Chapter 14 Remarks: The Standpoint of the Recommender (Shi Zhecun)

——Mr. Wan Qiu in the debate with "Selected Works": I recommended two old books to young people in your newspaper, which unfortunately aroused the instruction of Mr. Feng Zhiyu, who appointed me as "a member of the lost youth".Ever since I read the old man's article "After Feeling the Old" (Part 1), I don't want to write any more, because as far as I think of it, persuading young people to read new books will naturally attract more people than persuading them to read old books.After all, Mr. Feng Zhiyu is old and strong enough to be the leader of the young people.As for me, although I don’t dare to think that I am a child, I have indeed lost my youthful vitality. In this environment where everything is autumn, even Mr. Feng Zhiyu’s new spirit is not enough to revive my middle-aged feeling. .Therefore, I would like to use a corner of your newspaper to change the recommended bibliography for young people that I published on your newspaper on September 29: I would like to change "Selected Works" to Mr. Lu Xun's sequel.I think that Mr. Lu Xun is a "veteran in the literary world" of the contemporary era, and his works have a very large vocabulary of movable characters, and according to what Mr. Feng Zhiyu told me, Mr. Lu Xun's articles do indeed contain some words from "Wen Xuan" , such as "Zhihuzheye" and the like.

In this way, I think the effect on young people is the same.Originally, I would like to recommend one or two works by Mr. Feng Zhiyu, but unfortunately there are only Mr. Feng Zikai’s books, but not Mr. Feng Zhiyu’s. Maybe he is like Mr. Lu Xun’s printed woodcuts. It is a rare book, and I am ashamed of my ignorance that I cannot recommend it. In addition, I also want to introduce Mr. Fengzhiyu to your newspaper. If your newspaper has plans to solicit opinions in the future, you can try to send a form to Mr. Fengzhiyu. I think it will definitely provide some valuable information. Opinion. However, if the solicitation has something to do with "a missing limb", then you might as well send it to me.

I saw your newspaper yesterday, and I know that you are going to invite the readers of your newspaper to participate in the discussion on this case.I wonder if I can ask you to cancel this plan.I've often thought of two people fighting words in a newspaper as boxers under arc lights, the editor as the skinny referee rushing around, and the readers as irrational spectators in the dark.The skinny referee always wants the boxers to fight round after round until one of them falls down. One, Two, Three... can't stand up, so they run to the panting winner and lift up the boxer. The shoulders of his big leather gloves shouted "Mr. XWintheChampion." Just think about it, isn't this too funny?Now, I have the misfortune to be one of the two boxers myself, but I don't want to go on with the antics for the sake of thin referees and spectators.And I hope you don't want to be that skinny referee.Don't you see those few common sayings quoted in Mr. Zhishui's article in today's "Free Talk"? "The tongue is flat, but the speech is round", do you think there will be truth and wrong from the readers' discussions?

Shi Zhecun.October eighteenth. October 19, "Big Evening News", "Torch". When I wrote "Pu Kong" a few days ago, I didn't have a book at hand, and I only relied on my memory when I was writing "Pu Kong", and I was afraid of mistakes, so I tried to find the original book to check. I discovered that I was wrong about the description of Yan Zhitui.Its "Jiaozi Pian" says: "There was a scholar-bureaucrat in the Qi Dynasty. He said to me: I have a son who is seventeen years old. He is quite familiar with books. I taught him Xianbei language and playing the pipa. I want to understand it a little bit, so I can serve the public I do not want to be spoiled, but it is also a matter. I always refuse to answer. The difference is that this person is also the godson. If this career is self-inflicted, I don’t want Ru Cao to do it.”

However, the method of Qi scholars is the method of officials and businessmen after Gengzi. Mr. Shi Zhecun combined the two models of Qi scholars and Yan's, and it is also the method of some people today. It can be called "Northern Dynasty style morality". "It is also a serious problem in society. As for Yan, I should have been very sorry, but he has died long ago, whether I apologize or not is irrelevant, now I am only here to correct my mistake to Mr. Shi and the readers. October twenty-fifth. Breakthrough Shi Zhecun (8) For Mr. Feng Zhiyu, I did "slap a few punches", which may become my lifelong regret.However, Mr. Feng's "Fighting the Air" was not "empty", it still attacked me, and the articles on Mr. Feng's side (or on the side of righteousness and evil) "suppressed" me every day, and I But it really feels like "one person's suffering".

However, I discovered the logic of Mr. Feng's composition from the article "Pu Kong". He said, "I have already stated that the previous text was not written for him personally." But there is "because his refutation is more empty than I expected" below.What's the point of not posting just for me, but expecting my rebuttal? Because I was "censored", I also felt that there was something wrong with the two books "Anthology", so in a letter to the editor of "Da Evening News", I asked him to allow me to edit two new literature books. The facts are indeed true. So.I don't mean that Mr. Feng hated me for not recommending these two new literature books and "opposed to "Anthology of Works", but Mr. Feng said that I had such thoughts. How can this be a "lunci" statement?

Mr. Feng brought up the topic of "Yan's Family Instructions" and two books I was reading, and talked about it, saying that recommending "Yan's Family Instructions" is to teach young people to learn Xianbei language, play the pipa, and serve I am a noble person, and I set an example by reading a foreign book; Yan Zhitui is said to be "like a Confucian scholar, but he is devoted to Buddhism", so I also read a Buddhist book; from Mr. Feng's explanation, it seems that Even I laughed out loud, what a coincidence in the world! I clearly remember that there is indeed a story in "Yan's Family Instructions" that someone taught his children to learn Xianbei language and pipa, but I still remember that there is a sentence at the bottom: "I don't want Ru Cao to do it." Do not persuade children to read foreign books.Today, Mr. Feng has a "right and wrong". After he corrected the story, he said: "Mr. Shi Zhecun is a combination of the two types of Qishi and Yan."

This, I don’t understand, did I introduce another book that should be “Qi Shi” to young people?If Mr. Feng's logic is based on "reading foreign books by oneself means persuading others to learn Xianbei", then I have nothing to say.Mr. Feng seems to be a person who wants to fight for the orthodoxy of Confucianism, otherwise why is he so contemptuous of Yan Zhitui's influence of Buddhism?Why am I so dissatisfied with reading a copy of "The Biography of Sakyamuni" by myself?Here, there are two points that can be raised: (1) Can the value of the book "Yan's Family Instructions" be completely obliterated because of "Guixin Pian"?Moreover, although Yan's eyes are on Buddhism, he does not advocate being born out of the world and escaping from reality. He only lists the points that Buddhism and Confucianism can go hand in hand, and adopts the theory of retribution from Buddhism to make up for the lack of moral teachings of Confucianism. This can also be said to be the same as people quoting words from the "Bible" or "Koran". (2) When I look at a "Buddhist Practice Sutra", its meaning is the same as reading a "Biography of Mohammad" or "Biography of Christ". Mr. Feng's article is said to be my "method of crossing the world". It's so wonderful.

I used to show respect to Mr. Feng, even though I was a bit too aggressive in writing, but when I read the article "Pu Kong", he actually called me "the villain in the foreign field", and the sound of gnashing of teeth was audible. Although I was "evil", I didn't dare to be so evil that I would repay it with a rather vicious voice.As for me, to use a ready-made poem: "Ten years of dreaming in the literary world, I won a bad name in foreign circles", which is of no importance, but for Mr. Feng, I think I will regret it.Today, when I read "Right and Wrong" in "Fighting Kong", I feel that Mr. Feng's so-called "groundless slander, my own guessing, acting like a baby, and pretending to be stupid" just happened to be reserved for my own "portrait". (Note) I did not add the two titles on the "Da Evening News", I have no "position", and I am not willing to quarrel with the two books "Anthology" because of me.

Answer Mr. Feng Yu from the right. (27th). October 31st, November 1st, "Free Talk". [1] This article was originally published in "Shenbao Free Talk" on October 23 and 24, 1933. [2] For "Da Evening News", see note [4] on page 24 of this volume.Since April 1933, the newspaper has added the "Torch" supplement, edited by Cui Wanqiu. [3] "Xiaoyaoyou" was originally the title of the book, and it is borrowed here. [4] "Yan's Family Instructions" pushed by Yan Zhi of the Northern Qi Dynasty.Yan was originally from Liang in the Southern Dynasty, and later defected to the Northern Qi Dynasty under the Xianbei regime.At the beginning of the Sui Dynasty, the prince called him a bachelor.The era he lived in was the period when the Xianbei tribe was in the dominant position after the Wuhu Rebellion.

〔5〕 Boxer Boxer is the Boxer Regiment, a spontaneous mass organization organized by peasants and handicraftsmen in northern my country to fight against imperialism in the late Qing Dynasty.In 1900 (Gengzi) he fought bravely against the aggression of the Eight-Power Union Vehicle, but was defeated by the joint suppression of the imperialists and the Qing government. 〔6〕 Shi Zhe kept a copy of "Principles of Literary Criticism" (written by Richard Lee in England) and a copy of "Buddhist Scriptures" in the "Books I'm Reading" column of the "Da Evening News" form asking for answers. [7] "Guixin Pian" is an article in "Yan's Family Instructions".The main purpose is to explain that "the two religions, the inner (Buddhism) and the outer (Confucianism), are originally one", and provide various explanations for some people's criticisms and doubts about Buddhism. At the end of the article, there are several examples of karma.See "Reference" and "Breakout" in this article. [8] Feng Zikai (1898-1975) was born in Tongxiang, Zhejiang, an artist and essayist. [9] "Mencius", a Confucian classic, is a book that records the words and deeds of Meng Ke, a representative of Confucianism in the mid-Warring States Period, compiled by his disciples.