In July 1945, a delegation from Six National Senators, including Huang Yanpei, Chu Fucheng, Zuo Shunsheng, Zhang Bojun, Fu Sinian, and Leng Suo, arrived in Yan'an by special plane from Chongqing and was warmly received by Chairman Mao.
Among the six national senators, Zuo Shunsheng and Chairman Mao have a deep relationship, they are from the same hometown, the same age, and in their early years they were members of the same organization.
Zuo Shunsheng (左舜生), given the name Xuexun (学訓), is a character for Shunsheng (舜生), nicknamed Zhongping (仲平). He was born in 1893, the same age as Chairman Mao. He was in Changsha, Hunan, and was a fellow countryman with Chairman Mao. Hunan people call people of the same age "Lao Geng", so he and Chairman Mao call each other "Lao Geng".
In July 1919, the Youth Chinese Society, a famous society organization during the "May Fourth" period, was formally established in Beijing. Both Chairman Mao and Zuo Shunsheng joined this progressive organization and were both members. Zuo Shunsheng served as the editor-in-chief of the journal "Young China" and later as the director of the executive department of the association.
In 1920, Zuo Shunsheng became the director of the New Book Department of the Zhonghua Book Company Compilation Institute. In 1923, together with Zeng Qi and Li Huang, he initiated the organization of the Chinese Youth Party, and in 1924 he became the general manager of the Chinese Youth Party's party magazine "Awakening Lion Weekly". After the "918" incident, he created the "People's Voice Weekly" again to advocate the War of Resistance. Later, he taught at the Central Political School, published the Monthly Journal of the State Theory, and was elected chairman of the Executive Committee of the Youth Party Central Committee, becoming the "party leader" of the Youth Party.
Chairman Mao hosted a banquet for Zuo Shunsheng and six other political participants
Zuo Shunsheng was extremely concerned about the political situation, and often published commentaries in major newspapers and periodicals, and his fame rose, gradually attracting the attention of Chiang Kai-shek. In July 1934, Zuo Shunsheng was invited to Lushan to meet with Chiang Kai-shek and held talks twice. Jiang is still not finished, please leave at any time to communicate. Zuo Shunsheng had a good impression of Chiang Kai-shek at that time, believing that Chiang was "a great figure at present."
Zuo Shunsheng was born in the unpredictable political arena of the Republic of China, and he was once prominent and prominent. Along with Li Jiannong and Jiang Tingdian, he was one of the pioneers in the study of modern and contemporary Chinese history.
Zuo Shunsheng's classmate and fellow party member Li Huang commented that Zuo was "a little bit of a scholar". He likes women, likes to talk about women, and he himself is also blunt, calling himself "lustful and not obscene", "reasonable", and claiming that this is "the flow that celebrities should have".
On July 1, 1945, after Zuo Shunsheng and six other national suffragettes arrived in Yan'an by special plane, Chairman Mao, Zhu De, Liu Shaoqi, Zhou Enlai, and other CPC leaders personally greeted them at the airport. On the afternoon of 2 July, Chairman Mao, Zhu De, Liu Shaoqi, and Zhou Enlai met with six political participants at Yangjialing in Yan'an. In the evening, Mao Zedong specially set up a banquet to entertain them.
The day before leaving Yan'an, Chairman Mao asked Zhou Enlai to inform Zuo Shunsheng and Zhang Bojun to go to the zaoyuan for lunch and have a long talk with them. They talked from morning to four or five o'clock in the afternoon, and the content of the conversation was very extensive, not only talking about "Water Margin" and "Dream of the Red Chamber", but also Talking about Zuo Shunsheng's "Essays on Wanzhu Lou".
During the conversation, Zuo Shunsheng, who has always advocated anti-communism, said to Chairman Mao rather uninterestingly: "I think that there can be more than one political party in a country, but the army cannot have every political party. Otherwise, civil unrest will occur and the country will not be peaceful. ”
Zuo Shunsheng
Chairman Mao did not make a sound. When Zuo Shunsheng saw that the other side did not answer the call, he thought that he had a plan, and continued to clamor: "Our Youth Party advocates taking the parliamentary road, not running an armed party, and becoming a real political party participating in the country, without any threat to the National Government."
Chairman Mao asked, "Do you mean that we too should learn from your Youth Party?" ”
Zuo Shunsheng replied: "Talking about studying, I think our Youth Party is right in this way."
Chairman Mao asked grimly, "What is right?" ”
Zuo Shunsheng also put forward his set of theories: "Peaceful discussion of politics is not a threat to the government, and it is also conducive to the unity of all parties!" ”
Chairman Mao had already heard Zuo Shunsheng's voice and calmly responded:
"I also advocate that a country has only one army, but it depends on whose hands the army is in and for whom it serves. You must know that an unarmed political party has no strength, and those who are regarded by Chiang Kai-shek as bandits and chaotic parties cannot survive at all without a little force of their own, let alone have the right to speak and transform society. Old Gung! You, the 'military master' of the Youth Party, don't even understand this truth! ”
During the conversation, Chairman Mao also said with excitement:
"Mr. Jiang always thinks that there are no two days in the sky, there are no two lords in the people, I 'don't believe in evil', but I want to show him two suns!"
"These few rotten guns of mine can fight both the Japanese and the Americans, and I will drive Hurley away in the first step."
Zuo Shunsheng asked Chairman Mao in an understated tone: "Suppose Mr. Jiang asked you to go to Chongqing to talk, will you go or not?" ”
Chairman Mao replied cheerfully and naturally: "As long as he has a telegram for me, why should I not go?" ”
Towards the end of the conversation, Zuo Shunsheng suddenly turned the topic to his private life. He actually proposed to Chairman Mao that he wanted to meet a person who was in Yan'an at this time, that is, lan ping, the "dream lover" he had always admired and a former movie star.
Lan Ping, born in 1914 in Zhucheng, Shandong, was a left-wing film star who rose to prominence in the mid-1930s. In 1935, he participated in the movies "CityScape" and "Freedom God", in 1936 he participated in the movie "Wolf Mountain Blood", and in 1937 he participated in the film "Lianhua Symphony". In mid-July 1937, shortly after the outbreak of the "July 7 Incident", Lan Ping abandoned the literary and artistic stage of greater Shanghai, and with the ideal of dedicating himself to the revolution, he traveled from Shanghai to Wuhan, arrived in Yan'an, the holy land of revolution, in August, and changed his name to "Jiang Qing" in October. On November 19, 1938, Jiang Qing married Chairman Mao.
When Chairman Mao heard Zuo Shunsheng's request to meet with Lan Ping, he looked very displeased, first saying "I don't know Lan Ping" and then saying "she is sick", and politely refusing.
Although he did not realize his wish to meet Lan Ping, Zuo Shunsheng met Ding Ling, a talented woman in Changsha and praised by Chairman Mao as "Miss Wen yesterday, General Wu today".
In Zuo Shunsheng's view, although Ding Ling was old at this time, she was still very talkative. It was from Ding Ling that he learned about the supply system implemented in Yan'an, and he later recalled:
"Their Party members and civil servants are thoroughly cooperative, and all daily necessities and even the paper of the literati are rationed by the public. Patients, mothers and babies may also be served with eggs and milk. They eat a big pot of rice in the big kitchen, as long as they rely on a kind of meal ticket, they don't have to pay for going to any organ to eat... Each of their staff members can still receive a very small amount of money every month, and the literati can also receive a certain amount of money for writing, which can be used freely. There is a small market in Yan'an, with various grocery stores, and several small restaurants, where you can buy and sell freely, eat and drink freely..."
During this trip to Yan'an, Zuo Shunsheng, who regarded himself as a "celebrity of the wind", was most "sorry" that he did not see his "dream lover". In his article "Remembering the Journey of the Democratic Political League League in Yan'an", which he wrote after returning from Yan'an, he wrote:
"I had proposed to Mao Zedong that I want to meet his blue apple, but Mao said she was sick and could not meet guests. On July 5, when we left Yan'an, Mao came with a seven- or eight-year-old daughter to send us, two lively and beautiful eyes, which looked a bit like the blue apple I had seen once before the war, but the blue apple himself still did not come. 'Qu finally disappeared, and there were several peaks on the river', when our plane took off, I still felt that this was a little regret of this trip. ”
Zuo Shunsheng's "seven- or eight-year-old daughter" was Li Ne, the daughter of Chairman Mao and Jiang Qing, who was only 5 years old at the time.
During the Yan'an period, Chairman Mao strictly demanded Jiang Qing and did not allow her to appear in public to participate in political activities. Chairman Mao took his daughter Li Ne to send off the guests and did not allow Jiang Qing to appear publicly, probably because he did not want Zuo Shunsheng to make a fuss about the "blue apple" after he returned to Chongqing, and he did not want Zuo Shunsheng to publicize his marriage life with Jiang Qing.
(This article is original by Lu Zhidan, welcome to pay attention, take you along with long knowledge!) ）