<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="1" > preamble</h1>
Hu Dingxin (pen name Qiaomu), who had been the secretary of the great man, knew very well why Chen Boda was valued.
Wang Mengkui (who had been invited by Elder Hu to be his secretary, but was politely rejected) asked this question when chatting with Elder Hu.
The answer is this:
"Many people are not very familiar with the Marxist-Leninist literature, and our theories and policies are closely linked to the Marxist-Leninist literature, so we must use chen Boda, who is familiar with the relevant literature."
"It's not that other people can't write, for example, I can write, but none of us are from the class, first, we are not familiar with Chen Boda, and second, we do not understand him deeply." Chen Boda studied in the Soviet system, is a serious class, coupled with his very solid traditional Chinese cultural cultivation, this kind of talent is exactly what is needed."
Among the secretaries of the many great people, Chen Boda is the one who has followed the longest time, but his smooth steps are not accumulated by time. Because of the two brushes, Chen Boda stood out and became the chief secretary, these two brushes are:
The first brush: he has a deep knowledge of traditional Chinese culture;
The second brush: he is from a serious class and is familiar with Marxist-Leninist theory.
Sketch portrait of Chen Boda
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="11" > early life</h1>
Chen Boda was born in Lingtou Village, Hui'an, Fujian Province, and his family is also a family of scholars, although it is a family of xiucai who has been broken.
Chen Boda graduated at the age of 17 and worked in the primary school in his hometown, became a primary school teacher, and after a year ran to Xiamen, still as a primary school teacher.
At this time, Chen Boda was still a naïve literary and artistic youth, and thanks to his birth in the Xiucai family, he laid a very solid foundation for ancient culture from an early age.
Twenty-year-old Chen Boda, in the magazine "Modern Review", published the first novel of his life: "Cold Days"; this novel I have the privilege of reading, the writing is really good, but the content is well, written between adolescent men and men, that is a relatively hazy good feeling.
Interestingly, Chen Boda has never written a novel since.
This also shows that Chen Boda actually does not want to be a simple literati, who has learned from ancient literati and is excellent, but he also does not want to be a pure politician; so what kind of person does he want to be? In fact, it is a combination of politicians and writers: a political commentator who is "full of literary names".
If you want him to speak around like a politician, it is not possible, as long as he speaks a Hokkien dialect, others can't understand it, others are anxious, he is also anxious.
At the end of 1927, Chen Boda was selected to study in the Soviet Union, and he entered the Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow and was assigned to the second class of the first year.
On the train journey to Moscow, Chen Boda met a woman, a ten-day journey that made the love between the two also begin to sprout and blossom in a foreign country.
This gilded experience in the Soviet Union also laid the groundwork for Chen Boda's future soaring.
Group photo of Chen Boda and his son in his later years (first from the right)
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="23" > a turning point in life</h1>
At the end of 1930, Chen Boda returned to China, when he was 26 years old, older, but his fame did not grow.
After six years of hard work, in the spring of 1936, Chen Boda, who was already 32 years old at this time, entered the Propaganda Department of the Northern Bureau and held the post of minister, which was considered to have a certain status, but his reputation was also very limited, and he was still far away from his ideal of "literary fame all over the world", and he had not even touched the edge.
In late 1937, Chen Boda took a boat from Tianjin to Qingdao and traveled all the way to Yan'an, which was the first turning point in his life.
When Chen Boda first arrived in Yan'an, he happened to encounter that Northern Shaanxi Public School had not been established for a long time and was in need of teachers. Chen Boda came this time, as if he had come to give a pillow, and he was arranged to become a teacher.
This errand was torture for Chen Boda, just because of his southern Fujian dialect, which made the students below sound like clouds. In desperation, Chen Boda had to keep writing board books, and after a class, he didn't write much, not so much as a lecture, but rather "writing a lesson" is more appropriate.
Later, when there was no way, he specially equipped him with a translator to translate the Southern Fujian dialect in his mouth into words that everyone could understand, and after a long time of maintaining this situation, Chen Boda was transferred to the Propaganda Department and served as the chief of the publishing section.
At this time, Chen Boda was still not reused, so his state of mind was not very wonderful.
It was not until a theoretical symposium that Chen Boda's debate attracted the attention of great people, which made Chen Boda usher in a major turning point in his life.
After the symposium, the great man deliberately left Chen Boda behind, briefly asked him about some information, and became more and more interested.
In the evening, Chen Boda was told to go to the canteen of the organ cooperative, and the great man was waiting for him to have dinner. This made Chen Boda very surprised, but also very excited, he hurried over, found that there was also an American reporter present.
It turned out that the great man was feasting on American reporters in the canteen of the organ at that time, and by the way, he also called Chen Boda over to eat together.
After the meal, the great man left Chen Boda, and after learning that Chen had previously taught the lessons of the pre-Qin zhuzi in the school, the two found a common topic, and the more they talked, the more speculative they became.
Finally, the great man proposed that Chen Boda also teach a lesson on ancient Chinese philosophy.
In his later years, Chen Boda
This meeting was a turning point in Chen Boda's life, and the name "Chen Boda" was also printed in the minds of great people.
Within a few days, Chen Boda's lecture class was opened, and the great man would listen to it almost every time, and when he saw that his old man had gone, others had also come to visit, and Chen Boda's reputation gradually spread.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="40" > postscript</h1>
Chen Boda's real achievement of "making a name for himself with literature" was in 1943, when a "Commentary on the Fate of China" he wrote once it was published, it attracted the attention of public opinion at home and abroad, and the three words "Chen Boda" really became famous.
On September 20, 1988, Chen Boda died of myocardial infarction.
At the farewell ceremony of his body, no obituary was held under his original name "Chen Jianxiang".
On September 30 of the same year, the media published the news of his death:
"Our reporter learned from relevant parties that Chen Boda died in his home due to myocardial infarction on September 20, and the 85-year-old Chen Boda was released after completing his sentence in October last year."
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