Lu Xun, a great writer known in China for all ages, his sharp and dagger-like essays are engraved in the hearts of every Chinese. However, behind him, there was also a great woman, his wife Xu Guangping.
If Lu Xun is a big tree that resists wind and rain and does not fall, then Xu Guangping is a small tree that thrives under the protection of a big tree, and together with the big tree, he meets the lightning and thunder from all directions.
After Lu Xun's death, she returned to society with a fighting posture, using her pen as a gun to prop up a blue sky on the cultural blockade line of the Japanese army; she completed Lu Xun's unfinished business alone, and was arrested by the Japanese army in order to preserve Lu Xun's relics. Her deeds are touching, and her life is selfless and strong.
Guangzhou, a city with green trees and flowers in all seasons, has beautiful scenery, and every March, the fire-like kapok will bloom in every corner of the city.
On February 12, 1898, a family on Gaudi Street in the city. A baby girl fell to the ground, she is Xu Guangping, with a fiery and warm personality like kapok.
As soon as she came to the world, she encountered misfortune, when she was born, she had enuresis in her mother's abdomen, which was a normal physiological phenomenon, but it was considered by superstitious people to be an ominous omen for her birth mother.
Ignorant and backward feudal thought, when she first came into this world, built a high wall between her and the people around her. However, this has also become a small hint in Xu Guangping's growth, the young Xu Guangping has learned to look at the face from an early age, but has a warm and enlightened personality, she and her brothers went to school together to study, and after the Xinhai Revolution, they accepted the baptism of revolutionary storms.
In 1917, Xu Guangping's parents died, and she came to Tianjin to join her aunt. With her unremitting efforts, Xu Guangping was admitted to the First Girls' Normal School, which opened a new starting point for her life path. During this time, she not only studied cultural knowledge diligently, but also actively participated in various campus activities.
He was also elected as a member of the Literary and Art Department of the Alumni Association because of his outstanding writing ability. In 1922, Xu Guangping was admitted to the National Beijing Higher Normal School with excellent results, where she met her lifelong admired lover Lu Xun.
Between March and July 1925, there were more than 40 letters between Lu Xun and Xu Guangping. Their common ideals and beliefs. Gradually rising into the flame of love, their hearts do not show compassion and lingering tenderness, but are serious discussions of social and life issues.
Xu Guangping wrote: "There are no splendid flowers, no love, our hearts are exchanged, we work for mankind, and we walk hand in hand——". However, their love has met with the ridicule and opposition of many people, but in the face of pressure, Xu Guangping has shown an otherworldly vision and a tenacious spirit.
In the days when Xu Guangping and Lu Xun lived together, they fled together in the war of the Japanese invasion of Shanghai. Together, they evaded the wanton and persecution of the Kuomintang reactionaries.
Xu Guangping became Lu Xun's reliable comrade-in-arms and excellent assistant, and for Lu Xun's writing, she tried her best to check the materials and find reference books.
She copied the manuscript for Lu Xun, proofread and translated the works with Lu Xun, recorded and sorted out Lu Xun's conversations, and she carefully kept Lu Xun's manuscripts. In life, Xu Guangping is also an excellent housewife, she takes care of Lu Xun's living and keeps him from daily chores.
On September 27, 1927, the love between Lu Xun and Xu Guangping crystallized, and their son HaiBao was born. With the strong support and help of Xu Guangping, Lu Xun completed a large number of works in the ten years after his marriage, leaving an extremely rich spiritual wealth for future generations.
On October 19, 1936, at the last moment of Lu Xun's life, he tightly held Xu Guangping's hand and said, "Forget me, take care of your own life!" This was Lu Xun's last words to his wife.
After Lu Xun's death, Xu Guangping carried the banner of Lu Xun's writing and continued to fight in the rear of the anti-Japanese war.
The fall of Shanghai in 1937 was surrounded by Japanese occupation zones, and history calls this period a "lonely island" period. Due to the cultural dictatorship of the Japanese Kou, all books, magazines, and newspapers related to the anti-Japanese resistance were banned, and even newspapers that packed things were raided and arrested for anti-Japanese records. In the books and periodicals "approved" by the Japanese, only traitorous words praising the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" can be published.
In order to break the gray and dark situation in the cultural circles, the underground party of Shanghai's literary and art circles, through the supplements of newspapers such as "Daily Translation", "Herald", and "Wen Wei Po", united a group of progressive writers and cultural people who had not yet left Shanghai and launched the literary movement in the "isolated island" period.
Xu Guangping is a brave fighter in this movement. According to statistics, during the "isolated island" period, Xu Guangping published more than 90 articles in more than 20 newspapers and periodicals, and her "Voice of The Lonely widow" published in Sin Chew Daily ruthlessly exposed and reprimanded the Kuomintang diehards for turning themselves into traitors after the Japanese invasion, and persecuting patriots in Shanghai.
On the occasion of Mother's Day, she wrote an appeal: "In commemoration of Mother's Day, housewives unite to participate in the work of the War of Resistance and strive for final victory, which is the most needed task this year." ”
Once, Xu Guangping heard the news that the "Benliu Literary and Art Series" would be renamed "Benliu New Collection", which surprised and confused her. "Running Stream Literature and Art Series" was originally founded by the underground party in Shanghai's cultural circles, Xu Guangping often submitted articles, this is an anti-Japanese publication, has already had a certain influence among readers, how to change the name at will? With doubts, Xu Guangping hurried to the editorial department to inquire.
In the face of Xu Guangping's questions, the person in charge of the series looked embarrassed. Later, Xu Guangping learned that the original magazine had encountered some difficulties due to financial problems and could not be published according to the journal, "Don't worry? "Xu Guangping said: You lack money, you can take it from me, how much you want, just open your mouth."
Xu Guangping herself lived frugally, but she did not hesitate to support the anti-Japanese activities in the motherland. With her support, the Rushing Literary Series was able to continue to be published. Later, Xu Guangping handed over Lu Xun's article "Inevitable, Reasonable" and the group photo of Lu Xun and Feng Xuefeng to the journal for publication.
He also personally wrote articles such as "Mr. Lu Xun's Anti-Imperialist Struggle in Beiping" for the journal, which inspired the local people's fighting spirit to resist. Xu Guangping's pen opened up the blue sky of the "isolated island" cultural circle.
Shortly after Lu Xun's death, Xu Guangping moved to No. 64 Xiafeifang in Shanghai with haibao. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the party organization, considering Xu Guangping's safety, once suggested that she move to the base area opened up by the New Fourth Army in northern Jiangsu, and some people advised her to use teaching as a cover to temporarily avoid Nanyang.
But Xu Guangping did not agree, and she chose to stay in Shanghai, she said:
"My home, which has no valuables at all, is despised in the eyes of some people. But I have preserved every table and chair, every book and everything that Mr. Lu Xun left behind. This is not my legacy, this is the wealth of the revolution, the wealth of the people of the whole Chinese, the wealth of those who want to understand the culture of this era, and the wealth of those who want to understand the life and deeds of Lu Xun. Of course, it is impossible to ask others to guard them, but if even I cannot guard them, there is no reason to ask others to risk their lives to guard these relics, and therefore I dare not entrust anyone in any time of danger. ”
In the years of flames, many of Lu Xun's manuscripts and relics may be destroyed in one fell swoop, so Xu Guangping was worried and anxious. After unremitting efforts and the help of fushe, a publishing organ under the leadership of the party, Xu Guangping finally published her husband's work "The Complete Works of Lu Xun".
The Society was founded in December 1937. Its initiators are Hu Yuzhi, Hu Zhongzhi, Zhang Zonglin, Huang Youxiong and 20 others. Xu Guangping personally participated in the publication of part of the complete works of Lu Xun, and began to edit and revise with Wang Renshu in a difficult environment in April 1938.
Xu Guangping's life at that time was very difficult. She has to take care of the young sea babies, and her material life is extremely hard. However, it was under such difficult conditions that she worked day and night, and finally, with the vigorous assistance of people from all walks of life, she quickly collected many published and unpublished Works of Lu Xun.
And completed a series of work such as classification, collation, transcription, editing, proofreading and so on. On September 15, 1938, a set of 20 volumes of "The Complete Works of Lu Xun", which was completely collected and sold at a low price, was finally miraculously completed under the obstruction of the enemy and the fake, and became the spiritual food of many readers.
On December 7, 1941, the Japanese army secretly attacked Pearl Harbor, an important base of the US Navy, and attacked Manila, Shanghai, Luoluo, and Hong Kong, and the Pacific War broke out in full swing. On the 8th, the Japanese army marched into Shanghai, and all of Shanghai fell.
The Shanghai underground party organization considered Xu Guangping's safety and once again sent someone to contact her and persuade her to leave Shanghai and go to the Liberated Areas to take refuge. However, Xu Guangping thought twice and still refused the invitation.
Sure enough, something unfortunate happened.
In the early morning of December 15, 1941, more than a dozen plainclothes policemen from the Japanese Gendarmerie Command and a number of staff members from the patrol house of the old French Concession suddenly broke through the door and poured into Xu Guangping's residence. Xu Guangping walked downstairs, and more than twenty fierce Japanese soldiers were already standing in the living room.
A bespectacled gendarme named Sasaki Tokuma looked at Xu Guangping: "What is your last name?" "He asked questions in Chinese." Surname Xu. Xu Guangping replied calmly, without a trace of fear.
The enemy asked, "What's your name?" "Guangping." "Are there any other names?" "No more." "Hum," Sasaki sneered, his face full of contempt.
Then he ordered, "Search for me!" The Japanese soldiers present unceremoniously began a search, and their first search was a bookcase more than a meter high in the study. Here are Xu Guangping's new books and translations donated by friends, as well as a part of the "Thirty Years of Lu Xun" and a manuscript of "Lu Xun's Diary".
They searched the bookcase and began to search the drawers for two hours. They took Lu Xun's diary, various books, and more than a dozen stamps into two large bags, and copied them all.
Then, they went up to the third floor to continue the search, and when they were opening the door of the emergency, they were stopped by the clever Xu Guangping, who said: "This is rented to someone else's house." At that time, the Japanese had just invaded the Shanghai Concession, and there was no time to register the household registration, and the Japanese soldiers heard that it had been lent to people, so they saved the third floor specially stored in Lu Xun's relics, so that it was saved from a disaster. However, Xu Guangping was arrested.
After his arrest, every day at 9 a.m., it was time for Xu Guangping to be interrogated.
Four days passed, and the enemy took turns to use various methods of coercion and inducement against her, but to no avail. On the fifth day, the Japanese soldiers finally began to use force, they first slammed Xu Guangping's head with their fists, then kicked her in the stomach with yellow leather riding boots, and finally forced Xu Guangping to take off his heavy coat.
Whip hard with a leather whip. After being tortured, Xu Guangping's eyes were swollen like purple grapes, and his thighs kicked by leather boots became hard and bruised, leaving Dao Dao whip marks all over his body.
The madness of the enemy made Xu Guangping know the real reason for her arrest: it turned out that because of her extensive contacts with the progressive cultural circles, the enemy regarded her as an ideal breakthrough point to track down anti-Japanese intellectuals and publishers.
The enemy said, "As long as you provide information about the cultural people in Shanghai, I will let you go." It is ridiculous that the enemy miscalculated, and despite the torture to extract a confession, Xu Guangping never uttered a word that the enemy wanted to know. She did it, she was a righteous soldier who was loyal to the motherland!
When the enemy saw that the torture was ineffective, he shouted, "If you don't talk any more, they will drag you to the street and march." Xu Guangping was silent, but thought: If there is a bloody Chinese sees his daughter and his sister being humiliated by the enemy, this will be a propaganda material to expose the enemy and awaken the people.
Later, the enemy even used electrocution, and in pain, Xu Guangping fainted several times, but she still kept the secret. After that, the enemy changed her several cells and tortured her several times to extract a confession, but still found nothing, and had to release her on bail.
On the afternoon of March 1, 1942, Xu Guangping, who had been imprisoned and tortured for 76 days, finally regained his freedom.
Xu Guangping's life is like a novel, there are no flowery words in the book, no exaggerated plot, but the simple words and true narrative make this book very readable, and one by one, Xu Guangping's firm political discipline, high self-sacrifice spirit and unswerving revolutionary conviction are vividly sketched out, and a string of dual sentences is the expression of her sincerity and true feelings, and the sonorous and powerful comparison of sentences has played a magnificent melody in the life of a revolutionary.
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