Chapter 5 Book Review: Discover Those Real People (1)

--I read Text/Shanshuijian In June 2004, "China Youth Daily" was newly revised. The biggest surprise should be the expansion of one edition of Freezing Point Feature Articles into four editions of Freezing Point Weekly. Since then, every Wednesday has become the expectation of many "China Youth Daily" readers.Among the many columns of the weekly magazine, the character version of "Gou Shen" can be regarded as the highlight of the freezing point. The young Xu Baike is the main writer, and his shots are extraordinary. Those characters who were once lively and then lonely surfaced, and seventy or eighty people were written down along the way, and a group of portraits of the characters of the Republic of China had already been erected in a trance.I am delighted to hear that Baike's "Gou Shen" works have been compiled into a book, and I can't help being overjoyed, and I can review the old and learn the new in one go.In that era, such a group of pure real people lived, created such a true history, so many intriguing anecdotes happened, and echoed such redundant and endless words.

You can taste people from here.In the era of the Republic of China, the old and the new were alternate, colorful, and stars twinkled. However, due to the selective memory of history textbooks for a long time, most of these influential figures who came from the old era disappeared, or became a simple symbol, or just a reactionary. Nouns even disappear.And Baike is trying to salvage those memories, discover those real people, and restore those wonderful lives. It turns out that someone can live such a passionate, vivid, and angular life.There are Liu Wendian who sighs that "there are no true lunatics in the world", Mei Yiqi who is "a true gentleman who combines Chinese and Western styles", Fu Sinian who is an "upright and true scholar", and He Lu who is "a true celebrity who is romantic". Counting these seventy or eighty people, whether crazy or obsessed, elegant or tough, the situation will not let the later Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms, and the wind and spirit are as handsome as those of the Wei and Jin Dynasties.Through "hooking and sinking", it also makes Stuart, Chen Xiying, Yang Yinyu and other people lying in Mao Xuan and Lu Zhuan's annotations "three-dimensional". These characters should not be just "common nouns" one by one. And temperament is very colorful. "Hook Shen" has hooked many heavy characters, making those who once "can't find their true face" clear.

From here you can learn history.Baike's pen "tells history with people", when discovering vivid and vivid characters, it also uncovers some complicated historical truths.It turns out that the circulating version of the "December 9th" movement is so different from the truth; it turns out that in the movie "Landmine Warfare", the peasant brothers used their hair as the lead wire for the landmines. It turns out that as early as 1928, the Japanese created the "Jinan Massacre", killing Chinese diplomats, massacring 8,000 soldiers and civilians, and so on.Seeing history like this clearly will make us no longer trust that "little girl who can be dressed up by others".

You can get the governor from here.In addition to the slightly heavy history, "Hook Shen" is full of witty little jokes, full of elegant stories of literati and anecdotes about strange people.Why is Lu Xun's "The True Story of Ah Q" written so short?Because Sun Fuyuan, the supplementary editor in charge of urging the manuscript, was on a business trip.Why does the "Fu Bell" at National Taiwan University commemorating Fu Sinian only ring 21 times?Because he said "There are only 21 hours in a day, and the remaining 3 hours are used for meditation."Do you know how the "fairy chicken" is baked?It turned out that Chen Wangdao, who translated the "Communist Manifesto", cooked it with 100 newspapers.

From here you can make a note.Lide, meritorious service, and Liyan are called the "three immortals". The merits of these people are often hidden, but the words are spread.How can the colorful characters not have powerful or evocative words?Hearing that "the so-called university does not mean that there are buildings, but that there are masters", can you not be in awe of Mei Yiqi?Hearing "I would rather jump the Pearl River than criticize Confucius", can you not be moved by Rong Geng?As for who said "North China is so big, there is no room for a peaceful desk!" and "Chinese departments do not train writers", just read this book to find out.

The joy of discovery can be experienced from "Hook and Sink", and the value of this discovery cannot be underestimated.An article in the book "Ding Wenjiang: Going out of the mountains is better than being in the mountains" mentioned that Xu Xiake did not have much influence in China's intellectual genealogy. "rescued" from China, thus becoming the ideological resources of modern China.It is believed that the people, history, events, and words that Baike has saved through "hooking and sinking" will also become the ideological resources of China today.

While experiencing the joy and value of discovery, there is also an embarrassing situation that cannot be ignored. Almost everyone here has a clear half-life boundary, just like "Zhang Boling: The Towering President of Nankai University" said: "Compared with the tiger's anger of 'getting more and more frustrated' for most of his life, his evening scene is desolate and helpless, which is suitable for extremes." Careful and evidence-loving readers (such as me) also noticed such a detail, the same When I wrote Jin Yuelin, the title of the newspaper was "The Logic of Development", but in this book it becomes "The Logic of Fracture". I believe this is a restoration of the original flavor. Precisely, because Mr. Jin's transition from the old to the new "lacks a reasonable logical process."There are also "Mei Tradition" and "Jiang Tradition" mentioned by Baike when he wrote about the president of Tsinghua University, which are also thought-provoking.When I read such a "break", I can't help but let out a long sigh.When the poet excitedly cheered "time has begun", it may also mean that some people's time has stopped.