Chapter 6 Look up to the nobility, approach the sages

In June 2004, "Contemporary", a landmark pure literature publication in China, published a long essay "White Rose Forever" by Hu Tou, a professor at the School of Foreign Languages, University of International Business and Economics, which opened a new door for contemporary Chinese literature.This majestic essay that promotes firm beliefs and praises the courage of the common people is full of tiger head's unrestrained and flying personality. It is the fruit of a contemporary Chinese literati's passion for reading the deep soul of the German anti-fascist hero Shu and his brothers and sisters.This article "at first glance the title looks like a love novel" made every reader "read it for a long time, and the blood in his heart surged". It stirred up a thousand waves in the Chinese essay literary world that had been silent for a long time, and won the enthusiastic affirmation of the Chinese literary world immediately after publication .The famous writer Shao Yanxiang first excerpted and commented on this article with the title of "White Rose: Blood in 1943" in the fifth issue of "Essays" in 2004, and compared this article with Mr. Lu Xun's "In memory of Liu Hezhen " on a par. Wang Jianbing, editor-in-chief of Selected Essays, commented: "While feeling deeply about Shu and his brothers and sisters, I also feel deeply for the words that the author uses in his descriptions that make people's blood surge." In the "Annual Ranking of Chinese Prose in 2004" sponsored by "Selected Prose" Among them, "Eternal White Rose" ranked second, and has been successively reprinted by hundreds of newspapers and magazines such as "People's Digest", "Youth Digest", "Selected Prose", "Financial Times", "Digest Weekly", "Reader Digest" "even broke its own practice of not serializing articles, and serialized this article in two issues on the 19th and 20th of 2004.In addition, this article has also been selected into "21st Century Annual Prose Selection? 2004 Prose" (People's Literature Publishing House), "2004 China's Best Essays" (Liaoning People's Publishing House), "2004 Chinese Annual Prose"

(Lijiang Publishing House), "2004 Selected Chinese Essays" (Huacheng Publishing House), "2004 Selected Chinese Essays" (Changjiang Literature and Art Publishing House), "2004 Most Readable Essays Recommended by Famous Masters" (Shanghai Social Sciences Academy Press) and many other selected collections. Until today, four years later, it is still being reproduced by many print media at home and abroad.This proves from another perspective that this book is indeed worth collecting and studying repeatedly. At the same time, this article quickly became popular on the Internet, and was reprinted by major portals including Sina.com and People.cn. It was serialized, commented and praised by countless bloggers. The words "shocked my heart" and "wailed loudly", they lamented: "It's been a long time since I read such a shocking text. I read an article during my lunch break and saw such a text, so I didn't have a good afternoon sleep. I fell asleep, so I continued to read", "After reading this article, I can't be calm for a long time. There are two things I want to say most, one is to let you know the story of the white rose, and the other is to tell myself why I have to live so long ", "I saw the text I wanted to see, and heard the voice I wanted to hear."

While admiring the heroes Shu and his brothers and sisters, readers are also impressed by the author's profound writing skills as a professor of linguistics: "Shu and his brothers and sisters are amazing, and Hutou's good writing", "This is why I can get in touch with Professor Hutou's writing skills." I feel lucky in writing", "I have read "Eternal White Rose", and the tiger head made me die and reborn, and I was born and died again, but I still couldn't take my eyes off the book for a moment", "Tiger head really deserves to be a German professor. He knows the culture well, and he is familiar with writing about the past of German characters. What's more remarkable is his writing style, which is relaxed and humorous, like flowing water. This is a state that is difficult for ordinary people to reach. No wonder every time his character prose is published, it is on the Internet was widely reprinted."

Readers have discerning eyes.In simple terms, the languages ​​used by Hutou in this book include Latin, German, French, ancient Chinese, Mandarin, Beijing dialect and Sichuan dialect, and they are vivid and just right, fully worthy of the title of professor of linguistics. "Forever White Rose" also affected the "post-80s", see their comments on the Internet: "I usually think of myself as a cynical person, but when I read this article, I feel that the blood in my body is Pentium." Another post-80s said: "After reading the article, I feel ashamed of my blindness in the past! You should realize your own value! After reading such a story, you really have to re-examine what sacrifice is. For us 80 For the later generation, especially the children in the city, for us who were born in an ordinary family without the special influence of the family, for us who graduated from an ordinary normal school, it seems that we have already integrated into the society. The modern secular world has also been assimilated by the things around us, and it seems that what we have from birth to the present has long been taken for granted. We mature too late, we understand less, we want more, When this era asks us to carry it, can we still carry it? I have learned from them what it means to be 'strong'!"

"Eternal White Rose" even affected primary and middle school students. It appeared in the compositions and speeches of a large number of middle school students, and was included in the "Chinese Exam Preparation" column by "Guangzhou Middle School Chinese Teaching and Research Network", which was listed alongside Liu Xiaofeng's article "Memories of Suffering".Interestingly, Hutou and Liu Xiaofeng were classmates in the German Department of Sichuan University of Foreign Languages ​​30 years ago. This pair of old classmates who traveled the world separately and had never met for more than 20 years met online in a classic and legendary way. .

In 2006, through a female plagiarist named Zhang Qiuxiang, Hutou's article entered the "Chinese Examination Paper for the First Joint Examination for the Senior Three of Zhejiang Ten Schools Consortium in the First Semester of the 2006-2007 School Year". The influence of this article reaches as far as the United States, Europe, Australia, Hong Kong and Taiwan. It has been selected into the column of "Moving China" on various famous foreign student websites and cultural websites in Hong Kong and Taiwan. enthusiastically pursued. "Eternal White Rose" has become an Internet classic.The "silent coercion" mentioned in the article has become a popular concept on the Internet.

In July 2005, "Eternal White Rose" was included in "University New Chinese" published by Peking University Press, and has since become a must-read for Chinese college students in China. Hutou's friends therefore said that he won the world with this article. However, Hutou did not stop there. Apart from heavy teaching and scientific research, he devoted all his energy to the series of essays in "Contemporary". In 2005, the second issue of "Contemporary" published "Their Goethe". There is always that kind of flying color, and the selection of materials always expresses personality and spirit."In the ""Contemporary" Literary Relay Competition", this article received votes close to the signature novel published as the headline.

The reader's comment is: "It is a great pleasure to read an article that is written freely. It is a great fortune to see a great man of thought from this article, so that many prejudices and misunderstandings can be dispelled. "More readers found that Goethe's life was more exciting than any fictional character after reading the article. What's more, this work has neither the rigidity of 'textual research' nor the absurdity of 'joking', but has a unique perspective and vividness." The materials and personalized narrative language are enough to make readers enjoy reading."

This article was plagiarized by a female author named Zhang Zuoxiang, and published in the "Prose Stand" under the title "The Woman Who Guided Goethe's Ascension", and was immediately published by a reader with the online name "Zongyang Daping" on November 5, 2006. At 14:25 on the Internet, it was exposed sentence by sentence under the title "Flying Women" Naked". Hutou's wife's "Four Ways to Subdue the Dragon - Listening, Tolerance, Respect, and Deliciousness" proposed by Hutou in this article has also aroused widespread heated discussions on the Internet.Some writers wrote "Three Women Who Walked Through Su Shi's Life" according to this style, which won the praise of netizens. Unfortunately, the author did not continue to write.This article, which aroused readers' infinite yearning for German culture, won comments from readers: "If you like to read articles with knowledge and passion, then Mr. Hutou's works must not be missed." Netizen "Taishan Yifu" wrote: ""Contemporary" The "Past Events" column was set up, and Mr. Tiger Head appeared on the stage. The German professor appeared on the "Master Forum", and his popularity soared. My friend who mainly reads novels listened to my reminder and recommendation, and was recommended by Mr. Tiger Head. Impressed by the works: "From now on, every Hutou must read. If you have his collection, you must buy it first and give you a copy." This is the charm of Mr. Hutou's works, and it is also the masters described by Mr. Hutou. Charm. This charm blows your face, and this temptation is irresistible! Recommended to those who have read Mr. Tiger Head's "Their Goethe", it tells the demeanor of the world's literary masters and European women. Even today, it is still Brilliant and captivating.”

Since then, Hutou's articles have entered every corner of readers' lives.His "A Hundred Flowers Kill Bach in Bloom" was taken by readers to read on the train: "One of the most enjoyable things on the train is reading Hutou's articles. It's as good as visiting Huzhou." Readers have a clear understanding of Hutou's intentions: "Hutou deliberately pulled these people from the altar to sit in the ordinary Beside people, observing the minutiae that make up their glorious lives." Tiger Head's writing on German cultural masters is not limited to writers.His "My Einstein" has also been appreciated by netizens: "A piece of "My Einstein" is still the same as his prose style when he wrote Goethe and Schiller. It is calm and free, and it reads naturally. It is a kind of enjoyment. However, the Einstein described by the author is obviously not the "one" we used to be familiar with, but has lost the aura of idols and is as ordinary and ordinary as me, and also has so many shortcomings and shortcomings." This article After reading it, a middle school student who "won the third place in the regional physics competition" in the Hengzhilixiang Forum "sat there motionless with excitement".

Reader Sunny saw the sincerity of the tiger head in this jumping article: "The author wants to say that Einstein's value is respected by the world, but his truth and integrity are lovable. The author is a guy who loves Einstein very much , The lines are full of ridicule and love." Another reader even saw the glorious future of Hutou's writing: "Einstein is a child...he should be treated as a child of this world, right? Haha. It is also a good way to let him act coquettishly and act like a rascal... You will still feel that the author is vulgar, because the paper is full of vulgar compliments, showing power, fame, and worldly fame and fortune everywhere, which attracts the author Screaming. It’s detrimental to the image of a scholar, hehe. Also, too much exaggeration of fame and fortune makes people look down on him, and I even think his physics knowledge is about the same level as Wang Xiaobei’s. ah. However, Hutou's writing will gradually improve, and he may not even feel that his ridicule-like writing will lead his thoughts to profundity.When I say this, he may think that my words are not pleasant. Fortunately, I don't know this professor, so he won't hear it.Well, I'm saying that his thinking has led to a special kind of profundity, and the intention of his articles is very good. Really, you will know it slowly. Although it is not obvious now, if this is the first time he wrote an article on the subject of German biographies, then this first article will appear very clear, scattered, and the center is not prominent, and even for a long time at the beginning of the article, His worldliness almost makes people misunderstand him as a philistine. He is a professor who specializes in German, so the light of German rationality revealed by German cannot be concealed, so the information he revealed makes me think that he is also digging rational mines.Although relying on the anecdotes and achievements of these people, I think he is still showing us interesting and rich wisdom, and those little thoughts that are ignored by people are also commendable.So in any case, I look forward to reading this article. " This reader feels right.As a cutting-edge professor who is well versed in European culture, Hutou's ass will always sit on the bench of Chinese culture.For this professor who lives on foreign cultures, his observation point of view is always "Chinese", which makes him glow with a brilliance and charm that Yu Dan, Yi Zhongtian, and Yu Qiuyu do not have.Catholicism, Protestantism, Judaism, Buddhism, Socialism, Communism, Jesus, Buddha, Marx, all these top treasures of human culture, under the pen of Hutou, melt into a beautiful sky with radiant rays and various poses. He often tells the editor that although he sticks to his principles and never responds to online comments, he has seen almost all online comments, remembered them, and will use them in future writing.Almost all the translations in this book by Tiger Head appeared in Chinese for the first time, and he hoped to subvert New China’s intentional or unintentional misinterpretation of these cultural masters in this way.Real experts know that although Hutou's articles appear in a relaxed manner, they always involve famous cases in the process of studying foreign cultures in the Chinese literary world. Distorted worship and benevolent misreading of masters in the field of cultural studies. Some netizens summed up the latest version of the rules of the marriage game based on Einstein's wife Luo Aisha's technique of controlling her husband: let go, and you can come back!This rule has been popular on the Internet to this day, and it has sparked heated discussions on the Internet along with Einstein's marriage ethics.The doctor Harvey's research on Einstein's brain weight mentioned in the article was even cited as evidence in the scientific paper "Several Hypotheses About Language Mechanisms". Hutou's "Nietzsche under the Shadow of the Whip" is called by readers as "the writing is popular and humorous, and it is really easy to understand. Reading it will always make me smile from the bottom of my heart."This article was written by a well-known critic into the article "Women Encounter the Digital Imagination of Ideal Men", which was published in "China Youth Daily" in October 2006 and widely circulated on the Internet. Hutou's "I Am Heine, Whom I'm Afraid of" also won widespread applause online.The reader who goes by the screen name Ah Wu hits the nail on the head: "This person's literary style is also somewhat like the Heine described by this person."Netizen Golden Tiger said: "Niu! This kind of miscellaneous can be digested well. A master is a master."It is also called "reading is like drinking fine wine" by readers. This article was also included in the online "Humanities Reader 2", which seems to be a ranking list in Taiwan.Reader Qiao Hongtao said: "I read a series of articles on German poets Goethe, Schiller and others published by Professor Hutou in "Contemporary", and I liked them a little crazy. This time I read "I am Heine, Who am I afraid of?" Feel the humorous and wonderful language, the romantic life of German masters, and understand what is a master and greatness. I don’t know if his series of articles have been published in a collection. If so, I must buy them as treasures. Europe has European artistic soil and The atmosphere, history, rulers, readers of the people, and women who love art have created these lively masters." Another reader said: "I only knew about Comrade Hutou after reading the second issue of Contemporary Times "I am Heine, Who am I afraid of". And before that, I only knew that the name Heine seemed to be the name of a poet. I don’t understand everything else (illiteracy). After reading the unique brushwork of Hutou, it is not only a generation of literary giants, but also an ordinary Heine with flesh and blood. I am very interested in these two people. At the end: Heine chose the Montmartre cemetery because it was not far from his home. He was afraid that Mathilde's feet would be soft when he went to the grave. He was convinced that the gray shirt girl Mathilde would not remarry, and I will always come to visit the grave. During this period, I was about to cry. I really like Hutou’s style of writing... I have never been able to understand poetry, just like those famous paintings in the world. Top literature popular articles are enough." There is also a female reader who expresses her feelings: After reading this article, she has "loved the rascal Heine". In terms of "approaching the sages", "Learning from Kant's Good Example" is Hutou's most sensational article on the Internet so far. On the Internet, who is better at "deep gossip" to be humble to each other, and some readers complained: "The two pieces of meat on my face are stiff when I smile, chasing after Xiao K to read to her, basically she puts a slap on the face." Listening to me read it while applying it layer by layer, I laughed so hard..." This is Hutou's most successful "approaching the sages" so far. More than one netizen commented: "I can finally understand something related to philosophy, and I feel very comfortable after reading it." Many readers want to read Kant's works because of this article : "I laughed so hard! Thank you for allowing me to read such a good article, and to study the most classic article that Kant has read recently. After reading it, I immediately went to buy the three major criticisms of Grandpa Kang~~ Unexpectedly, we The famous "Little Kant" teacher Wang Xiao from the School of Education fooled us for a semester and didn't make me interested in Kant. It was so easy, so I was tempted by this article." Some netizens shouted: "This article can be used as a threshold for various academic and popular literary works."He said this to Yu Qiuyu, Yu Dan, and Yi Zhongtian: "Even for the effective dissemination of knowledge and ideas, the minimum difficulty should be maintained. Audiences should stand on their toes to reach conclusions, rather than sitting on chairs. Open your mouth and wait. If you insist on fun, you will insult thinking itself in the end." This article also sparked the revival of the name "ridicule": "Reading "A Good Example of Learning from Kant" today, and describing his life in 2006 in a mocking way, it can be seen that this gentleman has a lot of skill in studying Kant and Kant. Very I am amazed by those 'ridiculous scholars', why can't they speak well?" On the TOM Forum? Go Forum Comments, Baidu Philosophy Bar, and Peking University Chinese Forum, this article has aroused intense and serious discussions and criticisms.Some netizens criticized the writing style of the article, and some netizens immediately retorted: "Maybe just imagine, if this article strips off the so-called 'ridiculous' writing style of my brother, and replaces it with the 'jerky, snarky' style of translation of Kant in China. The style of the translation is full of gold and conceited, but what is Yangchun Baixue, and how many audiences? In addition, I don’t agree with the ironic and cynical views of the style of writing. In my reading, behind the laughter and scolding, there is worry and vigilance.” Many netizens appealed: "The more articles like this, the better!" On many websites, discussions about this article have been going on for more than 100 floors, and it lasted until the early hours of the morning, which caused netizens to sigh, "God, there are so many night wandering gods" , although netizens themselves have long been used to night tours.Netizens lamented: "Good writing, it's too late to switch to Western philosophy now", "It's very beautiful. The article is written at this level, I really admire it", "It's super beautiful, it can be called a brilliant pen", "It's really a good article Wanton at all times and in all over the world, the irony does not show any traces, which is contrary to the opinions of the moderators. I personally think that it is the ingenious use of literary techniques that makes this article shine. It is clear, and it is definitely a handwriting that can only be obtained after careful study of Kant's works." A forum moderator "Scout" said, "It took me 30 minutes to read him at the slowest reading speed. I cried at the end. I cried very painfully because I found another teacher. This is A kind of thinking, what the landlord sent is a golden post. I will use my administrator status to put it on the top for three days... I am not afraid of losing Kant now, because I know that there are many books by him in the library, and he cannot escape. I'm going to take the time to see him." Immediately someone came out to echo: "This is a good article that makes people want to read it in one breath, but they are patient for fear of missing a word. The scouts read it for 30 minutes, and I read it for an hour. During this period, I felt that the hustle and bustle around me suddenly went away, but Kecheng was clearly in front of my eyes. Time was turned back hundreds of years, and my nose was a little sore. I like the style of the whole article. It has a familiar feeling, like watching Zweig. The first This is the first time I know that Kant is such a great miracle, and also an interesting little old man. Before, he was just a symbol in a book, and he was still associated with boring philosophy. Now, I know that I will go to his treatises to have a look, Whether you can understand it or not, you can read it." This elicited the same feeling from another reader: "Yes, that's the feeling. I didn't want to know this person before. I felt that he and I were people from two worlds. I had no interest in knowing him. Now I know again how big my ignorance is. .I personally think this short article is better than the Chinese. It is short and concise. Like a sharp knife, it cuts through my prejudice with one blow, and it changes before it hurts.” Of course, readers from another angle draw a gray conclusion: "Reading such articles makes people despair, and feels that there is nothing to do in this life." Aiwujiwu, some readers have already become interested in Hutou: "Who is Hutou? Is he a netizen? Capture him and force him to join the forum as a senior member." Immediately, some netizens came out to expose: "Hutou The head seems to be a teacher of German literature. I read his "Meeting Hesse" in the "Contemporary" magazine in 2003." Human flesh search, well-deserved reputation. Some netizens identified Hutou as the "new version of Wang Xiaobo", and some netizens simply called Hutou a master.Hutou is an author who attaches great importance to netizens' comments. As a senior netizen, he always puts netizens' comments first, because netizens do not have any utilitarian motives.More than one netizen has made great efforts to collect Hutou articles, carefully match them with covers and photos, compile them into "Hutou e-books" and put them on the Chinese website for people to download. Although e-books save time and money, this book is still the first choice and must-have for tiger head article lovers, because, in addition to directly getting the joy of owning a good book, the book published by People's Literature Publishing House This 427-page book has changed a lot from the online version.First of all, there is an article "Who is Martin Luther" that has never been published, and the editor in charge of this book believes that in "looking up to the noble" In terms of literature, "Who is Martin Luther" even surpasses "The White Rose Forever".Secondly, when "Contemporary" was published, due to space limitations, almost every article was greatly deleted. Overall, the length of this book has increased by at least 40%.A typical example is "Bach". The number of words in this book is almost twice that published in "Contemporary", and the title of the book has also changed from "Because of Bach" to "When Bach Blooms", which further reflects the author's original intention.