295 The best of literature

As soon as En Xiaofengfu appeared, several beautiful women in the hall also lost some color.

There are also many beautiful women in the whole hall, including Ms. Zhang Zhujun, captain of the Shanghai Red Cross, Mrs. Huang Xing, Mrs. Xu Peixuan, Tang Qunying, the first female member of the League, Tang Qunying, a martial arts master of the League, Cai Hui, a famous talented woman, Tang Guoli, and Yan Shanshan, a minor beautiful girl warrior of the Women's Northern Expedition Team, who once served as Sun Yat-sen's bodyguard. Sisters of Yin Ruizhi and Yin Weijun.

In terms of beauty, all women have their own characteristics. They are mature women with all kinds of amorous feelings, young girls, talented women with talents, heroic chivalrous women, spring flowers and autumn and moon. It is quite difficult to tell the difference, but the unique charm of En Xiaofeng compares the women.

Although she is very famous for singing Xusheng, she is obviously good at mournful operas, so this time she sings the majestic and heroic "Seven Laws · Revolutionary Army Occupation of Nanjing". Although it is still very beautiful, Li Xiang always feels that it is slightly inferior to the performance of Yu Kuizhi, an old artist with both virtue and art. Because she was just singing a small song, she did not dress up as a costume. Such a delicate beauty sang it. Li Xiang always felt that this majestic song was stained with powder, and it was a sissy no matter how she looked at it.

However, since she opened her mouth, almost everyone in the hall has been intoxicated. Wang Jingwei was most involved in his expression, and he almost smelled the song and danced. Although Huang Xing and Song Jiaoren listened attentively, they still looked calm. Other people have different shapes and gods, but they are all moved by En Xiaofeng's beautiful music and beautiful dance posture. Chen Qimei, the governor of Yangmei, shines a strange light, as if she can't wait to swallow this lively and fragrant red girl.

En Xiaofeng's enchanting water-cutting pupils, combined with the slippery rotation of the body expression, couldn't help sweeping at everyone, making the slightly weak young generation even more fascinated. After a song, the applause was like thunder, and the sound was shocking.

While Yu Yin was still lingering, Huang Xing greeted him in person and sent En Xiaofeng to Li Xiang's side. Huang Xing gave Li Xiang an ambiguous look and smiled, "Marshal Li, Miss En Xiaofeng admires you very much. She especially likes your "Outside the Changting". Today, she sang the "Seven Laws" you wrote. You have to take good care of her for me."

In this way, all the eyes of envy and jealousy were projected. In this hall, there are absolutely many talents, such as Zhang Taiyan, Wang Jingwei, etc., as well as Huang Xing himself, who have high literary achievements, and everyone has a famous article handed down from generation to generation. Now he is unexpectedly pulled out by Li Xiang, the late madman, with a song and a poem. Of course, he is very unconvinced by the famous sergeant in Jiangnan, but he has to admit that the poems and articles of the madman must be passed down from generation to generation.

Among them, Wang Jingwei, who was originally the most dazzling star figure in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Ming Dynasty, was the most unpleasant. In the past, he was the idol of all hot-blooded young people, but since Li Xiang was born, in a few months, the idols of young people have become Li Xiang! Although the stabbing regent is sensational enough, compared with participating in Shouyi, beating Beiyang, and driving the foreigner Li Xiang, is a lot worse. Compared with his "unknown top student king", his momentum is far worse, and this Li Xiang is also handsome, and a scar on his forehead is more masculine. From all aspects of the competition, Wang Jingwei was completely defeated. How could he not taste it?

After Huang Xing's introduction, Wang Jingwei regarded Li Xiang as nothing and kept praising her erotic skills to En Xiaofeng.

Although Li Xiang looked at En Xiaofeng with a smile, he was not in a hurry at all and had an excellent demeanor.

I don't know if it was because of En Xiaofeng. Most of the female guests in the hall were surrounded, and Zhang Taiyan and others did not rely on their identity.

Huangxing's wine was excellent, and the visitors did not refuse, and the atmosphere turned to the high dynasty.

Li Xiangzheng really looked around. Yan Shanshan, an underage beautiful girl of the Lingxiu elf, turned her eyes and approached him and said, "Why were you careless about En Xiaofeng's singing just now? Do you think she doesn't sing well?

Li Xiang smelled the faint fragrance of her daughter on her body. She was stunned and took a step back a little. She knew that this same delicate military uniform. The little elf strange little sister had been paying attention to herself and said awkwardly, "The tone of my song must be a Kansai Han Dynasty to sing charm. Such a delicate beauty. It's always weird to see it.

"Zhongshan is yellow in the wind and rain, and millions of heroes cross the river. The tiger's distance from the dragon plate is better than the past, and the world is overturned and generous. It is appropriate to chase the poor bandits bravely, and not to be a famous student overlord. If the sky is affectionate, the sky is also old, and the right path in the world is the vicissitudes of life. Yan Shanshan was fascinated and intoxicated. Suddenly, she opened her apricot eyes and stared at Li angrily and thought, "Are you discriminating against our woman?"

Li Xiang looked at the angry little sister and said with a smile, "You are too **. There is a difference between the voice of men and women. How can this be called discrimination?

En Xiaofeng over there finally found an opportunity to talk to Li Xiang and said with a smile, "Li Shuai is right. This song is bold and majestic, which is not inferior to Han Gaozu's "Big Wind Song". I'm trying my best today. Sure enough, I still can't sing the magnificent momentum in the poem. Maybe only my teacher can challenge it.

Li couldn't think of her being so frank. He had a great impression on her and nod his head. Then he found that Zhang Zhujun, Xu Peixuan, Tang Qunying, Cai Hui, Tang Guoli, Yin Ruizhi and Yin Weijun were all staring at them.

Wang Jingwei looked at it, showed his talent to En Xiaofeng more hard, and pulled En Xiaofeng's attention. However, he is indeed erudite and talented, from traditional scriptures, lyrics, poems, books, fus to music and dance, opera, wine tricks, to the creation of Western poetry, the revival of European literature and art, the development of British Shakespeare opera, Chinese and Western culture, all of which are vivid and insightful.

Although Li Xiang is hostile to the future traitor, if he has a close relationship with Yuan Shikai, he also has to admit that his knowledge in this regard can be his master. Li Xiang completely relies on plagiarized Red Sun poetry.

What surprised him more was that En Xiaofeng was not inferior to the other party in answering, showing that her knowledge in all aspects was no less than that of the famous Wang Jingwei, and she deliberately or unintentionally brought out the problem, allowing the ladies on the table to participate in the discussion, which made the surrounding atmosphere more intense.

Li Xiang couldn't even say a word. There was really not much food in his stomach.

The delicate Yan Shanshan spoke less, but from time to time she looked at Li Xiang, which made him quite uncomfortable. As long as she is a minor, Li Xiang is not interested.

At this time, Wang Jingwei is talking about Liang Qichao's novel theory. Although he and Liang Qichao are old opponents and have been scolded in newspapers for several years, Liang Qichao, as a modern bourgeois writer, is an advocate of the revolution in the late Qing Dynasty novel industry and has his own position in the literary world. Excluding the revolutionary position, he still admires Liang Qichao's achievements in other aspects. Liang Qichao's novel theory is mainly reflected in the Preface to Translated and Printed Political Novels, On the Relationship between Novels and the Rule of the Group, the Novelist and other articles. These articles focus on the social status of novel literature, the social role and the guiding principles of novel creation.

I only heard Wang Jingwei say, "Liang Qichao pointed out in the article "On the Relationship between Novels and Group Rule" that "the novel is the best in literature." The best, that is, the best. Liang Qichao's assertion has the progressive significance of breaking the traditional concept of feudal society. All dynasties have despised novels and attached great importance to poetry. For example, the legendary novels of the Tang Dynasty were the peak of classical Chinese novels, but the writers of the Tang Dynasty despised them. Therefore, the writers of the Tang Dynasty did not enter the legendary novels in their own collection. This trend of contempt for novels continued until the Ming and Qing Dynasties. However, contrary to the traditional concept, Liang Qichao listed the novel as the highest position in the palace of literature, reflecting an innovative and pioneering spirit. The reason why Liang Qichao believes that "the novel is the best of literature". According to the so-called novel, he has incredible power, enough to dominate humanity, that is, to dominate people's psychology, and can play the role of "moving people". "Moving people" is to infect people with images. According to Liang Qichao, the novel can have the functions of "fumigation", "soak", "thorn" and "pick up" on people. In popular language, it is roughly four effects: infection, immersion, stimulation and inducement. Liang Qichao pointed out that in terms of "moving people", the novel has two strengths compared with other literary genres: one is that the novel can guide people to travel in the "other realm" outside the "current realm"; the other is that the novel can "imagine in the embrace" and "the realm" of people and "the realm of reading". According to this, Liang Qichao will also reflect the first novel that describes the strengths, that is, the novel that describes the "other realm", which is called the "ideal" novel; the novel that embodies the second, that is, the novel that describes the "current realm", is called the "realistic novel". The two novels mentioned by Liang Qichao are equivalent to romantic novels and realistic novels in the West.

En Xiaofeng frowned and said, "Liang Qichao regards "Water Margin" and "Dream of Red Mansions" as books of "theft" and "**" in the Preface to the Translation of Political Novel. I don't agree with it."

Li Xiang smiled secretly in his heart. It seemed that although En Xiaofeng was a flag man, he did not have a good impression on this royalist.

Wang Jingwei, who has always been an opponent, knows the drawbacks of Liang Qichao's novel ideas than anyone else. He smiled and said, "The New People's Series, edited by Liang Qichao, pointed out that the purpose of promoting novels at that time was to boost the national spirit and open the national wisdom, which is not comparable to the previous and stealing. When creating the "Embroidery Novel", he said more specifically in the "Editing and Printing the "Embroidery Novel" he wrote, that is, "to judge the accumulated disadvantages of the crowd, or to learn from the danger of the country". The intention of the novel is nothing more than to benefit the country and the people. In the article "The Relationship between Novels and Group Governance", when Liang Qichao explains why people love to read novels, he talks about how novels can go beyond the current realm, often guide people to travel to his realm, and change the air that they often touch, which can completely reveal the sadness, resentment, anger, love and shame that people know but do not know why. It makes people "shoot the case and say: 'Good, good, so is it'." This is obviously smart compared with the traditional, customary sayings that are simple and easy to understand. Liang Qichao's determination to reflect life and understand the characteristics of life for the novel is absolutely refreshing. Liang Qichao also asked the author of the novel to treat life enthusiastically, understand life and participate in life. He believes that a writer must have a warm heart, a clean eye, and then "its words are useful". He often said to others, "The popularity of vulgar Chinese style is the biggest key to the progress of real literature." Liang Qichao believes that the text must be popularized, so that the novel will be more infectious. In "On the Relationship between Novels and the Governance of the Group", he said: "Words are not as good as words, but the power of language cannot be broad, and it can't be long, so I have to beg for words. In the text, the classical language is not as good as its sayings, and Zhuang Lun is not as good as its fables. Therefore, the one with the greatest power is not the reason of the novel. When he wrote the "Novel Series", he also said, "A novelist is by no means able to do both with the style of ancient language." Although the above-mentioned novel theory published by Liang Qichao is covered with royalist color, it still contains many reference opinions.

When Wang Jingwei said this, he looked at Li Xiang, who couldn't get involved, with bad intentions and said, "What does General Li have about Liang Qichao's novel ideas?"

Everyone's eyes are focused on Li Xiang. Since he began to talk about literature and art, he has become like a mute and hasn't said a half a voice. He is really not like a famous writer who wrote the Seven Laws · The Revolutionary Army Occupation of Nanjing.

On the positive side, in the Preface to Translation and Printing Political Novels written by Liang Qichao, it is pointed out that the progress of Europe, the United States and Japan has benefited from the social role of the novel. He agreed with the British celebrities and called "the novel the soul of the people". He said: "At the beginning of the transformation of European countries in the past, his master of Confucianism and benevolence are often sent to novels with their personal experience and political discussions in their hearts. Therefore, the son of the school, the spare time of the school, the mouth of the hand, the horse pawn, and the woman, and the child, the mouth of the hand, often every book comes out and the discussion of the whole country changes. Political novels are the most meritorious in the political circles of the United States, Britain, Germany, France, Austria, Italy and Japan. In view of this, he believes that "If you want to improve the governance of the group today, you must start from the revolution in the novel world; if you want a new people, you must start a new novel."

On the contrary, he also believes that "the general root cause of corruption in China" lies in the old novels. He said, "When will the idea of our Chinese champion prime minister come from? Novels too. What is the idea of a good Chinese talent? It's also a novel." It is even thought that "the whole country is a thorn, and the day is only the reason for the novel", "On the fall of the country of Beijing, the call for foreigner, the day is the reason for the novel".

Obviously, he regards all the bad ideas and bad virtues of the Chinese or the people as the result of old novels containing toxicity. There are two aspects of Liang Qichao's theory of the social role of this novel:

First, from the perspective of the relationship within literature, there is a one-sided understanding of the relationship between inheritance and innovation. He stressed that novels should be innovated and the novel world should be revolutionized, but he ignored the reference and inheritance of the tradition of novels. He took a completely negative attitude towards the ideological content of the old novels and regarded them as "drowning crowds". For example, from the perspective of opposing the concept of feudal tradition, it is obviously wrong to regard "Water Margin" and "Dream of Red Mansions" as the books of "theft" and "**" in the Preface to Political Novels.

Second, from the perspective of the external relationship of literature, Liang Qichao's understanding of the relationship between novels and politics is also one-sided. Literature is a concentrated reflection of economy and politics. According to the principle, politics comes first, and literature and art change later. However, Liang Qichao believes that literature and art come first, and politics change later. In the article "On the Relationship between Novels and the Governance of the Group", he said, "If you want a new politics, you must have a new novel." This not only reverses the relationship between politics and novels, but also reverses the relationship between social existence and social consciousness.

He also said in the article "The Novelist": "The ideological karma of most people in the country is more than half from the novel." This kind of novel determines the philosophical basis of the theory of social consciousness, which is subjective idealism.

Liang Qichao's theory on the social role of novels was both positive and negative at that time. Its positive significance is that it requires a change in the status quo of feudal politics, which has anti-feudal significance; the negative effect is that he exaggerates the role of novels too much. It seems that he transforms China's politics and society. There is no need to carry out a democratic revolution to overthrow the feudal system. He only needs to write some new novels for publicity, and new ones can appear. Politics, new society. This negative side only reflects the characteristics of bourgeois reformism.

But in all aspects, Li doesn't know what to do. How can he interface? Lixiang even scolded Wang Jingwei's ancestors for 18 generations. At this time, he could only think of Liang Qichao's "Young China Talk", but he put on a calm look and tried to keep this air.