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May 2, 1935, Shanghai, late spring weather. A couple living in Hongkou brought a young boy who was almost 6 years old to Ladu Road in the French Concession at that time.
The little boy's name was Zhou Haiying, and he was brought by Lu Xun and Xu Guangping. The family specially wanted to meet Xiao Hong and Xiao Jun, young writers who had come from the northeast with two novel manuscripts, "The Countryside in August" and "The Field of Life and Death". Lu Xun was concerned about the life of this pair of young people in Shanghai, enthusiastically introduced them to their friends in the literary world, and enthusiastically encouraged them to publish their works.
On this clear morning, like two families who had known each other for many years, Lu Xun took his wife and children to see his young friends. After chatting, the guests and hosts also had lunch together at "Sheng Fu".
Since arriving in Shanghai from the northeast in 1934, Erxiao has moved many times, going around Ladu Road. On January 4, 1935, Lu Xun said in a reply letter to Erxiao: "The letter on the 2nd was received on the 4th, and I knew that I had moved the house, which was very good, but I moved around and did not go out of Ladu Road. Just like I always go around in circles on North Sichuan Road. ”
Being able to go to Hongkou to see Lu Xun was enough to make Erxiao's heart flutter and tears in her eyes. And Lu Xun's family was able to visit the small nest where they were staying, which made the young people from a foreign land even more overjoyed. Five people of different ages, sitting around a table, must have laughed and laughed when they dined at Shengfu. I am afraid that no one would have expected that at this time, there would be less than a year and a half left before the end of Mr. Lu Xun's life.
How cruel time is, perhaps only those who are left behind can understand it. In 1986, when the 79-year-old Xiao Jun returned to Shanghai, he returned to Xiangyang South Road again. At this time, half a century has passed since Mr. Lu Xun's death, and Xiao Hong, who used to be around, has also died in Hong Kong for 44 years. For this Xiangyang South Road, which has his own youth memories, Xiao Jun wrote:
"In the dream, I vaguely remembered the old nest, and there were several spring nights on The Road to Ladu. The shadows of the two figures came and went, and the mist stopped and looked at the twilight. Fate and fate finally came to an illusion, saying that the alliance said that the oath became a mockery. Idle will be white hair peeping mirror, and it is the east wind dragging wicker. ”
Erxiao was in front of Lu Xun's tomb
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Route Tenant de la Tour, built by the Shanghai French Concession Bureau from 1918 to 1921, was named after a French clerk. In 1943, it was renamed Xiangyang after Hubei, and after 1946, it was renamed to the present, which is today's Xiangyang South Road.
Today's Xiangyang South Road, there is also a new-style lane building called Ladufang (also known as Xiangyangfang), built in 1930, brick and wood structure two stories high, that is, the name of this road is recorded.
In the autumn of 1936, Lu Xun died. At this time, between the two Xiaos, who had already survived the initial embarrassing period of entering Shanghai, there was a gradual gap. Xiao Hong had gone to Japan alone this summer, and Xiao Jun had also left Shanghai to go north. The shadow that had been in hand on the Road to Ladu was no longer there.
Also at the end of 1936, Ba Jin came to Xiangyang South Road. At that time, Ba Jin's good friend, Ma Zongrong, whom he called "an elder brother-like friend", wanted to teach at Guangxi University, and then asked Ba Jin to live in Dunheli on Ladu Road (now Lane 306, Xiangyang South Road) to help him take care of the house, until the following summer when Ma Zongrong's family returned to Shanghai, Ba Jin moved to Xiafeifang. During the six months in Tun Ho Ri, Ba Jin wrote the fairy tale "The Tree of Noh". He once recalled: "At that time, I lived in a 'wide' house. The whole house, I live alone. The third floor is the bedroom, the second floor is the study, and the ground floor is the living room. ”
When Ma Zongrong's family returned to Shanghai in 1937, Ma Zongrong's wife, Luo Shu, was pregnant. The budding female writer, who had just published "Giving Birth to a Wife," had originally planned to let her husband go to Guilin to teach first, stay in Shanghai to have children, and continue to create, and then go to Guilin to reunite and settle down. However, the sound of gunfire on August 13 disrupted their arrangements. Ma Zongrong went to Sichuan instead, luo shu took her eldest daughter to Chengdu, and when she was leaving, she said to Ba Jin: "At this time, I must rush to Lao Ma's side and help him." He was like a big kid, and like a ball of fire. After the couple arrived in Sichuan, they were still worried about Ba Jin and kept sending him telegrams, worried about his safety in Shanghai. However, unexpectedly, in February 1938, Luo Shu died of puerperal fever 20 days after giving birth to her young son in Chengdu.
Ba Jin remembers that when he first saw Ma Zongrong, they saw each other as they were. Ma Zongrong, who had returned from his trip to France, was full of ambition, and indeed gushed like a fire, pulling Ba Jin, who had just met, to reveal that he was eagerly pursuing a friend's sister, Luo Shu, who later became his wife. Sure enough, they became a couple and had a happy family, and she rushed to him at the risk of enemy bombing in the midst of the chaos. But, as Ba Jin later wrote in an article in memory of Ma Zongrong —
"I didn't expect death to wait for her, that their reunion time would be so short."
Ba Jin Xinhua News Agency
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In January 1941, the Anhui Incident occurred, and the Central Military Commission decided to rebuild the New Fourth Army.
In March 1941, the Shanghai office of the New Fourth Army quietly came to Xingshunli, located in the neighborhood of Xiangyang South Road, Jiashan Road, Yongkang Road and Yongjia Road. Today, the old site of the New Fourth Army Office in Shanghai, no. 15 Lane 140, Jiashan Road, is hidden in a plain-looking residential area. At that time, Yang Bin, the director of the office, as a reader, cautiously got along with his neighbors.
Yang Bin joined the 12.9 Movement in 1935 and joined the Communist Party of China in 1936. After the beginning of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he went to Yan'an to study and was later sent to work in the New Fourth Army. He was only 30 years old when he calmly walked by xiangyang south road.
Historical data show that the Shanghai office of the New Fourth Army has been sending all kinds of personnel to the base area of the New Fourth Army. In the two years until the end of 1942, the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee successively transferred more than 40 people as the staff of the new office, and in the two years after the end of the office, a total of more than 1,700 people were transported, most of whom were workers, staff, students, and some people from cultural circles, making positive contributions to the development and expansion of the New Fourth Army and the construction of the base areas. At the same time, the new office undertook to cover and escort the leaders of various base areas passing through Shanghai or coming to Shanghai for medical treatment. At the end of 1942, because the office had completed its historical mission and the environment was becoming increasingly dangerous, the party organization decided to abolish the agency.
In December 1946, an elderly man wearing an old robe also walked through Xiangyang South Road. He is Zhang Lan, the founder and leader of the China Democratic League. When Dechuan went to Shanghai to preside over the work of the Democratic League, the Kuomintang senior members "expressed concern" about Zhang Lan's travel expenses and residence in Shanghai, but Zhang Lan thanked him gently. After arriving in Shanghai, he lived at No. 8 Jiyili, Xi'ai Xiansi Road (Yongjia Road).
It was a three-story new-style lane house, which was then a staff dormitory for Sichuan Hecheng Bank. Zhang Lan presided over the work of the NLD here and drafted the famous "Announcement on the Dissolution of the Headquarters of the China Democratic League" to support the Chinese Communist Party's proposal to stop the civil war and establish a coalition government. People who enter and leave the alley remember that Zhang Lan often sat alone in front of the window and read and learned words.
In May 1947, due to the betrayal of traitors, Yang Bin was arrested in Shanghai and died in Nanjing in the spring of 1948 at the age of 37. In April 1949, Ma Zongrong died, and when Ba Jin, who received a call from a friend in Fudan late at night, rushed to see Ma Zongrong's children crying quietly, the deceased slept quietly on the bed, and only a few friends bid farewell to the body. A month later, Shanghai was liberated.
In September 1949, Zhang Lan and Ba Jin attended the first plenary session of the Chinese Political Consultative Conference, and on October 1, they attended the founding ceremony at Tiananmen Square.
A year later, Barkin recalled: "Listening to the sound of gongs and drums far and near, I was so excited that I couldn't close my eyes, I sat down at the desk, picked up a pen and wrote on the paper, I wrote until late at night." I wrote the same sentence over and over again: 'A quarter of the total number of human beings Chinese have since stood up.' ’...... How many heart-wrenching histories have there been in the past hundred years! How many unfair and unjust stories! How many promising lives have been sacrificed, and how many outstanding talents have been buried! There are also countless strange shames and humiliations that cannot be written endlessly! But now all that, all that is over, it's all gone like a nightmare! Never come again! Because we Chinese have stood up. This is not an empty phrase. This is a fact that shocks the world! So we greet this great day with a happy, grateful heart. ”
Column Editor-in-Chief: Shen Yilun Text Editor: Shen Yilun
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