去年十二月,全国第四次作家代表大会开会期间,远居江苏省江阴县的八十八岁高龄老作家胡山源,收到从北京寄来的一封信。这不是平常的信,而是由中国作协主席巴金亲自签署的一张翠绿色锦绒封面的“名誉代表证”。它包含着人民对老作家的公正评价和信任,闪耀着党的统一战线和文艺政策的胜利光辉。这件事真使老 In December last year, during the meeting of the Fourth National Writers Congress, Hu Shanyuan, an eighty-eight-year-old author who lived in Jiangyin County, Jiangsu Province, received a letter from Beijing. This is not a normal letter, but a “certificate of honor representative” of a emerald-colored velvet cover personally signed by the Chinese Writers Association President Ba Jin. It contains the people’s impartial appraisal and trust of the old writers and shines the victory of the party’s united front and the victory of the literary and art policy. This thing really makes old