Born on April 25, 1917, Zhao Lisheng entered the Department of Foreign Languages of Tsinghua University in 1934, engaged in translation and literary creation in his early years, won praise from Hu Shi, and was recruited as an associate professor of the Department of History of Henan University in 1947.
After the liberation of Beijing, Zhao Lisheng was transferred to the Compilation Bureau of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing. In the Compilation Bureau, he was not accustomed to the practices of some people, wrote a letter to the People's Daily, and was looked at differently, and finally had to resign. At that time, the Compilation Bureau of the Chinese Academy of Sciences asked him to move out of the family within five days. In desperation, he asked Aischi for help, and under the introduction of Aischi, he went to Changchun in the autumn of 1950 and served as a professor in Northeast Normal. In the winter of the same year, he went to Qingdao Shandong University to teach.
In the summer of 1957, Zhao Lisheng was ordered to teach at Lanzhou University. In 1958, he was classified as a rightist and deprived of the right to teach and publish articles. Soon, the liberal arts department of Lan University was dismissed, and Zhao Lisheng was merged into the History Department of Northwest Normal College and went to shandan county farm to undergo "transformation". Zhao Lisheng's situation was very difficult, not only was he often scolded, beaten, punished for kneeling, and even sometimes not allowed to eat for three days. When he received a telegram from Principal Longji of Lan Dajiang, he returned home, and he was already skinny. If it weren't for the telegram, he might have buried his bones in the Gobi, and when he saw this scene, the family held their heads and cried.
After Zhao Lisheng was stripped of his rightist hat, he took on the teaching of general history of China. Although the lecture task was very heavy, Zhao Lisheng did not slacken off at all. Thousands of years of history, as if alive, witty and funny, radiant, witty. President Jiang Longji once said: "Zhao Lisheng's level of lectures is the highest. "There were many people listening to Zhao Lisheng's class, and at that time they sat in front of them, and behind the students were the teachers.
It is said that when Qin Hui was studying for graduate school that year, due to the physical examination form of "congenital glaucoma, blindness in the right eye, atrophy of the optic nerve in the left eye, naked vision of 0.2, and corrected vision of only 0.7", the admission resistance was quite large. As a mentor, Zhao Lisheng tried to overcome the public opinion, saying: If I don't recruit Qin Hui, I won't recruit anyone. He also said: Qin Hui is blind, and he can also become another Chen Yinke.
Zhao Lisheng retired in 1991 and died in Lanzhou at 10:20 on November 27, 2007 at the age of 91.
Zhao Lisheng (25 April 1917 – 27 November 2007) was a professor and historian
Guo Moruo, I have had a good feeling for his articles since I was a child.
In junior high school, I read his collection of love letters, "Falling Leaves," "Your Fallen Leaves Floating on the Passing Water," which I often chanted. I also read his short story "The Tomb of Yelotti", which is a story of a "thief". I also read his translation of "Inmon Lake", the first few sentences I have been able to memorize: "One night in the autumn twilight, an old man dressed in a good dress, Xu walked down the city"... All this shows that I did not resent him at first.
The antipathy has been since I arrived at the Academy of Sciences. I am the dean and vice dean of the study group, but Guo Moruo and Chen Boda are not studying in the academy (Guo studied with Premier Zhou in Zhongnanhai, and Chen Boda studied at the Party School), so we did not have the opportunity to contact at the beginning. But I was appointed to attend the Council meeting with the directors. Just attending as observers, not speaking, and not having the right to vote. But this gives the opportunity to "sit still".
I personally saw him slapping the table and reprimanding Wu Youxun and Tao Menghe. Wu was fiery, disobeyed, and jumped up to argue with him; Tao Ze was safe and stable to bear this humiliation, and his condition was very miserable. Yu Liqun was not a member of the Academy of Sciences at that time, but he also moved a chair to sit behind Guo Lao' back to help him, saying something.
After Zhao Lisheng was dismissed from his post during the Cultural Revolution, he took a group photo with his wife and two daughters
I couldn't help it, so I wrote to the People's Daily, which was located at the time on the west side of Nantou Road on Wangfujing Avenue, saying that there was a situation to reflect.
They called me to ask me to come to the newspaper office at 7 p.m. I went, there were no tape recorders at the time, there were four or five typewriters around me, crackling prices. But what surprised me most was that a short time later, I received a reply.
The reply is divided into two paragraphs, the former paragraph is a "social" tone, saying that you have bluntly reflected to us some of the work style problems of the leading comrades of the Academy of Sciences, and we are very grateful. The latter paragraph is powerful. "But," said the Chairman, who has expounded on several occasions the important role of the "Proviso" and said that the Chairman taught that if we treat our comrades in a hostile manner, then our own position will unconsciously take the side of the enemy. "For your reference"! Boy! Doesn't this mean that whoever gives Advice to Guo Moruo is a counter-revolutionary? Unfortunately, this reply letter was copied, otherwise I would have photocopied it and "set up this photo."
The editorial office of the most representative major newspaper, in this way, does not hesitate to protect its members in a tone of intimidation, and in all subsequent movements has consistently protected activists and attacked opinion-raisers, a tradition that has since led to the tradition of "one-word hall". At the beginning of the founding of the country, I was just the first test of the blade.
Another conflict is for an article. At that time, Ye Dingyi and I co-edited a supplement to the Guangming Daily, called "Academic", and he was in charge of the Xicheng collection, and I was in charge of the Dongcheng collection. One day, Ye said to ask your dean to write an article. I took a chance to tell Elder Guo, and he reacted very happily and agreed. And within a few days, he handed over the manuscript to me.
The title was "The Lizard's Nightmare", and the text scolded Dong Zuobin without naming names, nor Guo Baojun by name, saying that such a person had to go to Taiwan to "be martyred." At this point, we are in trouble. Dong has gone to Taiwan, and calling him "martyred" has little to do with it; but Guo is still working as a researcher at the Archaeological Institute, is it appropriate to scold him? Ye and I discussed that Elder Guo was a big man, and we should not change his article, so Ye said, "Just ask recently, is it up to Elder Guo to change it himself?" ”
I asked, and Guo Moruo said very rudely: "You are not good, give me back, other newspapers and periodicals will want it!" "Good fellow, big man's shelf I felt. I discussed with Ye that there was no other way, "as it is" is.
This incident made me hold my breath, and I could perceive it in my face and tone. Director Yang sensed this and asked, "Who are you angry with?" I couldn't hold back, so I said everything about "pouring beans in a bamboo tube," and it was said in the office, so I was listened to by Guan Zhaozhi, the director of the department who was "intentional in listening," and I hurriedly reported to the party group.
On the weekend, I went to open the water and met the deputy director Yun Ziqiang (he was the younger brother of the revolutionary martyr Yun Daiying), who said: "Can't you sit at my house?" "I was sensitive to the fact that the party secretary probably had something to say to me, so I immediately went."
Sure enough, Yun said to me very gently, "What will come to me in the future, okay?" The office is crowded with people, passing around, and it will have an impact. "At this moment, I completely understood.
Mr. Zhao Lisheng and his disciples, "Seven Nine Jin Huang", the third person wearing glasses on the right is Qin Hui, and the rest are Yang Shanqun, Bai Wengu, Huo Junjiang, Ma Mingda, Ge Jinfang, and Yang Mu.
The more I held my breath, the stronger I became. The reply letter from the People's Daily made me hold my first breath, and Guan Zhao's small report told me to hold my second breath, when I was only thirty-two or three years old, full of anger, I wrote three letters in succession: resignation! At that time, the matter of staying was to rely on organizational arrangements, and there was no longer the word "resignation", but I still went the old way and resigned.
To resign, the first look for Director Yang, the second look for Deputy Director Yun Ziqiang, but I did not look for it, my resignation was to run to Guo Moruo's dean's office to hand over to the secretary, obviously with the meaning of challenging Guo Moruo. At noon when my third resignation submission was submitted, Comrade Yao Wuyan, the female secretary of the Compilation Bureau (she was Yao Pengzi's sister and Yao Wenyuan's aunt), handed me a "note from the Chinese Academy of Sciences" that read:
"The Compilation Bureau compiled Zhao Lisheng's resignation three times, and if it is difficult to stay, it should be approved." Guo Moruo".
In this way, my life and the two members of the "Creation Society" each touched their heads, although they did not physically touch the head and bleed, but they all ended in contemptuous failures.
I failed, but the spirit was pleasant.