Starring Chen Kun, Dong Jie, Liu Yifei and others, the "Golden Powder Family" Republic of China love drama tells the poignant love story between Jin Yanxi, the son of the premier of the Beiyang warlord cabinet, and Leng Qingqiu, a poor woman, in the 1920s, leaving the most beautiful picture in the hearts of countless believers and women.
The author of this work, Zhang Hexhui, is little known to people today. During the Republic of China period, the famous writer Lao She called Zhang Hexhui "the only old writer known to women and children in China" and "a real literati", and combined the titles of the six works he wrote, giving poems: up and down ancient and modern cattle and horses, articles laughing and knotting karma. The history of the golden powder of the family, the flower of blood for thirty years.
Today, I will introduce the story of the War of Resistance of the First Love Saint of the Republic of China.
Zhang Hexhui (1895-1967), a native of Qianshan, Anhui, whose original name was Zhang Xinyuan, was pen named "Hate Water", taken from Li Yu's words "Since people grew up to hate water Changdong". In the history of modern and contemporary Chinese literature, he was the first person to "chapter back to the novel" and "master of popular literature". Throughout his life, he has worked tirelessly, integrating the traditional Chinese Zhanghui novel with the new techniques of Western novels, and created more than 100 popular novels, of which "The History of Chunming", "The Golden Powder Family", "Laughing Karma", "Eighty-One Dreams" and so on have swept the country and poured countless people. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Zhang Hexhui moved his family west to the mountain city of Chongqing until the victory of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, spending 8 years with the capital.
I. "Running Alarm"
On January 10, 1938, Zhang Hexhui took his wife and children into exile to Chongqing, the capital of wartime. At this time, although Chongqing did not have the blood and tragedy on the frontal battlefield, it was always shrouded in the haze of war. Since the Nationalist government moved to Chongqing, the capital Chongqing has increasingly become the focus of Japanese bombing. In order to completely destroy the will of the Chinese people to resist and force the Chongqing Nationalist Government to surrender on its knees, the Japanese army dispatched more than 9,000 military aircraft to attack Chongqing in the five and a half years from February 1938 to August 1943, and carried out a terrible "indiscriminate bombing".
Under the chongqing bombing, Zhang Hexhui's family, together with ordinary Chongqing citizens, dodged air raids and drilled air raid shelters, not only witnessing the "tragic situation on earth" caused by the bombing, but also personally experiencing the "running alarm" life of nine deaths.
The so-called "running alarm" means that whenever the Japanese aircraft comes, the air defense siren in Chongqing's urban area is immediately sounded, and the citizens have evaded it, thus forming a unique "running alarm" life. Zhang Hexhui once fondly recalled a "running alarm" during the Dragon Boat Festival during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression: "At ten o'clock, the rice dumplings are not yet cooked (the smell of mountain residences only once a year), whine, whine, the alarm is coming." Closing the door, taking the children, backpacking, turning off the lights, changing into protective clothes, entering the bomb shelter, dodging the alarm, rehearsing again. People were crowded in bomb shelters like sardines, the rolling sound of aircraft, the rumble of anti-aircraft guns, the roar of bomb explosions. Although every sound is much more exciting, but everyone's heart is not numb, the atrium is beating, the breathing is tense, the hands are sweating, in the dark air raid shelter, everyone is waiting for death! Waiting to destroy the house! At three o'clock, in a long alarm sound, slowly out of the hole, a sudden sight of the big sun, people are shocked, because when in the cave, I thought it was a long night. Dragging his tired steps home from the stone slab path path, he saw the gray-yellow thatched hut, still in the sun, and blessed it with another disaster under the bomb. Along the way, I heard reports from pedestrians, blew up two intersections, blew up the Shangqing Temple, and blew up the Hualong Bridge, I don't know who people were killed in the Dragon Boat Festival? ”
Among the previous running alarms, the most dangerous one was in the "May 3rd and May Fourth" bombings in 1939, because Zhang Hexhui's family "almost did not explode and burn to death". The wife told Zhang Hexhui sadly: "May I have a lifetime and not forget today's misery." Zhang hated shui and hated the Japanese for seven years, until Hiroshima ate the atomic bomb, and he was relieved.
II. "I'm afraid to talk about three things today"
Zhang hated water during the War of Resistance
During his stay in Chongqing, Zhang Hexhui published a poem "Huanxi Sha" in Chongqing's Xinmin Bao:
I have not made clothes for three years in Shu, and recently I am sad when it is warm, and my torn shirts are no longer like things. Socks with mocking duck eggs, cloth shoes broken like chicken skin, send famous soldiers I doubt? ”
One or two fresh scales and one or two beads, the tile plate has been singing for a long time without fish, and the beef has not been on the kitchen. Today I am afraid to talk about three things, when I read five cars of books, what is the return date?
Borrow things and now to match, two cents a box fee arrangement. The neighbor begs for a light to come. Partial candle residue was bitten by rats, the window was opened on the phase of the moon, and the non-guanfeng ya was a cold fast. ”
Does the pen still have to be stimulated? Less poetry after smoking quit. Lu Tong has already eaten Tuo tea, and there are still broken books to borrow friends to read, but there is no wine to give credit to people, and He loves to sing tears like numbness. ”
These four words can be said to be a portrait of Zhang Hexhui's family's eight-year life in Chongqing. Reading carefully, we seem to vaguely see that a literary master who is only eight buckets tall and has learned to be rich in five cars, has been wearing an old shirt for many years, his socks are broken and his shoes are broken, he does not continue three meals, he does not see meat and meat, he does not eat fish, he shrinks in a cold place, even if the matches are gone, he still needs to go to the neighbor's house to beg for fire, and how life is down and down!
Zhang Hexhui even more unabashedly said in the poem, "I am afraid to talk about three things today", and the so-called three things are nothing more than "food, clothing and housing". Some people may think that "three years into Shu without clothing" is slightly exaggerated, but it is not. Chongqing mountain residence for 8 years, Zhang Hateshui attacked the blue cloth long shirt, and did not change for many years. Because of the perennial wear and washing, the cloth shirt has red spots and holes in the chest, Zhang hates the water as a cover, and when he goes out, he must cover a horse coat, and the horse coat is also purchased at a low price at the old goods stall. Zhang Hexhui thus joined Pan Zinian, director of Xinhua Daily and "the first newspaper of the Communist Party of China", and was called the "second horse coat" of Chongqing's press.
As for prices, they are one price a day, rising day by month. Zhang Hateshui during his time in Chongqing, writing often stayed up late, used to smoke to refresh the mind, but smoked a cheap and inferior "prodigy" brand cigarette, said to be a cigarette, really not worthy of the name, in addition to spicy, there is no fragrance to speak of, so jokingly called its "bullshit card", meaning that bullshit is not as good. Later, even "bullshit" could not be smoked, and could only smoke a "Yellow River" card that was cheaper than bullshit, and he also sighed that "Chinese said that the heart of the Yellow River did not die, and now it has reached the "Yellow River" and can quit smoking." As for the three meals, not to mention fish, sometimes for a bag of affordable rice, Zhang Hateshui still has to rush to the city many times, if he can't squeeze the bus, he can only pull up his long shirt, carry the rice bag, travel a long way, and hike home.
At that time, housing in Chongqing was very difficult, and under the indiscriminate bombardment of Japanese aircraft, a large number of houses in Chongqing were tragically burned. In order to alleviate the housing shortage, Chongqing has built a large number of bundled simple work sheds. Such squatter houses are simple and dark, of poor quality, and almost fall down as soon as they are pushed; if they are bombed by Japanese aircraft, they will collapse in an instant. This is the case with the three "national hardship houses" that the Zhang family lives in. It is located in the remote area of Nanquan Taozigou on the outskirts of Chongqing, covered with thatch and surrounded by bamboo pieces of mud. This kind of house can be described as "pulling a hair and moving the whole body", as long as you gently tap the wall, the whole house will tremble slightly. The thatch on the roof is often eroded by wind and rain day and night, often when heavy rain comes, the rain in the house is like a note, and when the rain stops, the house is still a light rain. After a long time, as soon as they saw that the mountain rain was coming, Zhang Hexhui's family "prepared for the rain" and placed the pots and spoons of crock pots in the house where the rain leaked, so it was jokingly called "waiting for the leaky fast". Sometimes the storm is so big that even the thatch on the roof is removed, and you can only "the sky is the roof". Ironically, on the opposite side of the mountain not far from the "Waiting leaky fast", there is a gorgeous Western-style building, like the Immortal Palace on Earth, that is, the famous Kong Mansion, the master Kong Xiangxi did not come at all, and only his lieutenants and servants lived in it.
As for the deeds, it is even more miserable. Chongqing is a prestigious mountain city, the urban area stands on the mountain, built on the mountain; the terrain is different, staggered, and the traffic development is quite difficult. Zhang Hateshui's daily travel is "climbing everywhere", "often ten miles short, up and down the stone slope thousands of steps, breathless", "Dengze sweat out of the knot, dozens of levels is impatient; descending is the heel of the sudden movement, the whole body trembles", had to sigh "living in Chongqing for eight years, the most bitter thing is the road". Taking his work as an example, he went out from the residence where he lived, went down the mountain through small springs,, forks, went to the Haitang Creek on the Yangtze River, crossed the river by boat, arrived at ChuqiMen, had to climb the hill, and finally rushed to the Xinmin Bao agency located in qixinggang in the urban area.
Third, laughter and anger are all articles
Hardships and hardships, Yuru Yucheng. Zhang Hexhui once said, "A person cannot write a certain kind of writing without going through a certain career." After 8 years of arduous travel in Chongqing, he had a deeper understanding of the life of the accompanying capital during the war.
In addition to work and writing, Zhang Hexhui's favorite thing is to go to the local farmers in the huts to swing the dragon gate array, or to go to the major teahouses in the streets and alleys, and listen to the laughter and anger of the small people in the city with great interest. Rich social life and sentient beings have greatly enriched his creative life.
At that time, Zhang Hexhui was the chief writer of the Xinmin Bao, responsible for the literary and art supplement "The Last Moment", the meaning of which was to warn the people that the Japanese Kou was going to destroy China, and the Chinese nation had reached the final juncture of life and death. Under his auspices, the supplement "Last Minutes" published "All poetry and sketches must be related to the War of Resistance and the arousal of the people", including the story of the War of Resistance, the situation in the guerrilla areas, the lives of the toiling people, the personnel criticism that does not involve empty talk, and the rhyme of the War of Resistance.
The supplement of Xinmin Bao, edited by Zhang Hexhui, "The Last Minute".
In addition to editing newspapers and periodicals, Zhang Hexhui used his pen as a sword and turned sorrow and indignation into strength, and successively created more than 10 novellas such as "Madness", "Charge", "Hidden Mountain Blood", "Anhui on the Front Line, The Frontline of Anhui", "Eighty-one Dreams", "Deep Night", "Water Margin New Biography", "Danfeng Street", "Qin Huai Shijia", "Proud Frost Flower", "The Great River Goes East", "Cows and Horses Go" (that is, "The World of the Rays"), the documentary novel "Long Live the Tiger", and other essays, as well as essays such as "Talking About the Ancient and Modern Up and Down". About 3 million words, becoming the writer who wrote the most anti-war literature at that time. Among them, the novels "Eighty-One Dreams" and "Water Margin New Biography" had the largest number of readers and the greatest influence during the War of Resistance. "Eighty-One Dreams" was serialized in the supplement of "Xinmin Bao", pretending to "say dreams", borrowing ancient irony from the present, acupuncture and shortcomings, popular with all walks of life in the capital, and Luoyang paper was expensive for a while. Zhou Enlai greatly praised this book, once said: "To fight against the reactionaries, you can fight from the front or from the side, I think it is a good way to expose the dark forces with the genre of fiction, and it will not get 'opening the skylight'. And "The New Biography of water margin" was personally praised by Mao Zedong who was far away in Yan'an, "The new biography of water margin is well written, Liangshan Po hero resists gold, and our Eighth Route Army resists Japan!" ”。
May 16, 1944, coincided with Zhang Hexhui's 50th birthday, marking the 30th anniversary of his career in journalism and fiction. Chongqing's literary and art circles and press circles have published articles to wish for their birthday, and the famous writer Lao She wrote "A Little Understanding" on behalf of the Literary Association, calling Zhang Hexhui "the only old writer known to women and children in China" and "a real literati", and collected the titles of the six works he wrote, and gave poems to congratulate: Up and down the ancient and modern cattle and horses walk, the article laughs and knots the cause. The history of the golden powder of the family, the flower of blood for thirty years.
Four or five more to be haitang creek
In August 1945, the good news of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression came, and after eight years of arduous struggle, the Chinese people finally won the first complete victory against aggression in a hundred years. Zhang Hexhui burst into tears, "comic book of poetry and ecstasy", and then began the return journey back to his hometown. On the eve of his departure from Chongqing on December 2, 1945, Zhang Hexhui stayed overnight at the Haitang Creek Ferry on the south bank of Chongqing. When the time was sloping and drizzling, the smoke on the river was miserable, when looking at the lights of wanjia in the capital from afar, looking back at the eight years of Chongqing, Zhang Hated Water had mixed feelings and gave poems to carry sorrow:
In the prime of life, the old people come and go, and the old people have to cry and laugh together.
Eight families have lived in sorrow, and seven years of state affairs have been lost in the fog.
Although it rains tonight, I am not afraid of Du Yu crying in the next spring.
The water battle is like a dream, and the five more are not Haitang Creek.
In the early morning of the next day, Zhang Hexhui "secretly shouted about the Chongqing in his dreams, farewell from now on", drove away from Haitang Creek, and returned home with his family.