Due to Zhou Hexuan's timely reminder, Shi Liangcai left Shanghai at the end of July and hid in the French Concession in Tianjin to have tea and watch a play with friends.

Before leaving Shanghai, Shi Liangcai hoped that Lu Xun could write an article to help Zhou Hexuan speak and correct his name.

Lu Xun didn't refuse at that time, but he didn't agree either, he didn't want to get involved in this kind of. It wasn't until the "Central Daily" published an editorial praising Zhou Hexuan that the trend of public opinion turned instantly, and Lu Xun suddenly opened an article with the ontology vest, and the drunkard did not mean to drink.

The original text is as follows-

"Lace Talk"

"Zhou Mingcheng has been in trouble recently, and the Chinese newspapers are clearly divided into two factions, one is extremely slanderous, and the other is held high...... Before Shi Jun left Shanghai, he invited me to make a fuss, cheer for the Zhou family, and do my friend's heart. ”

"I met Zhou once in Beiping, and he didn't like to drink bean juice, so it can be seen that he was not with me. He has his ideas, he is optimistic about China, and I am the opposite...... I don't care about Zhou's private life, but I can't help but read his writings, and I can't help but say that he is one of China's most self-minded scholars......"

The result of this newspaper controversy was astonishing, and in just a few days, the west wind and the east wind merged into a mess, and the scolding was fierce, and the harvest was sudden. It's like the newspapers all over China, forgetting that there was a scolding war overnight, and actually singing praises in unison......"

Lu Xun began to tell stories in the article, telling some stories that make people scratch their heads and don't know their brains, and every sentence is satirizing the unscrupulous media, only knowing that they are satisfied. He was not helping Zhou Hexuan say good things at all, but taking the opportunity to scold the KMT's public opinion control policy.

After this article was published in the supplement of "Declaration" "Freedom Talk", Lu Xun worked overtime to write a second article-

Comparison of Zhou and Tai

"There is an Indian poet named 'Zhu Aurora' who once made great waves in China, and he is Rabindranath Tagore. When he came to China, he gave a speech at the altar, and he was given a piano and burned a pot of incense, with Lin Changmin on the left and Xu Zhimo on the right, each wearing an Indian hat. Xu Shiren began to introduce: 'Gurgling, white clouds and breeze, silver pan...... While! He spoke like a living god, and the young men of our earth were disappointed and departed. Immortals and mortals, how can they not leave? ”

"But this year I saw his article about the Soviet Union, and he declared: 'I am an Indian under British rule.'" He knew it himself. When he came to China, he would not have been confused, and if our poets had not made him a living immortal, the young people would not have been so estranged from him, and now he would be the boss's bad luck......"

Although Lu Xun has always been indifferent to Tagore, he is not open to criticism, but often ridicules those Chinese who boast of Tagore infinitely.

But this time, Lu Xun took advantage of the topic to play, directly caught Tagore and sprayed, and also joked about Tagore's Chinese name "Zhu Aurora", just because Tagore publicly said that he was "an Indian under British rule". It goes without saying that Lu Xun was mocking those who surrendered to Japan and the Lord's peace faction, and by the way, Xu Zhimo was not lightly punished.

Let's continue to see-

"Some people have been edicted to correct Zhou Mingcheng's name, saying: 'Mr. Mingcheng can be said to be the largest Chinese writer since the late Qing Dynasty, and he is an Asian sage who is on a par with Tagore'. He had apparently not heard Tagore's words of resignation, but Ty's had become a loyal English dog and slapped the horse's leg by mistake. ”

This passage went around in circles and scolded Chen Bui as well, and he did his best to be sarcastic, so he almost didn't say that Chen Bui was a villain who slipped his beard and slapped the horse and shot the wrong person.

Lu Xun went on to write——

"Why do you have to compare Chinese with foreigners? Is it in your head, set a rule in advance, foreigners must be nobler than Chinese - even if this foreign country is India? It seems that there is a Chinese who can be compared with foreigners, and I can all be happy and honored. ”

"Tai has the yellow robe of 'Nobel', so he soared into immortality in China. Zhou is only nominated for the 'Nobel Prize', so he is naturally one level lower than Tai's? ”

"If you want me to say, Zhou's achievements have long surpassed Tai's. At the literary level, Zhou's grandeur has created a new school in the world. Although Zhou only wrote a few poems, he also has the significance of Prometheus in the Chinese poetry circle. At the academic level, Zhou's historiography was established, and Europe, the United States and Japan had his disciples and grandchildren. ”

"Or, just because of Zhou's Chinese status, we consciously look down on him, and even when we praise him, we have to use the phrase 'comparable to Tagore'." Don't be so ashamed of yourself that you lose your mind......"

Lu Xun praised Zhou Hexuan in all aspects, simply put, Zhou Hexuan beat Tagore. Chen Bui was the first to be scolded for being a bloody dog, and he could not see a single dirty word in the whole article, but every sentence was like a knife, and the Chinese's unconfidence was vividly analyzed.

If Chen Bui saw this article, he would probably vomit three liters of blood, and shouted in his heart that his mother would sell batches.

Well, just kidding. Mr. Chen Bui is still very generous, most of them just laughed, and by the way, he praised Lu Xun's article for being well written.

In any case, Lu Xun's article once again set off a controversy, causing fans of Zhou Hexuan and Tagore in China to fight each other.

Tagore has countless fans in China, the first of which is Xu Zhimo, who has long touted Tagore as a god - Tagore's status in the ideological circle of the Republic of China is on a par with ancient Indian sages such as Dharma, True Meaning, and Bukong.

Now someone dares to say that Zhou Hexuan can crush Tagore into scum, which immediately caused dissatisfaction among those fans.

Qian Zhixiu, Chen Yinke's classmate and secretary of the Nanjing Government Supervision Yuan, first jumped out and directly sprayed Lu Xun's nonsense, and then said that although Zhou Hexuan had great academic achievements, he still could not be compared with Tagore. He said that Tagore was "dedicated to the eternal perfection", that is, "dedicated to the country and to the welfare of mankind", and that Tagore's ideas inspired the young people of countless backward countries to continue to struggle and advance, which was Tagore's great contribution to the world.

Immediately afterwards, Mr. Bingxin also stood up and analyzed Tagore's great achievements purely from the perspective of poetry and literature. It is believed that although Zhou Hexuan has amazing academic achievements in history, he cannot match Tagore in the field of literature.

Xu Zhimo's situation was very embarrassing, he was not good at criticizing on both sides, so he hurriedly wrote an article calling on everyone to calm down.

But I can't calm down at all, although Tagore has many fans in China, he also has many black fans, and when he visited China, he started a big scolding war. The scolding battle was so loud that Tagore did not dare to publicize it when he came to China for the second time, and only stayed at Xu Zhimo's house for three days.

As soon as Qian Zhixiu and Bingxin's article on Thai's praise came out, it was equivalent to blowing the battle horn, and countless Tai's black fans came up for a while. As more and more fans and black fans joined, the two sides fought in full swing in newspapers and magazines, and the scene was like the "schoolboy century scolding war" between TFB fans and EXO fans in later generations.

In order to attack Tagore, the black fans frantically touted Zhou Hexuan, and our Mr. Zhou flew directly to the sky during the day.

Lu Xun, who provoked the scolding war, once again watched from the wall, as if this matter had nothing to do with him at all.

However, Zhou Hexuan's various achievements have been repeatedly mentioned in this scolding war. In the past, many people only knew that Zhou Hexuan was very good at writing articles, but after reading the scolding article this time, he finally reacted - it turns out that Mr. Zhou is so awesome in the field of history, and he has become a master of the new international historiography.

This inexplicable controversy was later called the "Zhou-Tai Controversy".