In 1987, Lu Dingyi and his eldest son Lu Fan Jiading and eldest daughter Lu Yeping were borne
Hello everyone, I'm Lantai.
Today, Lantai would like to introduce to you the descendants of the older generation of revolutionary Lu Dingyi.
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Lu Dingyi was born in Shanghai in 1906 into a wealthy family of lawyers.
Lu Dingyi's father is called Lu Chengzhou, a well-known lawyer in Shanghai, which also makes Lu Dingyi worry about food and clothing since he was a child.
Although Lu Dingyi was born in a wealthy family, he himself was not at all scrupulous, on the contrary, he was a well-known "little prodigy".
When he was 16 years old, he had been admitted to the Department of Electrical Engineering of Nanyang University (the predecessor of Jiaotong University) in the French Concession of Shanghai, and Lu Dingyi was not only a "scholar", but also a hot-blooded progressive young man, he had become a glorious party member when he was studying in college, and as soon as he graduated from university, he devoted all his experience to the revolutionary cause.
After that, Lu Dingyi has been active on the propaganda front, and he has successively served as the director of the Propaganda Department of the Central Bureau of the Soviet District Regiment, the director of the Propaganda Department of the General Political Department of the Red Army, the director of the Propaganda Department of the Political Department of the Red Army, the director of the Propaganda Department of the General Headquarters of the Red Army's former enemy, the director of the Propaganda Department of the General Political Department of the Eighth Route Army, and the editor-in-chief of the "Liberation Daily".
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Lu Dingyi was mainly responsible for cultural and propaganda work, and was the founder of the proletarian theory of cultural propaganda. Before the mid-60s of the 20th century, Lu Dingyi was already a vice premier of the State Council.
Lu Dingyi when he was the editor-in-chief of Jiefang Daily
In 1979, Lu Dingyi became the vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and was later elected to the Standing Committee of the "Central Advisory Committee".
On May 9, 1996, 90-year-old Lu Dingyi died of illness in Beijing.
Lu Dingyi has two wives in his life, namely Tang Yizhen and Yan Weibing.
Tang Yizhen, also known as Tang Yizhen.
Born in 1909 in a poor intellectual family in the suburbs of Wuchang, Hubei Province, his father Tang Xinzhou was a well-known local old Chinese medicine doctor, and there were six brothers and sisters in the family, Tang Yizhen was the youngest child in the family.
Tang Yizhen's eldest brother, Tang Yijing, was one of the founders of Hubei Art College (now Hubei Academy of Fine Arts) and was close friends with Dong Biwu; Tang Yizhen was also influenced by progressive ideas from an early age because of this relationship, and participated in the revolution at the age of 17.
Tang Yizhen
She and Lu Dingyi met and fell in love while studying in Moscow, and after she and her husband returned to China in 1932, they served as the director of the Central Red Army Sanitary Materials Factory.
In November 1934, Tang Yizhen fostered her daughter, and she was transferred to Guitian, the fourth capital of Changting County, with the Fujian Provincial Party Committee, and gave birth to a boy named Xiaoding at the home of Fan Qibiao, the head of the Tingxi Security Bureau.
Ten days later, when the 36th Division of the Kuomintang advanced to the fourth capital, Tang Yizhen was forced to separate from her son and give it to Fan Qibiao and his wife to raise; before leaving, she gave Fan Qibiao and his wife the only blanket, a steel basin, and a postal cloth bag, and wrote the address of her hometown in Wuchang, Hubei Province in Chinese and Russian, and she was transferred to the mountains with the Fujian Military Region to carry out guerrilla warfare.
In January 1935, Tang Yizhen, who was only 25 years old, died in the guerrilla war in western Fujian.
Lu Dingyi's second wife, Yan Weibing, was born in 1918, she graduated from high school and was admitted to the literature department of "Central University"; when the school year officially broke out, she immediately defected to Yan'an with several like-minded progressive youths.
She married Lu Dingyi in August 1941.
She gave birth to two sons and a daughter for Lu Ding, namely the eldest son Lu De, the second son Lu Jianjian and the daughter Lu Ruijun.
In 1986, Yan Weibing died of illness in Beijing at the age of 68.
Lu Yeping
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Lu Ding has a total of three sons and two daughters.
Among them, a son and a daughter born to Lu Dingyi and Tang Yizhen have not been able to meet for a long time. The son Lu Fan Jiading met his biological father Lu Dingyi in Fuzhou in 1980, and the daughter Lu Yeping only met in 1988.
In fact, as early as the beginning of the founding of New China, Lu Dingyi thought about going to Jiangxi to find Tang Yizhen's bones and inquire about the whereabouts of his two children, but because of the waste waiting to be rebuilt at that time, Lu Dingyi himself was very busy with his work and was never able to make the trip; however, he always cared about his eldest son and eldest daughter, and he always asked the relevant departments of Jiangxi and Fujian provinces to help him find them.
At the same time, Lu Dingyi's eldest son Fan Jiading (adoptive father's surname Fan) is also looking for his biological father.
Unlike ordinary adoptive parents, Fan Jiading's adoptive parents Fan Qibiao and Cong Xiumei never concealed their adoptive son's life experience; on Fan Jiading's 18th birthday, his adoptive parents told Fan Jiading the truth.
And Fan Jiading has always wanted to find his biological father.
In the early 60s of the 20th century, Fan Jiading found the words "Tang Yizhen" on his mother's relic, a piece of furoshiki dyed indigo. He was pleasantly surprised and asked his old comrades from the Red Army era everywhere.
In the end, this matter was known to Li Jianzhen, who was the secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee (not the first secretary) at the time, Li Jianzhen served as the secretary of the county party committee in Changting back then, and was very familiar with Fan Jiading's biological mother Tang Yizhen, and she knew that Tang Yizhen was Tang Yizhen's pseudonym.
Tang Yizhen
Fan Jiading once wrote a letter to Lu Dingyi, but because Lu Dingyi was in prison at that time, although after investigation and verification by relevant departments, it was confirmed that Fan Jiading was his eldest son, but he was afraid of affecting his son, so he never recognized him.
It was not until September 1980 that the father and son, who had never met before, met in Fuzhou. At this time, Lu Dingyi was 74 years old, and Fan Jiading was also 46 years old.
Lu Dingyi said that in order to thank Fan Jiading's adoptive parents, his son would not change his surname to Lu, but to change his surname to Lu Fan; therefore, Lu Dingyi's eldest son was called Lu Fan Jiading.
And Lu Ding's experience of finding his eldest daughter is even more legendary.
In the 80s of the 20th century, Lu Dingyi wrote an article entitled "Memories of the Martyr Tang Yizhen", which summarized the short but glorious life of the martyr Tang Yizhen, and also mentioned Ye Ping and Xiaoding.
As a result, in 1987, Lai Zhangsheng, a young teacher at Ganzhou Southern Metallurgical Institute (now Jiangxi University of Science and Technology), read this article by chance. He felt that Ye Ping's life experience mentioned in the article was very similar to his mother, so he wrote a letter to Lu Dingyi. Lu Dingyi immediately asked Lu Fan Jiading to rush to Jiangxi, and wrote a letter to the Jiangxi Provincial People's Government on October 5. After receiving Lu Dingyi's letter, the Jiangxi Provincial Department of Civil Affairs and the Jiangxi Provincial Public Security Department formed a joint investigation team to cooperate with Lu Fan Jiading in the investigation. After a detailed visit, it was finally confirmed that Lai Zhangsheng's mother was Lu Dingyi's daughter Ye Ping, who had been lost for 53 years.
In November 1987, Lu Dingyi met his eldest daughter Ye Ping, who had been separated for 53 years, in Nanchang, Jiangxi.
Lu Yeping
It should be said that whether it is Lu Fan Jiading or Lu Yeping, the relevant departments have made detailed visits and investigations to confirm their identities, and they do not draw conclusions casually.
But I don't know why, in 2004, Lu Yeping's son, Lai Zhangsheng, a professor at Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, wrote a long documentary literature "My Grandfather Lu Dingyi" under the pen name "Huangping" by Guangdong People's Publishing House.
Unexpectedly, the publication of this book caused dissatisfaction among the children of Lu Dingyi's second wife.
According to a report in 2004 by Beijing Entertainment News, Lu Dingyi's third son, Lu Jianjian (the second son born to Yan Weibing), expressed his dissatisfaction with the book "My Grandfather Lu Dingyi" to the media, and explicitly questioned the authenticity of Lu Fanjiading and Lu Yeping's identities:
Even if they and my father don't do it, the two siblings should do it to see if they are of the same blood, after all, there are too many people who have been separated from the war for many years, and it is necessary to give themselves and others a clear explanation... In the absence of scientific recognition, even if my father admits it, even if the page is turned over, we don't want to pursue anything, but it is too boring to write "My Grandfather Lu Dingyi" with this bit of "blood", how much does such a grandson know about my father? How many times have we met?
At the same time, Mr. Lu Jianjian also said that his half-brother and sister have been asking for money from his father:
But they are constantly asking their father for money and goods to improve their living conditions, which we cannot do.
Lu Dingyi's granddaughter, Ms. Lu Xingzi, also told the media that her grandmother (Yan Weibing) proposed that Lu Dingyi and Lu Fan's family would do a paternity test before her death, and when Lu Dingyi died, they also left a strand of the old man's hair, just so that they could do a paternity test, but they were refused:
When I was very young, I met the Fan family and them, and my grandmother said it was best to do a paternity test, but my grandfather and they didn't agree. When my grandfather passed away in 1996, the family deliberately left a lock of his hair, thinking that they could do it at the right opportunity, but they still didn't want to do it.
On the other hand, Lu Fan Jiading and Lai Zhangsheng both mentioned in the interview that the lives of the two families have not changed in any way because of their relationship with Lu Dingyi, and Lu Fan Jiading has not been exposed to any light in his career, and finally retired as an ordinary civil servant in Changting County.
And Ms. Lu Yeping did not make any changes in her life because she recognized Lu Dingyi, and she still lived an ordinary life of buying vegetables, cooking, and taking care of her grandchildren every day in Yudu, Jiangxi.
Lu Dingyi's grandson Lai Zhangsheng
Lu Fan Jiading and Lu Yeping, the two siblings, did not change materially because of their recognition of Lu Dingyi.
And what Lu Fanjiading said to the reporter of "Beijing Entertainment News" on the phone is still very reasonable in Lantai's opinion:
I have letters and telegrams from my father on hand... After a long-term investigation by the Central Ministry of Public Security and the Fujian Provincial Party Committee, it has been proved that I am the son of him and Tang Yizhen.
As for why Lu Fan Jiading and Lu Yeping were unwilling to do a paternity test, it may be that they felt that doing so was suspected of insulting their personality; after all, they never thought of seeking any personal interests in the name of "Lu Ding's first child".
I don't know what everyone thinks, welcome to leave a message in the comment area to discuss.
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Resources:
"<我的外公陆定一>The Dissatisfaction of the Children and Grandchildren with the Surname Lu", Li Bing, Beijing Entertainment News, July 19, 2004;
Lu Dingyi: The Emotional World of Ups and Downs, Zhejiang Online;
"Lu Dingyi's Daughter: My Father's Long March Left Me to Meet After 53 Years", Xiang Lili, The Beijing News, October 18, 2006;