In the spring of 2023, there will be major changes in the second volume of the eighth grade Chinese textbook edited by the ministry, and in the "Guide to Famous Works" section, "Fu Lei's Family Letters" will be replaced by Zhu Ziqing's "Classic Conversations", in this regard, the editorial staff of the publishing house said:
The entry of Fu Lei's Family into Chinese textbooks is not a process of becoming a classic, but a manifestation of its classic status; Today, the withdrawal of "Fu Lei's Family Letter" from the textbook is a redefinition of its mission by the times, and it has not shaken its classic status. ”
It is true that the classic of "Fu Lei's Family Letter" is needless to say, and Fu Lei, as its author, is a controversial figure in contemporary Chinese history, Fu Cong once commented on his father:
He's a very contradictory person. On the one hand, he thinks the world is scary and dirty; On the other hand, he is so concerned about everything that happens in the world, and he is so distressed. ”
Of course, Fu Lei's contradiction is not only in his perception of the world, his personal life is also a contradiction, on the one hand, he is recognized as a literary talent, on the other hand, he was exposed to cheating many times in marriage, and finally hanged himself with his wife.
On April 7, 1908, Fu Lei was born in a relatively wealthy family in Nanhui County, Shanghai, when he was 4 years old, Fu Lei's family ** major changes, his father Fu Pengfei was falsely accused of being imprisoned by the local tyrants and inferior gentry, suffering from severe tuberculosis, and died unjustly after being released from prison at the age of 24.
After his father's death, Fu Lei's mother Li Yuzhen supported the Fu family business by herself, and pinned all her hopes on Fu Lei, found the best teachers for Fu Lei to teach her studies, and even moved many times following the example of Meng's mother.
In addition, Li Xiangzhen's discipline of his son Fu Lei is also very strict, even some morbid love, Fu Lei slacked in his studies, he will be beaten by his mother, and even once almost tied up by his mother and thrown into the pond, it is under such strict discipline that Fu Lei gradually grew up, and his mother's discipline method also affected Fu Lei's later education of his son to a certain extent.
In the winter of 1927, at the age of 19, Fu Lei said goodbye to his mother in tears and went to study at the University of Paris, France.
During his study in France, Fu Lei was deeply infatuated by the free atmosphere abroad, and at the same time, Fu Lei also fell in love with a talented and good-looking French girl named Madeleine.
Before Fu Lei went to France to study, he had already engaged to his distant cousin Zhu Meifu, and Fu Lei, who had completely fallen in love with a French girl, wrote a letter of divorce and entrusted his friend Liu Haisu to send it home.
Fu Lei's love affair with a French girl ended in a breakup, and Fu Lei, who was trapped in it, tried to commit suicide, and under the persuasion of his friend Liu Haisu, Fu Lei returned to reason from his feelings and returned to China to marry his cousin Zhu Meifu, who was five years younger than him.
In fact, Zhu Meifu is an open-minded and empathetic lady, who writes a good brush and can play Mozart's piano music.
After marrying Fu Lei, the versatile Zhu Meifu gave her husband a lot of help, and Fu Lei also ushered in the explosion of his works, translated a large number of French works, and was also absorbed as a member of the French Balzac Research Association.
However, the good times did not last long, Fu Lei fell in love with a student of Shanghai Art College, named Cheng Jia Grenade, the young and beautiful Cheng Jia Grenade brought Fu Lei a freshness that had not been seen for many years, in the face of her husband's cheating, Zhu Meifu showed unexpected generosity, and even invited Cheng Jia Durian to her home, so that she could create inspiration for Fu Lei.
Zhu Meifu's virtuous generosity made Cheng Jialiu ashamed and automatically quit and left. Many years later, Cheng Jialiu said to Fu Lei's son Fu Min: "Your father loves me very much, but your mother is so good that I am ashamed." ”
In 1958, Fu Lei was divided into "rightists", and the translated works could not be published again, so his life was cut off**, although in 1961 Fu Lei took off the hat of "rightists", but in the subsequent ten years of movement, Fu Lei was subjected to an unprecedented impact, and the Red Guards came to Fu Lei's house to raid his home and **, which lasted for two days and three nights.
In the early morning of September 3, 1966, Fu Lei and his wife Zhu Meifu hanged themselves at home, and in order to prevent them from being heard by neighbors, they had laid a quilt on the floor beforehand.
In 1979, the Shanghai Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the Chinese Writers Association held a memorial service for Fu Lei and his wife, declaring that the classification of rightists in 1958 was wrong and should be corrected, and that all those who were framed during the Cultural Revolution would be rehabilitated, their political reputation would be completely restored, and their ashes would be transferred to the Shanghai Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery.