On May 12, 1922, Lin Zixuan came to Fudan University and he wanted to give a lecture in the afternoon.

The scene in front of him was a little surprised. It was different from the grandeur of Fudan University in later generations. Fudan University seemed too shabby at this time and was incomparable to the church-run Shanghai Hujiang University.

Fudan University is located in Jiangwan Town, Hongkou District, Shanghai.

In 1918, Mr. Li Denghui, president of Fudan University, went to Nanyang to raise 150,000 yuan and bought a piece of land in Jiangwan.

The school building was built in Jiangwan in the winter of 1920 and was completed in 1922.

There is a classroom building, namely Jiangong Hall, an office building, Yizhu Hall, a first student dormitory, and a teacher dormitory. At this time, the construction project has not been completed, which seems to be more messy.

In 1921, there were 482 students in Fudan and 34 faculty and staff, with three subjects: arts, science and business.

This is what Lin Zixuan saw. Compared with the university with tens of thousands of people in later generations, the scale is really too small.

The small number of students is a common phenomenon in universities in this era. There were not many students who could go to college during the Republic of China period. The clues can be seen from the tuition fees of each university.

The tuition fee for Peking University in one academic year is 60 yuan, Tsinghua University only costs 40 yuan, Fudan University costs 100 yuan, and Tongji University costs up to 200 yuan.

Tuition fees for church schools and medical universities are the highest, and there are many fees.

Jinling Women's University, located in Nanjing, is a church school with a tuition fee of up to 200 yuan per academic year.

In addition, there is a fee of twenty yuan for books and ten yuan for school uniforms. Students go to the laboratory for experiments and pay 24 yuan for experiments. When they go to the library to check books, they also have to spend ten yuan to apply for a borrowing card.

Of course, although the fees for church schools are high, the campus environment and teaching quality are also quite superior.

For example, six students at Peking University have a dormitory, and there is not even a decent toilet in the dormitory building. There is no hot water supply in winter, and the students are trembling with cold.

The church school, Yenching University, has two people and one dormitory. Each dormitory is equipped with a bathtub, a water fountain and laundry equipment. The school continuously supplies hot water, and there is a kitchenette on each floor.

The English teaching in church schools is first-class, most textbooks are written in English, and most of the teachers are foreign professors.

In comparison, the income of ordinary people in the Republic of China era was pitifully low.

In 1932, students from Yenching University conducted a survey in Gujiatun near the Summer Palace in Peking and found that the annual income of local residents' families was less than 200 yuan.

You can only save up to a dozen yuan a year, and you will still have to owe debts when you are not doing well in the year.

Compared with the income of ordinary people, it is difficult for ordinary families to afford even small owners to afford it, so most young people choose to attend a free normal school.

Lin Zixuan's arrival was welcomed by Fudan University. After all, he is a famous novelist at home and abroad.

The head of the Department of Literature came to greet him in person, and then Lin Zixuan met with Li Denghui, the president of Fudan University, and had a chat.

The principal was originally from Tong'an, Fujian, and was born in Java, Indonesia. He is the seventh generation of Chinese in Indonesia. He studied at Yale University in the United States. He was very happy to talk about his past in the United States with Lin Zixuan.

Looking at Lin Zixuan who was chatting and laughing, the head of the literature department next to him was quite distressed. He originally wanted Lin Zixuan to talk about new literature, which is also something that young students like to listen to.

Lin Zixuan is known as the three masters of new literature. He writes new poems very well and has a great influence among students.

However, the class schedule Lin Zixuan gave him turned out to be "Dream of Red Mansions".

This is not new literature, but retro. Even if you don’t talk about new literature, it’s good to talk about literary creation skills.

However, Lin Zixuan was very persistent, and the department chair had no choice. The visiting professor was not a teacher from the school, so what was said was Lin Zixuan's freedom.

He promoted Lin Zixuan at school and encouraged everyone to attend classes.

Otherwise, if there were no students to listen to the class, Lin Zixuan would be unable to bear the face. If he was talking about new literature, the department head believed that the students would fill the classroom. As for "Dream of Red Mansions"...

It seems that no university professor in China has taught "Dream of Red Mansions" specifically in class. Everyone studies it in private and mentions it during lectures, but will not give a single course to teach it.

This Lin Zixuan is really unpredictable!

At 1:30 p.m., Lin Zixuan came to the classroom. He looked down and saw all the boys.

Fudan University only started to recruit female students in 1927, so he had no chance to enjoy the admiration of female classmates.

There were many students coming to the classroom. A brief look at it was sixty or seventy, which was very considerate. The department head nodded with satisfaction and began to introduce Lin Zixuan.

The so-called introduction is naturally a boast about Lin Zixuan's main achievements.

The students in the classroom were quite curious about Lin Zixuan. They were in Shanghai and there were newspapers to read in the school, and they knew a lot about Lin Zixuan's deeds.

Lin Zixuan was born in 1900 and was born in a businessman family. He graduated from Shanghai Hongkou Aiguo Primary School. Later, he studied at Jiangsu Provincial Second Normal School, which was later Shanghai Middle School.

During the Republic of China, Shanghai Middle School, Suzhou Middle School, Yangzhou Middle School and Hangzhou High School were known as the four famous middle schools in Jiangnan.

After graduating from high school at the age of 18, Lin Zixuan went to Columbia University in America to study economics. After two years of study, he returned from studying abroad and obtained a bachelor's degree in economics.

Before he was twenty years old, he was dull and had no literary talent except being smart.

After returning from studying in the United States, he wrote millions of novels and dozens of new poems in nearly two years. It can be said that the thought of writing suddenly burst out.

It has brought global honor to the Chinese literary world.

Such people couldn't help but be uncurious, but not all students were like this. Some of Guo Moruo's supporters were disdainful of Lin Zixuan, especially when they heard that Lin Zixuan was even more unwilling to listen to "Dream of Red Mansions".

In this era, advocates of new literature began to embark on different paths.

People represented by Luxun continue to follow the path of new culture and forge ahead in novels and new poetry.

Hu Shi turned around and began to "tidy up the country's past."

The so-called "organizing national past" is to study traditional culture with a scientific attitude, study Chinese studies, and distinguish the essence and dross in traditional culture through "organizing national past", remove the dross and get the essence, and create a new civilization.

This idea has the existence and the retreat, the giving and the gain, and the emphasis is on tradition, but it is aimed at innovation, which is quite stable.

This is also what he proposed to "study more questions and talk less about ideology."

But some scholars believe that this is retro, conservative, and a betrayal of the new culture.

This is a question about the direction of new literature. Should we move forward in an unyielding way, or should we turn back and absorb the essence of traditional culture and continue to move forward.

In this era of great change, young people do not have the patience to look back. The times are calling them, and the sense of mission is calling them. They have no time to stay and can only run ahead desperately.

Lin Zixuan chose to talk about "Dream of Red Mansions" at this time, which is another form of "organizing national past".
Chapter completed!