Lin Zixuan stood on the deck, looking at the gradually moving Shanghai.

They were on a British cruise ship. Due to the care of the British Embassy, ​​the conditions were very good, so everyone was relaxed.

This time, all the people who came to Shanghai are famous people in the publishing field. They usually stay in the same circle, get familiar with each other, chat with each other, and don’t feel lonely, but instead feel like they meet too late.

In the past, when we were doing things in different situations, we were competitors. At this moment, we met day and night, and only after chatting, we felt that we were interested in each other.

The leader of the Commercial Printing Pavilion is Wang Yunwu. As the largest publishing house in China, he naturally became the center of everyone.

As for Lin Zixuan, although he is the big boss of the Vientiane Bureau, he is still a famous writer and has long been separated from the publishing industry. His grades are different, and not many people chat with him.

He was just talking to Xu Zhimo and Yu Dafu.

Xu Zhimo and Yu Dafu are very interesting. They are both from Zhejiang, and they are similar in age and are still in the same middle school.

In the spring of 1911, Xu Zhimo was admitted to Hangzhou Fu Middle School.

Yu Dafu was also admitted to this school, but he felt that the cost was too high, so he was admitted to Jiaxing Mansion Middle School again. After the second semester started, he thought Jiaxing was far away from home and transferred to Hangzhou Mansion Middle School again.

The two spent half a year studying in the same school.

At Hangzhou Fu Middle School, Yu Dafu's impression of Xu Zhimo was: he was not tall, had a long face, had a very big head, and wore gold-edged myopia glasses. He didn't work hard much and always got the first place in the exam.

In fact, in terms of the literary talent he showed when he was a teenager, Yu Dafu is no worse than Xu Zhimo.

When Yu Dafu went to middle school, he wrote old-style poems in newspapers in Zhejiang Province under the pseudonym.

They all have experience studying abroad, but the location is different.

When Yu Dafu was seventeen years old, his brother was going to Japan for inspection, so he followed his brother to Japan. The next year he was admitted to Tokyo's No. 1 Higher Education Institution and obtained the qualification of an official student fee.

Japanese universities are equivalent to Chinese high schools.

At that time, the Beiyang government's study abroad policy stipulated that five higher education institutions were designated in Japan. All those who passed the exam were official students.

Later, Yu Dafu was admitted to Tokyo Imperial University and studied economics. He stayed in Japan for a full nine years.

After graduating from Middle School, Xu Zhimo was admitted to the preparatory course of Peking University, and then went to the United States to study at its own expense.

He first studied history at Clark University, and after graduation he was admitted to Columbia University to study economics.

This was exactly the time I had with Lin Zixuan.

In September 1920, Xu Zhimo went to the UK and first studied at the London School of Political Science and Economics. Later, he studied at the Royal College of Cambridge University. He stayed in the United States and Britain for four years.

Interestingly, none of them studied literature abroad.

If you think about it carefully, most writers in the Republic of China period had a bad professionalism, or had changed their careers.

When Luxun was studying abroad, he studied medicine, while Hu Shi learned philosophy. Zhou Zuoren first studied naval technology in Japan and finally learned Greek, which was considered a foreign language talent. Guo Moruo studied medicine.

For example, Shen Congwen and Zhang Henshui did not even graduate from middle school.

In addition, Xu Zhimo and Yu Dafu, these people have not studied literature seriously, nor have they taught them how to write, but they have become literary masters with their talents and self-study.

This means that it doesn’t matter what major you study. What matters is what you like. Only if you like can you realize your potential and do it well.

What is literary talent?

When Yu Dafu was in Japan, he died in a silver-gray novel in domestic newspapers. He then published the first collection of new literary novels in China, which was a year earlier than Luxun's collection of novels.

In the field of new literature, he is the most influential novelist in China besides Luxun.

By 1927, he was ready to publish the complete works of Duff.

Of course, his fame is incomparable to Lin Zixuan, but Lin Zixuan cheated. He is real talent and knowledgeable.

Needless to say, Xu Zhimo's talent in poetry is, even if he doesn't leave Kangqiao, he can write countless talented poems.

"The most tenderness of the bow of your head is like a lotus that is so shy that the cool breeze is."

Such poems cannot be written without a little talent.

Therefore, readers can criticize his character, but cannot deny his literary talent.

Xu Zhimo and Yu Dafu are both people with true nature. They will say it when they see the dark side or injustice of society.

For example, Xu Zhimo's criticism of the Soviet Union and Yu Dafu's criticism of the Guangzhou National Government.

However, after all, the two of them are different, which can be confirmed by Liang Shiqiu's views on the two.

Liang Shiqiu is a junior in the literary world and a member of the Creative Society, and is also associated with the Creative Society.

In the field of new literature, according to the literary generation, Hu Shi and Lu Xun are enlighteners, Lin Zixuan and Xu Zhimo are pioneers, and Shen Congwen and Liang Shiqiu are younger generations in the literary world.

Liang Shiqiu admired Xu Zhimo very much, but was more disgusted with Yu Dafu.

One day, Xu Zhimo went to visit Liang Shiqiu. When he saw Go in the yard, he asked to play chess with Liang Shiqiu.

Xu Zhimo had a high chess skills. When he arrived in the middle of the game, the general situation was settled. He did not chase and attack, but instead left on the pretext.

This is the gentlemanly demeanor and the reason why Xu Zhimo was able to have a wide range of friendship.

He can take care of his friends' emotions, will not embarrass people, and has a free and easy demeanor of a literati and famous person.

In comparison, the Creation Society gave Liang Shiqiu a feeling of decadence.

"Once I sent my mother to Hangzhou in the summer, passed by Shanghai, and arrived at Minhounanli, Hatong Road. When I saw Guo, Yu, and Cheng, I was surprised not the hardships of their lives, but the decadentness of their lives, especially Yu is the most important thing."

"They led me from one end of Sima Road to eat a big bowl of rice wine, all the way to the other end, chasing pheasants in the big world, and making tea in the hall. All this is terrifying for a Tsinghua student."

Another time, Yu Dafu went north to Beiping and found Liang Shiqiu.

Two requests were made in person: one was to visit the ruins of the Old Summer Palace, and the other was to visit the fourth-class kilns in Peking, which made Liang Shiqiu even more disliked.

Liang Shiqiu commented on Yu Dafu in this article.

"For example, literati like Mr. Yu Dafu, have not paid too much money. They spend all day long and live a decadent life of intermediate level. When they write, they always complain, as if they have suffered the most unfair treatment in society and have no choice but to fall into decline. This is the most despised thing."

In the literary world of ancient China, there were famous scholars and madmen. If Xu Zhimo was a famous scholar, then Yu Dafu was a madman.

This has a lot to do with the family environment of the two.

Xu Zhimo's family is well-off and is the young master of a big family, with the capital to become a famous scholar; Yu Dafu's family is in decline, and hesitation is inevitable, and hesitation is inevitable. This is the condition for becoming a madman.

In fact, whether it is a famous scholar or a madman, as long as he has true nature and is not hypocritical, he can make friends.

When Lin Zixuan was wandering on the sea, a major event in Shanghai that changed the domestic situation. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!