动荡的年代
二十世纪三十年代,国际、国内局势都不太平。国际社会资本主义社会爆发了新的经济危机,帝国主义国家之间的尖锐矛盾日益激烈化,他们准备通过战争的手段重新瓜分世界。新崛起的德意日三国,疯狂对外扩张。日本帝国主义于1931年发动九一八事变强占了我东三省后,又发动了全面的侵华战争。1932年日本帝国主义在上海发动128事变,日军炮轰闸北。3月2日,日军占据了整个闸北,进军附近乡镇。我家原住闸北区,为躲避战火,父亲率全家回到定海避难。当时我仅四岁,但依稀仍能记得发生的几件事情。
在全家逃难乘汽车去码头时,上车在关车门时,我不慎将右手大姆指夹在车门缝内。我痛得一声叫喊,右手大姆指指甲下出现瘀血。后来这个姆指甲逐渐脱落更新了。
我在定海期间,父亲曾按排我到小学借读。由于自已玩心太重,对学了些什么,未留下一点印象。但放学后到校后面一座小山玩,沙山不高,一面是沙坡,从山顶坐着往下滑,刺激但不危险。
家中遭遇重大不幸
父亲在上海经营房地产时,还在闸北地区办了一个工厂,生产宝塔牌铁钉和木螺丝。他每天乘汽车去工厂上班,司机名叫大龙。
幼儿园的生活
父亲去世后,母亲将家从上海远郊区搬到上海沪西位于愚园路上的愚园坊。大哥和二哥己先于我们住在这里。大哥二哥开的洗染店正位于愚园坊的对面。我则进了幼儿园住宿。
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Events of the distant past--The Biogaphy of Lu Wei Song.
Topic of these records:Comformity of experiences and stories of an individual person would be a bright colored history of a Nation.
My childhood and my youth
I was born in Shanghai China on October seventh in 1926.
My father Lu zi qing, was born in the city Ding Hai.It is the central city of Zhou Shan islands.Many residents are working as sailors on sea boats or steamboats.Some of them could promote to the position of captain when they work hard.My mother Zhu xiu qing was born in the city Ning Po.We heard from her that my father was a merchant in his earlier years.Later he transferred to the business of house building.He is a person with enormous energy, according to his judgement about the development of Shanghai, invested to build several single-storey houses in Zhapei and Hong Kou districts in eairlier years。Later he invested to build nine houses with two storeies in the district of Dao Jia Long in Dinghai.With the accumulation of capital, he invested to build a villa with grassland in the district of Xiafai road as our home,and also a hotel with multi-storeies.
He had married twice, his first marriage had two sons:My elder brothers:Lu jian-kang and Second son:Lu jian-cheng.Two daughters, elder sister Lu gui-di and younger sister Lu qui-pao.My mother had born eight children:six boys and two girls.They are my third elder brother Lu jian-ming, my fourth elder brother Lu jian-de.I am the fifth one: Lu wei song, sixth brother Lu wei mei,seventh brother Lu wei bai and our youngest brother Lu wei xue.Two daughters died with a kind of serious sickness hives.
Turbulent Years、
In the thirties of the twentieth century, the international and domestic situations were not peaceful. Japanese imperialism had launch a war in China on September eighteenth.As the government of Kuoming tang stick to the policy of not fighting against the Japanese military forces, it encouraged the aggressive ambitions of Japanese invaders who had already occupied the three provinces in the north-eastern area of China.In 1932 on January 28th Japanese imperialism started again their invasion in Shanghai, bombarded and occupied the whole district of Zha Bbi and those neighboring villages.
In order to avoid the military fighting, my father brought all of our family members to our native city Ding hai.Although I was only four years old, I still remember several circumstances in that period.
All of us went to the wharf by automobile.I entered into the car and sat at the right side in the rear chair.When I close the rear door by my left hand、I didn’t noticed that my right hand hadn’t drawn away from the hinge of this door,its thumb was squeezed.I shouted with pain。I found this thumb was wounded,there were extravasated blood under its nail.This nail fall off later.
We went to Ding hai by steamship.When we arrived the harbor of Ding hai we had to transfer to a small boat for landing.As the boat is small, it swung up and down heavily by the ocean reef.It’s quite a dangerous landing process.
We lived in our own houses in Dao jia long.Every building is of two stories。In my memory,they are quite large.Ussually each of them was
My father sent me to study in a primary school,as I was ardent in playing,I hadn’t any impression about what I had learned.But I was enthusiastic in climbing a hill when the class was over.As it is a small sand hill, I was glad to slide downward from its top to the ground.It was quite exciting and not dangerous.
I remembered that a Christian aunt once brought me to a Church.I was quite moved in hearing the singing of holy poems and the solemn atmosphere when the pastor semonized.
We stayed in Dinghai less than two months as the situation in Shanghai had calmed,all of our family members return to Shanghai.
My father also managed a factory in Zhabei district of Shanghai when he engaged in the business of real estate.The factory produced iron nails and screws with trade mark PAGODA.He went to the factory everyday by a car driven by his chauffeur Da long.
One day,soon after my father left home to his factory,chauffeur Da long returned with car.He ran into the house and told my mother what had happened:My father was blocked on the road by several bandits,they intended to kidnap him.When my father resisted, these bandits fired their pistol,a bullet shot through his head,he fell down and died.
Afterward Da long said more clearly:Father was very angry when he found these bandits intended to kidnap him. He raised his stick to strike them.These bandits shot several times:one of the bullets shot through the stick and another shot through my father’s head,from his forehead and flied out from the top of my father’s head.The third bullet shot through the right side of Da long’s cheek and got out from the backward of his throat.Fortunately it hadn’t been fatal.It affected his speaking a little.
These bandits ran away and escaped。Da long was possible to drive and returned home。When my mother heard these, she felt as been stricken by thunder and cried grievously with her children instantly.
Father’s body was brought home and placed sitting on a reclining chair where he sat usually.I moved close to him and look carefully.My father’s eyes were closed, his expression was with calmness.But the bullet hole on his forehead and the red bloodstain on the top of his head could be seen clearly which I couldn’t forget throughout my whole life.
Our family held a grand and solemn ceremony for my father.Carpenters built samples of our house,furniture,and car with bamboo,wood and paper,then burned them which means they had been sent to my father.After the ceremony, mother arranged to send the body of my father to his native land Dinghai,built a grave with tombstone for our souvenir.
My life in the kindergarten.When we returned to Shanghai,mother moved our home from the suburban district of Shanghai to Yu yuan lane, which located at Yu yuan road in the western district of Shanghai.My two elder brothers had lived there earlier than us.They managed a washing shop in the opposite side of this road.When our home had settled there, my mother sent me to a kindergarten and I became a boarder.
The bedroom of the kindergarten was a large room.There were more than twenty beds in this room.All of them were wooden bed with guard.Next to the bedroom was the kitchen,it was separated by a brick wall with large sanded glass plates.When I was awaken every morning I could see several dark shadows moving to and fro.That’s the shadow of workers,they are busy in preparing our breakfast.But I was overcome with fear by these black and moving shadows,it made me thinking that they were ghosts.
I had a reminiscence of what had happened one day when I was living in the
kindergarten.It happened in a certain morning.The teacher gathered all of the boarding children and asked us with loud voice:“I find in the water closet a commode has been tumbled,urine and soil flow on the ground.I want to know,who had done it!Raise your hand please!”But no one responsed.I found the teacher was quite embarrassed.
I didn’t know what caused me to raise my hand and said:“It’s my fault!”It released the teacher when she found the naughty child.She was glad and said:“It’s fine that you admit your mistake,be careful in the future.”Actually I didn’t know who had done it,I admited that I did the mistake ,might be that I wished to release the embarrassment of the teacher, and it might be caused by a certain childish kindness.