On the occasion of the centenary of the founding of the party, centenarian Qu Duyi was awarded the "July 1st Medal". The newspaper published a photo of Qu Duyi in recent years, and his spirit was strong, and he really had light in his eyes and faith in his heart.
When I was a teenager, in addition to the photo album at home, there was also a hardwood box, which kept a batch of old photos, mostly photos of relatives of my predecessors, but in those photos, there were more than a dozen people other than blood relatives, including the image of Qu Duyi, not a solo photo, a group photo, with whom? Sun Weishi. Among those photos, there are not only Sun Weishi's photos with her, but also photos with Zhang Mei. It was all filmed in Moscow. The composition seems to be one person sitting, one person standing, snuggled together, and Sun Weishi always stands on the right side half a head high (see picture below).
Qu Duyi and Sun Weishi took a group photo
On the back of the group photo of Qu Duyi Sun Weishi, there is Sun Weishi's autograph inscription: "Dear mother: This girl next to me is called Duyi, the daughter of the martyr Comrade Qu Qiubai, she can sing and dance, she is one year younger than me, and now she can speak Chinese with us." Mom: Bring you our happiness! Your Lan'er. February 21. Sun Weishi wrote Qu's name as "Duyi", which was obviously a clerical error. The inscription has a month and a day, but there is no year, after deliberation, Sun Weishi flew from Yan'an to the Soviet Union with Zhou Enlai in 1939, first to the Moscow Oriental University, and then to the Moscow Theater Academy to study directing, this photo should be taken in 1940 or early 1941. Qu Duyi had been living in the Soviet Union as early as the age of seven, and Russian had become his daily language, so after Sun Weishi went, he was relieved to tell his mother that Duyi could now speak his mother's language with her.
Sun Weishi's photo was clearly sent to her mother, how did it end up in our family photo box? Long story short: Sun Weishi's father, Sun Bingwen, and his mother, Ren Rui, were married in 1913 at huixian hall on the east side of the north shore of the Qianhai Sea in Beijing, and my grandfather Liu Yunmen was a witness. Before Sun Bingwen and Zhu De went to Germany in 1922, they lived in Beijing at my grandfather's residence on the east side of the north shore of the Qianhai Sea in Shichahai. After they arrived in Berlin, they were introduced by Zhou Enlai to join the Communist Party. After Sun Bingwen returned to Beijing in 1925, in the busy revolutionary activities, he found that a twenty-year-old woman, Wang Yongtao, had suffered misfortune, so he and Ren Rui reached out to help and took her home, because they soon went to Guangzhou to participate in the revolution led by Sun Yat-sen, and they properly placed Wang Yongtao in the home of Ren Rui's sister Ren Zaikun.
The inscription on the back of Qu Duyi and Sun Weishi's group photo
Ren Zaikun was the wife of the philosopher Feng Youlan, and later Wang Yongtao moved to his uncle in Taiyuan, Shanxi, where her lover ran to marry her, my father and mother.
At the end of 1925, Sun Bingwen went to Guangzhou to serve as the colonel's secretary of the General Political Department of the National Revolutionary Army and a professor at Sun Yat-sen University, after my grandfather had been a professor at Sun Yat-sen University, but they still forgot to make friends (Sun was ten years younger than my grandfather). In 1927, Sun Bingwen was killed by Chiang Kai-shek in Shanghai. In 1936, Ren Rui joined the Communist Party, in 1938 he and his third grandson arrived in Yan'an, mother and son studied at the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University in Yan'an, in 1939 Ren Rui was organized and assigned to work in the Fifth Children's Nursery School in Bishan, Sichuan, and later worked in the library of the Eighth Route Army Office in Chongqing. In 1938, Sun Bingwen and Ren Rui's eldest son, Sun Yang, and eldest daughter Sun Weishi also arrived in Yan'an. Sun Weishi during his time in the Soviet Union, of course, will send letters to send photos to his mother, since 1939 Ren Rui both worked in the Bishan Fifth Children's Nursery and the Chongqing Eighth Route Army Office, at that time my father was a Chongqing customs clerk, the family lived in Lion Rock on the south bank, presumably during that time period, Ren Rui gave some of her private photos, including my grandfather's marriage photos, Sun Bingwen and some photos of her marriage before and after marriage, as well as some photos sent to her by Sun Weishi from the Soviet Union, all of which were saved by my parents, and she returned to Yan'an in 1941. He was appointed as the supervisor of the government of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region.
Sun Bingwen and Ren Rui's family are full of Communist Party members and loyal martyrs. The third descendant died in the Battle of Liaoshen in 1948. Ren Rui arrived in Tianjin in April 1949 and was supposed to go to Beijing to participate in the founding ceremony, but he died of exhaustion. In 1966, the eldest son, Sun Yang, and in 1968, Sun Weishi died one after another. The second son continued to work for the party until his death in 2008. The youngest daughter, Sun Xinshi, has kept in touch with me in recent years and is a ninety-five-year-old.
This group photo of Qu Duyi and Sun Weishi was disclosed in 1987 when Harvest magazine opened a column entitled "Private Photo Album", and in 1988, The Hong Kong Nanyue Publishing House, the Shanghai Far East Publishing House published a single book in 1997, the "Liu Xinwu Anthology" published by Huayi Publishing House in 1993, and the "Liu Xinwu Wencun" published by Jiangsu People's Publishing House in 2012 were all included. The two women in this photo were in their prime at that time, and now one has gone, one is still alive, and their lives have been integrated into the history of the party for a hundred years. (Liu Xinwu)