Chapter 35 Li Shutong Chronicle (2)

In September, he was admitted to the special class of Nanyang Public School, the predecessor of Jiaotong University in Xujiahui, Shanghai, and changed his name to Li Guangping.The head teacher of the school is Cai Yuanpei, a famous educator. He advocates democracy and new learning, and offers many new learning courses such as English and international law.Among the classmates were Huang Yanpei, Shao Lizi and other later famous people.Shutong learned from each other with teachers and students and benefited a lot. In the autumn of that year, Shutong went to Kaifeng, Henan Province to take part in the provincial examination, but failed.

In 1902, he continued to study in the special class of Nanyang Public School. In autumn, together with Yuan Xilian, he went to Hangzhou to participate in the provincial examination with the qualification of "Pinghu County Supervisor of Jiaxing Prefecture". Because he advocated reform in his article, he failed again. In August, I visited Xie Qiuyun, a famous prostitute in Shanghai, and wrote the poem "Thank you at Xie Qiuyun's Makeup Pavilion on July 7" as a souvenir. In Nanyang Public School, he co-starred in the new drama "Six Gentlemen" with his classmates.

At the end of the year, because Nanyang Public School banned students from reading progressive books and newspapers such as "Minbao" and suppressed students' freedom of speech, the students in the special class led by Cai Yuanpei set off the first student movement in modern history of our country, and immediately dropped out of school angrily.In November, more than 20 dropout students all joined the "Patriotic Society" with Cai Yuanpei as the prime minister and Wu Zhihui as the supervisor to continue their studies.Shutong also participated in the editorial work of "Su Bao" in his spare time.

In 1903, he founded the "Shanghai Society" with Huang Yanpei, Xu Huanyuan and other young progressives. With "learning" and "speech" as the main activities, he opened cram schools for the poor.Shutong set up a special "music and song class" in the evening school, pioneering Chinese music education. Under the guidance of Cai Yuanpei, he translated "Books of Law" and "Private International Law" and submitted them to Kaiming Bookstore for publication. In 1904, the third son Li Duan was born. There are poems corresponding to Zhu Huibai and Li Pingxiang, famous courtesans in Shanghai.

He often participates in fancier performances, and has played the roles of martial arts students such as Huang Tianba. Li Shutong's handwritten horizontal drape In 1905, the Shanghai Society performed a new play "Wenye Marriage". Shutong wrote the script and wrote a poem "Shanghai Society's "Wenye Marriage" New Drama Collection Compiled into a Feeling Fu" to commemorate it. In February, the song was selected and written as "Motherland Song". This song expressed Shutong's patriotic enthusiasm, had a strong appeal and appeal, and quickly became popular all over the country.

In April, his biological mother, Wang, died of illness at the age of forty-five.Shutong escorted his mother's coffin back to Tianjin with his wife and children, broke the old customs, held a new type of memorial service, wrote the eulogy and sang "Elegy". After the funeral, Shutong changed his name to Li Ai, whose name was Ai Gong, in memory of his mother.After placing his wife and children in Tianjin, Shutong returned to Shanghai alone. In June, Shutong obtained a diploma from Nanyang Public School and decided to go east to Japan to study. Before leaving, he wrote "The Song of the Golden Hazel: Staying Farewell to the Motherland and Presenting to My Classmates".After Shutong arrived in Tokyo, he entered the Ueno Art College to specialize in Western painting and changed his name to Li An.At the same time, he paid attention to song creation, edited "Singing Collection of Chinese Studies", collected more than 20 songs, and submitted them to Shanghai Zhongxin Bookstore for publication.

In 1906, while studying fine arts, he went to the Conservatory of Music to study piano, and studied Western drama from the famous director Fujisawa Asajiro. In February, combined writing and editing, and independently edited "Music Magazine", which is the earliest music publication in my country, and its content includes music, painting, miscellaneous feelings and other major parts.The inaugural issue published "Preface to "Music Magazine", "Biography of Beethoven", "Modern Music", and educational songs "My Country", "Race in the Spring Country", " Willows on the Embankment of the Sui Dynasty, Miscellaneous Feelings "Woohoo!Chapters! ", "On the Motivation of Music" and more than a dozen manuscripts were printed by Sanguangtang in Tokyo, Shandong, and sent back to China for distribution by You Xiyin in Shanghai.

In August, suffering from tuberculosis, he returned to Tianjin to visit his relatives for recuperation. During the trip, he wrote many poems such as "Drunk Time", "Last Night", "First Dream", etc., expressing the author's nostalgia for his homeland, worry about time and cynicism. In September, Shutong returned to Japan to continue studying Western painting. In the winter of that year, Shutong joined the Tongmenghui in Japan. The original picture on page 192 is shown on page 241 of Li Shutong taking photos in Japan In 1907, he co-founded the "Chunliu Club" with Zeng Yannian (Zeng Xiaogu, courtesy name Cunwu) and others in Tokyo. It is the earliest drama group in modern China and pioneered new Chinese drama performance art.The famous Japanese drama artist Asajiro Fujisawa is the consultant of the drama club.

In July, the rehearsal of the new house "La Traviata" (the last two scenes of the third act of Alexandre Dumas's famous novel), Shu Tongqin played the role of Marguerite the La Traviata, Zeng Yannian played the role of Aman's father, Tang Ken played the role of Aman.The play was performed with great success in the Kanda District Youth Association Theater, which greatly promoted the development of Chunliu Club, which quickly grew to more than 80 people.Soon in Tokyo, he will perform a new drama "Black Slave Calls to Heaven", which is adapted by Zeng Yannian from the American novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin", and Asajiro Fujisawa is the director.Li Shutong played the two roles of Mrs. Emily and the limp drunk, and also served as a stage designer.The public performance of this play was a great success again, and was highly praised by Japanese theater critics.

Since then, Chunliu Society has rehearsed dramas such as "Living for Each other" and "The Painter and His Sister", in which Li Shutong played an important role. Later, because the Qing government's embassy in Japan issued a notice prohibiting foreign students from performing on stage, and threatened to cancel the "study abroad fee", Chunliu Club was forced to gradually stop its activities. That year, Li Shutong gradually fell in love with his painting model, a Japanese girl, and married her. In 1910, because the Qing government changed the salt industry to "official salt", the bank that the Li family invested in the salt industry lost nearly one million yuan.Li Shutong then stopped studying at the music school after finishing his studies in western painting at the Tokyo Academy of Fine Arts. He returned home with his Japanese wife, settled her in Shanghai, and returned to Tianjin alone to reunite with his family.

In the autumn of that year, he began to teach in Tianjin Industrial Technical School. In 1911, he transferred to Zhili Model Industrial School as an art teacher. In February 1912, at the invitation of Yang Baimin, the principal of Shanghai Chengdong Girls' School, he went to Shanghai to teach in the "Art Department" of Chengdong Girls' School. In April, joined the progressive literary group "Nanshe".Hired by Chen Yingshi, he served as the editor of Shanghai "Pacific News", responsible for the advertisement page and the supplementary "Pacific Literature and Art" edition.