Wei Yi's family children

Zhang Yueqin was born with watery eyes. When she smiles, there will always be a pair of charming dimples on her cheeks. She is really a Jiangnan woman who is usually praised for her talent and beauty.

1936 At the beginning of the year, when Zhang Yueqin was in the third grade of junior high school in Changzhou Wujin Women's Normal School, a Chinese teacher named Jiang Haicheng came to the school. Teacher Jiang speaks Zhejiang Putonghua, and recites poems with slow rhythm, calm tone and passionate feelings. His unique charm quickly narrowed the distance between teachers and students. Knowing that he had studied in France, he was put into prison by the Kuomintang after returning to China for propagating anti-Japanese. In prison, he wrote a long poem "Wild Goose River-My Nanny" under the pseudonym "Ai Qing", and his classmates admired him even more. Under his influence, the students subscribed to the progressive magazines and books such as Writer, Translation, Middle Stream and Life sponsored by Zou Taofen.

On one occasion, Zhang Yueqin and several classmates practiced riding a bike on the playground, only to see Teacher Jiang coming, and the classmates asked him to ride one. At first glance, I seemed to be able to ride a little. I didn't go far and suddenly bumped into the opposite wall. The students couldn't help laughing. He turned around awkwardly, turned around and rode back to everyone in a panic. In the laughter and applause of the students, he blushed and took a deep look at Zhang Yueqin, who laughed the most in the crowd.

After graduating from junior high school, Zhang Yueqin dropped out of school because his father failed in business. Soon, War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression broke out. She joined the local anti-enemy troupe, played Sister Xiang in Put Down Your Whip, and went to the radio to sing anti-Japanese and national salvation songs. 1937, she and her classmate Shen Yin went to a military hospital as paramedics. At this point, Yueqin was renamed Wei Yi. 1936 After the summer vacation, when Teacher Jiang went to Wujin Women's Normal College again, she was dismissed by the school. Xiao Xiaoguang, the headmistress (national party member), called Mr. Jiang to the office and said, "Mr. Jiang, I won't send you an appointment letter this semester ..." I finally found a job and lost it. But he had to go back to his hometown in Jinhua for a while, then went to Shanghai, lived in a pavilion to write poems, and still sold articles under the pseudonym "Ai Qing" for a living. After a while, Wei Yi learned from his old classmates that Ai Qing was fired because Changzhou tabloids often vilified him, saying that he was still restless after he was released from prison, and he even carried out red propaganda in class. After Ai Qing arrived in Shanghai, he wrote two letters to Wei Yi and poured out his thoughts. However, Wei Yi, who was young and ignorant at that time, broke off the connection between them under his father's opposition.

1June, 939, in order to escape the collective participation in the Kuomintang, Wei Yi left the First Theatre Company of the Political Department of the Military Commission, which had been working for more than a year, and took the train to Guilin, Guangxi with a letter of introduction from Xu Tao, the head of the Military Commission, and arrived at the Ninth Theatre Company. Xu Sangchu, the head of the troupe, arranged accommodation for her. After Wei Yi stayed, she remembered that her teacher Ai Qing lived near here. She has the idea of meeting him. One day, when she suddenly appeared on the 38 th and came back steadily, Ai Qing's surprise was conceivable. Wei Yi standing in front of him has completely grown into a big girl. Wei Heng looked around Ai Qing's room. At this time, he was very poor: there were two bamboo beds across the wall. There is no furniture except a desk and a stool. There are no quilts and mattresses on the bed, only quilts, pillows and pillowcases. There is a white washbasin under the bed. The desk is full of letters, and a candle is inserted at the bottom of a tea urn. He is the editor of South, the supplement of Guangxi Daily. He writes while running a newspaper, but he is still poor. Wei Yi told Ai Qing about his experience after leaving home. He was so absorbed in his big bulging eyes that time passed unconsciously. It was not until evening that he remembered that it was time to eat. Ai Qing invited Wei Yi to an upstairs dining place in the yard, and asked for two bowls of shredded pork noodles to chat while eating. After dinner, they walked by the banyan lake, and both sides felt that they had endless words to say. Late at night, Ai Caiqing sent Wei Yi back to the ninth drama team.

Soon, Wei Yi received a letter from her sister asking her to go to Guiyang to apply for a university. When she and Ai Qing were walking by the lake, she told him that Ai Qing was extremely depressed after learning about it and asked her very sadly, "Do you have to go?" "Yes, I want to take an examination of the Chinese Department of your school." "Can't go! Don't go! " Ai Qing suddenly grabbed Wei Yi excitedly with her hand and plopped down on her knees: "I love you. I fell in love with you when I was a female teacher in Wujin! " He kissed her hand and said, "I can't leave you, not for a moment!" "He suddenly shouted," I don't want to live. I will jump! " "Say, just jump into the river, Wei Yi quickly grabbed him, begged him not to jump into the river, and promised him not to leave for the time being, otherwise what could she do?

When Wei Yi met Ai Qing the next day, he was writing a poem at his desk:

Xiaozonglv

Strong and beautiful

Broad green leaves

Shake off the morning dew

Welcome the morning breeze.

Dance with the sunrise

You embrace the sun.

You kiss the sea.

Xiaozonglv

Strong and beautiful

Brown waist

Madness in the twilight

Ai Qing copied this poem neatly in Wei Yi's exquisite notebook. Wei Yi recited it in less than a quarter of an hour and recited it for a lifetime. From then on, every morning Ai Qing went downstairs to find Wei Heng to accompany him for a walk, which provoked the female players of Team 9 to joke with Wei Heng: "Go down quickly, the old cow barked downstairs again!" Half a century later, when the comrades who went to Wuhan to participate in the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Ninth Drama Team met again, they all clearly recalled the scene at that time. They said: "I didn't expect that the diligent ox would become a great poet later!" " "

The drama team is going to tour Wuzhou on the 9th. Wei Yi told Ai Qing that he would devote himself to the revolutionary torrent of anti-Japanese propaganda, which made him very depressed.

We're leaving. Wei Yi labored to carry the luggage downstairs, hurried across the yard and sent the things to the truck. When she turned around, she suddenly found Ai Qing, only to see him standing in the yard, staring at her gloomily. Wei Yi said, "When did you come?" "I came early and have been waiting for you downstairs. I dare not call you. " "We are going to Wuzhou today, maybe I will come back soon." Look at his sad expression. Wei Yi comforted him like this.

Ai Qing didn't answer, still standing still like a stake. The players were busy for a while when they came out and went in. Things have been loaded on the truck one by one. Everyone stood under the eaves of the street, waiting to start. As long as the captain gives the order, they get on the bus. Wei Yi invited Ai Qing to give a speech in front of a shop across the street. Ai Qing suddenly reached out a hand and grabbed Wei Yi: "You can't go, I won't let you go!" "Come on, let go! I will follow the anti-Japanese propaganda work and meet again when I come back from the tour! " "No, I can't. I'll take your luggage down! " Then he ran to the truck across the street. Wei Yi chased him and begged, "Please, don't, don't take it ..." However, Ai Qing stubbornly walked quickly to the truck. I don't know where I got the strength. I climbed left and right and jumped on the bus in a few minutes. I was able to dig out Wei Yi's small boxes and luggage rolls from so many luggage and leave them one by one. Wei Yi grabbed her fragile little box and begged him, "Please don't do this, because people will laugh at us!" " "Stop it! Just don't ask you to go! " He shouted and jumped out of the truck, carried Wei Yi's things into the wooden building of Team 9, gave them to the left-behind players, and said to Wei Yi, "Get out of here and come with me!" Wei Yi looked at the tears in his eyes and couldn't help but be soft-hearted. But when I looked back, I saw that the captain Xu Sangchu was busy counting people. She said hesitantly, "He won't let me go with you." Captain Xu glanced at Ai Qing and said awkwardly to Wei Yi, "Alas, what shall we do?" ? He is a poet, and he is very excited. what can I do? It seems that you have to stay, or he will quarrel with you, making everyone fidgety and unable to leave. "Wei Yi approached Ai Qing after hearing this:" The captain agreed to let me stay first, and we discussed it before leaving. "The players got on the bus one after another, and they waved goodbye to Wei Yi:" Goodbye! Come by boat tomorrow and we'll wait for you! "Unexpectedly, this difference is half a century.

In order to prevent Wei Yi from going to Team 9 again, Ai Qing locked her in the house and forbade her to go out for a long time. 1On June 20th, 939, Ai Qing and Wei Wa became partners. Early that morning, Ai Qing said to Wei Yi, "Wash your face well and let's take a wedding photo in the photo studio as a souvenir, ok?" Ai Qing sat in the photo studio, and Wei Yi stood by for a group photo. After filming, Ai Qing jumped up and hugged Wei Yi excitedly, shouting, "Meinong! Minon! " (French "Dear!" On the way back to her residence, Ai Qing excitedly said to Wei Yi, "From now on, we will never be apart again!" Ai Qing in the photo is dashing and charming, while Wei Yi is a teenage girl student, wearing a cloth and skirt sewn by herself, even the cloth bag on her back is sewn by herself.

This wedding photo, with the passage of time and the changes of the situation, actually escaped the previous war and catastrophe. It was miraculously preserved by Mr. Chang, a good friend in the 1930 s, and was sent back to Wei Yi half a century later and made public.

1940 In late June, Ai Qing and his wife came to Chongqing and lived in the villa of Mr. Lin Yutang, a cultural celebrity. Ai Qing is the head of the literature department of Yucai School founded by Mr. Tao Xingzhi. One day in autumn, Deng, Deng, Deng and his wife came to Yucai School by sliding pole. Knowing that Deng and Zhang are both staff members of the Eighth Route Army's Chongqing office, Wei Yi expressed his desire to go to Yan 'an Anti-Japanese Front during his lunch break.

194 1 After the Southern Anhui Incident at the beginning of the year, the situation in Chongqing became very serious. Ai Qing received an invitation from Chen Lifu, Gu Zhenggang and Wu Guozhen, important figures of the Kuomintang, to attend the activity week of the National Day of the People's Republic of China, but he and several other invited cultural figures didn't go. From then on, when they go out, they always find someone watching.

One day, Ai Qing went home and told Wei Yi that she was leaving Chongqing. In the meantime, Zhou Enlai suggested that some cultural celebrities could go to Hong Kong to avoid it, and he intended to accept this plan. However, Wei Yi always yearned for Yan 'an, determined to resist Japan and joined the revolution, saying that he would go to Yan 'an instead of Hong Kong. At that time, Chongqing Eighth Route Army Office specially organized a group of family members to retreat to Yan 'an, which was a rare opportunity. Although Wei Yi was pregnant for eight months at that time, she made up her mind to go to Yan 'an even if the child was born halfway. Ai Qing saw that she couldn't beat her, so she had to agree to go first and then go by herself.

/kloc-in late October, on a foggy day after snow, the women and children's team of the Eighth Route Army Office set out for Yan 'an. Before leaving, Zhou Enlai shook hands with everyone and said goodbye: "Comrades, be careful all the way, we will meet again soon!" Wei Yi and several other pregnant women were arranged in the car. Ye Jianying's wife Wu Bo, Bian Zhangwu's wife Chen Huiwen, his wife Xu Ming and Lai Zulie's wife Xie accompanied him. They bumped all the way and went through hardships, and finally arrived safely in Yan' an, the revolutionary holy land. miss

Not long after Wei Yi left, Ai Qing began to miss her and often went to the Chongqing office of the Eighth Route Army to ask for help to solve the problem of going to Yan 'an as soon as possible. Ai Qing went to Yan 'an by all means, and finally got the certificate from a student who used to work in Shanxi University for Nationalities. This certificate was given to the senior staff of the office of the Chief Executive of Suimeng Autonomous Region, who can pass Yan 'an with this certificate. It was proved that it was driven by a person, but the writer Luo Feng and the painter Zhang Ding wanted to leave, so they changed one word to three words, got on a car of the Salt Bureau of the Kuomintang Central Government, and met the poet Yan Chen and his wife Yun Fei when passing through Baoji. They also wanted to go to Yan 'an, so they changed the three words on the certificate to five words and set off together. Ai Qing dressed as a senior Kuomintang officer, Luo Feng dressed as an orderly, Yan Chen dressed as a secretary, and Zhang Ding. Before leaving, Ai Qing took the money from the Eighth Route Army Office. Zhou Enlai told him to take the main road instead of the side road. In case of any difficulty, he immediately telegraphed Guo Moruo for help. They always have forty-seven examinations, and each examination makes Ai Qing miss Wei Yi more: Wei Yi was eight months pregnant when she first went to Yan 'an, and she had to climb up and down from the car every time. At the thought of this, Ai Qing was in a panic. At this time, Wei Yi, who is already in Yan 'an, is looking forward to Ai Qing's arrival every day. At dusk, he took a bench, sat in front of his cave, and looked down the hill to see if there was Ai Qing among the people who went up the mountain. One day, suddenly a few people came up from the foot of the mountain. One of them is tall, wearing a big mask, wearing a gray cotton uniform and a military cap, which is particularly eye-catching. His body and even his eyebrows are covered with loess. He walked straight towards Wei Yi until Wei Yi saw his big eyes shining with happiness through the loess. Ai Qing finally came, and the husband and wife were finally reunited. During that unforgettable time in Yan 'an, Ai Qing's feelings for Wei Yi were sincere and warm.

One day, Ai Qing got a piece of clay from the art studio of Lu Yi College of Literature and wanted to make a relief head for his wife. He operated carefully with dexterous hands, especially deliberately shaping Wei Yi's beautiful eyes. A few days passed, and an oval half-profile head gradually emerged. Their good friend Li couldn't help sighing: "Great! Temperament is completely shaped! Not only is the image gentle and warm, but there is also an imaginative charm in the eyes ... "The dreamy and soft face of the 89-inch statue and the closed lips reveal a stubborn personality.

Ai Qing carefully buried the statue in a charcoal brazier and took it out without a crack. He carefully polished the statue to the ideal luminosity, and a lifelike work of art was finally completed.

Since then, in that war-torn era, although they moved several times, Ai Qing and his wife kept this symbol of love intact until they went to Beijing with them. long absence

1February, 949, with the long-awaited troops stationed in Beiping, Ai Qing's family lived in the dormitory of the Chinese Writers Association at No.22 Dongzongbu Hutong and lived quietly for several years. Unexpectedly, with the passage of time and the change of environment, there is an increasingly fierce conflict between the poet's romantic temperament and emotional specificity, as well as between the concept of demanding individual liberation and being responsible for the family and children, which eventually leads to an irreparable rift between Ai Qing and Wei Yi. This loving couple fell in love in the years of war, and ended their marriage of 16 years with a divorce judgment in peacetime.

1955, 45-year-old Ai Qing and 33-year-old Wei Wa were divorced by the court.

Wei Yi, with a strong nature, tried to raise her children independently until 1962 remarried.

Ai Qing and Wei Yi have four children. Although his parents divorced, as the biological child of the "big right" in China's literary and art circles, it is natural to imagine the discrimination and unfair treatment he suffered. However, being in adversity since childhood has created a character of self-improvement and a concept of being prepared for danger in times of peace and not making public. Influenced by parents, children have always loved literature and art.

The eldest daughter, Ai Qingming, 1942 was born in Yan 'an in April. She graduated from the Music Department of Beijing Institute of Art, and later engaged in middle school music and foreign language teaching. Her works in her spare time include Life of Ballet-Interview with Ballet Director, A Ding in Li's Music, Sun Ying and His Bronze Geisha, etc.

Zi Ai, 1945 was born in Yan 'an in June. He used to be the editor of New Watch magazine and now lives in the United States. His interests cover art, literature and sociology, and he has published a lot of comments at home and abroad.

The second son, Ai Xuan (Ai Guigui), 1947+0 1 was born in Shenxian County, Hebei Province in June. Now he is a national first-class painter in Beijing Painting Academy, and his works are well-known at home and abroad.

Ai Meimei (Wei Liming), 1950 was born in Beijing in February. She used to be a reporter for Beijing Review. In addition to essays, novels and news reports, she has also published many poems in Poetry Magazine and People's Literature, among which aiming, preparing-releasing, nostalgia and giving to Z.