The new poem shocked the audience. At this time, Xu Zhimo, the poet representative of the future Crescent Society, was still studying at Peking University, Wen Yiduo was still working as his editor, Bian Zhilin was only seven years old, and Ai Qing, who was the most taboo when Zhang Hanqing wrote this poem, was also only seven years old, and had just read Jinshi Attached Elementary School...

From then on, the young marshal is no longer the merry man who plays the world, and he is still brilliant. In the hearts of the people in the capital, the "lustful song" that sings about the eight major alleys is just a temporary joke. Also, the young marshal who can write such deep and touching poems, how can he be compared with the feelings of ordinary wind and snow?

The shock that Zhang Hanqing's new style poem brings to the world is not how good it is, but that it is too advanced, so advanced that the world has a sense of surprise and habitual difficulty in accepting it, although it sounds so profound. This era has not yet formed an atmosphere of appreciating it, and it is only two years later, to be exact, two years after the official history, that the new style of poetry officially shines its light. Now, the newspaper just treats it as a piece of news, a passion sparked by the young marshal of Fengtian.

Just as Stephen Chow's "Journey to the West" became popular only a few years after its release by Peking University students who discovered its connotation, this seemingly inconspicuous new poem that should not cause waves was also found among a group of well-intentioned people at Peking University.

At this time, New Youth was only a comprehensive review publication, and its creation did not focus much, except for the introduction of some works by European realism and other genres, the novels and poems published were still in literary language. It was not until the beginning of the sixth year of the Republic of China that Li Dazhao successively published Hu Shi's "Discussion on Literary Reform" and Chen Duxiu's "Theory of Literary Revolution", which officially unveiled the banner of "literary revolution".

By February of the 7th year of the Republic of China, New Youth, Vol. 2, No. 6, published 8 vernacular poems by Hu Shi, which was the first batch of new vernacular poems that appeared in the Chinese New Poetry Movement. However, because they are too "vernacular", these poems have their own significance in the history of literature, but in terms of literary value, they are basically equal to zero. Other authors, Shen Yinmo and Liu Bannong, also have no new ideas, and their creation of new poems is basically still in a stage of exploration. It is just because they strongly believe that vernacular literature has its advanced meaning and can completely replace classical Chinese, so they naturally have an urgent desire to attack the old style poetry that occupies a great place in classical Chinese.

In the initial stage of the new poetry, the efforts were to abolish the formal constraints of the old style of poetry, advocate the inclusion of vernacular colloquialisms in poetry, and express the poet's true feelings as the main content. Therefore, at that time, new poems were also called "vernacular poems", "vernacular rhymes", and "Chinese rhymes". But scattered and scattered, the new poems are not satisfactory. These fathers, who have an important place in the history of Chinese literature---- Chen Duxiu, Li Dazhao, Qian Xuantong, Lu Xun, Hu Shi..., deeply believe in this idea and continue to struggle for it, but this exploration is too anxious.

Zhang Hanqing's poems are no less than lighting a beacon for their journey in the dark, it turns out that new poems can be written like this, and new poems can have the same depth, feelings, and words!

Someone with a heart even turned out Zhang Hanqing's first poem in the full sense since his "debut", "Facing the Sea, Flowers Falling, Flowers Blooming", trying to study the source, meaning and epoch-making clarion call of this new poem. Although they also picked up the past between him and Miss Zhu Jiasan, and finally defined it as a love poem in the new style---- it doesn't affect its greatness---- it turns out that the hazy love written in the new style poem will also be quite tactful!

Of course, it is not all applauded, and the opposition is also quite loud, but because of the background of disaster relief when Zhang Hanqing wrote his poems, some conscientious literati are unwilling to criticize it too much. Another important reason is that Zhang Hanqing is a bureaucrat, not a literati. The literati are light, that is relative to their peers, for a poem that is half a drama and half a situation, it is not worth making a big fight, this is the attitude of many people who do not refute after weighing, in fact, this kind of neglect also shows an attitude.

However, there was a great Confucian who Zhang Hanqing admired very much in private and openly expressed his opposition, and he was extremely dissatisfied with the spread of Zhang Hanqing's poems in the literati circle advocating new culture, and ridiculed: "The new culture is dedicated to newcomers who have not dried up to cover up their ignorance of Chinese culture." Now people can't make a fuss, and the nouns they use don't make sense. For example, when it comes to the 'improvement' of new poetry, people in the past used to say 'good', but not 'reform', since you are already 'good', what else do you 'change'? Do you want to change 'good' to 'prostitute'? ”

This duke is accustomed to going against the trend, even Yuan Shikai dares to scold him again and again, and he also calls him a "cheap seed", why do you care about a Zhang Hanqing? If he directly attacked the new poem, it was published in the "Records of Chinese and Western Experiences". Intimidated by his sophistry and ability to scold, no one dared to face the edge. Speaking of which, he is still the "teacher" of Zhang Hanqing at Peking University.

Who is Zhang Hanqing? At this moment, he has no consciousness as a disciple. Respect is one thing, literary theory refutation is another, even Aristotle said, "I love my teacher, I love the truth more", it can be seen that the reason is not clear, and there have been Chinese and foreign countries since ancient times.

In his mind, he strongly agrees with Wen Yuanning's sentence in "A Thinking Layman": "During his lifetime, Gu Hongming had become a legend; After his death, he may become a mythical figure. In fact, he is not very different from the many people you meet every day, he is just a natural rebel. ”

He is not prepared to fight directly with this Confucian monster, and that is not his strong point, but he must always argue, not for the New Culture Movement, but also for himself! He then shouted in the air in the "Ta Kung Pao", not directly fighting, but with the power of side knocks: "Xueliang has always expressed his admiration for Mr. Gu's scholarship and the theory of Chonghua and foreign insight. We all admire Mr.'s "Spring and Autumn Righteousness", then you should understand that the proposition of the Spring and Autumn Period is 'China inside and Yidi outside'. And you, but you published an article in Yidi's newspaper, cursing us Chinese, contrary to the way Mr. has always been, please explain it clearly? ”

may have said Gu Hongming's key words that are contrary to the times, anyway, Gu Hongming, who is known as the "literary fighter", has rarely stopped his voice since then. Maybe in his opinion, with his identity, it is not good to scold a small bureaucrat like Zhang Hanqing. The disciple respects the master and does not dare to fight against virtue, but the master must also be a little conscious.

But a small episode, but it was lit up by a group of people in the New Culture Movement. They can't know Zhang Hanqing's identity, because of this, they urgently need to pull Zhang Hanqing into the gang---- the traditional forces are too great. Zhang Hanqing did his best for disaster relief, and they knew that the university in this era was not just staying in the ivory tower as its "old carving worm looking for chapters and sentences". Zhang Hanqing's speech on disaster relief, as well as his refreshing "Hymn to the Northeast" (the title of the song was not known at this time), convinced them that this was a young man who did not follow the old etiquette and could become a representative of "New Youth". In addition, his status as a major marshal is enough to multiply the strength of the "new culture" movement that they consider to be the direction of Chinese cultural development.

And so it is.

They eagerly contacted Zhang Hanqing to inquire about his attitude on the matter.

The representative they sent was Qian Xuantong.

Qian Xuantong, who was refreshing and neat and bookish, together with the glasses, quickly gave Zhang Hanqing a familiar feeling: campus life. Although he once scolded the other party once when he was at Peking University, and he won the reputation of "little madman", from an academic point of view, Zhang Hanqing respects him quite a lot.

He took the lead in proposing and drafting simplified Chinese characters, advocating the use of new punctuation marks, Arabic numerals, the Common Era, and horizontal writing of Chinese characters... It can be said that Qian Xuantong did a lot of solid foundation work as early as half a century ago for the three major tasks of the Chinese character reform: simplifying Chinese characters, popularizing Putonghua, and formulating and implementing the "Hanyu Pinyin Plan." He was both a theorist of the Chinese movement and a doer of language work.

The time for "exchange" at Peking University is too short, and now, I finally have the opportunity to continue the frontier.

Qian Xuantong has a certain degree of understanding of Zhang Hanqing---- can he not understand? An article "Shi's Lion Eating History" made him famous on the campus of Peking University, and once made himself doubt the radical nature of the idea of abolishing Chinese characters.

At the same time, in the city of Beijing, he turned from a gentleman to a shrewd and gorgeous turn, so that many concerned people saw a young general with foresight, responsibility and resourcefulness. Then I heard that many observers were shocked by the military and political reform in Fengtian, his establishment of a new army and the successful suppression of bandits, and his new land reform, all of which aroused strong concern: Is this the work of a young man who is only seventeen or eighteen years old?

But the facts are all there, and this young marshal even used a touching new style poem to make him feel like "heroes have come out of youth since ancient times". Those who are capable are always capable. Seeing a trace of exhaustion on Zhang Hanqing's heroic face because of the fatigue of disaster relief in the past few days, Qian Xuantong was deeply proud that the country had such talents.

Zhang Hanqing was not proud of it, which was also what Qian Xuantong was worried about at first, and many young people had a problem. Hearing that it was Qian Xuantong, Zhang Hanqing came forward very excitedly, without the slightest feeling of being a young marshal.

"Professor Qian, I'm sorry to let you come here in person. I don't have any other place to sit here, so let's sit on the floor. Where you are sluggish, please Haihan. "This is a temporary grass hut for the victims, there are no stools, no tables, only a few straw grass nests, Zhang Hanqing sat on the ground just now.

Dare to be affectionate, the noble young marshal just sat in the grass nest like an old peasant in the countryside just now? Looking at the other dozen or so young and middle-aged people, calmly brushing the grass on their buttocks, Qian Xuantong thought in surprise. If that's the case, then this is definitely not a human being!