introduction
On January 31, 1949, Peiping was declared peacefully liberated, and two months later, Chen Boda followed the troops into Beiping, a year in which Chen Boda ushered in a smooth road to his career, a year when he was about to turn 45.
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Chen Boda's rise was in the year of confusion, and although he had a little fame before, he had always been depressed.
It is impossible to say that he has no desire in his heart and does not want to go to a higher place; Chen Boda wants to go up, but for so many years, he has been getting older, but his position has always been standing still.
For those who are engaged in careers, especially those who are not willing to accept the status quo, the position and reputation have been standing still, which is a kind of suffering.
On March 25, 1949, Chen Boda, who was not confused, followed the troops into Beiping City, and now he is returning again as a victor.
When his car passed near Beihai Park, he glanced at the Caolanzi Prison, and Chen Boda couldn't help but think of himself twelve years ago.
In this prison, the lymph glands were dripping with thick juice, and poor Baba, with his beard pulled and haggard, he would not have thought that when he came back twelve years later, he was in a victorious posture.
It is very appropriate to use such an ancient poem to describe Chen Boda at this time: the spring wind is proud of the horseshoe disease, and I see all the Chang'an flowers in one day.
When he first entered Beiping City, Chen Boda took his three-year-old son Chen Xiaonong to live in the Biyun Temple in Xiangshan.
Chen Xiaonong was the son of Chen Boda and his second wife, Yu Wenfei, and a year before entering Beiping City, Chen Boda had divorced Yu Wenfei.
After his parents divorced, Chen Xiaonong followed his father, but Chen Boda, who entered the city at the beginning, began to gradually get busy on his own stage.
There was no time to take care of his son, and the young Chen Xiaonong was handed over to others to take care of.
"In 1949, when I was three years old, my father was very busy at work, and it was very difficult to bring a child, so my daily life was mainly taken care of by Uncle Guo Yunhua, a guard."
"Sometimes my father's former assistant Tian Jiaying also came to take me to play, and then I invited an aunt, who mainly relied on my aunt to take care of it."
——Source: "The Fate of Chen Boda", "Together in the Same Boat", No. 8, 2008, Qian Bocheng.
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Chen Xiaonong, a three-year-old son, had a very pure childhood life at Biyun Temple. In contrast, Chen Boda is like a gyroscope, busy for days and days.
"My father and I lived with me at The Biyun Temple in Xiangshan, and at that time, we lived in a courtyard on the left side of the Biyun Temple's Hum Ha Er General Gate."
"Because I was young, I had to be held by my father or other adults in and out, this is a hillside, there are many steps"
—— Source: The Biography of Chen Boda, by Ye Yonglie
For this kind of busyness of continuous rotation, I think that for him, the heart is full of joy.
After all, at this moment, he has passed the age of confusion, he has become a leader in the literary and artistic world, busy in the light, is full and happy.
In 1949, only from July to October, a short four-month period, Chen Boda, as the protagonist, traveled back and forth at various important meetings.
During these four months, he participated in dozens of conferences, large and small, many of which he participated in in the main capacity, and his speeches, his "instructions", following the name "Chen Boda", appeared in newspapers and magazines every day.
Before the age of forty, Chen Boda's highest position was only that of a section chief of the Propaganda Department.
Since 1949, his positions have been continuously promoted, such as executive deputy director of the Propaganda Department, deputy director of the Ministry of Rural Work, vice president of the Academy of Sciences, vice president of the Marxist-Leninist College, and so on.
In the early and mid-1950s, although many of Chen Boda's positions were hung with the title of "deputy", it is undeniable that his name appeared in newspapers and magazines every day, and as his influence continued to rise, it was only a matter of time before he won the title of "deputy".
On June 1, 1958, "Red Flag" magazine was officially launched, Chen Boda was also appointed as the editor-in-chief by the leader, and he became the editor-in-chief, and he also recruited many pen poles, such as Guan Feng, Qi Benyu and so on.
From the end of the 1950s onwards, Chen Boda's career entered a high-light moment, when the "two periodicals and one newspaper" were the guiding direction of national public opinion, and this "two newspapers and one periodical" could see Chen Boda's name every day, as well as some of his important "speeches" and "instructions.".
It is no exaggeration to say that at this time, he controlled the direction of public opinion.
If you count according to the time point of 1958 as the starting point of Chen Boda's take-off, he is already 54 years old this year.
Born in 1904, Chen Boda officially entered his career at the age of 21 (1925), went to Moscow to study in the early years, was also arrested and imprisoned, and went around for 33 years, at the age of 54, he ushered in the highlight of his career.
In the 1960s, Chen Boda's status further climbed to become the "fourth person".
However, twelve years later, in 1970, in August of this year, his soaring life was finally ushered in by the folded wing, and after being detained, the stage belonging to him Chen Boda was pulled down.
postscript
Chen Xiaonong, who grew up with Chen Boda when he was a child, took on the responsibility of taking care of his father's later life after his father was released on medical parole.
In August 1981, Chen Boda walked out of prison, when he was 77 years old; and Chen Xiaonong, who was a three-year-old child, had become a 35-year-old middle-aged uncle.
Chen Xiaonong, who wears a pair of black-rimmed myopic glasses, is also like his father, looking like a literati.
The Chen family eventually returned to a literati family.