Chapter 559 [558] [Beijing School and Shanghai School]

Jin Yuelin suddenly said, "Why did you give her vinegar? Does Bing Xin like vinegar?"

"Hahahahaha!"

The room was full of laughter, but Jin Yuelin couldn't figure it out.

There are too many jokes about Jin Yuelin, the most accomplished philosopher in modern China, is a complete idiot in life, and his emotional intelligence is infinitely close to zero.

For example, once Jin Yuelin called Tao Menghe, and Tao Menghe's servant asked who he was, but Jin Yuelin couldn't answer for a while. The servant refused to give up, so Jin Yuelin had no choice but to ask the driver he had hired: "Do you know who I am?" The driver was stunned for a moment and couldn't answer. Jin Yuelin asked urgently: "Have you never heard someone call you?" The driver quickly said: "Calling you Dr. Jin." Only then did Jin Yuelin suddenly realize that his surname was Jin, so he ran back to the house and continued to make calls.

It is obviously difficult for Jin Yuelin to understand the stalk of Shanxi old vinegar.

While Zhou Hexuan was watching the National Games, Bing Xin's famous article "Our Wife's Living Room" had also been published, and it was published in the supplement of "Dazhong" founded by Zhou Hexuan.

Although Bing Xin said later that she was alluding to Lu Xiaoman, for example, the photos hanging on the wall of the living room are in Lu Xiaoman's style, but this article has too many shadows of Lin Huiyin, and a discerning person can tell who it is talking about at a glance.

For example, "wife's daughter Binbin" alludes to Lin Huiyin's five-year-old daughter Liang Zaibing; a literature professor who is "about forty years old, with two short beards and a spring face" alludes to Hu Shi; a philosopher who "always thinks he is a smoker" , alluding to Jin Yuelin.

The most obvious is the sentence "A so-called American artist, a romantic widow, came to China with her husband the year before last, and she was reluctant to leave, so she delayed it by herself", which is clearly alluding to Fairbank and his wife Fei Weimei. However, the Fairbank and his wife did not know Lu Xiaoman, and instead often participated in Lin Huiyin's salons. Bing Xin's defense obviously cannot be justified.

It happened that Lin Huiyin and her husband had just returned from inspecting ancient buildings in Shanxi at that time, and they brought a jar of local old Shanxi vinegar. After she read the article "Our Wife's Living Room", she immediately asked someone to send vinegar to Bing Xin, insinuating that Bing Xin wrote the article because of jealousy.

Lin Huiyin was probably furious at the time, and other things can be forgiven. The most unforgivable thing is that Bing Xin exposed Lin Huiyin's family privacy in the article, and repeatedly implied that Lin Huiyin belonged to a concubine and was born by a concubine.

Swearing without revealing faults, beating without slapping people in the face, Bing Xin did go a little too far this time.

Hu Shi suddenly laughed and said, "It's just a gossip, why mention her? Don't ruin your mood for no reason."

Liang Sicheng also said: "Yes, yes, let's talk about something else."

Neither of them wanted to talk about Bing Xin, and there was a lot of disgust in their tone.

The article written by Bing Xin not only offended Lin Huiyin, but also offended all the scholars who participated in the salon.

Especially Liang Sicheng was very angry. Bing Xin's descriptions in the article almost said that Liang Sicheng had a cuckold on his head.

At this moment, another person suddenly came in from the living room. He was not tall, but he was very energetic. He smiled and said, "Everyone came so early."

Lin Huiyin quickly introduced: "This is Mr. Zhu Guangqian, a writer and esthetician. Mr. Zhu has just returned from abroad and is now a professor at Peking University."

"We've already met." Hu Shi smiled.

Zhou Hexuan shook hands and said, "Mr. Zhu, it's a pleasure to meet you!"

Just as Lin Huiyin wanted to introduce Zhou Hexuan, Zhu Guangqian said with a smile: "Mr. Zhou doesn't need to introduce. I have been in Europe for the past few years, and I often see his photos in newspapers. Hello, Mr. Zhou. It is a great honor to meet you."

"Where is it?" Zhou Hexuan said.

After Zhu Guang sneaked into his seat, Hu Shi continued the conversation just now: "If you want to talk about a particularly interesting topic recently, it should be the dispute between the Beijing School and the Shanghai School of Literature."

Zhou Hexuan laughed and said, "Brother Shi belongs to the Beijing School or the Shanghai School?"

Hu Shi played tricks and said: "I used to live in Shanghai, so I belong to the Shanghai school. Now that I am in Beiping, I naturally belong to the Beijing school."

"Haha," Liang Sicheng laughed, "that makes sense, we all live in Beiping, and we are all Beijing school."

Zhou Hexuan shrugged: "For someone like me who doesn't live in Shanghai and Beiping, he can't be bothered."

"Ha ha ha ha!"

As soon as this remark came out, everyone burst into laughter again.

The literary dispute between the Beijing School and the Shanghai School is really nonsense, anyway, Zhou Hexuan is too lazy to get involved.

The reason is that Shen Congwen published an article in the supplement of "Dazhong", criticizing the creative attitude of Shanghai-style writers "playing with others", thinking that Shanghai-style writers are all in the eyes of money. This is equivalent to firing a map at the entire Shanghai literary world, including Lu Xun, Mao Dun, Zhang Henshui, Zhou Shoujuan, Yu Dafu, and Zhang Ziping, who were all scolded by him.

The first one who jumped out to fight back was Su Wen. This person had mediocre achievements in literary creation, but he was able to leave a big name in the literary world of the Republic of China because he was scolded by Lu Xun, Qu Qiubai, Shen Congwen and others. not easy.

Shen Congwen criticized those who wrote articles indiscriminately, but Su Wen forcibly bound the entire Shanghai literary world, and also said that Shanghai's high prices made it difficult for authors to make a living, so they could only write books crazily without even having time to revise them. Su Wen put himself and the Shanghai writers on the disadvantaged side, thinking that Shen Congwen didn't know that the hungry were hungry, and that the Beijing school writers relied on the strong to bully the weak and bullied the poor Shanghai school writers.

Shen Congwen hurriedly wrote another article, saying that "Shanghai-style writers" had nothing to do with the region, but just represented a bad creative attitude, and there were many Shanghai-style writers living in Beiping.

However, it is not clear at all, because the terms "Shanghai School" and "Beijing School" already reflect a distinct regionality.

Now the Beijing faction and the Shanghai faction have started fighting, involving dozens of writers, and the number of writers joining the battle is increasing every day. This has become the most sensational event in the Chinese literary world in the past few months.

Mr. Lu Xun was the most powerful. When the two sides were arguing, Lu Xun suddenly wrote an article "Beijing School and Shanghai School", which seemed to be shouting: "Shut up all you scumbags and listen to me!" !"

What did Lu Xun say in the article?

The content is as follows: "There are many officials in the imperial capital, and there are many merchants in the concession. Therefore, the literati in Beijing are close to officials, and those who have no sea are close to merchants. Those who are close to officials are making officials famous, and those who are close to merchants are making profits for merchants, and they also rely on them for their own livelihood. In short, the "Beijing School" is the help of the officials, and the "Shanghai School" is the help of the merchants. But those who get food from officials are hidden, but they can still be proud to the outside world, and those who get food from business are obvious. Those who cover up, forget what they are, and then they can be divided into clear and turbid. And the vulgarity of officials is also an old Chinese habit, which makes the "Shanghai School" fall in the eyes of the "Beijing School".

Lu Xun's words are really harsh, but they are not unreasonable. The two sentences "The Beijing faction is the help of officials, and the Shanghai faction is the help of businessmen" are simply amazing!

However, Lu Xun's words are also slightly biased. According to Lu Xun, even Zhou Hexuan became an "official's helper", and anyone who wrote a book seriously became an "official's helper". Isn't this nonsense?

Lin Huiyin asked with a smile: "Mr. Zhou, what do you think of the dispute between the Beijing School and the Shanghai School?"

What do you think?

Zhou Hexuan remembered that decades later, Beijing became the capital of China again, while Shanghai became an international metropolis. The two cities have always been in love with each other, which seems to be a new continuation of the Beijing School and the Shanghai School.

As for the current capital, Nanjing, it is obviously not regarded by the Beijing faction and the Shanghai faction, and it is simply a "false imperial capital".

Zhou Hexuan laughed and said, "Have you discovered a very strange phenomenon?"

"What phenomenon?" Zhu Guangqian asked.

"The dispute between the Beijing school and the Shanghai school has developed to the present, and the Shanghai writers are basically involved, while the writers in Peking have not paid attention to this matter at all," Zhou Hexuan said with a smile, "On the Peking side, only Shi Tuo stood up and wrote an article , but it’s kind of muddled. His article is probably saying, don’t fool around, there’s no such thing as Beijing style and Shanghai style, it’s all Shen Congwen’s nonsense, come, come, let’s sit down and drink tea is the serious thing.”

Liang Sicheng said: "Why don't Peking writers participate in the debate?"

"It can be explained with a joke," Zhou Hexuan said, "Shanghai people like to ask people when they meet, do you think Beijing is better or Shanghai? But Beijingers don't ask. Why? Because in the eyes of Beijingers, there is still Is there a better place than Beijing?"

Everyone was taken aback for a moment, and then burst into laughter: "Hahahaha!"

Hu Shi wiped away his tears with a smile, pointed at Zhou Hexuan and said, "Ming Cheng, you are a black and a black couple."