Volume 1: A sound on Wall Street, Xinxiang City is busy copying books Chapter 190 Sensitive Words
Subtitle of this chapter: Everyone be careful, Mr. Hongjian is coming.
Because she had moved house, she didn't know where she put the letter. Yuan Yan still couldn't remember her brother-in-law's name, so she just gave up thinking about it.
After reading the family letters, he searched through the pile of letters again, reading the letters of condolence from "my friend Xu Zhimo" and "my friend He Cuilian". Then he saw the letter from "my ex-girlfriend Ms. Tang" sent from London.
After reading this long letter written in a sloppy pen, our Master Yuan could not help but sit up in shock in his dying illness. The short and weak... Pah! The dark wind blew the rain into the cold window.
What do you mean? You want to commit suicide for me?
Don't worry, I'm still alive and well, you should live well too. We both live long lives, I have many wives and concubines, you have many children and grandchildren, we meet by chance on the roadside with wrinkles on our faces, white hair and few teeth left, and we look at each other and smile, everything is said without words, what a romantic scene that is!
Your fiancé is here to take you back to his country to get married, so you are going to a nunnery in France... um, a monastery to become a nun?
Oh, this is quite to my taste... No, it's none of my business! If you want to become a nun, it doesn't mean I have to be ordained as a monk and serve Jehovah for life. Before the cock crowed three times and became Kung Pao Chicken, I really had no fate with him!
Your fiancé and your cousin's husband are coming to New York to see me?
My God, your cousin's husband is the next Chinese Minister to the United States Shi Zhaoji, and your fiancé's father, your father-in-law, is the former Chinese Minister to the United States Wu Yanfang. So your eldest uncle is the future Chinese Minister to the United States Wu Chaoshu, and you also have a brother-in-law who was the former Chinese Minister to the United States Gu Weijun... Even the Chinese Minister to the United States can be played mahjong together by Ms. Tang Baokun!
This table of mahjong played by the Chinese ambassadors to the United States really made our Master Yuan so sad and angry that he was speechless: I summoned four Chinese ambassadors to the United States to have a girlfriend, but my father-in-law safely married a table of beautiful women... Well, they are all my stepmothers after all, so I should play mahjong with more respect.
The deeply suffering Master Yuan immediately felt the deep suffering of the deeply suffering young people in his deeply suffering motherland. They had an urgent need to fight against feudalism, backwardness and Male Chauvinism!
As a master of neoclassical liberalism, how can I not speak for the aspiring young people in the Republic of China? How can I not cause trouble for the old men in the Republic of China who want concubines? As for when I return to China... I'll talk about it then. With my ability to deceive people, can't I make it up?
So it seems that it won't work if I don't copy that vernacular novel.
"Master Ball, how much B-coin balance do I have now?"
"Host, more than ten thousand."
"Well, extract the entry Su Tong under Chinese, under Fiction, under Avant-garde... Wait, use that 'qualifier: morbid'!"
"Ding ding ding, congratulations to the host for winning Su Tong's "Wives and Concubines"!"
As I thought, the qualifier "morbid" is indeed very suitable for "The Story of a Concubine". Everyone in this book is sick.
"Host, do you want to print?"
"Nonsense, this is the only useful function of yours."
Yuan Yan suddenly looked solemnly at the manuscript and a manila envelope on the table, thinking seriously about a question: Should I take a pen name?
Many meaningful pen names and pseudonyms passed by his eyes, such as "sensitive words here", "sensitive words here", "sensitive words here"...
He was so dizzy by the sensitive words that he turned off the barrage in anger. In the end, he made his own decision. A cool man like me should use my real name without changing it.
Yuan Hongjian wrote the two characters "Hongjian" neatly on the cover of the manuscript. Thus, Mr. Hongjian, who was as famous as Mr. Lu Xun, was born.!
Grandpa, it’s not my son who is dissatisfied with your marriage... Damn it, why is it that in other families it’s the father who is dissatisfied with his son’s marriage, but it’s the other way around in my case?
Gentlemen, I am not being disrespectful as a junior, but you don’t have the physique that I have, and I am just thinking about your health.
Oh my God, it’s not that I’m envious, jealous, or hateful, but this world is too feudal, too backward, and too male chauvinistic. I can’t remain silent any longer!
He picked up the pen again and wrote neatly in the middle of the envelope: New Youth Magazine...
Finally, our Master Yuan has finally embarked on the broad road of "Friend of Women"!
"When it comes to the vernacular movement, we have to mention two novels. The first one is of course Lu Xun's Diary of a Madman, which is also the first modern vernacular novel in China..."
"But even Mr. Lu Xun himself admitted that when he read Mr. Hongjian's "Wives and Concubines", he confirmed the true development direction of the vernacular movement..."
"Some critics described the two books like this: "Diary of a Madman" is a novel that can be called modern in terms of language, content and form. It is like when bronze smelting technology was still in its infancy, someone directly forged a sword that could destroy the thousand-year-old shackles of the old style. And "Wives and Concubines" is even more complete, mature and refined than the former, as if at the same time, someone had polished a bronze mirror that could illuminate the way forward for vernacular writing..."
"Diary of a Madman" and "Wives and Concubines" have epoch-making significance in the history of modern Chinese literature and modern Chinese culture. Together, they laid the foundation for the creation of modern Chinese literary novels; their profound thoughts are a high-level summary of modern Chinese enlightenment. In terms of form and thought, they have profoundly influenced the history of Chinese literature and the history of Chinese thought in the 20th century!"
——Excerpt from A Brief History of the Vernacular Movement
"New Youth was the most influential revolutionary magazine and youth literature magazine in China in the 1920s..."
"In the first half of 1920, the editorial office of New Youth moved to Shanghai for editing and printing. From the first issue of Volume 8 in September 1920, it became the official publication of the Shanghai Communist Group of China..."
"In February 1921, the New Youth caused a public outcry because it published Mr. Hongjian's "Wives and Concubines". Because Mr. Hongjian was far away overseas at the time and his reputation was growing, domestic opponents could do nothing about him. However, many powerful people at the time asked the French Concession authorities to stop the publication of New Youth..."
On February 11, the French police station used the excuse that the Shanghai New Youth magazine was selling books and illustrated magazines such as Class Struggle and The Road to Freedom, believing that the magazine’s “words were fierce, offensive to public morals, and in violation of the Concession Regulations” and forcibly closed the New Youth magazine...."
——Excerpt from "A Brief History of New Youth Magazine"
