Night view of Qianchuan Street in Huangpi
I was invited by teacher Liang Xipi the day before yesterday (May 2), and we finally got to meet each other after several times. The difficult obstacle was the damn epidemic. It is all caused by the epidemic, which makes everyone stay at home and unable to move. The friends who came to have a happy gathering include: long-lost friend Nanshan Zhiye, brother Liang Xipi who is really a close friend, and friend Xia Gang who fell in love at first sight; unfortunately, Pei Gong (Gao Cai) was isolated due to the epidemic. Some time ago, due to the epidemic, light rail Line 1 interrupted the number of trains between HT3 and Hankou North HT4, which made many Huangpi friends look at the road and sigh. I could only laugh at myself and lament: "The days ahead are long, the days ahead are long..." Brother Liang Xipi specially took out "Eighteen Youth" (front and rear volumes) edited by him, co-edited by the Culture and History Study Committee of the Wuhan CPPCC, the Yangtze River Press Group, and the Wuhan Research Institute of Jianghan University, and published by Wuhan Publishing House . After reading this book, I seemed to see countless shadows of myself, and the things in the book seemed to be related to me.
"...I don't regret that the years are gone, but I am afraid that the worries of youth will be spent." This song "Shui Tiao Ge Tou" by Liang Qichao expresses the sigh of the seventy years... Some people say: Memories are like a pot of good tea. Only when it is washed with boiling water, the tea leaves will tumble in the pot, and then a good tea with overflowing fragrance can be brewed, which is worthy of the hard work of the tea farmers. A happy gathering often stirs up thousands of waves with one stone, causing waves of ripples on the calm lake... Life is like a play, "Look at everything and follow the fate." It is plain and beautiful.
My peers read "Eighteen Youth" and had a deep feeling. They felt full of light after extinguishing the candles, and felt the dew in their clothes, which was all the smell of a book. "Eighteen Youth" seems to cover my childhood longing and my whole life. Many fantasies have been worn away... The past events are diverse, but they are not boring. The excitement arouses waves of thoughts, and worries and pleasures are constantly changing. Although the pleasant things are more illusory, the regrets of untimely life are always hidden in them, and the traces of them will emerge from time to time. Who said that aftertaste is a comfort to the soul; only those warm and wonderful lights are worth remembering and pursuing! Only pleasant things can stimulate the heart to produce more peptide fluids, destroy cancer cells, and promote physical health.
Cover of "Eighteen Youth"
Brother Liang Xipi said on WeChat: "At the invitation of Mr. Pei, I went to Huilinfang in Xinchengli to see the former "Huangpi Qianchuan Middle School Office" (site)." Naturally, the more detailed the better for old things, but superficial memories alone are not enough. I have to do my homework in advance. Speaking of homework, the words my late mother taught me immediately came to mind: To be entrusted by others is to be loyal to others①. Now I know that this is the first couplet of a couplet: To be entrusted to others and to be loyal to others is the second couplet: To serve the emperor, to be loyal to the emperor②. Hengpi: Be a down-to-earth person. This couplet talks about the word "faith" for credibility in "propriety, justice, benevolence, wisdom and trust". When I was young, I often heard my parents say: "The Principle of the Wuchang is the foundation of being a human being. Remember, never do it at any time or place, and do things carelessly and perfunctorily." My mother would often add: "Everything promised, we must try our best to complete it. This is integrity." There are many similar couplets: "Eating the emperor's salary is a matter of loyalty to the emperor; being a bed, the heart of a big bed." and so on. It's just that they come from different people. I have gone off topic, and I have said too much off topic, so it is better to get back to the topic.
Hu Qiuyuan’s former residence, Hujiawan
After receiving brother Liang Xipi’s WeChat message, he started to do his homework based on his scattered memories. I specially went to visit my friends who were deeply involved in the incident and have lived in Xinchengli for a long time: Wu Zhenxin, Wang Haiwen, Wang Zhiwu, Wu Weisheng, etc. In the early 1950s, he lived in Huilinfang, Xinchengli. Wu Weiwei, who is now 73 years old this year, recalled: "I heard the old man tell me what kind of office originally existed at No. 7 Huilinfang. It was not clear whether it was the "Huangpi Qianchuan Middle School Office."" In the 1940s, his parents bought a house and moved in. Wu Zhenxin (71 years old) from Xinchengli recalled: "I have met the old man Hu in this office. When I was sensible, the "Huangpi Qianchuan Middle School Office" had been withdrawn long ago. When I saw old Hu, it was his most unlucky period. He seemed to have nothing to do all day long, giving people a worried look.Old Man Hu couldn't put it down, writing with calligraphy... As he spoke, Old Wu suddenly remembered: That's right! The day before yesterday, an old neighbor (old friend) sent me an old photo and asked me if I recognized the person in it? I recognized the old man Hu and his cousin Hu Moran in the photo at a glance..." Lao Wu said as he opened his mobile phone and flipped up and down with his fingers, looking for the photo. (The old man Erhu in the front of the photo, and Hu Muran in the third left)
Last century A group photo of relatives and friends of the Hu family in the 1960s (old man Hu on the left in the front, Hu Muran on the third on the left)
As he was flipping through the pages, Lao Wu suddenly said: "To ask about the office, it is best to ask Haizi (Wang Haiwen) upstairs at No. 23 (formerly No. 7 Huilinfang). His father, Wang Chongwang, was in charge of the office back then! At the same time, he is also Hu Qiuyuan's secretary. It is said that he has a very close relationship and often calls him brother in front of outsiders. The two of them had been to Shanghai together, and also to Chongqing during the Anti-Japanese War. After the victory, they returned to Han together to establish an office..." We walked towards Huilinfang while talking. After a while, we came to the gate of No. 23. Zhenxin shouted from the window on the second floor: "Haizi, Haizi". He had always gone out to fish. He happened to be at home that day. When he heard someone shouting, the couple rushed He hurriedly agreed and went downstairs to ask him what he wanted. After learning about the past of searching for the "Huangpi Qianchuan Middle School Office", he said proudly: "You have found the right person. My father Wang Chongwang was Hu Qiuyuan's secretary. In 1946, when Hu took over the "Huangpi Qianchuan Middle School" and became the principal, he established the office in Han Dynasty here; he also appointed his father to take charge of the office. The office at that time occupied the double-bay main room downstairs and the front and rear left wing rooms. He also added: "When my father and Hu Qiuyuan were in Chongqing, they worked together (referring to being intimate, eating and living together). After returning to Han, they lived together at No. 7 Huilinfang (referring to this house). It seems that Hu Qiuyuan rented this house from Han Hui'an. He also pointed to the meter box on the wall with great interest and said: "Look, the "general meter" of the current power supply bureau used on the 23rd still bears the name of Hu Qiuyuan." As the number of tenants increased and electricity consumption increased, each household successively installed its own electricity meter, so there were so many electricity meters that several were combined into one box. I squinted my eyes and took a closer look. The label on the electric meter in the middle clearly had the three characters Hu Qiuyuan written on it. It was just that the character "元" in Hu Qiuyuan was mistakenly written as the character "元" for New Year's Day. In the 1970s and 1980s, the company changed its leadership and the government changed. However, the registered name of this electric meter has never changed. This is indeed a very rare and fortunate thing.
No. 23, Xinchengli (formerly No. 7, Huilinfang) Power Supply Bureau Change Notice Label
The office was established in 1946. In that year, Hu Qiuyuan took over the post of principal and carried out extensive renovations to the "Huangpi Qianchuan Middle School" founded with donations from his fathers. A large amount of building materials, cement, cement, wood, steel, etc. were purchased by the office, as well as trivial materials such as pens, ink, paper, and daily necessities that will be used by the school in the future. The office will be responsible for making unified records for purchase, and then renting a car to transport them to Huangpi School. In addition to centralized purchasing, the office heard from my father that they often go to schools such as Guangya No. 2 Middle School, Shangzhi (Sixth Middle School), Boxue (No. 4 Middle School), Hankou Municipal Girls’ High School, No. 16 Middle School, St. Joseph (No. 19 Middle School), Hanyang Provincial High School (No. 3 Middle School), and St. Luo Yi (No. 20 High School) to exchange teaching information, exchange experiences, and secondment teachers. The name "Huangpi Qianchuan Middle School" received is inseparable from the daily trivial work of the office.
A small photo of a friend talking about Xinchengli
The office is also responsible for receiving teachers and students who come and go, or people who stay temporarily on the way to the school. According to my mother, the work of the office back then was complex and not chaotic, but very busy... My father worked in the office until the early days of liberation. After the establishment of the new political power, the school and the newly established Education Committee gradually put the office out of function and gradually stopped its work. Soon it was downsized and abolished. According to my father's recollection, that probably happened in 1949.
Xinchengli in the early 20th century is very grand. From a bird's-eye view, pink walls and red tiles are arranged in an orderly manner among the greenery, and the clean lanes are arranged in order.Especially Huilinfang in the alleyway, the clear water wall and solemn large wooden door are incompatible with the original mysterious Xinchengli. Huilinfang is elegant and elegant, with a commanding view over the whole lane. It is unique in the Shikumen with bucket-style brick and wood structure. The two large brown-black heavy iron doors at the entrance of Xinchengli contrast with the neon billboards of the Huashang Hotel next door (the three-story building at the entrance of Taipingli). The difference is that there are gunmen and big wolfdogs guarding the door in Xincheng Lane, and a platoon of soldiers comes and goes. People avoid this mysterious and deep lane; while the Huashang Hotel is crowded with people and bustling with traffic.
Hankou Youyi Street Scene
Xinchengli Before 1957, it was common for soldiers to line up for drills in the morning and evening. The instructor's pure Henan dialect and the soldiers carrying the Hanyang Made or 38 big cover marching through the lanes one by one are still fresh in my memory. There were few residents at that time, and the exercise was in the morning and evening, so it did not hinder the residents' travel. The fourth big alley is the Judicial Section, which is also the main place for soldier training. Under the guidance of the instructor, two people lined up, facing the row of red tiled houses in Taipingli separated by a wall, and performed shooting movements such as crawling and squatting. After the instructor checked and found that they met the requirements, he used A very rough voice shouted: "Red house, four or eight, release!" The meaning of the red house (target) and release in the order were very clear. As for the "four or eight", I only remembered it by sound. As for what the shouting meant, whether it was spoken language, or... I had no idea at all. I once asked my friends who we met together, and they only knew that the instructor shouted this, and they also had no idea what he was shouting, let alone what he meant. It seems that I am afraid that I will never be able to figure it out in this lifetime.
One day I met Wang Zhiwu, who was in his sixties. He recalled: "Old man Hu later lived in a wing of the office. I can't remember whether it was the front room or the back room. I only remember that the old man was very moldy, taciturn, and often stayed at home to write big characters. Since I was a child, I knew that he was a good handwriting and a cultural person. In my impression, he did not have a formal job, and he seemed like a street office factory that he entered after 58 years. , who built the factory together with Wang Fengjuan, Han Shuzhen, Mao Lu and others. "(The original Huashang Hotel on Youyi Street)
The original bustling Huashang Hotel
was pieced together with fragmentary memories and the clues they provided, and it was learned that Hu Qiuyuan vacated his residence, No. 7 Huilinfang (now No. 23), as an office. Time has passed, and time has passed. There are several similar institutions like this in Xinchengli: the former Han's Clinic No. 5, the Business Administration Section No. 18, the former Anlu Han Office in No. 21, and the Judicial Section of the Municipal Public Security Bureau No. 35 No. 37. As for the dormitories of units in the lanes, they include: Hubei University, Xinhua Bookstore , Yangtze River Waterway Bureau, Public Security Bureau, Cultural Bureau, Education Bureau, etc.
Wu Zhenxin also recalled: In addition to appointing secretary Wang Chongwang to be responsible here, Hu Qiuyuan also hired his brother Hu Moran and cousin Hu Moumou (called Old Man Hu by neighbors) and others to help in the office. They are jointly responsible for handling the school's pending matters in Han. Although there are not many people in the office, we have done a lot of work for the school. This office was not evacuated until the new government was established after liberation. His brother Hu Mo then served as the second principal of Hankou Tiezhong. While talking, Wu Zhenxin also pulled out a group photo of Hu Moran, Old Man Hu and their friends in the 1960s.
Hu Qiuyuan took a group photo before going to the UK.
Regarding Hu Qiuyuan on his cross-strait ice-breaking trip, relevant information records this: In 1931, after the Japanese invaders launched the "September 18th" Incident to occupy China's three eastern provinces, Hu Qiuyuan resolutely gave up his studies as a government-sponsored international student and stayed in Shanghai to fight against Japan with literature and weapons. He served as a professor and translator at Shanghai University. At the end of the same year, Hu Qiuyuan, editor-in-chief of "Cultural Review", published the article "A Dog's Theory of Literature and Art" in the first issue, declaring that "literature and art are free, democratic and independent propositions." In 1933, after failing to participate in the "Fujian Transformation", he went to Hong Kong and was arrested and expelled by the Hong Kong government. He then went to the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union and the United States through Southeast Asia, India, and Egypt. In 1936, he returned to China to participate in the Anti-Japanese War and devoted himself to the official cultural and publicity undertakings of the Kuomintang.In 1938, he served as confidential secretary of the Secretariat of the Supreme Council of the Ministry of National Defense. In 1939, he served as a political councilor of the National Political Suffrage Association. In 1942, he served as the chief writer of the "Central Daily News". In 1945, he was elected as an alternate member of the Sixth Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang. In 1946, he was elected as a representative of the Constitutional National Assembly and served as a history professor at Jinan University. Elected as a legislator in 1948. In 1949, he went to Hong Kong. In 1950, he became the chief writer of "Hong Kong Times". Went to Taiwan in 1951. He continued to serve as a "legislator", and served as a professor at Taiwan Normal University, Shih Hsin University, and the Political and War School, and a modern history researcher at the " Central Research Institute ". On May 24, 2004, he died of cardiopulmonary failure at Taipei County Xindian Gengxin Hospital at the age of 95. Li Ao, who participated in the cultural debate at that time, said that Hu Yisheng "is a man who has many positions, but his wife is an excellent person." On October 5, 1988, when Hu Qiuyuan visited the mainland for the first time, he personally returned to his alma mater and wrote a poem to commemorate it. The poem goes:
After forty years of separation from campus, the joy of seeing the school has doubled; the hard work, sincerity and bravery learned in the past have made us feel connected again and again.
The soon-to-be-opened Maekawa Line
Note:
1. To be loyal to others when entrusted by others, speak clearly • Feng Menglong "Warning Words • Wang Jiaoluan's Centenary Hate".
2. Yihuang refers to Fuxi, one of the three emperors. He is the ancestor of the Chinese nation in ancient legends, the earliest king recorded in ancient Chinese books, and one of the originators of Chinese medicine. According to legend, Fuxi, who had the head of a human and the body of a snake, married his brother and sister Nuwa and had children. According to the changes in the world, he invented divination and gossip, and created writing to end the history of "tying knots to record events." He also knotted ropes into nets for catching birds and hunting. He also taught people how to fish and hunt, invented the harp and composed music. Fuxi died one hundred and eleven years after becoming king, leaving behind a large number of myths and legends about Fuxi. Emperor, emperor, and king are the titles of ancient rulers. Huang specifically refers to the three emperors who are actually the great rulers, emperor refers to the five emperors who are the middle rulers, and king is the leader of the tribe who is the minor ruler. To be for the emperor, to be loyal to the emperor. As an emperor, he should have Fuxi's love for the people.
3. Hu Qiuyuan (1910-May 24, 2004), male, whose original name was Hu Yechong, also known as Zeng You, and his pen names were Weiming, Shi Ming, and Bingchan. A native of Dahujiawan Village at the foot of Mulan Mountain in Huangpi, Hubei Province (now Huangpi District, Wuhan City), he is a famous historian, political commentator and writer. Member of the Chinese Kuomintang, public opinion representative in Taiwan, publisher of "China Magazine", honorary chairman of the China Unification Alliance, former editor of Shanghai East Asia Book Company, professor of Tongji University, editor-in-chief of "Cultural Criticism" and "Thinking Monthly", participated in the "Fujian Incident" (also known as the "Min Incident") and served as the president of Fuzhou's "People's Daily", etc. He wrote more than 100 kinds of writings in his life, totaling more than 30 million words. In 1989, the American Biographical Society included Hu Qiuyuan in the "List of Famous International Leaders" and awarded him a certificate. On May 4, 2004, Hu Qiuyuan, who was 94 years old at the time, won the "Chinese Literature and Art Lifetime Achievement Award". In memory of Hu Qiuyuan and Jingyouru couple, Wuhan University established the "Hu Qiuyuan·Jingyouru Scholarship" and "Hu Qiuyuan·Jingyouru Library". The first chairman of Qianchuan Middle School, Li Yuanhong, was the Governor of Shouyi and the President of the Republic of China. The second chairman, Xia Douyin, also made great contributions to the Shouyi of Wuchang. He later served as the chairman of Hubei Province and an army general. In 1949, he welcomed the People's Liberation Army into the city in Han. The first principal, Hu Kangmin, was the first audit section chief of the Hubei Governor's Office after Shouyi, and succeeded Huangpi as the president of education and the director of education. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Hu Qiuyuan returned to his hometown to resume school and served as principal, composed the school anthem, and also invited Yu Youren, a veteran of the Kuomintang, to inscribe the school motto.
