1958年,北京文艺界下放一批干部到河北省怀来、涿鹿的农村进行劳动锻炼,向农民兄弟学习,改造思想。我也在下放之列,在那长城以外,塞外寒风中,我们和农民一起,挖沟、修堤、平整土地,为春耕做准备。5月下旬,全国文联和中国作协组织“文联参观访问团”来怀来,涿鹿访问农业合作社并慰问下放干部。首先就到南水泉。我们热烈欢迎以郭沫若为团长的文艺界人士访问团,大家大都是早 In 1958, a batch of cadres in Beijing’s literary and art circles sent a few cadres to Huailai in Hebei Province, carried out labor training in the rural areas of Zhuolu, and learned from peasant brothers and remolded their ideas. I am also devolving. Outside of the Great Wall, in the cold wind outside the Great Wall, we, together with the peasants, dig ditches and repair dikes to level the land and prepare for spring plowing. In late May, the National Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the Chinese Writers’ Association came to Huai Lai to visit the agricultural cooperatives and condolences to delegate cadres. First go to the South Springs. We warmly welcome the visiting delegation of the literary and art circles headed by Guo Moruo. Most of us are early