Chapter 157: The Great Controversy of Science and Metaphysics
In the big family of this era, the new daughter-in-law worships the ancestors, which means that she has been recognized by the family and can be included in the family tree.
Lin Zixuan was the first of the third generation of the Lin family to get married, so this ancestor worship was particularly grand.
At the end of the ancestor worship, the Lin family held a feast in Lin Yuan, inviting friends from Wuxi's political and business circles to come, which was a wedding held within the family for Lin Zixuan and Feng Chengcheng.
By the time they returned to Shanghai, it was the end of February.
On February 21, 1923, Sun Zhongshan returned to Guangzhou from Shanghai, and Lin Zixuan missed the send-off.
As soon as he returned to Shanghai, he was approached by Song Ziwen, and it could be seen that the future uncle was very distressed.
Song Ziwen's pursuit of Miss Sheng Family Seven has been fruitless so far, and his second sister Song Qianling wants him to go to Guangzhou to help Sun Zhongshan deal with financial affairs, but he can't let go of Miss Sheng Family.
Besides, if he leaves Shanghai, only his mother and little sister will be left here, and he is not very relieved.
Song Ziwen thought about the friends around him, and finally sadly found that Lin Zixuan was more reliable, at least Lin Zixuan had a good reputation and had not done anything dirty.
He came to Lin Zixuan mainly to complain.
Song Ziwen found Miss Sheng Qi and wanted to persuade her to go to Guangzhou with her, but Miss Sheng Qi refused.
According to Song Ziwen's account, the situation at that time was like this.
Miss 7 and Miss 8 of the Sheng family traveled to Hangzhou, and he chased them to Hangzhou, holding three tickets to Guangzhou, and wanted to invite the two young ladies of the Sheng family to Guangzhou to carry out revolutionary work together.
"Wait, why did you buy three tickets?" Lin Zixuan was puzzled.
"Well, I just wanted to...... It doesn't matter, the important thing is that I was rejected. Song Ziwen said angrily.
Of course you will be rejected, even people like Lin Zixuan, who are not very emotionally intelligent, know that if you elope, two tickets are enough, what is the third ticket?
Next, Miss Sheng Jiaqi also gave Song Ziwen a handful of gold leaves as travel expenses, wishing him a smooth journey.
Song Ziwen, who was emotionally devastated, finally woke up from his children's relationship and was ready to go to Guangzhou to do a career, he asked Lin Zixuan to ask Lin Zixuan to help take care of his mother and sister in Shanghai.
Finally, he also asked Lin Zixuan to pay attention to the movements of Miss Sheng Jiaqi, and if other men approached, he would write to tell him.
It seems that the old love is still unforgettable, Lin Zixuan really doesn't want to get involved in this.
However, this future uncle of the country will soar this time, so he had to reluctantly agree, and personally sent Song Ziwen to the cruise to Guangzhou.
Looking at Song Ziwen, who was waving at him on the cruise ship, he knew that the Song family was about to rise.
At the beginning of the new year, Lin Zixuan was very busy.
"Havoc in Heaven" is also being screened in theaters, and the income is quite large, and it is expected to exceed 150,000 silver dollars, creating a new box office record for domestic films, which is even more popular than "Shanghai Holiday".
In fact, there has not been much change in the number of audiences, after all, the movie-going crowd in Shanghai is fixed, mainly because the ticket price of sound movies is one-third higher than that of silent films.
When the Nanyang studios saw that the sound films were selling well, some people tried to go back to the theaters and show the sound films.
In this way, it has added another income for Lin Zixuan.
In the new year, in addition to continuing to shoot "Three Dozen White Bone Spirits", Star Film Company will also start filming other films, and Lin Zixuan's initial plan is to shoot martial arts films, that is, "The Legend of the Condor Heroes".
In costume dramas, you can shoot legends such as "Liang Zhu" and "The Legend of the White Snake", and fashion dramas can shoot novels of the Mandarin Duck and Butterfly School, such as "The Soul of Jade Pear" and "Xiepu Tide".
The Mandarin Duck and Butterfly School novels have a wide readership base in Shanghai, and the movies made are definitely watched.
In radio broadcasting, there is also a profit model.
The last show, which introduced Shanghai's food and entertainment venues, was well received by Shanghai listeners.
At first, the stores were very happy, because of the broadcast, the number of customers began to increase, but gradually they found that the radio broadcast introduced other stores.
Those stores were their competitors, and they couldn't sit still.
After inquiring, I found out that those stores gave Vientiane Radio Station a fee, so the names of those stores would frequently appear in the broadcast, which was called advertising fee.
Lin Zixuan grasped the competitive psychology of each store, broadcast for them for free first, and when they saw the benefits of broadcasting, they were naturally willing to pay for it.
Of course, this matter cannot be known to the American Osborn, who is still worried about his radio.
It is said that Osborne also embezzled public funds from the Eastern Radio Company in order to import these radios, and he had to sell the radios at a low price to save his capital.
In February, after returning from a trip to Europe, Zhang Junmai gave a speech on "Outlook on Life" at Tsinghua University.
Thus began a great debate between science and metaphysics.
In this day and age, polemics often take place, and there is no fuss.
Because there are so many ideas and isms coming in from the West, everyone thinks that they have the truth and wants to convince others to believe it, so polemics are inevitable.
This was the era of great collision of ideas, and I was embarrassed to say that I was a cultural person without participating in several polemics in a month.
So who is this Zhang Junmai?
He was born in Baoshan County, Jiangsu Province, in a family of Confucian doctors and businessmen, and he has a younger sister named Zhang Youyi, who is Xu Zhimo's ex-wife, so Xu Zhimo is his brother-in-law.
The Zhang family is a big family, and there are 12 brothers and sisters in their generation, all of whom work hard, and half of them have become well-known people in Shanghai and even modern China.
Zhang Junmao's knowledge is very deep, and it can be said that he has learned both China and the West.
At the age of 15, he went to Japan to study and graduated from Waseda University with a degree in political science.
After returning to China, he took the school examination and obtained the qualification for the palace examination, and the following year he was awarded the title of Jishi of the Hanlin Academy, becoming the last Hanlin in China.
Subsequently, he went to Germany to study and continue his studies in political science.
On February 4, 1923, Zhang Junmai was invited by the famous scholar Wu Wenzao to give a speech on "outlook on life" for the students of Tsinghua School who were about to study abroad.
The general meaning of his speech is that science is not omnipotent, everyone has a different outlook on life, and do not think that everything in the world is governed by the scientific law of cause and effect.
This speech caused great controversy in the new cultural center of Beiping.
What the new culture advocates is Mr. De and Mr. Sai, that is, democracy and science, which are the two banners of the new culture.
Now some people say that science is not omnipotent, and this is an attack on the new culture, so the new literary elites led by Hu Shi launched a great debate to defend science.
There are many scholars involved, including Liang Qichao, Hu Shi, Chen Duxiu and others, all of whom have put forward their own views.
Philosophically, the debate focuses on the rights and wrongs of free will and determinism.
This is a great scuffle in China's intellectual circles, and it also represents the path they will take in the future.