Chapter 104 Zhang Chunqiao avenged Shi Zhecun's old revenge

In addition to finding out Fu Lei in the Shanghai literary world, Shi Zhecun, Wang Ruowang, Xu Jie, Xu Zhongyu, A Zhang were also "shot"... On July 27, 1957, Shanghai's "Liberation Daily" published the article "Shi Zhecun's Ugly Face" signed by "Jing Liu". Who is "Jingliu"?Zhang Chunqiao too! Mr. Shi Zhecun was born in 1905 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang.From 1932 to 1935, he edited the influential large-scale literary monthly "Modern Times" in Shanghai.In addition, he also created many novels, poems and essays, and translated many foreign literary works.Later, he served as a professor at Guanghua University and Hujiang University.After liberation, he has been working as a professor in the Chinese Department of East China Normal University.

Zhang Chunqiao criticized Shi Zhecun: Some time ago, Shi Zhe wrote an article "Talent and Virtue" in "Wen Wei Po", slandering us to the fullest, blatantly shouting that our cadres should step down.He uttered their "complaints" by citing classics in the newspaper, and even pretended to be wronged in front of the students, spreading fallacies, saying that "this rectification movement is the second time to eliminate counter-revolutionaries."After exposing Xu Jie's reactionary words and deeds, Shi Zhecun said: "Unexpectedly, the rectification movement will fall on Xu Jie." I won't write any more."

After Zhang Chunqiao calculated Shi Zhecun's "new account", he calculated the "old account": During the War of Resistance Against Japan, Shi Zhecun and Du Heng did business together and sold... The author interviewed Mr. Shi Zhecun, who was in his eighties, on September 8, 1988.He told me that Zhang Chunqiao was just his "little guy" back then—he punctuated ancient books, and Zhang Chunqiao, who was only eighteen years old, punctuated ancient books under him for some "punctuation fee". Shi Zhecun recalled that when he punctuated ancient books, he took them apart, covered them with a piece of cellophane, added punctuation marks on the cellophane, and then sent them to the printing factory for typesetting.After printing, the cellophane is removed, and the ancient book is bound as before.

Zhang Chunqiao's foundation in ancient prose is very poor, and he made a fool of himself... Mr. Shi Zhecun told me that as long as you look up the "Small Morning News" in Shanghai at that time, you will suddenly understand. According to Mr. Shi Zhecun's instructions, I found the article "Zhang Chunqiao Rare Notes on Punctuation" signed by "Qi Yi" in the "Little Morning News" on November 18, 1935, and I really realized it. The full text of this "Rare Notes on Punctuation by Zhang Chunqiao" is as follows: It's the year, old books are lucky, and "rare books" are in their early days.

I hate things like "rare books".Here, Shi Zhecun, Ah Ying, Zhang Yiping and others managed a good deal of business. As for the person surnamed Zhang on the title of this article, you may not know him yet.In fact, he can’t really be regarded as a “writer”; however, because he once published essays in magazines such as “Taibai” and worked as an assistant editor for a Shanghai magazine company, he was not as good as the so-called “writers” After a little contact, he also calls himself a writer, and even considers himself a "progressive writer". ——On the fringes of the literary world, there are many people who "enjoy themselves" and Zhang Chunqiao is no wonder.

But here comes the joke!Somehow, Zhang Chunqiao, who claims to be a "new forward writer", also started punctuating old books, and also worked as a punctuator under the rare book series of Shanghai Magazine Company: the job he was in charge of was a book "Liu Ting Poetry Talk" " and five "Jin Ping Mei Ci Hua". Therefore, Mr. Zhang used his method of sketching in "Taibai" to "quickly mark" "Liuting Poetry Talk".But, to put it bluntly, he really knows too little about Chinese poetry.He only knows that poems have five and seven characters, but he doesn't know that there are four or even long and short sentences.What's more, he doesn't understand the excerpts of poems from Shihua, sometimes they don't necessarily include the whole chapter, but often only mention one couplet or one sentence.So, of course, he felt a little bit difficult.Fortunately, Mr. Zhang is smart after all.He believes that poetry is always poetry, that if there are five or seven words, there must be eight or four lines.If this rule is violated, it is definitely not that I, Zhang Chunqiao, do not understand it, but that the ancient version of "Liuting Poetry Talk" must have been misprinted.According to this rule, he punctuated the four-character poems in "Liuting Poetry Talk" with five-character or seven-character punctuation; Hardcore make a poem. ——Under this method, "Liuting Poetry Talk" finally succeeded in punctuating.

However, there are problems.When he once came across an ancient poem with long and short sentences and found that he couldn't read it in five words, and couldn't read it in seven words, he concluded that the original version of "Liuting Poetry Talk" was a big mistake.So, he approved a big "question mark" on the original book and attached a letter to Zhang Jinglu's boss saying: "There is an error in the original book, please pay attention." At that moment, he showed it to Shi Zhecun, the editor-in-chief, and found out Mr. Zhang's great humor, and then look at the original book he punctuated before (take it), and find that Mr. Zhang has marked "broken sentences" all over the article, and it is almost useless.So, Mr. Shi laughed and Boss Zhang was angry.Thirty oceans were sent immediately, and he said to him: "Your punctuation is too bad. The thirty yuan is just a reward for superficial work, and I dare not ask for advice in the future." Under such circumstances, Zhang Chunqiao's job was broken. , and the punctuation business of the five "Jin Ping Mei (Ci Hua)" was also seized.

Naturally, Mr. Zhang will be annoyed.He never blamed himself for his mistakes, but fired at Boss Zhang Jinglu and Mr. Shi Zhecun with a "progressive" attitude.He wrote a "righteous and strict" letter to Shanghai Magazine Company, to the effect that, "Punctuating ancient books is really an act of philistines, deceiving readers and harming the public. Editing is even more disgusting, if I had known this, I would not have joined..." Yun Yun. Boss Zhang couldn't help laughing when he saw this letter, but he said humorously: "It turns out that the punctuation is good, then the crime of 'deceiving readers' and 'harming the public' may be reduced. , that's a complete 'deceiving readers' and 'harming the public'!"

However, Zhang Jinglu suffered a lot after all, and it took a lot of effort to ask someone to punctuate again (because I didn't check it in advance, I had already paid for the arrangement), and when "Liuting Poetry Talk" was printed, Boss Zhang discovered Zhang Chunqiao's There are still many relics with random markings and mistakes that have not been fully surveyed, so he suffered a knife from the "Guowen Weekly"; and for the readers, after all, it is also very regrettable. (I heard that the second volume of "Liuting Poetry Talk" has been re-edited and published by Shi Zhecun to avoid repeating the same mistakes).

Back then, Shi Zhecun "fired" the ignorant Zhang Chunqiao, and Zhang Chunqiao held a grudge. "Ten years is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge."In 1957, Zhang Chunqiao finally took advantage of the "Anti-Rightist Movement" and used the pseudonym "Jingliu" to shoot the arrow of revenge! Shi Zhecun was labeled as a "rightist" and suffered humiliation, while Zhang Chunqiao was promoted step by step... However, Mr. Shi Zhecun said with a smile, after all, he saw the shameful end of Zhang Chunqiao, the "evil young man in the foreign field".Mr. Shi Zhecun survived the catastrophe and kept writing.In 1983, he underwent surgery for rectal cancer and passed another test.His old age has become the golden season of life, and he has obtained a gratifying harvest in creation.