Kuai Dafu’s personal experience

Kuai Dafu was born in Binhai County, Jiangsu Province on September 13, 1945. His grandfather was a soldier of the New Fourth Army, and his parents were both members of the Communist Party of China in the 1940s.

In 1953, Kuai Dafu, who had just turned eight, went to school. Kuai Dafu's father attached great importance to his children's education. Before he sent Kuai Dafu to primary school, he also gave many instructions and lectures to Kuai Dafu. After he went to school, he must study hard and become an educated revolutionary successor in the future.

Kuai Dafu remembered his father's words. After going to school, he studied very hard. In the primary school in their village, Kuai Dafu was the one who studied harder and had excellent grades. After graduating from primary school, Kuai Dafu successfully entered middle school. Kuai Dafu's good academic performance also made his parents very happy. After he graduated from junior high school, it was decided to continue his studies in high school.

In this way, Kuai Dafu entered Badan Middle School in Binhai County in 1960. Kuai Dafu studied hard and had excellent academic performance, but he was not a nerd. When I was in junior high school, I actively participated in various activities organized by the school and became a key member of the students.

In 1963, Kuai Dafu graduated from high school and took the college entrance examination. He applied for Tsinghua University. In September of that year, he was admitted to the Department of Engineering Chemistry of Tsinghua University.

On June 1, 1966, China Central Radio broadcast the full text of the big-character poster by Nie Yuanzi and others, triggering a nationwide rebellion. Kuai Dafu went to some universities to read big-character posters, and soon asked for a public debate with the head of the working group stationed at Tsinghua University.

In June 1966, he took the lead in proposing to "bombard" the working group that suppressed the Cultural Revolution and demanded to seize power. The working group believed that Kuai Dafu was a "fake leftist, but a true rightist", and Kuai Dafu was labeled as a rightist student. Because he went on a hunger strike to protest, he was expelled from the league and imprisoned for 18 days. On July 21, Chen Boda sent Wang Li and Guan Feng, members of the Central Cultural Revolution, to Tsinghua University to visit Kuai Dafu in detention.

On July 29, the working group was cancelled. On August 4, Chen Boda and others went to Tsinghua University to attend a meeting criticizing the working group headed by Wang Guangmei for implementing the "bourgeois reactionary line" and vindicated Kuai Dafu. Kuai Dafu was "liberated" and became a famous leftist.

In 1967, he was assigned by the Central Cultural Revolution Committee to participate in the "January Power Seizing Storm" in Shanghai. March took the lead in criticizing the "February countercurrent".

On April 10, 1967, the Tsinghua University Red Guards held a meeting of ten thousand people to criticize Wang Guangmei. Peng Zhen, Lu Dingyi, Bo Yibo, and Jiang Nanxiang participated in the struggle.

On April 20, 1967, the Beijing Municipal Revolutionary Committee was established, and Kuai Dafu became a member of the Standing Committee of the Beijing Municipal Revolutionary Committee and deputy leader of the core group of the Red Guard Congress of Capital Colleges and Universities.

In early June 1967, the Beijing rebels formed the "Liu Shaoqi Fire Front Command" and besieged Zhongnanhai. They used methods such as shouting slogans, posting slogans, broadcasting through loudspeakers, and even going on a hunger strike to order Liu Shaoqi to write an inspection. Bow your head to admit guilt and accept criticism. Kuai Dafu and his Jinggangshan Corps played a major role in the firing line command.

On July 25, 1967, Lin Biao met with the Red Guards, and Kuai Dafu also boarded Tiananmen Square. On the 27th, after the "July 20" incident in Wuhan, under the instruction of Wang Li, Kuai Dafu directed his men to put up a large slogan "Down with Xu Xiangqian". On the 28th, the tabloid of the Tsinghua Jinggangshan Corps published a statement calling for the overthrow of Xu Xiangqian.

On April 19, 1978, Kuai Dafu was announced to be arrested by the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau at a meeting of teachers and students of Tsinghua University. On March 10, 1983, the Beijing Intermediate People's Court sentenced him to 17 years in prison and deprivation of political rights for four years on the charges of counter-revolutionary propaganda and incitement, murder and false accusation. He was first detained in Qincheng Prison in Beijing, and then transferred to Tanggemu Prison in Qinghai County.

On October 17, 1967, Kuai Dafu published "Long Live the Proletariat's Great Seizure of Power" in the "Jinggangshan" newspaper, talking about "the scriptures of seizing power."

In May 1968, Kuai Dafu organized the Tsinghua University Jinggangshan Corps' Civil Attack and Military Defense Headquarters to direct the armed struggle between the two factions of Tsinghua University.

An attack on mass organizations opposing Kuai Dafu in the early morning of the 30th resulted in 18 deaths, more than 1,100 injuries, more than 30 people with lifelong disabilities, and direct economic losses equivalent to more than 10 million yuan. The fighting at Tsinghua University triggered large-scale fighting at Peking University, Beijing Normal University and other schools.

On July 27, the Capital Workers’ Mao Zedong Thought Propaganda Team (referred to as the Workers’ Propaganda Team) entered Tsinghua University, but encountered resistance from Kuai Dafu’s men. They opened fire, killing five workers’ propaganda team members and injuring more than 700 people. .

In the early morning of July 28, 1968, Mao Zedong summoned the "five major leaders" Nie Yuanzi, Kuai Dafu, Han Aijing, Tan Houlan and Wang Dabin and criticized Kuai Dafu. The five leaders returned to the school and mobilized their men to put down their weapons and stop fighting.

In December 1968, he was assigned to Ningxia Qingtongxia Aluminum Factory (No. 304 Factory of the Ministry of Metallurgy) as a technician. In November 1970, Kuai Dafu was sent to Tsinghua University for examination in the name of investigating the "May 16th Incident". After the review in 1973, he was assigned to supervise labor at the Dongfeng Chemical Plant of Beijing Petrochemical Complex (sometimes called Beijing Dongfanghong Refinery).

On October 31, 1987, Kuai Dafu was released and returned to work at Qingtongxia Aluminum Factory. In August 1988, Kuai Dafu and Luo Xiaobo, a 1978 student of Peking University, registered their marriage in Nanjing and later had a daughter. In 1992, Kuai Dafu and his wife went to work at Sijiazhuang Zhenxing Industrial Corporation, Dengzhou Town, Penglai City, Shandong Province, where they served as chief engineer.

It was reported that in the spring of 1993, Kuai Dafu was hired by a street company in Beijing to work in the capital, but he soon alarmed Liu Shaoqi’s widow Wang Guangmei and other senior leaders of the middle and upper class, and was forced to leave Beijing for Jiangsu. Changzhou, and later went to Shenzhen to be employed by a private and Sino-foreign joint venture Internet company.

On April 24, 2011, Kuai Dafu returned to his alma mater to participate in the centenary celebrations of Tsinghua University.

Reference materials:

Baidu Encyclopedia - Kuai Dafu