In the 60s of the last century, a rookie rose in the Chinese literary scene, named Lin Zhao, who was born in Jiangsu and is a typical Jiangnan woman, gentle and kind, clever and intellectual. Her father once served in the national **, and her mother was a revolutionary, she received the cultural and ideological influence of her parents since she was a child, yearning for freedom and emancipation, and disgusted with feudalism and ignorance.
In 1949, Lin Zhao was admitted to a junior college to study, and in 1950, she responded to the country's call to graduate early, and took the initiative to sign up for the land reform work group, and went to the countryside with many comrades to divide the land and production for the peasants, and implement the concept of communism. In 1952, because of her outstanding performance, she was promoted by her superiors and was assigned to work in the propaganda department, mainly responsible for writing columns for some local **. In 1954, Lin Zhao took the college entrance examination and was admitted to Peking University with excellent results. Since 1956, she has published a series of articles with sharp views, which caused a sensation at Peking University, and her classmates respectfully called her "Miss Lin".
In 1958, when the "anti-rightist" campaign was launched nationwide, Lin Zhao was listed as a "typical rightist" by the working group stationed at Peking University because she often published articles to "sing the opposite tune", and was immediately isolated and censored, and in the second half of that year, she was expelled from school and ordered to leave Peking University. Lin Zhao was not convinced by this, she went directly to the group ** to ask for an explanation, but she was forcibly taken away.
In 1959, Lin Zhao went south to Shanghai to recuperate, during which he founded a new newspaper with several like-minded friends, specializing in the analysis of current political hotspots, but the newspaper had just published its first issue, it was banned, and Lin Zhao was also quarantined and censored again.
But Lin Zhao still insisted on his views and continued to speak out in other ways, questioning some of the current policies. In 1960, the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau arrested her, and the Shanghai Municipal Court sentenced her to three years in prison for "counter-revolutionary," and in 1962 she was granted medical parole for lung disease. After regaining her limited freedom, she immediately resumed her writing work, and wrote five articles in a row that praised and criticized current affairs, and asked someone to take them overseas and publish them in foreign media.
Soon after, the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau was ordered to arrest Lin Zhao again. In order to fight, Lin Zhao tried to kill himself twice, but was stopped by prison guards. Later, she tried to write a letter to the People's ** Agency to complain, but she could not get any reply. During the turbulent period, Lin Zhao was listed as the "number one rightist" by those with ill intentions, and since the end of 1966, she has been constantly subjected to ** and slander, and the ill-intentioned people forced her to admit the so-called "crime", but she would rather die than give in, and resolutely did not bow to the other party.
In 1967, the Lin family went to Shanghai to visit Lin Zhao, and her mother couldn't help but burst into tears when she looked at Lin Zhao's thin body, hugging her in the visiting room and crying. Her mother persuaded her not to hold on any longer, and that it was better to take the initiative to "confess", so that she could avoid torture and save her life. But Lin Zhao was resolute and refused to give in to anything, she bluntly said that the truth is great, and she was willing to die for the truth!
In 1968, the Shanghai Revolutionary Committee organized a temporary public trial meeting to try Lin Zhao, during which the judge persuaded Lin Zhao to admit his guilt several times, but Lin Zhao refused. At first, the judge sympathized with Lin Zhao's young age and bright future, so he decided to give her a lenient punishment and sentenced her to 15 years in prison.
If Lin Zhao obeys the verdict and settles the matter, when the time comes, she will be released and regain her freedom. What people never expected was that after the public trial, Lin Zhao still insisted on appealing, refused to repent, and kept writing letters to ***, which directly angered the Shanghai Revolutionary Committee, so the Revolutionary Committee organized people to conduct a public trial of Lin Zhao again, and decided to punish her and sentence her to death.
Early one morning in April, Lin Zhao was taken to Longhua Airport to be shot, and his body was cremated that afternoon, and his ashes were temporarily handed over to a funeral home in the suburbs for preservation. A week later, the Shanghai Revolutionary Committee notified Lin Zhao's family to collect the relics, which were very simple, only a few pieces of warm clothing, and a few strips of white cloth stained with blood, on which a few words could be vaguely seen, as if they were suicide notes. Lin Zhao's mother had already dried her tears, she silently put away the relics, and kept muttering: "Daughter, go home!" ”。In 1980, the Shanghai High Court reviewed her file and confirmed that she had been wronged, and then restored her reputation, and in 2004, her ashes were sent back to her hometown in Suzhou for burial.