it came out of nowhere, with sticks all over her head.How could she be "anti-party"!But she couldn't argue.She fell from the sky into hell and was scorched by the flames of anger.