Set aside the mystery of Xiao Yin's former residence 6
"No. 29 Meihua Village is Xiao Yin's Former Residence"
Chen Jiaji
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For quite some time, this saying has been circulated on the Internet that No. 29 Meihua Village is Xiao Yin's former residence. This news mainly comes from "On June 7, 2012, the folk cultural protection person 'China Juncai' published a photo of No. 29 Meihua Village (also known as Lu Yougang's Mansion) in his Douban photo album, but directly called it 'Xiao Yin's former residence'. Since then, it has been spread through platforms such as websites and print media, and 'this erroneous conclusion has had a negative impact.' Anyone who has read this information, if they do not know the inside story, will mistakenly recognize this place as Xiao Yin's former residence'." (Quoted from "Unveiling the Secret of Meihua Village in Guangzhou: The Backyard of Guangdong Military and Government in the Republic of China Period", Guangzhou Daily, October 30, 2013)
Please take a look at the error message when the following photo posted by China Talent:
The shape and structure of this building is significantly different from Xiao Yin's former residence No. 27. What's more, the building's house number is No. 29 (pictured below), which is the neighbor of Xiao Yin's former residence on the original No. 27. The most important point is the description below the picture. It turned out that his claim that No. 29 was Xiao Yin's former residence was just hearsay.
"Chinese Talents" also has the following photo in the same album. The photo was taken in 2012 and is estimated to have been taken from the height of the building built on site 27. According to Xiao Yin's daughter, this is exactly what she saw from the roof of her home on No. 27 to neighbor No. 29.
Xiao Yin himself lived in No. 27 "Meilu" from 1963 to 1973, where hundreds of beloved books were burned during the Cultural Revolution, and in 1973 he was swept out of the house to raise geese at a cadre school. Shen Rong (the wife of Li Pu, a famous journalist and former vice president of Xinhua News Agency), who once described Xiao Yin's experience of raising geese in the book "Red Memory", was Xiao Yin's colleague in the Central and Southern Bureau. Shen Rong was swept out of the house earlier than Xiao Yin, and she and her two daughters had borrowed to live in Xiao Yin's home" "Meilu". In "Meilu", Xiao Yin's daughter Meng Meng and Shen Rong's daughter Li Xiangxiao once took a group photo in the courtyard, and the background of this group photo was No. 29 next door.
When Xiao Yin returned from the cadre school after all the hardships, the original residence "Meilu" had already been occupied, and later the No. 35 where Xiao Yin's family was assigned to live at that time was designated as a dangerous building. After years of repeated appeals, finally in 1982, after Ren Chongyi, then secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, personally interrogated and instructed Wang Meng, then political commissar of the Guangzhou Military Region (ordering a certain cadre of the military region who had previously occupied the building and refused to move out within a time limit), Xiao Yin finally moved back to the No. 27 "Meilu" where he had lived.
In the last days of Xiao Yin's life, Deng Wei, a famous photographer who had published works such as "Chinese Cultural Shadow Record" and "World Celebrities in Deng Wei's Eyes", came to Xiao Yin's study at "Meilu" No. 27 Meihua Village and took a portrait of Xiao Yin, who was seriously ill.
The facts should not be confused, it is time to break through the fog of "Xiao Yin's Former Residence" and return the true historical features of "Xiao Yin's Former Residence"!
Only the photo of the "Meilu" stone inscription plaque at the entrance of No. 27, as well as other photos provided in the text and the accounts of the parties, prove to us that Xiao Yin's former residence is the original Meihua Village No. 27, which is part of "Meilu".
Today, although the No. 27 "Meilu", which once constituted an important and inseparable part of Xiao Yin's short life, no longer exists, Xiao Yin's former residence, the No. 27 "Meilu", that inconspicuous small building, will forever remain in the hearts of Xiao Yin's family, friends and students!