Chapter 25 Survey of Beijing Society

If a doctor wants to cure a disease, he must first understand the condition; if we want to improve the society, we must first understand the reality of the society.If you don't get in touch with society in a real way, you will never know where the society's disease is.It is useless to talk about theory behind closed doors.J.S. Burgess, a professor of applied sociology at our school, saw this and divided the problems that should be investigated in Beijing society into the following items. A class of sociology students each took part in field trips. investigation.This article is a collection of their reports published.

The following reports are very detailed; it is just that the quarterly magazine has limited space and had to be arbitrarily abridged. I ask the students responsible for the investigation to forgive me for this. The investigation items and the name of the person in charge are as follows: Education in Beijing, Li Gang, poverty relief and charity organizations in Beijing, Qu Shiying, industry and commerce in Beijing, Gong Bo, prison in Beijing, Liu Yixin, population, practicing hospitals and public health in Beijing, Huang Tianlai, entertainment in Beijing, and Li Tailai in Beijing Various religions Li Jingshan (omitted below)

(This article was originally published in the third issue of the first volume of Yanda Quarterly in September 1920, signed by Xie Wanying and Qu Shiying.) Who ruined you? I didn't want to sleep anymore; I came down quietly, combed my hair, opened the schoolbag again if I liked it, and read the new books that my uncle bought for her yesterday, one by one, from the beginning again, and wrapped them up again.At this time, the bright sun slowly rose, and then I heard the sound of Mama Lin washing rice in the kitchen. She went to her mother's room, where her mother was combing her hair by the window.But the father was writing on a table. When he saw Yixuan coming in, he took a deep look at her through the tortoiseshell glasses and asked, "Are you ready?" Yixuan quickly replied, " Ready." Her father slowly put down his pen, took off his glasses and said, "Xuan'er, it's your uncle's intention that you go to school this time. I don't quite understand the reason he said. Originally, the girl My son, where should I go to study outside? But you are the only daughter in our two rooms, and your uncle has always liked you very much, so I can't bear to ask him. Today is your first day of school. From today onwards, You have to do it well, learning is not a thing, as long as a girl can write letters and settle accounts, it is enough. The most important thing is not to learn from those noisy female students, talk 'Freedom' and 'liberation' lead to moral degradation and reputation ruin. I really can't bear this kind of frivolity! If it were my daughter, she would..." Yixuan listened and agreed dozens of times, "Yes ".At this time, her mother had finished combing her hair, and saw that Lin's mother had already prepared breakfast. She was afraid that Yixuan would be late for school the first day, so she laughed and said, "You have said this several times, and she has already understood." , it's not too early now, let her eat." Her father heard it, looked up at the clock, nodded and said, "Go." Yixuan then slowly backed out.

After going outside, he hurriedly ate half a bowl of rice, then went back to his own room, took his schoolbag, asked Mama Lin to follow him, went to his mother's room again, and said with a smile, "Daddy, Mom, I'm going to school." Her father nodded, and when Yixuan came to the yard, he stopped again and said, "If school gets out early in the afternoon, you have to wait in the school until Mama Lin comes to pick you up, and then you come back with her. "Yixuan stopped and agreed, and went with Mama Lin. When she arrived at school, Mama Lin took her in and came back by herself.Yixuan sat on her seat, lonely, and no one came to pay attention to her.Seeing the classmates chatting and laughing together in twos and threes, she felt very distressed in her heart, so she just opened the book and read it by herself.After a while, the hall bell rang, and the husband came in, and they fell silent.Yixuan also concentrated on listening to the lecture.

After a month or two, the classmates gradually became acquainted with her, and seeing her steady temperament and good homework, they all respected and loved her very much.Every time her father went to school and asked about his grades, the teachers praised him very much.Her father liked it very much, but he didn't tell Yi Xuan about it, which might make her arrogant. It was Sunday, and her father had gone out, and Yixuan was reading in the yard by herself.Mama Lin brought in a letter, and took a look, it was an English letter with her name written on it.I thought maybe it was written by my English teacher, but the handwriting didn't look like it, so I took it apart.It was originally written by a male student, to the effect that he had met her many times on the road, heard that she was very knowledgeable, and that he admired her, etc., and wrote the address of correspondence at the bottom.The English words in the letter were all spelled wrong, and the grammar was also upside down.Yixuan's English level is also very shallow. After reading it several times, she finally understood it. Immediately, her face turned purple with anger, her fingertips were cold, and the book fell to the ground.After being stunned for a long time, he put the letter in the book, went into the room, and sat on the chair in a daze.I thought to myself, "If my father receives this letter, my future will inevitably be sacrificed. If my father suspects that I am out there and ostentatiously, I am afraid that even my life will be lost! This time I am lucky. How good it is to have a letter! He said that he met many times on the road. He went to school every day, but he ignored anyone who behaved suspiciously. Even if he knew who wrote it, there was no way to punish him. It was so easy for my uncle to say a lot , I just opened the door to study, this time I'm afraid..." The more she thought about it, the more angry she became, and the more she thought about it, the more afraid she became, and she cried for a long time, and when her father came back, she washed her face in a hurry, came out and lectured on two ancient prose, Barely ate lunch again.At night, she felt dizzy and hot, but the next morning, she was still struggling to go to school.

From then on she felt very uneasy, and her heart beat fast when the postman knocked at the door.Her mother was very worried and said, "You don't have to work too hard. It's a long time to study. Let's rest for a while and talk about it!" She smiled and comforted her mother, but she couldn't help falling Tears come. After more than ten days, there was no movement, and she was relieved gradually, and still concentrated on doing her homework. After school that day, Mama Lin came to pick him up as usual.On the way, she saw Lin Ma's expression was very hesitant, as if she had something to tell; after a while, she said quietly, "I don't know why the master got angry today, and he held a letter and quarreled with his wife for a long time..." Yi When Xuan heard the word "a letter", she was already petrified, and she didn't bother to ask further questions, so she hurried home with Mama Lin.

When I got home, my legs were so weak that I could hardly walk up the steps.When I entered the mother's room, I saw my father sitting on the chair with a livid face, without saying a word.The mother's face was pale, and she also sat on the side in a daze.She stepped forward tremblingly and called her parents, but her father ignored her and only looked up at the roof, and her mother said, "Xuan'er, you..." Tears fell down. Yixuan's throat was choked, and she walked up to her mother.Father shook his hands, took out a letter, threw it on the table, and walked out by himself.

At this time Yixuan couldn't help crying.With tears in her eyes, her mother looked at her for a long time, and said, "You have always been so smart and quiet, why are you so confused now? I don't want to..." Yixuan cried and asked, "Where did mother say that?" Looking at the table, she said, "Look at that letter!" Yixuan hurriedly took it over for a look, but it was a Chinese letter in regular script, which said: "It is a great honor to be able to establish a relationship. , don't break the appointment." After reading it, Yixuan leaned on the table, stood for a while, and then leaned back.

As soon as he opened his eyes, he was lying on his own bed, with his mother sitting on the side.Yixuan cried and sat up and said, "Mom! Only my mother knows my heart!" Her mother also cried, and said, "Don't talk about the past, it's your uncle who missed you!" Yixuan looked at her mother's face and saw that her father was not in the room, she felt aggrieved and stuffed her chest for a while, then suddenly laughed a few times, and still lay down facing the wall. A month later, a middle-aged man with half-white beard and hair stood alone beside a new grave, lingering in mourning, and after a long time, he was heard tearfully saying, "Poor niece Yixuan, who ruined it?" you?"

Into the collection of novels "Going to the Country". )