Chapter 14 flat

A terrible phenomenon in the world of Chinese literature and art is that nouns are entered first without introducing the meaning of the nouns. So each of them did what they wanted.When you see more about yourself in your works, you call it expressionism; when you talk about others, it is realism; A head with a cow standing on it, love, the blue thunderbolt in the middle of the sea...it's futurism...and so on. And that's where the debate comes from.This doctrine is good, that doctrine is bad...and so on. There has always been a joke in the countryside: two short-sighted people are better than their eyesight, and there is no way to prove it, so they agreed to go to Guandi Temple to see the new flat forehead that was hung that day.They all got words from the painter first.But because the details were slightly different, the one who only knew the big characters refused to accept it, and started arguing, saying that the person who saw the small characters was lying.There was no way to prove it, so we had to question a passerby together.The man looked at it and replied: "There is nothing. The flat forehead has not been hung yet." [2] I think, in literary criticism, you must have the flat forehead to hang up first.In the empty dispute, only two sides understand it in their hearts.April tenth.

BB 〔1〕This article was originally published in the column "Suiganlu" in the seventeenth issue of the fourth volume of "Yusi" on April 23, 1928. [2] This joke was recorded in Cui Shu's "Summary of Kao Xin Lu" in the Qing Dynasty.