Wake up（217）

 

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On the train from the inland to Shenzhen, Pan Guangfu took over the materials of "Peking University Chronicle" from Zhou Jianguo, including a book "Wind and Rain Unnamed Lake" published by Hu Zongshi in 2018. Pan Guangfu started Read "The Wind and Rain Unnamed Lake".

Chai Jianmin took over another book "Yanyuan Fengyunlu" from Zhou Jianguo. The author is Qu Changjiang.

Qu Changjiang recalled in "Yanyuan Fengyunlu":

I remember that in the early spring of 1971, I was dragged back to Peking University after graduation, and this time I was accused of being a "May 16" member. At that time, I said to the leader of Unit 8341 in the department: "Hasn't our case been rehabilitated? Wang Zhonglin and I also approached Comrade Chi Qun and asked what we should do if we start a campaign to rectify it in the future. Chi Qun patted his chest and promised: Ten Within a year, someone will punish you and let him come to me!" The leader said: "That time is the policy of that time, this time is the policy of this time." I was baffled and speechless.

About a month or two later, I was called to an office of Unit 8341 of the school to give lectures. The lecturer was a lesbian, in her thirties, in military uniform, with short hair, and she didn't know who it was. The demeanor and tone of the lecture always reminded me of the legendary Xie Jingyi. The situation of the lecture is roughly as follows.

First, she asked me how my account was going. I said, what has been explained in the past, I will explain it again. After hearing this, she angrily said that she had to explain a new issue this time, which was the issue of participating in the "May 16th".

I said, I don't remember this happening.

She said, we are 8341, you should understand. You are not "May 16" we will get you all the way? ! We have real assurance and evidence. We report to Chairman Mao every day. You will prepare a presentation for the Confessions Conference. It doesn't matter whether you remember or not, there will be plenty of time to recall and explain slowly in the future. Let me confess frankly about my participation in the May 16th organization. You know our policy, don't I need to say more? !

Can I doubt the 8341 Central Guard Regiment who once rehabilitated me? Can I suspect that this female leader who may be Xie Jingyi reports to Chairman Mao every day? I can only doubt my own memory and brain that have been damaged by several quarantine inspections.

So, on the day of the conference, after Niu Huilin came to the stage and finished his confession, I walked to the podium. Looking back on the way, the "accomplices" scattered in every corner of the venue stood up and demanded a confession. Why is it me again! I was the first to tie myself to the pillar of shame that betrayed my conscience and morality, and made me regret it for the rest of my life!

I fell into the trap of "loyalty" and "trust"!

About seven or eight months later, Wang Lianlong, political commissar of Unit 8341, came to my isolation room with a smile and asked me how I was doing recently.

I said: "8341 also engages in forced confessions! I have never participated in 'May 16th'. I remember, I participated in the Red Guards of "Red Flag Floating." Political commissar Wang was displeased, his face drawn long Yes, let's go.

Since 1971, when I was arrested again by 8341 and sent back to Peking University for eight months of quarantine inspection, and then I was sent back to the countryside for nothing. Being convicted of something, this nightmare has been from my twenties to my fifties and sixties. Initially, the dreams were lucid and intense, almost monthly. With the passage of time, gradually, the tension of the nightmare has faded and weakened, and the interval has become longer, but its basic characteristics can still be discerned: in Beijing. On Peking University campus. On the 28th floor of the prison. Still those few people. It has been with me almost all my life!

Zhou Jianguo handed over two more books to Pan Guangfu and Chai Jianmin. One was Niu Huilin's memories of his hometown 42 years ago - the second episode of "Farewell to the Unnamed Lake", a collection of stories from Peking University to Shenshan, and the other was written by Ding Xiangyang. "The Wind and Rain Unnamed Lake" tells how Wang Jianxin and Zhou Shanfeng became victims of the Cultural Revolution.

Written by Niu Huilin: Forty-two years ago in the hometown - the story from Peking University to Shenshan, the second episode of "Farewell to the Unnamed Lake", published by Kyushu Publishing House in 2014. The author Niu Huilin used to be the service team leader of the Jinggangshan Corps of Peking University. After graduation, he was assigned to work as a cadre in the Shenshan Commune in Dingxiang County, Shanxi Province. In October 1970, he was escorted back to Peking University for another review.

Niu Huilin's memories are relatively simple: the good times didn't last long, I reported to the commune in May, and Peking University sent people to escort me back from Shenshan in October. This time I was detained for two full years, until 1972 when Peking University sent people to release me back to Shenshan. In the first half of the first year, there were some "May 16 Projects" that even the school could not understand. In the second half of the year, "May 16" was inexplicably stopped, and the old matter of "talking about the Proletarian Headquarters" was brought up again. After the "September 13" Lin Biao incident in 1971, the project stopped and was assigned to school logistics to repair pipes and burn boilers. In the summer of 1972, when the logistical work was over, the school gave me a conclusion that "discussions damaged the proletarian headquarters" and "serious mistakes", and they wanted to send me back to Shanxi. I absolutely refuse to sign.

Wei Yinqiu, the instructor of Unit 8341 who was in charge of the project, couldn't talk about it, and the deputy political commissar Wang Lianlong, the head of the school's party committee, couldn't talk about it either. In September, political commissar Yang Dezhong, who had already returned to work in Zhongnanhai, went back to Peking University to discuss in person, and finally negotiated a compromise method that included "retaining (Communist Youth) League membership" in the conclusion, and I reluctantly signed it. After the "Eleventh", he was able to return to the Shenshan Commune.

In 1979, Peking University held a general meeting to rehabilitate more than 100 students including me. The Peking University Party Committee's "Rehabilitation Decision" clearly pointed out that if I was asked to return to the school for review in 1970, I should be corrected and the original conclusion should be revoked.

In the investigation of the "May 16th" Movement, there is another grievance, which is not recorded in the "Peking University Chronicle", that is Zhou Shanfeng, a teaching assistant at the Hanzhong branch. An article "Sixty-Three Victims and the Peking University Cultural Revolution" written by Wang Youqin was originally published in the bimonthly "21st Century" magazine, and the total number is 93. In Wang Youqin's list of 63 people who died abnormally during the Cultural Revolution at Peking University, it is recorded: Zhou Shanfeng, 28 years old, male, teaching assistant, Hanzhong branch school, member of the Communist Youth League, committed suicide on May 12, 1973.

"Wind and Rain Unknown Lake" written by Ding Xiangyang tells the story of Zhou Shanfeng who became a victim in the Cultural Revolution. Ding Xiangyang is Zhou Shanfeng's classmate in the same grade.

Ding Xiangyang recalled:

When he graduated in March 1970, Zhou Shanfeng was assigned to stay in school. It is said that it is a good place to be assigned to stay in school after graduation. At that time, the Department of Mechanics was in Hanzhong 635 Branch, so he stayed in Hanzhong. He entered the Department of Fluid Mechanics in the Department of Mechanics. On the one hand, the old teachers helped to make up some professional courses left behind during the Cultural Revolution, and on the other hand, they made up basic courses for the new workers, peasants and soldiers who entered the school. They lived a relatively stable life. But the good times didn't last long. Peking University was a place of right and wrong, and the storm of the Cultural Revolution in 1973 was still blowing. In the investigation of the "May 16th" movement, although Hanzhong was not as intense as the Beijing movement, the storm in Beijing still blew to the Hanzhong 653 branch. In March, the 653 branch broadcast Peking University's criticism of the so-called "May 1st Chi Qun and Peking University Party Committee labeled Nie Yuanzi and Sun Pengyi as "May 16" counter-revolutionaries and were expelled from the party.

Zhou Shanfeng was shocked and panicked after hearing this. At that time, other students in our class cared about him and talked with him heart-to-heart, telling him to let go of his mental burden and not to be nervous. Later, that classmate went away for more than two months and had no chance to communicate with him again. Zhou Shanfeng's fragile nerves were a little overwhelmed by the situation at that time, and he was suspicious all day long, thinking that others were going to punish him.

At noon on May 12, 1973, his spirit finally broke down, and he took a knife and cut his own neck. When he cut his trachea, the blood flowed all over the floor, and the other teachers found out that the blood flowed out of the door, and called for help. Zhou Shanfeng was in great pain because of the broken trachea. Due to the poor conditions of the medical center of the Hanzhong branch, the nurses only treated his wound a little bit, inserted a small tube to maintain his life temporarily, and then took him to the Hanzhong County Hospital 30 kilometers away in a car. When he was sent to the county hospital, the tube inserted into his trachea was knocked over on the road. Zhou Shanfeng died of exhaustion and passed away forever.

Zhou Jianguo said helplessly to Pan Guangfu and Chai Jianmin:

Looking back at this period of the history of the Cultural Revolution, we can generally see that the "One Strike, Three Antis" and "May 16th" clique movements are the continuation of the "cleaning up the class ranks" movement, and were created under the guidance of the theory of class struggle and the ultra-left line. Man-made political struggles have created a large number of unjust, false and wrongly decided cases. This campaign at Peking University lasted from 1970 to 1973. It was carried out in accordance with the arrangement of the central government. It was organized and step-by-step. Graduated students were taken back to the school for review, and letters were sent to the units where some suspects belonged, causing these graduates to be punished in their units. More than 100 people were listed as the targets of special investigation, and 2 people were forced to commit suicide. In the end, only Nie Yuanzi and Sun Pengyi were designated as "counter-revolutionary May 16th elements." Facts have proved that there is no so-called "May 16th Element" in Peking University. Although Nie and Sun committed serious crimes during the Cultural Revolution, they are not "May 16th Elements". The above is a kind of "out of nothing" or "unnecessary" campaign, which not only wastes a lot of time, manpower and material resources, but also causes serious harm to more than 100 review objects and their families.