Wei Jingsheng Foundation News and Article Release Issue: A1044-W682

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Release Date: September 9, 2017

发布日：2017年9月9日

Topic: The Heroism and Beauty of This Era That Moved Me - by Zhong Weiguang (Apollo News Network)

标题：仲维光:让我感动，这个时代的英雄和美女 -- 有朋自远方来(阿波罗新闻网)

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The Heroism and Beauty of This Era That Moved Me

-- Friends Come From Far Away

[Apollo News Network 2017-07-29]

Author: Zhong Weiguang

Once I said that being against the Chinese Communist regime is the fundamental line we must hold as a person. Now I want to say, only the one who dares to stand against the communist tyranny alone is the hero of our time! Those who are on stage now are only the temporary protagonists of this theme, because he who never had the courage and thought is destined only to be in a supporting role.

I am happy to have friends come from far away! (part 1)

The reason is simple, because you are a human, who have thought and spirit. The contents of our spiritual world, the way and taste of our living, are no less than the needs of food for us. Exchange and sharing compose half of your life. A lot of times even the rest of your life is guided by these exchanging and sharing experiences. For this reason, of course it is more than a pleasure when friends come from far away who I can communicate and speak on the same wavelength, especially when I admire this friend a lot.

Old Wei (Wei Jingsheng) is a person in my life who is not related to me, yet I admire due to his actions and thinking. He really won my admiration with real content. Before my admiration, I not only did not know him, I did not understand him, and even did not feel optimistic about him, and even criticized him. However, over time, with the tracks, slowly grew my admiration of him from where I did not perceive before, through the power and charm of his life.

His weaknesses may be countless, but there are two reasons Wei Jingsheng led me to admire him from the bottom of my heart. Because of these two points, although I rarely had personal exchanges with Wei I treat him more than friend in my heart. I think that no matter how people think of the shortcomings he might have, he is the hero in this age that lacks of heroes. He is worthy to be worshiped by this world and the future generations!

The first reason that demands respect for Wei Jingsheng is because he dares to defy the tyranny, to fight alone against that seemingly stable regime impossible to collapse. Let us not forget that it was in 1979! Let us think carefully that even Yu Luoke cannot compare with Wei's courage of confronting the tyranny -- because the old Wei indeed was ready to throw out his own head as a cannon ball against his enemy. In this world, how many people would dare to calmly throw out their own heads as cannon balls against the enemy without collapsing psychologically?

Some people may show braveness as a calculated speculation. Some people are remarkable when they play games. Some people display high IQ when they try to fool the world. However, Wei Jingsheng shows his awe-inspiring courage, whether in front of the TV lens or on the Western podiums, regardless whether he is facing the power of the East or the Dignitaries of the West. This courage stimulates the resonance of innate rhythm from my own blood - in my bones, I only have the genes of respecting heroes. I can only and will only respect people like Wei Jingsheng.

The second reason that lets me admire Wei Jingsheng is that this offspring of the Red Communists did not stop marching forward after his opposition of tyranny. He has completely broken and walked out of the boundaries set up by the Communist regime, not only politically, but also ideologically and spiritually. After entering the twenty-first century, Wei Jingsheng made loud and clear statements about the Chinese Communist regime. During this year's review and outlook of the June 4 Massacre, old Wei once again showed the depth and sharpness of his thoughts. Many people may never walk out these boundaries in their lifetimes, even as they got executed by the Communist regime. However, old Wei has walked out there further and further, more in an elegant style, and without burden. On this road, I have not only experienced the hardship in walking out, but also know the bottleneck for those who cannot get out of the boundaries. As I have heard so much high pitched tunes from so-called Ph.D.'s talking about things they do not really know and understand, I surely am surprised by and admire Wei Jingsheng's thinking and understanding!

There are heroes of every generation, and each of them shall be in the leading position for hundreds of years. Wei Jingsheng is a really worthy of our Chinese people; who acts like General Xiang Yu, King of West Chu; who thinks like (poets) Tao Yuanming of the Dong Jin Dynasty and Xie Lingyun during the Song (of the Nanbei) Dynasty. How could I not admire a person like this!

I am happy to have friends come from far away! (part 2)

I do not have to say much when Wei Jingsheng comes. What I did not expect was from Huang Ciping who came together with him, and we would meet as old friends.

To talk about this girl, although her age is not anymore that of the girl during our first meeting, but as I could call myself an old man growing toward my 70's, I still felt she is just a girl. What I was surprised about was not just her age, but that I could see through a glance in between her eyes, the girl in her, a girl who is still full of innocence, hidden not so deeply there.

This feeling is not what I would have expected. Afterwards I also thought it as strange, because it suddenly reminds me the experience that shocked me a decade ago.

I was at a place that was thousands miles away and encountered a so-called well-known person for the first time. I was extremely surprised for that mediocre look due to the wear of time. That was the first time I observed and realized that lines on a person's body could so deeply reflect that person's mediocrity. And that experience further deepen what was supposed to have been said by Abraham Lincoln: "Every man over forty is responsible for his face."

From the Cultural Revolution period until I left university, until I went to the world, I have seen so many women, include those in the pro-democracy movement, female dissidents, women in our circle pretending to be writers, women portraying themselves as talents. However, more of this kind of person made me deeply understand that the name recognition one may gain through one's effort to make up and fan up herself, by talent will not came out through the makeup. Just as Shi Xiangyun (in the classic Chinese novel "Dream of the Red Mansions") said: "a real celebrity will be romantic", absolutely so! The more simple people, the more talented! On the contrary, the more a person speaks of things they do not understand, as they speak in Greek whenever they can, the less talent they have! That is because they do not have the foundation and they need conceit and vanity to decorate themselves with those things they do not understand, and they even did not know that they do not really understand.

As described in the poems (by the well-known painter and calligrapher Zheng Banqiao almost 300 years ago,) "Simplicity is the best way to paint the autumn trees, while innovative ways are the best to paint the spring flowers", and (by poet Su Shi of the Song Dynasty) "a beauty will be a beauty regardless with or without makeup," the romanticism, the talent, the scholarly cannot be produced for a person by big words, or by thinking him/her makes it himself/herself. On the contrary, it is the upbringing and accomplishment that the person has.

The more talented and capable the person is, the simpler and plain that person will be, without the need to load with "acts" and "gestures"!

I never met with a young Huang Ciping. As she showed up in front of me, I think she should be over 50. What would be left to a woman who is older than 50?

It would already be uneasy for those women who do not need to work, with a good mood and environment to save a good temperament, not to mention the women who are devoted and have thus gone through hardship, who accompanies her pursuit all the time, who spends a lot of time on the road, who handles a variety of complex matters, yet tries to have her own life. However, I was surprised by Huang Ciping when I looked at her, through her face and her eyes, and even the faint lines - these wrinkles that will come in the future, you see her pure and trueness that cannot be concealed.

During these years of my encounters with people, I rarely have this kind of feeling. Yet the second point that surprised me is that this feeling made me deeply feel that in the past more than 30 years of the atmosphere of the so-called dissident circles, or within the democracy movement, there is a haze of the human society. Huang Ciping has not only made me feel this heavy haze, but also all of a sudden let me experience "the haze in the democracy movement is even stronger that the haze in Beijing"! Because this girl in front of me, is exactly a girl whose glories were covered and confused by this heavy haze. She is full of innocence, talent and ability, yet these are covered for staying in this noisy flea market for too long, with these sellers and the prospectors who came to the market thinking of gaining some profits. I have repeatedly seen her photos, repeatedly read her words, and occasionally talked on the phone, yet I always thought that this is not a person in the same world with me. And this is the reason that shocked me and let me ponder. This person standing in front me, suddenly gone through time and space, to make me feel her to be in the same world with me. This might be the power of life of this small and weak woman who originally came from the south of the Yangtze River.

Just glance at her and you will feel and see her strong character, that the impulse and pursuit of her life cannot be covered by whatever kinds of pollution and trash she has encountered.

She is the kind of person capable of penetrating everything, showing her charm, and conquering you with her simplicity.

I am amazed at her because the expressions in her eyes are sincere and not contrived when she treats others.

I am amazed at her because her words are simple and with clear logic.

I am amazed at her because her feelings are sharp!

Of course, I am surprised at her, most fundamentally due to her sincerity -- in these years, in the noisy and chaotic society, she maintained her own excellent quality. And because of this, she has not completely lost her glory ...

Thirty years of the so-called pro-democracy movement has created a group of poor people; those who came to live not due to their own pursuit, courage and talent, but due to their desire to fool the society and to get benefit and name recognition for themselves, without realizing that this is a swamp, a quality and money losing place, and eventually will make them deceive their own life.

Because when one is doing that, one has to pay for it, and lose one's glory that one did not have that much to start with, as well as the character that one lacks. Then the original barren appearance, the body of flesh and blood yet carrying all the abstract quality, will turn into misery and depression, who should one blame then? Mencius said mightiness is to be groomed and raised, all of you are the result of your own profanity and blasphemy! Of course, perhaps even the ability to cultivate may also be congenitally written in the womb - some people may have no ability to cultivate one's own!

This girl in front of me, who comes with a haze, once again touched my deeper grief! Because she once again let me see our generation, this generation of the so-called elite class, not only does not have the talent, the penetration and the light of thoughts and spirits that every generation inherited, but indeed are genuine "spirit haze." The particles in this haze have different shapes, different colors, and different behaviors, but they are all created by the Ministry of Truth of the totalitarian society, to be used to imprison this society, as the "national haze."

The totalitarian ruler has cultivated more than half a century of spiritual haze, which is serious to the degree not only within the intellectuals and media of the Chinese government, but also shows up in the ideology and culture of the so-called dissidents. Because we have all seen that the so-called "inside" and "outside" are connected, the so-called reformists are connected with "the system within", yet no one can see their boundaries, their differences, and their barriers clearly. But we all can see at a glance, that Wei Jingsheng is a person who will not return to this haze!

Although it has been almost forty years since 1979, in that circle of people who deal with politics Wei Jingsheng is almost the only person who has ever challenged without compromising himself to the power and the haze that protects them. And this girl, who followed Wei with her intuition, has been struggling in the haze. "But the times were against me, and my horse Zhui runs no more; when Zhui runs no more, what then can I do?" (part of the last song by General Xiang Yu.)

The stages of human lives are full of gongs and drums. There is hegemony, wars and swords, but regardless of the outcome of winning or losing a battle, the ultimate protagonist and most glorious one is General Xiang Yu, the King of West Chu, and Consort Yu, who accompanied him all the way to edge of the world.

People of the later generations will remember the hero and beauty of this era, the hero with "his strength plucked up the hills and his might shadowed the world" (part of the last song by General Xiang Yu.) ... ...

(As "Brushing a Poem on the Wall of the Wujiang Pavilion" by poet Du Mu:)

"Largely uncertain in great battles is winning or losing;

Being able to stomach immense shame and insult is the mark of a true man.

East of Yangtze are talented, gallant young men from your clan.

To stage a comeback is the probability you should choose!"

The outcome of life will not be determined with utilitarian measures, rather it will be determined by one's character, thoughts and talent!

Thus, I think the big drama for Wei Jingsheng and Huang Ciping is yet to come, or maybe in their next cycle of lives.

July 16, 2017

In Essen, Germany

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Wei Jingsheng Foundation News and Article Release Issue: A1044-W682

魏京生基金会新闻与文章发布号：A1044-W682

Release Date: September 9, 2017

发布日：2017年9月9日

Topic: The Heroism and Beauty of This Era That Moved Me - by Zhong Weiguang (Apollo News Network)

标题：仲维光:让我感动，这个时代的英雄和美女 -- 有朋自远方来(阿波罗新闻网)

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让我感动，这个时代的英雄和美女 -- 有朋自远方来

【阿波罗新闻网 2017-07-29 讯】

作者：仲维光

我曾说过反共是做人的底线，现在我要说，在我生活的这个时代，凡是敢于孤独地对抗共产党暴政的人，才是我们时代的英雄！那些在台上，在这一幕上的暂时主角，因为他不曾有过勇气和思想，他注定了一定是配角！

1.有朋自远方来，不亦乐乎！

道理很简单，因为你是人，人是有思想和精神的。精神世界的内容，生活的方式及趣味，不亚于饮食男女的需要。交流和分享占有了你生活中的一半内容，很多时候甚至可说是你的饮食男女的感觉也被它主导。正为此，有能够交流、说得来的朋友自远方来，而这位朋友还有很多让你钦佩的地方，那当然就更是一件乐事了。

老魏（魏京生）是我这一生中，与我不搭界，却由于他的行为及思想令我钦佩的人。他真的是用实实在在的内容博得了我的钦佩。因为在钦佩之前，我都是不仅是不认识、不了解他，而且甚至是没看好他，乃至批评过他。可岁月，以及他留下的痕迹，慢慢地在让我生成敬佩。是在我没有觉察的地方，但是那却是生命的伟力和魅力。

越过了他的无数的弱点，老魏让我发自心底地敬佩的有两点，这两点让我虽然很少和老魏来往，却在心里把他当作过人的朋友。我认为，无论人们认为老魏有多少毛病，可他是这个缺少好汉的世界的好汉。他是个值得让此世后世敬仰的人物！

我敬仰老魏第一点是因为他敢于以身试法，以一人之躯去对抗那个看来绝不可能崩溃的稳定政权。不要忘记那是一九七九年！仔细想，老魏的对抗专制的勇气，就是遇罗克也无法比，因为老魏实在是提着头去对抗的，这世界，能够提着头从容地走向前，并且没有崩溃的人有几个人呢？

有人在投机时很有胆量，有人在耍滑时很是过人，有人混世显示出极高的智商，可老魏无论在电视镜头前，在西方的讲台上，无论面对东方的权势还是西方的权贵，留下的都是勇气和凛然。而这引发了我血液中所先天而来的韵律的谐振--我骨子里只有敬重英雄的基因，我只能、也只会敬重老魏这样的人。

老魏让我佩服的第二点是，这位红二代居然在对抗专制后，没有停留脚步，彻底走出共产党的禁锢，而且不仅在政治上，还包括思想和精神的禁锢。进入二十一世纪，老魏在共产党问题上居然是字字掷地有声。今年六四老魏的回顾与展望，再次显示了深度及锐利。很多人就是一辈子，大约被共产党枪毙了也走不出来，可老魏居然越走越潇洒，越走越干净。由于在这条路上，我不仅经历了走出来的艰辛，而且也深知那些走不出来的人的瓶颈所在。听多了那些荒腔走板、唱的人自己也不懂的所谓博士高腔，老魏的思想和认识，着实地就更让我吃惊和佩服了！

江山代有人才出，各领风骚数百年，老魏真的不愧是汉家子弟，行有西楚霸王之风，思有晋宋陶谢之手，这样的人，叫我如何不佩服！

2.有朋自远方来，不亦乐乎！

老魏来了，不亦说乎，可我没有想到的是，和他一起来的黄慈萍，竟然也让我们一见如故。

这女孩，我见第一面时应该说已经不再是女孩，可因为我自己也可称为老夫了，已经年向七旬而去，所以年龄上还是觉得她是女孩，可让我吃惊的是，不仅年龄，而且一眼从黄慈萍眉目中穿透，我竟然看到隐藏在不远的深处那个黄慈萍，她真的竟是个女孩，一个依然充满天真的女孩。

这个感觉是我不曾料到的。而事后细想却也觉得蹊跷，因为它突然让我想到十年前的那次令我震动的经验。

我曾经在万里外的一个地方，第一次遇到一位可谓江湖中熟知的人，而一见之下的那种岁月为相貌带来的平庸让我吃惊至极。那是我第一次看到、认识到，人的纹路竟然能够如此深刻地反应出人的庸碌。而就是那一次的经历，让我十分深切地理解到据说是林肯所说的一句话：一个人，四十岁以前的相貌是爹妈给的，四十岁以后的相貌是修来的。

民运中的女性，异议人士的女性，江湖上男男女女中装作作家的女性，力图装扮成才女的女性，从文革开始走出校门，及至后来走向世界，我真的是见得不知有多少。而这就让我更深切地体会到，声名可以浪得，可才气却不是能够装得出来的！史湘云所说，是真名士自风流，绝对是如此！越是朴实的人，越是有真的才气！而相反，越是喜欢说些自己也不懂的大话的人、言必提希腊的人，越是没有才气！因为你没有根基，所以才会有虚浮和虚荣，才不知道自己不懂那些内容，用那些不懂的东西来装饰自己。

〝删繁就简三秋树，领异标新二月花〞，〝浓妆淡抹总相宜〞，风流、才气、书卷气既不是大话可以带来的，也不是自以为是可以有的，相反，它是教养与修养。

越是有才能和才气的人越是朴实，越是简单，越是不需要〝装腔〞〝作势〞！

我没有见过年轻时的黄慈萍，她在我眼前的时候，我想应该是五十开外了。这个年龄的女人，还能够剩下什么呢？

对于那些毋须劳作的女人，用好的心情和环境能够保存一个好的气质已属不易，更何况对于那些投入艰辛、陪伴追求，要把很多时间留在路上，留在各种各样的复杂的事物的处理中，留给生活的女人。但是黄慈萍却的确让我惊奇，一眼过去，透过她的面目，甚至可以说是透过隐隐的纹理--将要来临的皱纹，你看到的是掩饰不住的纯和真。

这在这些年和人的来往中，对我来说真的是很少有感觉。而这个感觉让惊奇的第二点是，我突然深切地感到，这三十多年来所谓异议人士的气氛、民运的气氛可谓是一重人间社会的雾霾。黄慈萍不仅让我感到了这重雾霾，并且让我一下子体会到〝民运雾霾猛于北京雾霾〞！因为这个眼前的女孩，正是一个被这重特殊的雾霾掩盖、困惑了光彩的女孩子，她身上充满纯真、才气与能力，却由于长期处于噪杂的跳蚤市场，在那些叫卖者中，在那些游走于市场虎视眈眈的渔利者中被淹没。我居然多次看到过她的照片，多次看过她的文字，甚至偶然通过电话，但是，我却一直以为，这不是和我一个世界的人。而这就是让我震动、让我深思的原因，这个站在你眼前的人，竟然能够突然一下子穿越时空，让你感到是和你一个世界的人。这大约就是这个弱小的原籍来自江南的女子的生命所在。

她有着你可以一眼感觉到、看到的强大性格，竟然什么样的污浊都没有能够掩盖住她生命的冲动和追求。

她是那种有能力以自己的淳朴穿透一切，显示自己的魅力，征服你的人。

我惊异于她，因为她待人的目光是真挚的、不做作的；

我惊异于她，因为她的言谈是朴实的、条理清楚的；

我惊异于她，因为她的感觉竟然如此锐利！

当然，我惊异于她，最根本的是她的真诚，在岁月中，在噪杂的乱市中，她保持住了自己的卓越的品质。而就是这点，让她的光芒没有彻底地走失......。

三十年的所谓民运，造就了一批可怜的人，那些不是用自己的追求、勇气和才华生活的人，那些来到这里混社会、混名利的人，却没有想到这是一个沼泽，一个赔本赚吆喝，而让他们最终欺骗了自己的生命的地方。

因为当你混的时候，你付出、混走了你本来就缺乏的性格、本来就不多的光彩。你让那本来贫瘠的相貌，承载着人的一切抽象素质的血肉之躯，变得獐头鼠目、灰头土脸，那怨谁呢？孟子说的浩然之气是养来的，你的一切是你对自己亵渎放荡的结果！当然，可能就连修养的能力也可能是先天在娘胎里写就的，你可能天生就没有修养自己的能力！

眼前这个女孩，带着雾霾出现在我面前的女孩，再次触动了我更深的悲痛！因为她再次让我看到我们这代人，这代人的所谓精英阶层，不仅没有江山代代人才所固有的思想精神的才华，穿透力和光芒，而且根本就是货真价实的〝精神雾霾〞。这个雾霾中的颗粒，形状不一、色彩不已、表现不一，可它们都是极权社会的真理部造就的，用来禁锢这个社会、这个〝民族的雾霾〞。

这个极权主义统治者经营培植了半个多世纪的精神雾霾，严重还严重在它不仅体现在政府的知识界及媒体中，而且体现在所谓异议人士的思想及文化中。因为谁都看到，所谓的〝里〞与〝外〞相连，所谓的改良与体制内相连，谁也看不到它们的界线，它们的区别，它们的隔阂。可谁又都一眼能够看到，老魏是回不到这种雾霾中的人！

虽然从七九年至今，时过几乎四十年，可老魏，在那问政治的一圈人中，几乎还是唯一一位毫不妥协地向权力及其保护它们的雾霾挑战的人，而这女孩，用直觉跟随老魏，挣扎在雾霾之中。时不利兮骓不逝，骓不逝兮可奈何......。

人生的舞台上锣鼓喧天，起霸、开打、刀光剑影，无论胜负，最终的主角和有光彩的还是西楚霸王，还是伴他走天涯的虞姬。

后世的人一定会记住这个时代的英雄和美女，这个时代的力拔山兮气盖世的英雄......

兵家胜败事不期，包羞忍耻是男儿，江东子弟多才俊，卷土重来未可知！

人生的胜负不会用功利来衡量，最后一定是由性格、思想和才气决定的！

正为此，老魏和黄慈萍的大戏，我觉得还在后头，也或许是在后世。

2017-7-16德国埃森

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