Chapter 16 Shovel a grand view

Still in the "Shenbao" on April 6, there was another "Changsha Correspondence" [2], in which Xuxiang Province cracked down on the Communist Provincial Committee and "executed more than 30 people, and executed eight people at the Yellow Flower Festival."A few of them are written very well, and I will copy a little bit below: "...after the implementation of the day, Yinma (Shuchun, sixteen years old; Zhichun, fourteen years old) and Fu (Fengjun, twenty-four years old) The three criminals belonged to women. All the men and women in the city went to watch. There were huge crowds of people all day long, and they were crowded. In addition, the head of the chief, Guo Liang, was hung at the gate of the department to show the public, and even more people went to watch. Traffic was cut off in the area around the Bajiao Pavilion at the gate of the department. The people in Jinanmen went to the education meeting to see the corpse of the woman after viewing Guo Liang's head. The people in the Beimen area went to the Simen Gate to see Guo's head after seeing the corpse in the education meeting. , it suddenly opened up; until the evening, the viewers were not as crowded as during the day."

After copying it, I felt quite inappropriate.Because I just wanted to make some comments, but I immediately thought that on the one hand, someone might suspect that I was sneering (some people say, I only like to sneer), and on the other hand, someone would punish me for spreading darkness, so they cursed me to perish, and brought everything with me Darkness goes underground.But I can't stand it anymore—let's not post a little about other discussions, just talk about "art for art's sake" [3], you can see how powerful this article is, which is only a hundred and fifty or sixty cents.As soon as I read it, I seemed to see a head hanging on the gate of the department, and three female corpses without heads in front of the education hall.And at least shirtless,—but maybe I guess wrong, because I'm too dark.And many "people", one group from north to south, and one group from south to north, crowded and shouted...Adding a little bit of snake feet is the expression on the face that is either fascinated or already satisfied.In the "revolutionary literature" or "realistic literature" that I have seen, I have never encountered such a powerful literature.The critic Rokasevsky said: "Antelev tried his best to make us terrified, but we were not afraid; Chekhov was not like this, we were terrified." [4] These more than a hundred words are really worth There are a lot of fiction, not to mention fact.

and live.Going on, I am afraid that some heroes will accuse me of spreading darkness and hindering the revolution.There is a reason for one reason, and now it is easy to be suspected, and loyal comrades are misunderstood as the Communist Party, or shut down or released, which has always been common in newspapers.In case of misfortune, there will be no grievances, it is really....If these are often mentioned, it may be unavoidable to be short of courage.However, it is very rare for a revolution to be suspended. The end of the revolution is probably only due to the sneaking in of speculators.That is, hollow inside.This does not mean redization, any revolution of doctrine is like this.But isn't it because of the darkness, because there is no way out, that we want revolution?If you have to have a promise of "brightness" and "way out" on the front before you boldly go to revolution, then not only are you not a revolutionist, you are even worse than a speculator.Although it is speculation, the success or failure cannot be predicted.

At the end of the day, I want to expose a little bit of darkness. It is the people of our present (now! Not beyond the age) people in China who actually don’t really care about any party. They only care about the “head” and the “female corpse.”As long as there is one, no matter who it is, people will watch it. The Rebellion of the Boxers, the Party Prison in the late Qing Dynasty[5], the People's Er[6], last year and this year, in this short period of twenty years, I have seen or heard it several times. up. April tenth. BB [1] This article was originally published on April 30, 1928, Issue 18 of the fourth volume of "Yusi".

〔2〕The newsletter of "Shenbao" was titled "Crackdown on the Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of Hunan Province", and the following two quotations were its subtitle. [3] "Art for art's sake" was first a bourgeois literary viewpoint put forward by the French writer Gaultier in the nineteenth century (see the preface to the novel "Mademoban").It believes that art should exist beyond all utilitarianism, and the purpose of creation lies in art itself, which has nothing to do with social politics.The Creation Society also made such claims in its early days.

[4] Rokasevsky (DAXAPK] I_GLSOJ, 1874-1930) is now translating Roja’s book “Contemporary Russian Literature Chekh” published in 1925. Husband and the New Road" said: "Tolstoy criticized Antelev: 'He wants to scare me, but he is not afraid', so about Chekhov, we can say on the contrary, 'He does not scare us. , but very afraid of people'." 〔5〕The party prison in the late Qing Dynasty refers to the persecution of the revolutionaries by the Qing government, such as the imprisonment of Zhang Taiyan and Zou Rong, and the killing of Qiu Jin and Xu Xilin. [6] In the second year of the Republic of China (1913), Sun Yat-sen led Guangdong, Jiangxi, Anhui and other provinces to crusade against Yuan Shikai. Before and after, Yuan Shikai killed many revolutionaries.