Chapter 9 Read Mr. Zheng Boqi's "Memories of Creation Society"

From an issue of "Literary Monthly" published in Shanghai, I read "Recalling Creation Society" written by Mr. Zheng Boqi. He is one of the old-timers of the Creation Society, and until the issue I read here (the August issue), he was talking about events before the inaugural issue of the Creation Quarterly, which I did not attend. . When I sent a manuscript to Mr. Cheng Fangwu for the first time, and received his reply letter asking me to have a talk, it was already the time when "Creation Weekly" was published.Although the editorial place of the weekly newspaper is still located in the editorial office of Taidong Book Company, it is no longer the one in Maholuford that Mr. Birch mentioned, but in Minhou South Lane near Hardoon Garden. There is another The place is in an alley near Joffre Road in the former French Concession.It was also a building with two upper floors and two lower floors, with the book stack downstairs and the editorial department upstairs.It was in the editorial department of the weekly newspaper that I met Mr. Cheng Fangwu for the first time. He was the first person I knew among the predecessors of the Creation Society. His attitude towards literary and artistic youth like us was sincere and affectionate. I will never forget it.It was also in this upstairs room that I met Quan Ping and Ni Yide for the first time, as well as Jing Yinyu who had just come out of Sichuan.He was locked up in a Catholic monastery and read French since he was a child. Therefore, his creation published in "Creation Weekly" was first drafted in French, and then translated into Chinese by himself.

By this time, Mr. Birch had probably returned to Japan and had not yet returned to Shanghai, but his translation of "A Night in Luxembourg" had already been published.The first time I had the opportunity to meet him was after the establishment of the publishing department of the Creation Society.It seemed that one summer, he returned to Shanghai from Tokyo. He was tall and wore gold-rimmed glasses. He seemed to be very interested in the Beardsley-style decorative paintings I drew at that time.I clearly remember that he took me to the Uchiyama Bookstore, and knowing that I studied painting and liked to paint decorative paintings, he used the remaining Japanese money around him to buy two albums of paintings by the Japanese painter Lu Gu Honger from the Uchiyama Bookstore. I.

These are all decorative paintings like illustrations in fairy tales, which made me feel like a treasure when I saw them at the time, and I played with them day and night, imitating his style and drawing a few decorative paintings.Later, Mr. Lu Xun laughed at me, saying that I "swallowed Beardsley alive, and stripped Lu Gu Honger alive". I want to explain to readers that I have not been wronged. Mr. Birch probably didn't know about this little episode, and I think it was something that he couldn't have expected when he bought the two albums and gave them to me.