Chapter 2 "To Shock Its Difficulty"

The "Chinese scholars" in the Shanghai Concession thought that those who wrote vernacular Chinese were probably young people who had never read antique books, so they used the so-called "Chinese studies" to scare them. The "Times" published an article "Writing Thoughts" [2] signed by "Han Qiu", in which there is a paragraph saying: "Bo Guoxue, a new scholar, is insignificant, so he wrote the prose with a hook and a grid to shock its difficulty. It makes me want to vomit after reading it, and I fall asleep after reading it again." Learn.I used to think that "hook and grid" [3] was used by the ancients to describe the partridge's cry, and it had no other deep meaning; thanks to this "Writing Thoughts", I realized that this is the strange partridge's "difficult cry". "Yes, and blame him for it.But in any case, "difficult" cannot make people "vomit". Those who hear partridges and vomit, there is no such thing in the world. "Yong" [5] with constant dots, this should be regarded as difficult, but I have never heard of it, and some people feel sick because of it.The reason for vomiting is not the "difficulty" of other people's articles, but the "difficulty" in my own body. It is probably because I have accumulated too much "Chinese learning" and I can't write it, so it gushes out.

The word "Zhen" in "Yi Zhen is difficult and difficult" does not make sense to a layman of Chinese studies, but it may have been misunderstood by the hands [6], because typesetting and printing newspapers are also new learning, or it is inevitable to use "Yi Zhen" It's hard." Otherwise, such "national studies" are not difficult, but they are evil. Chinese studies and Chinese studies, new scholars are "insignificant", and national scholars are also Daoist but can't prosper, you are really going to the end of the road! September 20th.

KK [1] This article was originally published in the "Morning News Supplement" on September 20, 1922, signed by a living person. 〔2〕Han Qiu Li Hanqiu (1873-1924), a native of Jiangdu, Jiangsu, is one of the main writers of the Mandarin Duck and Butterfly School.Works include "Guangling Tide" and so on.His "Writing Thoughts" was published on the special page of "The Hourly News" of the Shanghai "Times" on September 14, 1922. [3] Onomatopoeia of "Gouqige磔", the sound of partridges singing.The forty-eighth volume of "The Ministry of Poultry" "Jijie" quotes Kong Zhiyue's words: "Partridges are born in the south of the Yangtze River, and they look like hens, and they are called 'hooks and grids'".

〔4〕For the term "Yue Ruo Ji Gu", see "Shang Shu · Yao Dian".Yue, also known as "Yue", is a word.Regarding these four characters, there have been many annotations since the Han Dynasty, and the annotations of each family are mostly different.According to the notes of Kong Yingda in the Tang Dynasty, it means "to be able to explore the Tao and practice it". 〔5〕The phrase "Jiang is Dongyong" can be found in "Jiang Shouju Garden Pond" written by Fan Zongshi in the Tang Dynasty.Fan Zongshi's articles are famous for being difficult, and it is difficult to break sentences.There are many people commenting on this article, and the sentences are not the same.The first sentence of the article "Jiang is Dongyong is the place for keeping principles", some people judge it as "Jiang is Dongyong, and it is the place for keeping principles." Others say "Jiang, that is, Dongyong is the place for keeping principles." He used to be the governor of Jiangzhou. The meaning of this sentence is: Jiang built the prefect's office on the old land of Dongyong.

(6) Shoumin refers to typesetting workers.