Chapter 39 5. The fateful June

June came, and June in 1957 was the most dramatic month. This month started with Ding Ling's smile and ended with Zhou Yang's laughter.This month determined the status and destiny of the two of them for the next ten years.What decided this change was the anti-rightist struggle personally launched and led by Mao Zedong, which changed the balance of power between Ding and Zhou.Neither of them expected such an ending.What a success! Due to his outstanding performance in the anti-rightist struggle, Zhou Yang gained an excellent impression in the eyes of the main leaders of the party. His leading position in the literary and art circles was unprecedentedly strengthened and reached the highest peak since the founding of the People's Republic of China.Ding Ling was designated as an extreme rightist because of her performance of "reversing the verdict" in the anti-rightist struggle, and became the number one rightist in the literary and art circles in the country!

The first week of June is an important week.During this week, the Chinese Writers Association will hold two enlarged meetings of the party group to correct the wrong case of "Ding Ling and Chen Qixia's small anti-Party clique" based on the review conclusions of the research group of the Central Propaganda Department. Wednesday, June 5th.It began to rain early in the morning, and after nine o'clock, Shao Quanlin, Liu Baiyu, and Guo Xiaochuan braved the rain and went to Zhou Yang's Office of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to discuss the enlarged party group meeting to be held the next day. The "Ding and Chen Anti-Party Group" has become a wrong case. The Writers Association Party Group is mainly responsible for this mistake. Tomorrow's meeting will definitely be criticized, blamed, and questioned by the masses. The firepower may be very fierce. Therefore, several people are in a little mood Heaviness, some emotion, a lot of talking.The meeting lasted until one o'clock.Coming out of Zhou Yang, Liu Baiyu invited Guo Xiaochuan to sit at his house, and they ate dumplings together.The two of them have not been in the Writers Association for a long time, and they have only worked together for a little over a year and a half, but as soon as they arrived at the Writers Association, they were involved in the case of Ding and Chen. After working hard for a long time, it turned out to be another wrong case.Not only was he busy, but he also made a mistake, and he had to take responsibility and check it.They are all talented writers, who can write their own poems and essays freely, why bother to come to this place of right and wrong, do some thankless things, waste their time, hurt their comrades, and delay themselves?Thinking of this, they all felt aggrieved. Liu Baiyu said to Guo Xiaochuan with emotion, you are okay, you have not stopped writing, you have been writing, and there are always new works. I have nothing but work and sacrificed my creation. Also offended an old friend, the gain outweighs the loss, the gain outweighs the loss!I want to leave the Writers Association and go down to go deeper into life.Liu Baiyu was very emotional, Guo Xiaochuan could fully understand him and sympathized with him from the bottom of his heart, but why didn't he want to leave the Writers Association?

The reason why Liu Baiyu expresses emotion is because he bears a very important responsibility in the case of "Ding Ling and Chen Qixia Anti-Party Group".Only now did he see clearly that behind this incident, there were historical reasons, practical reasons, the conflicts between Zhou Yang and Ding Ling, and the conflicts between the leaders of the Central Propaganda Department. It exposed the complexity of the struggle in the literary and art circles.He blamed himself for his "mistakes", but also complained about his "being used", and he felt helpless when he had to fight and fight.

In the exposure, criticism, review, and handling of Ding Ling and Chen Qixia in 1955 and 1957, Liu Baiyu was always an important figure, second only to Zhou Yang.He participated in the whole process of the incident, and it can be said that he did not miss a single step from the beginning to the end.Because he not only participates in decision-making, but also does specific work, he devotes more time and energy than any other person.Liu Baiyu was Zhou Yang's most trusted and relied on force, and played a role on behalf of Zhou Yang in the whole incident, and because of his "excellent performance", he was even more trusted and reused by Zhou Yang.Guo Xiaochuan said: "People in the Propaganda Department of the old Central Committee also know that Liu Baiyu is more 'powerful'. If he doesn't nod, things are difficult to handle. Zhou Yang is even more obedient to Liu Baiyu." Liu Baiyu is not around, and some things are settled. not come down.

Liu Baiyu came to the China Writers Association in April 1955. Before that, he was the Deputy Minister of Culture of the General Political Department of the PLA. It is said that he did not get along well with General Chen Yi, the Minister of General Political Department of Culture.As soon as he arrived at the Writers Association, he was the supplementary deputy secretary of the party group, after Shao Quanlin, and the secretary at that time was Zhou Yang.During the anti-revolutionary movement two months later, the Writers Association established a five-member group, with Liu Baiyu as the group leader. In March 1956, at the second enlarged meeting of the Council of the Chinese Writers Association, an 11-member Secretariat of the Writers Association was established, and Liu Baiyu served as the first secretary.He was quick.

Liu Baiyu is one round younger than Ding Ling, and both belong to the dragon.He and Ding Ling had a very close friendship in Yan'an.He told Guo Xiaochuan that he offended an old friend, referring to Ding Ling. He first met Ding Ling at the end of 1937 on the anti-Japanese front line in Shanxi, in Liucun, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army.At that time, Ding Ling led the Northwest Field Service Corps and was working with the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army to carry out anti-Japanese propaganda.Determined to go to the front to find the Eighth Route Army's literati Liu Baiyu, followed by Cui Wei of the Shanghai National Salvation Drama Troupe, crossed the Yellow River from Xi'an via Fengling, and came to Liu Village.Liu Baiyu recalled in his long memoir "The Journey of the Soul" written in 1992: "Ding Ling and Li Bozhao came out to meet us first, and everyone shook hands with each other amidst bursts of bright laughter. . . . She wore a yellow woolen Japanese army overcoat, and she smiled so heartily, heartily, and brightly."

Before Ding Ling adjusted the "Liberation Daily", she asked Liu Baiyu for advice, asking whether it would be better to go or not.Liu Baiyu supported her to go there, thinking that she could keep in touch with the overall situation at all times, and her vision would be wider.Ding Ling said: "I think so too. What a writer is most afraid of is always being trapped in the small circle of literature and art." After Ding Ling left, Shi Tianshou, secretary of the "Wen Kang" branch, went to Nanniwan to participate in land reclamation and production. At the suggestion of Ai Siqi, Liu Baiyu took over the job of branch secretary.He said: "It was from then on that I had to be involved in the vortex of the literary world, and I had to step into the life of absinthe." "Absinthe never comes from others, but more from myself."

Ding Ling wrote it in 1942, which aroused strong dissatisfaction among some senior cadres in Yan'an.After the incident, Ding Ling said to Liu Baiyu: "You persuaded me to edit the newspaper. After the test of this period, I think it is suitable for me to write by myself." Back in Wenkang, she was still her deputy director. At this time, Liu Baiyu was already the secretary of the branch, and they had more contacts in work. Liu Baiyu said: "Although we may not have a common language for everything, we always maintain With cordial friendship." When Ding Ling visited Zhangjiajie in October 1982, she said to the accompanied Hunan writer Ren Guangchun and others: In Yan'an, Liu Baiyu and his wife had a good relationship with the two of us. When others went to dance, the four of us played poker and chatted in the cave.I said that it is best for a writer not to be an official, which will affect both work and creation.Liu Baiyu said that he is still as good as Zhou Yang, who writes and has power.

Chen Ming also told the author that Liu Baiyu, his lovers Wang Qi, Ding Ling and Chen Ming were very good friends when they were in Yan'an. They often walked and chatted by the Yan River after dinner.Think about it: the setting sun shines on the sparkling river, and also on their young figures, leisurely strolls, interesting conversations, in their prime, talented, like-minded, intimate, what an unforgettable day that was, how unforgettable friendship!Liu Baiyu wrote in a condolence article after Ding Ling's death: "Now I think of Yan'an at that time as a 'free kingdom'. Everyone met each other with sincerity, and life was full of joy, freedom, happiness, and warmth."

In dealing with the incident between Ding and Chen, Liu Baiyu also had conflicts in his heart.Guo Xiaochuan said that after August 1956, he discussed the issue of Ding and Chen with Lin Mohan and Liu Baiyu. Liu and Lin were dissatisfied with Li Zhilian and Zhang Hai's partiality to Ding and Chen, but they did not object to Ding and Chen's reversal of the case. Their views were: Ding Chen still made mistakes, and the struggle against Ding Chen in 1955 should not be denied.Later, after the anti-rightist struggle of the Writers Association began, Liu Baiyu was impassioned and impassioned when criticizing Ding Ling at the meeting, but when he talked with Ding Ling alone at the meeting, he often behaved gentle and kind, and even expressed concern.The author also asked Chen Ming for advice on these two completely different manifestations. Chen Ming said that Liu Baiyu was different from Zhou Yang after all. He had such a sincere friendship with Ding Ling in Yan'an, and it was impossible for him to ignore the old relationship at all.

In "The Journey of the Soul", Liu Baiyu looked back on his life and wrote in conclusion: "When the old man is withering and the conclusion is closed, as a person who has experienced it, I want to tell the readers that I am by no means always correct, and I have gone through a period full of problems. The absurd and fallacious path. If I have to involve others, I mainly dissect myself." "I repeat this, I never want to blame anyone, I blame myself more. Let those who die Those who do not repent, keep their guilt towards the people!"