Chapter 2 Xiamen Communication (2) [1]

Xiamen Communication (2) [1] Brother Xiaofeng: Issues 11 and 12 of "Yusi" were received together today.It is common here to receive many letters together, about twice a week.I liked these two issues of "Yusi" very much, probably because they have exceeded one hundred issues.In China, it is not easy for a publication organized by a few people to publish a hundred issues. Although I am here, I often want to contribute to "Yusi", but I can't write a sentence, and I don't even have a stem and a half of "weed".Just making up handouts now.why?This is something you must know: to eat.Why did you eat?If things go on like this, it will be for compiling handouts.Eating is a bad thing, I don't think so.However, I made up handouts to eat, and I made up handouts after eating, but I also felt that it was almost boring.Other scholars and professors have different opinions. From the perspective of ordinary people, teaching and writing are irreconcilable. Either teach with all your heart, or write with madness. One person cannot walk two paths with different directions.

I suddenly remembered one thing, let’s say it was summer, it seemed that an honest gentleman once said in Modern Review: Because of the popularity of scolding tabloids, serious articles were not read and could not be printed. [2] I admire the great talents of these scholars.I don't know if you can investigate for me, how many manuscripts of serious articles they have "hidden at home", open a catalog for me?But if it is a handout, or something like Article 87,654 of the Civil Law, then there is no need to open it, I don’t want to read it. Today I received another letter from Brother Shuyuan [3], saying that Beijing has frozen over.Here, I only wear a jacket, and if it gets cold, I add a cotton vest at night.Mr. Song Yu's wonderful essays such as "The emperor's sky is divided into four seasons, and the autumn is lonely and sad, and the white dew is under the grass, and the Chinese catalpa is dying", etc., are completely "groaning without illness" when they are brought here.I don't know if Bailu has "dropped" the herbs, but the Chinese catalpa is not separated from the drape, and the scene is probably similar to the end of summer.There was an unknown plant in front of my house, with yellow flowers like okra.I'll be blooming at that time, I don't know when it started to bloom; it's still blooming now; there are still buds that haven't bloomed, I don't know when it will finish blooming. "It has existed in ancient times" and "it is fierce in the present", I am a little afraid to look at him recently.

There are also cockscombs, which are very finely divided, a little different from those in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and they are always standing in pots of red, yellow and yellow. I didn't really like going to hell, because not only were there only mountains of swords and trees[5] in my eyes, the sight was too monotonous, and the pain was too hard to take for granted.Now I am a little afraid of going to heaven again.It's spring all the year round, please see the peach blossoms all year round, how boring do you think?Even if the peach blossoms are as big as a wheel, they can only be temporarily surprised when they first come up, and they will never compose a song "Peach Zhiyaoyao" [6] every day.

However, the lotus leaves withered early; the grass was also a little yellow.I used to think that these phenomena were caused by the so-called "severe frost", so sometimes I couldn't help complaining and attacking that "Linqiu".However, there is no frost or snow here, and all those who are chlorotic are "end of life", no wonder others.Woohoo, now that the material for complaints has been reduced, there is nothing left to say! Now even the complaints that I can't complain about have all been sent out.Let's talk again.From now on, I will start writing handouts.

Lu Xun.November 7th. ※ ※ ※ [1] This article was originally published in the 107th issue of the "Yusi" weekly magazine on November 27, 1926. [2] Han Lu (Gao Yihan) once said in "Gossip" published in the eighty-ninth issue of the fourth volume of "Modern Review" (August 21, 1926): "The remarks in the newspaper, In recent years, the most popular (popular) writing is by no means a type of writing that discusses issues and elucidates academic theories, but a type of writing that exposes shady scenes and attacks people's private affairs. The less people read the text of the problem; the more it has a three-pointed hooliganism, exposing the shady and attacking the dark with laughter and cursing, the more people read it.” He also said: “Laughter and scolding are welcome in society. However, writers take advantage of the weaknesses of the society to cater to their preferences, so how can it not create a trend in the newspaper industry, so that people will recognize "Xiaojing Bao" as a statement of elegance?"

[3] Shuyuan is Wei Suyuan. 〔4〕Song Yu, a poet of the Chu State during the Warring States Period.For the two sentences quoted here, see his "Nine Debates". [5] The hell torture preached by Buddhism. Volume 382 of "Taiping Guangji" quotes "Mingbao Supplements": "Go to the third gate, and enter the wok soup and sword mountain sword tree." 〔6〕The language of "Peach's Yaoyao" see "The Book of Songs · Zhou Nan · Taoyao". "Yaoyao" describes lush and gorgeous.