Original text:
Money, this thing, can not be said, can not be said. When it comes to plugging, it is obviously vulgar. In fact, money itself is a useful thing, and it doesn't matter. Or shaped like a knife, or round and square, the appearance is not ugly. If it is covered with green rust, it will be more simple and lovely. Later, "Jiaozi" and "banknote quotation" and even modern banknotes all strive to be exquisite and elegant. What are the customs?
it is true that there is a lot of truth between the choice of money in and out, but the greedy are greedy, and the cheap are cheap. The key lies in people, not money itself. Love of money as much as life can only be said to be money addiction, and it can't be dismissed as vulgarity; Spending money like Shi Chong can only be described as extravagance, not elegance. Vulgar or elegant, everything depends on human effort, and money is indistinguishable from elegance and vulgarity.
Some people like collecting stamps, some like collecting matchboxes, some like collecting operas and newspapers, and some like collecting snuff bottles. Some people also like to collect inkstone, ink, calligraphy and painting antiques, and even glasses, aprons and briefs. Each to his own advantage, there is no reason to speak.
But almost everyone likes to collect currency at all times and in all countries. You can't have too much money, the more the better. Zhuangzi said, "If money is not accumulated, the greedy will be worried." More than the greedy worry? People who are not greedy also want to accumulate wealth.
People have played piggy bank when they were young. This thing has a long history. In Xiqing Miscellanies, it says, "The piggy bank takes soil as a tool to save money, and when it is full, it is full." There are hawkers in Beiping who shout "small pots and small pots", and there are large and small piggy banks on their burdens, all of which are made of clay, which are unsightly in shape and will break when touched.
source: money by contemporary writer Liang Shiqiu.
Extended information:
Creation background:
He is party member, the national socialist party of China, and denies the class nature of literature. In his early days, Liang Shiqiu focused on literary criticism, once euphemistically denounced Bing Xin's prose, and insisted on describing and expressing abstract and eternal human nature as a literary view of literature and art.
criticize Lu Xun's "hard translation" of foreign works, disagree with the Soviet-Russian "literary policy" translated and advocated by Lu Xun, advocate "literature has no class", do not advocate using literature as a political tool, oppose ideological unity and demand freedom of thought. During this period, there were constant pen battles with left-wing writers such as Lu Xun.
Liang Shiqiu was once denounced by Mr. Lu Xun as a "running dog of the capitalist who lost his family", and Mao Zedong also regarded him as a "representative figure serving bourgeois literature".
Under such a background, Mr. Liang Shiqiu wrote the article Money, which is capital but reality.
From 1927 to 1936, the debate between Liang Shiqiu and Lu Xun lasted for eight years. On October 19, 1936, Lu Xun died unfortunately, and the confrontation debate naturally ended.
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