The Rise of the Writers of the Republic of China

Shanghai, Daxia University.

It is estimated that many people have never heard of this school. If you read the school name backwards, you will know it-Xiamen University.

Two years ago, the newly founded Xiamen University split because of the student riots. Some teachers and students went to Shanghai to start a new school, which is the origin of Daxia University. After the founding of New China, Daxia University was merged into East China Normal University as a whole.

It was the weekend and the morning was sunny.

Several female students took the letters and returned to the dormitory talking and laughing all the way. When they walked through a room, a girl knocked on the door and shouted, "Teacher Huang!"

The person who opened the door was a haggard woman in her 20s. She asked, "What's the matter?"

The girl said: "When I went to get the letter just now, I saw your postal bag, so I brought it back for you by the way."

"Thank you." The woman smiled.

"Ms. Huang, let's go first!" The girl handed her the postal bag and waved goodbye.

Teacher Huang's name is Huang Shuyi, her pen name is Lu Yin, and she is the 13th member of the Literature Research Association. She is currently working as a teacher at the High School Affiliated to Daxia, and also as a female instructor at Daxia University, and usually lives in the girls' dormitory.

There was also a little girl about two years old in the room, looking eagerly at Lu Yin: "Mom, I'm hungry."

Lu Yin took out a candy from the drawer, stuffed it into her daughter's mouth and said, "Hey, eat the candy first, it's not time for lunch yet."

The little girl was very thin, she bit the candy and ran back to the bed, sat down obediently and did not speak any more.

Lu Yin opened the parcel, and inside was the latest issue of "Novel Monthly". As an early member of the Literary Research Association, she has the right to order the journal for free.

While coaxing the child, Lu Yin opened the magazine. She soon found to her surprise that the "Toutiao" novel in this issue was actually a new work, and even Lao She's "Lao Zhang's Philosophy" was pushed to the back.

"It turned out to be Mr. Zhou's masterpiece. Unexpectedly, he also started writing novels." Lu Yin was far away in Shanghai and had never heard of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes".

For Zhou Hexuan, Lu Yin admired him very much. She once said a word: I envy heroes, and I admire thinkers.

After reading "The Rise of Great Powers", Lu Yin thought that Zhou Hexuan was a great thinker, and now she was very curious about what kind of novels the thinker would write.

Lu Yin is a novel fanatic, and soon immersed in the story.

The heroine in the book has no name, and is replaced by "she" throughout the book. "She" talked to ghosts in prison, "she" wandered alone since she was a child, "she" made friends with wild cats, "she" discussed survival issues with wild dogs, "she" was caught by the police for stealing food, and "she" became an overseer A sacrifice for praying for rain, "she" met the river god at the bottom of the river...

Although the "Novel Monthly" has a lot of weight, it still needs to publish other content, so "Goddess" only serializes more than 10,000 words. The novel comes to an abrupt end when the heroine meets the river god.

Lu Yin put down the magazine and let out a long sigh. She doesn't know how to evaluate this novel. Everything in the book has spirituality, including cats and dogs, can talk, but human beings are like marionettes that have lost their souls.

fairy tale?

Children can't understand the deep meaning of the book at all, while adults read it with chills.

myth?

This is not a mythical novel. The plot of ghosts and ghosts in it can be understood as the protagonist's fantasy. This is a realistic work, but the description of society is too dark. This darkness is still hidden in the joy and celebration, like sharp swords piercing the reader's heart.

Lu Yin felt the same way, she even felt that the novel was describing herself.

Lu Yin grew up in an old-fashioned family. His father was a former Qing Juren and even served as a county magistrate. But she was regarded as a disaster by her mother since she was a child, and she was thrown to be raised by a nanny, because her grandmother died on the day she was born.

When she was a child, the whole family thought she didn't exist. She had scabies when she was two, and by three she couldn't walk or talk because no one bothered to teach her. Later, she got a severe fever, and her family didn't send her to seek medical treatment, and waited for her to fend for herself. It was the nanny who took her to the countryside, where she recovered from her illness by eating the simple food and drink from the farm.

Lu Yin was taken back to her parents only after her father became the county magistrate of Changsha. But she still couldn't get love and care. Once because of crying, she was thrown into the water by her father. Fortunately, the servant's entourage rescued her and survived.

All this is because she is a woman, a disaster star.

When Lu Yin was six years old, his father died of a heart attack, and his uncle took them to his grandfather's house in Peking. My uncle was Wailang, a former member of the Ministry of Agriculture, Industry and Commerce of the Qing Dynasty.

But Lu Yin was still treated as a disaster, and she couldn't go to school, so she could only learn the Three Character Classic from her aunt. She even lived with the servant girl in the house. Whenever there was a happy event or a treat at her uncle's house, Lu Yin would be locked in the yard alone, and could only talk to the birds, insects, flowers and plants in the yard to relieve her boredom.

This is just the beginning, Lu Yin's life is a complete tragedy, she has never been smooth. Last year, her husband also died, and she was kicked out of the house by her mother-in-law, and she wandered around with her one-year-old daughter.

When she was studying in school, Lu Yin got sores on her feet and nearly became disabled. Later, her lung tube ruptured and she coughed up blood. At that time she was led to religion, converted to God, and found comfort in religious faith. Now she believes in new ideas (freedom and science). She has been to Japan, North Korea, Mukden, Dalian, and Tianjin. She has witnessed the decline of Chinese society and the suffering of people's lives along the way. She went crazy and wanted to overthrow this old society.

Everything depicted in "Goddess" coincides with Lu Yin's state of mind.

Liang Qichao and Zheng Zhenduo felt terrified when they read "The Goddess", but Lu Yin felt differently about it, because she had experienced these things since she was a child.

At noon, Lu Yin went out to eat with her daughter in her arms, and when she returned to the dormitory, she wrote a book review, which she planned to publish in the "Literature Cong Tan" section of "Fiction Monthly":

"Since the May 4th movement, "The Diary of a Madman" is the most popular of the new Chinese literature, followed by Mr. Zhou Hexuan's "The Goddess". With only a few thousand characters, I saw an old society that cannibalized people just by reading the beginning.' She seems to be a sacrifice of this dark society, doomed to tragedy, peeling off the cloak of gods and gods, I see the author's analysis of the soul, the torture of human nature, this book will show readers a true and absurd story. of China..."

Not only Lu Yin, but all the readers who got the "Novel Monthly" were shocked by this novel, which only serialized more than 10,000 characters at the beginning.

Zheng Zhenduo himself wrote a comment in the magazine: "The 'she' in "Goddess" is the embodiment of the 400 million people in China, and each of us is a victim of the old society."

What attracts the writers' attention more is the writing method of "Goddess". The plot of the novel is not coherent, interspersed with a large number of flashbacks and interludes, and there are various fantasies of the heroine in it, brewing a psychedelic and absurd atmosphere, which makes it difficult to distinguish reality.

Such a novel is unique in the whole world.

After reading "The Goddess", many writers have the same idea in their minds: Damn, can novels be written like this?