Wake up（257）

 

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Wanru's former student, Sun Yulan, Li Aiwen, and Qian Xiaojuan, alumni of middle school, gathered in Lianxiang Tea Room, and met with Wanru's university professors Shen Zhirui and Hong Wenxuan. A call from student Qin Xiling. Qin Xiling invited Hong Wenxuan and Professor Shen Zhirui to have dinner together. Wanru is Qin Xiling's alumnus and they know each other very well. Wanru also knows Qin Xiling's girlfriend Lin Beixue. Wanru didn't expect that her university alumni were also in Hong Kong. She was very excited.

At the invitation of Qin Xiling and his girlfriend Lin Beixue, Hong Wenxuan, Professor Shen Zhirui and Wanru came to Staunton’s, a must-try restaurant in Hong Kong, as scheduled.

Staunton’s is located at the corner of Staunton Street and Shelley Street, occupying a quiet location in the middle of the bustle, providing two floors of leisurely dining space. The restaurant focuses on British food, hoping to break through people's prejudice against "British food desert" and present the British food culture. From the classic Brick Lane curry to sausage and potato mash, there are also Hong Kong-style fried chicken wings with garlic and shallot sauce, and Korean fried chicken with kimchi mayonnaise. Staunton’s can also satisfy all the desires of taste buds.

Qin Xiling was very happy to see Wanru.

Qin Xiling heard that Professors Hong Wenxuan and Shen Zhirui talked about going to the mountains and going to the countryside at the breakfast in the Lianxiang teahouse, and he said bluntly: In those days, the educated youths fled the countryside one after another by using various means alone, Whether they "victoriously escaped" from their respective farms through collective resistance, it is indisputable that: the most powerful negation of the Movement to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside is precisely itself.

Qin Xiling said: As early as 1978, the "National Educated Youth Going to the Mountains and the Countryside Meeting Minutes" made this statement: the ten-year educated youth going to the countryside movement from 1968 to 1978 "lacked an overall plan, and the path of the educated youth work was getting worse. The narrower it is, the more practical problems among educated youths sent to the countryside have not been resolved for a long time." The "Resolution on Some Historical Issues Concerning the Party Since the Founding of the People's Republic of China" passed by the Sixth Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee in 1981 explicitly denied the Cultural Revolution, which logically The Go-Mountain-Send-to-Rural Movement, which was born out of the Cultural Revolution, was a political death sentence. In fact, the Sending to the Countryside movement is an inevitable product of the autocratic system, and it is only logical that it occurred during the rampant personality cult and the lawless Cultural Revolution. But what is paradoxical is that many educated youths have already voted with their feet to go to the mountains and the countryside. In fact, they completely deny it, but they refuse to deny it in thought, action, and words.

Qin Xiling said to his mentor, Professor Hong Wenxuan: Just ask those Goetheists: If the Cultural Revolution had never ended, or would have been carried out every seven or eight years as Lao Mao said, if the movement of going to the mountains and going to the countryside continued to this day, it would be a millennium every year. Tens of millions of middle school graduates have to go to the mountains and go to the countryside. What will happen to the cities and villages in the mainland? What will be the living conditions of more and more new and old educated youths and their descendants? Those Goetheists who went to the mountains and went to the countryside, will they let their children and grandchildren stay away from the city and go to the countryside to suffer? Do they still have the confidence or even a chance to say "Youth has no regrets"?

Professor Hong Wenxuan said: For a long time, due to "no debate" and "should be rough and not detailed", the Cultural Revolution and its movement to the countryside have never been completely liquidated, and the publication of educated youth research and writings has been strictly restricted. The publicity and reports of the event were limited to the framework of mainstream ideologies such as "youth without regrets", "thank you for suffering", "glory after the catastrophe" and "sacrifice spirit". Literary works that truly reflect the movement of going to the mountains and going to the countryside have also been suppressed. We can see that Liang Xiaosheng's "Educated Youth" which was criticized by the majority of educated youths was broadcast in prime time on CCTV, and "Oasis of Time" was not only allowed to be performed in the National Center for the Performing Arts , was also awarded the "Guangdong Province Lu Xun Literature and Art Award", but did not see the successful publication of works that truly reflect the lives of educated youths like Wang Xiaobo's "Golden Age" and Lao Gui's "Blood Twilight" and were filmed into films. work.

Professor Shen Zhirui said: Our generation of people who experienced the Cultural Revolution’s understanding and reflection on the movement of going to the mountains and going to the countryside has been greatly restricted. Many old educated youths did not know the "true face of Lushan Mountain" for the movement involved, but only knew it. The reason is that there is no overall, comprehensive, and in-depth understanding of the truth about the movement to the countryside that caused political, economic, ideological, and cultural harm, let alone deep reflection. The educated youth group is a sad and pitiful generation.

Professor Hong Wenxuan said: How a nation treats its own history is a sign of its maturity. Similarly, the value of the educated youth generation depends on how they view their past. Going to the mountains and going to the countryside only shows that this group has been on the scene before, and it can be said that they have experienced it when they have exhausted their talents. In fact, the value of educated youth does not lie in the experience at that time, but in the subsequent awakening and current reflection. It is a pity that those educated youths who are still singing red songs and dancing red dances are still ignorantly living together in groups.

Professor Shen Zhirui said: We should stand at the height of modern civilization and reveal and think about the movement of going to the mountains and going to the countryside with a sense of historical depth. Only by putting it on the coordinates of Chinese history can we gain a historical perspective and be able to Only by recognizing its reactionary nature can we be worthy of the suffering we have suffered. For this reason, our reflection must break through the limitations of our own destiny and official restrictions, otherwise, what we are left with is confusion about past experiences, longing for affirmation of wasted years, and disputes about whether we have regrets or not. Finally, it ends with "sin has become a great cause".

Qin Xiling's girlfriend Lin Beixue said: The two professors are right. Both my father and mother were old educated youths who were driven to the Heilongjiang Corps at that time. I was born on that black earth. The most precious thing for a person is life. All lives are equal. No one's life should be despised but should be respected and protected. No one has the right to use themselves or others as "sacrifices" in any so-called noble name. Goods" to "sacrifice". Some old educated youths still mistakenly think that they went to the mountains and the countryside to share the worries of the country, to make selfless contributions to the Republic, and to have a glorious spirit of sacrifice. However, my parents told me that we must interpret the "sacrifice" of educated youth from a historical perspective. During the Cultural Revolution and even the Movement to the Mountains and Countryside, we were abandoned by the authorities and treated as victims.

Qin Xiling said: My fate is the same as that of Beixue. My parents jumped the queue in Shaanxi. They told me that this kind of sacrifice for the autocratic system was imposed on us. What we resist is what we can avoid greater and more sacrifices through desperate struggle after awakening. What's more, during the period of going to the mountains and going to the countryside, we did not play any role in promoting the development and construction of the country. Objectively, the three major differences were not eliminated, and our thinking did not become mature. Therefore, we are not a dedication, a spirit of sacrifice, not worthy of boasting, let alone honor. Those gothicists eulogize the "sacrifice spirit" of the educated youth, which is to avoid the evil of the system, to be grateful to the autocracy, to pay for the evil results with the sacrifice of the educated youth generation, and to "repay the money for the people who were sold."

Wanru said: In my opinion, another crime of the "Send-to-Mountain" Movement is that it deprives the educated youth of the right to continue their education. Education is a basic human right that every citizen should enjoy and guaranteed by the national constitution. It is the key to everyone's survival, development, and completion of socialization. Before the Cultural Revolution, those students from bad backgrounds were deprived of the right to enter middle school or university, and my father was such a victim. My father complained that even the education we received was distorted. Education should be people-oriented, so that every educated person can develop fully and freely. Only when everyone develops freely can the free development of all people be finally realized, and the free development of all people is the ultimate goal of education and the development of human society.

Professor Hong Wenxuan said: The educational philosophy of Westerners is that "children belong only to themselves, and education keeps politics out of the way." But ours is "education must serve proletarian politics", which is based on the creation of screws on the state machine of proletarian dictatorship. Purpose, personal value is not recognized, everyone is just a standard part without gender, characteristics, dignity, and free will. As a result, education has become a means to fool the people, and the educated youth generation has become a pawn that has no independent consciousness, ignorance, and is at the mercy of others.

Professor Shen Zhirui said: I have seen some diaries, letters, resolutions, critical drafts, and "tribute letters to Chairman Mao" written by some old educated youths at that time. The extreme left language and stupid mentality are so ridiculous, Despicable and pitiful, it makes us ashamed today! At the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, those people fiercely criticized the principal, exposed and criticized the teachers, were aggressive towards their classmates, drew a clear line with their parents, destroyed cultural relics, and threw classics into the fire; Criticizing landlords and rich people, cutting the tail of capitalism... All these are the actions of this generation of educated youth groups, and they are collective crimes caused by collective unconsciousness.

Professor Shen Zhirui sighed and said: Of course, they are just participants rather than producers. The educated youth generation is more of a bearer of suffering. "Suffering is the wealth of life", that is only for a few successful people; from a historical perspective, suffering can only be a lesson and a lesson for others. We cannot ignore the suffering of the vast majority of people, and we cannot trample on their suffering. We must trace the source of the suffering and hold the makers of the suffering accountable in order to avoid further suffering, instead of rationalizing the suffering, let alone praising and showing off the suffering. The examination of suffering should be based on the educated youth as a whole, based on the entire country and nation. In fact, those sufferings are not just the sufferings of individuals, but the sufferings of a generation and the common suffering of the whole nation. It should be noted that the few successful people in the educated youth group are accompanied by the suffering of the majority.

Professor Hong Wenxuan said: Our suffering stems not only from the criminal system, but also from our participation in the crime. Facing that period of history, we cannot be without a sense of guilt and guilt.

The three young students fully agreed with the two professors.

Qin Xiling pointed to Lin Beixue, and said to Wanru: We have immigrated to Hong Kong for many years, and after getting married, we still often talk about the sufferings of our parents when they went to the mountains and the countryside. We have joined "Freedom Net", which is a website mainly composed of overseas Chinese youths, and you can join too. The topics we discuss are all about the concerns of young people, and of course we will also talk about the stories of the older generation.

Lin Beixue smiled and said to Professor Hong Wenxuan and Shen Zhirui: Today I invite my teacher and alumnus Wanru to have dinner at Staunton’s, because the manager of Staunton’s is the father of a friend of mine. He also joined the team and later went to study in the UK. The restaurant specializes in British cuisine, the most classic being the Brick Lane curry. Let's taste the taste of British food culture.