Chapter 37 3. Poet Guo Xiaochuan and Deputy Party Secretary Guo Xiaochuan

Guo Xiaochuan never imagined that after two years, in the eyes of Zhou Yang, Liu Baiyu and others, the conclusion of the investigation that he racked his brains and painstakingly and fully listened to various opinions would become his major crime. Guo Xiaochuan is a man of temperament in terms of temperament, a literati in terms of temperament, and a tragic figure in terms of fate.As the deputy secretary of the party group of the Chinese Writers Association, he actively participated in the struggle to criticize Ding and Chen in the anti-rightist movement. Guo Xiaochuan is often depressed and uncomfortable in the Chinese Writers Association.Later, during the "Cultural Revolution" at the May 7th Cadre School in Xianning, Hubei, Guo Xiaochuan said to the poet Niu Han many times: "I don't understand politics, I am very naive in politics, really."

Only when he indulges in poetry creation can he feel comfortable and happy. In December 1957, Guo Xiaochuan completed his long poem "One and Eight" and handed it over to Chen Baichen, the director of "People's Literature".Chen Baichen felt embarrassed after reading it, so he didn't log in for a long time.Guo Xiaochuan sent it to Jin Yi in Shanghai, and Jin Yi wrote back saying that some editorial committee members thought there was a serious problem with this poem.Guo Xiaochuan himself was not sure. On February 16, 1958, when Zhou Yang was going to Hunan, Guo Xiaochuan handed over this long poem to him for review.After Zhou Yang came back from Hunan, he said that he only saw it for a while.A month later, Guo Xiaochuan went to ask again, and Zhou Yang said: Su Lingyang read it, and she doesn't approve of this subject.But Zhou Yang did not return the manuscript to him.Until June 1959, Zhou Yang took the manuscript to the party group of the Writers Association and asked them to criticize it.This incident made Guo Xiaochuan cold.

There was something more chilling for him. From November 25 to December 2, 1959, the party group of the Chinese Writers Association held an enlarged rectification meeting for party members and cadres above the twelfth level to criticize Guo Xiaochuan as a key object of help. One of his mistakes was the "Ding and Chen conclusion".Guo Xiaochuan made an inspection on the first day of the meeting and said: "The concluding draft of Chen Qixia I wrote is a document of outright capitulationism. In it, not only did Chen Qixia's anti-party crimes be described as sectarianism and liberalism, but also in At the end, the organization needs to apologize to them. ——At that time, I was entangled in a strange logic, thinking that I had mistakenly targeted the counter-revolutionaries, and I had to apologize; since I took the mistake of sectarianism as an anti-Party group, I also had to apologize... ..." When Liu Baiyu criticized Guo Xiaochuan, he said: "Xiaochuan said that he wrote Ding and Chen's conclusions as a 'gracious promise'. This is not a party member's words. I am very sad to hear these four words. These four words mean that we The four of them did not write, and Ogawa was wronged. To make this point clear, writing Ding and Chen’s conclusions should not be regarded as a grievance. At that time, after studying this issue, I felt that Ogawa’s writing was more appropriate..."