Introduction
This article is excerpted from "The Spring and Autumn Period of the United Nations General Assembly", written by Zeng Gongwu.
Mr. Zeng is really blessed with a great life and a stronger spirit! was once suspected of being a spy and was almost shot; When registering the gun, the brainless comrade jokingly used a short horse pistol (this person thought it was an empty gun) to pull the trigger, but the gun suddenly exploded, Zeng Gongwu was not injured at all, and all four fingers of the opponent's left hand were blown off except for the thumb. Zeng Gongwu was the first deputy county magistrate of Huaping County, but fate played a big joke on him: in May 1951, he was imprisoned for unjust, false and wrongful convictions for **31 years, and was not rehabilitated until 1982! Fortunately, God favors you - a long life.
After reading this article, I can't help but sigh - people's hearts are sinister!
Zeng Gongwu (1921 2021), male, Han nationality, member of the middle **, from Xinzhuang Township, Huaping County, Lijiang City, Yunnan Province. Zeng Gongwu lost his father when he was young, was raised by his mother, and studied angrily. In 1944, he was admitted to the Department of Chinese, College of Liberal Arts, National Southwest Associated University. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the Southwest Associated University moved north and transferred to Peking University to continue his studies. In the autumn of 1948, after graduating from Peking University, he returned to his hometown Huaping Middle School to teach, actively spreading the ideas of democratic revolution. In 1949, he served as the principal of Huaping County Middle School, in March of the same year, led students to participate in the "March 16" revolutionary armed uprising in Huaping led by Ding Zhiping, a member of the Central Committee, and served as the director of the Political Department, in July, he joined the 35th Regiment of the 7th Detachment of the Yunnan-Guiqian Border Column of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, worked in the Political Department, and in December, joined the Communist Party of China in Xiaguan, Dali. In February 1950, after the liberation of Huaping with the army, he participated in the construction of local political power and served as the first deputy county magistrate of Huaping County. In April of the same year, he organized and participated in the grain collection work, and in September, he was transferred to the Lijiang Prefecture Office. In April 1951, the Lijiang Prefecture Office transferred the people of Jianchuan County and arranged to work in the Civil Affairs Department of Jianchuan County. In May 1951, he was wrongly punished for unjust, false and wrongful convictions and was imprisoned**. In 1982, he was rehabilitated, restored to public office, restored his political reputation, restored his party organization relations, and retired in Jianchuan County in September of the same year. After his retirement, he successively worked as a teacher in Kunming Zhonghua Vocational Education Society and Huaping County Teachers' Training School, actively explored educational reform programs in teaching, and suggested that the structure of ordinary secondary school education should be reformed, and that general education should be combined with vocational education, so as to improve the quality of students and give full play to the maximum benefits of education. In order to carry forward the excellent traditional Chinese culture and promote the construction of Huaping culture, he also initiated the establishment of the Huaping County Poetry Couplet Society.
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I am a native of Xinzhuang Township, Huaping County, Yunnan Province, I lost my father since I was a child, my family was poor, and I relied on my widowed mother to cook wine and feed pigs to raise and study. After graduating from primary school, I was not afraid of hardships, and dared to go out of the mountains, to Lijiang to study junior high school, and then to Dali to study high school, and my academic performance improved rapidly. The middle and high school graduation examinations are ranked first.
In 1944, I went to Kunming to take the university entrance examination, and I was admitted to several universities in a row. At Yunnan University, I was admitted to the Department of Aeronautical Engineering, and at Southwest Associated University, I was admitted to the Department of Chinese of the College of Liberal Arts. Because I have loved literature since I was a child and admired the gathering of famous teachers at the United Nations University, I gave up my work to study literature and entered the Department of Chinese at the United Nations University.
He was trained by Zhu Ziqing, Wen Yiduo, Shen Congwen, Li Guangtian, You Guoen and other literary masters, and was deeply benefited by their teachings day and night. In particular, the United Nations General Assembly inherited the tradition of "democracy and freedom" of the May Fourth Movement of Peking University, Tsinghua University, and Nankai University, and at the time of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the national crisis, teachers and students were very concerned about political and current affairs, and became a well-known "fortress of democracy," which deeply influenced me with the idea of democratic revolution.
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in 1945, the people of the whole country hoped for a peaceful nation, but the Kuomintang reactionaries single-handedly tore up the "Double Ten" agreement in an attempt to launch an all-out civil war. The "12.1"** that shocked China and the rest of the world made me personally receive the baptism of blood. Soon after, Li Gongpu and Wen Yiduo were killed by Kuomintang reactionaries, and I felt extremely indignant.
In the autumn of 1946, when I was demobilized and returned to Beiping, I went to Peking University with the university to continue my studies, and participated in the "anti-hunger, anti-** and other patriotic and democratic activities, which further strengthened my determination to break with the Kuomintang reactionaries and take the road of revolutionary struggle." When I returned to Kunming after graduating from Peking University in September 1948, I went to the liberated areas to find Zhu Jiabi (one of the main leaders of the revolutionary armed forces in Yunnan Province) to join the revolutionary armed struggle.
Due to the funeral of his mother, he temporarily returned to his hometown, and was hired to teach in the county middle school, and the following year he served as the principal of the county middle school, actively spreading revolutionary ideas. On the eve of the uprising of Ding Zhiping, a Communist Party member who joined the party in Huaping in the early 20s, he came to contact me and asked me to participate in the revolutionary uprising.
Soon after, Ding Zhiping staged the 16 March 1949 revolutionary armed uprising in Huaping County, and appointed me as director of the Political Department. I drafted the "Liberation Declaration" and led the students to the streets to propagate it, and I also presided over the convening of mass meetings, elected county magistrates, and opened warehouses to provide relief to the hungry, so as to bring order and stability to the county seats. Later, in order to find the party's direct leadership, he took the initiative to go to northwest Yunnan and joined the 35th Regiment of the 7th Border Column Detachment of the Chinese People's Liberation Army led by Zhu Jiabi, where he worked in the political office in July 1949. In December, I joined the Communist Party of China. During the period of the 35th Regiment, I personally participated in the "Battle of Lottechang" in Lanping, which attacked the Kuomintang Security Regiment, and the "siege of the city and reinforcements" in Jianchuan.
In January 1950, the Seventh Detachment marched into Yongsheng and Huaping, and fought the "Battle of Tanjiaping" with the Yonghua Diba armed forces in Tanjiaping, Yongsheng. He then marched into Huaping with the army, first entered the county seat, participated in the preparations for the establishment of the People's Republic of Huaping County, served as the first deputy county magistrate of the People's County, and spoke on behalf of the county at the mass meeting for the establishment of Huaping County. After the establishment of the Huaping regime, I led a team to Daxing Town to collect grain. Go up the mountain to the countryside, hike in straw shoes, and be prepared for hardship. At the end of July 1950, just as the grain requisition work was about to be successfully completed, he was suddenly transferred back to the county seat for some reason, and then sent to Lijiang for examination the next day along with Ding Zhiping. Later, the 42nd Division of the Great Army sent people to Huaping to conduct a strict investigation, found out that I had nothing to do with the Ding case, and sent me to Kunming Revolutionary University to study.
After graduating in March 1951, he returned to Lijiang and was sent to work in Jianchuan County, but his job position had not yet been determined, and because "Zeng Guangwu," the puppet section chief of the Yipinglang Salt Works Office before liberation, had bullied the workers, and now the workers complained and asked Zeng Guangwu to criticize him, but they actually mistook "Zeng Guangwu" for "Zeng Gongwu" and arrested me in Jianchuan with a single word. Later, when I appealed, it was found that there was a mistake, and they refused to let me go, and then they threw me into the prison and sentenced me to 15 years in prison on charges of being director of the Political Department of Ding Zhiping's bandit department. In this way, I was exiled to Heqing Farm, Weixi Pot Factory, Yongsheng Mili Copper Factory, Lijiang Processing Factory, Kunming Tractor Factory and other places**. During the three-year period of natural disasters and the Great Leap Forward, I was starved in the first team, handcuffed and shackled, sharpened my bones and tendons, and endured hardships, and was finally transferred to the Kunming Tractor Factory. In June 1965, I was released from prison at the Kunming Tractor Factory, unfortunately just one day after my release, it coincided with the beginning of the "**", and was imprisoned by the team, during which I was critically ill and died many times and came back to life, but I always obeyed the rules and obeyed the reform, and I survived, and I finally walked out of the ** team alive. I was 29 years old when I was in prison, and I was 61 years old when I was released from prison. I was asked what was the strength that enabled me to endure such a long and arduous test. Without hesitation, I replied: "My spiritual pillar is 'faith,' believing that I have never sinned, and that ** will one day find out my problem." In 1982, the Lijiang Intermediate People's Court rehabilitated me in an unjust case and restored my party membership and public office.
Since then, I have had a new lease of life. After I was released from prison, I was first hired by the Yunnan Vocational Education Branch of the China Vocational Education Society to go to Kunming to teach the Chinese language to the officers and men of the Automobile Corps, and I won their deep affection. During my tenure at the Vocational Education Society, President Rao Bosheng (Deputy Secretary-General of the Provincial CPPCC), a member of the Communist Party of Menglao, cared about me, transferred my organizational relationship to the Provincial CPPCC and his organizational life in a party group, and transferred my retirement relationship to the Vocational Education Society. I felt in a good mood and felt that I had an inexhaustible amount of strength in my body. However, at this time, the party and government leaders of Huaping County sent people to Kunming to hire me to go back to support Huaping education, I was concerned about Sangzi, and could not bear to live up to the high hopes of my hometown fathers, so I didn't care about anything, and resolutely gave up the favorable conditions such as household registration, work, and retirement relations in Kunming, and transferred my family back to Huaping, where I taught at Yangliuwan Teachers' Training School, and in addition to teaching, I also formed a school party branch, served as the secretary of the first party branch, and was elected by the county as the vice chairman of the county CPPCC. During my tenure, I taught and educated people, and put forward suggestions for the reform of the educational structure, and was rated as an advanced teacher, an advanced party branch, and an advanced member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. It is worth mentioning that one year, when there was a lack of English teachers in the school, I volunteered to undertake two classes of English classes as a person in my old age, and I mingled with the students in the morning and evening, and one student won the first place in the Huaping English Unified Test.
However, just as I was devoting myself to my teaching work, my wife suddenly suffered a stroke and was paralyzed, and my family was in a critical situation. Later, I had to take out a loan to build a few bungalows in Xianrendong and move out of the school. In Xianrendong, in order to maintain the basic life and treat my wife's illness, I had to promise the county chronicle office to help revise the county chronicle, and more than one million words of the county chronicle were revised by me, and I got a little income from it to subsidize the family.
Although my family was very difficult and hard, I still did not forget to recite poetry and enjoy myself. I joined the Provincial Poetry and Couplet Society, and often submitted. In 1997, I went to the provincial capital for a meeting, and saw that all parts of Yunnan Province had set up societies, but Huaping was a blank. After the approval of the county party committee, the society was formally established, and I served as the executive vice president, actually presiding over the work of the society, and officially served as the president the following year, actively seeking the development of the society. In view of the lack of knowledge and skills in writing traditional poems, I took the trouble to give lectures and write a book entitled "The Basics of Poetry and Couplets" for everyone to learn to write. I also edited the journal of the "Chaohua Poetry Federation" and carried out various activities for the current political and current affairs, so that the society could run a sound and impressive job. I learned the "Selected Poems of Chaohua", and myself, in addition to the "Basic Knowledge of Poetry Couplets" compiled before, also published books such as "Struggle for Life", "Unfinished Collection", "Selected Poems of Zeng Gongwu", "The Fruit of Zeng Gongwu's Struggle for Life". My work has been included in many national collections. Now I am the honorary president of the Huaping Poetry Couplet Society, a member of the Chinese Poetry Society and the China Couplet Society, and a researcher of the Chinese Couplet Culture Research Institute.
Although I am over 90 years old, I still work hard and struggle. I wrote a couplet in the preface to my recently published book "Selected Poems of Zeng Gongwu":
Read to save the country, put pen to paper, be wronged, and die without regrets:
Teaching dedication, poetry and association, painstaking efforts, singing all his life.
This sums up my life's experiences and thoughts and feelings.
On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, I filled in the words "Man Jianghong: Singing Praises to the 60th Anniversary of the Motherland" to express my worries about celebration
Jiazi rounded, turned the earth upside down, and the years passed. recalling a hundred years of history, losing power and humiliating the country; Yudian, Kyushu, the long night is difficult to see. The officials are like jackals, and the officials are like eagles and dogs, and they want to kill with Yama. The Communist Party shoulders morality with an iron shoulder and recreates the world.
The rivers and mountains are full of spring, so that the people of Huanyu are admired. Look at the jade bi of the sect, and raise my gods; Win the Olympic Gold Medal and lift the soul of our people. Running to the moon Chang'e, Lingyun Haoqi, Que Po Gong opened the Jade Emperor was shocked. Happy today, the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation!
Source**: UNGA Spring and Autumn