Wang's blonde grandson, "Talking", Wang Xiao'an, | Zhang Nianchi

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Forty years ago, a young man knocked on my door and reported to himself: "My name is Wang Xiao'an, my grandfather is Wang Blonde, and I am a comrade-in-arms with your grandfather!" "Oh, the king's robber grandson"—this was my instantaneous reaction. Wang Jinfa, a native of Shengxian County, Zhejiang Province, has been known as a robber since the poor mountains and bad waters of ancient Shengxian County, and Wang Jinfa is known as a "king bandit". When I looked closely at Wang Xiao'an, he was indeed tall and heroic, had a sense of pride, and had the legacy of Wang's blond hair. After entering the door, he said to me bluntly: "I want to rehabilitate Wang Blonde, there are too many untrue comments about him, you work in the Institute of History, and you are mr. Taiyan's grandson, you should be able to help me with this!" So he talked endlessly about the right and wrong of Wang Blonde's death.

Since then, he has knocked on the door every three to five minutes, holding a large stack of family trees, about fifteen or sixteen books, pointing to the family tree to talk about the glorious history of the ancestors, the history of Wang Blonde... A cup of tea is drunk, and then automatically renewed tea, eat until the tea leaves are white, without any words, if you leave rice, you will not thank you. I was exhausted and struggled to cope, and secretly called him a "talker" in my heart.

At that time, I was working in the Modern History Department of the Institute of History of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, and the work seemed to be extremely relaxed, but I couldn't get results in three months, half a year, or one year. In addition, my academic qualifications are not as good as others, and my work must be harder than others, so every hour of every day is extremely precious to me, and I usually communicate with people, which is limited to half an hour. Moreover, at that time, Wang Jinfa was a marginal figure in the study of the history of the Xinhai Revolution, which was not our focus, and we really did not have the energy to distract ourselves from studying Wang Jinfa.

But Wang Xiao'an still came and went freely, as if going in and out of his own home, making tea and smoking by himself, still gushing endlessly, telling all kinds of anecdotes in Shengxian County. He said that Chiang Kai-shek was also originally from Shengxian County, and later assigned to Gezhu, and many of Chiang Kai-shek's friends were shengxian people, such as Zhu Shaokang, Qiu Wengao, Hu Shijun, Xie Feilin, etc., all of whom were the core of the Zhejiang Eastern Huihui Party, and later joined xu Xilin and Qiu Jin to establish the Datong Academy, with Wang Jinfa as a physical education teacher as a cover, and also combined with Chen Qimei, from participating in the GuangfuHui to participating in the Alliance. He is very skilled in these histories, but most of them are hearsay, and there is no relevant text to support it, but he has a passion to rehabilitate his ancestors and return the historical truth, and he has a natural ability to agitate and publicize, and he will not tire of convincing others. Infected by him, I slowly became interested in Wang Jinfa and began to study the Zhejiang Eastern Hui Party and the GuangfuHui. To this end, I went with him to eastern Zhejiang twice, on the one hand, I mobilized Shengxian to hold commemorative meetings and academic seminars, and on the other hand, I deeply understood the history of eastern Zhejiang. On this basis, I wrote tens of thousands of words of papers such as "The Confusion and Rumors Are Always Unprovoked -- On Wang Jin's Blonde Hair", and wrote a series of articles such as "Several Important Historical Facts of Qiu Jin's Study in Japan" and "Chiang Kai-shek's Early Years".

Wang Xiaoan is a small person who is no longer ordinary, has not read much books, served as a "sports soldier", worked in a small factory in the street after demobilization, and was transferred to the martyrs' cemetery, he is bold and upright, there is no city government, enthusiasm and innocence, and love painting. He also kept "flickering" at the homes of the playwrights Yang Cunbin and Wang Yuanmei, saying that Wang Blonde was the Zorro and Robin Hood of the East, which made these two old writers move their hearts to write the script of "Wang Blonde". He also said that Liu Jin, who moved the "Literary Daily", and his colleagues, supported him to "lobby" everywhere. I went to Zhejiang with him, he asked me to go to Zhenhai to see a friend, he met when he was on a business trip before, they drank together, one night bitterly criticized "this woman", he always made friends with a red heart to a red heart, and later, this friend served as the director of the Zhenhai Public Security Bureau, and he warmly received us, which can also be described as "life and death friends". Wang Xiaoan had a short life, and suddenly died of illness at the age of 47, but his niece and my brother-in-law married into a couple, and we had a constant fate in the dark.

After becoming a celebrity, Wang Xiao'an fulfilled his "duty of death after death", helped his ancestors to correct their names, washed away their mistakes, and achieved the goal of "defending individuals as small and seeking justice for history as great", and this trend should be carried forward. "If you remember me, I will live", which is a good tradition and virtue. Even though he's a little man, I should write some commemorative writing for him!

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The conference to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Wang Jinfa's martyrdom and the academic seminar on Wang Jinfa were finally held in his hometown from May 30 to June 2, 1985, and more than 70 units from Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Shaoxing and other places, more than 130 people attended the grand meeting, and received more than 30 papers. Tang Zhenchang, deputy director of the Institute of History of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Yang Cunbin and his wife, famous playwrights, Liu Jin, member of the editorial board of The Literary Daily, Cai Yuanpei's daughter Cai Juan'an of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qiu Jin's nephew Queen Yanhua, The Old Master of the Shanghai Library Ge Zhenghui, and Ding Fenglin, a senior reporter of Liberation Daily, were all involved. Zhejiang also has famous scholars Hu Guoshu, Dai Meng, Wang Zunxian, Liu Yunshan, Chen Weiyu, Qiu Shixiong, Wang Suijin, Zhu Fusheng and so on.

Entrusted by the general assembly, I first reported to you on Wang Jinfa and his own affairs. I first rejected Wang Jinfa's statement that before the Xinhai Revolution, he was just a "green forest bandit and obstructed civilization"; after the Xinhai Revolution, he served as the governor of Shaoxing, "did not understand the rule of officials, and was harsh as a tiger"; after the "second revolution", he surrendered to Yuan Shikai, and the reactionary forces always said that he was useless, while the revolutionaries highly praised him, saying that he "sold his property and threw himself into the revolution", went north to participate in the Xiong Chengji rebellion, went south to participate in the Huanghuagang uprising, slashed the inferior gentleman Hu Daonan, cut off the internal traitor Wang Gongquan, punished Liu Shipei, rescued Zhang Botong, and recovered the revolutionary funds. Known as the "Chinese Robin Hood", he later organized death squads, participated in Shanghai Guangfu, Hangzhou Guangfu, Shaoxing Guangfu, served as the governor of the Shaoxing military government, actively trained troops, prepared for the Northern Expedition, and implemented the New Deal... But this was the first time that the revolutionaries had come to power in the land of the stubborn old feudal forces, and soon exposed the naivety and immaturity of the revolutionaries, and Wang Jinfa was a little confused and made the mistake of misconduct. After Yuan Shikai usurped power, he followed Sun Yat-sen against Yuan, was wanted, lived in Shanghai, was disheartened, sent eroticism, and obeyed his mother's words and went to Beijing to "fake surrender," but Yuan Shikai asked him to arrest Chiang Kai-shek, Yao Yongchen, and others as a condition, and only then could he allow him to be a "senior official in the presidential palace." Wang Jinfa had no choice but to "stumble out of Beijing." Yuan Shikai immediately ordered Zhu Rui, the governor of Zhejiang, to arrest him and kill him together with Yao Yongchen, who was only thirty-three years old. The opposition forces celebrated this and took the opportunity to create many rumors about Wang Blonde, and the revolutionaries suspected him of defecting. The truth of the facts has become blurred under the fierce storms of the times since then, and in the seventy years from his death to the opening of the commemorative meeting, China has undergone drastic changes, and wang Jinfa and these people have no "historical accounts" behind them. But Sun Yat-sen lamented that "the heavens and the earth are not kind, annihilating our good soldiers", Cai Yuanpei called him "intelligent and trapped", and Shen Wanmin called him "a mighty rainbow". Therefore, Mr. Liu Yazi wrote many poems to mourn him, saying that "the crime should be paid for the coffin, and the rumors and rumors are always unprovoked", which is so thorough, and the history of a hundred years is not the case. Mr. Liu Yazi finally said: In the face of this history, we can only "look at it with tears in a roll"! Yes, in the face of the Chinese revolution, whether it is the old democratic revolution to the new democratic revolution or even the socialist revolution, it is not "a roll of tears to see"! This is a history of blood and tears!

This commemorative meeting and seminar were held for three whole days, and everyone was seriously engaged and actively communicated, which is difficult to imagine today. Because this group of people were all "liberated" at that time, they sympathized with Wang Blonde, hated injustice, and deeply supported the rectification of chaos. They used their own experiences and experiences to discuss Wang Blonde, leaving many wonderful speeches (see the commemorative collection of the meeting). Mr. Tang Zhenchang emphasized the spirit of seeking truth from facts, he wrote an article to overturn the case for Wu Zhihui, Wu Zhihui behaved very badly in his later years, but Zhang Taiyan said that he betrayed his comrades, and this matter was not there, so we must defend him. Mr. Yang Cunbin, a famous playwright, said that we should break the rules and regulations of simplistic vulgar sociology, so he should write a "Chinese Zorro" that is both legendary and meets the requirements of mass entertainment. Mr. Ye Yuan, a famous screenwriter, combined with his creation of "Opium War" and "The Horse Pawn in the Revolutionary Army", talked about how to look at historical figures, saying that we must put the characters in the environment of the times at that time, "Perhaps some young people today do not take their parents seriously, and do not know what filial piety is, but in the society at that time, the weight of the word 'filial piety' was very heavy and heavy", so Wang Jinfa listened to his mother's words "false surrender", which is completely understandable. Another example is the "Su Bao" case, the Qing court wanted to arrest Zhang Taiyan and Zou Rong, Zhang Taiyan did not flee, Zou Rong actually went to turn himself in later, today people are unlikely to understand, think "too pedantic", in fact, this is our understanding of the social and revolutionary atmosphere at that time ... Such splendid speeches abounded at this meeting, embodying the atmosphere of ideological emancipation.

Knowing myself Wang Xiao'an, forty years have passed, most of the people who participated in the commemorative meeting have also gone to the past, but China has achieved the "third take-off" (this is the language at that time), Shengxian has also undergone earth-shaking changes, the simple Xiaobaihuayue Opera Troupe has been magnificently repaired, and Wang Jinfa's former residence has also been restored... "Many of the wishes that Wang Xiao'an has nagged about are becoming a reality one by one!

Written on June 3, 2021

On the occasion of the thirty-sixth year of the "Wang Blonde Seminar"

Author: Zhang Nianchi

Editors: Andy, Qian Yutong