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I happened to see a "Selected Modern Chinese Novels" in a bookstore. The editors were Zhao Jingshen and Sun Xizhen, and the publication date was September 1960. The dozens of short stories selected in it were all from 1990. Thirty years ago.This seems a bit nondescript. It seems that if it is not using an old paper plate from someone else's house, it is reprinting from an old book. I flipped through it, and surprisingly, there is also my own article "The Spring Breeze of Epiphyllum Temple".I remember that this was published in the first issue of the semi-monthly "Flood", which was first published in the autumn of 1925. This is an old work nearly forty years ago, so I quickly bought a copy back.

I came back and looked up "Historical Materials of Modern Chinese Publishing", and learned that "Flood" was first published in September 1925, while my article "Spring Breeze in Epiphyllum Temple" was published in July 1925. Write. In 1925, I was a twenty-year-old boy.Therefore, this article is not only my old work, but also my rare work.Although it was earlier than this, in 1924 and 1923, I was already studying the writing of new literature and art. I started by learning to write lyrical essays.My "teacher" was the newly published book "Stars" by Ms. Bing Xin.I was in a mission school at the time, and there was a girls' school nearby, which belonged to the same church, and they took us to the theater at Christmas.I was reading "The Stars", and I was fascinated by the graceful style and light sadness atmosphere. After I came back, I imitated her style and wrote two essays, describing the "mood" of watching the theater that night.After it was finished, it won the appreciation of several classmates who love new literature and art. Of course, I was also very satisfied. Later, I copied a copy and sent it to the heroine. Unfortunately, I didn't get any response. Enthusiasm rose.

Last year, Ms. Bing Xin passed through Hong Kong. I told her about it and called her a teacher. She laughed and said that she never thought that there was a student like me.In fact, her essays are worthy of study and study by young literary lovers.To this day, I am still an avid reader of "Stars" and "Send to Young Readers". I didn't have the courage to read my own "The Spring Breeze of the Epiphyllum Temple", so I just flipped through it, and hurriedly went to the catalog, and found that there were also "Ling Luo" by Ni Yide and "The Old-fashioned Farmer" by Zhou Quanping. The content seemed to be familiar to me. I have never read it, and I don't know where they were published. It seems that they may have been published on "Creation Day".This was a supplement of Shanghai Zhonghua Xinbao at that time. It was launched in September 1923, and it was discontinued within a hundred days after it was published. It can be said to be one of the earliest purely literary supplements.

Luo Ailan's "The Guest" was also selected in the novel selection.Few people know this name now. He is one of the frequent contributors to our semi-monthly magazine "Huanzhou". He has written many good essays under the pseudonym "Shanfeng Dalang". He was still a student of Tsinghua University at the time. .