1903 Jin Songcen wrote the first six chapters of "Evil Sea Flower" at the request of Jiangsu magazine run by Jiangsu students studying in Japan in Tokyo. The first and second chapters were published in the eighth issue of Jiangsu, and the author signed them, that is, Jin Songcen's pen name. 1March, 904, in a translation advertisement written by freelancers, Jin labeled "Evil Sea Flower" as a "political novel" and introduced: "This book describes the life story of Sai Jinhua, including the Sino-Russian negotiation, the Pamir border treaty incident, the Russian nihilist party incident, the Ningjian incident in three northeastern provinces, the recent Shanghai revolution incident, the Tokyo Volunteers incident, and the Guangxi incident. Brilliant and interested. It has been printed and will be published on the same day. " It can be seen that the theme of this book is to expose imperialism and Russia's aggressive ambitions, and it is only planned to be written in 1903. This is the plan for the return of Evil Sea Flower. In fact, none of the gold book "Evil Sea Flowers" has been published.
Textual research on Lin Ben in the thirty-first year of Guangxu (1905)
1In August, 904, Ceng Pu founded Xiao Shuolin Bookstore in Shanghai. Jin Songcen handed the first six chapters of "Evil Sea Flower" to Ceng Pu, and the two agreed on 60 chapters. Ceng Pu drew up a list of 1 10 characters in Evil Flower, which is divided into six chapters: the era of conservatism, the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, the era of coup, the boxer rebellion, the era of innovation and overseas sports. Ceng Pu immediately revised the first six chapters and continued to write. After three months' hard work, it is divided into two chapters (five volumes and ten chapters) in one go, which was printed by Japan's Tokyo Xiangluan Society and published by Yi San's Kobayashi Society in August of the first month (1905). Thirty-two format, lead printing. Both volumes of this book are set in Hai Mo Island, with the word "evil sea flower" in the middle. The second Chinese book "Evil Sea Flower" is well written, with the title "Historical Novel" on the upper right and "Aramaic Women's History" on the lower left. In front of the volume, there is a bust photo of Sai Jinyou, entitled "Portrait of the First Lady Cao Menglan (also known as Sai Jinhua)". The title at the beginning of each volume is "Free Love Begins, Edited by the Sick Man of East Asia", and there are illustrations at the end of each volume. At the end of the first time, the whole list has 60 chapters. This book is available in Shanghai Library today. After the publication of 1907 The Story of the Forest, Ceng Pu continued to write it five times, serializing it in the first issue (2 1 22 times), the second issue (23 times, 24 times) and the fourth issue (25 times), and then quit. 19i in 6 years, the forced exegesis compiled chapters 21-24 into three volumes, which were published together with "An Anonymous List of Flowers in Evil Waves", "Eight Textual Research Stories of Flowers in Evil Waves" and "Eleven Continuing Exams for Forced Exegesis" printed by Shanghai Bai Yong Bookstore and published by Shanghai Wangyunshan Bookstore. At this time, it was twenty-five times that of Ceng Pu, and so far no single book has been published together. A Ying collected only one to nine times in the second volume of Literature of the Late Qing Dynasty (Zhonghua Book Company, 1960 edition), and Wei Shaochang collected only the first to sixth times and the twenty-fifth time in The Flowers of Evil (updated edition) (Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House, 1982 edition), which were incomplete.
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From 65438 to 0927, Ceng Pu returned to the literary world from politics, founded Zhenmeishan Bookstore and Zhenmeishan Magazine in Shanghai, and started the revision and continuation of Nie Haihua. This year, Ceng Pu revised the first twenty-five chapters, especially made great changes to chapters one to six and twenty-five, such as deleting sixty chapters listed in the first chapter; Delete the fierce remarks against the imperial examination system, feudal autocratic monarchy and Chen advocating "thunderbolt" to overthrow the Qing court; Delete the twenty-fifth story that reflects the demands of the lower class to resist Japan and protect their homes; Move the revolutionary activities related to the Hui people in Zhong Xing from April to May to the 29th; Added erotic stories such as Gong Zizhen and Taiqing Xilinchun, Gong and Chu Ailin, Cao Gongfang and Li, Liu Yongfu and so on. 1928 65438+ 10 Zhenmeishan Bookstore published the first and second editions for twenty times. This book has five volumes and ten times in each volume, with the Statue of Liberty on the cover and the title in the middle, called The Sick Man of East Asia. The first volume is based on the author's "A few words to be said after revision", and each of the two volumes has one or three illustrations made by Chen Bo. There are books in Shanghai Library today. Chapters 21 to 35, revised and supplemented by Ceng Pu, were first serialized in Zhenmeishan magazine and published intermittently for more than three years (19271-1930 April). 1935 65438+ 10 Zhen Meishan Bookstore published twenty-one to thirty times as the third edition, and published one to three times at the same time. Fifteen volumes and thirty times are a book, which is the popular thirty times original. This book is available in Shanghai Library. Shanghai Zhenmeishan Bookstore 194 1 year reprint, Shanghai Zhenmeishan Bookstore 3rd edition 1944, Chengdu Sun Cizhou narrative edition 1940, Beijing Baowentang edition 1955, Shanghai Culture Publishing House1955. 1959, the Shanghai Editorial Department of Zhonghua Book Company published an updated edition of Flowers of Evil, which included 30 chapters of the rare books of truth, goodness and beauty, appendix 3 1 chapter to chapter 35, and Hidden Table of Flowers of Evil (updated by Liu). 1979 Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House reprinted and updated for 35 times.
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There are two sequels to The Evil Flower of the Sea. One is Lu's new work "Flowers on the Sea". This book is connected with Lin Ben's Flowers of Evil from one to twenty times, from the 21st "Counting the humiliation of the poor and making the concubines be punished by the officials" to the 62nd "The autocratic country finally killed the autocratic disaster, and the god of freedom still released the flowers of freedom", and the later book completely copied the sixty orders ordered by Ceng Pu and Jin Songcen, which is completely different from the original book. The second one is Yan Gu's "Continued Evil Flowers on the Sea" .59986.99999996996 Ceng Pu's close friend Zhang Hong was commissioned by Ceng Pu to write a sequel. This book connects the beautiful rare book Evil Sea Flower from one time to thirty times, and continues to write it from thirty-one times to sixty times. It still takes Sai Jinhua as a clue, mainly depicting two historical events in the late Qing Dynasty, the Reform Movement of 1898 and the Gengxu Incident. Vivid words, it is a good sequel. This book was published by Zhenmeishan Bookstore 1943 and reprinted the following year. The newly revised edition was published by Heilongjiang People's Publishing House on 1982.