Reporter/Angel Bao
One day in January 1980, the overseas edition of the People's Daily published a message: Wang Yeqiu and four others had been dismissed from their posts.
At that time, Wang Yeqiu's eldest son, Wang Ke, as one of the first visiting scholars sent by the Ministry of Aerospace, was studying at the University of Southern California in the United States. For a time, rumors spread around them, and rumors spread that these ministerial-level cadres had stepped down because they were involved in the "Gang of Four." Wang Ke was very worried that his father could not withstand such unprovoked injuries, and sure enough, the family wrote that his father was seriously ill and hospitalized, and he was once critically ill.
Subsequently, at a meeting of the heads of the units directly under the cultural relics system, Ren Zibin, who succeeded Wang Yeqiu as the director of the State Administration of Cultural Relics, conveyed the results of the organization's investigation on Wang Yeqiu's "sending cultural relics to Kangsheng" and other issues. Jin Chongji, then deputy editor-in-chief of the Cultural Relics Publishing House, attended the meeting.
"Ren Zibin spoke these words on behalf of the organization, and his words were very clear, and I heard them directly." Jin Chongji told China News Weekly.
But the rumors in society did not stop, which made Wang Yeqiu deeply distressed in his later years. Jin Chong and over the years have always felt sad when they think about this, and they also deeply feel what is "fearsome in people's words".
(In his later years Wang Yeqiu.) Photo/Courtesy of respondents)
Song Boyin, who was the vice president of the Nanjing Museum, has always had a scene that has been difficult to forget for many years. It was a snowy day in the early 70s, and he saw Wang Yeqiu pedaling a worn-out bicycle at the back gate of the Forbidden City, and a high-end car sped by, splashing Wang Yeqiu with a face full of snow.
Before the founding of New China, Song Boyin took a break from school at the Southwest United University and returned to Chongqing to temporarily seek a primary school teaching position and compiled a textbook of "New Chinese Language" by himself. It contains Wang Yeqiu's "On the Qingcheng Mountain", which contains a small poem that many years later the students can recite: "The sea is as quiet as a spring river, but the sailboat is like carrying infinite desolation." Don't talk, think quietly, silently gaze at the spring river. ”
Cultural relics revival three-plate axe
On May 10, 1970, Zhou Enlai convened a meeting and announced the establishment of the State Council Tubokou Leading Group, with Lang Jie, a military representative, as its leader and Wang Yeqiu as its deputy group leader, in charge of professional work. Tubokou is managed by the State Council Office, with Wu Qingtong as the contact person.
Zhou En, who said that Kang was ill, was personally managed by him. He told Wang Yeqiu that Wu De was both the person in charge of Beijing Municipality and the head of the Cultural Group of the State Council, and that he could consult Wu De more when he had something to do.
Wang Yeqiu had worked on the hidden front before the founding of New China, so in November 1951, when Zhou Enlai was considering who would lead the team to Hong Kong to buy Wang Xianzhi's "Mid-Autumn Festival" and Wang Xun's "Boyuan Thesis" (together with Wang Xizhi's "Fast Snow Qingtian" now in the Forbidden City in Taipei, collectively known as "Three Xi Ti"), in view of the complicated political situation in Hong Kong at that time, Wang Yeqiu decided to take Ma Heng and Xu Senyu to Hong Kong. Disguised as coal traders, they smuggled them from Macau to Hong Kong by coal ship and bought the two posts safely for HK$480,000. In 1965, Zhou Enlai sent Wang Yeqiu to Hong Kong again to buy back a batch of good books for 450,000 Hong Kong dollars. Zhou Enlai knew that Wang Yeqiu was one of the few leading cadres in the party who had changed from layman to insider.
At the beginning of the establishment of Tubokou, the first major event that Wang Yeqiu grasped was the reopening of the Forbidden City.
After the "Cultural Revolution" began, the Red Guards wanted to enter the Forbidden City to "break the four olds", and Zhou Enlai learned of this and held an emergency meeting late at night on August 18, 1966, and decided to immediately close the Forbidden City. Zhou Enlai told Wang Yeqiu that many foreign guests had asked to see the Forbidden City, and that there were rumors that the three major halls of the Forbidden City had been destroyed by the Red Guards, and asked him to seize the restoration work of the Forbidden City.
Wang Yeqiu and Wu De agreed on the rectification policy of the Forbidden City, which was determined to be "displayed in its original form, individually screened, and deliberated on the text." On July 5, 1971, the Palace Museum was officially opened to the public.
Wang Yeqiu's second grasp was to hold the "Exhibition of Cultural Relics Unearthed During the Cultural Revolution" (which has since developed into an exhibition of cultural relics abroad).
In the spring of 1971, Wang Yeqiu sent a letter to 11 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions, including Hunan, Shaanxi, Hubei, Anhui, Henan, Xinjiang, Shandong, and Beijing, and dispatched newly excavated cultural relics from various places to the Forbidden City to participate in the exhibition, and asked each unit to send two staff members to accompany the exhibition. The text is written in the name of the "State Council Tubokou Leading Group", but it is stamped with the official seal of the "Palace Museum".
Archaeologist Xu Bingkun recalled that at that time, the staff of the Liaoning Provincial Museum where he was located had already "gone up to the mountains and went to the countryside", and he was sent to a remote mountain village in Lingyuan County, Liaoning Province. One day, he was suddenly informed that he had been seconded to the city on a mission, and he went down the mountain overnight and returned to his cultural relics job after three years of absence. After returning, I learned that I originally wanted to submit exhibits for the "Exhibition of Cultural Relics Unearthed During the Cultural Revolution". He deeply felt that the good thing about this topic is that not only can the work of cultural relics be restored to a certain extent, but a large number of cultural relics cadres can also be preserved.
(In September 1973, Wang Yeqiu (the one with the big Buddha in the middle finger) accompanied Zhou Enlai and French President Pompidou to visit the Yungang Grottoes in Datong, Shanxi Province, and watched the open-air Giant Buddha together.) Photo/Courtesy of respondents)
Xiong Chuanlian, a staff member of the Hunan Provincial Museum, came to the Forbidden City to work for more than 4 months. He remembered that Wang Yeqiu rode an old bicycle to and from work every day, almost from morning to night with them, and sometimes brought his own steamed buns and other dry food to eat with everyone at noon. He will carefully inquire about the food and accommodation of the people in the provinces participating in the exhibition.
Liang Ziming from Shanxi recalled that these workers from other provinces originally only knew that Wang Yeqiu was the largest "bourgeoisie" on the cultural relics front, but after a period of contact, they found that he was a "good old man" with white hair and a little old appearance, and he was a "good old man" who worked seriously and treated people kindly, and he respected him very much.
At that time, even a person who could write brush characters was difficult to find, liang Ziming cameoed to write the exhibition description, and was praised by Wang Yeqiu as a "calligrapher", which made him feel that "there is no tiger in the mountains, and the monkey is called the king". It was not until Chen Zide, director of the Cultural Relics Department, and Luo Zhewen, an expert in ancient construction, returned from the cadre school that the situation of "not being able to open the bolt" eased slightly.
Wang Yeqiu's third grasp is the resumption of the three magazines of "Archaeological Journal", "Cultural Relics" and "Archaeology". At that time, the national academic journals were deserted, and the only bookshelf was "People's Daily" and "Red Flag" magazines, and these three cultural relics magazines could be described as the only one that resumed publications.
On July 9, 1971, Kissinger paid a secret visit to China. Taking this as an opportunity, on July 1, the "Exhibition of Cultural Relics Unearthed During the Cultural Revolution" was launched at the Cining Palace of the Forbidden City. On July 5, the Palace Museum reopened. On July 22, three magazines, including Cultural Relics, resumed publication. Wang Yeqiu's three-plate axe was all completed.
Wang Yeqiu also presided over the interior arrangement of The Diaoyutai Building No. 5 where Kissinger was staying and Building No. 18 where Nixon was staying, and completely removed the original "red ocean" decorations and replaced them with cultural relics and paintings that reflected China's long history and culture and magnificent mountains and rivers. Two experts, Wang Tianmu and Chen Dazhang, participated in the design and layout.
With Nixon's ice-breaking journey to China, the door to Sino-US exchanges opened. On October 14, 1972, Zhou Enlai met with Li Zhengdao and his wife at the Great Hall of the People, and Wang Yeqiu was present.
This was Li Zhengdao's first return to China after the founding of New China. At the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, he was copied from his hometown in Shanghai, and 20 pieces of ancient porcelain were donated by his father-in-law and have not been returned. When he returned to China this time, he also wanted to deal with this matter by the way.
After taking his seat, Zhou Enlai first rebuked Wang Yeqiu and said to Li Zhengdao: "It is that he does not return these porcelain!" Mrs. Li busily explained that it was donated to the state. Zhou Enlai still insisted: "No, they are reluctant to pay back!" He also instructed Wang Yeqiu to return these porcelains. Wang Yeqiu didn't know anything about this matter beforehand, but after a moment's pause, he quickly realized that Zhou Enlai wanted him to suffer on behalf of others, so he nodded his head and accepted the criticism.
In the evening, Zhou Enlai set up a banquet to entertain Li Zhengdao and his wife, and when Wang Yeqiu walked past the first table to the third table, Zhou Enlai shouted to him: "Wang Yeqiu! How did you run? Come here! Then he said, "I see that you Wang Yeqiu is not that kind of person!" Wang Yeqiu understood that "such a person" was a political opportunist who was pointing closer to the upstarts of the Cultural Revolution.
The "Red Chamber" in the hustle and bustle
Taking advantage of these major projects, Wang Yeqiu successively transferred back the personnel of the Cultural Relics Bureau who worked in the cadre school. The representatives of the Beginning Army did not agree, and Wang Yeqiu reached a reciprocal transfer agreement with him to nominate one person each.
Someone suggested to Wang Yeqiu that many of the Talented Talents and Pen Poles of the Ministry of Culture are concentrated in cadre schools, and they can be transferred to "Tubokou" and "people abandon me for use." Wang Yeqiu accepted this suggestion, wanted to come to the list and resume, personally approved, and reported to Wu Qingtong for transfer of these personnel. For a time, the Old North Red Chamber, where the Cultural Relics Bureau was located, gathered together and became the land of hidden dragons and crouching tigers.
Peng Qingyun was previously in the Department of Art Education of the Ministry of Culture, he joked that he was a "free rider", and in 1972 he was also transferred from the cadre school to the Cultural Relics Bureau to participate in the preparation of cultural relics exhibitions abroad.
Jin Chongji was also transferred from cadre to the Cultural Relics Bureau and served as deputy editor-in-chief of the Cultural Relics Publishing House. He used to be a member of the writing team of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee, and during the "Cultural Revolution" he was beaten as a "Kuomintang agent" and sent to a cadre school, and he has not made a conclusion for four years, and he did not expect to get this opportunity. In retrospect, he still feels that there are very few people who dare to do things in this way, which can reflect Wang Yeqiu's unique style.
The first time Jin Chong and wang Yeqiu heard his name was in Shanghai before the founding of New China. At that time, he was studying in college, and had read "Mr. Lu Xun Before the Minyuan" written by Wang Yeqiu (renamed "Mr. Lu Xun Before the Xinhai Revolution" when it was republished in 1956), knew that he had close contact with Lu Xun, and respected him.
Not long after returning to Beijing, Jin Chong and Wang Yeqiu saw him for the first time at his home. At that time, China was going to hold an exhibition of The Nanyang Han Portrait Stones in Japan, and the Japanese side asked Wang Yeqiu to write an article about Lu Xun and the Han Portrait Stones, and Wang Yeqiu asked Jin Chong and helped him sort out a manuscript, and also gave Jin Chong and several letters written by Lu Xun to him for reference.
Wang Yeqiu's home is in Huanghuamen, not far from the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, and Jin Chongji has since become a regular visitor here. Every time we finished talking about serious things, we talked about the sky in the open sky. Wang Yeqiu sometimes talks about his past experience on the hidden front, Jin Chong and love to ask questions, so he knows a lot about Wang Yeqiu's past.
Wang Yeqiu told him that at that time, others regarded him as a cultural person, but in fact, he mainly did military intelligence work. Those army numbers, numbers, etc. cannot be written down with a pen, and can only be memorized by the brain, and there can be no mistakes, and doing such work for a long time has ruined his brain.
In the 1970s, the domestic archaeological discoveries were one after another. In 1972, more than 5,000 bamboo tablets, such as the "Art of War of Sun Zi" and the "Art of War of Sun Yuan", which have been lost for more than a thousand years, were unearthed from the Han Tomb of Yinqueshan in Linyi, Shandong Province, confirming that Sun Wu and Sun Zhen were actually two people. At the end of 1973, more than 100,000 words of books were found in the tomb of Mawangdui No. 3. Subsequently, the Gansu Juyan Archaeological Team found 11,577 pieces of Jian Mu at the Jinguan site in Shoulder Water, which changed the study of Tang history. From the end of 1975 to the beginning of 1976, nearly 1,200 pieces of bamboo jane were unearthed in Hubei Yunmeng Sleeping Tiger Land, which was the first time that Qin Jian was unearthed. In 1977, fuyang, Anhui Province, excavated more than 1,000 Han Jian in the Shuanggudui Han Tomb, including the Book of Poetry and the Zhou Yi.
Wang Yeqiu decided to invite top scholars and experts in China to participate in the collation of these excavated books and books. Tang Lan, Shang Chengzuo, Zhang Zhengxiu, Tang Changru, Zhu Dexi, Luo Fuyi, Yang Bojun, Gu Tiefu, Sun Guanwen, Qiu Xigui, Li Xueqin, Ma Yong, Hu Rulei and other university scholars gathered in the Red House on the beach.
Led by Jin Chonghe, wu Tiemei, Jin Jing and Qian Bixiang, editors of the Cultural Relics Publishing House, also participated in the finishing work. Sometimes working overtime in the evening, the editor would bring a bowl of wontons to the old gentlemen from the restaurant opposite the Red Chamber. In the clamor of "batch forest batch hole", the Red Chamber has become a rare academic pure land.
"Wang Yeqiu will fight with you"
In 1975, Wang Yeqiu went to Xinjiang to investigate the preservation of the Thousand Buddha Caves, accompanied by Jin Chong and Xie Chensheng.
Many of the caves in the Thousand Buddha Caves in Kyzyl, the city of Baicheng in southern Xinjiang, are carved into steep stone walls and can only be climbed on bamboo ladders. Wang Yeqiu is 66 years old, has a serious heart attack, and has to take oxygen many times a day, but he directly helps the ladder to climb up. Everyone around him stepped forward to block it, and Wang Yeqiu suddenly slammed his hands back into a pile and said sharply, "What are you going to do!" "No one dares to stop it anymore.
After returning to Beijing after inspecting Xinjiang, Wang Yeqiu wrote a report to Li Xiannian, who presided over the work of the State Council's business group, and put forward opinions on protection. When Li Xiannian later talked about the protection of cultural relics, he said many times: "You have to move it, Wang Yeqiu will fight with you." Zhou Enlai also said many times that Wang Yeqiu regarded cultural relics and monuments as his own life, and whoever wanted to take cultural relics from him and give them away was like cutting off a piece of meat.
At the beginning of reform and opening up, in order to develop tourism, the newly established director of the State Tourism Administration came to the Cining Palace to convey the instructions of his superiors to use ancient buildings to open hotels and restaurants in the Forbidden City.
This is not the first time that the Forbidden City has been discussed for renovation. At the end of the 1950s, there was a wave of renovation of the Forbidden City, when the Beijing Municipal Urban Construction Committee proposed a plan to build the Forbidden City into a "mass cultural, sports, and resting place". Wang Yeqiu firmly opposed it, and whenever the Central Propaganda Department called a relevant meeting, he would flee the meeting to avoid direct conflict. In the end, the renovation plan was rejected by Lu Dingyi.
This time, after summoning everyone to study, Wang Yeqiu replied in his capacity as director of the Cultural Relics Bureau: The Forbidden City cannot open hotels and restaurants. The Director of Tourism once again stressed that this was the opinion of the leadership and hoped that Director Wang would consider the consequences.
Wang Yeqiu was silent for a while and said firmly: The Forbidden City is a world-famous palace complex, and it is also a world-famous museum that preserves a large number of precious cultural relics, and if you open a hotel here, it will inevitably cause major losses such as fire and theft. I am the director of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, and I am responsible. Whoever it is, they must not agree, and I will not agree to remove me from office!
The atmosphere at the scene seemed to freeze, and everyone present pinched a handful of sweat. The director of tourism had no choice but to say, I will go back and report to the leader.
A few days later, he came again, still with this opinion. Wang Yeqiu also said the same sentence: I do not agree.
In order to let the director of the tourism bureau understand the situation, Luo Zhewen took him to inspect the three halls of the Forbidden City, the Cining Garden, the Qianlong Garden, the rockery, the pavilion, the veranda and other places.
From 1973 to 1979, Li Ruihuan served as deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Construction Commission and commander of the Infrastructure Construction Command, and had no less dealings with Wang Yeqiu, who often asked him to stop construction or change construction routes.
Once, when a bulldozer was about to tear down the Dabaotai Western Han Tomb in Beijing's Fengtai District, Wang Yeqiu called Wu De's daughter Wu Tiemei and his wife to his home at 9 o'clock that night and asked them to contact Wu De on their behalf. After the phone was connected, Wang Yeqiu reported the emergency to Wu De and asked that troops be sent to protect the scene. That night, Wu De ordered the troops of the Beijing Garrison District to enter the construction site, and the excavation of the Dabaotai Han Tomb was carried out smoothly.
When the subway was repaired and the city wall was demolished, the construction unit wanted to demolish the ancient observatory outside the Jianguo Gate together, which was opposed by experts such as Luo Zhewen. The infrastructure department stressed that no demolition would delay the progress and greatly increase the cost, requiring relocation without demolition. Wang Yeqiu summoned Wu Tiemei again, asked Wu De to stop the demolition operation first, and then reported to Zhou Enlai the reason why the demolition could not be demolished: the astronomical observation data and records accumulated over hundreds of years lost their meaning when they left the same place. Finally, Zhou Enlai personally held a special meeting and decided on a plan to preserve the ancient observatory.
In the early 1990s, li Ruihuan, as the central leader in charge of cultural work, said after visiting the "Exhibition of Fine Cultural Relics" at the Forbidden City: In the past, when urban construction was carried out, he did not understand and was disgusted by Wang Yeqiu's practice of protecting that and that he could not move. Now it seems that thanks to a Wang Yeqiu. Without his tough attitude at that time, the cultural relics and monuments in Beijing would have been demolished today.
Peng Qingyun said he heard Li Ruihuan's speech at the scene and then reported on it in the China Cultural Relics Daily, where he is the editor-in-chief. "Thanks to a Wang Yeqiu", it spread from this.
Peng Qingyun remembered that Li Ruihuan also told a story at that time. There is an important heritage site with two gates illegally erected. One day, a door caught fire, the phone rang to the Cultural Relics Bureau, wang Yeqiu went to the scene, stood by and watched, without saying a word. After dealing with it, he only muttered one sentence: "Why didn't you burn that door?" Li Ruihuan said, you say make people angry or not angry? Others were fighting the fire, and Wang Yeqiu was happy.
The Record of Wrongs
At the end of 1979, Wang Yeqiu ceased to be the director of the Cultural Relics Bureau and became an adviser. During this period, many people heard the transmission on different occasions, saying that someone had written a letter to the central authorities to reflect Wang Yeqiu's problems, and Hu Yaobang criticized Wang Yeqiu by name. It is said that he mainly had two problems: one was to send a lot of cultural relics to Kangsheng, and the other was that the Cultural Relics Bureau was to be established by Kangsheng.
On March 26, 1980, Xie Chensheng, who had worked next to Wang Yeqiu for many years, wrote to Hu Yaobang to appeal on Wang Yeqiu's behalf.
He said in the letter that he had worked in the Cultural Relics Bureau for more than 30 years, and as far as he knew, Kang Sheng worked on cultural relics from 1968 to 1970. These cultural relics were cleaned up by the "Beijing Municipal Cultural Relics And Book Cleaning Group" (later renamed the Cultural Relics Management Office, later the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Cultural Relics) from paper mills, steel mills and street raids. At that time, Wang Yeqiu was still locked up in the "cowshed", and soon after the "liberation" in the autumn of 1969, he was sent to the May Seventh Cadre School of the Ministry of Culture in Xianning, Hubei Province, and only returned to Beijing in 1970. From the beginning of the Cultural Revolution in 1966 to 1971, he did not see Kang Sheng at all, let alone send cultural relics. Before the "Cultural Revolution", Kang Sheng wanted to read cultural relics and good books, and he also went to museums and libraries to see them.
As for the relationship between the establishment of the Cultural Relics Bureau and Kangsheng, Xie Chensheng is one of the parties. He said that in the climax of the 1974 "Batch Forest Batch Hole", there was the sound of Wang Yeqiu's "black line resurgence", and it was reported that the female corpse of the Mawangdui Han Tomb was said to affect the current cremation, and the exhibition of cultural relics abroad was criticized as using the ancient to suppress the present. The State Council Cultural Group, controlled by the "Gang of Four," abruptly announced that it would take over the State Administration of Cultural Relics, which was formally established in April 1973, and sent an investigation team to collect materials at the grass-roots level. At that time, Zhou Enlai had been hospitalized in the 305 Hospital for surgical treatment. Wang Yeqiu went to consult Wang Zhen, and Wang Zhen told him: "Don't bother the premier about this, you can just write a letter to Kang Sheng." Wang Zhen said that now the premier is in a difficult situation, Kang Sheng understands cultural relics, and kang sheng can come out to speak about cultural relics, so as not to push the premier in front of everything.
In this case, Xie Chensheng wrote a letter to Kang Sheng, suggesting that the Cultural Relics Bureau should not be assigned to the Cultural Group. Kang Sheng gave instructions on the letter on June 28, 1974, affirming that Xie Chensheng's suggestion was basically correct, that the level of cultural relics work should not be too much, that it should be directly under the State Council, and should not be assigned to the Cultural Group, and that "Wang Yeqiu is a good comrade and should be protected." After the Fourth National People's Congress, the State Council officially issued a document to designate the Cultural Relics Bureau as a bureau directly under the State Council.
There is another "problem" in Wang Yeqiu's "problem" that is not explicitly stated, that is, "Jiang Qing please eat crabs."
In September 1974, when the wife of the Philippine president, Imelda Marcos, visited China, Jiang Qing held a literary and art evening for her, and Wang Yeqiu was also invited to participate. After the party, Jiang Qing left Wang Yeqiu to eat crabs with some people in the State Council Cultural Group. Wang Yeqiu had no contact with Jiang Qingsu in the past, and although Jiang Qing may have intended to woo him, Xie Chensheng gave evidence to show that Wang Yeqiu was not "flattered" by this and moved closer to the "Gang of Four," but was soft and hard," with a clear political attitude.
Xie Chensheng wrote: "I believe that there should be objective standards for judging right and wrong, and we should not waste things because of people and words because of people. Does the Gang of Four say that briquettes are black, and we have to say that briquettes are white? The Cultural Relics Bureau's direct subordinate to the State Council is beneficial to the development of the cause, and has nothing to do with Kangsheng's crimes, and it cannot be denied because it is Kangsheng's suggestion, let alone constitute any crime of the Cultural Relics Bureau. He said: "The facts reflected above, I dare to guarantee with my life." "And hope that the central authorities will thoroughly investigate and clarify them on appropriate occasions after the investigation is clarified."
At the same time, Luo Zhewen also wrote to Deng Xiaoping, reflecting the same situation. Both Hu Yaobang and Deng Xiaoping gave instructions.
After that, the Central Propaganda Department presided over the investigation. In May 1982, the "Summary of the Investigation Report" was written. In June, the central authorities sent someone to convey the contents of the investigation report to Wang Yeqiu's wife, Gao Lufang: After investigation, Wang Yeqiu's performance in the "Cultural Revolution" was good. Except for having contact with Kang Sheng in the field of cultural relics work, it has nothing to do with it politically or organizationally; the so-called "Wang Yeqiu gave a large number of confiscated cultural relics to Kang Sheng" is completely absent. The conclusion is: "For many years, I have served as the leader of the national cultural relics management department, worked diligently, worked hard and complained, and made achievements and contributions." ”
In October 1982, Wang Ke interrupted his study trip to the United States and returned to China, and his father was unable to communicate with him normally due to cerebral cytomalacia.
Many wenbo elderly people went to visit Wang Yeqiu, and he wanted to speak but could not speak, often with tears in his eyes.
Every spring festival, Jin Chong and he all went to Wang Yeqiu's house to visit, but Wang Yeqiu's health was so bad that he could not speak not long after he retired. Jin Chongji said that Wang Yeqiu is a very decent person, has a deep affection for cultural relics, and wholeheartedly protects cultural relics.
In the early days of the founding of New China, Wang Yeqiu and Zheng Zhenduo jointly laid down a rule: cultural relics workers were not allowed to acquire and collect cultural relics. The elderly in the cultural and cultural circles all recognize that Wang Yeqiu has been engaged in the protection of cultural relics for nearly 40 years, and has not touched a cultural relic from beginning to end, and even a replica handicraft has not been displayed at home, which is called "often walking by the river, that is, not wet shoes".
Peng Qingyun said that he particularly admired Wang Yeqiu's distinction between public and private and clean. Later, as deputy director of the State Administration of Cultural Relics, he lamented that it is very dangerous for people who engage in cultural relics to distinguish between public and private, and he has some right to get some small cultural relics, which is very simple, but if he is not careful, it will cause a storm.
Shan Jixiang said that since he stepped into the courtyard of cultural relics management, no matter when and where he always heard the story of Wang Yeqiu. He said: The protection of cultural relics is a special undertaking with outstanding personality, and it is necessary to fight for safety and security. Cultural relics workers may belong to an embarrassing minority on many occasions, and whether to insist or give up is often a serious choice related to the survival and destruction of things and the crime of human merit. On the issue of cultural relics protection, "the truth is sometimes indeed in the hands of a few people"
On October 5, 1987, Wang Yeqiu traveled calmly. In his life, he wrote: "Comrade Wang Yeqiu is the main pioneer and founder of the cultural relics and museum undertakings in New China. On October 23, his ashes were scattered from the Wangjing Tower of the Great Wall into the mountains.