Chapter 29 Introduction to "A Little Ten Years" by Ye Yongzhen

This is a book written by a young man, with a modern living youth as the main character, describing his actions and thoughts in ten years. Old traditions and new thoughts are all over him, the entanglement of love and hatred, the conflict of emotion and reason, the iteration of lingering and final love, the ups and downs of joy and despair, all follow this "little decade". unfold to form a sentimental book, a personal book.But the times are modern, so we transitioned from the "progress" that the old family hoped for to the revolution, from a small county with inconvenient transportation to Guangzhou, the "birthplace of the revolution", and from the lack of freedom in marriage to a great society. Reformation—but I see no bridge between them.

A revolutionary will—and has already (!)—struggled for the happiness of the masses, but only forgives the relatives who oppressed him first, and moves his guns to the old society that is surrounded by enemies but sees no enemies anywhere; A revolutionist will fight for the liberation of others, but when he loses his lover, he wants her to be responsible for himself, and for the sake of the revolution, he does not want to have a rival in love--the greater the ambition, the higher the hope, where you can devote yourself The less you have, the more you can explain yourself. ——Finally, even the shadow of Yui's own first-class reality flashed for an instant.Here, there is an individualist standing still, looking at the banner of groupism, but before "restarting the journey" [2], I did not find the bridge between them.After Sakyamuni[3] was born, it was Hinayana who cut meat to feed eagles and devoted himself to feeding tigers, while those who preached indistinctly were Mahayana, and they always developed. I think that's where the secret lies.

However, the life of this book is here.He described the heart of a part of the youth who carried the tradition and was stirred up by the trend of thought in the world. He wrote gradually, without any concealment or pretense, although there were occasional excuses, but these justifications were exactly what had been removed. own clothes.At least, it will be a mirror for the present and a record for the future, no doubt about it.How many great signboards have been hung on the literary stalls since last year, but within a year, they have reported the whole deceit in a disguised form and nothing. Works with their own content, to repel the emptiness after the deception.Because writers and artists must at least have the sincerity and courage to express their opinions directly. If they are not willing to express their hearts, let alone have any consciousness.

I think the most meaningful part is the stage where we gradually move toward the battlefield. No matter what our consciousness is, in short, many young people, starting from Dongjiang, Shanghai, Wuhan, and Jiangxi, fought for the revolution. Some of them held various hopes. , died on the battlefield, and no longer see whether the golden chair or the tiger-skin chair is placed on it.All kinds of revolutions are carried out in this way. Therefore, from the perspective of those who implement them, they are still the work of idlers. The achievement of this book is due to the youth who had revolutionized but did not die.I think that many people who are alive and reading novels feel the same way.

Technology is unpretentious.Because things are narrated year by year, the articles are also poured down, so that the author does not want to call it a novel in the "Postscript" [4], but it is naturally a novel.What I feel is cumbersome is that there are too many reasonings, and a little was cut out during the proofreading. If the original work is damaged instead, it will become the proofreader's responsibility.There is also something that seems to be a disadvantage but is actually an advantage. It is the lack of vocabulary. Since the rise of new literature, I have not forgotten my old habits and often used idioms such as mine, and deliberately misused new words that no one understands, such as the first-class characters of the Creation Society. , all separate literature and art from the public, but this book sweeps them away to make it easier for readers to understand. However, there are many new terms that hinder it.

After reading this book, it was already a month ago, and because I had to write a few sentences, I wrote these words based on what I can remember now.I am not a member of the "critics" of the "struggle" that is set by any society, so I can only say what I want to say.I am very pleased to introduce this real work to China, and I am also eager to see the new light of the works after "Returning to the Journey". On July 28, 1929, in Shanghai, written by Lu Xun. BB [1] This article was originally published in the eighth issue of the first volume of the "Chunchao Monthly" in Shanghai on August 15, 1929.

Ye Yongzhen, a native of Yueqing, Zhejiang, was a student of the fifth phase of the Whampoa Military Academy during the First Civil Revolutionary War, and later became an officer of the Kuomintang army. "Little Ten Years" is an autobiographical novel by him, which was published by Shanghai Chunchao Bookstore in September 1929. 〔2〕The last chapter of "Returning to the Journey" and "Little Ten Years". [3] Sakyamuni (Sakyamuni, about 565-486 BC) the founder of Buddhism.According to legend, he is the son of King Jingfan of the northern Zhujiapiluowei Kingdom (in today's Nepal).

〔4〕The author of the novel said in the "Postscript": "There are tens of thousands of words written here. But I don't know what I wrote. Is it a novel? It's not like it! Is it an essay? It's not like it!"