Such stars and such moons: Qian Zhongshu and Yang Jiang's unparalleled love

Chapter 4 Unexpected Reunion: Eyes Looking at the Same Starry Sky (3)
In [-], Zhou Zuoren, a master of new literature, published the book "The Origin and Development of Chinese New Literature", which received rave reviews and was highly valued by the academic circle.However, Qian Zhongshu pointed out the flaws in the book review published by "New Moon Monthly", and unceremoniously pointed out the fundamental misunderstandings, mistakes and deficiencies in the book.

In the book, Zhou Zuoren divides literature into two types of mechanical schemas: "Zai Dao" and "Speaking Will": Zai Dao means obeying literature, which plays a dominant role when the government confines thoughts; Yan Zhi is advanced literature when thoughts flourish. , with the Ming Dynasty Public Security Sanyuan as a typical example.And he even believed that the "May [-]th" Literary Revolution, which opposed feudal ideology, was in the same line as the Gong'an faction.

Qian Zhongshu could not agree with such a statement.In his book review, he distinguished that "Zai Tao" and "expressing ambition" are not contradictory concepts. "Writing expresses Tao" and "poetry expresses ambition". It is also expressive.Some things are not simply inductive, and there is no clear-cut boundary.

He criticized Zhou Zuoren's unclear concept and simple logic. He held it for a reason and made sense, but Zhou Zuoren was speechless and indisputable.It's just that such unabashed comments are too sharp, which will inevitably embarrass the parties involved.He has such a disposition, after all, he is young, energetic and full of vigor, and he disdains to make compromises against his will for the so-called sophistication of the world.

He's just him, facing the world the way he likes.During his school days, he didn't like socializing, let alone visiting those so-called authoritative celebrities, and even invited him to club activities, he was only polite and insensitive.Some people say that he behaves perversely and unreasonably, while others say that he is arrogant, picky, and pushy... so what, he is him, and he never wants to waste precious time in those false and presumptuous entertainments.

The world of wits does not need too many people to understand.He has too many things to do, too many books to read, and he wants to accumulate the bits and pieces of his time, spending time in the library, wandering in the sea of ​​books, fascinated.In addition, relying on his own thinking and comprehension, he wrote a large number of original poems in old style, and became a guest of the old man Shiyi.

The old man Shi Yi took the Jiangxi school of poetry in his old poems, and he has a lot of achievements.Old man Shi Yi has an aloof personality, and he rarely pays attention to poets and scholars in the world, but he only favors Qian Zhongshu, who is two generations away, and gives a lot of advice on the artistic conception and style of his poems.Because of the old man Shi Yi, Qian Zhongshushe's Tang poetry tended to Song Ci, and his poems were written faster and better.

The old man Shiyi condescended and called Qian Zhongshu "brother".When the two talked about poetry and Taoism, the old man Shi Yi would often stand up and exclaim: "Brother Shi Yi has a good memory!" The old man Shi Yi also commented like this: "Brother Shi Yi is talented in poetry, and it is accompanied by extensive knowledge and strong knowledge. It is a pity that the writing is too reserved. The elderly must be reserved, so as not to be ridiculed by veterans. When they are young and strong, they should be straight and dry. There is a tendency to flow indiscriminately and carry mud and sand. Zhong Shu said: "Zhang Yan is quite sick."
The old man Shi Yi reviewed Qian Zhongshu's poems one by one in the "Sequel to Shi Yi Shi Hua" written by himself, and specially attached an enthusiastic preface for him.He said: "Keep the foreign language and writing in silence, memorize the thoughts by force, read and record books, write elegantly, disdain to put on airs, like to write poems, have temperament, and have fun..."
Legends cannot be copied.He is Qian Zhongshu, who reads, writes, and composes poems. He has a strength and temperament that others cannot learn.At Tsinghua University, he used his knowledge and personality to conquer countless students and professors. There is no one like him in the world.

soft steel
Qian Zhongshu has already come to Tsinghua University and is living like a fish in water.And that woman looking at the same starry sky, will it be far behind?
The time goes back to 16, when Yang Jiang was [-] years old and a student in the senior high school of Suzhou Zhenhua Girls Middle School.It was the age of Ruhuasiyu, because she was short and petite, she looked like a thirteen or fourteen-year-old doll, who hadn't grown up and was ignorant.

It was the time when the Northern Expedition was victorious. In a turbulent era, the joy of victory was always accompanied by a hundredfold expansion. Parades one by one, filled the lively streets with enthusiasm, student movements continued one after another, and rallies and speeches filled the air. Those days of excitement and restlessness.

Once, the student union mobilized students from various schools to take to the streets to publicize, and Yang Jiang was also among them.It's just that she is thin and quiet, when she thinks that she is standing on a bench like a monkey, surrounded by a group of people, including some frivolous and wretched men, she feels as embarrassed as showing off in the street, and how can her thin voice penetrate her? What about the noisy crowd?
She didn't want to participate, but she didn't have a reason to refuse, so she wanted to follow the example of the female students from the old-fashioned family at that time, and she refused on the excuse that her family didn't agree.After returning home on the weekend, she immediately asked her father for help, but her father flatly refused: "If you don't want to, then don't go, you don't need to borrow Dad to stop you."
Her father is stubborn and has no tolerance for sand in his eyes.When he was the director of the Higher Judgment Office of Jiangsu Province, Zhang Xun defeated a warlord and entered Beijing successfully. The celebrities and gentry of Jiangsu Province jointly published a newspaper to express their welcome. He did not want to welcome such a "braid handsome", but his subordinates also decided to join took his name.After he learned about it, he insisted that "names and utensils cannot be fake", so he published an announcement in the newspaper, stating that he did not welcome Zhang Xun.

Hearing his father's refusal without hesitation, Yang Jiang hurriedly said, "No way, the minority must obey the majority!"
Her father pondered for a moment, then said earnestly: "Obey what should be obeyed. You are right. You can also say that whether you go or not is up to you."
Then, he told his daughter about his insistence on publishing the notice in the newspaper.Although he knew that some people would say that he was unsophisticated, he said to his daughter: "Do you know what Lincoln said? Dare to say no! Do you dare?"
With a bitter face, Yang Jiang said "dare" with some lack of confidence.

The next day, she went back to school and explained that she would not participate in the propaganda.When her classmates asked her why, she still couldn't think of a good reason, so she just said frankly: "I don't agree, so I won't go."
In the enthusiastic revolutionary atmosphere, such a casual "don't agree or go" is undoubtedly throwing cold water on her. She became the target of "it's unreasonable". The students complained to the principal, and the principal severely criticized her. This weak little girl only had an unshakeable insistence on her stubborn little face--I don't agree, don't go!

She is soft, gentle and quiet, without saying a word.But she has a decent and stubborn good father. He used his own words and experiences to teach his daughter to dare to confess, dare to say no, and dare to be the steel in the soft.

In fact, her persistence and choice are correct.When the other three female students who had been selected were carrying out publicity on the street enthusiastically, a Kuomintang officer who claimed to be the head of the regiment yelled and invited them to go to the garden to publicize tomorrow.In fact, this was just an excuse, he just wanted to invite them to the garden for dinner.

The so-called street propaganda has changed taste so easily, and her insistence of "unreasonable" has become a very reasonable foresight.The principal was shocked when he learned about it, and ordered the female students to ban such propaganda.

She is lucky to have a warm family, a caring mother and a persuasive father.Her father never forced her to do anything, and even she let her study according to her own interests.She liked poetry and novels, so he bought them for her; he himself liked phonology, but his daughter was not interested in it, and he didn't force her.

Confucius said: "Knocking loudly makes loud noises, and knocking small makes loud noises." This is Mr. Yang Yinhang's educational philosophy, allowing his daughter to learn and grow according to her own nature, but he just made the best use of the situation and did not intervene.When she was in high school, Yang Jiang still couldn't distinguish the melodious voice, so he was not in a hurry, but let her slowly comprehend it, and said, "It doesn't matter, I will understand when the time comes."And one day, she really—naturally understood.

In the summer of [-], Yang Jiang graduated from high school.She wanted to apply for Tsinghua University, but Tsinghua University had just started to recruit girls. This year, it did not recruit girls in the south, so she had to apply for Soochow University nearby.

At that time, although China experienced the cultural baptism of the Revolution of [-] and the May [-]th Movement, the deep-rooted feudal ideology still bound the masses of women. Very few girls went to college, and of course there were not many girls at Soochow University.

Just because there are few girls, Yang Jiang, who is quiet and not good at sports, joined the volleyball team and became a very high-spirited female volleyball player. During the game, she won a very energetic serve point, which caused the cheerleaders to shout .Later, when Yang Jiang saw the volleyball match on the TV screen, she would happily say: "I also have a point!"
The long and short years can't help but recall.In the past, she was just a stumbling Ji Kang, but now she has become a slim female college student, and her father has also reached the age of knowing his destiny.

The old man laughs more than the trees in the courtyard, and the autumn wind is less and less every day.That day, her father said to her: "Do you think there is a time for a person to retire? I have figured it out now, and I can retire as soon as I want. I don't have to wait for a year or a month." She knew that this was what her father said to himself At this moment, she felt that her father was a little old, had high blood pressure, would be dizzy, and was no longer as energetic as before.

She was a little heartbroken.I have grown up, and my parents are also old. It turns out that every bit of my growth bears the time of my parents like water.She began to think about how to save them some effort and not to worry so much.

She has been a sensible child since she was a child, caring for her parents.Her parents will also be very pleased with her filial piety.

The days at Soochow University were not much turbulent, autumn, winter, spring and summer, in the blink of an eye, she became a sophomore.At this time, she faced a major choice in her life-division.

She is a student with a balanced development of arts and sciences, not as serious as Qian Zhongshu, so she is a little more hesitant in choosing a major.For some reason, the teachers seem to prefer science. They think that Yang Jiang has the qualifications to study science, so it is better to choose science. Yang Jiang is noncommittal, and only asks his wise and knowledgeable father at home: "What should I study?"
My father replied: "There is no right or wrong, you can learn what you like most. What you like is the closeness of sex, which is the most suitable for you."
Yes, the one you like is the most suitable.It's just that these words that made people suddenly enlightened solved the confusion, but didn't solve the problem.Yang Jiang likes literature and reading novels, but Soochow University does not have a major in literature. There are only pre-law and politics, which are both liberal arts but quite different.

She plans to choose a pre-law course, so that she can be her father's helper, relieve the worries of her aging father, get in touch with all kinds of people in society, and accumulate material experience for writing novels.It's just that she didn't expect that when she told her father what she thought, the father who always let her choose was firmly opposed.

In his legal career for so many years, he has seen too many intrigues and traps. In this turbulent, dark and complex society, the risk factor for lawyers who want to uphold justice is extremely high, and they must always be on guard against evil forces.

And he also knows the daughter he holds in his hand very well, she is ignorant of the world, simple and pure, how can he bear to watch her jump into this dangerous vortex?
Therefore, the well-behaved and sensible Yang Jiang chose the Department of Politics.It's just that she has a special liking for literature, and she has no interest in obscure politics. She just works hard in class. She spends her spare time in the library, reading novels, learning English and French, and she also makes a schedule for self-study. .

In the third year of college, the principal of her alma mater, Zhenhua Girls' High School, applied for a scholarship from Wellesley Women's University in the United States, and she won the opportunity to go to the United States for further study.In that era when studying abroad was very beautiful, this was a very rare opportunity, but she was not particularly excited, but just told her parents the news.

The attitude of the parents was also very peaceful, showing no agitation or anxiety.My father just said "if you want, you can go" as usual, and said that if you go, he will fully support it.

She remembered what her father said inadvertently when she was just in college: "Only our Chinese civilization is called "poverty". Foreigners don't understand what "poverty" is. The poor are inferior people and bad people." .If you want to earn money from foreigners, you have to be bullied by them."
She just remembered, because she knew that there would be some prejudice between her father's words.The problem is, although she has received a scholarship, she still needs twice the tuition fee for daily living expenses, plus round-trip travel expenses...the sum of these is not a small amount, she gave up because she couldn't bear to Add burden to parents.

In fact, she also has her own views on studying abroad.Seeing that the teachers in the department are all foreign students, she doesn't necessarily think that foreign students are anything special, not to mention that she is not interested in political science. Instead of going abroad to study a major she doesn't like, she might as well go to a first-class university in China. She is obsessed with studying What about literature!Perhaps, it was all doomed in the dark.After four years, she, this piece of soft steel, is destined to walk into the school gate that was not open to her back then, not to mention, there is Qian Zhongshu waiting to meet her there.

Later, she was admitted to Tsinghua University and fell in love with Qian Zhongshu. Her mother jokingly said: "A Ji has the red silk of the old man under the moon tied to his feet, so he only wants to go to Tsinghua University."
Fresh at first sight, love at first sight.Sometimes, one side of the fate between people is enough.Because, he is someone from your previous life.Although he was not a handsome man when we first met, but because of love for him, in her heart, he was the most elegant attachment.When you feel it, love comes.Because of the common love and pursuit of literature, the attraction of character and the tacit understanding of soul, the two young people who cherish each other secretly have a heartbeat - they fell in love at first sight.Love is a sweet thing, and they are also interpreting the eternity that is frozen in a moment in their own way.

(End of this chapter)