Chapter 32 my attitude and age

Heroic publications are emerging one after another, and the "Breakthrough of Literature and Art" [2] has indeed become lively.The title "Front Line" on the daily advertisements caught people's attention, and one could tell that they were all soldiers.Thanks to a friend who sent me three copies, I saw a little gun smoke, and realized that there was a bullet in "On China's Present Literary World" by Ruoshui [3], which was aimed at me.why?Because first of all, "Drunken Eyes" made a mistake.It is said that there are three mistakes: one is attitude, the other is temperament, and the third is age.Retelling is easy to be distorted, so let's put this bullet below: "Lu Xun's article was very disrespectful, and his attitude was too unpleasant. From his successive debates, we have to say that his tolerance is too narrow. First (as far as we know) he fought with Xiying, and then with Changhong[4]. On the one hand, we felt that integrity was on his side, and on the other hand, we felt that Cifeng was a bit too harsh, and now he is fighting with Creation Society , Ci Feng is still bitter, but integrity does not necessarily fall on his side.

Yes, Fangwu and Chuli can refute his criticisms, but this should be stated solemnly, because the direction they are going in cannot be regarded as wrong. Criticizing Tottenham is only for the stubborn. Necessary because it is unreasonable. This kind of attitude is definitely not suitable for those who are enthusiastically advancing.His attitude, although he himself may feel that he can scold him happily, but his tone is enough to show that the "old man" is really not good enough.Well, this matter should not be forced and possible, let everyone go their own way.We can't help but think of Mr. Lin Qinnan [5] during the May Fourth Movement! "

Although this paragraph does not involve right and wrong, but only in terms of attitude, measure, and tone, it is concluded that this "old man is really not good", and since then I have naturally erased my article, but at a rough glance, it looks like a third party from the sidelines. criticism.From my point of view, there are quite a few "bitter" things. The author is probably a young man, and he will not have the air of an "old man". This is probably because I am "stubborn", so I have to use it as a last resort, or it is myself. do not think so.However, I want to point out that this anonymous Mr. Ruoshui is actually on the side of the Creation Society.I'm not saying that these fighters probably saw his footsteps in the Creation Society, or had a job in the Art University [6], but that they are of the same type.Therefore, the so-called "front" is still only the front of the Creation Society.So when I fought with Xiying Changhong, although he saw integrity, he didn't make a sound. Now when I was fighting with Creation Society, I only saw bitterness, and suddenly appeared as a soldier.In fact, my "integrity" that I have judged twice is still the strategy of "give what you want first" by the old man Lao Dan who has been dead for more than two thousand years. Appreciate this kind of public comment.Chen Xiying also knows this kind of tactics. Because he wanted to overthrow my short comments, he praised my novels to see his justice. [8] Even if I really thought that the first two times were upright on my side, it is still because Mr. Ruo Shui is not of the same lineage, the same company, the same faction, and the same stream... .From their side, things were different.After I "fighted with Xiying", Tang Youren of the modern department once said that the remarks in "Yusi" were ordered by Mosco;[9] after "fighting with Changhong", Chang Yansheng of the Cyclones School The suspension of the edition of "Hurricane" may be due to my conspiracy.But apart from the two of us, I am afraid that few people have noticed or remembered it.It's easy to slip past if you don't do your own thing.

For the Creation Society this time, yes, it is "very disrespectful", which is not "dignified"; even when I think it is going straight, they can still think it is "bitter".So the "controversy" has become a "war of attitude", "war of capacity", and "war of age".But the "attitude" towards me that imitated my generation, although the soldiers disdain to notice it, I understand it myself.I have a brother, and I think that I am "unreasonable", and when it was published, the critic ridiculed it: "This time it was edited by my brother, it is really much better." [10] This tradition was not seen until five years later in Feng Naichao's thesis, saying that he "said a few beautiful words of humanitarianism to his brother out of boredom."No matter what my proposition is, even if it is the same, why is it "boring" to say the same?Does it mean that as soon as there are "brothers", we must oppose it, one should talk about revolution, the other should talk about royalism, and the other should study geography, while the other should study astronomy?Also, my miscellaneous feeling of co-printing for one year is that it is irrelevant to print the historical materials of novels previously published as "Novel Old News Notes".This Mr. Cheng Fangwu edited it and said: "Our Mr. Lu Xun is sitting under the canopy and is copying his 'novel old news'." This made Li Chuli very happy, and this year he copied it in "Cultural Criticism" He was so happy that "this article by him (Cheng Fangwu) is more interesting than 'interesting literature. "; because I am older than them, I said "Old Scholar" and added: "If I allow me to express it in literature."

And this "old" mistake was returned to Mr. Ruoshui in "Battle Front" as the root cause of "it really doesn't work".I am confident that for the Creation Society, I would not use their hometown, family, and age as materials for ridicule, but I accidentally wrote an article this year, which for the first time pointed out the contradictions and jokes in their writing.But the problem of "attitude" came, and the problem of "measurement" also came, and even the soldiers thought it was mean.Is it necessary for me to imitate Tolstoy, whom the revolutionary writers refer to as "dirty", without any resistance, or the last statement: "The petty bourgeoisie or the propertied class minister Lu Xun sincerely submits to the revolutionary '[12] Under the Master's command", isn't this not "really not possible"?

As for me being an "old man", it is indeed my fault. During the "Battle with Changhong", he also pointed out this big mistake of mine, and also laughed at my illness. 〔13〕And it is true, I did get sick, this time Ruoshui, the "little boss", has nothing to say about this section, which shows that some young people still have a simple heart and are very kind.Therefore, he also separated the use of "crying at Tottenham" and set preferential treatment conditions for "enthusiastically advancing".It's a pity that I was born too early, and I no longer belong to that category and cannot enjoy the same treatment.But fortunately, I didn't really go to the battle line when I was young. I was traumatized. If I had a disability, it would be another excuse. Now I really don't know how much ridicule I will suffer.This is the benefit of "not revolutionizing", and we should thank ourselves for it.

In fact, this time I can't do it, it's just me who can't do it, it has nothing to do with my age.Tolstoy, Kropotgen[14], and Max, although their words and deeds may be "dirty" or not, they have all worked hard all their lives. I look at their photos and they all have big beards.It is probably not fair to kill all "old men" because of me.However, China, of course, is somewhat special, and there are many things that are not good.Young people are still mature, and old people are of course mature.Mr. Lin Qinnan really should have thought about it. He was really in his twilight years later. Because he opposed the vernacular and could not argue, he wrote an insinuation novel from Hengdaoer[15], which made a warrior beat up the reformer. "One point is to be fascinated by "the literature and art of weapons".The old and the new often have very much in common—for example, individualists and socialists are often opposed to the bourgeoisie, conservatives and reformers are often both advocating the art of life, and both denounce darkness. All communists hate humanitarianism, etc.—the case of Mr. Lin Qinnan is also a proof.As for the reason why it didn't work, the key lies in the fact that he was born earlier and didn't know that this class would be "overwhelmed and changed" and changed his plan early, so in the final analysis, he clearly showed the true nature of Fascist.But I don't think it's worth worrying about the "old man". He always dies before the young man.Mr. Lin Qinnan was already dead.What's scary is that the young man who will be the pillar of the future is still talking like him.

When I come to talk again, my capacity is too small, and if I continue to talk, it will be even smaller. "Integrity" is not only "not necessarily" on this side, but it must not be on this side.What's more, what I say is my own business, not the people of the "big poor" [16]. . . .But even though what is being said is only personal, some see only the individual, while others see the background or circumstance.For example, in the book "Lu Xun in Guangdong", soldiers this year suddenly thought that the editor and the edited were trying to achieve immortality,[17] so they were "irritated" after reading it, and they also gave a little sneer at "stubbornness".But I think this is too idealistic. There is no such thing as immortality, so what is immortality? This is what modern people generally know.So there will be this book, but it is actually just printed in black on white paper, bound into a book, and sold as a commodity.No matter how it is brewed, the so-called "Lu Xun" is often just used as a raw material.This approach is unavoidable even for creative societies that "are not going in the wrong direction."Although Trotsky [18] has "declined", he once said that articles with no stake in them should be in a society with another system in the future.I thought he was right.

April 20th. BB [1] This article was originally published in the nineteenth issue of the fourth volume of "Yusi" on May 7, 1928. 〔2〕 "The division of literature and art" was a common term used by colleagues in the Creation Society at that time.For example, in the second issue of "Cultural Criticism" (February 1928), Cheng Fangwu said in the article "Send Them": "In the field of literature and art, we should combine all the drugs that anesthetize our social consciousness with those that praise us. Find out the enemy's lyrics, give them back to the writers, and send them along." [3] "Battle Front", a weekly literary and artistic magazine, was first published in Shanghai on April 1, 1928, and was discontinued until the fifth issue.This article, signed by Ruoshui, was originally titled "On the Literary World in China Now", and it appeared in the first issue of the journal.Ruoshui, that is, Pan Zinian (1893-1972), a native of Yixing, Jiangsu, was a philosopher.

〔4〕Battle with Xiying From 1925 to 1926, Lu Xun and Chen Xiying of the modern critics engaged in fierce debates over the Women's Normal University incident, the May 30th tragedy and the March 18th tragedy.Fighting with Changhong refers to Lu Xun's counterattack against Gao Changhong's slander at the end of 1926. [5] Lin Qinnan (1852-1924), named Shu, nicknamed Weilu, was born in Minhou (now Fuzhou), Fujian, and was a translator.According to other people's dictation, he translated more than one hundred European and American literary works in classical Chinese, which had a great influence at that time.In his later years, he was a representative of the conservative faction who opposed the May Fourth New Culture Movement.

〔6〕University of Arts is the Shanghai University of the Arts, a school specializing in painting founded by Zhou Qinhao. In 1928, with the cooperation of the Creation Society, three departments of literature, fine arts and social sciences were established. The main courses were shared by colleagues from the Creation Society. 〔7〕Laodan is Laozi, a native of Chu State in the late Spring and Autumn Period, and the founder of the Taoist school.Quote from: "What you want to take, you must give." 〔8〕Chen Xiying (1896-1970), named Yuan, courtesy name Tongbo, pen name Xiying, was born in Wuxi, Jiangsu, and was an important member of the Modern Criticism School.He used to be a professor at Peking University and Wuhan University.In his "Gossip" in the third volume of "Modern Review" No. 71 (April 17, 1926), he first said that Lu Xun's "representative works" of short stories in the first ten years of new literature, Then he attacked Lu Xun's essays: "I can't stop saying that Mr. Lu Xun's novels are good just because I don't respect his personality, and I can't praise his other articles just because I admire his novels. I think his miscellaneous feelings, except Except for the second and third chapters, there is really no value for the first reading." [9] Tang Youren (1893-1935) was born in Liuyang, Hunan. A frequent contributor to "Modern Review", and later served as the undersecretary of foreign affairs of the Kuomintang government, and a well-known pro-Japanese faction.On May 12, 1926, the Shanghai tabloid "Jing Bao" published an article "Modern Reviews Bought? " news, citing the 76th issue of "Yusi" about "Modern Review" accepting Duan Qirui's subsidy, Tang Youren conveniently wrote to "Jingbao" on the 18th of the same month to defend, and spread rumors: ""Modern Review" was The news of the acquisition originated in Moscow, Russia." [10] Cheng Fangwu said in the second issue of the second volume of the quarterly magazine (January 1924) "Comments on "Shouting"": "After it was published, almost all publications shouted for it, and everyone talked about it. It's always been it, but it's really hard for me to get one. There are many articles in it that I have seen in newspapers and magazines, but most of them are hand-edited by the author's disciples, so it is very bad. Mr. Zhou Zuoren, your younger brother, compiled it, and it looks much better." [11] See Li Chuli's "How to Build Revolutionary Literature", published in "Cultural Criticism" No. 2 (February 1928). 〔12〕The transliteration of "Yintie Ligengchaiya" in Russian YJ[GFFT]GJaTb, that is, knowledge divergent printing* [13] Gao Changhong slandered Lu Xun as a "sophisticated old man" and ridiculed him as a "sophisticated old man" in his "1925 Beijing Publishing Industry Situation in Hand" published in the fifth issue of "Hurricane" (November 7, 1926). Entering the state of psychosomatic illness." 〔14〕Kropot Geng (EAcAd`KaK [OTJ, 1842-1921]) was the interpreter of Krue Pao Tanse  砉  spelling   gluttonous *. [15] Lin Qinnan's allusive novel, titled "Jing Sheng", was published in Shanghai's "Xin Shen Bao" on February 17, 1919. [16] "Great Poverty" Ruoshui said in "On the Literary World of China Now": "Although China only has big and small poverty, and there is no disparity between classes, the small poverty is not small enough to qualify as the capitalist class." , The great poverty is so big that it is enough to qualify as the proletariat of others!" According to the term "great poverty", it was first seen in Sun Yat-sen's "Three Principles of the People·People's Livelihood Principles": "Everyone in China is poor, there is no great wealth, only great poverty The difference between the poor and the poor." [17] "Lu Xun in Guangdong", edited by Zhong Jingwen.After Lu Xun arrived in Guangzhou, there were twelve articles about Lu Xun in newspapers and periodicals at that time, four of which were attached to Lu Xun's essays and speech records. They were published by Shanghai Beixin Bookstore in July 1927.Regarding "immortality", see "I Come..." and "I Go..." in the article "I Come..." and "I Go..." in the second issue of the first volume of the "Front" weekly magazine (April 8, 1928), signed by Nakimitsu. Said: "When I saw the book "Lu Xun in Guangdong", I just read the title of the book that can seduce people... Lu Xun is immortal, and so is the editor Zhong Jingwen." [18] Trodzky (XAeAZ`KaOT1879 ——1940) Interpreter of Trotsky T 缒霍音卫砉と父朱该唩* He participated in the leadership of Soviet Russia in the early days, and was arrested by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks) in 1927 for opposing the Soviet regime. Expelled from the party, he was expelled from the country in 1929 and died in Mexico.To quote his words here, see Chapter 8 "Revolutionary and Socialist Art" of "Literature and Revolution".