Wang Lun said goodbye to Li Bai through the ages,
Why did Wang Lun miss Xiao Yin?
Chan Ka Kee
"The Peach Blossom Pond is a thousand feet deep, not as deep as Wang Lun to send me love. This is Li Bai's popular poem, which describes the scene when Wang Lun said goodbye to Li Bai, and the two of them cherished goodbye.
More than a thousand years later, a literati named Wang Lun missed the opportunity to bid farewell to his old friend Xiao Yin.
When Xiao Yin Literature Museum was sorting out Xiao Yin's correspondence, it found a letter written to Xiao Yin signed by Wang Lun.
Wang Lun's letter to Feng Yingzi and Xiao Yin dated October 7, 1983
When studying the Chinese Young Journalists Association led by Xiao Ying in Wuhan in 1938 and the establishment of the Yan'an branch of "Qingji" in Yan'an in 1939, as well as the historical facts of Xiao Ying's editorial board in New China Daily, the author came into contact with one name many times - Wang Lun.
- "I took this opportunity to talk to Mr. Wang Lun, the person in charge, about organizing the Yan'an branch of the Young Journalists Association, which was very much praised by him, and I immediately wrote to the association. (Xiao Ying, "Yan'an Journalists Begin to Organize", published in Journalists, Vol. 1, Nos. 9-10, 1938).
- The conference "elected Xu Bing, Xiang Zhonghua, Wang Lun, Ning Yuan, Xiao Ying (Xiao Yin), Yuan Xianqian, Fang Shumin and other comrades as the official presidium of the conference...... Then Xu Bing, Xiang Zhonghua, Wang Lun, Xiao Ying (Xiao Yin), Sha Fan, Lei Ye, Fang Shumin, Ying Kui, Fang Sui, Zhou You, Yuan Xianqian, Liu Shoushou and other thirteen comrades were elected as directors. ("New China News", November 10, 1938, 4th edition, "Ji China Young Journalists Association Yan'an Branch Inaugural Meeting")
- "New China News" is edited by "Xiang Zhonghua, and Xu Bing is specifically guided. Wang Lun, Xiao Ying, Lei Ye, Yuan Xianqian, Fang Shumin, Liu Yi, Li Guang and others participated in the editorial board work. ("The CCP's Newspaper and All-out War of Resistance" 2020-12-31 07:30:12 Jianghan Forum 2020 Issue 12)
According to Wang Lun's son Wang Yansheng in the article "Remembering the Road Traveled by Father Wang Lun", when Wang Lun was in Yan'an in 1938, he was invited by the TASS Far East Branch to serve as a special correspondent in Yan'an. Later, due to the obstruction of the Kuomintang government, TASS abolished the Chinese correspondents in various places. After that, Wang Lun set up the border region news agency within the border region literary and art association, which is also the "New China Daily," one of the three units that Xiao Ying mentioned in the article to "initiate the registration of reporters who stayed in the region," and the border region news agency, which is one of the liberation agencies and news agencies.
Wang Lun when he was young
Wang Lun is in Yan'an
At the end of 1938, after graduating from Luyi, Xiao Ying was originally scheduled to work in the Yan'an branch of Qingji. Because Li Gongpu, who was visiting Yan'an, asked the Communist Party to send several cadres to help him with secretarial work, Xiao Ying, who had worked under Li Gongpu when he was in Wuhan, was sent by the Party Central Committee to work with Li Gongpu in western Shanxi for four or five months. Wang Lun served as the resident secretary of the Yan'an branch of Qingji.
On April 24, 1939, Xiao Ying followed Li Gongpu back to Yan'an. At this time, Wang Lun was introduced to the Chongqing Southern Bureau by the United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee to engage in united front liaison work in Beibei, and took a bus from Yan'an to Chongqing in late April. Around the same time, Xiao Ying, who returned to Yan'an, returned to work at the Journalists' Society in Yan'an. From the perspective of time, Xiao Ying and Wang Lun have a simple contact and time for work handover.
This is what Wang Lun said in a letter to Xiao Yin and Feng Yingzi in 1983: "Lao Xiao and I broke up in Yan'an in 1939...... When we broke up, no one would have expected that this farewell would take more than 40 years before it could be repeated. ”
Wang Lun and Xiao Yin separated for more than 40 years, but Xiao Yin will never be able to see this first letter. Wang Lun's letter was written on October 7, 1983, and Xiao Yin had died more than a month earlier, August 31, 1983.
Why did Wang Lun write to Xiao Yin after a gap of forty-four years?
Based on the content of Wang Lun's letter, the author deduces that one reason may be that Wang Lun has suffered unfair treatment for a long time and has been unknown in an inconspicuous position, or perhaps he is reluctant to contact those old friends who have made achievements in all aspects (this may be evident from the fact that Wang Lun's personal resume and introduction cannot be searched on the Internet so far).
Secondly, it should be said that Wang Lun thought that there would be an opportunity to meet Xiao Yin in the future, so even though as Wang Lun said in the letter, he had already obtained Xiao Yin's address from a friend on October 12, 1981, two years before he wrote the letter, he "knew your address and wrote it two years later." In the letter, he immediately wrote: "It is common for Zhou Gangming (note) to have irreparable regrets due to procrastination, when Zhou Gangming was in Shanghai in the thirties, for a long period of time I worked together (the Left Alliance) to eat and live together, after the war separated us, there was no more news, after the liberation of the country, although I saw the name in the newspapers and periodicals many times, I always felt that there were too many things to talk about, I don't know where to start, it is better to have the opportunity to meet and talk again, so he passed away without waiting for the opportunity to interview. ”
Although Wang Lun knew that "it is common to have irreparable regrets due to procrastination", and he also missed the opportunity to see Zhou Gangming because of "procrastination", he did not learn a lesson, and the same procrastination caused by procrastination!
Addendum: Letter from Wang Lun to Feng Yingzi and Xiao Yin, October 7, 1983
Guangzhou City
Guangdong Federation of Literary and Art Circles
Comrade Xiao Yin (Ying) Qi
Please send a reply to Wang Lun, No. 11, Shucheng Road, Hefei City
October 7, 1983[1]
Eiko, Comrade Eiji Mo
Because: First, you were all comrades-in-arms of the "Qingji" in those years; second, your addresses were all told to me by Bai Ping a few days before she died; third, what I was about to say was sent in duplicate to Shanghai and Guangzhou. It is not uncommon for irreparable regrets to be forged due to procrastination. Zhou Gangming[2] In the thirties, when we were in Shanghai, we worked together (Left League) for a long time, ate and lived together, and after the war separated us, there was no news, although I saw my name in the newspapers and periodicals many times after the liberation of the country, I always felt that there were too many things to talk about, and I didn't know where to start, and it was better to have the opportunity to meet and talk about it when I wrote a letter.
Bai Ping died almost two years ago (December 12, 1981), when he was seriously ill, my wife Dong Manny and I were in Beijing, and I went to see him many times. Tilt the cover and sing the big Jiangdong, the dew dining style is not poor, Qihuang has the power to return to heaven today, and the sunset shines through the clear sky. "We were deeply moved by our repeated recitations.
Lao Xiao and I broke up in 1939 in Yan'an, when I was introduced by the United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee to the Southern Bureau of Chongqing, where I engaged in united front liaison work in Beibei for two years (I am a non-party cadre), and in 41 I was ordered to retreat to Anhui to work, and for almost the entire 40s I worked for the party in the Wuhu area (the enemy-occupied area and the Guotong area), mainly through the upper echelons of the industrial and commercial circles, and since then I have been entangled in this aspect, and I have never come out again, and it has been 40 years since then. Now he is a consultant of the Provincial Federation of Industry and Commerce, and his wife is a provincial cultural and historical librarian. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, because for a long time in the past (from 1932 to 1949, when the "Left Alliance" was carried out, white area work was carried out under the leadership of the party as a revolutionary masses), after the liberation, the "leftist" masters generally did not admit their accounts, or did not fully admit their accounts, and said nonsense that only party members can be regarded as underground work, and the masses can only be counted as our "relations," and during the Cultural Revolution, I hung the white armbands of "traitor" and "spy". In addition, because of the large number of family members, Lao Dong has been unemployed for a long time, and he is of course relatively poor financially by relying on my income alone. Now that the children are working (and the children who were separated by the war are also connected), the contrast between the past and the present feels very light. Some of the children are in Hefei, some are scattered all over the country, some are teaching, some are working, some are doing business (Japan-Taiwan), and some are helpers (Hong Kong).
We have already received passports to visit relatives in Japan, and it is estimated that the entry visa from the Japanese Embassy in China may be approved recently, and according to their regulations, it will take three months to get it. If approved, we will go to Shanghai first, then go to Tokyo via Guangzhou and Hong Kong, and we will meet you in Shanghai and Guangzhou respectively. When we broke up, no one would have expected that this farewell would take more than 40 years before we could meet again. When we go to Shanghai, we have about a place to live, but I heard that the price of goods in Guangzhou is very high, and the housing is very expensive, I don't think it will be like Hong Kong, and there are more general ones, mainly I don't know the situation. I hope to find a suitable hotel or guest house not too far from the railway station, we have a total of three people (the youngest daughter sent us to Guangzhou, take the train to Shenzhen), please Comrade Xiao Ying to help find out more about it, and look forward to replying to the letter. wish
Health!
Wang Lun
1983.10.7
When we talk about visiting relatives in Japan, we are looking at the second and third sons. The second child is the child who was scattered in business during the war, and he has been a family for more than ten years. On June 30, a Minwen on the eighth page of the People's Daily wrote an article entitled "Huangshan Scenic Barrier Mural", which introduced this child. The second son-in-law works in Hong Kong. And.
Illustrate:
- This letter was sent to Xiao Yin of the Guangdong Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and the envelope was noted: "Please send the reply letter to the Anhui Federation of Industry and Commerce, No. 11, Shucheng Road, Hefei City." At this time, Xiao Yin had been dead for 37 days. ↑
- Zhou Gangming, a native of Luocheng, Guangxi. In his early years, he joined the Left League. He is a member of the Chinese Writers Association, vice chairman of the Guangdong Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and vice chairman of the Guangdong branch of the Writers Association. ↑