Introduction
One day in August 1949, the weather in Beijing was as hot as usual. After finishing the work, Chairman Mao suddenly received a letter of 6,000 words. The letter was written by Lu Xun's younger brother, Zhou Zuoren, in which he sincerely reviewed the mistakes he had made.
As he looked, the teacher who once taught at Peking University appeared in Chairman Mao’s mind. After reading the letter, he said with emotion:
"Since he is a cultural traitor, let's raise him, and he didn't kill and set fire. Now there are not many people who know Greek. We can arrange a related job for him, and then be responsible for the translation and publication of cultural books in the future."
Chairman Mao who is working
Chairman Mao's meaning is very clear. Zhou Zuoren is a literati, and the mistakes he made before are understandable. There are relatively few people in the country who are good at Greek. He can stay and do translation work and contribute to the construction of socialism.
Under the attention of Chairman Mao, Zhou Zuoren started translating and had a certain monthly living allowance. From then on, his life gradually stabilized.
The brothers were in harmony, and since then they never interacted with each other
As we all know, the famous writer Lu Xun resolutely chose to abandon medicine and follow the article in a time of crisis in the Chinese nation. He used his pen as a sword to create a large number of excellent works such as "Scream" and "Wandering", awakening the young people who are in confusion. Under his influence, countless young people sacrificed their lives and shed their blood, fighting for the country and the nation. However, Mr. Lu Xun awakened many people, but he could not awaken his younger brother, Zhou Zuoren, who was the same mother as him.
weekshuo Ren
weekshuo Ren may be relatively unfamiliar to us, because he is not as upright as his brother and devotes himself to the country. He is a person with complex thoughts and is still a negative teaching material to a certain extent.
885, Zhou Zuoren was born in Shaoxing, Zhejiang. As the second child in the family, he has never received the care of his parents, which has led to Zhou Zuoren's desire for the love of his family.Whether it is relatives or friends, they only care about their elder brother Lu Xun, and have not cared about their younger brother Zhou Zuoren since childhood. Over time, Zhou Zuoren gradually developed a dislike and taciturn character.
When Zhou Zuoren was nine years old, her family encountered a huge change, so her parents had to send the children to their uncle's house. Later, Lu Xun brought his younger brother Zhou Zuoren to the Nanjing Naval Academy to study. Here, he not only broadened his horizons, but also gained a lot of knowledge that he had never been exposed to before.
Zhou Zuoren in youth
When he was young, Zhou Zuoren followed his brother to study in Japan. Compared with his hard-working brother, Zhou Zuoren's study abroad life has become much richer. While he fell in love with Japanese culture, he also met his future wife, Nobuko Hata.
At that time, after they came to Japan to study, in order to facilitate everyone's life, Lu Xun took his younger brother and several male classmates to rent a large apartment outside the school. Because several older men had no ability to take care of themselves, they paid to hire a local maid to be responsible for their daily life, and this maid was Nobuko Hata.
Nobuko Hata is not tall, has a round face, and is very quick to work. She also has the tenderness and virtuousness of a Japanese woman. Her gentle manner attracted Zhou Zuoren's attention.
Because the two often live together, Zhou Zuoren developed feelings for the maid, and both of them fell in love. Soon, they joined hands to enter the palace of marriage.
Zhou Zuoren and his wife Nobuko Hata (first from left)
911, at this time, the Qing Dynasty was in turmoil, and Zhou Zuoren returned from studying in Japan this year. As a scarce top student in the country, Zhou Zuoren received good treatment. Shortly after returning to China, he served as a teacher at Peking University .While teaching, he participated in many social activities. During the New Culture Movement, he actively wrote and promoted new ideas. Because of this, his fame became increasingly greater.
The two brothers at this time have become the "Gemini" in the literary world of the Republic of China. Unfortunately, as the two brothers became more and more famous, their relationship broke down, and the reason was that Zhou Zuoren's wife Nobuko Yuta.
Since Zhou’s mother passed away, the power to preside over the family affairs has fallen into the hands of Nobuko Yuta, and the family’s income is kept by Nobuko Yuta. After taking charge of the expenses at home, Nobuko Yuta was not only lazy, but also generous in daily life.
Lu Xun and Zhou Zuoren
Not long after, the originally well-off family was in trouble. Looking at everything in front of him, Lu Xun reminded Yuta many times to pay attention to thrift. But Yuta Nobuzi not only refused to listen to the advice, but instead maliciously slandered Lu Xun and even slandered him for having improper thoughts about him.
At the critical moment, Zhou Zuoren, who was already very afraid of his wife, once again stood on his side. In the end, the two brothers fell apart and no longer interacted.
The two brothers separated from each other, but went to completely different lives.
For the sake of his own selfishness, the blood of the literati
After the two brothers bid farewell, Zhou Zuoren's life became more and more embarrassing. Nobuko Yuta asked the Japanese family to move to China and move into the Zhou family's old house.
At this time, Zhou Zuoren was also very patriotic. As Japan's invasion of China became more and more intense, Zhou Zuoren was very angry. He hated Japan's barbaric behavior very much. He first published "Introduction to the Strange Theory of the Japanese" in early 1925, firing the first shot to expose the Japanese invasion of China. In the next three or four years, he continued to publish articles criticizing Japan, condemning the various atrocities committed by the Japanese in China.
天天天天天天天 (first from right)
as long as it is not conducive to the country, he will scold him righteously. His fierce anti-Japanese attitude was also an outstanding representative of the time. But no one expected that he would become a traitor in the future and serve the Japanese cultural invasion.
934, Zhou Zuoren and his wife Nobuko Hata went back to Japan to visit relatives. At this time of national crisis, the former anti-Japanese vanguard returned to Japan to visit relatives. Although it was his own private matter, his influence was extraordinary.After he returned from Japan, his thoughts changed tremendously, and he even shamelessly sang the song of charming the Japanese, promoting Japanese culture, and constantly promoting Japanese Bushido . At this time, he had reached the point where he was inseparable from good and evil.
937, the Japanese army launched the Lugou Bridge Incident and began to invade China on a large scale. Most literati chose to go south and continued to pick up the pen in their hands to fight with the Japanese army. Zhou Zuoren's friends advised him to leave this place of right and wrong quickly. Zhou Zuoren thought about it over and over again and finally chose to stay in , Peking . One of the important reasons why Zhou Zuoren chose to stay in Peiping is that his home is too tired. It was indeed not easy for their family to move south with more than ten people, and with Yuta Nobuko's insistence, Zhou Zuoren stayed in Peiping. But no one expected that Zhou Zuoren would become a traitor and serve the Japanese cultural invasion.After the Japanese army occupied Peiping, they sent people to find Zhou Zuoren to cooperate many times. This so-called cooperation was to let Zhou Zuoren use his name to serve himself. At first, Zhou Zuoren directly refused.
Then, several shootings against Zhou Zuoren occurred, which greatly changed Zhou Zuoren's position. Zhou Zuoren, who was already cowardly, became even more timid, after all, he was facing his own considerations of life and death at this time.
In February 1938, in a conference room at Beijing Hotel, the "Symposium on Rehabilitation Culture Construction" organized by the Japanese puppet regime was held here. The attendance of cultural celebrities such as Zhou Zuoren caused an uproar across the country. From then on, a strong scholar in the cultural world disappeared.
Zhou Zuoren
Shortly after, he published an "Open Letter to Zhou Zuoren" jointly published by 18 writers including Mao Dun , Yu Dafu, and Lao She in "The Literature and Art of the Anti-Japanese War".They condemned Zhou Zuoren's behavior one after another, hoping that he could return to the anti-Japanese camp, but Zhou Zuoren ignored it. After
, Zhou Zuoren served as the dean of the School of Literature of Pseudo-Peking University. After the establishment of the Wang Puppet Regime, it was granted the supervision of the General Administration of Education by Wang Jingwei and . It fought with Japanese and puppet officials every day. Gone are the image of the former literary fighter.
Since becoming a traitor, Zhou Zuoren has been very busy. In 1941, he visited Japan and donated 500 yuan to the wounded Japanese soldiers, treating his enemy country as a friendly country. In 1942, he followed Wang Jingwei to visit the puppet Manchukuo, and wore a Japanese military uniform and inspected the troops with great pride. These behaviors have brought him real benefits and his living situation has been further improved. At that time, the pseudo-aggressive regime gave him nearly 3,000 yuan per month. He used this money to further expand his residence, and also hired a large number of servants and bodyguards, and his life was quite luxurious.
While serving the Japanese, he brought endless disasters to the people. As a famous writer during the Republic of China, Zhou Zuoren's surrender to the enemy had a great impact on the Anti-Japanese War of the Chinese military and civilians. The Japanese took the opportunity to promote it, and Zhou Zuoren became the "representative" of Japan's implementation of slavery education and cultural aggression.
Zhou Zuoren wrote a letter to apologize, Chairman Mao: Then let him serve the people
On August 15, 1945, Japan announced unconditional surrender, and the Chinese military and civilians achieved a great victory in the War of Resistance Against Japan. Soon, the National Government issued a dictator to punish traitors, and Zhou Zuoren became panicked all day long.
At this moment when the people of the whole country are cheering, Zhou Zuoren is thinking hard about what he has done and welcomes the upcoming tragic experience. Soon, Zhou Zuoren was arrested by the Kuomintang government at home.
Zhou Zuoren was taken to court
Zhou Zuoren was arrested, and said crying: "I regret it so much. If I had known that this would be the ending, I should have moved south with the University of Beijing. It's all my fault for not being firm in my will."
946, Zhou Zuoren was accused of traitor. When he was judged, he wore a white summer cloth gown and looked very thin, but his body did not have the elegance and elegance of a scholar. After the trial began, the judge listed Zhou Zuoren's crimes one by one, including: helping the Japanese government to implement slavery education, editing fake textbooks; assisting the enemy in investigating North China resources; visiting the Yasukuni Shrine; issuing propaganda newspapers that are beneficial to the enemy and the puppet.After hearing the judge's accusation, Zhou Zuoren defended himself shamelessly: "I did not want to stay in Peiping to surrender to the enemy, but just to maintain education, resist the slavery of the Japanese, and reduce the harm caused to the people by the occupying army."
Zhou Zuoren
It is obvious that Zhou Zuoren's words not only meant that he did not sell his country, but was saving the country in another way.
However, no matter how much Zhou Zuoren argued, it could not change the fact that he was traitorous. Due to the conclusive evidence, Zhou Zuoren was sentenced to for 414 years in prison for "traitorous crime" by the Kuomintang capital High Court.
Zhou Zuoren was dissatisfied with the judgment and applied to the court many times to request a re-judgment. But no matter what reason he raised, it was just a far-fetched excuse for his treason.
Zhou Zuoren's life in prison has become very boring. He not only drinks tea, reads books, and writes some ancient poems every day. Occasionally I also wrote some banners for people inside and outside the prison.
949, after three major battles, the Chinese People's Liberation Army gradually eliminated the vital forces of the Kuomintang, and the People's Liberation Army swept across the country with the autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves. The Kuomintang Executive Yuan made a decision to move the capital from Nanjing to Guangzhou, and at the same time dealt with traitors detained in various places. Anyone sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment will be released, and anyone sentenced to life imprisonment will be detained to Taiwan.Korean retreated from Taiwan
When Zuoren was released from prison, he first took a train to Shanghai and temporarily stayed at the students' homes. Soon, he settled in Beijing with his wife Nobuko Yuta.
At this time, China was in the process of a new and old regime change. Zhou Zuoren didn’t know if the matter of being sentenced to 10 years in prison was still effective? He knew in his heart that although China still had war now, it would be a matter of time before the people's regime under the leadership of the Communist Party achieved revolutionary victory. So, in a daze, he thought of Premier Zhou.
After thinking about it, he wrote a letter to the leader, which deeply repented his actions, and emphasized some of his skills, such as being very good at translation, and expressed his willingness to contribute his strength to the construction of socialism.
Premier Zhou received the letter and forwarded it to Chairman Mao. After seeing this letter, Chairman Mao’s mind appeared in his mind. He said with emotion: "Since he is a cultural traitor and has never done anything to kill and set fire, then raise it first. We can arrange a related job for him so that he can serve the construction of socialism."
Chairman Mao
Under Chairman Mao’s attention, Zhou Zuoren started his translation work again, and at the same time, he also had a certain monthly royalty, which greatly improved his current life.
Later, Zhou Zuoren successfully entered the Beijing People's Literature Press work. He worked diligently in his work and produced a batch of high-quality Japanese literature and Ancient Greek cultural classic Chinese translations, making great contributions.
htmlIn the late 250s, with the changes in the situation, Zhou Zuoren's life once had a dilemma. His wife was ill in bed, and the prices soared, and the family soon became less than enough. Zhou Zuoren began to sell his family under his last resort, including some antique calligraphy and paintings he left behind. He often asked his friends to bring food to help him, and his life was very difficult.In the 1960s and 1970s, China entered a special period, and Zhou Zuoren's situation became even more difficult. The publisher's foreign translation work has temporarily stopped, Zhou Zuoren lost his source of income, and the whole family can only rely on the salary of his eldest son Zhou Feng to barely live.
Zhou Zuoren in his later years
On May 6, 1967, after his daughter-in-law Zhang Fengfang served her father-in-law, she went to work as usual. At around 2:00 p.m., the neighbors saw the old man lying on the pavement board and motionless, with his posture very unnatural. By the time his family rushed home, Zhou Zuoren's whole body was cold and had already passed away.
Looking at everything in front of him, everyone speculated that this was very likely when he got out of the ground and suddenly fell ill and had not had time to put on his shoes.
Zhou Zuoren and his wife Nobuko Hata
Looking at Zhou Zuoren's life, he was once a full-time scholar, but for his own interests, he left his brother's teaching behind and became a sinner who betrayed the country and the nation. Even if he has not been tried by the people's government, he can only describe it as living in the rest of his life. Such a person is even less worthy of our sympathy and forgiveness.
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