Chapter 54 11. Mao Zedong talked about Ding Ling like this

Ding Ling became famous all over the country.Ding Ling became famous twice. The first time was in 1952 when she won the Stalin Prize for Literature and Art. That time she became popular. The first time was when she was anti-rightist in 1957. This time she became famous.Even Mao Zedong, whom she admired the most, spoke of her in a disdainful tone. At the end of September, Mao Zedong talked about Ding Ling when he received the Czechoslovak delegation visiting China: Bourgeois intellectuals are terrible at literature, and people like Ding Ling are great writers and party members.It's good now, we can drive her out, it's easier to get her out, and literature and art will develop more. (Chen Jin's "The Literati Mao Zedong") Jinkou Yuyan, iron nails.

When Mao Zedong said this, the Party Central Committee was in a meeting. The Third Plenary Session of the Eighth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China opened on September 20 and closed on October 9.The main content of the meeting was to discuss the principles, policies and specific deployment of the anti-rightist struggle. On September 23, the general secretary made a "Report on the Rectification Movement", and proposed: "The rightists in the party should be expelled from the party." Mao Zedong proposed at the meeting that the main contradictions in our society should still be resolved Going back to the formulation of the Second Plenary Session of the Seventh Central Committee of the Party, "the contradiction between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie, the contradiction between the socialist road and the capitalist road, there is no doubt that this is the main contradiction in our society at present." A new understanding gained in the anti-rightist struggle.

The Third Plenary Session of the Eighth Central Committee also passed the "Criteria for Classifying Rightists", in which the first part stipulates what should be classified as rightists, the second part stipulates what should be classified as extreme rightists, and the third part stipulates what should not be classified as rightists. classified as rightists. On October 15, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issued a notice on "Criteria for Classifying Rightists". These have become the policy basis for organizing and dealing with rightists. Four days after the Third Plenary Session of the Eighth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China ended, on October 13, Mao Zedong mentioned Ding Ling twice again in his speech at the 13th meeting of the Supreme State Council.He said: "There are Gao Gangs in the Communist Party, but you democratic parties don't have any Gao Gangs? I don't believe it. Now the Communist Party has people like Ding Ling, Feng Xuefeng, and Jiang Feng. Isn't your democratic party also?" (Selected Works of Mao, Volume 5, page 488) Jiang Fengyuan was the president of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, the vice chairman of the China Artists Association, and the secretary of the party group. He was also classified as an anti-party group in the anti-rightist struggle.

When talking about the treatment of rightists, Mao Zedong also said that Zhang Bojun's minister may not be successful.Ding Ling, for example, cannot be a representative of the people.For example, Qian Weichang, I am afraid that he can still be a professor, but not the vice-principal.There are also some people who may not be able to be professors for the time being.How to deal with the rightists and how to arrange them, please discuss this issue. (Zhu Zheng: "The Summer of 1957: From the Contention of a Hundred Schools to the Contention of Two Schools") Mao Zedong talked about Ding Ling three times in less than a month, which shows that he still remembers Ding Ling and is still paying attention to Ding Ling.But he no longer appreciates Ding Ling.From Ding Ling's point of view, as long as Mao Zedong can mention her, no matter how he evaluates it, whether it is praise or derogation, it is really an honor for her!

The twenty-year friendship between her and Mao Zedong has come to an end. Ding Ling met Mao Zedong for the first time in the early winter of 1936. She fled Nanjing and traveled across mountains and rivers to Baoan, where the Party Central Committee is located.As soon as she arrived at Baoan, she was welcomed by central leaders such as Mao Zedong, Zhang Wentian, Zhou Enlai, Bogu, etc., and "had a banquet in the cave to entertain the prisoners". She and Mao Zedong were originally from the same hometown, and they had a few common acquaintances and friends (Ding Ling’s teacher at Zhounan Girls’ School, Chen Qiming, was a classmate of Mao Zedong’s in Hunan No. 1 Normal School; Ding Ling used to be a classmate of Yang Kaihui in the summer cram school in Changsha), so they started There is a topic for conversation.Another more important topic is literature. In the remote northern Shaanxi plateau, Mao Zedong, who has a profound cultural background, rarely found a bosom friend who could talk about Chinese classical literature. Ding Ling came here at this time and made up for this shortcoming.She was free to visit Mao Zedong at that time, and Mao Zedong was also happy to have such a conversation partner with whom she could talk freely about Li Bai, Li He and Li Shangyin as a rest and recreation after intense work.Although Ding Ling can't "rival" with Mao Zedong, she has excellent understanding and has read many classical literary works.At that time, Mao Zedong had a good impression of her, so he came up with the song "Linjiang Immortal": "Who is similar to a fine brush, three thousand Mauser elite soldiers", "Miss Wen yesterday, General Wu today".This is the only poem inscribed by Mao Zedong to a writer in his life.

Ding Ling recalled in "The Ins and Outs of the Yan'an Forum on Literature and Art": At that time, every time Mao Zedong went to the Red Army University to lecture on materialist dialectics, the guards would come and inform me to listen.He talked with me a few times while he was talking, and at the same time he used a brush to copy a few poems he wrote himself, or some poems he liked. Some of them were copied and lost, but some of them were given to me. I'm here.When I listened to his talk at that time, I often felt that my old literary foundation was too weak to be his opponent, so I mostly listened to him, and I was happy to be his audience.

Ding Ling later sent Hu Feng the Mao Zedong manuscripts that Hu Feng had preserved for her. In addition to "Linjiang Fairy", there was also "Qinyuanchun?"Snow", "Qinyuanchun?Changsha" and other four articles.After Hu Feng returned to Beijing in the early 1980s, he handed them back to Ding Ling. Mao Zedong always took good care of Ding Ling and regarded her as a personal friend. When he married Jiang Qing in 1938, he invited her to dinner with Xu Haidong and Tan Yubao.Whenever Ding Ling had difficulties, she often asked Mao Zedong for help.She heard that Kang Sheng said in the Central Party School that Ding Ling had surrendered in Nanjing, so she went to Mao Zedong and asked the organization to review and clarify a period of her imprisonment in Nanjing. On New Year's Day in 1940, Minister Chen Yun notified Ding Ling of the review conclusion of the Organization Department of the Central Committee, and told her that the last sentence of the conclusion: "It should be considered that Comrade Ding Ling is still a Communist Party member who is loyal to the party and the revolution" was added by Chairman Mao himself. of.This was the first time Mao Zedong helped Ding Ling on key issues.

The second time, Ding Ling wrote it in 1942, and was strongly criticized by some senior cadres. At this time, Mao Zedong came out to speak for her again. He said at a senior cadre study meeting: Although there are criticisms, there are still suggestions.Ding Ling and Wang Shiwei are also different.In May, at the end of the Yan'an Literature and Art Symposium, everyone took pictures. Chairman Mao stood up and asked, "Where is Ding Ling? Can you sit closer to take pictures? Don't write again next year." In 1943, during the trial in Yan'an, Ding Ling added that she once wrote a note in Nanjing that "I will not be active after going out, and I would like to study at home to support my mother". A period of sinking.It was Mao Zedong who gave her another opportunity. In the early morning of July 1, 1944, Mao Zedong wrote letters to Ding Ling and Ouyang Shan, praising their exemplary reports and inviting them to Zaoyuan for a talk and dinner.Forty years later, Ding Ling recalled affectionately: "In the dusk in the jujube garden in Yan'an, a new moon hooked, the summer night wind brought the lingering fragrance of jujube flowers, such walks, such laughter, such graceful and generous, such gentle and elegant Demeanor has left me with the best memories." The reportage "Tian Baolin" praised by Mao Zedong was an ordinary work in terms of material and literary talent. Mao Zedong intended to encourage Ding Ling, affirm Ding Ling, and intended to serve Ding Ling." rectification of name".After that, Mao Zedong praised Ding Ling on many occasions. Chen Geng told Ding Ling: Chairman Mao said at a high-level cadre meeting: "Ding Ling is now among the workers, peasants and soldiers. "Tian Baolin" is very well written. Write good articles." The supreme leader spoke, and Ding Ling, who was carrying two big burdens and made a little dingy, really changed her situation drastically, regained her former vigor and glory, and wrote a large number of new works on the theme of workers, peasants and soldiers. .

Mao Zedong always came forward to help at critical moments.Ding Ling kept it in her heart, could she not be grateful? After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War in 1945, Ding Ling left Yan'an for Jinchaji, and the chance to meet Mao Zedong was very rare.There are only three reliable records.Once, on June 15, 1948, in Xibaipo Village, the seat of the Party Central Committee, Mao Zedong gave her encouragement and high praise.The second time was when Ding Ling went from Shenyang to Beijing in June 1949. On the 11th, she wrote to Chen Ming, saying, "I met the boss once and talked about some unimportant issues and nothing special. He is trying to persuade me to study again, but I really don’t want to go to school.” The “boss” is Mao Zedong.The third time was in the summer of 1951, when Mao Zedong visited Yunsong Nest in the Summer Palace and visited her by the way.Since then, Ding Ling has almost no chance to meet Mao Zedong.

Mao Zedong was first and foremost a politician. At any time, the first principle in dealing with people is political principles, and personal preferences change accordingly.He never lost his mind in tenderness. In 1955, he circled Lu Dingyi’s letter saying that Ding Ling’s history was suspicious, and he would not be unaffected. The Proletariat and the Communist Party"), in the serious struggle against the rightists, Ding Ling's "anti-Party" crimes were criticized again, and he naturally wanted to erase the past friendship.His personality was more vividly displayed in the "Cultural Revolution" ten years later.