In 1936, there was a fierce debate between two slogans in the literary circles of Shanghai. The Zhou Yang faction advocated "national defense literature" and the Lu Xun faction advocated the slogan "popular literature of national revolutionary war."
This debate had a profound impact on modern Chinese literature.
Not only did it pave the way for many personnel disputes, but the controversy itself was repeated again and again, with high dynasties rising one after another.
During the Yan'an period, internal disputes within the revolutionary camp were used as an excuse to smooth things over. However, during the Ten Years' Movement, the slogan "National Defense Literature" was severely criticized on the basis of class line issues.
However, no matter which slogan the debaters support, their focus is mostly on the political line. Therefore, whenever there is a backlash in politics, the standards of right and wrong will be different, and people often ignore one issue. Initially, this was just a literary slogan debate.
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Who is Lu Xun? Who is Zhou Yang?
The former is a litterateur and thinker, while the latter is the former deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the former chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles. This shows how influential this controversy is.
Lin Xiaoguang is not afraid of disputes over literary lines and slogans, but is afraid of literature being politicized.
Because of "The Biography of Wu Xun" and because of "Hai Rui Dismissed from Office" written by Wu Han, these are lessons learned from the past. Today is not the same as before, but the Youth Digest has caused a lot of commotion, and students are more impulsive, in case the dispute over literary lines expands.
, attracting the attention of higher-ups would be troublesome.
Simply speaking, the dispute between popular literature and elite culture is not a big deal.
A few days later, when Lin Xiaoguang invited them to stay in the dormitory and the founders of the Peking University Readers Association went to have dinner, they passed by the Red Building and heard someone saying unpleasant things.
He was somewhat famous before, but after it was revealed that he was the editor-in-chief of Youth Digest, he became even more famous around the Old Summer Palace. He was quite diligent in traveling to and from Peking University. Many people did not know him, but they also knew him.
For example, in the May Fourth Literary Society, there are few people who don’t know about him.
No, when someone saw him, they deliberately said loudly: "In this day and age, any cat or dog can start a literary journal. Peking University is the only one. I heard that there are science and engineering schools that run literary journals. It's really ridiculous."
, how many of them understand literature?”
Lin Xiaoguang remained calm, as if he hadn't heard anything. He continued chatting and laughing with Yang Lan and Wu Qian, and left with a few girls.
But some people are reluctant to let go: "Some people want to get admitted to the Chinese Department of Peking University, but they can't even get the door, and they are called Tsinghua traitors. I think our Peking University is not bad. All these people are cheating and staying with a Tsinghua boy. They are really shameless."
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As soon as these words came out, Yang Lan, Wu Qian, Xu Yiwei and several other girls became angry.
Especially the eldest sister Da Ding Kangmei, with her eyebrows raised, stared at a few people and scolded in a cold voice: "Xie Chenyang, Ge Jun, please keep your mouths clean!"
"Did I name him?" Ge Jun on the side was very angry.
"Who are you talking about? You know it in your heart." Ding Kangmei glared at these workers, peasants, and soldiers, and mercilessly exposed them: "You are all in your twenties, and you are ugly and uneducated.
, just don’t come out and embarrass yourself, let alone be jealous of those who are more talented than you. You have so much free time, why not play your childish tricks."
As soon as these words came out, Xie Chenyang's face became a little ugly: "We all know Ding Kangmei anyway. Isn't it too much for you to say this?"
"Am I going too far?"
Ding Kangmei was even more angry: "If I hadn't been worried about Shao Xiaobing's face, I would have slapped you long ago."
Xie Chenyang was so angry that his face was livid, his chest was heaving, and he glared at Ding Kangmei hatefully. After all, he was concerned about the background of the person in front of him, otherwise he would have been beaten by someone else, woman? He would have hit her.
"Walk!"
This world is not binary. Some people have a good impression of Lin Xiaoguang, some people hate it, and some people don't care. This is not surprising.
When this happened, Ding Kangmei felt a little apologetic: "Xiaoguang, I'm sorry for making you laugh."
Lin Xiaoguang shook his head and chuckled: "Speaking of which, if it weren't for me, they wouldn't have made groundless accusations. It was me who caused you trouble."
For Yang Lan and others, as students from Peking University, they would feel uncomfortable if they helped Tsinghua students, and when the end came, they had the Tsinghua Literary Society surpassing the May Fourth Literary Society. People with a sense of collective honor would feel uncomfortable.
"Xiaoguang, don't say that. If you say it again, we will be angry." Tian Tian pouted.
"Yeah, I think it's pretty good. We can't get into the May 4th Literary Society. They are aloof and their works are all incomprehensible. Youth Digest is better. I like it very much. By the way, Xiaoguang, you guys edited it.
The committee should know who the author whose pen name is Anonymous is?" Wu Qian is very persistent on this issue.
Yang Lan and others snickered on the sidelines. Of course they knew that Anonymous meant Anonymous.
"We don't know either. Anyway, after inviting all the young literary people in Peiping to write a manuscript, he sent it over with an anonymous name." Lin Xiaoguang was also a little helpless. He took great pains not to become famous.
"The Colonel's Daughter is well written. The author, Second Lieutenant, is so talented, but Zhang Yannan is so despicable. After he married Peng Zhan, what happened to Han Lin later?"
Tian Tian, who was born in the military, likes the novel The Colonel's Daughter very much.
After returning home, he took some time to find a weekend. After careful consideration, Lin Xiaoguang decided to take action on the Readers Association, and called Lin Xiaoyun, Yang Lan, Chen Yiming, and Zhao Ziyu to hold a relatively private meeting.
This is an inner circle. In order to ensure that it is not spread out, even Lin Xiaoguang's cousin Lin Weidong from Beijing Normal University, Zhai Xiaoyue, a good friend of Lin Xiaoyun from Beijing Normal University, and Wang Weimin from Agricultural University are not called, just to keep it secret.
"Now some people say that the Readers' Association is the bastard of Tsinghua Literary Society, and that you are the traitors of your school."
As soon as these words came out, Lin Xiaoyun and Yang Lan both looked a little ugly.
"According to my estimation, these voices started appearing almost after the second issue, but they have begun to appear now. It is obvious that someone is eyeing us and deliberately targeting us."
"Who is it?" Chen Yiming was very angry.
As the president of the Tsinghua Readers Association, although it was Lin Xiaoguang who gave him the idea and he can be a follower, others cannot say that he is a loser.
"Whoever's cheese we touch is targeting us."
"So, it's the May Fourth Literary Society?" Chen Yiming blurted out.
Zhao Ziyu thought thoughtfully: "Qi Mingyuan, Fan Tianming, Zhou Chenghui and the others were driven away by us before?"
"Who is our enemy and who is our friend? This is the primary issue of the revolution. There is no room for two tigers in one mountain. We must do a good job in Youth Digest. The May Fourth Literary Society and the former Tsinghua Literary Society are our strong enemies. This must be established. There is no room for two tigers in the same mountain.
Question?" Lin Xiaoguang stared at everyone with burning eyes.
Chen Yiming and Zhao Ziyu nodded in unison. As for Lin Xiaoyun and Yang Lan, they were a little embarrassed, but they still nodded.
"What about our friends? Readers' associations, major university readers' associations, right?"
Everyone nodded.
"So, in order to ensure that everyone no longer wears the label of traitor, I decided to reorganize the Readers Association, learn from our party's anti-Japanese democratic regime, implement the three-thirds system of leadership, establish a united front, form the Peking University Student Readers Association Alliance, and use Youth Digest
It is a publication of the Reading Association.”
This is easy to understand. Those of you here who have a good political background figured it out immediately.
"Then there is another question. Youth Digest is already a publication of the Tsinghua Literature Society. How did it become a publication of the Reading Association?" Chen Yiming was not the only one who was confused.
"As long as we, the Tsinghua Literature Society, don't pursue it and the Reading Association uses it, how can others make irresponsible remarks?"