1929, who participated in the revolutionary work, has served as acting secretary of Dongcheng District, director of the political group of Jinnan Cadre School of the Eighth Route Army, minister of propaganda and armed forces of jinan military area command Political Department, secretary and political commissar of the Fifth Committee of jinan military area command, deputy head of the Dong 'an Land Reform Working Group, secretary of Jixi County Committee of the Communist Party of China, member of the Standing Committee of Mudanjiang Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, minister of democracy movement, member of the Railway Corps Party group and minister of propaganda, member of Wuhan Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, propaganda minister and member of Hubei Provincial Committee, Member of the Standing Committee of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China Central South Bureau, Minister of Propaganda, Director of Agriculture Committee, Dean and Party Secretary of Central South Branch of China Academy of Sciences, Member of the Standing Committee of Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, Deputy Director of Revolutionary Committee, Member of the Standing Committee of Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, Secretary of Hainan District Committee, Member of the Standing Committee of Shaanxi Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, Secretary of Hebei Provincial Committee, Governor; Deputy Director of Hubei Advisory Committee of CPC; He is an alternate representative of the Eighth and Twelfth National Congresses of the Communist Party of China and a representative of the Fifth National People's Congress. After retiring from 1983, Comrade Li successively served as professor of Chinese Department of Wuhan University, professor of Chinese Department of Huazhong Normal University, honorary dean of College of Literature of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and honorary president of Hubei Institute of Economics and Management.
Comrade Li is not only an outstanding and respected old leader, but also a revolutionary who always insists on literary and calligraphy creation. He was praised as "our writer and genius" by President Mao Zedong. He is also a consultant of the Chinese Poetry Society and a director of the China Calligraphers Association. His novel "The New War and Peace", with a total of 4.8 million words, is prefaced by President Li Xiannian, covering the period from September 18th to August 15th. His achievements have been published in People's Daily, Guangming Daily and Wen Yi Daily.
Li was the honorary chairman of Hubei Calligraphers Association, founded the first national calligraphy newspaper in Hubei and served as honorary chairman. His calligraphy works have participated in national exhibitions for many times, and his biography has been included in Selected Works of Modern Calligraphy in China, Selected Works of Contemporary Calligraphy Masters and Selected Works of Famous People Qionghai Mo.
He died in Wuhan at 6: 38 on February 26th, 2009 at the age of 96. After entering the age of 70, Li returned to his second hometown, Hubei, and began to write a new work, War and Peace, with 5 million words. He spent three years in libraries, archives and war sites. Even when he visited Japan, he did not forget to look up Asahi Shimbun in the Tokyo Library.
After all, I am old. In order to keep healthy, Li Lao usually pays great attention to physical exercise: swimming, playing tennis and climbing mountains. "When I was 65 years old, I went to Huashan, and all five peaks went; I went to Emei at the age of 70 and walked 2 10 miles in two and a half days. " Li Weimin, the eldest son of Li Lao, told reporters.
In order not to be disturbed, Li Lao posted a notice in the living room: "I am over the age of 70, and I have a long way to go." I am still afraid that my wish will not come true and I will go to bed with regret. " Visits and interviews should be in the evening, and additional requirements are not obeyed. "From 1983 to 1993, this notice was posted for 10 years.
Li Weimin said, father revolutionary life, early light see life and death. He hates being sick because "he can't work if he is sick". Usually at home, even with an oxygen tube inserted, he has to read and write articles. According to Mr. Hu Keqing of the Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles,1July 1947, Li Laohe got married and has been taking care of each other for more than 60 years. In his later years, Song Lao was in poor health and was hospitalized for nearly 10 years. "Li Lao comes to the hospital every day, rain or shine. In fact, when they met, they didn't say much, just sitting quietly holding hands. "
What should be said must have been said long ago. Li Weimin remembers that at the end of 1966, a poster was posted on the wall of the Central South Bureau, saying that his father was a "traitor, traitor and spy". "My father had a premonition that the road ahead was difficult, so he called the family to a small house and solemnly told his mother:'1,I will definitely be censored, but I will never commit suicide. If I commit suicide, I won't say anything; 2, I am not a traitor, you don't know, I know; 3, follow the party, I will definitely make a correct conclusion; 4. We should also be prepared in case the Party may make mistakes. If this happens to me, we can only bear it. We will go through a difficult period in the future. I don't know how hard it is We have to make the most painful preparations. " "
Two months later, Li was arrested and interrogated three times a day. Song Xiaofei also became a "black woman", taking the youngest child to accept criticism, while the three older children were sent to Hainan Island. Li Weimin remembers that the day after his father was arrested, a lock of white hair appeared on his mother's head. It was four years and three months before my parents met again.
The reporter once calculated by car that it was about 5 kilometers from Zhongnan Hospital where Song Lao was hospitalized to Li Lao's home in Fruit Lake Chagang. Ten years later, Li Lao walked the "Long March" almost four times. There should be countless legends about the war in the south and the north, but Li Lao rarely mentioned his heroic past and did not agree to write an autobiography. As the eldest son of Li Lao, Li Weimin learned many heroic deeds from his father's comrades-in-arms and colleagues.
For example, when Railway Corps 1947 was founded, Lear was the Minister of Propaganda Department and a member of the Party Group. Before the Liao-Shen campaign began, the railway soldiers braved the bombing and strafing of Kuomintang planes to transport the main troops, equipment and supplies of the four fields to the periphery of Jinzhou in order to seize the opportunity to seize Jinzhou in three days. When the Kuomintang troops withdrew from Tangshan, the railway from Tangshan to Tianjin was destroyed. Li led a battalion of railway soldiers to Tangshan and worked with the workers to restore the railway 24 hours a day, which won valuable time for the troops. ...
What Li Lao personally told the children was his experience of "going to Maicheng" twice. "194 1 year, my father served as the Minister of Armed Forces of jinan military area command. On one occasion, he led the district Wushu team to destroy the road. When he came back, he met the devil in ambush. The militia dispersed, and my father was shot in the calf and ran into the forest from the traffic ditch to escape. "
"1943, the Japanese puppet troops surrounded the fifth army sub-district organ of the southern Hebei Military Region. Father commanded the troops to break through, but he didn't see the commander, deputy commander and chief of staff. He came back with the guards and found that they had all died. When he broke through again, the guard died and his hand was injured. He had to lie in the river near the village and play dead. Fortunately, I was rescued by my fellow villagers at night and escaped. " This period of history, during the Cultural Revolution, became Li Lao's "evidence of traitors". Later, he found a fellow villager who saved him that year, and the truth came out. Li Lao was the honorary chairman of Hubei Branch of China Book Association. He told reporters that writing has a "life-saving" effect on him. When I was studying at Peking University, I "copied books for the Peking University Library, using fine print at 20 cents per thousand words; Copy the manuscript for the professor, small print, per thousand words 10 cents. "
1933, the underground party organizations in Beijing were severely damaged. With the money accumulated by copying books and gifts from friends, Li was able to study in Japan.
A meal and a bowl of soup are hard to come by. Li Weimin was deeply impressed by his father's hard work and plain living. "When my father was the second secretary of the Wuhan Municipal Committee, he cultivated a piece of land at home to grow vegetables, and his clothes and shoes were broken and repaired by himself. 1960 worked in Guangzhou, and also reclaimed an acre of vegetable fields to grow vegetables and gave them to neighbors. " In the eyes of children, Li Lao is more like a farmer.
Li Lao's education for children is also very strict. Li Weimin said that when he graduated from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, he wanted to go abroad and asked his father to "say hello" to his acquaintances in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but his father turned him down.
After decades of senior leadership positions, Li Lao did not add a brick to the rural family; The children didn't get special care, didn't get an official position, and didn't abuse power for personal gain.
Li Lao gave himself six aliases, one of which was called "Hogo Veteran". Deep down, he thinks that he is a veteran who never leaves Geji, and running shows the legend of ups and downs. From the winter of 2009 to the day around, the whole week was a rare sunny and warm weather. It was suddenly gloomy yesterday, and it was raining in the evening, which added to the chill. At dusk, the editor of East Lake Supplement called Li to tell him that the old man had passed away.
Since Mr. Xu Chi 1996 left us, Li Li, Yao,, these old writers who started their literary careers in the 1930s have given up going west. Although they all enjoy a long life, it is always sad, melancholy and regrettable to see these stars who once shone in Hubei literary world fall.
These predecessors in Hubei literary world are all fighters who devoted themselves to the revolutionary literary front led by China in their early years. The difference is that Comrade Li is neither a professional writer nor a leader of a literary and art group, but has long been in the front line of party and government work, serving as the main person in charge of the local government and being well known to the public as a senior cadre. For a long time before 1980s, his literary achievements were covered by his political voice. I only heard that he published several novels, essays and essays after the "September 18th Incident". It is said that most of the works of that period have long been lost and cannot be found. But in the 1950s, he was in a leading position in Wuhan. During his very busy work, he found time to write many literary works, including novels and plays, which was no stranger to local people who cared about literature. The drama The Yangtze River and the novel The Flood of War are both based on the life in Wuhan. Among them, The Bell of Wuhan Pass is familiar to a generation of students because it appears in middle school Chinese textbooks, which increases teenagers' understanding and love of Wuhan. No matter at that time, or in the following decades, or even today, leading cadres who hold important positions in the party and government and can publish so many new works at the same time are rare and particularly valuable. As for Jin Shen in his later years, he was depressed, full of lofty sentiments, sang praises, and devoted himself to the masterpiece New War and Peace, which was admired by everyone.
In the early 1980s, he politely declined the job arranged in the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC), and returned to Wuhan with Li and his comrades, enthusiastically supporting academic research in humanities to recover heavy losses. I remember that in the spring of 1984, the Water Margin Research Association held a meeting in the Hubei Military Region Auditorium at the intersection of Wuchang Street. More than 100 classical literature experts from all over the country attended the meeting and invited Comrade Li to attend the speech. He made a long speech full of academic content. Because of the traffic jam, the TV reporter came late. When they arrived, the opening ceremony of the meeting was already in the middle. The meeting was presided over by Mr. Zhang Guoguang of Hubei University. He wants to expand the influence of the meeting with the help of Comrade Li's reputation, and asks Comrade Li to speak on the spot again for TV reporters to record. I think this request seems a bit overwhelming, but Comrade Li did not hesitate to give it, and went to Taiwan for a talk with great interest for a while, which was still related to the academic topic of the conference. At this time, Li is not like a big cadre who was a governor at all, but like a kind old gentleman in the school. In the past 30 years, he has given practical help and support to many local academic organizations in the humanities.
In 2005, Comrade Li donated various manuscripts to the China Museum of Modern Literature. These manuscripts are not only precious literary documents, but as we all know, Comrade Li is a famous calligrapher, including the eight-volume novel "New War and Peace" with more than five million words, which was written word for word by the comrades themselves. Therefore, the manuscript is also a treasure of calligraphy art. In August, the donation ceremony was held in the ordinary small conference room on the third floor of Hubei Writers Association. There were only a dozen people present, and the venue was very simple and concise.
Chen made a special trip to China Museum of Modern Literature and Vice Chairman of Chinese Writers Association to accept this valuable donation on behalf of Chinese Writers Association and Museum of Modern Literature. When Comrade Li arrived downstairs of the Provincial Writers Association, the secretary asked me to go downstairs with him to meet him. At that time, Comrade Li was 92 years old and it was very difficult to climb the stairs. People have to help and lift them from both sides and take a few steps to rest. His hearing is also very weak, and he probably can't hear Chen Zhencheng's eulogy clearly. At that time, I felt that the old man's calm and solemn face expressed his love for literature. What he has to do is to make a summary of his literary career.
Mount Tai is decadent, philosophers are powerless, and the literary career that the predecessors fought for will flourish forever, full of green! .