Chapter 31 Howe's Discount

Wei Suo The discount of Haoyu is actually a discount in literature. The author's self-reporting often has to be discounted, and even the confession is not "extraordinary" because it is pitiful and useless[2], let alone Haoyu. There is no need to mention the heroic words of the fairy Li Taibai[3]; even Li Changji[4], a ghostly genius with long fingernails and as thin as a stick, also said, "I bought the Ruoyexi Water Sword, and I will serve the Duke of Ape when I return to the Ming Dynasty." It's so overwhelming, I want to learn how to be an assassin.This should be rounded to zero, and the evidence is that he didn't go after all.In the Southern Song Dynasty, the country was facing hardships, and Lu Fangweng[5] was naturally one of the generous party. He once said: "I am ashamed of the desert, and how can the kings weep at the new pavilion?" into zero. ——But I don't have a book at hand, and there may be mistakes in citing poems, so I will make a discount here first.

In fact, this pretentious temper is not just for literati, ordinary people or philistines are also very developed.When A and B fight in the city, the loser will probably say, "I recognize you!" This means that he will be like Wu Zixu [6] and vow to take revenge.However, most of them don't come. If they are intellectuals, they may use some other schemes. But for rough people, this is often the end of the struggle. They say what they say without meaning, and they don't care about what they listen to. It often ends in a fight. It's a ritual. Old novelists have already seen through this situation. After writing about prostitutes fighting with others and attacking other people's thieves as usual, he wrote in his preface: "My old lady means that a man can stand on her head, and a horse can run on her arms..." [7 ] What's next?He lets others discount.He knew that other people would never be so foolish and would fully believe it, but he still had to say this, just like selling counterfeit medicines, the wrapper must have "deliberately deceiving the world, and the thunder and fire" is printed on it, and it has become a ritual.

However, due to different times, there are also those who immediately discounted themselves.For example, in advertisements, we sometimes see ourselves saying, "I am a person who does not change my name when I am sitting, and does not change my surname when I am on the job" [8]. Suddenly, there is a kind of respect as if I have met the character in [9], but then " Even though I sometimes use other pseudonyms, I shall be responsible for the articles I publish.” But he twisted his body, and Tu Xingsun [10] seemed to have disappeared.How can I "use another pen name"?I have no choice but to.Shanghai was originally a part of China, so of course it was educated by Confucius.It is a merchant, and the gold-lettered signboard of "no second price" inside the cabinet often reflects each other with the banner of "big cheap" outside, but he always has a reason: either to promote domestic products, or to commemorate the opening.

Therefore, even if it is discounted, it is still not enough. All "old Shanghai" must be beaten again. August 4th. [1] This article was first published on August 8, 1933 in "Shenbao·Free Talk". [2] Confessing that it is pitiful and useless means that it has been possible.See note [7] on page 221 of this volume. 〔3〕Li Taibai (701-762), named Bai and styled Taibai, was born in Chengji, Longxi (now Qin'an, Gansu), and later moved to Changlong, Mianzhou (now Jiangyou, Sichuan), a poet of the Tang Dynasty.His poems are bold and unconstrained and elegant, and he is known as "the fairy of poetry".Later generations of literati once compared him with Li Changji mentioned below. For example, Qi and others in the Northern Song Dynasty said that "Taibai is a fairy, and Changji is a ghost" (see "General Research on Literature Sixty-nine").

[4] Li Changji (790-816), named He, styled Changji, was born in Changgu (now Yiyang, Henan), a poet of the Tang Dynasty. "New Book of Tang Literature and Art Biography" said that he was "slender, with straight eyebrows and long fingers and claws".His poems are rich in imagination, strange and novel.The two sentences quoted here are the seventh of the thirteen poems in his "South Garden", which means that he is going to learn fencing. "Ape Gong" published "Wuyue Spring and Autumn" Volume 9: The more virgins, good at swordsmanship, applied to see Goujian. On the way, they met an old man who claimed to be Yuan Gong and asked to compete with her. In the end, the two fought against each other, and the old man flew up to the branch , turned into a white ape and went away. 〔5〕Lu Fangweng (1125-1210) was named You, with a style of word Wuguan, and his own name was Fangweng. He was born in Shanyin (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province), and was a poet in the Southern Song Dynasty.He lived in an era of foreign invasion and national decline, and his poems were impassioned.The two sentences quoted here are from his poem "Yebo Water Village", which means that although he is old, he can still go to the frontier to drive out the enemy and encourage others not to be pessimistic about state affairs. "Xinting" published "Shishuoxinyu · Speech": In the early years of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, a group of scholar-bureaucrats who fled from the north to Jiankang (now Nanjing) had a banquet in Xinting (in the south of today's Nanjing) one day. (Zuo Pushe, Minister of the Jin and Yuan Dynasties) Thinking of Luoyang, the capital of the Western Jin Dynasty, he sighed and said: "The scenery is not different, but the rivers and mountains are different!" So everyone "looked at each other and shed tears".

〔6〕Wu Zixu (? - before 484), a member of the Chu State in the Spring and Autumn Period.King Ping of Chu killed his father Wu She and elder brother Wu Shang, and he fled to the state of Wu to seek revenge; his assistant Wu Wang Helu (one as Helu) attacked Chu, broke through Ying (now Jiangling, Hubei), the capital of Chu, and dug In the tomb of King Ping, three hundred corpses were whipped. 〔7〕 These two sentences are the words of the character Pan Jinlian in the novel "Water Margin", see the twenty-fourth chapter of the book.The original work is "a man can stand on his fist, and a horse can walk on his arm". 〔8〕This sentence and the following sentence "Even if you sometimes use other pen names..." are the words of Zhang Ziping's notice published in Shanghai "Current Affairs News" on July 6, 1933. See "Pseudo Free Book Postscript ".

[9] Originally titled, Chivalrous Novels of the Qing Dynasty, a total of 120 chapters, signed "Shi Yukun Shu", published in 1879.Ten years later, the first chapter was rewritten by Yu Yue and the whole book was revised and renamed.The characters narrated in the book often say the phrase "don't change your name when you sit, and don't change your surname when you walk". 〔10〕Tuxing Sun is a character in the novels of gods and demons in the Ming Dynasty. In the novels, he is good at "the technique of walking on the ground"-"twisting the body, and disappearing immediately".