A generation of literary masters, zhou zuoren, who is also a traitor
First, the shameful traitor Zhou Zuoren.
In the early morning of May 26, 1946 (before dawn), a large military transport plane took off from the Beiping Xijiao Airport and flew directly to Nanjing.
Sitting on the plane were all "celebrities," including Wang Yintai, Qi Xieyuan, Yin Rugeng, Wang Shijing, Yu Jinhe, Jiang Kanghu, Pan Yugui, Zhou Zuoren, Zou Quansun, Liu Yushu, Tang Yangdu, Wen Yuanmo, chen Zengyu, and so on, all of whom were the most famous traitors in North China.
More than a dozen plainclothes men with short guns sat on either side of the seat, watching their every move.
One of them had an unusually calm face, and he was Zhou Zuoren.
Zhou Zuoren was on a par with Hu Shi in the New Culture Movement and the May Fourth Movement, and made great contributions. However, after the fall of Peiping, he enthusiastically became a puppet official, and served as the president of the puppet Peking University, a member of the Standing Committee of the Puppet North China Political Affairs Committee, and the superintendent of the General Administration of Education.
At this time, Zhou Zuoren only had a simple small bag of less than 10 pounds, which contained several washed white robes, and there were only two books: "Tan Long Ji" and "Zhu Zi".
"Talking about the Dragon Collection" is a one-piece book written by Zhou Zuoren
Zhu Xi was the person zhou zuoren most admired
The plane landed at the Nanjing Ming Palace Airport, after which zhou zuo people were escorted to the detention center of the capital high court.
On November 6, 1946, Sun Honglin, president of the Jiangsu Higher People's Court, read Zhou Zuoren's death sentence in a special court.
Trial
Zhou Zuoren pleaded guilty and signed the verdict
After that, Zhou Zuoren kept finding reasons for himself and appealing for relations, and under the mediation of Hu Shi and others, he was miraculously sentenced to life imprisonment, which was the only one among the most famous traitors in North China, and it was approved by Chiang Kai-shek himself.
Hu Shi and Zhou Zuoren are good friends
On December 9, 1947, Zhou Zuoren was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Fortunately, on the eve of the liberation of Nanjing in 1949, Zhou Zuoren was personally approved by Acting President Li Zongren to seek medical parole, and he returned to his humiliating but comfortable home in Badaowan, Beijing.
Because he had been a traitor, Zhou Zuoren was very different from his brother Lu Xun's political position in China.
Mr. Lu Xun's life was a great life; his direction was the direction of China's new cultural movement.
In 1955, Zhou Zuoren was sentenced by the Beijing Municipal Court to deprive him of his political rights for life; in 1967, Zhou Zuoren died lonely under the double torture of spirit and body.
Second, why did Zhou Zuoren become a traitor?
A generation of celebrities Zhou Zuoren makes people sigh, so why would he defect to the enemy? To sum up, there are mainly the following views:
1. Zhou Zuoren lacked the most basic confidence in China's victory in the War of Resistance.
He once said to others that I am a student of the navy and know the role of the navy very well, and the number of navies between China and Japan is very large. Therefore, he believes that China is bound to lose, which should be the main reason why he is attached to the enemy.
Because if a person does not have faith and faith, how can he sustain himself?
2. Zhou Zuoren was weak and cowardly, and when he was coerced by the Japanese, he lacked backbone, so he secretly became a traitor.
During his time in Peiping, Japanese people, including the head of the Japanese secret service, Doihara, and other Japanese traitors, big and small traitors, personally lobbied him, which was not a great pressure for him.
3. Greatly influenced by Japanese culture, and have special feelings for Japanese culture.
Zhou Zuoren's early experience of studying in Japan and his wife's Japanese gave him a special affection for Japanese culture, and he always regarded Japan as his second hometown, and later, he even thought that there was nothing wrong with letting the Japanese rule China.
4, the pursuit of luxury life caused by the great pressure of life.
Zhou Zuoren's wife, Yuta Nobuko, is a person who lives extremely luxuriously, and in order to satisfy Yuta Nobuko's never-ending material desires, he forces Zhou Zuoren to find a way to obtain economic income and enter the trap of the Japanese.
After Zhou Zuoren became a puppet official, his salary was 1200 oceans a month (his other income from writing articles was not included), which was more than double his income before he became a traitor.
5. Lives are threatened, and japan is sought.
On New Year's Day 1939, the "Anti-Japanese Hoe Gang" spontaneously organized by Tianjin middle school students sent three assassins to break into Zhou Zuoren's apartment and shoot and "injure" Zhou Zuoren (the incident caused the death of a sedan and a student of Zhou Zuoren, but Zhou Zuoren was not injured because the bullet hit a copper button).
Twelve days later, Zhou Zuoren decided to accept the position of director of the pseudo-Peking University Library, and in his diary on that day, he wrote: "In fact, it cannot be improper. "It is very helpless to be forced to be a prostitute. From then on, Japanese soldiers began to stand guard around the Zhou Zuo family.
At the end of the second year, Zhou Zuoren succeeded Tang Erhe, who died of illness, as the superintendent of the Pseudo-Education Administration (equivalent to the Minister of Education), and became a big traitor.
Third, the path is always chosen by yourself, so in the end you always have to bear it.
1. In fact, Zhou Zuoren was originally a person who could not be a traitor at all.
Before and after the fall of Beiping in 1937, academic and cultural circles went south, and Peking University and Tsinghua University also announced that they would move south.
Many of Zhou Zuoren's friends and people of insight who are concerned about the future of Chinese culture have written to him or written articles in newspapers, hoping that Zhou Zuoren will go south.
But unfortunately, zhou zuoren was never seen in the team heading south.
At the time of the survival of the nation, Zhou Zuoren disregarded the great righteousness, he only wanted to live his own comfortable little life, which was his original and truest idea.
Zhou Zuoren and Yu Tai Nobuko
Zhou Zuoren's deep disgust for "Taoists" like Han Yu and his sympathy for Qin Jun,a "traitor" who was scolded by the people in unison, also played a fundamental role in his final defection to the enemy.
In Zhou Zuoren's works, he completely rejects the spiritual qualities of rigidity and righteousness, rich in "calcium", and is extremely susceptible to a kind of cultural "hypochondriasis", which is in stark contrast to Mr. Lu Xun's "horizontal eyebrows and cold pairs" of fighting warrior spirit throughout his life.
One of the most gnashing things about Zhou Zuoren was that he was also the first traitor in China to visit the Yasukuni Shrine in Japan, and he was extremely despicable and shameless.
During the visit, Zhou Zuoren wore the uniform of a Japanese major general and paraded the Japanese student army with great trepidation, which made all the conscientious Chinese feel sad.
2. It is a pity that Mr. Lu Xun died a year earlier, otherwise he would certainly not have let Zhou Zuoren be a traitor.
If Mr. Lu Xun were alive, he would definitely add his old fist to Zhou Zuoren (when he was in Japan, Mr. Lu Xun had repaid Zhou Zuoren for not writing a translation in time), and he would never let Zhou Zuoren surrender to the enemy.
Lu Xun calligraphy, good characters
Lu Xun and Zhou Zuoren were two brothers
It is a great pity that Lu Xun, a giant of the literary world, died in 1936.
It is very appropriate to evaluate Zhou Zuoren by using the Qianlong Emperor's evaluation of Ji Xiaolan, "reading a lot but not being reasonable."
[Conclusion: As a Chinese, at the moment of the survival of the nation, there should be a Chinese backbone, even if it cannot be passed on for eternity, it must not be left behind for thousands of years! 】
Lu Xun had an iron skeleton on his body, but Zhou Zuoren did not
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