During the next few years, he goes through great tribulations. His father is driven to suicide and his mother is shot by Communist cadres, while his brother vanishes into the Red Guard for several years.
而後幾年中，他歷經苦難：父親被迫自殺，母親死於共幹槍下，弟弟搞紅衛兵失蹤多年，他被遣往「北大荒」勞改八年。