Chapter 2 Chapter 1 Haining Yuan Hua

Jin Yong's real name is Cha Liangyong. He was familiar with the "Haining Tide" on the eighteenth day of the eighth lunar month when he was young. Under the "one hundred thousand soldiers sound midnight tide", a natural spectacle. Haining, located on the north bank of the Qiantang River, was under the jurisdiction of Hangzhou at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the early years of the Republic of China, regardless of whether it was called Haining Prefecture or Haining County. After 1935, it was under the jurisdiction of Jiaxing.This small coastal county, famous for its tides, has flourished in humanities since ancient times, and is known as "a state of culture and a house of books".According to Wu Han's "Brief History of Bibliophiles in Jiangsu and Zhejiang", there are 38 bibliophiles in Haining, surpassing Shaoxing, Jiaxing, Haiyan and other places, and second only to Hangzhou. The flourishing style of writing can be seen.The famous figures in modern times Wang Guowei, Jiang Baili, and Xu Zhimo are all from Haining (Jiang and Xu are still relatives of the Cha family), and the Cha family is also full of talents.

In 1923, Cha Liangyong was born in Yuanhuahe Shanfang, Haining (now the first group of Xinwei Village, Yuanhua Town), "in a big house with five courtyards, there are more than 90 houses and a large garden in the courtyard." He Shan The house is only a dozen miles away from Yanguan Town, a famous tide watching spot. When he was young, he went to watch the tide with his mother almost every year. When he was in elementary school, he was a boy scout and camped by the stone pond. He watched the raging tide in the middle of the night. come... Liang Yong's "Liang" is the ranking, and all the brothers of his generation have the word "Liang" in their names. According to the "Haining Cha Clan Genealogy", there is no strict lineage of characters for the sixth generation following the ancestor Cha Yu.Since the seventh generation, the ranking of characters has been stipulated: "Bingzhi Yunda, successor Kechang, Yi Shiren, Jimei Zhongliang." The generation of Cha Liangyong happens to be the "Liang" generation, and the next is "Biography". The character generation, "Heirloom filial piety friends, Huaguo articles, Zongying Shaoqi, ancestors' virtues carry light".Grandfather gave Cha Liangyong the nickname Yisun, because he was the second in line and had an older brother above him, so adults called him Yiguan. "Yi" and "Er" are homophones in Haining dialect.

In the era of his birth, warlords fought continuously. In the first half of 1924, Zhejiang warlord Lu Yongxiang and Jiangsu warlord Qi Xieyuan fought for the Shanghai territory and monopolized the opium trade near Shanghai, which is not far from Haining. It was known as the "Battle of Qilu" in history. . In September, Sun Chuanfang took the opportunity to drive from Fujian to Zhejiang, drove away Lu Yongxiang, and dominated Zhejiang for three years. In 1927, the forces of the Kuomintang and Chiang Kai-shek entered the south of the Yangtze River, and the Nanjing National Government rose from the blood of the "April 12" coup.

In the turbulent times, Haining still maintains a rare calmness and tranquility, which enables Cha Liangyong to spend his childhood and adolescence with elegant and scholarly fragrance in peace. Since the Tang and Song Dynasties, the Cha family has been a big family. "Zha Zhu Xu Dongzhou" is the five surnames in Haining. "Yuan Huazhen, check half of it". At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the world was in chaos. In order to avoid the disaster of war, Cha Yu, the descendant of the Cha family, took his wife and children and went down the Xin'an River, Fuchun River and Qiantang River from Wuyuan. The area around Hua) is fertile, surrounded by mountains and facing the sea, the folk customs are simple and similar to Wuyuan, and Haining is similar to the old name of Xiuning, the ancestral home of the Cha family, so they decided to settle down in the east of Longshan in 1357 (Yuan to Zhengzheng 17th year) .From then on, he abided by the precepts of his ancestors, took Confucianism as his career, and cultivated and studied his family.By the time Cha Liangyong was born, the Cha family had lived and multiplied on this land for more than 500 years.

During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Cha family in Haining flourished and became one of the few "homes of literary officials" in the south of the Yangtze River.According to the "Haining Prefecture Chronicles" of the Republic of China, there were 6 Jinshi and 17 candidates in the Cha family in the Ming Dynasty. Zha Jizuo was the Yakui (second place) in the Hangzhou provincial examination in 1633 (the sixth year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty), and a well-known painter. ,scholar.In the Qing Dynasty, the Cha family was more prosperous, with 14 Jinshi and 59 Juren, and there were 10 Jinshi in the Kangxi period alone.Zha Shenxing's real name was Silian, and his second brother Sizhen and third brother Siting were all Hanlin; in addition, his cousin Sihan and nephew Zha Sheng were also Hanlin; his eldest son Kejian and cousin Sixun were both Jinshi. There is a saying that "one school has seven Jinshi, uncles and nephews five Hanlin".Zha Sheng was highly regarded by Kangxi for his character and calligraphy, and he was in the South Study Room for 38 years.The "Jiarui Hall" plaque written by Kangxi himself was bestowed on Yuan Hua's Cha family ancestral hall, and the "Danyuan Hall" and "Jingye Hall" plaques were bestowed on Zha Sheng and Zha Shenxing respectively.The Cha family in Haining is known as "a giant family since the Tang and Song Dynasties, one of the few in the south of the Yangtze River".The book collection of the three brothers of the Zha family is well-known. The Zha Shenxing library is located three miles southwest of Yuanhua Town, named "Deshulou", with a collection of 20,000 to 30,000 volumes.Zha Sizhen's library is located by the Hengzhang Bridge in Yuanhua Town, named "Chapu Bookstore", with 5,000 volumes of books.Zha Siting's library is located in the southwest of Yuanhua, named "Shuangsuitang".

In 1662 (the first year of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty), a literary inquisition——the Huzhou banker's "Ming History" case occurred. Zha Jizuo was implicated and imprisoned for more than five months. The "Jiangxi Examination Questions Case" is the second time Cha's family has encountered literary inquisition. In 1726 (the fourth year of Yongzheng in the Qing Dynasty), Zha Siting was sent to be the main examiner of the Jiangxi Provincial Examination as a cabinet bachelor and minister of rites.Later generations of unofficial history and notebook novels widely rumored that the test question he gave was "Wei Min Zhi Zhi", which came from "Book of Songs Shang Song Xuan Bird". Someone reported to Emperor Yongzheng, accusing that the word "Wei Zhi" was the word "Yong Zheng". He shook his head, intending to insinuate.When Yongzheng first came to power, he cut off the heads of many people. Unavoidably guilty, he arrested Zha Siting and his family and dealt with them severely.Another theory is that Zha Siting wrote a "Weizhilu" and was reported by an eunuch.

In fact, the first question Zha Siting gave in Jiangxi was: "A gentleman does not use his words to raise people, and he does not use others to waste his words." It is said that in the age of Yao and Shun, speeches were still used to make presentations, how could it be said that "do not use words to elevate people", when they were recommending, this test question was dissatisfied with this and secretly ridiculed.The second question is "Mencius": "The emperor is like the heart, and the minister is like the thigh." The court decree accused why it was called "the heart" instead of the head of state, and it was clear that there was no respect for the king.The third topic is "Mencius": "If you use the trails of the mountain trails, you can use them to form a road. If you don't use them, you will have a fortress. This is the heart of the fortress." This question is relatively remote and cannot be picked. What's wrong, the court decree said, "I don't know what it means, but you can't ask about your intentions."There is also a sub-problem: "Uprightness and the relationship between heaven and earth can be seen." Sub-problem: "A hundred houses are full, but women would rather stop." Yongzheng pointed out that "Zheng" and "Zhi" in these two topics have a lot to say, and Zha Si The court first used "Zheng" and then "Zhi", which obviously slandered the title of "Yongzheng".Later generations said that Zha Siting caused trouble by "what the people did not stop" and probably derived from this.

Zha Siting's family was arrested, and all the books were sent to the Ministry of Punishment. He was brutally tortured and died in prison. Yongzheng also ordered the killing of his body, his son also died in prison, and his family was exiled.Zha Shenxing and Zha Sizhen were tired of their younger brothers' literary prisons. In the severe winter of 1726 (the fourth year of Yongzheng in the Qing Dynasty), the whole family, old and young, went to Beijing from their hometown to be imprisoned. In the spring of 1727 (the fifth year of Yongzheng in the Qing Dynasty), Zha Sizhen's family was exiled to Lantian, Shaanxi, and he himself died as a guest.At that time, many celebrities were implicated, and scholars in Zhejiang Province were not allowed to participate in the Juren and Jinshi examinations for six years.

On the way to prison, Zha Shenxing wrote a poem to a fellow sufferer who was a Jinshi in the same discipline, leaving behind the poem "It's so frosty and such a road, two years apart from the 70s".After half a year in prison, he was lucky enough to return to his hometown alive, and died within a year.His "Jingyetang Poetry Collection" contains 4427 poems, and "Sequel" contains 731 poems in six volumes.There are 50 chapters of chapters all from "Jingyetang Poetry Collection". The "Jiangxi Examination Questions Case" was the biggest literary inquisition in the early years of Yongzheng.Zha Siting's conviction was just a move by Yongzheng to eradicate dissidents after he ascended the throne.After this catastrophe, the Cha family in Haining was severely injured and turned from prosperity to decline. It was not until 1754 (the 19th year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty) that no one was awarded a Jinshi.After the abolition of the imperial examination, the Cha family also produced scholar Cha Mengji, industrialist Cha Jimin, educator Cha Liangzhao, jurist Cha Liangjian, etc. Cha Liangyong was proud of his hometown and family background.

Cha Liangyong’s grandfather, Cha Wenqing, was originally from the generation of “Mei” and the word Cangshan. The elders in his hometown called him “Mr. Cangshan”. , added the same title. In April 1891 (the seventeenth year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty), the famous "Danyang Religious Case" occurred. Starting from Danyang, churches in Wuxi, Jinkui, Yanghu, Jiangyin, Rugao and other places were burned one after another. The two beheaded for public display in order to explain to foreign priests.But he sympathized with the people who burned the church, and informed the two to escape, and reported to his superiors: This matter caused public outrage because of the oppression of good people by foreign priests. Hundreds of people rushed to burn the church, and there was no leader.He resigned after that, and was screened out to join the revolution.The folks of Cha Jia and Yuan Hua are proud of it.

From then on, Zha Wenqing lived in his hometown, entertained himself with reading and writing poems, and also did some public welfare undertakings. He set up a charity village and bought thousands of acres of land to collect rent. The rent was used to support the orphans and widows in the clan so that they could live in peace.Anyone who has gone to middle school or university can receive a subsidy twice a year. If someone goes abroad to study, the subsidy will be even larger.He compiled a "Haining Cha's Poetry Notes", which has hundreds of volumes, but he died before the engraving was completed.At the time of the funeral, Danyang pushed more than a dozen gentlemen to pay homage, and the two who led the church burning came crying and praying all the way.When Cha Liangyong was young, he heard from his uncle and father that the two walked a mile and kowtowed, from Danyang to their home.Cha Liangyong believed in this when he was a child, but when he grew up, he felt that this should not be true.But then he thought, those two people were very grateful, and it was possible that they kowtowed in the last few miles. Although his grandfather passed away shortly after he was born, his grandfather was the person he admired the most and the person who had the deepest influence on him when he was a teenager.He said that his grandfather had two influences on him. One was to let him know that foreigners bullied the Chinese, and the other was to study more.After his grandfather passed away, the engravings of "Haining Cha's Poetry Banknotes" left behind filled two rooms, and became the place where Cha Liangyong played and chased with his cousins ​​in his childhood. The days of playing in the engraving piles have been long , Can actually catch up with the poems on the engraving block. When Cha Liangyong's father, Cha Shuqing, his ancestors still left more than 3,600 mu of land, there were as many as 100 tenants, many male and female servants were employed, and they operated a bank, rice shop and sauce garden shop in Yuanhua Town.Zha Shuqing has two older brothers, the elder brother is a scholar, the second brother graduated from Peking University, and he himself graduated from Shanghai Aurora University. It seems that he did not achieve much in his studies. Later, he ran a bank, a cocoon factory, and a silk factory in the countryside with little success. .When Cha Liangyong was a child, he often saw his father worrying about business.At a young age, he had already noticed that his father was too shrewd in running a business, and he was too polite and casual with people. He seemed to think that making friends was more important than business success.He said that when he was thirteen or fourteen years old, he felt that his father was useless.My father lent money to others, and sometimes he went to ask for money, and would take him with him.People invited his father to drink and speak kind words, but he didn't pay back the money. When he needed to pay back other people's money, he had to sell the land and pay them back.He felt that his father was useless, and that's not the way to do business. Every time during the Ching Ming Festival in spring and the Double Ninth Festival in autumn, my father would take the brothers to the ancestral hall and bow to each other when they saw everyone.At that time, Cha Liangyong couldn't help laughing secretly when he saw the white-bearded father-in-law of the family also bowing to their four or five-year-old children. His mother, Xu Lu, was born in Xu's family in Xiashi Town, Haining. She is the cousin of Xu Zhimo's father, Xu Shenru, and is deeply loved by the family.The Xu family is a well-known family in Haining, who have been running soy sauce gardens, silk shops, and money houses for generations. Xu Shenru successively founded emerging industries such as silk reeling, textiles, power generation, and telephones. He is known as "Zhang Jian of Zhejiang."Xu Lu graduated from a girls' school in Hangzhou. She can write beautiful lowercase characters and can paint and embroider. She is especially famous for her embroidered shoes. Around the twelfth lunar month of 1914, 19-year-old Xu Lu married into the Cha family and gave birth to five sons, Liang Keng, Liang Yong, Liang Hao, Liang Dong, and Liang Yu, and two daughters, Liang Xiu and Liang Xuan. "According to the local customs, the family members call Liang Keng the Big Brother and Liang Yong the Little Brother", and Liang Hao and Liang Yu are called the Big Brother and the Little Brother. Cha Liangyong was clever and mischievous when he was young, and won the care and love of his mother.He remembered being taken to the street to watch a puppet show, Zhu Bajie was recruited by Gao Laozhuang, and was slapped by the bride, and he remembered it clearly many years later.There is a big black butterfly with patterns in my hometown, which always flies in pairs and never separates for a moment. The butterfly is called "Liang Shanbo, Zhu Yingtai".If a child catches one of them, the other will circle around and cannot fly away.When he was six or seven years old, his family told him the story of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai when he saw pairs of butterflies flying among the flowers.This was the first time he knew that there was sorrow and misfortune in the world. My mother loves to read. When he was about 12 years old, Cha Liangyong read it with his mother, but he didn't understand much.My mother often talked about Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu, etc. with her cousin sister-in-law and cousins. Her favorite character was Tanchun, followed by Xue Baoqin, who would recite Xue Xiaomei's new "Reminiscence Poems".They often compete to recite the poems and poems in the book, one person will recite one sentence, and the other will recite the next sentence, and the winner will get a candy.The young Cha Liangyong was listening, and felt that his mother-in-law and mother were not interested, but he was still very interested in receiving candies from his mother. Xu Lu is only one year older than Xu Zhimo, but he is Xu Zhimo's cousin.The Cha family and the Xu family have long been married.The "Aunt Jiang" mentioned many times in Xu Zhimo's diary and family letters is Cha Pinzhen, the distant aunt of Cha Liangyong's clan, who married Jiang Baili of Kipshi, Haining. In 1900, Xu Zhimo started studying at home. The second tutor was Zha Tongzhen from the "Danyuantang" of the Zha family. His son Zha Mengji later became the tutor of Xu Zhimo's only son Xu Jikai.Xu Lu married into the Cha family of Heshanfang, and married Zha Shuqing of "Jingyetang". The Zha and Xu families got married again. In 1925, Xu Zhimo took over the editor-in-chief of the famous "Morning Post Vice-Engrave", and published the first collection of poems "Zhimo's Poems", which radiated dazzling splendor in the new poetry circle.It's a pity that there is no holiday, "I leave quietly/Just as I came quietly/I wave my sleeves/I don't take a cloud away", a poem becomes a prophecy. On November 19, 1931, an air crash took the poet's young life. In the spring of 1932, when the coffins of a generation of poets were buried in Xiashi, Haining, the young boy Cha Liangyong went to offer condolences on behalf of the whole family.He recalled: My mother is his aunt, and his father is much older than my mother and is my old uncle.After Xu Zhimo crashed in Shandong, he held a funeral at home.My father was older than him, but his family was rich and powerful, so if he went to pay his respects, he would feel flattered, so he sent me there.At that time, I was only a child about ten years old, but his family treated me like a distinguished guest. After I knelt down in front of the altar, my uncle Xu Shenru (Xu Zhimo's father) thanked me.Uncle's grandson (Xu Zhimo's son) kowtowed in thanks.Then opened a banquet banquet.This is the only time in my life that I sat alone at a big table and had a banquet.The table was full of hot dishes, and I thought at the time, maybe this is how the emperor eats!Two male servants in white robes were serving wine and food.Naturally, I didn't know how to drink at that time, so I just pretended to take half a sip of wine, and the manservant immediately filled the glass.I was embarrassed to eat more dishes, so I left after just making a show.Uncle sent me out of the gate and ordered me to use my family's big boat (in our Jiangnan, it's like every family has their own car here, each has its own boat), together with the boatman and servants, to take me home (my house is twenty-seven miles away from his house) Road, called "Sanjiu"), and then presented a gift to my father and mother to thank. ... My relationship with Xu Zhimo ends here.Usually because of the age difference, I only be friends with his son. Xu Zhimo's son, Ji Kai, was born in 1918 to Zhang Youyi.Zhang Youyi is the younger sister of Zhang Gongquan and Zhang Junmai. She is capable and knowledgeable. When Xu Zhimo divorced her, Xu Shenru disapproved. Lu Xiaoman's contacts".The elegiac couplet sent by the Cha family is "Si Xun's sweet words are hard to burn, and the servants have more confessions". They use the Tang Dynasty poet Du Mu (Si Xun Yuanwai Lang), Xuzhou guard general (the right servant of the school) Zhang Jianfeng and the song The allusion of Jiguan Panpan is obviously dissatisfied with Xu Zhimo's marriage. When the Japanese invaded in 1937, Liang Yong's mother Xu Lu died while fleeing.When he returned to his hometown after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, his uncle Xu Shenru had also passed away in March 1944.While working in Hangzhou "Southeast Daily", he read Xu Zhimo's "West Lake Story" and some new poems, and was deeply fascinated by his cousin's talent. "My mother is Xu Zhimo's aunt, and he is my cousin. He died very young, and I didn't have much contact with him, but I was deeply impressed. I have read his new poems and read his prose, and they are all very good. Beautiful, it has taught me a lot." In the elegant Chen Jialuo, Xu Zhimo's shadow can be vaguely found. Jin Yong told the reporter, "Haining is a small place, and everyone is relatives. My name is Xu Zhimo and Jiang Fucong is my cousin. Chen Congzhou is my relative. I am a generation older than him. He is Xu Zhimo as his cousin. Wang Guowei's younger brother Mr. Wang Zhe'an was my teacher." Born in Xiashi, Haining in 1898, Jiang Fucong was Cha Liangyong's uncle and nephew of military scientist Jiang Baili, and he was also his cousin. Jiang Fucong and Cha Liangyong's second uncle Cha Zhaozhong were classmates at Peking University , and later studied in Germany, specializing in library science. He served as the first curator of the "Central Library" and the dean of the "National Palace Museum" in Taipei.Later, Jiang told Cha Liangyong some things about his grandfather, and he praised him very much, which he didn't know at first. Cha Liangyong never went to a private school, but went to modern primary school at the beginning. At the age of 7, he studied in the Seventeenth School in the alley of the village entrance, and then transferred to Longshan Primary School in Yuanhua Town.Founded in 1902, Longshan Primary School is one of the first four primary schools in Haining, also known as the third primary school in Haining. Starting from home, there is a dirt road with ponds and willows on the side of the road. After passing a stone bridge, there is another section of stone road, and you will arrive at Longshan Primary School by the Tianxian River.In Cha Liangyong's memory, school life is full of warmth—— In a small town in the south of the Yangtze River, the sky is gray and heavy, it seems that it is going to snow, and the north wind is blowing a soft whistle.Suddenly, bells rang and rang in the primary school, and a school worker in a blue cotton robe raised the copper bell in his hand high and shook it vigorously.Twenty or thirty boys and girls in the classroom packed their schoolbags happily and ran to the lobby to line up.Four male teachers and one female teacher stepped onto the podium and lined up.The female teacher was in her twenties, she stretched out her hands to brush her hair with a smile, sat on the stool in front of an organ on the right side of the podium, lifted the cover of the organ, with a smile on her lips.When the piano sounded, the elementary school students let go of their throats and sang: "It's an easy day, and the sun is setting again / The bell rings to announce school is over, and everyone goes home happily / Gentlemen, goodbye..." At this point, the students bowed to the stage together, and the five teachers on the stage also bowed back with smiles. "Little friend, goodbye..." The students in the four rows in front turned around and bowed at the same time as the students in the back row. Some children made funny faces, and the little boy Yiguan stuck out his tongue. In a history class, the history teacher talked about the Opium War, how the imperial court was confused and incompetent, and countless soldiers fought bravely against the enemy, but they were killed because the guns and warships were inferior to the British. He suddenly became emotional and cried bitterly.Cha Liangyong and his classmates also cried. This tearful history lesson will remain in the depths of his memory forever. In the fifth grade of elementary school, Cha Liangyong met Chen Weidong, the head teacher and Chinese teacher.In his compositions, he always writes "Dadu" as "mostly". Teacher Chen Weidong dug out "Ci Hai" and corrected it.At that time, he was young and naughty, and he called himself a "dictator", and his teacher was quite graceful. Chen Weidong is a native of Zhuji, Zhejiang. In the early 1930s, he taught at Longshan Primary School. Apart from teaching, he kept on writing. He wrote miscellaneous feelings in a black hard-sided blue strip book. He often showed it to Cha Liangyong. One of the articles described the principal. Zhang Zhihong went to the Haining County Education Bureau to pursue the teacher's salary, but the teacher called himself a "poor guy".These words left a deep impression on him. Chen Weidong liked this student very much. He carefully circled and corrected each of his compositions, and used them as model essays to comment and analyze in class. Do it lively.He later said: "The teacher's guidance has been compiled for decades, and there is no time or dare to forget." Although he graduated from primary school, Yuan Hua said goodbye, and the teachers and students lost contact since then, but Teacher Chen Weidong always remembers "Cha Liangyong" "This name even kept a copy of his composition in his hometown in Zhuji. Until the "Cultural Revolution", the rebels ransacked his home many times, and this composition was doomed and turned into ashes. He will never forget the typos that Mr. Chen Weidong corrected for him in his composition. Sixty years later, the teachers and students reunited in Hangzhou. When these typos were mentioned, the teacher couldn’t help laughing, praised him for his good memory, and said that remembering mistakes is the way to progress Tips. He loves to read extracurricular books.The library of Longshan Primary School has a rich collection of books, and teachers encourage students to read extracurricular books.He read "Children's Pictorial", "Little Friends" and "Primary School Students" when he was in the lower grades, and later read the rich "Little Friends Library", and then read various chapter novels with a vague understanding.When he was in the fifth and sixth grades, he began to read new literary works.However, he likes classical literature more than new literature, which he thinks is due to his personality. The "Life" weekly magazine edited by Zou Taofen, as well as the travel diaries around the world such as "Footprint Message" and "Footprint Memories" were bought by his father and brother.In his childhood, he was greatly benefited by Zou Taofen and Life Bookstore.Extracurricular reading has greatly expanded a teenager's horizons. By the Tianxian River and in Heshan's house, he is accompanied by books all day long, mainly reading novels. Cha Liangyong grew up in a large family. His great-grandfather had two sons. His grandfather was the eldest son, who lived in the east half of the mansion, and his great-uncle lived in the west half of the mansion.Even after going through the tragic literary inquisition, the plaque written by the imperial pen still hangs majestically in the center of the Cha family hall until it was destroyed by the Japanese invasion.This mansion has five entrances. There is a large plaque hanging in the front hall, which is the name of the hall written by Emperor Kangxi to his ancestor Zha Sheng. The three characters "Danyuan Hall" are surrounded by nine golden dragons as decorations, representing a scholarly family. glory and former glory. The grandfather had three sons, the father was the third, and there were two older brothers above him.My great-uncle passed away early, leaving behind four grandchildren.My cousin and sister are much older than Cha Liangyong, and they all like to read novels.My father is also an avid reader of novels, and has quite a collection of books at home.My father often entertained literati and scholars in the study of "Jingyetang", drinking tea and chatting with them.Because of his status as a landlord, he usually doesn’t have any jobs, so he has a lot of free time and a lot of money to spend. Everyone bought various novels.There are traditional Ming and Qing novels, as well as relatively new novels published in Shanghai, such as Zhang Henshui's novels, various martial arts novels, etc., as well as the new school "Novel Monthly", "Red Magazine" and "Red Rose" by the Mandarin Duck and Butterfly School, etc. Fiction Magazine.My elder brother Liang Keng went to university in Shanghai, where he studied classical literature and new literature, and brought back the works of Mao Dun, Lu Xun, Ba Jin, Lao She and others.Because he spent a lot of money on books, Liang Keng often did not have enough money for meals, and was severely reprimanded by his father.The books owned by his family and uncles, cousins, cousins, etc. are in circulation, and everyone borrows and borrows them.Born in such a family, Cha Liangyong has been fascinated by it since he was a child, and he likes to read novels.During elementary school, he had read a lot of novels. Seeing that Cha Liangyong reads all day long, doesn't like playing or exercising, and is weak, his parents are very worried. They often take him to the wild to fly kites and ride bicycles, but he only plays perfunctorily for a while, and then reads again. novel. When he was 8 years old, by chance, Cha Liangyong read Gu Mingdao's "Women of the Wild River".This was the first time he came into contact with martial arts novels in his life. He never imagined that there were such beautiful books in the world. Since then, he has become more and more fascinated by martial arts novels. "Red Magazine" is a leisure weekly magazine edited by Yan Duhe and Shi Jiqun, published from August 1922 to July 1924.Not long after Cha Liangyong was born, the magazine was renamed "Red Rose", and it ceased publication in 1932. Cha Liangyong read the old magazines that his father and brothers had read.The romance novels of the Mandarin Duck and Butterfly School did not attract him, but the martial arts novels affected his youth.He first read "Legend of Heroes of Jianghu" in "Red Magazine" and "Red Rose", and then read another "Legend of Modern Chivalrous Heroes" in the semi-monthly issue of the old magazine "Detective World" edited by Yan Duhe and others. It is the work of Pingjiang Buxiaosheng. Since childhood, Cha Liangyong spent most of his pocket money on martial arts novels. Every time he traveled from Yuanhua to Xiashi (the most prosperous town in Haining) to his grandmother’s house, or to big places like Hangzhou and Shanghai, he He must ask someone to take him to the bookstore to buy martial arts novels.One of his fellow lovers is his niece Cha Yide, who is slightly older than him. Because he has a fondness for old novels, he has borrowed many novels from her, and the characters in the novels are also topics they often talk about.Another lover is his uncle's fourth aunt, his name is Fourth Aunt.He is eight or nine years old, she is in her forties, and they can talk about these novels together.He can also get extra rewards: a lot of candy, waxy cakes, ice cream. Cha Liangyong rented books from bookstores when he was young.As well as the martial arts novels by Huanzhuzhulouzhu, Baiyu, etc., a novel world full of imagination unfolded before his eyes. There are many elements in classical Chinese, and Cha Liangyong read it with relish when he was in elementary school. Although there are many sentences that he doesn't understand, the story and characters are so attractive that he finally made him skip the parts he didn't understand and read it all the way.But seeing Zhuge Liang's return to heaven at Wuzhangyuan, he didn't have the heart to read the next story.He completely stood on the side of Liu Bei's Shu Han, and never admitted that Shu Han would die before Soochow and Wei, so he had a heated debate with his elder brother for several hours.The elder brother had no choice but to take out the middle school history textbook, pointing to a few clear lines in the book, proving that the Shu Han was destroyed by Deng Ai and Zhong Hui, and he resignedly conceded defeat. He was angry for a long time and blew a lot. tears. A teacher surnamed Fu in Longshan Elementary School specially lent the three books of "Little Women", "Good Wife" and "Little Man" to Cha Liangyong. The translator Zheng Xiaocang is a well-known literati in Haining, an American student and a native He is proud of it, so these three foreign books are quite popular in the local area.When he was twelve or thirteen, he came into contact with Alexandre Dumas' works and their sequels (when Wu Guangjian translated them into Chinese, they were called "Xia Yin Ji" and "Xu Xia Yin Ji"), and fell in love with this French writer.The French novel "Fifteen Little Heroes" tells the story of 15 French teenagers' voyages and adventures on deserted islands. Bao Tianxiao translated it in classical Chinese, but Cha Liangyong was already able to understand Chinese at that time.Another science fiction novel "Lu Shen" brought him into a romantic fantasy world in his youth. When he was in the sixth grade, Cha Liangyong read Ba Jin’s and enjoyed reading on the sofa at home. When his elder brother saw it, he said: “Ba Jin is from Jiaxing, Zhejiang, and his writing is really good!” He said: “No Right? He wrote about things in Chengdu, Sichuan, and the writing is so true, I believe he is from Sichuan!" My brother said: "His ancestor was from Jiaxing. I don’t know if it was his great-grandfather or grandfather who went to Chengdu, Sichuan to be an official, so he stayed there. .” At that time, his elder brother was studying Chinese at the university, so he believed what his elder brother said.At the same time, I feel that the life style of the Gao family described in the book is very similar to Jiangnan, but my uncles and cousins ​​often play Go, sing Kunqu opera, write big characters, and tell novels at home, but the Gao family does not do much. These.At that time, the characters he was most impressed with were Juehui and Mingfeng. There are also many girls in the family, all of them seem to be plain-looking, not as beautiful as the female classmates in school, and not as beautiful and clever as Mingfeng, but they are gentle and kind, and treat him very well. "Reading novels often introduces one's own experience, which is a common habit of novel readers all over the world. At that time, my favorite novels were martial arts novels, so I felt that novels like "Autumn in Spring" were not enjoyable enough to read."

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Notes: Issue 1, 2000, 135 pages.The other said that his nickname was Yisheng, he was a second official, and he was called Erguan.Zhong Wen, "Cha Liangyong", "Characteristics of Haining" (2), p. 137. The first "note". Issue 1, 2000, p. 131.