Chapter 77 Lu Xun Eight

The words written in ink will last forever with the beautiful and brave victims. Lu Xun's life was threatened, and it was rumored in Beijing that the authorities wanted to arrest him. Beijing can't wait any longer.Lu Xun and Xu Guangping went to Shanghai.They broke up again and made an appointment to meet again in two years.Teacher-student couples communicate frequently. Letters from Two Places is a classic love letter of the twentieth century. Lu Xun went to Xiamen University to teach, as a professor of the Department of Literature and a professor of the Academy of Chinese Studies.The university is backed by mountains and the sea, and Lu Xun almost lived alone in a three-story building in the biology college where he was temporarily settled. He listened to the whistling wind at night and gazed at the vast sea during the day.

Lu Xun also went to the beach to pick up shells. He sorted out "Han Portraits" and "Ancient Novels Gou Shen", and printed these two books.Previous ones have been published in Beijing.and essay collections. Compiling ancient books is accompanied by loneliness. There are a lot of things to teach.Tired all day, I go up to the third floor alone, and sometimes I cook and drink by myself.The school's teachers are multiplayer and exclusive, and Lu Xun is out of tune with them. Lu Xun later described the lonely life of Xiamen University in "The silence is as thick as wine, which makes people slightly drunk. Looking outside the rear window, there are many white spots in the chaotic mountains standing on the bone, which are graves; a deep yellow fire is the south. The glazed lamp of Putuo Temple. The sea and sky are faint in front of me, and the night like black catkins almost seems to rush into my heart. I lean on the stone railing and look into the distance, and I can hear my own heartbeat. , are all mixed into this silence, making it into medicinal wine, adding color, flavor, and fragrance."

There was a lot of silence. This is the best thing I have ever read about silence.The color and fragrance of silence rushed over.It was the silence and noise of the ocean. Silence and graves seem to have a certain affinity with Lu Xun. He took a picture in front of the grave and sent it to friends in Beijing. Xiao Hong wrote the story of Mr. Lu Xun walking the night and kicking the "ghost" into a living person. Sensitivity to death and closeness to loneliness are almost the innate qualities of all genius thinkers.Counting Xizhe or poets and artists, who is not sensitive to death?Surrealists represented by Breton and Aragon declared that death is the only theme.A Parisian poet furnished his room with "death notices" plastered all over the walls.Death is the limit of life, the bottomless abyss, and the best fiery area for the short-lived to look back at all existence.

Confucius said: "How can you know death if you don't know life?" Xi Zheyun: "How can you know life if you don't know death?" The two questions merged into one in Lu Xun. The Confucian saints more than two thousand years ago connected death with intellect, indicating that the power of thinking has reached the "grave".It's a pity that the saint stopped. It's a pity that Lu Xun took a photo in front of the grave and named a book of essays. Scholars seem to seldom think about it. Lu Xun was too familiar with silence, loneliness, death and darkness.The origin of thought, these four are normal.

On the level of reality, it is to listen to sound and thunder in silence; to seek light in darkness. In 1927, Lu Xun went to Guangzhou, which is known as the "birthplace of the revolution".He gave a speech at the Whampoa Military Academy, emphasizing the importance of the barrel of a gun: a poem cannot frighten Sun Chuanfang, but a cannonball can blow him away. At Sun Yat-sen University, he is the only full professor and head of the Department of Literature, with a monthly salary of 300 yuan, which may be equivalent to 20,000 to 30,000 yuan today.He lives in Baiyun Tower in Dongdi.Xu Guangping was his teaching assistant.She is from Cantonese.

The famous Lu Xun is naturally regarded as a celebrity in society.All kinds of invitations flew in like flakes, celebrities invited celebrities, VIPs invited celebrities, among them were such prominent figures as Kong Xiangxi, Dai Jitao, and Chen Gongbo.And those people who think they are personalities also invite Lu Xun to dinner, there are all kinds of people.Lu Xun didn't eat this kind of meal, and he refused very thoroughly: four words "Never attend the banquet" were posted on the door.Once you eat it, there will be ten times... The reason why Lu Xun was able to discover all kinds of "flattery" is related to his refusal to become a celebrity and to put on various identity labels.It is unimaginable for a thinker to go to many dinners and talk endless routines and nonsense.

Sartre once described this kind of dinner: instead of people eating, things eat people. Sartre refused the Nobel Prize for Literature on the grounds that he refused all official honors.Camus did not refuse the award, but he also hated socializing. How many talents have been entangled to death by unnecessary entertainment.Like underwater weeds entangle the white stripes in the waves. There are so many entanglements and tricks that it is impossible to write them in several thick books. Time is precious.And there are always some people who live just to entangle each other.Bullshit breeds bullshit and time consumes time.Zhou Xuan bowed and arched, each face hides a few faces, and ghosts and ghosts emerge one after another...

As a solid individual, Lu Xun easily recognized a wide variety of group tricks. How can a thinker be empty words! No wonder he later lamented: wasting other people's time is tantamount to murdering one's fortune. When Lu Xun was in Guangzhou, he had a secret meeting with Chen Yannian, then Secretary of the Guangdong District Party Committee of the Communist Party of China. The "April 12" coup took place in Shanghai, and the Kuomintang also carried out white terror in Guangzhou.The progressive students of Sun Yat-sen University were arrested, and Lu Xun braved the rain to attend an emergency rally, and angrily resigned from all his positions in the university.

Thousands of dollars a year are not uncommon. Lu Xun once pinned his hopes on young people for a long time, but now his hopes tend to be shattered. "Mr. Answer Youheng" said: "I have always been optimistic, thinking that the people who oppress and kill young people are probably old people. Such old people are gradually dying. It is relatively lively. Now I know otherwise, it seems that it is the youth who kill the youth, and they have no sympathy for other people's life and youth that cannot be recreated." The inscription of "Only Collection": "I have seen a lot of blood and tears in the past six months, but I only have 'miscellaneous feelings'."

In Guangzhou, Lu Xun compiled, "Legends of Tang and Song Dynasties" one after another.In that environment, down-to-earth cultural work has not been interrupted. In October, I set off for Shanghai. Ten years in Shanghai. First lived in Jingyunli, Zhabei, Mr. Xu Guangping wrote an article "My Home is Deep in Jingyun", every word is full of kindness.Later, it moved to No. 9, Dalu Xincun, North Sichuan Road. The house is spacious and tidy, with beautiful furnishings.Lu Xun never rejected material life. "Yusi" moved from Beijing to Shanghai. The Creation Society and the Sun Society are very active in Shanghai.Mao Dun and Guo Moruo came to Shanghai from Wuhan and Hong Kong respectively.Lu Xun hit it off with Mao Dun, Yu Dafu, Feng Xuefeng and others.Later, he and Zhai Qiubai became lifelong friends.He doesn't like Liang Shiqiu.I hate idle literati...

Shanghai in the 1930s gathered China's cultural elites. Lu Xun devoted himself to writing and translated a large number of foreign literary works and theoretical works.He seldom goes out to give speeches, although universities invite him one after another. Xu Guangping gave birth to a child, named Zhou Haiying.Lu Xun was considerate to her, arranged flowers in her room, and surprised her when she returned home from the hospital. On September 25, 1931, the Shanghai cultural circles and press congratulated him on his fiftieth birthday. He works, works, works... Staying up all night is not uncommon.Xiao Hong said: "Mr. Lu Xun lay down on a chair, flipped through idle books, and took a rest." While others were drinking coffee, Lu Xun was working. He smoked and smoked and smoked, often as many as fifty cigarettes a day.Mr. Lu Xun, he doesn't care about his body too much.Many people who love him persuade him to smoke less, or to smoke some good cigarettes.Friends gave him good cigarettes, but he prepared them for them, and he still smoked bad ones. He does everything by himself, even the books he sends to his friends are neatly wrapped, and the edges and corners are cut like a knife.The manuscripts given to him by the young man were tens of thousands of words or hundreds of thousands of words, and he read them word by word.The scribbled handwriting also made him angry.But after getting angry, he still buried his head and looked carefully, smoking a low-quality cigarette, and biting his cough. Zhai Qiubai's anthology "The Forest Above the Sea" took a lot of his energy.Editing, proofreading, and reading the proofs over and over again, I can't let it go in the scorching heat and severe winter, and I still drag my sick body.If you have a confidant in Qiubaiquan, you should look up to the sky and sigh: It is enough to have a confidant in life! Mr. Lu Xun enjoys chatting with friends and watching movies in the car when he is not working.Never been to a park. He is concerned about the emerging art movement in China.I also design the cover of the book by myself. He watched the daily life in Shanghai, and wrote "Girls in Shanghai", "Children in Shanghai", "How We Be Fathers", "The Concession in March", "A Glimpse of Shanghai Literature and Art"... , thick, thick. Shanghai in the early 1930s was also a bloody Shanghai. Rou Shi, who often visited Lu Xun, and four other young writers including Yin Fu were killed by the reactionaries. Lu Xun angrily wrote "For the Memory of Forgetting", lamenting that "China has lost a very good youth." He swiped a poem late at night: "Used to long nights in the spring, the wives will have silk on the temples of their young children. I can't bear to see my friends become new ghosts, and angrily look for small poems in the knife bush. After singing, I have no place to write, and the moonlight shines on my clothes like water." In the "September 18th" incident, the Japanese brandished butcher knives at the Chinese nation.The Japanese army quickly occupied the three eastern provinces. Lu Xun, Soong Ching Ling, Cai Yuanpei, Yang Quan and others formed the China Civil Rights Protection Alliance. In June 1933, Vice President Yang Quan was assassinated by agents sent by the ruling authorities.Lu Xun was also included in the assassination list.He went to attend Yang Quan's memorial service, went out without a key, and was determined to die. The heavy rain sent Yang Quan... "Is there any pride like the old days, where the flowers bloom and fall. The most ruthless is the rain in the south of the Yangtze River, and weep for the people." Blood, blood, comrade's blood; compatriot's blood... It was almost impossible for Lu Xun in the 1930s to write a long novel.The threat of artillery fire to his apartment caused him to flee several times. Essays one after another. ,,... The debate is fierce.Hand to hand.Lu Xun showed no mercy to his opponents, tearing off their various masks.This is not to say that Lu Xun was right.No one is quite right.Some opponents in the debate later realized that Lu Xun was right, and publicly admitted their mistakes to him, just like Lu Xun.For example, Wen Yiduo. The word truth has the meaning of debate in German.Chinese people, too much is a compromise dough, too little is a verbal sword. Lu Xun described it: when two Chinese meet, they usually ask each other famous names, handcuffing, smirking, and then "today's weather hahaha"... The ability of the Chinese to hum haha ​​is world-renowned. Lu Xun's middle-aged son loved and sympathized, but some people took this as an issue and mocked him.Lu Xun laughed it off and wrote a poem: "Heartless may not be a real hero, how can a pity be a husband..." Lu Xun's old-style poems are rare in modern times. Lu Xun wanted to write a novel about the Red Army's Long March and a novel about Concubine Yang Guifei in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, and he made a lot of preparations for this, but he failed.It's a pity. In the early and middle period of the 1930s, when the Red Army of Workers and Peasants was repeatedly encircled and suppressed, Lu Xun clearly expressed his respect for the Communists.After the Red Army arrived in northern Shaanxi, he sent a congratulatory message and asked someone to send ham to the Red Army.He listened carefully to the stories of the Long March told by Chen Geng and Feng Xuefeng.This feat in human history has been reproduced and brewed for a long time in Lu Xun's outstanding brain... Lu Xun's idea of ​​writing Concubine Yang started in the 1920s, and he went to Xi'an in 1924.What would he think of the heyday of the Tang Dynasty and a tragic beauty like Yang Yuhuan?He has said many times that he never believes that women can harm the country. What would it be like for a great thinker and novelist to write about the prosperous Tang Dynasty and its decline? Lu Xun did not specialize in historiography, but his sense of history and his historical vision were stronger than any historian.History without historicity is bound to become a bunch of nagging.Historicity is a value judgment in the philosophical sense. Did Lu Xun's impulse to write about Concubine Yang include some blind spots in himself? But all of these left only deep regrets: national regrets, historical regrets, and cultural regrets. Mr. Lu Xun was ill, and his condition was good and bad. Xiao Hong wrote: "Mr. Lu Xun fell ill in March 1936, leaning on the deck chair on the second floor, his heart was beating harder than usual, and his face was a little gray. ...Mr. Lu Xun must rest, that's what old doctor Sudo said.But since then, Mr. Lu Xun not only has not rested, but also has more thoughts in his mind. Everything he has to do seems to be done immediately. "The lower part; just right, these all started together.