On "shady"
1919 65438+10/2 Weekly Review No.4
Signed zhongmi
In the past two years, a book called "Shady" suddenly became popular in China. Everyone knows the content of this kind of thing, so there is no need to explain it. But what makes people wonder is why China suddenly produced this kind of work.
I remember there used to be popular note novels about Zuo Wenxiang and Peng Gangzhi, as well as erotic novels about a student and an anonymous person. Personally, these two novels are the root of "shady". It turns out that China people still don't understand what a novel is, except that there is a kind of "light reading" in the world. Those who read can use it for leisure, while those who do can give full play to their opinions, talk big, complain about personal grievances, sigh that today is not as good as before, and talk nonsense. Thought is very simple, only know diet, men and women, wealth, ghosts and gods these things, unclear, exaggerated and scattered. Therefore, if the book is not full of big talk and pretentious talk about talents and beautiful women, resulting in a disgusting book, it will record some irrelevant things one after another, saying that it is about "the country" or telling stories first. These two kinds of people are just one and two, two and one, and together they become a shady leisure book about erotic stories.
This ethos is not recent, but "old". This is not surprising. At that time, China was always a so-called leisure novel, which consisted of A Dream of Red Mansions and biographies of children heroes, Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio and Yuewei Caotang Notes. As soon as La Traviata appeared, it never changed. Novels of European literature are completely different from China's leisure books. In translation, I hope to correct some old fallacies, but I have actually been assimilated by old ideas. So I translated the biography of Jiayin and read it as Tessie's biography of non-smoking and A Dream of Red Mansions. Translated the legend of the werewolf in Ghost Mountain and read it as Taixi's Biography of Campus Guests and Elvis Presley; The short story compiled by Cha Baishi Bookstore for children's composition practice was translated into the poet's interpretation of Yi, which was regarded as Taixi's Liaozhai. Although this situation is ridiculous, we should also praise his generosity; Because in China, few people with a full belly of bibles are willing to bring foreign things to the meeting.
In Yuan Hongxian's time, everything was retro and foreign, so it was worthless. Everyone rolled up their sleeves and made national quintessence novels; As a result, the erotic novels of the "Jade Pear Soul" school and the note novels of the "Beat Me" school became very popular. Books about true anecdotes of the Qing Dynasty are of their own kind, and I don't know how many have been published. Another change, these two or three molecules are synthesized together, so there is the erotic story mentioned above. In other words, it is obscene books in the notebook.
The same obscene book can't tell good from bad. But this recorded thing (this single statement refers to a real person, and what is described is naturally fictional) is even worse than fiction; Because China people like to talk about this bad temper in the boudoir, it is completely exposed. The novel only talks about boudoir, but records other people's boudoir. Not only do you like to say dirty work, but you also like to speak ill of others. This is a degenerate national character.
Some people say: "Their books are used for exhortation, there is nothing wrong." But I want to ask: Is there any obscene book in China that is not for warning? Say a lot of bad words when writing reasons, and remember to say a lot of bad words when being reported; In this way, he built his own bones, which were obscene books. As China's advertisement for selling aphrodisiacs said, "There are three kinds of unfilial, and there is no queen." His elixir is a panacea to avoid people's unfilial words. Although highly skilled, it cannot be said to be a symptom of depravity.
However, it is difficult for us to blame such "shady" people; Because this is not their founding, this is "ancient", and they are nothing more than returning to ancient times. Erotic anecdotes originated very early, and there are always a few words written by literati, which only express their ambitions slightly and are not well carried forward. This kind of seed has existed since ancient times, so now Zhang Si has been making works with their talents passed down from generation to generation. For example, people with congenital syphilis will inevitably get sick in adulthood and their noses will fall off, which is not necessarily their own sin; Now we see that we should sympathize with their fate; But for the fate of our public society, there is inevitably a heart of terror and anxiety.
We never said that the shady should not be made public. We advocate that the shady should be made public, but it is by no means so open. We expose the shady scene not to see what someone is doing behind the scenes, nor to see who is doing it. We should link the man in the dark with his actions and background and watch them together. This man is an ethnic group in China, and his background is China society. We need to see why this Chinese nation has failed so much in China's present society. What we have done is only the result, so we don't need to elaborate. The most important thing we should pay attention to is the interaction between people and society; In other words, it is the relationship between human heredity and outer edge. What are the roots of China people?
How do they create society? How is it caused by society? In a word, can China people and society grow? Can you change it? Can it exist? But this kind of shady research is extremely difficult. First, to do such a thing, you need a talented scholar with a very profound outlook on life, which is definitely not something that a person who specializes in "casual reading" can do. Second, the research scope is wide, not only traitors and frauds should be classified, but also the most common bachelor of arts in China, who are exaggerated, pornographic and immoral. It should be all income. To study this matter, we must use the method of medical doctor, which is even more difficult for people with congenital mental syphilis, so it is extremely difficult.