On the afternoon of June 24, 2022, a crying expression suddenly appeared in the “Mr. Sizhi’s 9th Birthday” group, without a word, but I was shocked, did Mr. Sizhi leave? I quickly contacted Brother Sun Guodong, who confirmed that his husband had just passed away. This group was established when Mr. 90 years old. After several feudal times, it has not been disbanded, but there is not much news about it.
At this moment, what always floats in my mind is Xiao Hong crying a few poems from Mr. Lu Xun——
I cry for you,
not cry you,
Instead cry for justice.
The first time I met my husband was that spring twenty years ago. I participated in the planning of a restaurant in Beijing. The Humanities Reader for Middle Schools co-edited by Xie Yong and Ding Dong had just come out. We held a symposium and attended The elders include Mr. Zhang Sizhi, Dai Huang, Shao Yanxiang, Lan Yingnian, He Jiadong, Liang Congjie, etc. We were at a table during lunch. Mr. Sizhi was 75 years old at the time and was in good health. Breathing in the good intentions he conveyed, he said that he had already read my article. I asked him about the book “My Arguments and Dreams” that came out on the other side of the strait. . His humility and thoughtfulness in dealing with people made me feel embarrassed as a junior who was born almost 40 years late.
Not long after I returned to Hangzhou, I received that big brick-like book, and he humbly wrote “Information Booklet”. The cases that stood at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries were handled by him as a defense lawyer, and almost without exception ended in defeat. By the time I remembered his name firmly, it was already January 15, 1991. It was New Year’s Eve. At midnight, I heard on the radio alone the important case he defended not long ago and the letter the client wrote to him. . No matter how well he defended, it would not affect the outcome of the verdict. I never thought that eleven years later, I would meet him, let alone become his best friend. I had countless long conversations, and through many letters, his letters always seemed to be written with a ballpoint pen. His help to me is even more memorable for my whole life. Those things are enough to write a long article and leave it to another day.
As a lawyer, his role often goes beyond a lawyer, or he inadvertently does a more important job than a lawyer, that is, a witness to history and a guardian of justice. He guarded the human justice in his heart like guarding his eyes, and he used his doomed failure to witness the history that justice has not yet come. He was depressed and even more angry, and the flame of justice often ignited in his heart, but he always acted so calm, calm and calm, no matter how thrilling the big case was, and the pressure like a mountain.
He can be regarded as the first generation of lawyers after the Ding Revolution, but at the age of 30, he fell into the trap of “Yang Conspiracy”. When he came out of the abyss, the good years were wasted, and he returned to the legal profession in the year when he knew his destiny. When he appeared on the TV camera as the appointed defender of the Lin and Jiang cases, I was still one of the ignorant ones in the Yandang Mountains. Boy, don’t know anything about it. He defended the Great Xing’anling fire in the 1980s, participated in the formation of the Beijing Lawyers Association, and founded the magazine “China Lawyers”. I am completely separated. Until that New Year’s Eve, his name came into my life, and since then, many of the doomed cases he defended were the ones I paid close attention to, and even had some sort of spiritual connection with me.
His actions, his self-effacing and dissatisfied defenses, are destined to stand in the history of Chinese civilization, not only in the sense of the history of lawyers and law, but also in terms of success or failure. As a person, he has a gentleman’s demeanor, speaks elegantly, is witty and humorous, and is kind to people, which is almost irresistible. In terms of his profession, he never speaks or pretends, but firmly starts from the law, legal principles and human justice. His wisdom is not only between the visible arguments, but also beyond the invisible arguments. . Even the forces that were very dissatisfied with him couldn’t pick out anything. He stood there as if he were the embodiment of justice. The emergence of such a person in history is not enough to achieve a law school, a lawyer’s qualification certificate or so-called popularity. He is undoubtedly a product of history. He came from history and now he has returned to history.
Reading his arguments is actually reading history. His native language was forged by the education of the Republic of China. It can stand up to scrutiny. He will never forget Mr. Fu Gengsheng, his Chinese teacher in high school. In 2005, I wanted to compile a volume of “Middle Schools of the Past” and asked him to write a memoir, and he soon sent “Who Will Follow the Spirit of Mianmian Teacher?” ——Reminiscence of Middle School Life During the War”, after sixty-two years, Mr. Fu Gengsheng’s Chinese class, appreciation of Li Qingzhao’s famous poem “Sounds Slow”, made him unforgettable in his life. From then on, he fell in love with Song Ci Yuan music.
In 1943, when he left school at the age of 16 to join the army, he flew over the hump route of the Himalayas, and went to the India-Myanmar war zone. Among the three books that this young man took with him were “Selected Songs of Song Dynasty” (the other two were “Selected Works of Lu Xun’s Miscellaneous Feelings” and “English-Chinese”). dictionary”).
I remember it was the summer vacation that year. Our family went to Beijing. He wanted to invite us to dinner and waited for us in the lobby of a hotel. I saw that he brought a copy of Yuanqu Songs with him. At that time, my son was still a primary school student, and he painted beside him. I took a car, tore it down and sent it to Grandpa Zhang. He was caught in the “Selected Songs of the Yuan Dynasty”.
“The Middle School of the Past” came out in 2006, I sent him a sample book, I believe he must have read it, and two years later, I read that he won the Petra Kelly Award from the German Burr Foundation. At the end of his speech in Berlin, he said, “Distantly, in the east, the sun is rising.” That is exactly the story in a memoir in “Middle Schools of the Past”. Tao Guang, a Chinese teacher of Nankai Middle School in Chongqing, was writing a classmate’s essay. A comma was added at the beginning, and it was called “a little teacher”, and the sentence was originally: “Far East, the sun is rising.”
In August 2011, Mr. Sizhi and I met in Beijing and brought him a large package of copied manuscripts. Since the following year was the 100th anniversary of the introduction of the lawyer system in China, I compiled a book, “In Search of the Tradition of Lawyers.” He wrote a preface, he didn’t refuse, and in November of that year, he completed an excellent preface. This sentence in the preface still sounds like a stone when I read it today—
Today, as lawyers, we must adhere to a traditional view that illuminates EMI: human freedom, rights and life dignity are the supreme interests that we should safeguard.
When he was studying at Chaoyang Law School, it was the eve of the regime change. He was also a believer in left-wing ideals. If it weren’t for the hardships and catastrophe that gave him solid lessons, he might not have been able to return to the right track of civilization and become a respected civilization. , A generation of lawyers who protect justice. His emergence can only be truly understood under the scale of the history of civilization. He comes from the professional class of lawyers, but he transcends the constraints of his profession. I say this, not because he is not a lawyer, but because he does not have that kind of lawyer temperament, and he is different from the great lawyers in the history of Chinese lawyers for more than 100 years, whether it is Ruan Xingcun, Liu Chongyou, Wu Kaisheng, Shi Yang, Zhang Yaozeng, Zhang Shizhao is different, but his bookishness is stronger. This kind of bookishness is not pedantic. Although he was a middle school Chinese teacher, even that experience had a profound impact on him. He is also not so naive, especially without the romantic imagination like a revolutionary. He is down-to-earth and has always had a clear understanding of the cruelty of reality. He took on many cases, but he just knew it was impossible.
As soon as he stood in and out of the court, he was a civilized figure, picking up the surviving righteousness of the Republic of China and opening the era that has yet to come. Sometimes facing him, I feel that if he is a character in mythology, it also belongs to the sequence of Kuafu and Jingwei. The most glorious day-by-day or land reclamation career in his life really started after the age of sixty. Until his later years, he did not stop in his footsteps, he stood up for the many persecuted and insulted, without considering any personal gain or loss. There are many young lawyers who hold him with respect, and there are many who disapprove of him. He is very clear about this. He never considers himself a leader in the legal world, and he does not want to be regarded as an idol. After his 80th birthday, he made a self-proclaimed “post-80s” and never thought of retiring, and he survived until the illness struck him down.
In his last years, in a small apartment in Beijing’s Chongwenmen, he often sat quietly on the reclining chair in front of the tiger picture. Every time I went to see him in Beijing, he always had to be sent to the elevator, and his legs and feet were already inconvenient at that time. The last time I saw him, I made an appointment with Brother Guodong to go together. Since the epidemic, I haven’t been to Beijing for several years, and I don’t want to go north. I just think of him in my heart. Sometimes I take out his book and read it as a history book, although it’s not that long.
Death is never the end, especially for someone like him. Mr. Sizhi is familiar with Wen Tianxiang’s “Song of Righteousness”, and many verses can be blurted out. He also comes from that ancient root. But he has lived on the track towards modern civilization from the 20th century to the 21st century, and his efforts have also achieved a new root. I am very grateful that I have been close to people like Mr. How civilization evolves, Mr. Hu Shi likes this sentence very much – “If you want to harvest, first plant it.” He also did it. From today onwards, although his physical body is separated from this world, as long as the history of civilization continues, he will not disappear, and his moral power will surely reverberate in future generations.
June 24, 2022
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