I remember The Han Yan girl Jie Zhou Hong

I remember The Han Yan girl Jie Zhou Hong

Chen Lixin

I met Mrs. Zhou Hong in the 1980s. At that time, her daughter and I were both working at the Jiyuan Arts and Crafts Factory, and his sons were also working in several enterprises in the county. She and her husband, Wang Zhiming, live with their son, not far apart. We were all fellow qigong enthusiasts, the old man was knowledgeable and talkative, although she was nearly 60 years old at the time, about the same age as my mother, but every time we saw each other, there were endless words. But what really got to know her in its entirety moved me to tears and is still fresh in my memories of that interview in October 1998 after I went to work at Jiyuan Daily.

She was born in Shanghai as the daughter of Zhou Hongfa, deputy director of the former Shanghai Railway Bureau. In 1962, she followed a soldier to Hanyan Village in Xiaye Commune, and after more than 30 years of mountain rural life, she has become an authentic mountain village woman. Saying that he is a mountain village woman, she has the kind of temperament that mountain village women do not have. She speaks three languages and speaks the local mountain dialect, and she will make you feel that he is an authentic mountain person; when she speaks Shanghainese, she has no doubt about your Shanghai identity; and when she speaks Xinjiang dialect, she can give you a lot, because she followed her husband Wang Zhiming in Xinjiang for 8 years.

Zhou Hongniang followed her husband to Hanyan Village in Xiaye Township, a mountainous area in western Jiyuan, after the autumn of 1962 (now Zhuzhuang Village, which was part of Hanyan Village at that time). On that day, the whole mountain village was a sensation. People came from all directions and surrounded the courtyard of the Wang family. We must see what Wang Zhiming, who was a cadre in the south and became an official in the army, looked like. However, the most eye-catching person is his young and beautiful Shanghai wife, Zhou Hong. At that time, Zhou Hong was 32 years old, not fat or thin, dressed as a city person, and spoke in a foreign atmosphere. People are envious of it, but also worried about it, we can keep the "wind phoenix" of great Shanghai, especially when people learn that Wang Zhiming is due to a mistake to disarm and return to the field, but also pinched a handful of sweat for him, and even some people asserted that in a year, Zhou Hong will abandon the child and run away.

Because I knew her personally and knew her background and personality in general, I came to Jiyuan Daily in 1994 to work as a journalist, so I thought of Zhou Hong, a person with the quality of a news figure. Interviewed him in October 1998

Zhou Hong is 68 years old, but she looks quite tough, her eyes are bright, she is still articulate when she speaks, and her decent light gray clothes and her full black hair make her look particularly energetic.

Zhou Hong said she grew up in Shanghai's Zhabei district, her father was the deputy director of the old Shanghai Railway Bureau, there are 18 brothers and sisters, she ranked seventeenth. She graduated from Shanghai Zhabei Junior High School in 17 (1945) and taught at a primary school at the age of 18. The principal was an underground party member who led the teachers to actively participate in political struggles, and she was also a revolutionary activist. After the liberation of Shanghai in 1949, she was recommended to the Shanghai News Building to do journalism work, and then transferred to the Zhabei District Women's Federation to do women's work. For her marriage, her parents have worried a lot, but they have made a lot of fuss about "door to door". The vigorous revolutionary movement allowed her to break through the feudal concept of marriage, and when someone introduced him to Wang Zhiming, a public security soldier with a monthly allowance of only 16 yuan, she gladly agreed. In 1952, he married Wang Zhiming, and in 1953, he resolutely left Shanghai and followed her husband to the Gobi Desert in Xinjiang, staying for 8 years.....

Wang Zhiming was a loyal Communist Party member who had been born into death and worked for the Party since he joined the revolution in 1944, but in the 1957 anti-Rightist struggle, he was unfairly treated for giving advice to the leaders, and was demoted from the position of battalion instructor to the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps to undergo labor reform until he returned home in 1962.

Zhou Hong said that when she returned to her hometown in 1962, she was the mother of three sons and one daughter. Since neither family had a job, they were penniless after only one year of buying commodity grain with a non-agricultural household grain book. Fortunately, Yao Jiuquan, the old branch secretary of the village, helped them to participate in the collective labor of the team and get grain like the peasants, so that their lives could be settled. But in 1963, with the birth of the fifth child, the annual food payment of a large child alone was several hundred yuan, and the cost of the children's schooling made life more difficult. Once, someone pointed to her child and said, "Don't look at this child who is dressed in new light now, in less than two years, he will be called "red belly.". If you don't say "red belly", you will be hungry enough to make him cry! Don't look at the Shanghai girl who looks strange and pretty, on the spicy, or the mountain people. ”

Zhou Hong said that when she first heard the word "red belly", although she did not understand its exact meaning, she had expected that it was at least not a positive word. When she went to consult her husband, he told her that "bare belly" meant being naked, undressed, and naked, and at the same time comforted her to ignore the gossip.

Zhou Hong said that her idea at that time was that mountain people are people, Shanghai people are also people, why can shanghainese people live in the mountains can't live! I Zhou Hong is not the kind of, it will not be worse than you! Gossip not only did not discourage her, but made her stronger. In the fall of 1964, she bought back a sow cub and, like all farm families, raised pigs to solve the problems of oil, salt, vinegar and children's schooling. But the sows have not yet been raised, and one difficulty after another has followed. First of all, the kerosene was cut off at home, and the only kerosene lamp was blind to the fire, but she thought, no oil is not afraid, it is a big deal to sleep in the dark. Then the family broke off salt again, and she wanted to borrow 5 cents to buy salt, but ran a few production teams and did not borrow a penny.

"Get the money to go." Stubbornly, such a thought flashed in her mind again. However, in those years of eating by work, in those years when the tail of capitalism is cut at every turn, where to get money! By chance, she heard that selling tobacco could make money, so one morning, just after dawn, she came to the highway and stopped a car pulling bituminous coal and hitchhiked to Jiyuan City. In Jiyuan City, she stomped from the east to the west, from morning to afternoon, finally figured out the ins and outs of the tobacco leaves, and decided to go to Shangqiu to sell tobacco leaves. She picked up a coal truck in the dark, came to Shangqiu at dawn, and bought 20 kilograms of tobacco leaves from there to bring back to Jiyuan to sell. When she got out of the coal truck, her body and face were full of soot. But one trip down, only earned 5 yuan. That's too little, no! She took 5 yuan as the capital, from Yueshan Station to pick up the train going north, to Changzhi to sell hemp, a trip down, can make more than ten yuan. When she went to sell it for the third time with confidence, she was detained by the public security department on the grounds of violating the ban, along with people with hemp, and she was also severely punished. So he called the police aside and told them about her bumpy experiences, of the priorities of her husband and children, and perhaps they were moved, and they confiscated the hemp at the cost price to make her lose her money.

In August 1965, her first old sow finally laid the first litter of piglets, and there were 8 piglets in this litter, one by one, jumping around, looking very pleasant. However, due to the low income of the people at that time, a small pig could only sell for four or five yuan. The pig buyer had no cash, so she bartered the pig for corn, millet and sweet potato chips. The piglets could not be sold locally for cash, so she picked them up and sold them in the city, and later, she also started the business of raising meat rabbits, from scratch, and at most the family's meat rabbits grew to more than 270. There is no oil to eat at home, catch a rabbit to change, catch a rabbit to change without salt, and even the children's tuition and miscellaneous expenses are solved by selling rabbits. In this way, she not only supported the whole family with the income from the family breeding industry, but also enrolled 4 of her 5 children in high school and one in junior high school.

Speaking of the children's dressing problem, Zhou Hong said that when she heard that someone foresaw that her children were going to "red belly", her vigor came again, and the next day before dawn, she drove more than 20 miles to Wangwu Village, bought a spinning wheel for 5 yuan, and learned to spin thread overnight, which alarmed the sister-in-law and aunt nearby. It didn't take long for her to learn to weave. At that time, the clothes worn by her five children and husband were all made by herself.

In the interview, it was also learned that Zhou Hong, a Shanghai woman, was always loyal to her mountain husband, and when her husband went to the Gobi Desert in Xinjiang, she resolutely followed him, and when her husband was wrongly punished, she still cared for him everywhere and comforted him; Due to her husband's long-term hard life and unfair treatment, she overworked and fell ill with severe high blood pressure, so she took good care of him. After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, when she heard the news that unjust, false and wrongly decided cases could be rehabilitated, in addition to going to the relevant departments in Jiyuan to understand the situation, she also took her children and entered Beijing to find the leaders and relevant departments of her husband in the form of picking up scraps and earning travel expenses, so that her husband's unjust case could be rehabilitated. In 1980, her husband was hospitalized for 3 months due to hemiplegia, and she stayed in the hospital day and night for 3 months. In 1985, when she heard that practicing Qigong had a therapeutic effect on hemiplegia, she went to Yaqiao to practice Qigong and patiently taught her husband after returning home.

Hearing this, people are even more awe-inspired. At that time, I practiced Qigong, and although we were also considered friends, we didn't know that she had come to treat her husband's illness. Regarding her complaint for the rehabilitation of her husband Wang Zhiming, when she was working in the office of the Xiaye Commune, she vaguely remembered that a woman came to the organization department with her child, but she did not know that she also picked up the rags and walked into Beijing City, on the streets of Beijing, and also took the leader's car. Hearing this, in addition to being more respectful and unexpected, I was moved, moved to tears, and even choked up a little when talking again.

In the interview, she also learned that when her husband lost his temper due to bad mood, she always remained silent, and she did so until her husband's death in 1990.

At the end of the interview, she said that her husband Wang Zhiming was rehabilitated in 1979, and then implemented policies for the children, solved the hukou problem, and now her five children have their own jobs and live a good life. As for herself, she said, when she was young, she had not been difficult to leave, and now that her children and grandchildren are full of children and grandchildren, her life is happy, what else to say? Speaking of this, Zhou Hong's wife was full of smiles.

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Zhou Hong died in 2014. Although decades have passed from knowing her, to interviewing her, to her death, to the present, the great image of the woman in my mind is still there, and it will never go away. I also decided to compile her deeds into the Xiaye Town Chronicle, so that our descendants would know that there was such a great woman in Hanyan Village in Xiaye.