Chapter 59 most artistic country

The greatest, most permanent, and most common "art" in our China is man pretending to be a woman.The value of this art lies in its two-faced light, or what is called "the golden mean"-men see "playing a woman", and women see "a man playing".He is neutral on the surface, but of course he is still a man in his heart.But if you don't pretend, is it still art?For example, China's inherent culture is the imperial examination system, plus donations[2] and the like.At the beginning, it was said that this was too unlike civil rights and out of line with the trend of the times, so it pretended to be the Republic of China.However, the Republic of China has been in disrepair for a long time, and even the signboard has been peeled off, like the makeup on Huadan's face.At the same time, the honest people really want to take power, and they want to get rid of the suffragettes who came from Kejia and donated classes.This is disloyal to the nation, unfilial to the ancestors, and it is really reactionary to the extreme.Now that we have already returned to the "trend of the times" to restore the inherent culture, we can let this kind of disloyalty and unfilial piety go.Therefore, it is even more necessary to redo the role [3], and the draft [4] is as follows: First, who is qualified to represent the nation must be determined by examination.Second, after the Juren is selected, another selection is made, which is called selecting (verb) Juren; and the selected Juren is naturally the elected person.According to grammar, the electors of such a national assembly should be called "electors", and the electors should be called "elected voters".However, if you don't pretend, is it still art?Therefore, they have to pretend to be the electors and candidates of a constitutional country [5], although in essence they are still scholars and candidates.The deep meaning of this draft is here: let the people see it as civil rights, and the ancestors of the nation see it as loyalty and filial piety-loyalty to the nation with the inherent imperial examinations, filial piety to the ancestors who formulated the imperial examinations.In addition, like the civil rights already realized in Shanghai, those who pay taxes have the right to vote and be elected, leaving only 4,465 citizens in the huge Shanghai. 〔6〕Although this is a donation class-the rich are the main ones, but they will definitely pass the exam, and even if they don't make up the exam, they will be awarded the same background as a Jinshi. Isn't it against the inherent culture on the one hand, and on the other hand, it looks like a constitutional government and civil rights?This one.

Second, negotiating and resisting at the same time[8]: From this perspective, it is resistance, but from another perspective, it is actually negotiation.Third, while working as an industrialist and banker, he calls himself a "little poor [9]".Fourth, on the one hand, the sales of Japanese products are booming, and on the other hand, it is said to be "the year of domestic products" [10]...these are too numerous to list, and most of them are very cleverly played, and both sides are smooth. Heh, China is really the most artistic country and the most moderate nation. However, the ordinary people are still dissatisfied, alas, the gentleman is the mean, and the villain is the opposite of the mean [11]!

March 30th. [1] This article was originally published in "Shen Shen Free Talk" on April 2, 1933, signed by He Jiaqian. 〔2〕Donation class refers to the exchange of money for an official position or the qualification to be an official without passing the imperial examination. In the Qing Dynasty, the price was clearly set, and the system of directly donating money to officials was implemented. 〔3〕It was once again played up to refer to Chiang Kai-shek's proposal of "making a draft constitution" and "convening a national assembly" in the spring of 1933.In May 1931, the Kuomintang government held a "National Conference" and announced the so-called "laws for the political training period", so it is said here that "it has been played again".

[4] The draft refers to the draft on "National Assembly organization" drafted by the Kuomintang Government Constitution Drafting Committee on March 24, 1933.The third article stipulates: "The nationals of the Republic of China who have reached the age of 20 have the right to elect representatives, and those who have reached the age of 30 and passed the examination have the right to be elected representatives." [5] Sun Yat-sen, a constitutional country, in his "Outline for the Founding of a Nation", divided the "nation-building" process into three periods: "military administration", "training administration" and "constitutional administration".Advocates holding a National Assembly during the constitutional period, promulgating a constitution, and establishing a government elected by the people.The Kuomintang reactionaries headed by Chiang Kai-shek used the terms "military administration" and "political training" for a long time as an excuse to implement a counter-revolutionary dictatorship and deprive the people of their freedom; But in fact, it is only an attempt to cover up and maintain the dictatorship of the Kuomintang. [6] There are only 4,465 citizens left in Shanghai. The Shanghai mentioned here refers to the Shanghai International Settlement at that time.Since 1928, the Shanghai International Settlement has allowed the "Tax Tax Chinese Association" organized by "high-ranking Chinese" to elect three Chinese directors (increased to five from 1930) and six Chinese committee members to participate in the administration of the concession. Bureau of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce. The articles of association of the "Taxpaying Chinese Association" stipulate that those who have the following qualifications can be members and have the right to vote: 1. Those whose property land value is more than 500 taels (referred to as silver taels); 3. Those who pay a rent of more than five hundred taels a year and pay donations (according to the regulations of the Shanghai International Settlement, the renter shall bear the renter's rent).Those who have the following qualifications and have lived in the public concession for more than five years can be elected as representatives of the "Taxing Chinese Association" Congress and elected as Chinese directors and Chinese committee members of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce: 1. Annual housing and land donations of more than fifty taels ; 2. Those who pay a rent of more than 1,200 taels a year and pay donations.The "4,465 citizens" mentioned in this article refers to those who were counted according to the above conditions when the 12th election was held on March 27, 1933. The number of members includes 2,175 people who have the right to vote and 2,290 people who have the right to be elected.

〔7〕Giving the same Jinshi’s background as stipulated in the Ming and Qing imperial examination systems, those who passed the general examination and then passed the palace examination were divided into three top grades: the first grade was awarded Jinshi and the second grade, the second grade was awarded Jinshi’s background, and the third grade was awarded to the same Jinshi’s background. . 〔8〕 Negotiations while resisting After the 128th World War, Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Jingwei once used "negotiations while resisting" as an excuse to cover up their collusion with Japanese imperialism and the implementation of the non-resistance policy.For example, in February 1932, when Wang Jingwei talked about Sino-Japanese diplomatic issues in his speech in Xuzhou, he said that we should "resist while negotiating" and explained that "because we can't fight, we resist; because we can't make peace, we negotiate. Resistance and negotiation go hand in hand." [9] The word "small poverty" can be found in the second lecture of "People's Livelihood Principles" in the book "Three Principles of the People" written by Sun Yat-sen: "The so-called inequality between the rich and the poor in China is only in the poor class. Among them, there is a distinction between big poverty and small poverty. In fact, China’s top capitalist is just a small poverty compared with foreign capitalists.” Sun Yat-sen meant that Chinese national capitalism was repelled and attacked by foreign capitalism, so It is difficult to develop; but later some Chinese capitalists used this sentence to deny the difference between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie.

〔10〕"Year of Domestic Products" Shanghai's industrial and commercial circles once designated 1933 as the "Year of Domestic Products", and held a parade on New Year's Day of that year to promote it. 〔11〕The two sentences of "a gentleman is the mean" come from "The Book of Rites·The Mean": "Zhong Ni said: 'A gentleman is the mean, and a villain is against the mean.'"