A great man who founded the Communist Party of China and the People's Republic of China, Liang Shuming was the originator of Chinese Neo-Confucianism as a philosopher, educator, and social activist. Regarding the half-century relationship between the two of them, the author has written about it in the humble works "Liang Shuming's Questions and Answers" and "Liang Shuming and ***". What I want to add now is a comment on Liang Shuming in his later years, this instruction has not been discovered by the author when writing the above book, although it is only a point of Liang Shuming's name, but it can very well explain that as a politician until his later years - more than a year before his death, in his ideological treasure house, there is still one of the three treasures of the Communist Party of China - the light of united front thought. 
As we all know, Liang Shuming and *** met Peking University during the "May Fourth" period. Before the liberation, Liang Shuming went to Yan'an twice alone to meet and have a long talk with him for state affairs. In the early days of liberation, they met separately many times to exchange ideas and discuss state affairs, until September 1953. After the publication of my own books and essays about Liang Shuming, some young readers often ask me whether the decades of friendship between Liang Shuming and *** have been in vain because of the turmoil that occurred in September 1953. I put this question to Mr. Liang Shuming for answer, which naturally came after the death of Chairman *** (** died of illness in September 1976, and Liang Shuming died of illness in June 1988).
Liang Shuming pondered for a while after listening to this, and said to me: "Since September 1953, I have indeed lost the opportunity to meet and talk with Chairman *** alone, but I have realized in my heart that since September 1953, I have been a member of the CPPCC as a member, and my living treatment has remained the same, and I have not been dealt with by any organization, and I still embody the meaning of Chairman ***." This is exactly the case: after Liang Shuming was severely criticized by Chairman *** in September 1953, although he felt aggrieved that the issue at issue was treated so unfairly, he also felt deep regret for his behavior of confronting *** in public with no one in mind. Soon after, Liang Shuming thought hard and came up with eight big words, namely: think about it behind closed doors and wait for processing. He did not write directly to ***, but wrote to Chen Shutong, vice chairman of the National Committee of the CPPCC at that time, and Li Weihan, secretary general of the CPPCC National Committee, asking for a long leave, and not participating in various meetings and activities of the CPPCC for the time being, in order to have more time to study at home and think about it behind closed doors. After the letter was issued, Liang Shuming really didn't go to the CPPCC. Not long after, however, Chen and Li sent someone to inform him that the notice that the CPPCC should send to him would be issued as it was, and that whether or not he could attend the meeting would be at Liang Shuming's own discretion.
Since the death of Chairman ***, especially after the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, many visiting friends at home and abroad often ask Mr. Liang Shuming with curiosity, what does he say? The author has interviewed Mr. Liang Shuming on this issue. Liang Shuming's evaluation of *** can be summarized in two ways: first, whether from the perspective of a leader or an old friend, he is a great figure, it can be said that he is not only one of the great men of China in this century, but also one of the great men of the world in this century. Second, he has made outstanding achievements for most of his life, but he made a big mistake in his later years, so throughout his life, there is not only one *** without the same *** but only a number of different *** such as the Anti-Japanese War during the *** Civil War period *** in the early days of the Liberation of the Cultural Revolution "Period" in the later years of *** Liang Shuming often expressed his unique views and opinions with his unique ideas and language. But no matter who asks questions, Liang Shuming always has deep respect in remembrance when evaluating ***, and his demeanor is quite serious and emotional.
The same question is that many readers have asked, since the turmoil in September 1953, how do you think of Liang Shuming, a different old friend? The author believes that the most revealing thing is the comment on Liang Shuming in his later years, which was pointed out at the beginning of this article. On the evening of September 30, 1974, the seriously ill Prime Minister attended the reception for the 25th anniversary of the National Day for the last time. At that time, Comrade *** had just been appointed to preside over the front-line work of the party and the country. In order to implement the party's policies, unlike any other year since the "Cultural Revolution," a group of veteran cadres, veteran democrats, veteran professors, and veteran experts who were affected by the "Cultural Revolution" were invited to attend the National Day reception. At that time, the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (now the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) was also invited to attend. After the National Day reception, the leading group of the then Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences wrote a briefing note to ***, reflecting the excitement of the well-known scholars who attended the National Day reception. **After reading it, I was very happy and commented on this briefing: "No one is perfect." The people on the list attended the reception very well, but unfortunately there were no Zhou Yang and Liang Shuming. ”
Anyone who has experienced the "Cultural Revolution" has heard the famous saying "No one is perfect", but they don't know that there is a sentence behind it, "It's a pity that there is no Zhou Yang and Liang Shuming". This was due to the specific circumstances at the time that it was not possible to publicly quote all of this instruction. Zhou Yang is a revolutionary and literary theorist who has held important leadership positions in the propaganda department and the literary and artistic circles, and has been seriously impacted in the "Cultural Revolution". As for Liang Shuming's special status, he is not a "bourgeois academic authority" in the ordinary sense, but a "reactionary" with a "granite head" who has actually been identified since 1953 and can only play the role of a "negative teacher". Therefore, the importance of this instruction in October 1974 is that Liang Shuming's name has typical significance in his united front policy; The second is to confirm that even though Mao and Liang broke off meeting and talking for a long time after 1953, they did not forget Liang Shuming, a special old friend, in the memory bank of ***. From these two aspects, this instruction of ** is both political and full of friendship.
When I learned of the contents of the above instructions, Mr. Liang Shuming's physical condition was already poor, and I relayed this to him during my visit. After hearing this, he said to the author with both seriousness and satisfaction: "No one is perfect, it is a wise saying, and it is equally applicable to mortals or great men.