Chapter 20 Taiping Song Jue

There is such a record in the "Shenbao" dated April 6: "Nanjing City has recently discovered a nonsensical rumor that the prime minister's tomb is about to be completed, and the stonemason has captured the souls of young children to close the dragon's mouth. Citizens spread false rumors, They are disturbing each other, so the young children in every family hang a red cloth on each left shoulder, and write four lines of verses to avoid danger. There are about three types of verses: (1) People come to call my soul, and I call myself to bear it. Call others to call No, I will build a stone tomb by myself. (2) The stone is called the monk Shi, and I call myself responsible. Go home early and turn around, so that I don’t have to put up the grave altar. (3) What does it have to do with me when you build the Zhongshan tomb? , which is called self-responsibility.” (Omitted later)

No matter which one of these three poems is only 20 characters long, it expresses the views of the citizens, their relationship with the revolutionary government, and their feelings for the revolutionaries.Although there are writers who are good at exposing the dark side of society, I am afraid it is difficult to do so concisely and profoundly. "You can't make people scream, but you can build a stone grave by yourself."It actually includes the biographies of many revolutionaries and a history of the Chinese revolution. Looking at some people's writing, it seems that it is now "before dawn".However, the citizens are such citizens, whether at dawn or at dusk, the revolutionaries have to carry out their actions behind their backs.Chicken ribs [2], unwilling to throw away, tasteless to eat, so they have to be entangled like this.Whether there will be a way out after 500 years is uncertain.

The recent revolutionary writers are often particularly afraid of the dark and hide the darkness, but the citizens are unceremonious and express themselves.The collision of the small wit and the heavy numbness makes revolutionary writers dare not face up to social phenomena, and become mothers-in-law, who welcome magpies and hate owls, and only look for a little auspicious omen to intoxicate themselves, so they are considered beyond the times . Congratulations, hero, you go ahead, the abandoned reality of modern times will send you a letter of honor from behind. But it's still there.You just closed your eyes.But once you close your eyes, the "top stone grave" can be avoided. This is your "final victory".April tenth.

BB [1] This article was originally published on April 30, 1928, Issue 18 of the fourth volume of "Yusi". 〔2〕For tasteless words, see "Three Kingdoms · Wei Shu · Wu Di Ji" Pei Songzhi's note citing "Jiuzhou Spring and Autumn": In March of the twenty-fourth year of Jian'an (219), Cao Cao came out of the Xiegu from Chang'an and came to Hanzhong. He was at a stalemate with Liu Bei's army. , intending to retreat, "the order was called 'chicken ribs', and the officials didn't know what it meant. The master secretary Yang Xiu pretended to be strict, and people asked Xiu: 'how do you know it'? Xiu said: 'husband chicken ribs, it's a pity to discard them, eat them If you don’t get anything, compare it to Hanzhong, and the king of Zhi (Cao Cao) wants to return it.'”