Chapter 25 free

Zhang Zongxiang's son shared the dormitory with Liang Shiqiu. After the May 4th student parade, Zhang's son quietly avoided.However, many people rushed into the dormitory reluctantly, smashed his bed, and threw the things in the suitcase all over the floor.Liang Shiqiu returned to the dormitory, seeing this scene, he was very disgusted.Soon, Zhang's son died of illness, and every time Liang thought about it, Liang felt a lingering pain in his heart. On May 19, 1919, Liang Shiqiu followed the student team to give a speech at Zhushikou outside Qianmen.They moved a few wooden benches from the shop, lined them up on the street, and began to give speeches.The more people gathered, the more emotional the speaker became.At this time, two or three cars were unable to pass, and kept honking their horns, which immediately angered the crowd. When someone yelled to beat them, the crowd rushed up and destroyed a car in a hurry.This incident made Liang Shiqiu reflect on the May 4th Movement: "I felt that everyone was just angry and didn't know where to vent it. They hated the incompetence of the government and the betrayal of the officials. This hatred could only be vented on the street like a drunkard. No one can keep calm in this torrent, which is called crowd psychology."

After the "May 4th" movement, the student union asked the school to give it the right to self-government, and elected a council to intervene in school affairs.Liang Shiqiu served as a reviewer in the last few years of Tsinghua University.He later recalled: "I deeply feel that the 'mass psychology' is terrible, and if the power of the organization is abused, it is also terrible. Among the three principals we expelled in a short period of time, one of them never came to the school. His name was Luo Zhongyi. Somebody spread the news that he smoked opium, so there was an uproar, and the public opinion was in an uproar. He was so scared that he did not dare to take office. When there are many people, it is often unreasonable. The student union meets every five In June, there was always going to be a school strike. If someone proposes a school strike, no matter whether the reason is good or not, as long as he is passionate and generous, it will always be passed." Liang lamented: "A school strike used to be a means of winning great victories. It became a disgusting absurdity."

Liang Shiqiu commented on the "May 4th" movement: "The May 4th movement turned into a new culture movement when it was good, and it became a riot when it was bad." Negligence", "Chasing fashion, but the emperor does not know where it is. This is a phenomenon of swarming after the May Fourth Movement. On the surface, it is vigorous and colorful, but in fact it cannot be free from superficiality and naivety." Liang Shiqiu believes in liberalism. After 1924, Sun Yat-sen rejected personal freedom. Liang once wrote an article criticizing Sun, asking the Kuomintang to grant the people "freedom of thought, freedom of speech, and freedom of body."He also criticized Hu Hanmin, President of the Executive Council, for duplicity, and questioned Hu Dao: "After five or six months of hard fighting, hundreds of thousands of people were killed and injured, and tens of millions of money were spent... Has the situation of military separatism in China today been eliminated? Have the roots been eradicated?"

Dai Jitao, president of the Kuomintang Examination Institute, published two maxims in the "Declaration", one of which was: "If everyone sacrifices freedom, then the country will be free." Liang Shiqiu directly denounced it as "unreasonable". From 1929 to 1930, Hu Shi, Luo Longji, and Liang Shiqiu published a series of articles in the "New Moon" magazine slamming the Kuomintang regime for ignoring human rights, one-party dictatorship, and suppressing freedom of thought. Cai Yuanpei, Zhang Yuanji and others all applauded for it. Liang Shiqiu once criticized the left-wing "Prussian literature" and ridiculed some left-wing writers for always looking forward to the Soviet Union; but when the Kuomintang banned "Persian books", Liang resolutely opposed the cultural policy of the Kuomintang government. It will be banned again, but my sympathy is on Pu Luo's side. This is not to show favor to others, nor is it pretending to be notarized. Anyone who supports freedom of thought, freedom of literature and art must oppose violence (no matter where it comes from) of."

Liang Shiqiu did not favor the Kuomintang, but he also disapproved of the Communist Party. He clearly stated in the article "Why I Disapprove of the Communist Party": "I have always disapproved of the Communist Party and communism." Second, what I am dissatisfied with the Communist Party is its hatred of private property. Thirdly, what I am dissatisfied with the Communist Party is their anti-democratic methods.” On December 1, 1938, Liang Shiqiu published the "Editor's Note" in the supplement "Pingming" of Chongqing's "Central Daily": "Now the Anti-Japanese War is above everything else, so some people can't forget the Anti-Japanese War. My opinion is slightly different. Compared with the Anti-Japanese War We welcome materials related to the War of Resistance the most, but materials that have nothing to do with the War of Resistance, as long as they are true and fluent, are also good, and there is no need to forcefully capture the War of Resistance. After the passage was published, it was bombarded by many people, especially left-wing writers.

Some people criticized Liang Shiqiu as "the theory that the Anti-Japanese War has nothing to do with it." Liang defended himself: "It is true that people can use a kitchen knife to kill people when they are in a hurry, but killing people is not the mission of the kitchen knife after all." In 1940, Liang Shiqiu originally wanted to visit Yan'an with the "National Political Council North China Consolation Inspection Team".Mao Zedong sent a telegram saying that we do not welcome Liang Shiqiu.Liang had no choice but to cancel the trip. In 1942, Mao Zedong designated Liang as a "representative figure serving bourgeois literature" in his "Speech at the Yan'an Forum on Literature and Art".When the Kuomintang was in full retreat, Liang chose to go to Taiwan. After that, his works were banned in the mainland.Until the mid-eighties, no publishing house published his essays.

After Liang Shiqiu arrived in Taiwan, he translated ancient Roman works by Max Aurelias. Because the transliteration was the same as Marx, it touched the nerves of the Taiwan authorities and caused quite a stir. Liang Shiqiu once told Li Ao about his home being searched: "One day someone called the door, opened the door, and many security personnel came in, asking if you are the owner of this house? I said yes. They said that the U.S. News Service lost a typewriter. Someone said you stole it, and we are going to search it. I said that I am Liang Shiqiu, a university professor, so I wouldn’t steal the typewriter from the U.S. News Service, right? Did you guys make a mistake? They listened and took out a typewriter It was a piece of paper with a floor plan of my house drawn on it, and I even said that it was your house. So I couldn’t help but go into the house, rummaged through boxes and cabinets everywhere, made a fuss for a while, but found nothing, and then asked me to confirm that they didn’t take it away. Anything, just leave." Liang Shiqiu later realized that because of his old friendship with Luo Longji, it caused surveillance by the Taiwan authorities.

In 1968, the Taiwan Cultural Institute staged Shakespeare's "Othello", but the Garrison Command intervened, saying that there was a description of mutiny in the play, and the performance might affect the morale of the army.After several rounds of negotiations, the academy was forced to revise the script, changing Othello to a civilian position, instead of calling him a general, calling him an adult, and changing the name of an adjutant to a secretary.Liang Shiqiu said after learning about this: "Shakespeare knows, I'm afraid I'm going to blow my lungs!"