Chapter 44 New Year Miscellaneous Knowledge (1)

brigade falcon On the limited muddy ground outside the door, two teams of ants were fighting. The name of the fairy tale writer Ai Luoxianke [2] has gradually faded from the readers' memory, but at this time I remembered his strange sadness.When he was in Beijing, he once told me seriously: I am afraid, I don’t know if someone will invent a method in the future, as long as he does it, he can turn people into war machines. In fact, this method has been invented long ago, but it is more troublesome, and it cannot be done "how to get here".We only need to look at the books and toys made for children in foreign countries, which often focus on teaching weapons, and we know that this is the equipment for manufacturing war machines, and the manufacturing must start with innocent children.

Not only people, but even insects know it.Among ants, there is a warrior ant, which does not build its own nest, does not ask for food, and spends its whole life attacking other ants, plundering their larvae, making them slaves and serving it.But the strange thing is that it will never prey on adults, because it is already difficult to teach.What it plunders must be limited to larvae and chrysalis, so that it grows up in a cottage without remembering the past, and will always be a foolish and loyal slave. Not only does it serve, but it also follows whenever warrior ants go out to plunder, Helped carry the larvae and pupae of the invaded kin.

But in human beings, uniformity cannot be so simple.This is why man is called the "spirit of all things". However, the manufacturer never let go.When children grow up, they not only lose their innocence, but also become stupid, which we see all the time.Due to the poor economy, the publishing industry is unwilling to publish most of the academic literature and art books, whether they are textbooks or children's books, and they are rolling towards children like the Yellow River bursting.But what is it about?To make our children into what?Critics who have yet to see the battle speak of it, and it seems that few people are paying attention to the future.

The news of the anti-war meeting[3] is rarely seen in the daily newspapers, so it can be seen that war is still a hobby of the Chinese, and giving it indifference is proof that it violates our hobby.Naturally, battles have to be fought, and following the warrior ants to carry the larvae of the loser is still a kind of victory for slavery.However, man is the "spirit of all things" after all, so there is enough.Of course wars have to be fought, to destroy the anthills that make war machines, to destroy the bait that poisons children, to defeat the conspiracy that traps the future: this is the task of the human warrior.

August twenty-eighth. [1] This article was originally published in "Shenbao Free Talk" on September 2, 1933. 〔2〕Ai Luosenke (B.Z.EHG[XG, 1889-1952]) Russian poet and famous poet and poet, who came to China from 21 to 1923 , and got acquainted with Lu Xun, who had translated his works "Peachy Cloud" and "A Collection of Fairy Tales by Ailuo Xianke" and so on. 〔3〕The Anti-War Conference refers to the Far East Conference convened by the World Committee Against Imperialist War in September 1933 in Shanghai.The meeting discussed the issues of opposing Japanese imperialist aggression against China and striving for international peace and equality.Before the meeting, the Kuomintang government, the French Concession, and the authorities of the public concession slandered and obstructed the meeting in various ways, and were not allowed to hold it in the Chinese or foreign concessions.However, with the support of the CCP’s Shanghai Underground Party at that time, it was finally held in secret.British Sir Marley, French writer and editor-in-chief of "Humanite" Vaillant-Gujiuri, and Chinese Soong Ching Ling all attended the meeting; Lu Xun was promoted as the honorary chairman of the presidium.During the preparations for the meeting, Lu Xun tried his best to support and give financial help.In a letter written by Lu Xun to Xiao Jun in December 1934, he said: "The meeting (referring to the anti-war meeting) was held, and a lot of effort was spent; all kinds of news were refused to be published in the newspapers. , so few people in China know about it. The result is not too bad, each representative has a report after returning to China, making the world more aware of the real situation in China. I joined.”