The son of Chen Yi, Chen Xiaolu, apologized for this before his death

On October 7, 2013, Chen Xiaolu (second from right) led other alumni to bow to the teacher.China Youth Daily reporter Chen Jian

According to several media reports, Chen Xiaolu, the son of Chen Yi, died on February 28, 2018.

In the early days of the Cultural Revolution, Chen Xiaolu was the leader and director of the Revolutionary Committee of Beijing Eighth Middle School.In 2013, at the age of 67, he accepted an exclusive interview with this newspaper and apologized for the past: We do n’t say, sorry for ourselves, sorry for teachers, sorry for future generations and history.

Author | Lin Yan Gao Siwei

Chen Xiaolu is 67 years old. He wants to seek a life that can make himself well.Therefore, on the last rest day of the National Day holiday, he got up early, put a written apology lecture in the leather bag, and then drove his blue Volkswagen Polo car to Beijing Eighth Middle School.A few days ago, he watched the Fourth Constitution for one night on the Internet, which was the first constitution of the People's Republic of China.He said that he violated Article 89: the personal freedom of the citizen of the People's Republic of China was not violated; any citizen was decided by the people's court or approved by the People's Procuratorate, and was not arrested.

The past that he had to apologize happened 47 years ago MDASH; - In the early days of the Cultural Revolution, various middle schools in Beijing broke out of the school leaders and some teachers.In this catastrophe, Hua Jin, the secretary of the Party Branch of the 8th Middle School of Beijing, committed suicide, the teacher Gao Jiawang committed suicide, and Han Yanfang, deputy secretary of the party branch, was disabled.

In that crazy years, Chen Xiaolu's name was widely known.He is the leader and director of the Revolutionary Committee of Beijing Eighth Middle School, while his other identity is MDash; MDASH; Marshal Chen Yi.

As Cao Cao said, such as Chao Lu, he has a lot of bitterness.If you don't say something, it's too late

On one side of the white table, there were 8 former middle school teachers who had white hair; on the other side, there were 15 students who were sitting on the other, and most of them were already white.On October 7, in the conference room of a tea club opposite the eighth middle school, the space was cramped, and the dim lights were shining on the face of the old people.

At present, Mr. Zhang Xianchuan is 80 years old, and most of the teachers are in their 70s.Even the youngest of our students is 60 years old, and they have passed the ears, and you are all ancient.As Cao Cao said, such as Chao Lu, he has a lot of bitterness.If you have something to say, it's too late.Chen Xiaolu, who was wearing a blue grip shirt, made his first speech.His hair was completely white, and his wrinkles were deep on his face.

Earlier, he once said to the China Youth Daily: In fact, it was a bit late. Why did you apologize publicly because you were unwilling to face this history in the past.At that time, his tone was still calm.

But on this day's apology, his emotions were a bit excited.Chen Xiaolu put down the prepared lecture in his hand and kept the opening word loudly: lsquo; After the Cultural Revolution rsquo; After, the teacher was tolerant of our offense and tolerance. I want to hurt your alumni on behalf of the Eighth Middle School and sincerely apologize to you!

This is not the first time that Chen Xiaolu has apologized to the teacher.In the past at the school celebration, he had walked in front of several school leaders who had been criticized by the school.But he gradually felt that compared to his private care, he owed the teacher to an open and formal apology.

In May of this year, the old classmate scheduled Chen Xiaolu, Chen Xiaolu, who was the president of the Eighth Middle School of Beijing Eighth Middle School.He said that he returned to school a few days ago to visit the teacher. The biological teacher Zhao Rongzun told him that the teacher who taught you that year had died every year, and one by one was withered.

The teacher's words made Ji San Meng and Chen Xiaolu feel that it was too late without apology.Later, Chen Xiaolu forwarded the emails that they discussed the matter to reporters. At that time, he had the idea of sending a letter to the teacher. There were thanks, apology, blessings, and not long.

Chen Xiaolu did not expect that this very private thing would attract attention soon.

On August 19, 2013, an apology letter from Chen Xiaolu appeared on a blog used as an internal exchange of internal exchanges for Chen Xiaolu's apology.The letter wrote this: The Eighth Middle School and the Third Student Association are arranging a party with the leaders and teachers of the old school.Authorized me to do such an apology?

Later, this blog post was discovered by the media on August 21, and was planned to issue a question of Chen Xiaolu's son, Chen Xiaolu, who issued an apology letter on the leaders of the Cultural Revolution.

Many reporters called me, and the family also said that you are famous and the whole world knows.Chen Xiaolu recalled afterwards.

In the past, there were lsquo; the three mother -in -law taught son rsquo;, now is lsquo;

Different from many people imagined, this so -called public apology letter is actually a private email that Chen Xiaolu returns to Huang Jian, the secretary -general of the classmates.

I received a group of photos sent by Huang Jian, all of which were the scenes of school leaders as gangsters and labor reform in 1966.Chen Xiaolu remembers that Huang Jian raised a sharp question at the end of the email: there are many people who need to apologize in Chinese history, but today we mdash; mdash; a special day in history, can you start with me and bravely to the teachers to the teachers bravely to the teachers.Said: I'm sorry, we apologize sincerely!

That day was August 18.On August 18, 47 years ago, Mao Zedong first met the masses and Red Guards from all over the country in Tiananmen.On that day, Chen Xiaolu and millions of people shouted in unison to walk to the square by the slogans of Chairman Mao and long live.

Chen Xiaolu looked at the yellowed photos, and his memory was getting closer and closer to 1966.

In a photo, hundreds of students gathered in the courtyard in the middle of the teaching building. Two female teachers wearing glasses were standing on the cement platform to be criticized.The male teacher on the side held a small blackboard with four words of gangsters in the chalk.On the bungalow behind him, there is a banner that will always follow Chairman Mao in the wind and waves.

Chen Xiaolu recognized it as a result that one of the female teachers was Hua Jin, the secretary of the party branch.

That year, Chen Xiaolu was just 20 years old, and he was in high school.His eighth middle school is a key middle school in Beijing. About one -third of the students are cadres and children, so they are also called political schools.

Recalling that year, Chen Xiaolu laughed and said that he was very left. He learned all the things all day, and these things were class struggles, anti -repair and anti -repair.One year before the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution, the cadre children stated that Chairman Mao said that the school had been ruled by bourgeois intellectuals.

I thought, who ruled?It must not be a student, that can only be a school leader!That year, Chen Xiaolu posted a large poster on the wall, which wrote that the storm of class struggle was more violent.

In 1966, the Cultural Revolution broke out and the school was suspended.On June 9th, a large -character newspaper was posted in the Eighth Middle School, revealing that a worker in the school sold blood due to difficult life.This was very sensational at the time. We felt that the school leader had too class feelings.Chen Xiaolu remembered that at that time, the school was angry. The students held the school leaders on the cement platform to criticize. The underneath was full of people, and some junior high school students were wearing red scarves.

After the school leader stood side by side, Chen Xiaolu naturally became the leader of the rebellious students.He said at the school's teacher conference on behalf of the students: In the past, there was a drama.

Later, most of the schools imitated the principles of the Paris Commune to establish the school's Cultural Revolution and elected the Director of the Revolutionary Committee.In the eighth middle school, Chen Xiaolu received more than 1,100 votes, and only 20 votes were passed by 20 votes.

That's a period of unbearable, but the days you have to face for life

When the Cultural Revolution broke out, Huang Jian was also studying high school.At that time, a popular sentence was a good person fighting bad people, deserved; bad guys fighting bad people, dog biting dogs; bad guys fighting good people, suffering from exercise; good people fighting good people, misunderstanding, not knowing each other.Huang Jian's eyes saw that the school leader was chased by the students with a belt, and some people also cheered: This is the time to test our revolution.This fear has continued to this day. In a telephone interview with a reporter from the China Youth Daily, he choked when he recalled the past.

In 2011, in order to welcome the 90th anniversary of the Beijing Middle School, Huang Jian suddenly received photos provided by many old alumni, including he later sent to the Chen Xiaolu group.But at that time, Huang Jian knew that this group of photos could not be selected at all, so he remaked it with a camera.

Chen Xiaolu quickly responded to Huang Jian. The email wrote: My formal apology is too late, but for the purification of the soul, for the progress of society, for the future of the nation, we must do such an apology. There is no reflection.

The next day, on August 19, Huang Jian put the reply on the blog of the classmates.

I did not expect that he would have such a clear statement after seeing this thing.Huang Jian said that before, he had also been exposed to alumni who apologized to the teacher in private. Some people even apologized to the teacher again and again.But Chen Xiaolu's response still made him feel very simple, because Chen Xiaolu himself had not been beaten, and he also publicly opposed the beating.

Their teacher Zhao Rongzun once mentioned that that year, several junior high school students blocked her in the classroom and wanted to wear a high hat and shave yin and yang.Chen Xiaolu, who happened to be passing by, stopped these teenagers. You can approve it, but not allowed to fight or shave his head.Later, Zhao Rongzun had been criticized for more than an hour, and Chen Xiaolu accompanied her for more than an hour.

After 47 years, I understand that people have his dignity and his rights, which are protected by the Constitution, but I didn't know these at the time.In an interview with the China Youth Daily reporter, Chen Xiaolu said tanthestly that I only had a simple understanding at that time, the party's tradition, the attention of the three major disciplines and eight years, there was one of the eight disciplines and eight disciplines.

But the situation in Beijing Eighth Middle School has deteriorated every day.At that time, sociologist Zheng Yefu was studying at the Eighth Middle School. When the Director of the Revolutionary Committee was elected, he also voted for Chen Xiaolu.I dare to say that no one who was at school at the time had never seen it.Zheng Yefu saw that a right -like teacher who was sick and usually did not come to the school all year round was intercepted by the second grade of the second grade in the school when he came to the school because of his salary.Like sheep facing the wolf, the fear in the teacher's eyes, I will not forget it for a lifetime.In the end, the teacher was beaten.

Death quickly happened.One day, the secretary of the Party branch of the Eighth High School committed suicide.Earlier, a student had met her on campus.I can not stand it any more.Hua Jin said to him.Chen Xiaolu remembered so far that when he rushed to the classroom on the south side of the school, Hua Jin was swollen and lying on the cement floor under the window.

It was a day when I couldn't get back, but I had to face it for life.As the leader of the students of the Eighth Middle School and the director of the school Revolutionary Committee at that time, I was directly responsible for the school leaders and some teachers and classmates.In the early days of exercise, I actively rebelled and organized criticized school leaders. Later, as the director of the school revolutionary committee, and did not have the courage to stop the persecution of humanitarianism, because they were afraid of being said to be Lao Bao, they said to oppose LSquo; the Cultural Revolution rsquo ;,It was a fearful age.

47 years later, Chen Xiaolu wrote in a letter to Huang Jian.

There are more than 1,000 students in the eighth middle school. Is everyone rebelling?Is everyone going to actively criticize the teacher?No!

At that time, the internal response of the third classmate would also be quite large, and there were many people who supported it, but some people felt that Xiaolu was a bit confusing, and some people proposed that it was the students who had to be a man who had to apologize, and it should not be him.Guili three recalls the situation after the matter was made public.

On August 24th, scholar Zhang Ming published an article entitled to in -depth reflection entitled to the Cultural Revolution that needed confession and apology.He wrote: Not only lsquo; red second -generation rsquo;, that is, ordinary people, often have double identities in lsquo; Cultural Revolution rsquo;On the one hand, they are all victims, on the other hand, and on the other hand, they have participated in varying degrees to hurt others hellip; Hello;A nation, hundreds of millions of people are being killed, and only the victims are Lin Biao Group and lsquo; The four gangs RSquo; hell; hellip; in this way, a disaster that lasted ten years and involved in hundreds of millions of people, except for a few deaths and deaths and deaths.Outside the people in prison, in real life, there is no harm.

During the interview, Chen Xiaolu talked about this problem. I didn't hit someone, but I still rebelled. I was wrong.You can push off and say that it is the wrong environment, not my fault.This is also right.But this incident occurred in the eighth middle school. There were more than 1,000 students in the eighth middle school. Is everyone rebelled?Is everyone going to actively criticize the teacher?No.I can also choose not to pick, but I still participated, and I took the lead!

He said that it is important to formally apologize and do it as soon as possible.For those teachers who are not good at walking, he wants to visit the door and go to see them one by one.Huang Jian remembered that on the third day after this incident became the focus of public opinion, Chen Xiaolu met with them to the balcony elderly apartment in Haidian District. It was the place where the director of the Education Department Li Aling lived today.

It's Xiaolu to see me.On the phone, Li Aling seemed to know their intention.That day, at the age of 86, she stood at the door of the apartment and waited for her students.

Don't blame you.Li Aling, full of silver hair, gave Chen Xiaolu a chair and asked him to sit opposite him.

The teacher looked at the apology very lightly and tolerant.Huang Jian said that compared to the suffering during the Cultural Revolution, Li Aling seemed to be more willing to remember the warmth of those human nature.Once, Li Aling was surrounded by a group of students at the school gate. As a result, a teacher rushed over and shouted. You gangsters did not hurry up quickly!Then, the teacher also chased her in the back of the bicycle. Later, I learned that in fact he was not chasing me, but wanted to hurry up to stop the 7 car and let me run quickly.

Knowing that students come to see themselves, Wen Hanjiang, the old principal of the Eighth Middle School, is also very happy.He was 89 years old, but he was still interested in talking.Only when the old time occasionally mentioned that old time, the whole face on his face was dim. After the critical meeting of the music hall, I was beaten for 3 hours, very painful hellip; hellip;

This is a past that many people are unwilling to mention again.The critical meeting was held in the Concert Hall of Zhongshan Park. The participants were students from the Fourteen, Sixth, and 8th Middle School. The black line characters who stood on the stage include Zhang Wensong, secretary of the Beijing Education Bureau, Li Chen, and several Xicheng District.School leaders of key middle schools.

As the organizer of this criticism, Chen Xiaolu's first thought was very simple. At that time, he had to find lsquo; find a question rsquo; always find something to do with a exercise.Essence

The accident happened soon.Huang Jian was sitting in the last row of the concert hall at that time. Suddenly a group of students rushed to the podium, and pumped the belt and twitched. We were shocked!

There is no way. It is unstoppable. Chen Xiaolu on the podium raised the flag of the Red Guards, shouted the slogan towards the students who rushed on the stage, stopped, and put them lsquo; step down rsquo; to the ground!

Even the slogan of insulting human dignity should be used to stop beating.When talking about the past, Chen Xiaolu sighed.It was also after this scene that his thoughts began to shift from rebel to conservative.

The criticism would be organized by me, and the impact was very bad, so I wanted to apologize to you in person.Chen Xiaolu took the words of the old principal and said that the sentence was sorry for a long time.

This can't blame you, you were civilized at the time.Wen Hanjiang waved his hand and said calmly, the error in the LSquo; RSQUO; could not be simply blamed for anyone, let alone your students.

Huang Jian raised the camera and took the scene of the reconciliation of teachers and students.The Wen Hanjiang in the photo was indeed old, and his back bent bent, and even his eyebrows fell very hard.Five students sitting next to him are no longer young,The three of them had a serious thanks, and the other two were already white.Like many elderly people at this age, they start their ears and sometimes they can't hear each other's speech.

A few days later, Huang Jian sorted out the situation at the time on the blog of the third classmate society.Not long ago, he had just been diagnosed with pleurisitis and took dozens of medicines every day, but he still put most of his time on Zhang Luo.

When you see it, don't apologize, we will be too old.He said.

We do n’t say, sorry for ourselves, sorry for the teacher, sorry for future generations and history

Before the apology meeting on October 7, Chen Xiaolu received a call from a New York Times female reporter.

Mr. Chen, I have interviewed your father, and he impressed me very deeply.The sound on the phone is no longer young.

A few days later, the 70 -year -old journalist met Chen Yi's son and Chen Xiaolu, who was also nearly 70.

I was naive at that time.She told Chen Xiaolu that she was Australians and was a left college student at the time. In 1967, she came to China with a name. She was interviewed in person while Chen Yi was also a Foreign Minister.When she was in China, she also wore a military coat and red sleeves to visit with the red flag.

This historical drama also exists in Chen Xiaolu.A scholar who had communicated with him during the Cultural Revolution believed that Chen Xiaolu's political attitude and position represent a group of people, especially the batch of in the early days of LSquo; the earliest response to Mao Zedong's call; rebel;RSQUO;, the earliest to launch lsquo; Rsquo;

The 9.13 Lin Biao crashed in 1971 was another node in Chen Xiaolu's thought transformation.Vice Chairman and successor of Lin Biao, why should he rebel?What is he doing?Enough support?Chen Xiaolu has a puppet that can't be solved.

In 1975, Deng and the right -handing of the right counterattack rose. As the youngest director of the Political Department of the Shenyang Military Region, one of the main tasks assigned by Chen Xiaolu was Deng.Surprisingly, he wrote a letter to his father -in -law Su Yu to mobilize.Different Tao is different from each other, he wrote in the letter.

I didn't know that I was wrong before, but at that time, I couldn't accept this set of myself.Chen Xiaolu said that since then he has no longer wanted to say something wrong.In a sense, this character has shaped his life trajectory and even spiritual world.In 1991, he bid farewell to the system and went to the sea to do business and claimed to be the unidentified individual.To this day, this folk identity indirectly helped him choose to publicly apologize to history.

It has been 47 years, nearly half a century. After experiencing the storms and rain, I started to reflect step by step. At that time, I felt that the LSquo; the Cultural Revolution rsquo; it was a political error. Later, it was found that its fundamental problem lies in constitutional.On October 7, when he was sitting on the red sofa in the tea society room, Chen Xiaolu looked worried.He began to talk about the moment, and repeatedly mentioned that the genes of the young people who smashed their cars in the anti -Japanese parade, the gene of the LSquo; the RSquo;Will similar things happen again?Hard to say.

Just like Parkinson's disease.Chen Xiaolu picked up the cup in front of him. If you break a cup today, you can say that it is a mistake or a look, but if you break each time, it must be that you have a problem. How can you solve it?

Chen Xiaolu valued reflection, but disgusted the public opinion that everyone was writing their own history. This was just my personal choice.The apology is noble, and it is not noble if you don't apologize?I don't think so.Real reflection may not apologize.I believe that the experience is unforgettable for everyone.

Among the many parties who were interviewed, Hao Xinping, Secretary -General of the Beijing Demonstration Promotion Association, was impressed by the enthusiastic years.On August 18, 1966, as one of the Red Guards representatives of the Beijing Normal University Entry Middle School (now Beijing Experimental Middle School), she had received Mao Zedong from the Tiananmen Tower.Just 13 days before, the party branch secretary and vice president of the most famous girl school in Beijing, Bian Zhongyun, was killed by a group of female students and became the first victory in the LSquo; RSquo;School leaders.On that day, Hao Xinping saw the dying Bian Zhongyun lying on the car pushing the garbage.

In 2011, more than 500 alumni spontaneously donated a bronze statue for Bian Zhongyun.There are also classmates who apologize to the school leaders who are still in private, but the beaten people are carrying a heavy burden. Now no one dares to stand up and apologize to this., Our generation should explain to society history.Hao Xinping told the China Youth Daily reporter that he had sent text messages to ask Chen Xiaolu about public apology.

Soon she received Chen's reply: forgetting is the nature of human beings. How many people know this history after 1990?We do n’t say, sorry for ourselves, sorry for teachers, sorry for future generations and history.

I hope they can understand that history, even if we know that we have had such a dark period in the eighth middle school, it is OK

Like many people of the age of sixty or seventy years, when these elderly people gather together, they talk about their physical condition, elderly apartments and the haze weather in Beijing.It is only in some special time that the difference between the party will be revealed in their conversation.For example, when they were divided into two rows, one old man suddenly asked another old man: Hey, did I teach you?

After 47 years, the teacher no longer looks like a teacher, and the students are no longer likeIt is a student.The sum of their age is over 1500, and the age limit of each other is no longer so clear. White hair, old -age spots, and increasingly loose teeth at the same time show the power of time on their bodies.

But at this party on the morning of October 7, they had partially restored their past gods.Young, old, black and white, colorful, they appear in photos, repeatedly played on the projection screen of the conference room.Everyone looked at it, and some of the elderly were blocked by the side. They stunned the table with their hands and looked at their heads. Others stood up simply.Both black and white and color photos are some good times worth remembering.Many people found how they walked on the campus on the first day, while others remembered the excitement when the first man was in the first time the male middle school.

The circular photos were not in the period of 1966, which was deliberately arranged by the player Huang Jian.But those brutal memories will still appear inadvertently.Zhang Qingfeng, the secretary of the old Youth League, mentioned that he was called to the music classroom for review by the students late at night. He was asked to climb in from the window and climb in and climb in. After returning home, the big man cried for two hours.Zhang Lianyuan, a physics teacher at that time, couldn't help choking.During the Cultural Revolution, he fought due to family background problems. His wife mdash; mdash; the people's teachers of another middle school fell to the building in 1968 and were regarded by the school as a fear of suicide.

At the nearly 3 hours of apology, only these two times, the teachers showed their inner pain.Most of the time, they did not want their students to persevere in apology.

There is no need to stand up and apologize. You are also victims. At that time, he was a class struggle. Who can not support it?Zhang Xianchuan, the oldest teacher, made his first speech.Lu Jin, secretary of the old party branch next to him, said that the teacher treats students, just like parents treating their children. No matter how big the students make a big mistake, we can understand.

There is no need to investigate your responsibility.Zhang Lianyuan tried to hold his eyes with his hands, as if to avoid crying again.He raised his head and said as if he was telling: But to summarize this period of history, ask the construction of the rule of law into the focus, and no similar problems in the future.Ladies, we hope that you can further make due achievements in this regard.

In the face of the teacher's understanding, Chen Xiaolu and several other alumni did not say much.At the end of the party, Ji Sanmeng suddenly said loudly: Thank you teacher for your education!Thank you for your tolerance!

All the old students present stood up and bowed to the teachers sitting opposite.

After the apology meeting, Chen Xiaolu led the China Youth Daily reporter back to his alma mater, Beijing Eighth Middle School.

Many things have changed.The former Hutong bungalow has become a high -rise building of Financial Street, and the cement floor playground has also been replaced by an Olympic -level modern gymnasium.But Chen Xiaolu can hardly regain the memory of the year.

One day in August 1966, the student leader Chen Xiaolu and the mighty student team went out of the school gate, passed through the alley, and went to the Zhongshan Park Music Hall.In order to criticize the revisionist education route, Chen Xiaolu organized all the critical meetings of all the 4th, sixth, and eighth.He did not expect that a few hours later, those bourgeois intellectuals would be hit by a group of middle school students who suddenly came to the stage.

When talking about this past, Chen Xiaolu glanced at the campus.The National Day holiday has not ended. Except for several security guards, the school is empty.

The current children may have no concept of lsquo; RSquo; there is no concept.I hope they can understand that history, even if we know that we had such a dark period in the Eighth Middle School, do not repeat this history, do not fight for teachers, do not fight anyone.Chen Xiaolu sighed and walked in front of the school gate of the eighth middle school in Beijing.

Source: Ice Point Weekly