Chapter 23 Recalling Mr. Liu Bannong

This is a topic that Xiaofeng asked me. This topic is not too much.Bannong [2] passed away, and I should mourn because he was also an old friend of mine.However, this was said more than ten years ago. Now, it is very difficult to say. I have forgotten how I met him for the first time, and how he managed to get to Beijing.When he came to Beijing, he was probably invited by Mr. Cai Zhimin [4] or Mr. Chen Duxiu [5] after he contributed to "New Youth". After he arrived, he was of course a soldier in "New Youth".He is lively, brave, and has fought several great battles.For example, the letter in reply to Wang Jingxuan[6] and the creation of the characters "she" and "it"[7] are all the same.These two things now seem to be very trivial, but that was more than ten years ago, when a large group of people were "lost and concubine" just to promote new punctuation, and they wanted to "eat meat and sleep skin", so it is true It is a "big battle".Today's young people in their twenties, about few people know that thirty years ago, just cutting off the braids would result in imprisonment or beheading.Yet this used to be true.

However, Bannong's liveliness sometimes borders on sloppy, and his bravery is sometimes foolish.However, when discussing to attack the enemy, he is still a good partner. During the process, his heart does not respond, or he secretly stabs you, he will never.If you fail to calculate, it is because you did not calculate well. Every time an issue of "New Youth" is published, an editorial meeting is held to agree on the manuscript for the next issue.At that time, it was Chen Duxiu and Hu Shizhi who caught my attention the most.If you compare Taolue to a warehouse, Mr. Duxiu's has a big banner outside, saying: "There are weapons inside, be careful who comes!" But the door is open, there are several guns inside, several A knife is clear at a glance, so there is no need to be wary.Mr. Shizhi's door was tightly closed, and a small note was pasted on the door saying: "There are no weapons inside, please don't be suspicious." This can of course be true, but some people—at least people like me— — Sometimes I can’t help but think about it sideways.Bannong is a person who does not realize that he has an "arsenal", so I admire Chen Hu, but I am close to Bannong.

The so-called intimacy is just talking too much, and if you talk too much, your shortcomings will be exposed.For almost a year, he didn’t let go of the idea that a talented scholar brought from Shanghai must have the blessing of “red sleeves and fragrant nights to study”, and it was hard for us to scold him.But he seems to talk nonsense like this everywhere, which makes some "scholars" frown.Sometimes, even submitting to "New Youth" was rejected.He is very brave to write articles, but if you try to read old newspapers, there are quite a few issues without him.Those who criticize him are: shallow.

Yes, Bannong is indeed shallow.But its shallowness is like a clear stream, clear to the bottom, no matter how many sediments and rotten weeds there are, it does not hide its general clarity.If it's filled with mud, you won't be able to see its depth for a while; if it's an abyss of mud, it's better to be shallower. But these criticisms behind it probably hurt Bannong's heart. I suspect that this is mostly why he went to study in France.I am the laziest in correspondence, and we have been estranged since then.It was only when he came back that I realized that he was reprinting ancient books in foreign countries, and that he also needed punctuation[8]. , "You can't match your tongue" [9], there is no way.In addition, there was an unhappiness about mutual heart-to-heart communication in "Yusi" [10].Five or six years ago, I met once at a banquet in Shanghai. At that time, we had almost nothing to talk about.

In recent years, Bannong has gradually taken over his key positions, and I have gradually forgotten about him; but when I read that he was banned from being called "Miss" in the newspapers, I felt very disgusted: I think these things It is not necessary to be a half-farmer.Since last year, I have seen him keep writing doggerel and ruining ancient prose, [12] recalling the previous friendship, I often can't help but sigh.I thought, if we meet, and I still regard myself as an old friend, and don't finish the matter with "today's weather... hahaha", then maybe there will be conflicts.

However, Bannong's loyalty still moved me.I went to Peiping the year before last, and someone told me later that Bannong was coming to see me, but someone threatened him so that he didn't dare to come.This made me very ashamed, because after I arrived in Peiping, I never thought of visiting Bannong. Now that he is dead, my feelings for him have not changed from when he was alive.I love Bannong ten years ago, but I hate him in recent years.This hatred is the hatred of a friend, because I hope that he will always be a half-peasant ten years ago. Even if his status as a soldier is "shallow", it will be more beneficial to China.I would like to show his deeds with anger, lest a group of sand traps drag his former glory and dead body into the abyss of mud.August 1st.

CC [1] This article was originally published in the third issue of the sixth volume of the Shanghai "Youth World" monthly magazine in October 1934. [2] Bannong Liu Bannong (1891-1934), named Fu, was born in Jiangyin, Jiangsu.He has successively served as a professor of Peking University and the dean of the Women's College of Arts and Sciences of Peking University.He once participated in the editing work of "New Youth" and was one of the important writers in the early days of the New Literature Movement.Later, he studied in France and studied phonetics.He is the author of "Bannong Essays", a collection of poems "Yangbian Ji", "General Theory of Chinese Grammar", "Four Tone Experimental Records", etc.

〔3〕New Youth, a comprehensive monthly magazine, was an important publication advocating the New Culture Movement and disseminating Marxism during the May 4th Movement.Founded in Shanghai in September 1915, edited by Chen Duxiu.The first volume was named "Youth Magazine", and the second volume was renamed "New Youth".Moved to Beijing at the end of 1916.From January 1918, Li Dazhao and others participated in the editorial work.The publication was suspended in July 1922, and a total of nine volumes were published, with six issues in each volume. 〔4〕Cai Zhimin (1868-1940) Cai Yuanpei, styled Heqing, nicknamed Zhimin, was born in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, and was a modern educator.One of the founders of the anti-Qing revolutionary organization Guangfuhui, and later joined the Tongmenghui. After the founding of the Republic of China, he served as the head of education and the president of Peking University. During the "May 4th" period, he endorsed and supported the New Culture Movement.

[5] Chen Duxiu (1880-1942), courtesy name Zhongfu, was born in Huaining, Anhui.Formerly a professor at Peking University, the founder of "New Youth" magazine, and the main figure who advocated the New Culture Movement during the "May 4th" period.After the founding of the Communist Party of China in 1921, he served as the party's general secretary.In the late period of the First Civil Revolutionary War, the right-leaning capitulationist line was pursued, which resulted in the failure of the revolution.Later, he became a liquidationist, colluded with the Trotskyites, and formed a small anti-party organization. In November 1929, he was expelled from the party.

〔6〕Answer to Wang Jingxuan's double letter. At the beginning of 1918, in order to promote the literary revolution movement and launch a struggle against the revivalists, Qian Xuantong, one of the editors, used the pseudonym Wang Jingxuan to describe the social opposition to the new culture at that time. The rhetoric of the movement was concentrated, imitating the tone of the feudal retro school and writing to the editorial department of "New Youth", and Liu Bannong wrote back to criticize it bitterly.The two letters were simultaneously published in the third volume of the fourth volume of "New Youth" in March of that year.

[7] Creation of the characters "she" and "it". , In Chinese characters, should there be a third feminine pronoun? Second, if we want, can we just use the word 'she'?...I still think that the third pronoun, in addition to the word 'she', should be Take another word 'it' to replace inanimate." (See "Bannong Zawen") [8] Compiled by Zhang Nanzhuang (signed "passer-by") in the Qing Dynasty, it is written using proverbs, with irony and sarcasm A slippery chapter-style novel with a total of ten chapters, published by the Shanghai Shenbao Office in the fourth year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty (1878).In June 1926, Liu Bannong reprinted this book with punctuation. Lu Xun wrote an inscription for it, and now it is included. 〔9〕The phrase "a four-footed tongue is not as good as a tongue" comes from "The Analects of Confucius Yan Yuan". According to Zhu Xi's "Ji Zhu": "Speaking comes from the tongue, and four horses cannot chase it." [10] The ninth issue of the fourth volume of "Yusi" (February 27, 1928) once published Liu Bannong's "Lin Zexu Notes to the King of England's Official Documents", which said that Lin Zexu was captured by the British, and "clearly and correctly Sentencing, corpses paraded through the streets in India."Not long after, a reader, Luo Qing, wrote a letter pointing out that this was a historical error, and this letter was published in the fourteenth issue of the fourth volume of "Yusi" (April 2 of the same year). Since then, Liu Bannong has stopped writing for "Yusi" . 〔11〕 Forbidden to be called "Miss", see Liu Bannong's interview with a reporter in Beiping "World Journal" on April 1, 1931.It said that he disapproved of students referring to each other as Mies, and he banned it when he was the dean of the Women's College of Arts and Sciences of Peking University in 1930; There are girls, ladies, ladies and so on.Miss, the transliteration of English Miss, the meaning of Miss. [12] Refers to Liu Bannong's "Tonghua Zhidoutang Poetry Collection" and "Shuangfenghuangzhuanzhai Essays" published in "Human World" and other publications from 1933 to 1934.See "Zhun Fengyue Tan · After "Feeling the Old" (Part 2)".