Lao Zhan's small note:
The author of this article is Xu Ming, a classmate of Lao Zhan Fudan.
After graduation, he returned to Guizhou and was the secretary of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee.
Later, he served as Director of the Department of Culture and a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
Writing an article about my father, thick and affectionate.
This article recalls my mother, which has a special taste.
You may wish to read it, you will be filled with emotion.
Xu Ming: A positive and advanced mother, she was removed from her post and her salary was reduced when she was "anti-rightist".
新三届 2024-01-31 06:02 Published in Guangdong
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Author's bio
Author of the college days
Xu Ming, born in Zunyi, Guizhou Province in 1955, joined the rural team after graduating from high school in 1973, and was recruited to work as an operator in the synthesis workshop of Chishui Natural Gas and Fertilizer Plant in 1976. He took the college entrance examination in December 1977 and entered the Department of Journalism of Fudan University in March 1978. After graduation, he was assigned to the General Office of the Guizhou Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, and served as the vice president of Guizhou People's Publishing House, chairman and secretary of the Party Committee of Guizhou Publishing Group Company, and director of the Guizhou Provincial Department of Culture.
Original question
A small biography of mother Wang Heng
Author: Xu Ming
Wang Heng, formerly known as Wang Junfen and known as Yuxian, was born on August 2, 1932 (lunar calendar) in Zheng'an County, Zunyi District, Guizhou Province. Wang Junfen's transformation into Wang Heng after 1949 was also a revolutionary fashion at that time, such as Wei Dong and Zhengrong during the Cultural Revolution.
Her mother reported that she was abandoned by her grandfather when she was a child and relied on her grandmother's domestic helper to raise her. She lived at a time when the country was in turmoil, and the remote border city of Zheng'an was not immune. Before the thirties, the local warlords of Guizhou, such as Liu Xianqian, Wang Jialie, and Zhou Xicheng, had fought against each other in Zheng'an and its surroundings against the Liukou formed by the Guangfu Army, the Yunnan Army, the Sichuan Army, and the stragglers, and the county town was plundered from time to time. After the thirties, a delicate balance was achieved between the local warlords in Guizhou and the surrounding Sichuan and Yunnan forces, and the number of wars was reduced and the society was basically stable. After 1935, the central government and Kuomintang forces began to enter and participate in local governance. However, the government was weak, and social order was basically maintained by the gentry and traditional inertia of the people.
According to the Zheng'an County Chronicle, in 1936, there were wandering criminals under the banner of the Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army who entered the city to rob the rich but did not help the poor. The "Volunteer Army" fought more than 200 local tyrants in Zheng'an, and looted more than 40,000 pieces of the ocean, and the wealth of the people can be glimpsed here. The establishment of the Prefectural Security Police Brigade in 1937 may have something to do with this incident. After all, it is the primary responsibility of local governments to protect the territory and the people. In 1938, the Zheng'an County Party Department of the Kuomintang was established. In 1939, the county magistrate Zhou Fengwen was corrupt and perverted the law, and at the oath-taking ceremony of the National Convention attended by thousands of people, Zhang Guojun, the principal of Zheng'an Middle School, was exposed on the spot, and the Guizhou Provincial Government of the Republic of China was forced to remove Zhou from his position. It can be seen that the public opinion expressed by intellectuals at that time had a great impact on the departure and retention of government officials.
During the most tense period of the Anti-Japanese War, Zheng'an was bombed by Japanese planes, frequent air raid sirens and rumors from all walks of life, which made the rich people frightened and fled to the countryside to avoid danger. At this time, the livelihood of the poor who depend on domestic servants will also be in difficulty, and Wang Heng has to take a leave of absence from school and go out to work as a helper in order to survive and eat. But in Wang Heng's memories, in addition to the depression when she couldn't go to school, her teenage years seemed to be more joyful and warm.
Grandma's control of her only daughter is very rough. Wang Heng said that he often went to the house of a good classmate to play, and sometimes he was out for the whole holiday, and his grandmother seemed to neither stop nor worry. Many of Wang Heng's classmates are better than her. There is a Zhang Shuxian (Note 1), whose family is a large landowner and employs long-term workers and servants. Wang Heng came to her house to stay for many days on holidays. When Wang Heng was old, he still remembered that he was invited to Zhang's house in the countryside of Daozhen for the first time, and Zhang's parents sent a sliding rod (a kind of recliner carried by two people) to pick him up. Wang Heng is a poor child, and the luxury of the sliding rod makes her feel uneasy, so she insists on walking. As a result, the two of them did not arrive home until dark, so they had to spend the night at a roadside farmhouse. When the owner of the peasant family heard that Zhang Shuxian complained that Wang Heng did not sit on a sliding pole and begged for hardship, he asked them where they went? Zhang Shuxian said the names of his parents, and when the peasant family heard that it was the owner of the land he rented, he hurriedly cooked for them and stayed overnight. When they arrived home the next day, Zhang Shuxian's parents heard about it and asked them to pick up a load of millet to thank the tenant. In my mother's memory, there was also a small family who was in the firecracker business, and in order to avoid the soldiers, the whole family returned to the old house in the countryside and invited Wang Heng to go with him, Wang Heng readily agreed, and followed the family to the countryside to live for more than a month. Grandma's indulgence of her daughter and Wang Heng's playful and unrestrained personality are vivid.
The grandmother's open-mindedness was also manifested in insisting that her daughter go to school and receive education as long as she could eat. This is also related to the fact that Zheng'an Linjiang Tongyu has always emphasized education and education, and the atmosphere is relatively open. Her mother said that she suspended school when she stopped cooking, and returned to school when she had food, and the school never embarrassed her when she returned to school, and it took 8 years to graduate from primary school. Although she is poor and weak, she rarely encounters discrimination and bullying, and most of her teachers and classmates treat her well. She suffered from a fire eye, and the teacher who taught the physiology and hygiene class took her to buy medicine for treatment; if she couldn't afford to buy a textbook, she used someone else's old textbook from the previous year; she couldn't pay the tuition fee, and her teachers and classmates helped her to apply, and there were many exemptions. In 1947, she was admitted to Zheng'an County High School, and two years later, in the summer, due to the turmoil at the time of the Ding Revolution, the school was closed, and she was forced to drop out. In December of the same year, Zheng'an County was liberated, and the fifth branch of Erye Military and Political University announced the enrollment of students, with the condition that they were 18 years old, junior high school students, including food and housing, and a monthly allowance. She submitted a resume and was accepted.
Zheng'an County enrolled more than 300 people that year, of which only 8 were women. Trainees attend short-term training on site. The only thing Wang Heng can remember about the study content of the short-term course is "On New Democracy," and the songs he taught and sang, such as "The Sky of New China" and "Without the Communist Party, There Would Be No New China," can still be clearly sung when he is old. Don't underestimate the training of more than ten days, the sense of belonging to find a place to be close to the group has a huge impact on shaping the thinking of young people. At the end of the short training, Chen Bin (Note 2) led the team to Zunyi City on foot. The road was attacked by bandits several times, but fortunately a platoon of troops escorted by the front and rear arrived safely.
After arriving in Zunyi City, she entered the Zunyi Cadre School for 3 months of training, and has not yet graduated, the People's Bank of Zunyi Prefecture went to the cadre school to pick people, and she was selected to be a trainee of the Cadre School, and since then she has entered the bank and worked all her life until she retired from the Agricultural Bank of Zunyi County in July 1988.
My mother worked in a bank (first the People's Bank of China, then the Agricultural Bank) for 38 years, working as a cashier, agricultural economist, planning supervisor, accountant, and loan officer. The biggest official is the head of the county agricultural bank, and he is entitled to the deputy section level treatment one year before retirement. Her familiarity with all kinds of banking business is unmatched in the local area, and she is also well-known in the province's agricultural bank system. She is the first person to pick up the training of newly recruited employees of the bank and some complex problems of financial liquidation and auditing. So many years after her retirement, some cadres of the Provincial Agricultural Bank met with the staff of the Agricultural Bank of Zunyi County, and they were still inquiring about the fact that the famous Accountant Wang was now here.
The mother is short, round-faced and big-eyed, has a prosperous life, walks and talks quickly, works competently and neatly, is cheerful and generous, has ideas and can make decisions in case of problems, and has a close relationship with her children. It is a great contrast with his father, who is silent, rude, picky, and not good at interacting with each other. From her chatter and part of her resume, you can roughly trace her mother's life experience.
In my mother's life, there were happy moments of joy and pride, helpless days of being wronged, wronged and angry, and indignation and fear that had nowhere to tell during the ten-year catastrophe.
In December 1949, my mother applied for the Military and Political University to participate in the "revolution", but she did not have the revolutionary consciousness of left-wing students, but in the special period of regime change, she had no hope of studying and finding a job, and she had no choice but to survive. Because of his young age, small size, and initial Chinese, he soon entered the bank after joining the army, and missed the experience of going to the countryside to suppress bandits and going to Korea to resist the United States.
Commended advanced molecules. Wang Heng (second from right)
The period from 1950 to 1957 was a period of vigorous and carefree business. Although her life was hard during the supply system, she had no worries about food and clothing, and the unit also cured her of malaria that she had suffered from for many years at public expense. She is a genuine supporter of the new regime that will give her a new life. She is simply ignorant of the world, but she is diligent and quick in her work, quick to learn things, and willing to endure hardships. Beginning in the second half of 1951, in order to cooperate with the land reform and resume the development of agricultural production, as a cashier, she often carried a large satchel with tens of thousands of yuan (old currency Note 3) and walked to various districts of Zunyi County to lend money. The amount of money was too large, and the bank hired a carriage to go down when the journey was too long. Of the 18 districts in Zunyi County, she has walked to most of them. It is common to travel thirty or forty miles back and forth every day. As a result, thick calluses came out of his feet, and he wore out many pairs of cloth shoes a year.
Wang Zhen (Note 4), the president of the bank at that time, was an old cadre who went south from Hebei, Shandong, and Henan, and liked this innocent and down-to-earth little girl who was hard-working, and always affectionately called her a little ghost. She soon joined the Youth League in 1950 and served as the deputy secretary of the Youth League branch of the county branch, the head of the trade union, the leader of the women's group, the leader of the political theory study group, and also the correspondent of the Zunyi Daily, and was rated as advanced every year. In September 1952, he was selected to be sent to the Provincial People's Bank Cadre School for training. Wang Zhen, who had been transferred to Guiyang to serve as a leader, once asked her if she was willing to stay in Guiyang? Wang Heng refused, saying that her goal was not ambitious: to work in Zunyi and take her mother in for support when she was able. This is a fork in the road of her fate, and if she had stayed in the province, perhaps her fate would have been very different. But there are no ifs in life.
In 1953, at the age of 21, she was promoted to deputy head of the Planning Unit. At the time of the work reform and grading, it was administrative level 22, and the salary was 54.5 yuan. My grandmother came from Zheng'an and lived a surplus-food life on her salary. She actively asked to join the party, applied every year, and was still not accepted after four or five years. She would not have thought that her simplicity and innocence and the titles of her youthful ambition would put her in an embarrassing and dangerous situation in the era of frequent sports.
In 1954, Wang Heng (second from right) took a group photo with his colleagues
In the early 50s, the new policy was decided, and in order to purify the ranks, stabilize the political situation, rectify the work style, try cadres, suppress rebellion, three antis, five antis, and oppose the right, and sifted through the political and historical problems of public officials over and over again. In 1956, in order to investigate whether she had joined the Consistent Way and her family background, the unit and the interrogators repeatedly sent letters to the People's Committee of Chengguan Town, Zheng'an County, and her former classmates. According to her, she was once ordered to organize a fight against colleagues who had a bad style of life. During the purge of rebellion, as the deputy leader of the unit's anti-rebellion, at the meeting to expose and criticize a colleague suspected of historical problems, she personally met the wife of the branch president, who was born as a landlord, but she slapped and kicked this colleague suspected of being a historical counter-revolutionary. Wang Heng, who had a clear conscience, couldn't stand it and couldn't deal with it, so he had to hide in the toilet to avoid it.
In the successive movements, Wang Heng used to be a pawn on the organization's support, and she was confused and suspicious? With her innocence and simplicity, there may not be any such thing as deliberately rectifying people against her conscience, but unintentional harm is probably inevitable. Undoubted, she finally fell into that huge conspiracy in 1957.
In 1957, the Party Central Committee called for help in rectifying the Party's work style, mobilizing the masses to know everything and say everything, and to put forward their opinions as much as possible. In Wang Heng's department, there are a number of former employees from the Republic of China who are the main targets of mobilization. But no matter how they mobilize, they just won't open Chrysostom. Wang Heng himself couldn't help it, "I feel that as a member of the Communist Youth League, I should respond to the party's call, what to say, and not learn from those who are duplicitous" (how frank and naïve her self-description is). So she put out the questions that others discussed in private and she also felt were correct, plus the complaints that she had applied for many years and could not join the party, and poured beans into the bamboo tube one by one. She believes that she "has a clean personal history, is active in her work and in all the movements called for by the party, and does not want to overthrow the party and overthrow socialism, and it is nothing wrong to say it." (How naïve!)
Mother, father and three children, the first on the left is the author
On March 31, 1958, disaster struck. The Zunyi County People's Committee dismissed Wang Heng from her post as deputy head of the unit, expelled her from the regiment, and lowered her salary from grade 22 (54.5 yuan) to grade 24 (40 yuan) on the grounds that she had made a series of erroneous remarks during the rectification and anti-rightist movement. (Note 5) The punishment decision lists the erroneous remarks she made during the rectification:
(1) Wang Heng said at the meeting of the bank study group in July 1957: Individual units can still do a good job without the party's leadership. (2) Wang Heng said that the sectarianism in his work should be attributed to the entire party organization. The leadership of the Party is sectarian, and the Party members go along with it, do not adhere to the truth, do not rise up to struggle, so the entire organization of the Party should be responsible. Those party members who are close to the leadership are flattering (Zunyi dialect, meaning to pat the horse), and Mr. Hao Hao is a flattering villain who does not adhere to the truth for the sake of individual interests; (3) Wang Heng does not approve of the leadership of party members over the Youth League branch. (4) Wang Heng was dissatisfied with the party's policy of having both ability and political integrity as cadres, and said: How does the party's leadership judge a cadre? Those who can flatter and praise the leaders are good cadres, and those who are good and often expose the shortcomings of the leaders are bad cadres. The promotion of cadres is based on impressions, personal connections, sectarianism is serious, and more than 90 percent of party members are promoted to district-level cadres. Non-party members are also good, because if you are not a party member, you will not be promoted. The reason why individual party members have not been promoted is because they have a bad impression of the leader, and those who have been promoted have made meritorious contributions to the suppression of rebellion. (5) Wang Heng said to the party's principle of party building: Organizational development and personal relations are not necessarily the same, except for the women of the county party committee and the lovers of some chiefs, who are party members, there is no other county organ. What qualifications does the lover of a certain county magistrate or minister have to join the party? Isn't this a personal relationship? The organization department is also responsible, and at the same time, the phenomenon of developing party members to despise women is also being discovered. Among the women in our bank, there are still some stronger than some male party members, so why haven't we developed one? (6) Wang Heng said: The party is lenient to party members and strict with the masses. The leadership of the Party only trusts Party members, and has consistently discriminated, attacked, and retaliated against League members and non-Party personalities to prevent comrades who speak out fairly. None of the comrades' speeches denied the party's achievements, but I feel that non-party comrades have put forward many opinions to the leadership of the party, and comrades who are party members have taken the speeches without mentioning the party's shortcomings and denying everyone's opinions.
In the early days of exposing and criticizing Wang Heng's erroneous remarks, her attitude was extremely resistant, slandering the comrades who exposed her as crows laughing at pigs, not seeking truth from facts, but taking revenge. Make a fuss at the meeting and scare the crowd. Later, after many conversations with the leaders and the help of comrades, he basically admitted his mistakes.
Since Wang Heng took part in the revolutionary work, due to his lack of consciousness of self-transformation, his old ideological consciousness has not been thoroughly transformed, especially in recent years, under the party's training and education, he has done a little work for the party, is self-righteous, proud and complacent, and looks down on others. Because of this, a series of erroneous remarks were made when the party launched a rectification campaign, especially when the bourgeois rightists launched a rampant attack on the party. Now, on the basis of Wang Heng's erroneous facts, it has been decided to remove him from his post as deputy head of the unit and downgrade him from 22 to 24. ”
Fortunately, there is this punishment decision, which records what Wang Heng said at the time, and shows Wang Heng's simple naivety and stubborn personality. Her unabashed truth attracted severe exposure and criticism, and she struggled and defended under high pressure, and finally had to bow her head and check and admit her mistakes over and over again. From October 19, 1957 to the end of December, in less than two months, Wang Heng wrote 15 inspections of tens of thousands of words, some to bank leaders and some to party branches. In addition to the self-examination of the "absurd remarks" of individuals, there is still considerable space for self-justification, denying the imposed crimes. From the handwriting, the further back it looks, the more scribbled it becomes, which shows the humiliating state of mind at that time.
In 1957, Wang Heng's review
In March 1958, in the name of the county people's committee, the following punishment was imposed on her as "attacking the party organization" after listing six erroneous remarks. After being expelled from the regiment, dismissed from his post and reduced his salary, at the end of the year, on December 10, 1958, the leading group for rectification of the unit that was still unfulfilled was once again appraised in black and white: "This comrade made some rightist remarks during the rectification movement, and with the help of the organization and the education of the comrades, he basically admitted his mistakes. was dismissed and demoted, and he was dissatisfied in his heart, but now he just doesn't dare to say it······ In the future, it is necessary to conduct long-term education and testing. ”
From the proud backbone of the spring breeze, the advanced model to the alternative who was unjustly dismissed from her post and reduced her salary, her mother's life must have been painful. The younger brother was born in July 1958. In other words, the severe criticism and punishment of Wang Heng continued throughout her pregnancy. Today, it is hard to imagine how the mother, who has a big belly, can defend herself and fight under extreme anger and depression, and has to be forced to write reviews and examinations again and again, admit that she is not guilty, and face the white eyes of the people around her and the political and economic punishment.
This punishment was a wound that would never heal, and my mother never let go. She has always believed that there is a time to redress grievances and defend falsehoods, and she keeps writing letters and representations, and the postal vouchers she sent are pressed under the glass plate of her desk one by one to show her grievances and fairness, but she never thought that it would become the evidence of the Cultural Revolution again. Her stubbornness, on the one hand, comes from her confidence in her innocence and loyalty, and on the other hand, from the belief that the policies above are good, and the implementation below is bad. Even if the Cultural Revolution was as deep a disaster, in her eyes, it was a good minister who was in charge and deceived the above. When she sees the injustice around her, she will say indignantly: The more you go down, the more filthy it becomes. She has worked at the grassroots level all her life, and where does her belief in the "above" come from? And of course, countless letters of representation have been lost.
It was not until 1979, when the Zunyi County Agricultural Bank reviewed the punishment in 1958 and came to a conclusion: "The remarks made by Wang Heng at the group meeting were mainly to give advice to individual leaders of his unit, not to attack the party organization. The original conclusion was untrue and should be corrected and Wang Heng's original position and salary level restored. ”
In 1979, the Zunyi County Revolutionary Committee issued a notice of Wang Heng's rehabilitation
The mother who was punished, depressed, humiliated, and resentful, all of which never completely overwhelmed her. She is a person with extremely high self-esteem, and she is unwilling to show weakness in her life, and she is not willing to let people look down on her. At work, she seems to be business as usual, let go to the countryside, and say that if you change the guard, you will change the guard. No matter what work is in her hands, it is refreshing and clean. In a July 1960 "Appraisal Form for Cadres Going to the Countryside to Participate in the Production Appraisal of Production Leaders", the group gave her an appraisal that included the clause that "although her labor force is weak, because she is willing to work, her labor efficiency is stronger than that of some male comrades." In 1980, the Zunyi County Agricultural Bank evaluated her in the employee promotion approval form of "should know and should be able to get 95 points, 79 years of annual attendance 306 days, 78 years of no sick leave." In the second half of 78 years, he participated in the doubles audit in the county department store, assisted in the investigation of more than 10,000 yuan of outstanding accounts, and after arriving at the county branch, he was conscientiously responsible for completing and exceeding the tasks assigned by the organization in the rectification office and auditing. Isn't my mother's dedication to overdrawing herself with such a desperate dedication just to prove her loyalty and innocence? It is a pity that her dedication has not been cherished by the "above" in which she firmly believes. Her grievances would not be redressed until years later.
Of course, compared with those who were put on the hat of rightists, sent to rural frontier labor camps, and even had their families ruined, what happened to my mother seems to be only a "little witch". And no matter whether it is a "big witch" or a small "witch", the humiliation of their lives is not only their individual fate. I remember that in the nineties of the last century, I met Kang Jian, the old president of the Guizhou Academy of Social Sciences. The old man participated in the revolution in 1936 when he was a student at Yenching University. At the time of the liberation of Guizhou, he served as the Propaganda Minister of the Second Field Fifth Corps and the Deputy Director of the Propaganda Department of the Guizhou Provincial Party Committee. Proper Jiluyu old revolutionary, great intellectual. At the beginning of 1958, when he was the president of the Guiyang Normal Academy, he was branded as a rightist distribution factory, and it was not until he was rehabilitated in 1979 that he went to the Academy of Social Sciences to show his strengths. I was very interested in his experience, and I went to his house many times in the evenings to record interviews, hoping to write a short biography for him. It's a pity that it failed to fulfill in the end, and I'm ashamed to this day. I once asked him if he knew in advance about the conspiracy to lure the snake out of the hole when he helped the party rectify the situation in 1957? The old man laughed and said: Where would he know? If the party carries out rectification and calls for everything to be known, then I sincerely believe and hope that the rectification can solve the party's existing problems. I believe what the old man says. Isn't the motto of Yenching University "Freedom by Serving the Truth"? This should have been the original intention of his generation to join the revolution.
I dare not say whether Kang Jian is the oldest and highest-ranking among the 10,082 rightists in Guizhou Province (Note 5), but they all suffer for telling the truth, but it is the same, and this is by no means a shame for this group. The loss of their wings was the beginning of the great loss of the vitality of the entire nation.
In 1961, Wang Heng (first from right) took a group photo with his colleagues
Back to my mother's experience. In the summer of 1962, because my father had been transferred to Zunyi County No. 5 Middle School (Xinzhou Middle School) in October of the previous year, my mother agreed to be transferred to the Xinzhou Business Office of Zunyi County Agricultural Bank as an accountant. Our family then moved from the county seat to Xinzhou. Little did her mother know that in a few years, another bigger storm would hit her, her father, and the whole family.
After June 1966, the storm of the Cultural Revolution struck. Overnight, the middle school campus was plastered with big-character posters, with the most eye-catching headlines being "Hit the traitor, the capitalist roader Xu Rixin", and the insulting "hit Xu Hook Nose" and so on. Schools were closed, and the task force organized teachers and students to criticize their fathers and parade through the streets. My grandmother, I and my two younger brothers had to move to a simple kitchen opposite the bungalow, and my father's monthly salary of more than 70 yuan was deducted and only 15 yuan was paid.
I remember one night, I was in a daze and was woken up by the loud noise outside the house, where my grandmother was already outside. When I went out, I saw that my parents' house was crowded with people inside and outside, rummaging through boxes and cabinets, not knowing what they were searching, and my mother protesting. One of the students, Hu Moumou, took out a hot water bottle, raised his head and slammed it on the ground, and the inner tank burst with a loud sound. At the end of the raid, he took away some of the family's belongings, including his grandmother's copper hookah, and took away his father, but his mother tried her best to stop it, where was it useful. In order to prevent accidents from happening to her father, her mother took a hoe from the kitchen to pound coal, and insisted on walking with the rebels who escorted her. In the early hours of the morning, my mother came home and told my family that my father was being held at the district industrial and commercial office.
Another night, the rebels were going to hold a meeting at the town venue to criticize my father and others. At that time, armed fighting was prevalent, and my mother was worried that the rebels would beat my father, so she took me and my two younger brothers to the venue to observe. When he saw someone on the stage holding something like a rope in his hand, he stuffed it into his father's mouth. Too far away, the mother mistakenly thought that the father was pierced with a wire, and immediately raised her hand and shouted, "Wen Dou, not Martial Fight", and rushed to the rostrum, trying to stop the rebels from harming his father. When he arrived on the stage, he was pressed to the ground by several rebels, his mother struggled desperately, and the help and bottom of one shoe were actually broken, which shows its intensity. My brother and I shouted after me in fright. Eventually, the mother was dragged away from the venue. After the rebel head of the bank's Shinshu office promised my mother in person that she would not harm my father, my mother took my brother and me home.
Her mother's fierce confrontation was tantamount to setting herself on fire, and she was also targeted by the rebels on charges of the Baofu faction, the rightist, and the landlord (her father was a landlord). Not only did she pull her to accompany her when criticizing her father, but the unit also held a meeting to criticize and fight. At the criticism meeting, Shi Moumou, the person in charge of the business office, a southbound cadre who had neither education nor business, used the postal credentials under the glass plate as evidence to expose Wang Heng's undead heart to turn the world upside down. My mother scolded me on the spot: I wrote a letter to the Party Central Committee and Chairman Mao, not to Taiwan, what kind of day has changed?
This old cadre, who is full of typos and reads the cow ghost and snake god as the cow ghost and its god, is neither a rebel nor has he been beaten, and the red terror tremblingly exposed the suspect who criticized and overturned the case, probably out of self-preservation, or extenuating circumstances. The most incredible thing is that Mei Moumou, a physics teacher at Xinzhou Middle School where my father worked and the leader of the rebels, actually organized primary and secondary school students to send big-character posters to the business office, and specially ordered me and my two younger brothers to participate.
On that day, several leading figures of the rebel faction of Xinzhou Middle School led dozens of primary and secondary school students to assemble and set off from the campus, crossed half of the street in the town, and arrived at the entrance of the Xinzhou business office, where the staff of the business office were asked to stand on the steps and receive the big-character poster for Wang Heng. The procession stood on the street, watching the lively crowd, crowding until it blocked the street. The mother was also on the steps, expressionless.
The procedure begins, led by one person who calls the slogan first. At this moment, I heard Mei Moumou, a physics teacher at Xinzhou Middle School who led the team (this person graduated from Guiyang Normal School, was the head of the Youth League Committee of Xinzhou Middle School before the Cultural Revolution, and was a young cadre trained by the school) quietly said to the team members next to him, "When you shout to beat Wang Heng, see if they (me and my two younger brothers) raise their hands." The slogans of "beating Wang Heng of the Baofu faction" and "beating Wang Heng of the rightists" sounded, and I raised my hand mechanically, muttering in my mouth, not daring to look up at my mother. At the end of the ceremony, the men pasted the big-character posters on the outer wall of the business office and dispersed. How my brother and I got home has been forgotten. The fear and humiliation of the teenagers at that time can still be clearly felt to this day.
During that stormy time, my mother tried her best to spread her wings and wanted to protect her home and all her loved ones. But where can her strength be able to withstand the violence of the times. My grandmother, who had been living with us, didn't understand all this. She couldn't show her fear in front of her daughter, and she couldn't seek solace from a few grandchildren who couldn't do anything else. She drank alone with a hanging heart. Years later, a Nie woman who lived near the campus told me that when she went to my house, my grandmother was always crying. She comforted her grandmother not to cry, saying that Principal Xu and Accountant Wang are all good people and will be fine. But my grandmother fell ill and died in the fall of 1968 at the age of 63 after more than two years of suffering. Today, I think about it, she just died of fear and heartbreak.
In February 1991, Wang Heng and her husband Xu Rixin were in Beijing
After my grandmother died, the body was parked in the courtyard in front of my house, and no acquaintance or friend dared to approach to express condolences and sympathy. According to custom, at a specific location of the coffin, an oil lamp is lit to guide the deceased to the Yellow Spring. A rebel on campus stepped forward to intervene, saying that he was not allowed to engage in feudal superstition. His mother ignored him. She had one more important thing to work out. Fortunately, Captain Luo of the first team of the Xinzhou Commune took the initiative to say to his mother after learning of this: Comrade Wang, I heard that your old man is gone, so you can go to our production team to choose a piece of land and bury the old man, and you don't need money. It was also with the help of this kind Captain Luo that the production team sent more than a dozen people to help carry the coffin and dig the pit, so that my mother and we were able to send my grandmother's body to the cemetery for burial. (The cost of carrying the coffin and digging the pit was paid according to local rules).
My grandmother's death was a huge blow to my mother. Years later, she told her family that she had been so frightened, miserable, and angry that she couldn't sleep all night, and had to work hard during the day to deal with the rebels. By 1971, education was reorganized, secondary school enrollment resumed, and my father was liberated to work. The mother's condition was relieved. After the reform and opening up in 1979, her father was transferred to Zunyi County to prepare for the establishment of a county teacher, and her mother was transferred back to the Zunyi County Branch, and her grievances in 1957 were corrected and rehabilitated in April of the same year (Note 6), and she could finally live a carefree life. However, she never applied to join the party again, and she refused to be transferred by the organization department of the county party committee to the procuratorate to engage in the investigation and handling of economic cases. She no longer had to prove herself to anyone. She has won the general respect of her peers for her excellent business ability, and has realized her long-cherished wish to rely on her ability to eat. From that time to 2004, it was the busiest and happiest period for my mother. took his grandchildren, traveled at home and abroad with his father and colleagues, and lived a chic and comfortable life.
On New Year's Day 2010, the children accompanied Wang Heng (wheelchair user) in Hainan
In 2004, the mother began to develop Parkinson's symptoms, which were diagnosed in 2006. In the first ten years, he was able to take care of himself by relying on drug control. From 2016 to the present, life has been completely unable to take care of herself, and the hardships during this period are indescribable for the mother who is strong and clean in her life. Her long battle with the disease required a long narrative to be described.
I remember when I was a child, my grandmother often said that there are three sections of grass in life, and I don't know which one is good! Looking back on my mother's bumpy experience in this life, I can't help but feel the impermanence of life.
Wang Heng in his later years
(Note 1) Wang Heng's classmate Zhang Shuxian's father was suppressed in the land reform because he was a landlord, and his adult eldest son was classified as a landlord and sentenced to a labor camp, and after completing his sentence, he was employed in a labor reform unit in Zunyi County, and was arrested and sentenced for eavesdropping on enemy Taiwan in the 70s of the last century. After being released from the labor camp, he went to Guiyang to seek refuge with his sister Zhang Shuxian, and rented land in the suburbs of Guiyang to make a living, and never married. Zhang Shuxian joined the work later than Wang Heng and retired from Guiyang Pharmaceutical Company. After I was assigned to work in Guiyang, I accompanied my mother to her home behind Youyi Road. In her house, I saw the unlucky "landlord element" in his life, dressed neatly and neatly, with a straight back and a polite manner, and he could not see the hardships of his life from his appearance. In June 1979, according to the central government's "Decision on Landlords and Rich Peasants Taking Off Their Hats and the Composition of the Children of the Land Rich", 4,418 people in the county were anti-bad and bad, 615 people were corrected to wear hats by mistake, and 86 people were not reformed, and the transformation measures were implemented. 18,948 children of the rich were designated as members of the commune. This decision is too late for the eldest brother of the Zhang family, who has been a pariah all his life, even if it is good news, his life has been wasted.
(Note 2) Chen Bin, a native of Juancheng, Shandong, was one of the representatives of the army who went to Zheng'an at the end of 1949 to negotiate with the remnants of Song Xilian and the county magistrate of the Republic of China government, and the first county magistrate after the liberation of Daozhen. He died in 1990.
(Note 3) At that time, 10,000 yuan was equivalent to 1 yuan.
(Note 4) Wang Zhen, a native of Nangong, Hebei. After 1949, he was the first governor of the People's Bank of Zunyi Prefecture. Later, he served as the deputy director of the Guizhou Provincial Administration for Industry and Commerce and the vice president of the Provincial People's Bank of China, until his death in 1983.
(Note 5) ("Zunyi County Chronicles", published by Guizhou People's Publishing House in 1992) 36 pages record: Zunyi County from 1957 to 1958 in the county organs and schools of the Communist Party of China classified 93 rightists; ("The Communist Party of China Guizhou Province Historical Memorabilia" Guizhou People's Publishing House published in 2001) 236 pages record: Guizhou Province classified a total of 10,082 rightists. Some of the 93 rightists in Zunyi County were sent to re-education through labor, and some were handed over to their own units or rural areas for control. Those who were punished and dismissed without wearing the hat of "elements" like Wang Heng are not recorded, I don't know how many people there are?
[6] By 1983, Zunyi County had rehabilitated and corrected 92 wrongly classified rightists. The rehabilitation of those who were not included in the "elemental" category like their mothers has not been recorded, as is the case in Guizhou Province and the whole country. Recently, I saw "Review and Perception" published by the Central Compilation and Publishing House in 2004 (edited by the Working Committee for Central State Organs). Among them is Liu Zhengwei, who once served as the secretary of the Guizhou Provincial Party Committee, wrote "Looking Back on the Years", in which he talked about his role as the secretary of Liu Jie, executive secretary of the Henan Provincial Party Committee, and the deputy secretary general of the Henan Provincial Party Committee in 1978, and participated in the rehabilitation, correction and correction of all kinds of unjust, false and wrongly decided cases in Henan Province after 1979. According to Dai Huang's book "Hu Yaobang's Redress of Unjust, False and Wrongly Decided Cases," in 1957 there were 552,877 rightists nationwide, not including some college students, democrats, and private teachers, and no less than 100,000 rightists who did not wear hats for internal control. From 1978 to 1982, 540,000 rightists were rehabilitated across the country, 1.1 million cases left over from history before and after the founding of the People's Republic of China were reviewed, more than 300,000 cases occurred during the "Cultural Revolution" were cleaned up, and nearly 3 million cadres and tens of millions of innocent people were rehabilitated. How many ordinary people like their mothers, who have suffered decades of wrongs and persecution, are just anonymous names in this boring number.
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