For the 60s and 70s of the last century, many of the older generation still have some vivid memories, and due to some mistakes made by the central government at that time, the people were plunged into a decade-long internal friction.
In the end, this erroneous movement had a negative impact on our economy and politics, and even to this day it is difficult to say that our society has recovered as before. In this erroneous political movement, even a large number of intellectuals were persecuted.
Fu Cong's story is probably heard by many people, he is the son of the famous translator and literary critic Fu Lei, and the "Fu Lei Family Book" was written by Fu Lei for his son Fu Cong.
As a pianist, during the Years of the Cultural Revolution, he was criticized for reasons such as the "bourgeois way of life", and finally Fu Cong emigrated to England under duress, and was not able to re-enter his hometown until 1979, when the internal friction was about to end.
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During the Cultural Revolution, examples such as Fu Cong's, which were put on the line by the people, were not in the minority, and many intellectuals were criticized for similar reasons.
It cannot be denied that there are indeed some fierce and vicious people among those who have been criticized, but because of the general ignorance of the people, such a movement has finally been used by people with ulterior motives, and has finally evolved into one of the most notorious internal frictions in the history of New China.
And the person we are going to talk about today is a generation of grandmasters in the music industry, his experience is very similar to Fu Cong,but he was also vilified by those with ulterior motives, and finally had to leave his hometown and stay in the United States for more than twenty years.
However, compared to Fu Cong, the experience of this music master is more tortuous, and even the ending is much bleaker than that of Fu Cong, because this master was more than 50 years old when he left his hometown, and his body could not withstand these tosses, and eventually he died in a foreign land due to illness.
The name of this music master is Ma Sicong, in china's modern history, he is a unique composer, violinist, but also a fruitful music educator, such as "Chinese Young Pioneers Team Song" is from Ma Sicong's handwriting, his influence in the music industry can also be seen.
Even around the world, his influence is so far-reaching that many foreigners compare Ma Sicong's name with Chopin and other great artists.
Even the aforementioned Fu Cong, who once asked Ma Sicong about music at the Fifth International Chopin Piano Competition, was able to win the "Maruka Dance Music Award" in the end, which is also a credit to Ma Sicong.
Naturally, Ma Sicong's personal experience is equally rich, especially during the Cultural Revolution, from the admired artist to the "bourgeois reactionary authority" that everyone shouted, Ma Sicong personally experienced all the bitterness of the intellectuals of that era.
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At first, Ma Sicong's student told Ma Sicong that the violin had been classified as a bourgeois way of life, which was a manifestation of infatuation with bourgeois ideas, and the student had to bid farewell to Ma Sicong and never learn the piano again.
Ma Sicong was naturally a little stunned, but what he did not expect was still to come, and soon Ma Sicong, who was a music master, was brought to the "Socialist Academy" as a "bourgeois reactionary authority" and participated in labor with those intellectuals who were also persecuted.
The Red Guards commanded these intellectuals and gave them high hats symbolizing the "cow, ghost, and snake god", while Ma Sicong was specially put on cardboard with the words "Ma Sicong, the authority of bourgeois music", and the Red Guards carried a parade while ringing the bell, which was called "ringing the death knell of the bourgeoisie".
Such inhuman treatment, as if they were not facing a fruitful musician at all, but a rebel who undermined the new Chinese order.
Despite being slandered by these people with ulterior motives, Ma Sicong is actually a well-deserved patriotic musician, and when he was young, he had a lofty ambition: "I want to dedicate every note to the motherland."
During the War of Resistance Against Japan, Ma Sicong's patriotic feelings were particularly high, he frequently traveled to South China, Southwest China and other places, performed music, and spared no effort to publicize patriotic ideas, and it was in this environment that he created a famous song, that is, "Homesick Song".
At that time, due to the japanese invasion, many people fell into the point of homelessness, and this "homesickness song" was made to express the homesickness that people embraced at this moment.
Since its creation, this song has stirred the minds of countless Chinese sons and daughters who fought for the anti-Japanese salvation, so it has become a classic, and even this song has been used as the opening song of the Central People's Radio at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China.
During the Cultural Revolution, many intellectuals were on the verge of collapse, and Ma Sicong was able to maintain an optimistic attitude towards the future when he was persecuted by those red generals, and a large part of the reason was also this song.
As long as the Central People's Radio is still using this song, Ma Sicong has reason to believe that he is still deeply trusted by the central authorities, that the so-called criticism is only a "contradiction among the people", and that all the persecuted intellectuals are only slandered by people with ulterior motives.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > left a field of chicken feathers after leaving the country</h1>
Unfortunately, however, in that turbulent era, unexpected events were always staged one after another, and in 1966, the radio station replaced "Homesick Song" with the northern Shaanxi folk song "Dongfang Hong", and as a result, Ma Sicong, who originally believed that he could be redeemed, was also shaken.
Under the circumstances at that time, his spirit was once in a precarious state, and the disappearance of the only "Homesick Song" that he regarded as a spiritual sustenance made him even more discouraged, and in the end, Ma Sicong took a step that should not have been taken.
Someone had invited Ma Sicong to the United States to teach before, and he had always refused the invitation of the other party because of his patriotic feelings, but in today's chaotic social environment, if he wanted to retreat from the whole body, I was afraid that there was only this road left, and in the end, Ma Sicong simply chose to leave this chaotic China, took a family and quietly boarded a plane to the United States.
Ma Sicong received a moment of peace, but Ma Sicong's departure was not a hundred, at least his reputation was completely ruined.
Ma Sicong's visit to the United States was taken seriously by the central authorities as a case of surrender to the enemy, and soon Ma Sicong's family was investigated.
At this time, it was still in the period of the Cultural Revolution, and it is conceivable that Ma Sicong's family was also persecuted by the Red Guards to varying degrees, and even in the end, dozens of people related to Ma Sicong were subjected to the disaster of innocence, and Ma Sicong's second brother jumped off a building and committed suicide, and his mother-in-law and several others died directly due to persecution.
Ma Sicong was thus labeled "treason", and it was not until 1984, after the end of the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution, that the incident was re-emphasized and rehabilitated, and Ma Sicong finally had the opportunity to return to his homeland.
However, such a rehabilitation still came too late, at this time Ma Sicong was already more than 70 years old, the body may collapse at any time, the time to return to China was delayed again and again, and finally due to a serious illness, in 1987, Ma Sicongke died in Philadelphia, USA.
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After all, Ma Sicong was unable to return to his homeland, and "Homesick Song" also became a resound that haunted his heart, which could not help but cause people to mourn endlessly.
Ma Sicong's story is undoubtedly a little uncomfortable, but such a story is only a microcosm of that crazy era, if we want to prevent the recurrence of this kind of thing, we must always polish our eyes, and never be used like those red young generals without knowing it, and eventually make similar mistakes.