Chapter 14 Gray Book, Yellow Book, Codex

At first, Zhao Yifan's salon only circulated various novels published before the "Cultural Revolution", as well as "gray books" (internal books before the "Cultural Revolution", mostly gray covers).Later, the "Yellow Book" began to be circulated. The "Yellow Book" was printed and distributed by the internal bookstore during the "Cultural Revolution". It was only read by high-ranking cadres, and the cover was mostly yellow.The content is mostly Soviet novels, such as "What Do You Want?" ", "Snowy Winter" and the screenplay "Chair". "Chair" is the first western avant-garde art introduced in China, and the purpose of introduction is naturally for criticism.

Xu Xiao met Zhao Yifan in 1972.At the beginning of 1970, Jiang Qing had already criticized "Believe in the Future" by name.At this time, the salon is filled with a sense of criminal joy when stealing the "forbidden fruit".Xu Xiao read the first banned book in the salon.Xu Xiao recalled: "Before that, I had not read a single literary work formally. At that time, although I was already a primary school teacher, I was only 17 years old. I had just graduated from junior high school and was born in a worker's family. One novel is "What to Do?" (Chernyshevsky)."

At that time, Xu Xiao met poets Bei Dao, Mang Ke and others who became famous later through the salon, and introduced Shi Tiesheng to Zhao Yifan.Shi Tiesheng was an educated youth who joined the team in northern Shaanxi and returned to the city due to disability.The two discussed Chernyshevsky's "rational egoism."Shi Tiesheng suggested that Wang Jie's behavior of sacrificing himself for others can be explained by Che's "reasonable egoism".If Wang Jie didn't pounce on the explosives, his heart would be in pain afterwards. Only by pounced on can his heart be at peace.

After that, Xu Xiao also read "A Place Far From Moscow", , and other books.Xu Xiao said, "Zhao Yifan is my spiritual mentor. He made me understand the human problem. I know that there is still a human problem. I am not only a member of the Communist Youth League, a teacher, but also a human being." The salon of Zhao Yifan's family is open, where small circles of different colors intersect.As the "spiritual leader" of literary youths, Zhao Yifan had a profound impact on their lives, thoughts and artistic pursuits. Guo Lusheng, Yiqun and others, as well as the Baiyangdian poetry group formed later, all had contact with Zhao Yifan.Zhao Yifan expressed his understanding and approval of every bit of development in the underground poetry world.He taught, collected and sorted out the little poems brought by young poets, so that these poets had long forgotten these poems, but he carefully sorted them out and compiled them into a book.It should be said that Zhao Yifan is one of the people who has the deepest relationship with the New Poetry Movement, the most extensive connection, the closest and the greatest influence.