Ding Ling has a deep cultural relationship with Changzhi, and she has visited Changzhi twice.
The first time she went to Changzhi was in the early days of the outbreak of the All-Out War of Resistance, and she led the Northwest Field Service Regiment to follow the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, and at the end of December 1937, she went to wuxiang, Qinxian and Qinyuan in the Changzhi area. In the spring of 1938, Ding Ling wrote the article "Ma Hui" with deep affection, remembering a comrade named Ma Hui whom she met in Qinyuan, and this article was later included in the book "To the Front" published by the Sichuan People's Publishing House in 1980.
"To the Front" book shadow
The second time she went to Changzhi, she and her wife Chen Ming spent four years in The Village of Lingtou at the foot of Laoding Mountain in the east of Changzhi City. In the book "Fifty Years of Ding Ling and Me", Chen Ming devoted a chapter to their lives in Changzhi.
In the book, he mentions that he arrived in The Village of Zhangtou on May 22, 1975, and Ding Ling arrived a day before him. In The village of Zhangtou, they were arranged to live in the home of a member surnamed Li, "that house is a relatively good quality house in the village, brick houses, the houses are relatively high, and the attic, the attic is not inhabited, it is to put things." In a courtyard, even we have a total of three, we live in the main house, sitting north to south, there is a large room, a small room. ...... Our relationship in the countryside is visible to the people and puts in their hearts, so when we leave, they are warmly farewell. ”
"Ding Ling's Recent Works" book shadow
I have a copy of the first edition of Ding Ling's Recent Works in 1980, 32 folio, which is one of the "Recent Works Series" edited and published by the Sichuan People's Publishing House. "Ding Ling's Recent Works" includes 19 articles such as ""Cowshed" Sketches", "Du Wanxiang", and "Qu Qiubai I Know", of which 3 articles, including "Du Wanxiang", "I Read "Oriental", and "Letter to a Literary Youth", were created during his stay in Changzhi.
In particular, "Du Wanxiang" is Ding Ling's "debut" work when she returns. The famous writer Liu Xinwu detailed the publication of "Du Wanxiang" in the article "Du Wanxiang" when Ding Ling first came back: Originally, he first met Ding Ling's "Du Wanxiang" as the editor of "October" magazine, but due to "Ding Ling's comeback international attention", Ge Luo, who was then deputy editor of "People's Literature" magazine, snatched the manuscript from him.
Ding Ling's signature
At the same time, Yan Wenjing, head of the People's Literature Publishing House, also came. It turned out that he had also been informed that the central authorities had decided to rehabilitate Ding Ling, and their publishing houses should also rush to compile and print Ding Ling's books, and the books should also be included in "Du Wanxiang". It can be seen that "Du Wanxiang" has an extraordinary significance for Ding Ling in her later years.
What is more rare is that the title page of the book has Ding Ling's signature, and the title page reads: "Comrade Zhu Yanrong and Gao Junqi commemorate the occasion, Ding Ling, 1980. 12”。 The date of the signing is only four months from the date of publication. I have searched for the names of the recipients in the village, but none of the villagers I met had heard of these two people.
Regarding Ding Ling's signed book, the famous writer and editor Zhao Jiabi has a record in his book "Editor's Remembrance":
On May 14, 1933, Ding Ling and Pan Zi Nian were kidnapped by Kuomintang agents and disappeared from society. The left-wing literary circles and progressive literary and art circles formed the "Rescue Ding Pan Committee" and launched a huge rescue campaign.
In order to support the campaign to rescue Ding Pan, at the suggestion of Mr. Lu Xun, Zhao Jiabi compiled Ding Ling's unfinished novel "Mother" into the "Liangyou Literature Series" and published it, and published advertisements in major newspapers such as "Declaration" and "Shishi Xinbao", saying that "Mother" would sell 100 numbered and signed copies in the store department of Liangyou Book Company the day after its advent, as a way to express silent protest against the Persecution of Progressive Writers by the Kuomintang regime.
Under strong public pressure, Ding Ling was finally spared from the poison of the Kuomintang secret service organization, and with the help of the party organization, she fled Nanjing in September 1936 and arrived at the central seat of northern Shaanxi Security. So, since Ding Ling was kidnapped by Kuomintang agents before and "Mother" was published later, why did "Good Friend" still sell her autographed copy? The agents at that time also did not understand, so on the day of the sale of the autograph book, they went to the "good friend" to make trouble, but they ended up with a gray face and returned with disappointment.
It turned out that as early as eighty years ago, in order to expand sales and improve reputation, "Good Friend" would ask the author to sign a hundred sheets on blank paper in advance after signing a publishing contract with the author, and after the book was printed, the paper signed with the author's name was pasted in front of the book and made into a signature book.
Mr. Zhao Jiabi's memories show that the signed book not only has collection value and version significance, but also can be used as a weapon to fight against the enemy in special circumstances!