"Autumn water with foam"
The letter was provided by mr. Chen Yuan's family
This is a stack of dusty letters for more than twenty years, the letter paper has turned yellow and brittle, but the words precipitated in it still convey the warmth of human nature and the affection of the mountains and waters through the back of the paper.
In his letters to publisher Chen Yuan from 1992 to 1995, the literary scholar Huang Qiuyun mentioned Wei Junyi several times. In a letter dated April 8, 1995, Chen Yuandai was invited to visit Wei Junyi in the hospital, expressing his concern for his old friend who was bedridden:
Yesterday, I received a letter from Wei Junyi's daughter Yang Tuan, and learned that Wei was sent to Xiehe Hospital for rescue with a sudden cerebral thrombosis in November last year, and although he was out of danger, he was half-dead, could not swallow, and was still hospitalized for medical treatment. If you are free, you'd better go and see her and greet her on my behalf. I heard that she was very lonely and wished someone had visited her. I have no possibility of seeing her again, in Beijing, and there is no one else to please. Of course, if it is not convenient, please give up, do not force.
Huang Qiuyun's drawing was provided by Mr. Li Hui
The so-called center hides it, and when it is forgotten. In fact, Huang Qiuyun did not "have no one else to please" in Beijing, but knew Chen Yuan very well, so he made a reluctant request.
Huang Qiuyun and Chen Yuan, both from Guangdong, were born in 1918 and met and intersected because of the revision of the major national project "Ciyuan". The revised edition of "Ciyuan" is a key project in the planning of chinese and foreign language dictionaries approved by the State Council in 1975, led by Guangdong Province, and jointly undertaken by Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan and Henan provinces and the Commercial Press. Chen Yuan was then the head of the revision team of "Ciyuan". Huang Qiuyun wrote to Zhang Guangnian on October 25, 1975, saying that he "decided to work full-time on the revision of the "Ciyuan" and is currently working on preparations, 'youth is endowed, haoshou is poor', and for me, this kind of work may be more appropriate." I am nearly sixty years old, and I always hope to make a little contribution to the party and the people in my later years, and talk about it to make up for it." In the following five or six years, Huang Qiuyun, as Chen Yuan said, "jumped into the fire of the dictionary", and as one of the three editors-in-chief of "Ciyuan", he threw himself into the heavy work with enthusiasm, courage, perseverance and persistence. The cooperation between hardship and common suffering made them trust each other and help each other, and Chen Yuan was entrusted by Huang Qiuyun in 1987 to bring remuneration for Wei Junyi.
Wei Junyitu from the "Wei Junyi Memorial Collection"
After receiving the letter, Chen Yuan went to the hospital to visit Wei Junyi and wrote a letter to explain the situation. Huang Qiuyun replied on May 5, 1995, expressing his gratitude: "Original brother: 5.2 letter received, I was asked by you to ask Comrade Junyi on your behalf, and I feel very much, it seems that she has no possibility of recovery..." When he learned of Wei Junyi's recent situation, he became more and more worried, and wanted to do as much as possible for his old friend. On October 9, 1995, Huang Qiuyun wrote to Mu Hui: "I heard that Comrade Junyi is in a critical condition. She has told the color version of Yangcheng Evening News to publish her 'life message' as soon as possible, hoping to send the manuscript and color photos as soon as possible. I recently wrote a short article about "Lusha's Road" and "I Say to Young People" and submitted it to the "Expo Group Books" magazine sponsored by Guangming Daily. ”
The short article mentioned in the letter is "Two Strange Books Worth Reading" published by the magazine "Expo Books" in the 12th issue of 1995. Huang Qiuyun pointed out that Wei Junyi's "Lusha Road" and "I Say to Young People" "have a common characteristic: truth." Whether it is a novel or a prose essay, writing a person, a few strokes, it is vivid, as if it hears its voice, as if it sees its person"; another common feature is that it is quite innovative in both material and form. He said, "These two strange books may not be very popular at present, but they may be handed down from generation to generation in the future." ”
"Lusha's Road" was written by Wei Junyi with a trembling left hand during his illness, and after its publication in 1994, it received unanimous praise from the cultural circles, and Huang Qiuyun's writing of commentaries was also a concern and encouragement for his old friends. Earlier, he had written to Chen Yuan about this work:
Wei Junyi's body has not changed much, she recently published a novel "Lusha Road", writing about the life of Yan'an during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, which is completely documentary, and the "Rescue of the Lost" movement is particularly informative, and it is also gratifying that such a frank work can be publicly released. I don't know if you read this book?
In a letter to Chen Yuan on December 22, 1994, he again mentioned Wei Junyi and his writings:
Wei Junyi had not written a letter for a long time, and after hearing that Qin Zhaoyang had died of illness, her mood was not very good, and I did not dare to write more letters to interfere with her. "Lusha's Road" is naturally a good book, and Shao Yanxiang spoke highly of this book, saying that it is "also a literary and historical". But somehow, most of the friends in Beijing did not see it, and the bookstore said that it had not yet been publicly released, which was really strange.
Judging from Chen Yuan's two miscellaneous essays written during this period, "The Road of Lu sha" and "I Can't Do It Like This Anymore", he had read Wei's works and discussed them with Huang Qiuyun's letters. Chen Yuan believes that "The Road of Lusha" "writes about the famous rescue movement of the Yan'an period, the event known as the 'Rescue of the Lost Foot' event, which will forever be nailed to the pillar of history, if not the column of shame." The description of this book, arguably the most vivid and sensual summary of the movement, is neither so-called literary exaggeration nor concealment, and thus moves people"; "The author, Wei Junyi, is a devout communist; of course, he is also an extremely clever novelist." She writes autobiographies in the form of novels; it is a memoir-style documentary novel", "Wonderful is wonderful in this third person, real people and real things, transformed into real and fake, handy, easy to use", this work is highly evaluated. (See Chen Yuan's "Twilight Man's Language", pp. 25-26)
"The end of the world can not be remembered again"
Huang Qiuyun and Wei Junyi met at Tsinghua University and knew each other in the editorial department of Literature and Art Studies.
Wei Junyi was one year older than Huang Qiuyun, born in 1917, and entered the Department of Philosophy of Tsinghua University in 1934, and Huang Qiuyun came from Hong Kong to the Department of Chinese Literature of Tsinghua University in 1935. Participating in the "12.9" movement together became the starting point for their growth, and in 1936 they joined the party together and lived an organizational life together in a branch. After the fall of Beiping after the Lugou Bridge Incident in 1937, most of the students of Tsinghua University fled Beiping and scattered to various places, and they were also on different sides: Wei Junyi fled from Wuhan to Yan'an in the anti-Japanese torrent; Huang Qiuyun went south to Hong Kong to engage in revolutionary propaganda work, editing "Youth Knowledge" and "Ta Kung Pao". After the founding of New China, Wei Junyi served as deputy editor-in-chief and editor-in-chief of China Youth, an organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, and Huang Qiuyun worked in the Central Liaison Department and the Literature and Art Daily. In 1954, they became colleagues of the magazine "Literary and Art Study" founded by the Chinese Writers Association: Wei Junyi was appointed editor-in-chief, and the newly transferred Huang Qiuyun was appointed as an editorial board member, and later deputy director of the editorial department. In 1957, when the literary and art circles were in turmoil, Wei Junyi and Huang Qiuyun's literary and artistic views and journal policies were systematically criticized as "revisionist" ideas. According to Wei Junyi's recollection, Huang Qiuyun's articles "Don't Close Your Eyes in the Face of the People's Suffering" and "The Tragedy of Rusting the Soul" were all named and criticized by the Central Propaganda Department, and "Study of Literature and Art" must also take a stand. Wei Junyi had to "obey the order" to write an article criticizing Huang Qiuyun, and she gave the article signed "Zhu Muguang" to Huang Qiuyun to read, and he laughed and ridiculed her: "It is better to call 'Yu Xiangguang', which means that you yearn for the light and cannot see the suffering of the people." Wei Junyi said that in her most difficult part, if all the problems were pushed onto Huang Qiuyun, she could be taken lightly. However, in the midst of grief and disappointment, she stuck to her bottom line: "I am willing to share the same sin and never sell my friends." The two of them were criticized together, telling the unspeakable bitterness and resentment in relative secrecy every day. Later, because of Comrade Shao Quanlin's efforts to protect him, Huang Qiuyun was exempted from the right faction and given the punishment of staying in the party on probation. The study of literature and art was forced to cease publication, three of the seven editorial board members became rightists, and wei Junyi and Huang Qiuyun were both punished and sent to rural labor.
After the "Cultural Revolution" began, Wei Junyi was criticized, isolated for review, and Huang Qiuyun was transferred back to Beijing from Guangzhou to be criticized. Through these trials and tribulations, their friendship has a texture that transcends the mundane. After that, the two men were one north and one south, separated by the sky and the sea. Until the spring of chaos, they returned to the literary and artistic circles. Every time Huang Qiuyun went to Beijing or Tianjin for a meeting or business trip, he visited Wei Junyi and freely exchanged views on the phenomena in the literary and art circles. The "Collection of Letters of Huang Qiuyun" contains thirteen letters to Wei Junyi (with Wei Junyi to Huang Qiuyun letters and two communications), although not all of their correspondence, but a true reflection of the exchanges in the 1980s. This period was the third stage of their close interaction after Tsinghua University and the editorial board of "Literary and Art Studies". In 1983, they were transferred together to the Party History Research Class of the Central Party School organized by Jiang Nanxiang, the first vice president of the Central Party School, to participate in the research and compile a brief history of the "12.9" movement, and planned to meet with readers on the 50th anniversary of the "12.9" in 1985.
The "12.9" movement was the embryonic period of the ideal of Wei Junyi and Huang Qiuyun's struggle for a free and democratic new China, and when they were full of white hair, they suddenly looked back, and the purity and true feelings stirred in their chests were still fifty years ago. The glass of wine has been in love for fifty years, and it will meet mo dao again. The flowers are still good in May, and the song is finally full of twists and turns. But there is pride like in the past, diligently wipe your eyes and delete the fragments. "As the backbone of the research class, they devoted themselves to the compilation of historical manuscripts with enthusiasm. After the completion of the first draft, Jiang Nanxiang entrusted Wei Junyi to be responsible for the overall draft and finalization. In October 1985, Huang Qiuyun, after returning to Sui, proposed to Wei Junyi that he "could be an assistant" when he was too busy to come, and then went to Beijing for the second time to participate in the revision and finalization of the manuscript. Jiang Nanxiang personally reviewed the main chapters of the manuscript, dictated word by word and wrote and revised by Huang Qiuyun. Wei Junyi considered that the manuscript would be submitted for review and estimated that it would not be published in 1985, so he wrote a letter to Fan Yong, deputy editor-in-chief of the People's Publishing House, proposing to republish Yang Shu's "One Two Nine Sayings". The letter says,
Can the small book "12.9 Ramblings", published by me in 1981 in "People's" be reprinted once this year on the 50th anniversary of "12.9"?
Last time, there were very few prints, only nine thousand, and I couldn't cope with the later requests. On the 50th anniversary of this year, the conference will be held for publicity. However, the "History of the 12.9 Movement", which was originally planned to be published, seems to have been too late to publish the book due to the time it takes to submit for review. The original "History of the 12.9 Movement" published by the Beijing Publishing House (Society) is very boring, and it is difficult to hope that it will be accepted by people who have nothing to do with the movement. This pamphlet is always a little lively and simple, and if it is republished in time and adds a little publicity, it should be able to respond to the city.
Please consider, if you can republish, please let me know, dig up two words.
In January 1986, Jiang Nanxiang was hospitalized due to illness, and Wei Junyi was also hospitalized with cerebral hemorrhage on April 21 of that year, and after rescue, he turned critical to safety, but left serious sequelae, and the finalization and issuance of the manuscript was entrusted to Huang Qiuyun. Huang Qiuyun, who was lecturing in Guiyang, Chengdu and other places, received an urgent telegram and rushed to Beijing on May 11 to pick up the manuscript and visit Wei Junyi in the hospital. After returning to Guangzhou, he sent his old friend Huatuo remanufactured pills and suggested that she take music therapy to restore her thinking ability and memory. Since then, he has been reading Wei Junyi's condition, writing to Wei's daughter Yang Tuan, understanding the situation from the side, conveying the news through friends in Beijing, and also asking friends to "recommend a good doctor, it is best to go to her home for diagnosis and treatment" (Letter to Qi Yanping and Guo Qingshan on May 24, 1988). On September 28, 1988, he repeatedly expressed his thoughts and worries in a letter to Mu Hui, "Comrade Junyi has not written for a long time, I don't know if her illness has improved? Recite it, and then greet him."
At that time, Wei Junyi was also deeply concerned about Huang Qiuyun. She wrote to Huang Qiuyun in 1988, in addition to describing her illness, she expressed her concern and encouragement for her old friends:
Qiu Yun:
I haven't corresponded in a long time, and I think your situation is probably okay.
My half-body has been damaged a little more - I can't walk, I can't treat it, only my own doctor in the company prescribes a little Chinese medicine, headache cures head, foot pain heals foot pain.
……
We can't have too long a time, we have to think if we can think, we can write a little more, and you don't want to open your mouth easily about what you think. After all these years, are you still so cautious?
You can't write at all, is it all because of illness? Or is it like before, or even more cautious?
I always feel like you won't be speechless, you have! Is it?
I'm thinking about you in the middle of the disease, looking the same as in 1957, I don't know how much worse.
Shake hands again and again!
Junyi
Two days after National Day
The one who knows Huang Qiuyun is actually Wei Junyiye. At that time, Huang Qiuyun's "prudence" was not without reason. In 1987, it was warm and cold, and the weather was uncertain. He wrote to Wei Junyi on August 6 to confide in his heart: "My situation here is quite difficult, and you can probably understand the reason for it. Fortunately, I am now a 'member of the foreign lang', and I can live in simplicity, make friends and never travel, and not ask about foreign affairs..." Wei Junyi wrote back to him to ask him not to be "worried", to learn from Comrade Yu Guangyuan, and to think more and write more.
Cover of the Hong Kong edition
Huang Qiuyun has always respected Wei Junyi as an "old sister", not only bending his literary talents, but also respecting him as a person, and he often receives guidance from her in a serious and serious manner, and even "weeps and says the truth". At this time, he once again heeded the advice and read and wrote. After his long memoir" "Stormy Years" was published by the People's Literature Publishing House, the revised version needed to be abridged according to the opinions of his superiors. He wrote one long and one short story each, and because he was "not suitable for publication or publication, he had to hide it in the woods." During this period, his letter to his friends can be seen to be physically and mentally exhausted, falling into great mental pain: "For more than a year, I have been in adversity, and I am often blamed, but I want to avoid the disaster of the scruffy and the disaster of killing myself. (December 1990 Chinese New Year's Eve to Song Suiliang) He did not write to Wei Junyi again, but his heart was always worried: "Comrade Junyi fell down, and the degree of paralysis of the right stock is even worse than before, I don't know if there has been an improvement in recent days?" (Letter to Mu Huixin, May 15, 1990) The loneliness of his later years gave him a sense of infinite vicissitudes: "When people reach dusk, they are sad and mournful. In these years, it is better to 'foam with each other and wet with each other', but it is better to 'forget each other in the rivers and lakes'. (Letter to Chen Yuan on September 11, 1990) Is full of words, overflowing with words, quoting the poem "Tears are able to do in the end, and words are difficult to send without words", which is a proper portrayal of his state of mind.
In 1992, Huang Qiuyun suffered from Parkinson's syndrome, it was inconvenient to walk and write, writing almost stopped, and he did not dare to go out to Beijing to visit Wei Junyi, and could only send one or two letters. On December 4, he wrote to Chen Yuan, expressing his helplessness about the illness in his twilight years, and it was difficult to hide his inner thoughts about Wei Junyi:
My illness was getting worse and worse, my hands and feet were not listening to the brain's commands, I could not walk alone (without relying on others for support) for more than a hundred meters, and it was difficult to go up and down the stairs. It is more inconvenient to write with a pen, and you can only write for about ten minutes in a row when you pick up a pen, and you can't continue to write, so distressed! Of course, not to mention writing articles... Wei Junyi had not written a letter for three months, and her health was probably deteriorating, but in fact, I was not much better than her.
In 1997, Wei Junyi spent her eightieth birthday in the hospital, and heard that Yu Guangyuan and other relatives and friends wished her a happy birthday, Huang Qiuyun "was thousands of miles away, and did not have to bow to the grand event", specially recorded Luo Bin Wang's poem "The old should be stronger, rather move the heart of the white head; poor and strong, do not fall into the ambition of Qingyun" to express congratulations, and asked Mu Hui to record it on the album page, so that the elder sister who has been bedridden for a long time is happy and happy.
In fact, in 1983, Huang Qiuyun published an article in the "Literature and Art Daily" entitled "Comrade Wei Junyi I Know", using luo Binwang's two poems "To encourage Junyi together", and more than ten years later, his original intention has not changed, and his heart can be learned. In 1997, he was interviewed by Huang Weijing, editor-in-chief of Essays, recalling his youth and persistent pursuit of truth with Wei Junyi on the Tsinghua campus (see New Literary Historical Materials, No. 2, 1998). He knew that Wei Junyi, who was helplessly lying on the hospital bed, could no longer write down his thoughts as he pleased, and at this moment he needed the comfort and encouragement of his old friends the most, even if it was only a few words of greeting, it was also the greatest support and emotional comfort for her.
Wei Junyi's "Record of Pain" written with extraordinary perseverance during her illness, with her own unique experience and reflective perspective, records her love and pain, regret and persistence, thinking and reflection, which has profound historical significance and practical connotation. In May 1998, she had a second cerebral infarction and her physical condition took a sharp turn for the worse. Huang Qiuyun greatly appreciated her courage and personality charm, and wrote a review "A Book That Must Not Be Read", which was published in the Yangcheng Evening News. He believes that "The Record of Thoughts and Pains" is "shocking and tear-inducing", and its ideological and artistic charm lies in the pain it produces, which is not only a book that dares to expose darkness, but also a "book of loneliness and indignation", from which we can see the human condition and political situation of an era. In the autumn of that year, he wrote "Wei Junyi Two or Three Things", fondly recalling his interaction with Wei Junyi, in which the verse "Blood and tears are written in the hearts of warriors, with foam and autumn water; the old lovers of Qinghua know where to go, shushan bashan wanli search" is the most temperamental and moving.
Wei Junyi and Huang Qiuyun, who were baptized by the "12.9" movement, were both lifelong idealists who also experienced painful and profound reflection in the twilight years of their lives. They lived in The two places of Beijing and Sui, thousands of miles apart, entangled in illness and unable to meet for a long time, but the moral friendship that lasted for more than sixty years was revealed bit by bit in the old letters. Wei Junyi Shiyun: "The end of the world can not be remembered again, the north looks at the Yanyun wind full of flags", those glorious years, vicissitudes of the past make them know each other and cherish each other, and eventually become a common memory that warms each other.
About the Author
Yu Shumin is the editor of the Encyclopedia of China Publishing House. In 1990, he graduated from the Department of Chinese of Henan University and successively engaged in newspaper and periodical editing in Zhengzhou Aviation Institute and Henan Daily. Amateur research on Chinese publishing history and publishing figures, annotated Chen Yuan's Preface (Commercial Press, 2008). In recent years, he has published more than ten articles in newspapers and periodicals such as China Reading Daily, Wenhui Reading Weekly, Publishing Science, Research on Chinese Publishing History, and Publication Historical Materials, and occasionally published prose works.
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