When everyone looked at him, Zhou Hexuan stopped his smile, took out a few newspapers and said: "This is the Ta Kung Pao from late June to early July. The 'Peking News' mentioned many times that the Japanese army was conducting military operations at Marco Polo Bridge and the Wanping River.
Exercise. What does this remind me of? I remember that before the September 18th Incident, the Japanese army conducted many exercises outside Shenyang."
No matter whether they were poets from the left or the right, they all looked grim when they heard this statement.
"The Japanese are going to attack Peiping?" Li Jinfa couldn't help but ask.
Li Jinfa was a sculptor, a classmate of Xu Beihong, and a modernist poet. Because his poems were weird and difficult to read, and quite like Li He, he was called a "poetic monster". Li Jinfa was the principal of an art school in Guangzhou at this time.
, because he returned to Shanghai during the summer vacation, he happened to be invited by Dai Wangshu to hold a poetry meeting.
The most famous article by this person in history is undoubtedly the article "From Zhou Zuoren Talking about 'Literature Men Have No Actions'", in which he swore at the traitors Wang Zhaoming and Zhou Zuoren.
No one could have imagined that this sculptor and poet would go to the United States to open a farm to raise chickens after World War II. It only took one year to develop into a mid-level farm in the United States.
Facing the question raised by Li Jinfa, Zhou Hexuan nodded solemnly and said: "Judging from the movements of the Japanese troops in North China, something will happen in Peiping within a week."
"Have you informed General Song Zheyuan?" Feng Zhi asked.
Feng Zhi, a free-style poet, received a PhD from Heidelberg University and is now a teacher at Tongji University.
"Song Zheyuan?" Zhou Hexuan sneered, "General Song is famous for being sentimental. He is still recuperating in his hometown. He probably cannot see the danger in Peiping."
The poet Pu Feng said angrily: "What else will he do besides recuperating?"
"I can also sweep graves." Yang Sao said suddenly.
"Ha ha ha ha!"
Although it was very inappropriate, everyone was still amused, and the laughter was full of irony towards Song Zheyuan.
In fact, as early as two months ago, the Japanese troops in North China were ready to move.
The Japanese contacted Song Zheyuan all day long, trying to make Song Zheyuan a traitor. Song Zheyuan couldn't bear the harassment and went back to his hometown to sweep his grave for half a month. Not long after returning to Peiping, the Japanese came to visit him again. Song Zheyuan fell ill instantly and was still recuperating in his hometown.
Disease body.
Sweeping graves, recuperating, recuperating, sweeping graves... it has almost become Song Zheyuan's daily life, so that even southerners know that General Song Zheyuan is a man who misses his hometown.
Whether it's Song Zheyuan in Hebei or Han Fuju in Shandong, they are like ostriches with their heads stuck in the sand. They don't dare to fight the Japanese, and they don't dare to be traitors. They turn a blind eye to the various little tricks of the Japanese army and have a muddled attitude.
day.
Even if Zhou Hexuan went north in person and told Song Zheyuan face to face that the Japanese were about to attack Beiping, Song Zheyuan would probably turn a deaf ear to this warning.
You know, in history, Song Zheyuan, after the July 7th Incident broke out, still thought about peacefully resolving the North China issue. He could only think this way, because there was no way out.
Zhou Hexuan continued with a heavy heart: "Although I don't want to admit it, I still have to say it. Once the incident in Peiping happens, North China cannot hold it, and North China will become the second Northeast. I am not alarmist. Please read these newspapers.
, I have outlined them all with red pen.”
Zhou Hexuan took out another large pile of newspapers, with as many as fifty or sixty newspapers, covering the movements of the Japanese troops in North China in the past two or three months.
Everyone took newspapers and circulated them to each other. There was a lot of noise at first, but gradually it became dead silence.
The contents of these news are very common. The Japanese and puppet troops have attacked Suiyuan again, the Kwantung Army has conducted exercises in a certain place, and Japanese planes have distributed leaflets in Pingjin... If you read them separately, everyone will only feel angry and want to take pictures.
The table scolded the government for being incompetent and the soldiers for being cowardly. But when these news items were taken together, the intention of the Japanese army to step up its aggression became very clear. Anyone who was not a fool could have foreseen that the Japanese army would take action in North China.
Zhou Hexuan can see it, the Kuomintang can see it, the Communist Party can see it, and countless people of insight can see it, so now the whole country is shouting for unity in the war of resistance.
For the next hour, Zhou Hexuan did not speak, leaving time for everyone in attendance to slowly read the news.
Finally, the sound of whispering sounded again in the venue:
"When do you think Japan will take action against Peiping?"
"I'm afraid it will be very soon, within half a year at the latest."
"Mr. Zhou said it will be within a week."
"It's also possible. Alas, how can such a huge China be so cowardly!"
"I hope the Nanjing government will quickly dispatch the Central Army to the north."
"Who can say exactly when the war will start? It all depends on the Japanese. When they say they will fight, they will fight. If the Central Army sends its troops north before the war starts, it is estimated that Song Zheyuan will fight the Central Army first, and the Japanese
I'm happy to watch the excitement."
"Damn warlord!"
"..."
Zhou Hexuan clapped his hands and signaled everyone to be quiet: "Today is a poetry meeting, and I think of Du Fu's "Spring Outlook". The country is broken by the mountains and rivers, and the city is full of spring vegetation. I feel the flowers splashing with tears, and the birds are frightened by the hate. We are very sad.
Unfortunately, I was born in an era when warlords were fighting, and the country was in ruins and the people were weak. But there is a saying that the country is unfortunate, the poet is lucky, and the feelings of family and country are always poetry. I admire Mr. Lu Xun very much. Before Mr. Lu Xun died, he called on the Chinese literary world to abandon
The left and right factions both focus on saving the nation and trying to survive. I very much agree with this. I am holding this poetry meeting today mainly because I want to talk to you about this issue. Just now, everyone was arguing about poetry creation. In my opinion, it is unnecessary. I
I believe that in the next long period of time, we should write patriotic poems, anti-Japanese poems, and national salvation poems! Patriotic and anti-Japanese poems not only reflect the war, but also reflect the current social situation and express our own personal feelings. For example, Du Fu's "Spring Festival Gala"
", this is a patriotic poem. Poets who like sentimentality, such as my good friend Mr. Xu Zhimo, can also continue their own style, but I hope Zhimo will focus more on the country and the nation, rather than the love between men and women..."
When Xu Zhimo was called by Zhou Hexuan, he felt a little embarrassed and subconsciously nodded in response.
Zhou Hexuan added: "I admire the works of the Chinese Poetry Society very much. But I would like to make a suggestion. Don't cling to ideology. The proletariat is Chinese, and the bourgeoisie is also Chinese. The most important problem in China now is
, how to drive the Japanese out, we must unite to fight against the outside world!"
Mu Mutian raised his hands and said: "I have reservations about this. The Japanese will resist, and the bourgeoisie will also attack!"
"The money of the bourgeoisie is also hard-earned." Shao Xunmei retorted.
Yang Sao smiled and said, "I don't know about others. I'm afraid you didn't earn Mr. Shao's money yourself."
Shao Xunmei said: "That was also earned by my grandfather and father."
"It's just the people's blessings," Yang Sao said.
Seeing that the two sides were arguing again, Zhou Hexuan quickly stopped it: "Okay, okay, let's put aside the internal conflicts and face the external conflicts together."
Shao Xunmei smiled and agreed: "I have no problem. What if I spend all my family wealth for the sake of the country and the nation?"
Don't think that Shao Xunmei is just an idle second-generation ancestor. He is also patriotic. After the January 28th Incident, Shao Xunmei founded the "Current Affairs Daily" to call on the whole people to rise up and resist. Historically, Shao Xunmei had no income during the Anti-Japanese War and was so poor that his wife
Sheng Peiyu pawned all her jewelry, but still persisted in publishing publications and followed his philosophy of publishing to save the country.
After Taizu's "On Protracted War" was published in Yan'an, it was Shao Xunmei who first promoted it to the Kuomintang-controlled areas. He commented: ""On Protracted War" is a book that everyone can understand, everyone can appreciate, and it can be transmitted by thousands of people.
, a work praised both at home and abroad.”
Xiang Meili, Shao Xunmei's foreign concubine, also took the lead in translating "On Protracted War" into English and added the following note: "In the past ten years, no other book in Chinese publications has attracted the public more than this one.
Attention."
Shao Xunmei not only serialized it in her own magazine, but also spent money to publish a single volume of "On Protracted War" in both Chinese and English.
Taizu personally wrote the preface to the English version: "Friends in Shanghai are translating my "On Protracted War" into English. Of course I am happy to hear it, because the great Chinese War of Resistance is not only a matter for China, but also for the East.
It is also a matter of the world..."
In order to insist on publishing, Shao Xunmei eventually became a pauper. And all this he did was done under the eyes of the Japanese because he stayed in the Japanese-occupied area of Shanghai. For his own safety, he specially bought a pistol
For self-defense, he usually hides in Xiang Meili's apartment and does not dare to show his face. He also hired a French bodyguard.
Among the poets coming to the poetry meeting at this moment, there are many like Shao Xunmei.
In the past, everyone was sad for spring and autumn, but when the national crisis hit, they all turned into patriotic poets. Their poetry styles changed drastically, their gentle words became as sharp as a knife, and some simply wrote and joined the army and rushed to the battlefield.
For the modern Chinese poetry world, the July 7th Incident directly gave birth to a genre called the July Poetry School!
Discovering and praising the vitality of the nation and expressing the distinct subjective fighting passion are the main creative contents of the July Poetry School, the representative figure of which is Ai Qing.
Zhou Hexuan did not want to join any poetry school, nor did he want to steal Ai Qing's limelight. He said: "I plan to start a poetry magazine, called Spring View, and the content will mainly be about saving the nation. I hope everyone can actively contribute."
Well, the main reason is that the July Poetry School has a strong class flavor, and Zhou Hexuan wanted to accept more patriots regardless of class status.
"I will be the editor-in-chief of "Spring Hope"!" Xu Zhimo was the first to respond.
Zhou Hexuan smiled and said: "Of course you can. But one thing needs to be stated: "Spring Hope" is willing to publish poems from any class. You should not shoot down the works of left-wing poets just because of your own subjective likes and dislikes."
"No problem." Xu Zhimo blushed a little, because he had done this kind of thing before in Peking, when he was the editor of "Morning News" when it resumed publication.
"I support it too!" Dai Wangshu echoed for the second time. He is also the editor-in-chief of the magazine, but he is not afraid of Zhou Hexuan stealing business because "Spring View" is a purely poetry magazine.
"Count me in." Yang Sao raised his hand and said.
Yang Sao raised his hand, and Pu Feng and others also expressed their support. The best thing about these left-wing poets is writing patriotic poems.
