八九民运第一联记
何 哲
香港《苹果日报》报导1989年北京发生的民主运动有这样一段文字：“从15日深夜起，北京主要大学的校园，大批学生、教师张贴出悼念胡耀邦的诗文、对联。北京大学三角地有人率先贴出‘一人为天下忧，天下为一人悼’的挽联，又出现措辞强烈为胡耀邦抱不平的标语如‘死错了人’、‘同室操戈，相煎何急’。一批学生连署要求中共公开澄清胡耀邦被迫辞职的事，并重新评估其历史成就。各大学开始出现抨击中共政权腐败现象的大字报，吸引大批学生、民众聚集阅读、抄写。有学生形容，这是自1986年全国性学生示威要求民主以来，北京的大学校园再次出现大规模对政权不满的表态。”
报导提到的“一人为天下忧，天下为一人悼”挽联是我亲笔写的，准确时间不是15日深夜，而是下午1点半。那天，我在北大第一学生食堂吃完午饭，回宿舍路上得知胡耀邦在当天早上去世了。胡耀邦在我心目中是共产党员中罕见的一个好人，他做过给大批受政治迫害者平反昭雪的善事，但他遭到反动派贬谪。我为他含冤而死抱不平，回到北大学生宿舍47楼3013室，向下铺同学赵北溟要了两张稿纸，用胶水粘成一张，用毛笔写下“一人为天下忧，天下为一人悼”，署名“作家班”。然后约北溟一起来到三角地，贴在北起第二块宣传栏上。
当天下午没课，我贴完挽联，骑自行车回月坛西街家里取了些生活用品，傍晚时返回北大，见作家班同学们挤在张伯笠的宿舍里喝彩。进去一看，伯笠正在口占一幅悼念胡耀邦的长联：“风一程，雨一程，长歌当哭送君行，赤县泪无声。呼一更，唤一更，聒碎民心志未成，夜深望明灯”。老朱蹲在地上挥着一管大毛笔在白纸上书写。老朱是小说家，书法、绘画功夫皆了得，每写出一个遒劲大字，便有同学喝彩。这幅挽联面积很大，从楼上挂到楼下，在当时北大众多挽联里最醒目，我写的那幅挽联不及其一个字大。
到了深夜，一如《苹果日报》和众多媒体所述，北大贴出的挽联已有很多。各媒体都是在干柴已经燃起烈火的情况下才闻讯赶到北大校园采访报导的，并不晓得第一颗火星是何时迸发的，所以才有了报导上的偏差。
如同五四运动一样，八九民运也从北大发源，从一开始就无人操纵，纯粹出于学生义愤自发。其后有新华门前上千人静坐请愿、数十万人9次大游行、3000大学生在天安门广场绝食请愿、百万北京市民学生堵截戒严部队的坦克军车、6月3日夜9点到4日，上百万北京市民和学生抵抗20万解放军戒严部队的大屠杀，所有这些统统都是学生和市民的义愤自发行为，并无任何人幕后操纵。期间成立的学生组织、知识分子组织、工人组织，只不过都是学生自发行为推动的产物，而非幕后操纵力量，因果关系不容颠倒。我是八九民运第一联的作者，整场民主运动从头参加到尾，对义愤自发四个字是再清楚不过了。如果不强调义愤自发四字，便没有任何基础如实记载和评论这段惊天地、泣鬼神的历史。
到了1990年9月，我已从北大作家班毕业，有一次去西安出差，候车时在书摊上买了本杂志，整本都是解放军总政治部写的文章，黑色大标题“平息反革命暴乱纪实”，开篇就说1989年4月15日北大有人首先贴出煽动反革命暴乱的挽联“一人为天下忧，天下为一人悼”，云云。我看了，心想：“你们这帮流氓土匪！胡编乱写，我什么时候煽动反革命暴乱了？胡耀邦主张走共和民主路，他有什么错？他被党棍整死，赵紫阳循着胡耀邦路线走，党棍们竟然发动军事政变，屠杀学生市民，颠覆了赵紫阳的地位，篡夺了他的最高领导权，反过来却把反革命暴乱罪名安在我们老百姓头上，岂有此理！”看完，顺手把这本狗屁杂志扔进垃圾桶。
事过20多年，回忆往事，历历在目。如今，我用毛笔写在宣纸条幅和扇面上的八九民运第一联已成了世人的收藏品。作为中国历史重大事件的见证物，八九民运第一联有不可替代的收藏价值，它是中国民运文化的一部分。
何哲2012年夏写于美国
 
照片：何哲为美国收藏者书写八九民运第一联
八九民运第一联
一九八九年四月十五日下午一时半，我為胡耀邦含冤而死抱不平，愤而作八九民運第一聯，貼于北大三角地。
一人為天下憂
天下為一人悼
2012年重写于纽约
何哲
The first pair of couplets
in the 1989 democratic movement
by
HE Zhe
In
the Apple Daily in
Hong Kong,
it was reported about a democratic movement happened in 1989 in
Beijing,
“Since the late night of the 15th, poems and couplets
mourning HU Yaobang were pasted by large
numbers of students and teachers in major universities of
Beijing.
A pair of couplets, ‘He who sorrowed for people is now mourned by
them’, first appeared in the triangle area of Peking University,
followed by slogans, with strong condemnations, such as ‘Wrong person
died’ and ‘Why do compatriots kill each other?’, aggrieving for HU
Yaobang. A group of students co-signed a
statement demanding the Communist Party of China to clarify in public
that HU Yaobang was forced to quit and to
reappraise his historic achievements. Meanwhile, posters appeared in
various universities, attacking the corruption in the Chinese
Communist Regime, which attracted many students and the public to read
and copy. One student described that this movement was another
declaration to show their dissatisfaction with its regime on a large
scale after the national student demonstration in 1986 calling for
democracy.”
The
couplets “He who sorrowed for people is now mourned by them” that was
mentioned in the report was written by me, but the correct time was
not at the late night of the 15th, it was at
1:30 pm
instead. On that day, when I was on my way back to my dormitory from
having lunch in the first student canteen in
Peking
University,
I was told that HU Yaobang died that
morning. In my eyes, HU Yaobang was an
extremely good person among communist party
members, he did a lot of good things by helping people
persecuted politically get redressed and rehabilitated. But he was
relegated by reactionaries. I was so indignant for his unjust death.
After I went back to Room 3013 of the 47th
floor of the students' dormitory of
Peking
University.
I asked for two pieces of draft paper from my classmate who slept in
the lower bunk, glued them into one piece on which I wrote “He who
sorrowed for people is now mourned by them” with a writing brush. I
signed in the name of “the writer class”. Then I invited Zhao
Beiming to go to the triangle area
together with me and pasted it on the second bulletin board.
Since I had no classes in that afternoon, I rode my bicycle and went
back home located at
Yuetan
West Street to
pick up some articles for daily use. When I went back to
Peking
University
at dusk, I saw students of the writer class crowed in Zhang
Boli’s dormitory, applauding. When I went
inside, I saw Boli was composing a long
couplet mourning HU Yaobang:“
Walking in wind and rain, we write a long poem to replace weeping to
see you off, Chixian tears silently. Call
and call more, hearts are broken before goals were reached, looking at
the light in the middle of the night.” LaoZhu
was squatting on the ground and writing on a piece of white paper with
a big writing brush. LaoZhu was a
novelist; he was very good at calligraphy and painting as well. He got
applauded by classmates for every big and powerful character he wrote.
The couplet was so large in size that it had to be hung from the
upstairs to downstairs. It was the most striking one among all
couplets in
Peking
University
back then. The couplets I wrote were even smaller than any one of the
characters in that couplet.
Until late at night, there had been many couplets posted in
Peking
University,
just as it were reported by the Apple Daily and many media. All
the media hurried to the campus of Peking University to interview and
report after they learned that the dry bushes had been lit up to great
fire. They didn’t know when the first spark started. As a result,
their report had some bias.
Just like the May 4th Movement, the 1989 democratic
movement was originated in
Peking
University
as well. It was without any manipulations from the beginning, purely
out of students’ indignation and voluntary. Later, over 1000 people
sat in front of Xinhua Gate and protested,
hundreds of thousands of people marched nine times, 3000 students sat
in front of Tiananmen Square to protest and fast, over a million
residents and students in Beijing resisted against the army tanks of
the siege troops of the People’s Liberation Army, from 9pm on June 3
to the 4th, over a million Beijing residents and students
resisted the massacre from the siege troop of the People’s Liberation
Army, all of these were out of the students’ and city residents’
indignation and were voluntary, no one was pulling strings behind the
scenes. Students’ organizations, intellectuals’ organizations and
workers’ organizations established during that time were the result of
students’ spontaneous behavior rather than being manipulated by some
force behind the scenes. The cause and result shouldn’t be reversed.
I am the author of the first pair of couplets in the 1989 democratic
movements, I participated in the entire democratic movement from the
beginning to end, and I could not have been more
clear about indignation and spontaneity. If they were not
emphasized, then there would be no basis to truthfully record and
comment this earth-shattering history.
I
graduated from the writer class of
Peking
University
by September 1990. Once in a business trip to
Xi’an,
I bought a magazine in the bookstall while waiting for the train.
There was nothing but articles written by the General Political
Department of the liberation army with the title of “Documentary of
Suppressing the Counterrevolutionary Riot”. In the beginning, it was
written that on
April 15th
1989 somebody in
Peking
University
first posted a pair of couplets stirring up counterrevolutionary riot
“he who sorrowed for people is now mourned by them” and so on. I read
it and thought, “You rascals and bandits! Writing without basis! When
did I stir up the counterrevolutionary riot? What’s wrong with HU
Yaobang who insisted on the route of
republic and democracy? He was put to death by party men, ZHAO
Ziyang followed the path indicated by HU
Yaobang, but these party men launched a
military coup de tat, massacred students and citizens, overturned ZHAO
Ziyang’s status, usurped his supreme
leadership. However they put the crime of counterrevolution on us
ordinary people. It is preposterous!” After reading it, I threw this
shitty magazine into a garbage can.
After over twenty years, when
I look back, I still remember vividly to this day. The first pair of
couplets in the 1989 democratic movement, which was written on scrolls
of Chinese rice paper and the fanning with the writing brush, has
become collectables for people around the world. As an important
article witnessing an important event in Chinese history, the first
pair of couplets in the 1989 democratic movement has irreplaceable
collection value; it is a part of Chinese democratic movement culture.
Written by
He Zhe in the summer of 2012 in the
U.S.A.
 
Photo: He
Zhe was writing the first pair of couplets in the 1989
democratic movement for American collectors.
The first pair of couplets in
the 1989 democratic movement
I was indignant for HU
Yaobang’s unjust death, I wrote the first
pair of couplets in the 1989 democratic movement, at
1:30pm
on
April 15,
1989, and posted them at
the Triangle area in
Peking
University.
一人為天下憂
天下為一人悼
he
who sorrowed for people is
now
mourned by them
Rewrote in
New York
in 2012 by He Zhe
尊敬的阁下：
奉上北京六四大屠杀幸存者何哲先生的一篇文章《八九民运第一联记》，这篇文章能使阁下了解到1989年那一场震撼世界的中国民主运动最初是怎样发生的。
何哲先生是一位作家，1990年毕业于北京大学。1995年从北京移居美国，成为美国永久居民。多年来，他一直用自己手中的笔批判中国共产党的极权主义统治，他坚信中国共和革命一定会到来，中国必将变成民主国家。
何哲先生用毛笔书写在宣纸上的八九民运第一联是有很高收藏价值的历史事件见证物，也是一件具有中国文化特色的书法艺术品。宣纸是一种优良的纸，能保存上千年而不坏。
我们建议阁下收藏何哲先生书写的八九民运第一联。
价格：
挂轴（可直接挂在墙上）4’9”x
1’3” 8964.64美元
镜片（可镶嵌在镜框里）3’5”x
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Your Excellency:
Attached is an
article, Record of the First Pair of Couplets in the 1989h
Democratic Movement, written by Mr. He Zhe who survived through
the June 4th Massacre in Beijing. This article can help you
learn how everything started at the very beginning of the democratic
movement in 1989 in China that shocked the world.
Mr. He is a writer,
graduated from Peking University in 1990. He emigrated from Beijing to
the U.S. in 1995, and became a permanent resident in the U.S. In the
past decades, he has been criticizing the totalitarianism ruling of
Chinese Communism Party with pens in his hands. He firmly believes
that a republican revolution will come, and China will definitely
become a democratic country.
The first pair of
couplets in the 1989 democratic movement written on the Chinese rice
paper with writing brush by Mr. He Zhe witnessed a historical event,
has high collection value, it is also a work of art in calligraphy
with the Chinese cultural features. Meanwhile the Chinese rice paper
is a kind of paper with supreme quality, can be kept for thousands of
years without damages.
We suggest you should
collect the first pair of couplets written by Mr. He Zhe.
Price:
Hanging scroll (can
be directly hanged on the wall) 4’9”x 1’3” $8964.64
Lens (can be inlaid
in the picture frame) 3’5”x 2’1” $8964.64
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