Woodcut statue (by Cao Bai) Taken at the Second National Woodcut Mobile Exhibition (1936) Shanghai Dalu Xincun Residence Exterior View Shanghai Dalu Xincun Residence VI The Complete Works of Lu Xun·Volume 6 Qiejie Essays This book contains thirty-six essays written by the author in 1934, edited by the author himself at the end of 1935, and first published by Shanghai Sanxian Bookstore in July 1937. preamble In recent years, more so-called "miscellaneous essays" have been produced than before, and they have also been attacked more than before.For example, the self-proclaimed "poet" Shao Xunmei[1], the former "third kind of person"[2] Shi Zhecun[3] and Du Heng and Su Wen[4], college students like Lin Xijun[5] who are not yet half-knowledgeable, are They all had vendettas against Zawen and accused them of various crimes.However, it didn't work. There were more authors and more readers.

In fact, "miscellaneous essays" are not a new thing nowadays, they are "existing in ancient times". If there are articles, if they are classified, they can be categorized. All species are sandwiched in one place, so it becomes "miscellaneous".Classification is good for thinking about articles, and chronology is good for understanding the current situation. If you want to know people and discuss the world, you must read the anthology of the chronology. The popularity of the new chronicle of the ancients proves that many people have realized the news in it.What's more, now is such an urgent time, the author's task is to respond or fight against harmful things immediately, to be the sensory nerve, and to be the offensive and defensive siblings.Concentrating on his magnum opus and imagining the future culture is good, but fighting for the present is also the author who is fighting for the present and the future, because without the present, there will be no future.

There must be a tendency to fight.This is the great enemy of Shao Shidulin and his like. In fact, what they hate is the content. Although they wear the vestments of literature and art, they conceal "preachers of death"[6], and they cannot be compatible with existence. This collection and "Flowers as Literature" are the collections of my pen and knife during the past year, when the officials and the people encircled and suppressed "Miscellaneous Essays". here.Of course, I dare not call it the history of poetry [7], which has the outline of the times, and it is by no means the eight treasure chests of heroes. Once opened, it will be brilliant.I only set up a street stall in the middle of the night, and all I have are a few small nails and a few tiles, but I also hope and believe that some people will find something suitable for their use.

On December 30, 1935, it was recorded at Qiejieting in Shanghai [8]. CC [1] Shao Xunmei (1906-1968) was born in Yuyao, Zhejiang.He once founded the Golden House Bookstore, edited the "Golden House Monthly", and advocated the so-called aestheticism literature.He and Zhang Kebiao are the "editors" of Renyan Weekly.The third issue of the first volume of the journal (March 1934) once translated and carried Lu Xun's Japanese article "Two or Three Things About China" in which the prison section was discussed, and the "Editor's Note" at the end of the article attacked Lu Xun His essays are "strong words and unreasonable", "more spirit than argument, more fabrication than evidence".See "Zhun Fengyue Tan Postscript".

〔2〕The "third kind of people" Su Wen (that is, Du Heng) published "On the Literary Debate between Wen Xin and Hu Qiuyuan" in the third issue of the first volume of the "Modern" monthly magazine in October 1933. In the article, he called himself He is a "third type of person" outside of reactionary literature and art and left-wing literature and art, advocating "literary freedom theory" and attacking left-wing literature and art movements.Lu Xun’s letter to Masuda Shibu on April 11, 1934 pointed out that these so-called "third types of people" "profess to be beyond the party, but are actually rightists." [3] Shi Zhecun, Songjiang, Jiangsu (now part of Shanghai) ) people, writers.He once edited the "Modern" monthly magazine, "Wenfan Xiaopin" and so on.In "Fu Ertai" published in the third issue of "Wenfan Xiaopin" (April 1935), he said that Lu Xun's essays were "things that have a propaganda effect but lack literary and artistic value."

〔4〕Du Heng (1906-1964), also known as Su Wen, formerly known as Dai Kechong, was born in Hangzhou County (now Yuhang), Zhejiang, and was a representative of the "third kind of people".Once edited "Modern" monthly magazine.In his "Curse Wind in the Literary World" published in the second issue of the second volume of Shanghai "Xinghuo" (November 1, 1935), he said that "the popularity of essays" is the result of "a mess of melee" in the literary world. "An important reason", "So short essays and essays have almost become 'elegant titles' for cursing articles, so scolding has spread all over the place, and it has led to today's unmanageable situation." [5] Lin Xijun, a native of Chao'an, Guangdong , a student at Shanghai Daxia University at the time.In "Essays and Essayists" published in the fifth issue of the fifth volume of "Modern" (September 1934), he said that the prosperity of the essays is because "writers destroy themselves and use opportunism to replace a The serious work of a writer of literature and art".

[6] "The Preacher of Death" was originally the title of the ninth chapter of the first volume of Nietzsche's "Thus Spoke Zarathustra", and its literal meaning is borrowed here. 〔7〕The history of poetry means poems that can be read as history. For the language, see "New Book of Tang·Du Fu Biography": "Fu is also good at presenting current affairs, and the rhythm is profound, and even a thousand words are not bad. The world is called 'Poetry History'." Later also Generally refers to works that can reflect an era. 〔8〕Qi Jieting At that time, the author lived on Beisichuan Road in Shanghai. This area was an area of ​​"crossing the border to build roads" (the imperialists crossed the concession to build roads), that is, the so-called "semi-concession". "Qijie" means half of the word "concession".