Chapter 32 Send a letter to the editor of "Xi" Weekly

Mr. Editor: Today I read the fourteenth issue of "Xi" Weekly, and "Soliloquy" [2] "regrets" that I couldn't reply to my letter, but I remember that this letter was sent out the day before yesterday, and I wrote it while I was ill. I thought I was very flattering, but now A special statement is meant to please. In this weekly magazine, I saw a few portraits of Ah Q[3], and I thought they were all too special and a bit eccentric.In my opinion, Ah Q should be about thirty years old, with an ordinary appearance, with the simplicity of a peasant, stupid, but also a little bit of the cunning of a layman.In Shanghai, among the rickshaw drivers and rickshaw drivers, I'm afraid you can find his shadow, but he doesn't look like a hooligan, nor does he look like a bum.As long as you put a small melon skin hat on your head, you lose Ah Q. I remember that I put a felt hat on him.This is a black, semi-circular thing, and the brim of the hat is turned up more than an inch, and it is worn on the head; I am afraid that people in the countryside of Shanghai still wear it.

The newspaper said that they wanted pictures, but here are ten of them, engraved by Mr. Chen Tiegeng [4], and they are being mailed today. If you don’t want them, please send them back.He is from Cantonese, and many of the backgrounds he uses are about Cantonese.The second, third two, fifth, and seventh pictures are better engraved; the third one does not match the text; the ninth is farther from the truth. Where was there a motorcycle for Ah Q to ride at that time?It should be a large cart, called a board cart in some places, a horse-drawn four-wheeled cart, usually used to carry goods.But Shaoxing did not have this kind of car. I used the situation in Beijing at that time. I was in Shaoxing, but I had never seen such a grand ceremony.

Also, today's "The True Story of Ah Q" says: "Isn't Xiao D probably Xiao Dong?" It's not true.His name was "Xiao Tong", and when he grew up, he was just like Ah Q. Dedicated to Buda, and please Zhuan An. Enter Lu Xun.November eighteenth. CC [1] This article was originally published in the fifteenth issue of "Xi" Weekly, a supplement of "China Daily" on November 25, 1934. [2] Editor's note published in the fourteenth issue (November 18, 1934) of "Monologue" and "Xi" weekly magazines.It said: "In this issue, we are very sorry that Mr. Lu Xun's opinion on Ah Q's script did not come, so we have to wait for the next issue." When writing the script, from September 1934, portraits of the characters in the play were published at the same time. "Put a melon cap on your head"

The portrait of Ah Q, by Ye Lingfeng, can be seen in the twelfth issue of this magazine (November 4). 〔4〕Chen Tiegeng is a woodcarver.See note [9] on page 49 of this volume.