During the Republic of China, Shanghai served as the window to the world, and its journalism industry was astonishingly prosperous.
Newspapers cover everything from world events, national affairs, weather forecasts, to price fluctuations, municipal management, horse racing and theater. Reading newspapers has become a part of citizens' lives.
The most sensational news in Shanghai recently is that Zhou Hexuan promoted a new type of underwear in the "Liangyou" pictorial, and Tan Yaozhang denounced Zhou Hexuan as a literary monster in the "Mainland News", which then set off a big debate between progressives and conservatives.
"Continental" was founded in 1911. It is a long-established newspaper. It was originally a Sino-US joint venture. Later, it changed hands many times. Its content also changed from English to all Chinese, and its attitude and stance tended to be conservative.
As soon as Tan Yaozhang's article was published, it immediately attracted the support of conservative literati, who criticized Zhou Hexuan aggressively and scolded him bloody.
Before Zhou Hexuan had time to pay attention, countless progressive scholars spontaneously helped him write.
Ms. Lu Guchun, who has served as the academic director of the Chinese and Western Girls' School for more than 20 years, was the first to publish an article in support of Zhou Hexuan and support women's breast enlargement. She said: "After many years of presiding over the school affairs of girls' schools, I found that small vests hinder the development of women's breasts and can easily cause lung diseases.
Nine out of ten coughs in adult women are caused by this. Chest binding can also cause chest diseases. If you give birth to children in the future, although the milk (harmony) is not flowing smoothly, the baby's body will not be healthy."
Hu Shi, who had just returned to China, also joined in happily: "Breast binding may lead to infectious lung diseases, poisoning of bone marrow, and the scourge of annihilation of the weak country in the morning. Chinese women should protect the natural development and must take the goal of strengthening the country and breeding as a human body."
.China should have great grandmothers, and I support Mr. Zhou’s great grandmother doctrine.”
Even the "Beixin" weekly asked Lu Xun, who was in Guangzhou, to invite him to write articles. Mr. Lu Xun wrote an article "On Big Namaism" for this purpose: "Recently, I heard that someone of the Zhou family, Hexuan, advocated grandmaism, and his intention should be good.
.But it attracted criticism and attracted the scorn of moral gentlemen... I also had worries about the future, thinking that Chinese women might lose the ability to breastfeed in the future, and every family would have to hire wet nurses. But just attacking the corset is ineffective.
First, we need to improve our social thinking and be more generous about breasts and don’t be shy about mentioning them; second, we need to improve our clothes and tie our tops into skirts. Neither cheongsam nor Chinese shorts are suitable for liberating breasts.
, because it was lifted below the breasts, which was inconvenient and unsightly. Although I have not seen the new underwear advocated by Zhou Jun, it is still a good direction."
In today's Chinese literary and ideological circles, Hu Shi and Lu Xun are the most famous. The two of them stood up to support Zhou Hexuan, and instantly attracted countless progressive young people to follow them. "Grandmaism" was also widely discussed by intellectuals.
Those conservatives were scum in terms of their fighting ability. How could they compare to the professional trolls who had experienced the May 4th Movement? In just a few days, they were rendered speechless and went home to cool off.
At the same time, sales of the "Good Friends" pictorial also surged, and there were even queues to buy.
Because several sets of underwear photos published in the pictorial were too tempting for men in the Republic of China, many people bought these items for collection. Just like the "History of Sexuality" edited by Zhang Jingsheng last year, it caused panic buying as soon as it was released, and the warlords banned the book
Sometimes, high-pressure water cannons were even used to disperse book-buying crowds.
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Public concession, Mei Kou underwear store.
Zhou Hexuan directed the clerk: "Move it a little further, and put it there!"
Several female shop assistants carried several wooden mannequins and placed them neatly behind the display window. They quickly put on underwear on them. Next to the sign of the specialty store, there was also a sticker of Katerina
A large underwear photo of Na.
Every day, passers-by came to watch. The thick-skinned ones stood still while the thin-skinned ones would sneak a few glances. Now that the dummy models were placed, there were even more onlookers, pointing and pointing at the models.
Some women originally wanted to go into the store to buy underwear, but when they saw too many onlookers, they suddenly became shy and stood outside the store hesitating.
Suddenly, an old man with gray hair appeared, wearing a long gown, cloth shoes, and glasses. Ignoring the surprised looks of everyone, he walked into the store and shouted: "What styles of bellybands do you have here? Put on the most popular ones."
Take out the nice ones, I want to buy them for my wife!"
When the female customers in the store saw someone of the opposite sex, and he was an old man, they were so frightened that they ran away.
Zhou Hexuan also found it strange, so he walked over to greet him and said with a smile: "Old sir, the new underwear has different sizes. Your wife needs to come to the store to measure it in person to know whether it fits."
"That's no problem. Do you have a telephone here?" the old man said.
Zhou Hexuan said: "There is one inside, please come with me."
The old man followed him in swaggeringly, dialed the number and said, "Zhiying, come to the underwear store, they said they want to measure the size." After saying that, he put down the phone and said to Zhou Hexuan, "Wait, my wife will be here soon.
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Zhou Hexuan was even more surprised and asked: "Excuse me, sir, please give me your surname."
"I am Zhang Binglin." the old man said.
Zhou Hexuan quickly clasped his fists in greeting and said, "It's Mr. Taiyan. I'm so far away from you. I'll show you to Hexuan next week."
Zhang Taiyan laughed and said, "I guess it's you, Zhou Wenyao who clamors for grandmaism."
"A little reputation is not worth mentioning." Zhou Hexuan said with a smile. He was not ashamed of his reputation as a literary demon, but felt proud of it.
Zhang Taiyan pointed at Zhou Hexuan and said: "Haha, you are quite interesting. You only enjoy being scolded."
Zhou Hexuan said: "Compared to Mr. Taiyan, my reputation is not enough. I need to learn more from you and strive to be scolded more harshly."
"You're so fucking crazy, you dare to compete with me and get scolded." Zhang Taiyan was greatly relieved, as if he felt that he had a successor.
The old man and the young man chatted for a long time, and Zhang Taiyan's wife Tang Guoli also came.
Tang Guoli is only in her 40s, and her charm is still there. Unfortunately, her feet have been bound since she was a child, which makes walking a little inconvenient. She behaves generously. When she entered the store, she did not take the measurements, but chose underwear as if no one else was around, and did not pay attention to the comments of the onlookers.
Zhou Hexuan came over and asked: "Hello Mr. Tang, these styles are all designed by me. Sexy, solemn, glamorous... you can find them all. Which one do you like?"
"This pink one with lace is good." Tang Guoli was not ashamed, but commented on her underwear.
As expected, she is the wife of the madman Zhang Taiyan, with quite cutting-edge ideas!
After choosing the styles, Tang Guoli went in to measure the sizes. They bought more than ten pieces of underwear, all of which were carried by Zhang Taiyan.
Lao Zhang especially felt that it was not enough. The moment he walked out of the underwear store, he suddenly raised his underwear high: "My name is Zhang Binglin. The new underwear is a good thing. Don't be stupid. Buy a few pieces and take them home for your wife!"