Textual research: Tagore is so famous, can't it be faked? Find the collection of old man Tai's works from the Internet, and search for the word "distance" in "Birds". Is it because the translation words are inconsistent? Take a closer look. The Collection of Birds contains only two or three short poems. It is impossible to include such a long poem.
is the source wrong? In the spirit of rigor, continue to trace Tagore's other works. "New Moon Collection" has the following items: The Gardeners' Collection has the following items: "Marginal Collection", "Birthday Collection" and "Gitankari" ... I searched all the poetry collections for this match!
At this time, I happened to see on the Internet that the poem quoted in the 14th issue of Reader magazine in 23 was taken from the 5th issue of Women's Literature in the same year (now renamed Women's Digest). But according to an editor of Women's Digest, this poem was obtained from the Internet. Wow Kaka ~ ~ It turned out that it was also copied online! That's not to be believed
but there is a question, why are so many places categorically said to be from Birds, haven't they been checked? A vicious guess, I'm afraid it's deduced from the last paragraph, "The farthest distance in the world is the distance between fish and birds". BS some people take it for granted!
statement 2: Zhang Ailing, with similar language style
textual research: unclear facts and insufficient evidence
statement 3: Zhang Xiaoxian, in her novel "Single Bed in the Pocket", there is a passage "The furthest distance in the world is not the distance between life and death, it's not that we live far apart, but that I stand in front of you and you don't know that I love you".
textual research: it does happen! Although I haven't read the original book, someone left a message in my notebook when I was in college and marked it as Zhang Xiaoxian. I was impressed!
It is said that Tao Jingying loved this sentence written by Zhang Xiaoxian so much that when he visited Zhang Xiaoxian, he quoted this sentence on the radio program and explained the reason. As a result, it can't compare with the uproar caused by Wu Zongxian's "confession" of Chen Xiaoxuan in variety shows. Zhang Xiaoxian himself was very angry, so he went to look up Tagore's poems, but he hasn't found them yet. She said: "Those sentences came to my mind when I was writing that novel, in order to show the heroine's mood;" But if Tagore really has similar poems, it is impossible to translate them into Chinese. "
In the preface to the second edition of Single Bed in the Pocket, Zhang Xiaoxian gave a detailed explanation. (See note) She only wrote the first paragraph at that time, and others continued to write the rest. It is said that some students of Yangming Shennongpo Medical College collectively created it on BBS and finally circulated it on the Internet. This statement is relatively reliable at present and can be used as a conclusion. Unfortunately, the BBS of Yangmingshan Medical College can't log in and can't find more effective direct evidence.