After the statement is written, I want to collect signatures, and as usual, I decide how many people each is responsible for contacting. Most of the old professors are my messengers. I took the manuscript to find Mr. Zhu Ziqing. At that time, his stomach trouble was very serious, and he could only eat very little. When he ate too much, he vomited, his face became thin and his voice became low. He has many children, and life is more difficult than anyone else. But as soon as he read the manuscript, he signed it without hesitation. He has always performed well in writing. This time, he signed his name meticulously with trembling hands. It should also be noted that after he returned to Tsinghua campus from Kunming on 1946, his attitude changed obviously and he was no longer silent. He opposed the civil war and hated the Kuomintang. * * * The producers' views have also begun to change. He once recited poems in the liberated areas at public meetings, and sometimes dressed up and danced yangko with the students, making him sweat. I always look for him in the struggle against some American declarations, telegrams and statements against the Kuomintang. As soon as he saw me, he understood his purpose. "Did you sign it?" Write your name after reading the manuscript. As far as I can remember, nine times out of ten he signed it. Sometimes they don't sign because the words are a little angry. This time, I also found some other professors who are familiar with or live nearby. Most of them signed their names, but they also hit a nail. There was a professor who had only three children, but his answer was simple: "No! I want to live! " Zhu Ziqing's stomach trouble is hunger, and his family has a large population and needs support. Someone calculated an account in the later period of Kunming. The salary of people like us is only about ten yuan, which is equivalent to the silver dollar before the war. Zhu Ziqing cares about politics, but he doesn't express his opinions much. It can be said that he is gentle and has no temper. During the Anti-Japanese War, the news was blocked by the Kuomintang. People in the home front don't know the fact that the Kuomintang passively confronted Japanese imperialism, but actively rubbed against the * * * production party, which set off several anti-* * climaxes. He thinks that as long as you resist, you should live a hard life and complain less. Although he sympathized with many political activities in Kunming, he seldom participated. The Kuomintang reactionaries assassinated Wen Yiduo, who was very indignant. Returning to Peiping after demobilization, I saw that American imperialism helped the Kuomintang fight the civil war, and my attitude changed. He stood up before American imperialism and its lackeys, the Kuomintang reactionaries, and with a few exceptions, he joined us. There are several things worth mentioning. First, he worked hard to compile the Complete Works of Wen Yiduo. I pointed out in the postscript of the Complete Works:

Mr. Pei Xian is an old friend and colleague for more than ten years. For this book, he spent a year collecting legacy, editing and revising it. The catalogue has been drawn up ... in short, it is impossible to edit this collection without Mr. Pei Xian's efforts.

The act of compiling many complete works at that time was a protest and condemnation of the Kuomintang reactionaries. On the contrary, compared with some people, these people used to be a classmate or an old classmate and a friend for twenty or thirty years, but after the death of a flower, they never cared about it or wrote a commemorative text. The other is his love for young students. For example, once two students in his department fought, one was from the NLD and the other was from the Kuomintang. The reason for the fight was of course political, and both of them complained to the teacher. Mr. Qing Zi was afraid that his classmate Min Qing would suffer, and secretly advised him to make some concessions. After I learned that, I wrote a letter asking him to consider who is right and who is wrong in politics. Maybe the wording is a little sharp. The next day, he came to my house and explained his intention seriously. In the Spring and Autumn Period, he blamed the sage. He said something about progressive students in order to protect him from the youth league's revenge. At the same time, he also agrees that my opinion is correct. Afterwards, I told this situation to Min Qing's classmate, who was also very moved. Although his voice against the Kuomintang spy rule is not loud, it can be seen from one thing I personally contacted. At this time, in order to save the dying fate of colleges and universities, the Kuomintang reactionaries strengthened their spy control over colleges and universities. In order to protest, I wrote an academic paper "The School in the Early Ming Dynasty", explaining that in the early Ming Dynasty, I scolded the Kuomintang reactionaries and sent it to the school publication "Journal of Tsinghua" for publication. Some editors of the magazine are nationals of party member. Of course, they refused to publish it, thinking that it was not an academic article. I talked with Mr. Zi Qing, who is also an editorial member of the magazine. He wrote to the editor-in-chief, strongly advocated publication, and finally published this article. We can see the change of his thoughts and feelings from this incident.

Being tortured by stomach trouble for a long time, he was too weak, but he also knew that it was almost dawn, the dark clouds were about to pass, and the good days were coming. He was very happy and wrote two poems under the glass plate on the table: "But if you can see the sun, although he is very glorious, why are you disappointed at dusk?" Based on Li Shangyin's poem "to see the sun, for all his glory, Buried by the Coming Night" in Tang Dynasty. These two poems very aptly expressed his feelings at that time.

On July 23rd, a symposium on "Intellectuals' Tasks Today" was held in Tsinghua University I-shaped Hall, which was his last political activity. I personally invited him home and accompanied him from the North Yard to the I-shaped hall. He walked for a while, stopped for a while, and said to me intermittently, "You are right, and the road is right. However, people like me are not used to it. If you want to educate us, you have to take your time. This will keep up with you. "He also made a speech at the meeting, and the main paragraphs are the same. He said: "Intellectuals have two ways: one is to help idle people climb up. There are such people in feudal society and capitalist society. One fell. Intellectuals can go up and down, so they are a class, not a class. It is not easy for many intellectuals to give up their vested interests. Now we live a public life.

I can't live. It's not that reason is unwilling to accept it. Reason knows it should be accepted, but habit cannot be changed. "

Qing Zi rationally knew that he should give up his vested interests and live a public life. He has taken another step, which is a big step forward. He refused to buy American-aided flour, and the diary of the day after signing it recorded this matter:1June 8, this matter cost 6 million French francs every month, which had a great impact on his family, but I signed it anyway. Since it is anti-American and helps Japan, let's start directly from ourselves. This shows his determination.

Not only that, the day before his death, he told his wife, "One thing to remember is that I signed a document refusing American aid to flour!" " "Mr Qing Zi is a typical figure among intellectuals in the old society. He used to be a liberal, and he didn't like to take part in political activities, especially those fierce and aggressive activities. However, he has a sense of justice. With the strengthening of the enslavement and oppression of the people of China by the Kuomintang and American imperialism, he could not stand the armed provocation, slaughter and repression of the people of China. He demonstrated his attitude through cultural life, poetry recitation and yangko dancing.

On the other hand, he resolutely refused to take the middle route and the third road. At that time, he was asked to participate in the Kuomintang-run middle-line publication "New Road", but he resolutely refused. However, despite his illness, he attended our seminar.

He knows right from wrong, and love and hate are distinct. In his later years, he finally showed his position. He held his head high and stood up, preferring to starve to death and resolutely refusing the enemy's "relief." This kind of ethics is worth learning today. "We China people have backbone. Many people who used to be liberals or democratic individualists stood up in front of the US imperialists and their running dogs, the Kuomintang reactionaries. " (Selected Works of Mao Zedong, Volume 4, page 1499) Comrade Mao Zedong praised the backbone of Wen Yiduo and Zhu Ziqing, saying that "Wen Yiduo should be praised, and Zhu Ziqing should also be praised". This is the responsibility of our deceased, especially the comrades-in-arms of Mr. Wen Yiduo and Mr. Zhu Ziqing. The future of this ode to our national heroism remains to be seen. This article can only be regarded as some memories caused by rereading Farewell to Stuart Leiden.