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Chapter 17 Constant cutting, still chaos: the circle of mandarin ducks and butterflies and Nanshe

In "I Look at the Mandarin Duck and Butterfly School", Wei Shaochang divided the representative writers of this school into "Five Tiger Generals" and "Eighteen Arhats". The "Five Tiger Generals" are Xu Zhenya, Li Hanqiu, Bao Tianxiao, Zhou Shoujuan, and Zhang Henshui. At the end of 1909, Liu Yazi, Chen Chaonan, Gao Tianmei and others initiated the establishment of "Nanshe". Nanshe flaunted integrity, criticized current politics, and advocated national revolution. Former name: Liu Bannong Birthplace: Jiangyin, Jiangsu Birth and death years: May 29, 1891 ~ July 14, 1934

Graduation school: secondary school education, after studying at the University of Paris, France Status: Mandarin Duck and Butterfly School writer, Peking University professor, writer, linguist Main achievements: Masters of the New Culture Movement Proud work: the lyricist of the popular song "Teach Me How Not to Miss Her" (the songwriter is Zhao Yuanren) Controversy: When I was a professor at Peking University, I didn’t have a diploma and was looked down upon by others; as a professor, I wrote a biography and published a book for the famous prostitute Sai Jinhua Bao Tianxiao (1876~1973): Formerly known as Tianxiao and Nianhua, native of Suzhou, Jiangsu, newspaperman, novelist, author of "Memoirs of Chuan Yinglou" and so on.

Zhang Henshui (1895~1967): A native of Guangxin, Jiangxi Province, a master of chapter novels and popular literature, he is the author of , , "Laughing Marriage" and so on. Lin Shu (1852~1924): Born in Min County, Fujian Province (now Fuzhou City).A famous writer and translator in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. Liu Yazi (1887~1958): formerly known as Weigao, styled Jiaxuan, nicknamed Yazi.A famous old-style poet in modern times, founded and presided over the "Nanshe".He is the author of "Mojianshi Poetry Collection", "Mojianshi Wenlu", "Liu Yazi Poems Collection".

Ye Chulan (1887~1946): Born in Wu County, Jiangsu Province, a famous Nanshe poet and political activist.He is the author of "Shihuitang Poetry Draft", "Chu Min Wen Cun", and the novels "Ancient Xu Hanjiao Ji", "Jin Chang Zhi March Ji" and other works.
⊙The term "Mandarin Duck and Butterfly School" is said to have been first coined by Liu Bannong. At the beginning of 1920, Liu Bannong went to England to study. Before leaving, old friends from Shanghai Beach gave him a farewell farewell. They were all people who wrote novels in "Saturday" and other newspapers. Old words.Liu Bannong couldn't bear it anymore, and said: "It's really a mandarin duck and butterfly novel." After the newspaper played up it, "Mandarin Duck and Butterfly School" was named after it.

⊙Wei Shaochang divided the representative writers of this school into "Five Tiger Generals" and "Eighteen Arhats" in "I Look at the Mandarin Duck and Butterfly School". The "Five Tiger Generals" are Xu Zhenya, Li Hanqiu, Bao Tianxiao, Zhou Shoujuan, and Zhang Henshui. ⊙In the winter of 1933 and the spring of 1934, there was a "Beijing-Sea Controversy", but those who were regarded as Shanghai school writers did not consider themselves to be Shanghai school, and mandarin ducks and butterflies writers did not admit that they were mandarin ducks and butterflies writers.Bao Tianxiao complained about his identity even in his later years.

⊙Bao Tianxiao has never been considered wealthy. When he was in his forties, he met Chen Meisheng, a fortune teller. Chen once met Shao Piaoping and Xu Shuzheng. He said that Shao eyebrows were too thick and had evil spirits, and Xu eyebrows were hung upside down and shaped like pigs. , and sure enough.Chen said that Bao could make a fortune, and Bao asked about how much he could get. Chen replied, "You can get a million." In the two years after the collapse of the Nationalist government, inflation was very high, and Bao's manuscript fee for an article could reach one million. But in the end never made a fortune.

⊙One year after the Reform Movement of 1898, Tan Sitong's book "Ren Xue" was published in Japan, but it was not available in China. Bao Tianxiao went to Xia Ruifang, the manager of the Commercial Printing Office, and explained that it was a banned book, and he wanted to print a thousand copies for it. Sell, ask Xia if he dares.Xia replied that it didn't matter, as long as "the name of the printing house is not printed on the copyright page." ⊙"Crystal Newspaper", "Diamond Diamond", "Sherlock Holmes" and "Robin Hood" are known as the "Four King Kongs" in the Shanghai tabloid circle. There are many disputes over right and wrong, and the editor-in-chief often hides in order to avoid being beaten or robbed.

⊙In the 1920s, many amusement parks sprang up in Shanghai, such as "Big World" and "New World", and they published tabloids to gain popularity for themselves. Therefore, many cultural people in Shanghai participated in them, such as Zhou Shoujuan, Bao Tianxiao, Wang Xiaoyi, etc. have helped people edit game field tabloids.There are also some people who specialize in editing game tabloids, and are ridiculed as "taking the big world as their only excrement place". ⊙There is an army of popular literature writers active in Shanghai. They write whatever the market needs. When dance halls became popular in the 1930s, writing dance manuscripts and supporting dancers became a major job for literati, and many popular Shanghai-style literati were born in dance manuscript writing.Later, when the film was on the rise, writing scripts became a busy job for Shanghai-style literati. Bao Tianxiao, Zhou Shoujuan and others even applied to be full-time screenwriters.

⊙In 1931, a newspaper in Shanghai published a "Guidelines of Huangpu Beach Love Specialized University", listing various compulsory elective courses, including: Love Freedom, Orgy, Decoration, Nude Dancing, Pheasant Shooting Guide, Sparrow Fighting must win, poker tricks, model learning, eye-catching tricks, freehand exercises, bragging, equestrianism, flower and willow guide, horn-holding science, poetry riddle science, mother tiger science, curve beauty research, history of Chinese and Western sociology, men and women Psychology, Chinese and Western music, etc. ⊙The writers of popular novels in the Republic of China were often known for their prolific output, and could write several serial novels at the same time.Chen Liang used to write long serial novels for seven newspapers in one day, and Wang Xiaoyi wrote novels for ten newspapers at the same time at the most. People like Zhou Shoujuan and Bao Tianxiao are well known for their high output.

⊙Zhang Henshui is known as "China's Dumas", "the first writer in the Republic of China", and Lao She called him "the only old writer in China who is well-known to all women and children". ⊙Zhang Henshui is well-known and his novels are popular, but he never plays big names. His manuscripts are of excellent morality, he never delays his manuscripts, and never makes random requests. He has been serialized in newspapers for five years and four months, with only the time when his daughter died of illness , stopped for a day, and there was no break other than that.

⊙Chen Diexian, a writer of the Mandarin Duck and Butterfly Faction, abandoned literature and went into politics halfway, and became a shogun for others, but soon couldn't stand the officialdom life, and still came back to write novels.Liu Shannong was a staff officer, general quartermaster and secretary-general of the former enemy of the Suzhou Uprising in the Revolution of 1911. He was a senior in the military. Later, he refused to be an official, so he changed his name to Tiantai Shannong, and began to write novels and edit.Lin Wushan was Yuan Shikai's secretary in his early years, and later he abandoned politics and devoted himself to literature, running a newspaper in Shanghai.Bi Yihong worked as an official in the Qing Dynasty until he was a doctor in the Ministry of War. After the Republic of China, he gave up being an official and joined a newspaper as an editor, writing novels by himself. ⊙Lin Shu wrote novels and translated foreign novels, and his output was extremely high, so some people called his house "the mint", while Lin Shu called himself "the mill", which means "a donkey goes to the mill to grind flour. starve".It turned out that the Lin family was prosperous, with seven sons and five daughters, and seven or eight orphans with relatives and friends. For a long time, these people lived on Lin Shu's manuscript fees.Another way of saying it is: Lin Shu likes to gamble a lot, and if he loses a lot, he has to work hard. ⊙Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Mei-ling went to visit Zhang Henshui, Zhang Henshui received him politely, but when he was about to leave, he only asked his servants to send them out.Zhang Xueliang asked him to be a cultural consultant, without having to go to work, with a monthly salary of 100 yuan, but Zhang Henshui politely refused, saying that "a gentleman is not a party". ⊙Bao Tianxiao recalled when he joined Nanshe: "The organization of this Nanshe has neither a site nor a president. Whenever there is a meeting, it is just a gathering of a few literary and artistic comrades for dinner and talks. Later, the number of members gradually increased. There is a meeting every year, but it is still a dinner party... A friend introduced that a certain gentleman is willing to join the Nanshe, and everyone agrees with his name and history. There is also a certain gentleman, we want to invite him to join the society, as long as a certain If you agree, you will be regarded as a member of the commune.” He also said that the Nanshe has the most people from Jiangsu, followed by Zhejiang, and then Cantonese. ⊙Famous scholar Chen Yinke is also a fan of Zhang Henshui. During Southwest Associated University, Chen was blind, so he asked his friend Wu Mi to borrow Zhang Henshui's novel "Water Margin" from the library and read it to him every day. ⊙At the end of 1909, Liu Yazi, Chen Chaonan, Gao Tianmei, etc. initiated the establishment of "Nanshe", which flaunted integrity, criticized current politics, and advocated national revolution. ⊙In April 1941, the Kuomintang invited Liu Yazi to attend the Eighth Plenary Session of the Fifth Central Committee. It was shortly after the Southern Anhui Incident. Liu Yazi replied, "I don't want to ask for a living from the small court" and refused to attend, so he was expelled from the Kuomintang party. ⊙Zhu Liangren had joined the South Society and was a member of the Old League. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Zhu, Su Manshu, Bao Tianxiao and others taught middle schools in Suzhou.One day, Zhu suddenly proposed to go to the Lion Mountain in the suburbs of Suzhou to "call out the soul of the country".Why do we have to go to Lion Rock?Zhu explained: "Our China is a sleeping lion. By this time, the sleeping lion should also wake up." So a group of people took a boat to Lion Mountain, unfurled a red flag that "calls the soul of our country", and wrote several national anthems "calling the soul". ". ⊙Liu Yazi described Chen Chaonan, a poet of Nanshe, as "born with a short stature, and his face seemed to have been dyed with light ink. People called him Chen dwarf".Qi Gong described Ye Gongchuo as "short in body but clear in spirit, eating little but exuberant in energy, with only half a cup of rice and a slice of bread, and for a feast, he only takes vegetables beside the meat."Zheng Yimei said that in the early years of the Republic of China, there were two celebrities who would think that they were burly and magnificent husbands, but in fact they were not like that. One was Chen Chaonan and the other was Ye Gongchuo. ⊙Ye Chulan, the veteran of the Kuomintang, is tall and tall, tall and majestic, but his writing is very delicate, and his name is also very delicate.In the early years, he participated in the "Nanshe" and other literary societies, and saw that the ancients used overlapping surnames for their names, such as Shen Shen in the Ming Dynasty, and grandchildren in the Qing Dynasty, so he named himself "Ye Ye".And because his father's name is Fengchao, he was named "Ye Xiaofeng". ⊙Ye Chuyi has many literary friends in his life. In addition to Liu Yazi, Su Manshu, Chen Chaonan, etc., there are also a group of poetry friends and drinking friends who are not familiar to people today. Someone once added four characters in front of these people’s names. Adjectives are quite interesting: Hu Puan, who is the emperor, has a loud voice; Lu Tianmin, who is dotted with circles, has acne spots on his face; A person with a small capacity for alcohol can only sit with him; the light and delicate Hu Jichen, who speaks in a very soft and low voice; ⊙Lin Baiju and Ye Chulan were good friends when they were in Nanshe, and they often drank together.Once, both of them were drunk, and Ye Chulan left first. Lin Baiju couldn't find Ye, so he yelled, "Chulan died in the sea!" Then he ran barefoot to the beach to look for it, and asked, holding the dim sum seller's arm, " Where did you hide my Chulin?" Ye Chulan wrote a poem to commemorate this incident: "It's not madness to be able to drink and sing, and there is no discussion when you are sad; there are two desolate graves, and there are two steles next to Dukang. ⊙Fan Hongxian and Ye Chuyou have a very good friendship. Once it snowed heavily, they both wanted to drink, but they had no money. After thinking about it for a while, Fan Hongxian took off his coat and asked someone to send it to a pawn shop for money, and then they both bought wine and drank .Fan was assassinated in 1914, and together with Song Jiaoren and Chen Qimei, he was called the "Three Martyrs of the Republic of China". ⊙Qian Binghe was a well-known cartoonist in the early Republic of China, and he created many satirical drawings of political figures.Another Wen Yehe is a member of Nanshe.Once, when Qian Binghe and Wen Yehe were squatting in the toilet at the same time, Ye Chulan took a piece of white paper, wrote "There are double cranes inside, take a look at the three copper coins", and stuck it on the toilet door.Others laughed when they saw it. Qian Hewen was unknown in the toilet, so when he came out, he read the note and laughed too. ⊙When studying in Japan, Su Manshu, Chen Duxiu and Zhang Shizhao lived together.One day, everyone ran out of money to eat, so they asked Su Manshu to take some clothes to pawn, and bought some food with the money.After Su went out, Chen and Zhang waited at home. It was midnight when Su Manshu came back with a book in his hand. Chen and Zhang asked, "Where's the food?" Su said, "I can't find this book anywhere, but I finally found it at the night market today." .” ⊙Su Manshu is good at painting, but usually draws very little. Unless the interest comes, no matter how good a friend asks for a painting, he will not give it to him.One day, Ye invited Su to a restaurant for dinner, and the wine was drunk to the point of joy. Ye Chulan took out the painting tools, rice paper, etc. that he had prepared earlier, put them aside, then went outside and locked the door, and said to Su: "You are here today. If you don’t pay off the painting debt you owe me, don’t even think about it!” ⊙Su Manshu went to see Bao Tianxiao, and others asked Bao: "This friend in a suit, people say he is a revolutionary monk?" Bao replied: "Monks should wear cassocks, why does he wear a suit? Not only does he not wear cassocks, but also He also eats flower wine." When Su Manshu was eating flower wine, the host gathered many famous flowers to sit beside him, and Bao Tianxiao jokingly called it "a monk surrounded by thousands of flowers". ⊙Ye Chulan has no pretensions as an official, and lives a simple life.When he was the chairman of Jiangsu Province, one day, an officer sent a letter from a senior official. He knocked on the door, and Ye opened the door. The officer said, "This letter must be handed over to Chairman Ye himself." After staring at it for a long time, I handed the letter to him. ⊙Ye Chumi is from Zhouzhuang Town, Wu County, Jiangsu Province. After Ye Chumi became the chairman of Jiangsu Province, people from his hometown set up a "Chuyu Park" in Suzhou, and renamed Zhouzhuang Town to Chumu Town. After Ye knew about it, he ordered it to be changed back . ⊙In the early years, when Ye Chulan was under General Yao Yuping, someone prepared twelve bottles of good wine and asked Ye to bring them to Yao.On the way, Ye Chulan couldn't help the smell of wine, so he opened a bottle and drank without authorization.When he arrived at Yao's house, Yao Yuping was not there, so Ye handed the wine to Mrs. Yao and told her that he had already drank a bottle.Mrs. Yao politely asked him to stay for a while, and warmed the wine for him to drink.Unexpectedly, after drinking this, Ye drank so much that he fell asleep and woke up the next day. Ye asked if General Yao had returned, and the servant told him that the general had slept all night and went out again in the morning.Ye was startled, looked at the clock on the wall and said, isn't it obvious that only one hour has passed! ⊙In 1906, Yu Youren joined the Tongmenghui in Japan. Before returning to China, Sun Yat-sen appointed him as the "Governor of the Yangtze River" to take charge of the revolutionary task in central China.Yu successively ran "Shenzhou Daily", "Minhu Daily", and "Minhu Daily", all of which died soon.He also founded the "Minli Daily" to gather the elites of the moment. Yang Dusheng, Song Jiaoren, and Chen Qimei were all members of the newspaper. Later, among the nine ministries of the Nanjing Provisional Government, the deputy heads of four ministries came from the "Minli Daily". ⊙According to Ma Xulun, Ma Junwu has a habit of cutting off his sleeves. ⊙At the end of the Qing Dynasty, most of the students returning from studying in Japan went to brothels. Ma Junwu never participated, but once, a companion was beaten in a brothel. .After the rise of women's schools, Ma Junwu forced his mother to study in women's schools. My mother said that I was already in my fifties, so how could I go to school again? ⊙When the September 18th Incident happened, it was rumored that Zhang Xueliang was dancing with the big star Hu Die in Beiping.Ma Junwu, the president of Guangxi University, angrily wrote two poems, which were widely recited after publication: "Zhao Si is romantic, Zhu Wukuang, elegant butterflies are walking, the gentle township is the tomb of heroes, no matter whether the East Division enters Shenyang." The string pipes are urging each other again. Shenyang has already rested and looked back, and danced a few times with the beautiful woman." ⊙Ma Junwu is also a colleague of Nanshe. He once wrote for Liang Qichao's "Xinmin Congbao", but Ma was lazy and wrote too little, so Liang's big disciple Luo Xiaogao thought of a way to tease him.Luo used a pseudonym to be a woman, contributed to Cong Bao, and then exaggerated how beautiful and talented the female author was in front of Ma.It made Ma's heart itch, so he kept writing poems and articles to contact. Luo took these manuscripts and published them in "Cong Bao". ⊙When Yu Youren went to school in Xi'an, the Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu fled here. The governor of Shaanxi, Cen Chunxuan, ordered all the students to serve as a welcome team and knelt down to greet the holy driver. They knelt on the side of the road for more than an hour.Yu Youren was furious, and wrote a letter after returning, suggesting that Cen Chunxuan kill Cixi and support Guangxu to be in charge.Later, I was persuaded by my classmates. ⊙In 1921, the Beiyang government planned to hire Yu Youren as a senior adviser to the presidential palace, with a monthly fee of 3,000 yuan and a first-class Wenhu medal.Yu Youren refused: "Money, I've seen it before. Your wife, nephew, and brother-in-law will give you money, as well as dogs and cats. I don't think it's worth a penny." ⊙Yu Youren often carried a rucksack on his body, and there was no money in it, only two seals.When someone asks for words, they write immediately. When they are finished, they take out a seal and stamp it, and then hand it over to others, and never charge money.
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