In the 1930s, Mr. Ba Jin moved to No. 59 Huaihaifang from Dunheli, Ladu Road, until he moved to No. 113 Wukang Road in September 1955.

There is an alley with the same name on Huaihai Road called Huaihaifang. Built in 1924. In the 1930s, Mr. Ba Jin moved from Dunhe Lane, Ladu Road (now Lane 306, Xiangyang South Road) to No. 59 Huaihaifang until he moved to No. 113 Wukang Road in September 1955.

I have visited Huaihaifang several times with my friends. The front lane faces the bustling Huaihai Road, and the back lane is connected to Maoming Road and Nanchang Road. It is quiet in the bustle. I heard that in his early years, Ba Jin often walked on Nanchang Road and stopped in a bookstore owned by a Belarusian to look for old books, killing two birds with one stone. Huaihaifang has clear red bricks, steel windows and wax floors, and there is a patio in each house number. The wall of No. 59 has one more plaque than its neighbors with the nameplate engraved with "The famous literary master Ba Jin lived here in 1937." I once visited No. 59 with Ba Jin’s brother Li Jisheng and translator Yang Yi. That day, the door was closed. We had to stand next to the nameplate and take a few photos. Yang Yi also looked up at the second-floor window where he had stayed, and talked about how he and Mrs. Ba Jin Xiao Shan had a heart-to-heart talk in the "pavilion" until late at night... I saw many such nameplates in the alley, among them There are Xia Zun, No. 3, Mr. and Mrs. Lu Xun, Xu Guangping, No. 99, Zhu Kezhen, No. 26, Xu Beihong, Hu Die and other celebrities in science and technology and culture.

According to convention, residents upstairs enter and exit through the back door. I went there several times and was always rejected. Once, door No. 59 was open. With the consent of the resident, I walked in. After passing the bathroom and kitchen, there was the stairs. Climbing up the stairs, a fence gate was set up at the corner between the pavilions on the second floor. That day, the door was closed, so I had to go downstairs. But the sound of stepping on the wooden ladder when I went upstairs made me feel the feeling that Balao's adopted son Ma Shaomi told me. He is the son of Ba Laoyou, translator Ma Zongrong, and female writer Luo Shu. After their parents died of illness, Bajin and his wife adopted the siblings as their own children. When Ma Shaomi lived at No. 59 Huaihaifang, whenever he heard the heavy footsteps of "dong, dong, dong" going upstairs, he knew that Uncle Li was back buying books again, and he hurried downstairs to help him carry them upstairs. The impression he had on his home in Huaihaifang was that every corner was filled with books. Lao Ma also introduced to me: There is a desk by the window on the third floor. Except for an iron bed , the extra space is occupied by bookcases. There is only a sideways passage like the "Jiuqu Bridge" in the Old Town God's Temple, and even the pavilions. They have all become "library libraries".

Ba Jin completed "Spring" and "Autumn" in the "Torrent Trilogy" in Huaihaifang. In the preface of "Autumn", I read about the scene when he was creating it in Huaihaifang: I wrote it in one breath At that time, my seclusion life in Shanghai was very regular. I studied or worked as a translator during the day. I started writing "Autumn" after 9 pm, and wrote until 2 pm, sometimes even 3 or 4 pm, and then went to bed...

is here During this period, Ba Jin also traveled to Guangzhou, Guilin, Kunming, Guiyang and other places and was busy with the publishing and distribution of Cultural Life Publishing House. In May 1946, he and his wife Xiao Shan returned to Huaihaifang from Chongqing with their under-1-year-old daughter Xiaolin. Since then, No. 59 has become lively and has become a gathering place for cultural "salons". Coincidentally, I accidentally saw the writer Wang Zengqi's description of those years in the essay "Ordinary Tea Talk": "In the winter of 1946, Kaiming Bookstore was entertaining guests in Luyang Village . After dinner. We arrived Mr. Ba Jin drank Gongfu tea at his house. Several people gathered around the light yellow old-fashioned round table to watch Chen Yunzhen (Xiao Shan) perform. Everyone drank three small cups of tea while burning charcoal and pouring water into the pot. The first time I drank Gongfu tea, I was deeply impressed. The tea was so strong that I could only drink three small cups. Mr. Ba and his wife were here, including Jin Yi and Huang Shang . In the blink of an eye, it was forty-three years. Yi and Xiao Shan are gone. Ba Laosheng is probably no longer interested in drinking Gongfu tea. The purple sand tea set is probably gone..." I feel like I am immersed in the vivid words. At the end of the same year, Ba Jin's another novel "Cold Night " was completed in Huaihaifang.

After 1949, when Ba Jin was living in Huaihaifang, he was invited to visit Poland, the Soviet Union and India, and wrote and published the book "Nazi Killing Factory-Auschwitz".In the early 1950s, Ba Jin set out from Huaihaifang twice and led the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles "Battlefield Creation Group" to go to the Korean battlefield to deepen his life. This lasted for more than a year, and he exchanged more than 80 letters with Xiao Shan, who stayed in Huaihaifang. . After returning to China, based on the accumulated materials, he created a number of military-themed works that eulogized the volunteer soldiers' courage to sacrifice themselves and defend the country. The most influential digital novel of these works was "Reunion", and the film "Heroic Sons and Daughters" was based on this. Adapted. Although Ba Jin wrote the novel "Reunion" at the Huagang Guesthouse in Hangzhou in the early 1960s, there is no doubt that No. 59 Huaihaifang is the birthplace of the original work of the movie "Heroic Sons and Daughters". ( Lu Zhengwei )