Chapter 11 Inscription

Anyone who passes by West Chang'an Avenue now can always see a few poor children in torn clothes and shoes selling newspapers.I remember that three or four years ago, there were occasional remnants of uniforms left on them; any earlier, it would be more respectable, almost a mimicry of Boy Scouts [1]. It was the eighth year of the Republic of China, that is, 1919 in the Western calendar, after the Beijing student demonstration on the Shandong issue on May 4, because the boy scouts who distributed the leaflets at that time somehow provoked the interest of speculators. Note that the boy scout-style newspaper kid appeared.In December of that year, Japanese Minister Yoshikichi Kohata protested against the anti-Japanese movement[3]. It is not as good as showing poverty every year.

I wrote some short comments in the "Responsibility Record" [4] of "New Youth", and it was only a year before that, because most of the comments I made were minor issues, so there was no reason to comment, and most of the reasons were forgotten.But as far as the current text is concerned, apart from a few general theories, some of them are about holding up spirits, sitting still, and punching; some are about the so-called "preserving the quintessence of the country"; some were published in response to caricatures in the Shanghai Times [5].I remember that "New Youth" at that time was being attacked on all sides, and I only dealt with a small part; other major issues, I have my own ambition, and I don't need to say more.

After the May 4th Movement, I didn't write anything, and now I can't tell whether I didn't do it, or it was lost and wiped out.But at that time, the reform movement was quite successful on the surface, so those who advocated reform flourished vigorously, and many of them were the same people who ridiculed and ridiculed "New Youth" first, but they created another high-sounding The title: New Culture Movement.This is why they later applied this title to "New Youth" and ridiculed it, just as those who ridicule vernacular often claim to be the first to gain popularity, and have already advocated vernacular.

After that, there is nothing more to say.I only remember that one article in 1921 was published on the so-called "philosophy of nothingness"; in the later year, it was mostly published on the so-called "national scholars" in Shanghai. For the nationalist. Since the publication of "New Youth", everything has ridiculed the reforms, then approved of the reforms, and then ridiculed the reformers. Now the mimetic uniform has long been broken, showing its true colors. The so-called "facts are better than facts" eloquence", so why wait for the criticism of paper and pen mouthpiece.Therefore, my superficial and timely writing should be ignored and allowed to disappear; but a few friends thought that the current situation was not much different from that time, and they could still be preserved, so they edited it for me.This is what I mourn.I think that for any attack on the evils of the times, the writing must perish at the same time as the evils of the times, because this is like the boils of the white blood wheel. .

But what if everything I write is indeed cold?Then it has no life in the first place, not to mention the disease syndrome in China.However, the difference between ruthless cynicism and sentimental irony is nothing compared to a piece of paper, and the feelings and reactions around me are probably the so-called "like a fish drinking water that knows how warm it is"[6]; but I feel that the surrounding air is too cold Yes, I speak my own words, so I call it instead. On the night of November 3, 1925, Lu Xun. 〔1〕Boy Scouts is an organization organized by the bourgeoisie to conduct militarized training for schoolchildren.Founded in 1908 by British military officer Baden-Powell, it soon became popular in various capitalist countries.In 1912 China began to have this kind of organization.During the May 4th Movement, some boy scouts participated in activities such as distributing leaflets.

[2] Shandong issue After the end of the First World War, the imperialist countries held the "Paris Peace Conference" in January 1919 to divide the spoils. Under the control of imperialism, they openly decided to completely cede to Japan the various privileges that the defeated Germany had seized in Shandong, my country in accordance with the 1898 Sino-German "Jiao-Australia Concession Treaty", and the Beiyang government was going to sign the peace treaty.When the news came, the whole country was outraged.Beijing students first went on strike on May 4th, rallied and marched against the resolutions of the Paris Peace Conference and demanded that the pro-Japanese bureaucrats be punished.This struggle of Beijing students became the beginning of the great May Fourth Movement.

〔3〕 Xiaobanyouji protested against the anti-Japan movement. After the May 4th Movement broke out in 1919, patriotic people all over China launched a boycott movement against Japanese goods.In order to sabotage the movement, the Japanese Consulate in Fuzhou dispatched Japanese ronin and plainclothes policemen on November 15 to beat up the students performing the new patriotic play.The next day, many students and citizens were killed and injured, resulting in the Fuzhou tragedy that aroused public outrage across the country.On the contrary, Yukichi Kobata, the Japanese Minister to China, lodged a "protest" to the Chinese government's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on December 5, asserting that "China is solely responsible for the incident" and demanding that the Chinese people's anti-imperialist patriotic movement be banned.Kobata Yukichi had previously served as the Japanese counselor in China. In 1915, he helped the Japanese minister Hikimashi and Yuan Shikai conclude the so-called "21" treaty.

[4] "Sui Gan Lu" and "New Youth" began to publish short comments on society and culture from April 1918, Volume 4, No. 4, with the overall title of "Sui Gan Lu".At the beginning, each chapter was only marked with a sequence number, and there was no separate chapter title. From the fifty-sixth chapter onwards, there were titles for each chapter under the general title.The author published this kind of short comment in "New Youth" from the "Twenty-five Sui Gan Lu" in the third volume of the fifth volume in September 1918 to the sixth volume of the magazine in November 1919 Up to the sixth issue of "Sixty-Six Ways of Life", there are a total of 27 articles, all of which will be collected in this book.

[5] The Shanghai "Times" mentioned here should be the Shanghai "Current Affairs News". 〔6〕"Like a fish drinking water, it knows its own temperature." In the Northern Song Dynasty monk Ren Daoyuan's "Chuan Deng Lu Mengshan Daoming": "Like a person drinking water, he knows his own temperature." Yue Ke of the Southern Song Dynasty "[Mucheng] History Ji Longmianhai Meeting "Picture" also has the words "like a fish drinking water, knowing whether it is warm or not". 〖system