Since June 1959, Comrade Wu Han has written many articles praising Harry, such as Harry scolds the Emperor and On Harry, repeatedly emphasizing the "practical significance" of learning from Harry. 196 1 year, after seven rewrites, he completed the Peking Opera "Hai Rui Dismissed from Office" and made a preface, once again asking everyone to learn from Hai Rui's "good character".
After the play was published and performed, it was well received in newspapers and periodicals. Some articles called it "rich in meaning" and "left room for imagination for the audience", and advocated "being a licorice agent is ashamed and being a contractor is proud". Some commentary articles spoke highly of Comrade Wu Han as "a historian who is good at combining historical research with participation in real struggle".
"Using the past to satirize the present has achieved the ancient and modern role of historical research", and this drama "opened up a new way to better serve the socialist reality and the people"; Some articles also said: "People praised' honest officials' in the play ... in order to educate officials at that time and play the role of' posters'."
Since "Hai Rui Dismissed from Office" and its critics have raised such important issues and widely publicized their views, we have to study them carefully.
How does Harry Dismissed from Office portray Harry? In this historical drama, Comrade Wu Han portrayed Harry perfectly and very tall. He "thinks for the people everywhere" and "is the savior of those who were oppressed, bullied and wronged at that time". You can't find any faults in him.
It seems that this is the author's ideal figure. He was not only the "savior" of the poor peasants in the Ming Dynasty, but also an example for the people and their cadres in China in the socialist era.
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1in April, 959, Mao Zedong advocated learning from Hai Rui's spirit of "being honest, outspoken and daring to remonstrate". Wu Han, vice mayor of Beijing and a famous expert in Ming history, published the article Hai Rui scolded the emperor in June. After that, he wrote articles and plays such as On Harry and Harry Dismissed from Office.
1962, Jiang Qing criticized "Hai Rui dismissed from office". 1at the beginning of 965, Jiang Qing went to Shanghai to secretly plan and concoct critical articles. 1965165438+10/0 The publication of Shanghai Wen Wei Po was jointly planned by Jiang Qing and Zhang Chunqiao.
Yao's critical article "Comment on the Newly Edited Historical Drama" Hai Rui Dismissed from Office "catches the wind, and links" returning farmland "and" rehabilitating unjust imprisonment "written in" Hai Rui Dismissed from Office "with" going it alone "and" reversing the case ".
1In April, 966, People's Daily, Red Flag and other newspapers successively published articles such as "The reactionary nature of Hai Rui's cursing the emperor and Hai Rui's dismissal from office", "Hai Rui's cursing the emperor and Hai Rui's dismissal from office are poisonous weeds against the party and socialism", and then the Lushan meeting was held to remove the emperor from office.
Let the criticism of "Harry dismissed from office" be more politicized. Social science fields such as history, literature, art and philosophy began to "uncover the lid" in an all-round way. The criticism of "Hai Rui dismissed from office" became the fuse to launch the "Cultural Revolution".
Shortly after the performance of "Hai Rui dismissed from office", Jiang Qing thought there was a big problem, and with her inherent special status, (Mao Zedong's wife) found four ministers of the Propaganda Department and the Ministry of Culture of the Communist Party of China and proposed to approve "Hai Rui dismissed from office".
However, the four ministers did not take her seriously, which naturally has its reasons: First, ministers may not think that Harry's dismissal is a big problem; Secondly, Wu Han, the author of "Hai Rui Dismissed from Office", is the vice mayor of Beijing, and the naming and criticizing must be decided by the central government, not by Jiang Qing. So it is reasonable for ministers not to take her seriously.
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