85 years later, Zou Jiali has been looking for that photo.
In the photo, she is 3 years old, wearing a light-colored top and shorts, white socks and black shoes. With the head of the child's short hair, a force drilled into the robe of his father, Mr. Zou Taofen, and half of his face fell into the fabric, hugging his father's thigh tightly and not letting go. It's like he's being spoiled, and it's like he's reluctant to do it, as if he knows that the man in front of him is something he can rely on, but he will also leave, so he must be firmly grasped.
At the same time, in the same place, Zou Taofen's family of five left a group photo at the door of No. 54 Wanyifang. In the family photo, Zou Jiali still maintains the posture of holding his father, and this photo can be found. However, the photo of her and her father and the two people with this action was kept, but it has not been found.
Even if I followed my father's footsteps all my life, now that I think about it, the time I really spend with my father is too short.
In 1933, the Taofen family took a group photo in front of the door of No. 54 Wanyifang.
There is no paradise in Wangi Fang
No. 54, Wanyifang, Lane 205, Chongqing South Road, was the residence of Mr. Zou Taofen from 1930 to 1936.
Tao Fen's former residence inner view.
Located in the French Concession at that time, Wanyifang was built in 1923 by the French Merchants' International Savings Association, and was a batch of new brick-concrete houses with brushed walls and three-storey brick-concrete structures. Compared with other lanes of the same era, the living conditions and planning facilities here are superior and modern. In addition, there are 16 single-storey car rooms, 4 two-storey car rooms, and fire fighting facilities. Correspondingly, the first households to come to Wanyifang are mostly a group of families with relatively generous economic strength. This includes senior staff, officials, and some senior intellectuals.
According to the data, No. 13 Wanyifang lived with the famous mathematician Hu Dunfu; No. 38 lived in the famous literary scholar Qian Xing Estate; No. 41 Zhu Zhiyao, a famous industrialist and owner of Qiuxin Shipyard; No. 60 Bao Xianchang, one of the founders of the Commercial Press, the largest publishing institution in modern China; Fang Huangwei, a radio expert, No. 71; And No. 72 Gu Yidong, a famous chemist. In 1930, Ding Ling and Hu Yepin, who came to Shanghai to carry out revolutionary work, also lived in Wanyifang. Coincidentally, the couple, like Zou Taofen and Shen Pujin, added children in 1930 - in June, Zou Taofen's third child and only daughter Zou Jiali was born. In November, Hu Yipin's son Hu Xiaopin was born.
On January 8, 1931, Hu Yipin's family left their only family reunion in Wanyifang. But a few days later, Shen Congwen came to Wanyifang and told Ding Ling that Hu was also arrested. On February 7, 1931, Hu Yipin was killed at the Songhu Police Headquarters in Longhua. After learning the bad news, Ding Ling decided to send her 4-month-old child back to her hometown, and she also left Shanghai to join the revolutionary torrent.
Living in The Mani Place in the concession at that time, when you look up, you can see neat houses and cute children, everything is comfortable and warm, but in it, you can't pretend to ignore the poverty and darkness of the outside world. If you can't understand this, you probably can't understand why Mr. Zou Taofen, who seems to be a completely Sergeant student, would leave his family at all costs to do all the state affairs.
Tao Fen's former residence
The father who was lying on the ground crying, the father who used the pen as a gun
In October 1926, Mr. Zou Taofen, as the director of the editorial unit of the China Vocational Education Society, took over the organ publication of the Vocational Education Society, the weekly magazine "Life" with a circulation of 2800 copies at that time. Under his auspices, Life magazine dared to criticize current politics and attack the dark forces, with a circulation of 40,000 copies, and a maximum of 150,000 copies. After the September 18 Incident in 1931, Zou Taofen wrote in a weekly magazine: "This week's news is a national disaster that is unanimously sad and sad for the whole country, and the reporter endures the painful notes, and Gai does not know whether it is blood or tears!" In response to the authorities' policy of non-resistance, Zou Taofen issued a series of angri rebukes: "It is better to die than yield to protect the country's rights", "The Anti-Japanese Movement that prefers to die unyieldingly", and "It is better to die unyieldingly and prepare for war."
Zou Taofen, who has an iron backbone, is also a good parent, as long as he returns, the atmosphere at home is very warm, he and Shen Pujian talk, always so funny and humorous, he likes to watch movies, but also learn Chaplin dancing. Once Zou Jiali was unhappy, lying on the ground crying, in order to coax his daughter, Zou Taofen also lay on the ground and pretended to cry, until Zou Jiali broke his nose and laughed.
However, Zou Taofen was too busy after all, rarely at home, and even when he returned, he hid in a small study between the pavilions, publicized the War of Resistance with words, and translated "Revolutionary Literary Hero Gorky". The times do not allow it, nor can it give him the opportunity to be a good and wandering father.
In July 1933, because he was on the Kuomintang assassination blacklist, Zou Taofen was forced to go to Europe and the United States to investigate, and returned to China in August 1935. He successively founded "Public Life" Weekly, "Life Daily" and "Life Star Journal" in Shanghai and Hong Kong, and served as the executive committee member of the National Salvation Congress from all walks of life in Shanghai and the whole country. In July 1936, Zou Taofen, Shen Junru, Zhang Naiqi and Tao Xingzhi jointly published "Several Basic Conditions and Minimum Requirements for Unity and Imperial Insult". On November 23, Zou Taofen, Shen Junru and seven others were arrested by the authorities, known in history as the "Seven Gentlemen Incident."
In the memorial hall, every table and chair are originals
When he left Wanyifang, Zou Jiali was still too young to remember much about the furnishings in the house and the situation at home. But she remembered the mother's toil. In order to support Mr. Zou Taofen's work, Shen Pujian took on all the household chores alone. Zou Taofen gave all of his monthly income to Shen Pujian, who in addition to taking care of the family's expenses, also supported Zou Taofen's father and funded Zou Taofen's younger brother.
Once, Zou Jiali's second brother, Zou Jiali, was mischievous and picked an unknown wild fruit from the gutter of Wanyifang to eat, and that night he was so ill that his hands and feet gradually became cold. Fortunately, a neighbor heard the news and hurriedly fed the child rust with earthwork, and at dawn, Zou Jialuo slowly woke up. In the 1950s, when Zou Jiali returned to WanyiFang accompanied by Zou Jiali and saw his father's pavilion, he could clearly recall: "Once I annoyed my mother, my father punished me to sit in the doorway with a small stool. ”
This childhood memory of Shanghai came to an abrupt end with the arrival of the war. After the fall of Shanghai, Mr. Zou Taofen first moved to Hong Kong, then to Wuhan and Chongqing, and then to Hong Kong and Guangdong. Shen Pujian also followed the route with his three children. But even after leaving Shanghai with her children, the capable "Master Zou's mother" Shen Pujian thoughtfully stored all the furniture in the home of her sister in Nantong. By the time Shanghai began to prepare for the Zou Taofen Memorial in 1956, Shen was able to bring all the furniture back to Shanghai. Therefore, Zou Jiali said that so far, except for the two chairs added to the museum, the rest of the furniture is original.
After almost half of China, Zou Jiali returned to Shanghai again, back to her parents, waiting for her not the joy of reunion, but the fact that her father was seriously ill. In July 1944, Zou Taofen died in Shanghai Hospital. Before leaving, he also instructed in his last words: "Little sister loves literature, especially likes drama, and has repeatedly advised her not to take the road of a hard writing career, not to listen, but to pay attention to education and training, if there is achievement, talk about masturbating ears for the next generation." ”
She chose the "Little Sister" of Qingku Literature Road, and when she grew up, she served as a proofreader and deputy editor of the publishing house, and in 1985, she became the deputy director of the Shanghai Taofen Memorial Hall. She returned to her birthplace and spent the rest of her life truly becoming Mr. Zou Taofen's "successor". In order to complete the "Complete Works of Taofen", she cycled every day between Kangping Road residence and Wanyifang, which lasted ten years, completed a major project of 14 volumes of 8 million words, and then traveled back and forth between Kangping Road and the Taofen Foundation on Changle Road, and spent another ten years to complete the three-volume "Taofen Annals", namely "Zou Taofen Chronicles".
Zou Jiali recently took a photo
"Little Sister" is close to ninety years old, and she is still compiling "My Writing Career". Almost at the end of the day, Zou Jiali once again entered her childhood, and in the process of searching for Mr. Tao Fen's manuscript again and again, she was constantly reunited with her father in that young age in written paper and oral accounts of others. It was time she was supposed to spend with her father when she was young, another side of life that his father hadn't shown her.
Just as her father used to lie on the floor to comfort her, today, Zou Taofen still accompanies Zou Jiali every day in another way. In her living room, desk, bookshelf and mobile phone, Zou Taofen is everywhere, and as funny as then, it seems that she will gently call her "little sister" at any time.
Zou Jiali, born in 1930, is the daughter of Mr. Zou Taofen, an outstanding journalist, publisher and political commentator in modern China. From 1985 to 1988, he was the deputy director of The Taofen Memorial Hall in Shanghai.
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