Chapter 25 Talents of Grand View Garden

In the early years, the grand finale in the Grand View Garden was Lao Lao cursing the mountain gate. 〔2〕That is for Lao Dan to appear on the stage, and he will "let go" in an old-fashioned way, 〔3〕 until the trousers are worn behind.At that time, pointing at unarmed or disarmed people and shouting "Kill, kill, kill!" [4] How majestic the cry was.So it - the old woman in the male role, can also be regarded as a talent. But the world is very different now, the hand is like a knife, but the mouth needs "freedom, freedom, freedom", "open ××" [5] and so on.The grand finale is about to change.

As a result, talents come out in large numbers, each with their own ingenuity and differences. The ones who appear on the stage are not Laodan, but Huadan, and this is not the usual Huadan, but the "Joking Dan" as mentioned in the advertisements of Shanghai School Opera.This is a special kind of character, he (she) can be charming and playful, can be flirtatious, and can be glib.In short, this is the role of a female actress and a clown.I don't know if it's the hero created by the times (it's more appropriate to say "beauty"), or is it the result of years of experience?

For a beautiful woman who said "many years", it is naturally Xu Niang who has seen a lot of people. She has long been promoted from a kiln sister to a madam;It is easy to sell yourself, but it is more difficult to sell others.Now there are not only unarmed people, but also... and rape, which is too explicit.To be able to cope with such extraordinary changes, one must have extraordinary talents.Think about it: the grand finale now is to fight like peace, fight and make peace, not surrender but not defend, surrender and defend! [7] What a difficult play this is.It is not good to pretend to be charming without half-pushing and half-doing.Mencius said, “It’s easy to exchange people with the world.” [8] In fact, it’s not difficult to simply hold “the world” in your hands and go “with people”.The problem is that it can't.So I have tears and snot, weeping and crying, and complaining loudly: If I don’t fall into the fire pit [9], whoever will fall into the fire pit.

However, the prostitute said that she fell into the fire pit herself, and she still wanted someone to rescue her; while the old bustress cried into the fire pit, no one might believe her, not to mention that she had already stated that she opened her arms and was ready to drag everyone into the fire pit.Although, the joke in this fresh finale is not bad, it's not very talented, even if you try your best, you can't think of it. Lao Dan enters, Joke once exits, there are quite a lot of talents in Grand View Garden!April twenty-fourth. [1] This article was originally published in "Shen Shen Free Talk" on April 26, 1933, signed by Qian.

〔2〕The garden of Jia's Mansion in the Grand View Garden is a metaphor for the Kuomintang government.Liu Laolao is a figure in the Chinese, here refers to Wu Zhihui, a reactionary politician in the Kuomintang who calls himself a "veteran" (he was once called "Wu Laolao").Wu Zhihui, see note [2] on page 125 of this volume. [3] A big "letting go" of Wu Zhihui's reactionary speeches, the words "fart" often appear, for example, he said in "The Epilogue of the Weak": "In short, in general, you can only make proposals and fart. ...I will play it again today, and I will finish it after I emptied my stomach." "Put on your pants later" is what Zhang Taiyan reprimanded Wu Zhihui in "Revisiting Wu Jingheng's Book": "Be good at pinching your mouth, don't make your carbuncle lick ; Make good use of trousers, don’t let them wear later.” (Contained in "Min Bao" No. 22, 1908)

[4] Refers to Wu Zhihui acting as an accomplice when Chiang Kai-shek betrayed the revolution in April 1927, clamoring to "down" and "severely deal with" the Communists and the revolutionary masses. [5] "Open ××" refers to the "open regime" advocated by some Kuomintang politicians at that time. 〔6〕Xu Niang's "Southern History · Concubine Biography" has a record about Xu Zhaopei, the concubine of Emperor Liang Yuan: "Although Xu Niang is old, she is still affectionate."This refers to Wang Jingwei. 〔7〕The words "like war, like peace" satirize the ugly appearance of Wang Jingwei and others who wanted to surrender to the sun but also wanted to cover up their surrender.For example, on April 14, 1933, when Wang Jingwei answered a reporter's question in Shanghai, he said: "The national crisis is so serious, if you talk about war, you may lose your teachers and lose ground; if you talk about peace, you may lose your power and humiliate the country; Both are in danger.”

〔8〕 "Using the world to change with people" see "Mencius Teng Wengong": "Take the world to change with people, and make people difficult for the world." [9] Into the Pit of Fire Wang Jingwei said when answering a reporter's question in Shanghai on April 14, 1933: "At present, people in the Nanjing government are anxious at their core, which is the same as throwing themselves into a pit of fire. We embrace the national crisis together. Determined to jump into the fire pit, and at the same time... sincerely invite comrades to jump into the fire pit together."