Wake up（130）

 

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It was so quiet that even the sound of grass moving could be heard. All the scenery lies silently in the night, and everything is not as concrete as in the daytime.

In the night sky, only a few stars in the sky give off faint light, and the earth has fallen into a deep sleep. The desolate courtyard was silent, and the willow trees hung their branches silently in the gloom, and the shadows shrouded the night.

This night, the lights in the room were still on.

Wu Qiankun continued to tell Pan Guangfu, Chai Jianhua, and He Jiafu about the experience of the rightists in Peking University during the Cultural Revolution:

Wu Qiankun sighed and said: The rightists were hit again during the Cultural Revolution, and even those who were once "central right" became "monsters and monsters." In 1957, there were still people in Peking University who received various punishments for not wearing a "hat"842 people. During the Cultural Revolution, many of these people were "upgraded" to become "ghosts and snake gods" and suffered "struggle" and "dictatorship".

Professor Fu Ying of the Department of Chemistry, in 1952, during the "thought reform" movement, he spoke positively at the school's meeting. He has also become a "ghost and snake god". Obviously, the bar for classifying "class enemies" is constantly shifting to the left, and more and more people are included. Fu Ying was imprisoned and "struggled" for a long time. He was first locked up in the boys' dormitory of the chemistry department. During the day, the girls from the department guarded the "reform through labor" on campus, and at night, the boys from the department guarded them. Even he was reprimanded by students for going to the toilet many times at night because of his old age. He was later locked up in the school's "reform compound". One of the schoolgirls working as a guard had a stick there. After the "late roll call" in the "supervisory reform compound" every day, the female student beat Cen Dianhua, the deputy director of the Department of Oriental Languages, with her stick in the middle of the courtyard, forcing him to admit that he had participated in the "Three People's Principles Youth League." Cen Dianhua did not admit it. Seeing this scene, Fu Ying said that according to the "standards" that define "historical counter-revolutionaries", even if she had participated in the "Three Youth League", it was only a "general historical problem". Now she is beaten every day and does not admit it, probably not. Professor Fu Ying's logical reasoning is very clear. But what he said was reported, and he was beaten for it.

Fu Ying was lucky enough to survive the Cultural Revolution, but during the Cultural Revolution, ten percent of Peking University professors were killed.

Wu Qiankun said that although we have not yet learned the whereabouts of all the more than 700 Peking University rightists during the Cultural Revolution, we can be sure that a very high proportion of them were tortured to death during the Cultural Revolution.

In 1952, there were five English professors in the Department of Foreign Languages of Yenching University. Except for Wu Ningkun, the other four were merged into Peking University in the "department adjustment". Two of the male professors, Hu Jiatai and Wu Xinghua, were classified as "rightists" at Peking University. Two female professors, Yu Dayin and Zhao Luorui, were not classified as "rightists", but their husbands, Yu Dayin's husband Zeng Zhaolun and Zhao Luorui's husband Chen Mengjia, were both classified as "rightists". molecular".

Wu Ningkun, who was teaching at the Beijing Foreign Affairs University at that time, was also classified as a "rightist" and sent to a "reform through labor farm", where he suffered the most severe persecution.

On August 25, 1966, the Red Guards of the Department of Spanish held a "struggle meeting" in front of the 40th floor. Professor Yu Dayin was forced to kneel on the stage and fought, and his home was ransacked. She committed suicide by taking poison at Yandongyuan's home that night. When her husband Zeng Zhaolun was sent to work in Wuhan, he suffered a long-term "struggle" at Wuhan University and died on December 9, 1967. Professor Zhao Luorui's husband, archaeologist Chen Mengjia, hanged himself on September 3, 1966 after being beaten and insulted. Zhao Luorui was "struggled" and beaten. Even a female teaching assistant who had graduated and stayed at the school not long before the Cultural Revolution beat her. She was mentally disturbed for a time, and then needed long-term medication to control it.

Hu Jiatai's second son Hu Gongguan and third son Hu Gongfan were also classified as "rightists", and the second son was sent to work in the Great Northern Wilderness.

After Hu Jiatai became a "rightist", he was demoted from a second-level professor to a sixth-level professor, and was not allowed to attend classes. He first did physical labor on campus, and then went to the Philosophy Department of Peking University to translate materials. After the Cultural Revolution began in 1966, he was "ransacked", "paraded through the streets" and "struggled". Because he has long been a "rightist" instead of a new revolutionary target, he always "accompanies the fight" in the "struggle meeting". In October 1966 he suddenly became paralyzed. His wife sent him to the Third Hospital of Peking University. The hospital asked for an official letter from Peking University before treating him. The official letter from the Department of Philosophy to the hospital read: This person is a rightist in our department, please give him general treatment. He left the hospital with little treatment and died in January 1968.

If it is said that in 1957, the group of English professors at Yenching University was "sweeped in one sweep", then the Cultural Revolution really became the "sweeping in one sweep" as the saying goes. In this way, three of the four English professors from Yenching University who stayed at Peking University were persecuted to death during the Cultural Revolution, and the husband of the only survivor was also persecuted to death.