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On the back cover of the fifth issue 1979, the popular film published the stills of "Crystal Shoes and Roses", in which the prince kissed Cinderella. This photo aroused the resentment and anger of Yingjie, the political department of Xinjiang Kuitun Agricultural Reclamation Bureau 129 regiment.

In a letter to the editorial department in June of that year, Wen Yingjie questioned popular movies: "It's a pity that you have fallen to the point where you are no different from bourgeois magazines! I can't help asking: What are you doing? " "Don't we socialist China, what we need most is a hug and a kiss? What is your motivation for publishing this photo in a prominent way? What are you promoting? "

At the end of the letter, Yingjie was defiantly asked, "If you have the courage, please post my letter in the letter column of popular movie readers so that 900 million people in the country can recognize it." At the end of the letter, the signature is "Member China asks Yingjie".

"After receiving this letter, the editorial department thought it should be published in full. I immediately asked Comrade Yuan for instructions, and he agreed to publish it and asked me to write an editor's note, "said the then editorial director. "At that time, everyone thought that this letter not only put forward opinions on the back cover of the fifth issue, but also put forward their own views on the situation of the literary and art front after the smashing of the Gang of Four, especially after the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party. It is considered that "foreign poisonous weeds, ancient poisonous weeds and modern poisonous weeds that attacked the Party and Chairman Mao have also stepped onto our socialist stage, which is full of our party newspapers and periodicals", which is a problem of "not adhering to Chairman Mao's revolutionary literary and artistic line". We believe that it is necessary to fully demonstrate the different views on these major issues of principle with a reasonable attitude. " Therefore, Popular Film published a letter asking Ying Jie in the 8th issue 1979, page 4-5. At the same time, the dialogue triggered by a back cover stills signed by Ye Jia was distributed. Ye Jia made a dummy dialogue to discuss the back cover stills. Subsequently, in the 9th and 10 issues, the editorial department continued to discuss in magazines, and opened a column of "Letters from Readers for Discussion". "From August 28th to June 5438+1October 15, more than 200 letters and contributions were received from1/kloc-0.

According to the article "Cold Wave Can't Stop Spring-A Summary of Readers' Letters" published in issue 1979, "from the letters received from readers, less than 3% agree with his views. Ying Jie was asked to write two more letters in the future. Apart from sticking to the original argument, there was no more specific explanation and no example of "poisonous weeds", so it was not published. The article published by the editorial department is unsigned, and the article also thinks that "it is a good opinion poll to openly discuss the questions raised by readers this time: it measures right and wrong and people's hearts." "

Such test results made Wen Yingjie very angry. He even threatened to kill two editors of Popular Film with a knife. Zhong Yang, who later became a good friend of Wen Yingjie, recalled that Wen Yingjie thought that from the ninth issue to the 1 1 issue, Popular Film only published articles scolding him, and there was no article supporting him. Since it is an open discussion, both articles should be published.

Wen Yingjie, who went to Beijing 1983 at the end of September to participate in the second national photography exhibition, was even specially monitored by the Security Department of the Agriculture Bureau of the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Fisheries. Zhong Yang is a staff member who receives the task and is responsible for monitoring. Zhong Yang said that during his five days in Beijing, he asked Yingjie if there were any signs of murder. Before leaving, he even asked Yingjie to say goodbye to him in a friendly way.

Later, in contact with Wen Yingjie, Zhong Yang said that Wen Yingjie had also undergone tremendous changes. He has changed from hating dancing to loving it. He dances at least two or three times a week and has no fixed partner. "One year, he and I went to Yunnan to attend the member congress of the National Agricultural Reclamation Photography Association. When we arrived in Kunming, he invited me to dance that night. On the dance floor, he' cheekily' invited strangers from the south, and there was almost no room. "

This letter made Wen Yingjie a "celebrity". It is said that a female reader wrote to him to show his love. Since the "kissing photo storm", popular movies have become an instant hit and their sales have increased greatly. Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Comrade of Mass Film Editorial Department:

I am indignant to see the back cover photo of the fifth issue of 1979 edited and published by you! I can't be calm for a long time. I never thought that such a thing would happen in the socialist country created by Chairman Mao after the baptism of the Cultural Revolution. It's a pity that you have degenerated into a bourgeois magazine! I can't help asking: What are you doing?

I haven't seen the English music fairy tale "Crystal Shoes and Roses", so I can't judge whether it is fragrant flowers or poisonous weeds. But I think, since this film can be so advocated by you, it must have some kind of "progress" significance. It can be inferred from this that there must be many scenes in this film that are instructive to 900 million people and beneficial to the realization of the four modernizations. However, you have no choice but to choose the scene of Cinderella and the prince hugging and kissing and put it in a prominent position on the back cover. Why is this?

Chairman Mao taught us many times before his death: "Foreign things serve China." Is it true that what our socialist China needs most now is hugs and kisses? What is your motivation for publishing this photo in a prominent way? What are you preaching? Do you need to publicize the tasks of the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, the Party's political line and socialist modernization? Do 900 million people need your encouragement on the new Long March? You eat grain and oil grown by people's commune members and farm workers, wear cloth woven by workers and live in houses built by workers. Our soldiers will keep you safe. Do they need you to give such mental stimulation? In my opinion, you are doing this with ulterior motives, and you are simply poisoning our younger generation. Where do you want to lead the teenagers in our country? Do you still have some China conscience? Does it smell like the Chinese nation? Comrades! Don't think that the fart of foreign adults is sweet!

Comrade editor-in-chief, editor! What I said was a little sharp. I heard the masses of workers, peasants and soldiers call you shameless! I think good medicine tastes bitter and is good for illness, but advice when most unpleasant is good for action. You are all knowledgeable people and learned people. You should think it over. Don't go with the flow and poison people in the name of "letting a hundred flowers blossom". In that case, 900 million people will not agree! No matter who supports your crime, I believe that one day he will be condemned or tried by 900 million people. Chairman Mao just died more than two years ago. Some of us forgot all about Chairman Mao's teachings, stopped talking about classes and class struggles, just wanted to tamper with the socialist direction, stopped adhering to Chairman Mao's revolutionary literary line, stopped serving the masses of the people, workers, peasants and soldiers for proletarian literature and art, and were keen on foreigners, the ancients and even decadent capitalism that was useless to China and today. Foreign poisonous weeds, ancient poisonous weeds and modern poisonous weeds that attacked the Party and Chairman Mao have also appeared on our socialist stage, which is full of our party newspapers and periodicals. How shocking and unbearable it is! I will never object to learning advanced foreign science and technology and advanced ideas of people of all countries (including culture and art), and I will never object to learning China's ancient advanced cultural heritage that is useful today, but I am opposed to learning those foreign and ancient capitalist decadent things. For example, the decadent lifestyle of capitalism, I firmly oppose learning. Because of hugs and kisses, what kind of foreign heads men and women left, what kind of bell bottoms and dresses they wore, and what kind of "belly grinding" dance they performed. These are useless for accomplishing the combat tasks put forward by the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of our Party. Our 900 million people have been educated by the Party and Chairman Mao for decades, and they should have the integrity of China people. Our newspapers and magazines should not preach these filthy things. Whoever advocates these things will be condemned and judged by 900 million people!

I'm not against love either. We should advocate proletarian love, Chinese love, decadent love of foreign adults, cuddling and kissing love. I think it's better not to publicize it. Because the disadvantages outweigh the advantages. You may think that this is art, and it is indispensable. I think this art that is inferior to xxxx is not suitable for the modern national conditions of China and should be stopped! I think your old habit is broken again. You should treat it in time, otherwise it will be very dangerous!

I wrote this letter angrily. Of course, swearing will stimulate you a little, or you may find it funny, or scold the "ultra-left trend of thought" and the "Gang of Four", and so on. Anyway, the hat factory and the bonzi shop are not completely closed. I have never been afraid of any hat or stick. I dare to do it, stick to it when it is right, and change it when it is wrong. If you have the courage, please post my letter in the letter column of popular movie readers for 900 million people in the country to identify. That's "a hundred flowers blossom" and it smells like "democracy". Otherwise, I can only think that you have a guilty conscience. The debt owed to the people must be repaid. Good is rewarded with good, and evil with evil. It's not that we don't report. Not yet!

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