Chapter 41 8. About "Moment in Peking"①

① This is the letter the author wrote to Yu Dafu on September 4, 1940. Brother Dafu: I got Kangde’s handwriting, I know my brother agrees to ask, and I am willing to translate the novel written by my brother into Chinese, so I have no regrets. This book has been planned for five months since March last year, until August The draft was started on August 8th, and the article will be completed on August 8th this year.To commemorate the brave men who died for the country on the front line across the country is not to do nothing.Sincerely, it is not as good as novels in terms of penetrating people's depth.Today's Western propaganda, foreign journalists write the most, in terms of books, there are no fewer than ten kinds.But it is enough to make the readers thrilled, and it is rare to have a deep impact.If you want to make readers experience the scene and see the person, beyond reason and emotion, you have to use novels.If the situation is publicized, it will lose the effect of publicity, and it will be easy for those who understand it to observe.My younger brother lives overseas, how can I really have the time to tell stories about gifted scholars and beautiful ladies to pass the time?But if you want to make readers love the talents of beautiful women, you must get a glimpse of their meaning, starting from the end of the war and can't bear to read.Therefore, Volume 1 narrates from Gengzi to 1911, and Volume 2 narrates from 1911 to Xinchao. It focuses on the two sisters of the Yao family, the third sister-in-law of the Zeng family, relatives and relatives, the trivialities of the family, and the changes of the times.The third volume is based on the feud between the two families of Niu and Zeng, and it is written as a struggle between smuggling traitors and suppressing smuggling and eradicating traitors. The focus turns to politics, which is attributed to the war.Sun Manniang, an old school woman, turned into the center of the anti-Japanese spirit, and Daiyun, a traitor from the Niu family, came out and became the leader who punished rape and killed brothers.When Chen Sanhuan's son Daiyun joined the guerrillas, Atunshoff joined the army, Amei was humiliated, Suyun regretted being a traitor and was killed by the Japanese, Mannia died tragically in the countryside, and Mulan fled. half-year range.On the New Year's Day of the 27th year, Mulan, accompanied by her husband and daughter, set off for Tiantai Mountain with a small cart full of orphans amidst the melody of 400,000 refugees.Coincidentally, when the army marched to the front, the cheers of the people were like tearing silk, like a torrent, overwhelming mountains and seas, and the soldiers sang the song "Give me back my rivers and mountains", and the rivers and mountains responded, moving the world and weeping ghosts and gods.Mulan was also moved.At this time, Mulan, who was transformed from a lady of the rich family to a virtuous woman living in the mountains, turned to be among the masses and enter the realm of no self.The monk on Tiantai Mountain sent Mulan to the outer gate, and watched Mulan's family enter the refugee team from a distance.Therefore, his father obtained selflessness by sitting in meditation, and Mulan obtained it through contact with people. This is also the process of the transformation of the heroine Yao Mulan's mental attitude in this book.I have no time to translate by myself, so I must ask my brother translator to do so.Don't dare to pollute my brother's pen and inkstone with boring reasons.It roughly takes the joys and sorrows of the characters in the book as the classic, and takes the turbulence of the times as the latitude.All the changes in fashion, the ups and downs of fashion, the conspiracy of Lao Yuan, the restoration of Zhang Xun, the crimes of Anfu, the roughness of Zhang Zongchang, the student movement of May 4th and May 30th, the tragedy of March 18th, the war of words in modern times, and the struggle of the KMT. The rise, the left leaning of the youth, the smuggling in North China, and the coming of the Great War are all based on the deeds of the characters in the book.Among them, Soong Ching Ling, Fu Zengxiang, Lin Qinnan, Qi Baishi, Gu Hongming, Wang Kemin, and the leaders of the Literary Revolution came and went, whether they were hidden or displayed, and they were all subject to scrutiny.Even the story itself takes the two sisters Yao Mulan and Yao Mochou as the protagonists.Mulan married into the Zeng family, and the three daughters-in-law of the Zeng family, Mannia old, Mulan new, and Suyun intoxicated with the prosperity of the concession, fit into fragments of today's Chinese society.There are about eighty or ninety important people, and there are about ten girls.It is roughly based on the characters of the Red Chamber, Mulan is like Xiangyun (with Chen Yun's elegance added), Mochou is like Baochai, red jade is like Daiyu, Sister Gui is like Sister Feng but not as greedy as Sister Feng, Di Ren is like Xue Pan, and Coral is like Li Among them, Baofen is like Baoqin, Xuerui is like mandarin duck, crape myrtle is like azalea, Anxiang is like Xiangling, Xi'er is like a silly lady, Aunt Li is like Aunt Zhao, and Afei is far better than Baoyu.Sun Manniang is an outstanding figure, incomparable.To Zeng Wenbo (Confucianism), Yao Si'an (Tao), Mrs. Qian (Ye), and new figures Kong Lifu (scientist), Chen San (revolutionary), Daiyun (female revolutionist), Suyun ("White Face Queen"), Yingying (Tianjin red prostitute) and Ba Gu (a new poet who studied in England) are far beyond the scope of the characters in the Red Chamber, and there is no way to compare them.From a personal point of view, Mulan, Mochou, Mannia, Lifu, Yao Si'an (Mulan's father, a millionaire, owner of a tea shop in a pharmacy), Chen Ma, and Mrs. Hua are the first-rate people.Sunya, Hongyu, Afei, Anxiang, Baofen, Guijie, Shanhu, Mrs. Zeng, Jinluo, Xuerui, Ziwei, Yinping followed.The snobbery of Suyun, the corruption of Huanyu, the cowardice of Yaqin, the shamelessness of Yingying, the tyranny of Ma Zupo (Mrs. Niu), and the obstinacy of Mrs. Yao (Mulan Mu) are beyond words.In terms of the structure of the book, Mulan, Mochou, Lifu, and Yao Si'an are the masters of the book.Sunya, Jinya, Mannia, Anxiang, Hongyu, Afei, Diren, and Yinping are the main guests.Niu Daiyun, Niu Suyun, Mrs. Zeng, Sister Qian Gui and Tong Baofen were the hosts among the guests.Coral, Yingying, Jinluo, Xuerui, Ziwei, Huan'er, Chen San, Chen Ma, and Mrs. Hua were also among the guests.The geographical background is dominated by Beijing, with Suzhou and Hangzhou as guests.It starts with the difficulty of escape and ends with the difficulty of escape.The whole book is run through with the spirit of Taoism, so it uses Zhuang Zhou's philosophy as an envelopment, and quotes the theory of "Qiwu" that "dreams of drinking wine will cry day by day, and those who dream of weeping will hunt in the fields at dawn... This is what he said, and it is called paradox. After all generations, And once you meet the great sage, you know the solution, and you will meet him every day or evening" is the motto.

Those who dream of the banquet wake to lamenta-tion and sorrow. Those who dream of lamentation and sorrow wake to join the hunt... This is a paradox. Tomorrow asage may arise to explain it; but that tomorrow will not be until ten thousand generations have gone by. Yet you may meet him any day just around the corner.The book is 360,000 words long, with forty-five chapters divided into three volumes.The title of the book, Mo-ment in Peking, seems to be translated as "Momentary Jinghua", but my brother judged it. ① ①Yu Dafu finally failed to translate this book.There are translations by Yu Fei, the son of Yu Dafu, etc.The title of this book is commonly translated.