Lin Zixuan stood on the deck, looking at Shanghai as it was getting farther away.

They took a British cruise ship, and because of the care of the British Embassy, the conditions were very good, and everyone was more relaxed.

This time, all of them are well-known figures in the field of publishing in Shanghai, who usually mingle in a circle, know each other, and chat with each other, but they will not be lonely, but have a feeling of seeing each other late.

In the past, everyone worked in different bookstores and was a competitor, but now we see each other day and night, and we feel like-minded when we talk.

The leader of the Commercial Press is Wang Yunwu, who is the largest publishing house in China, and he is naturally the center of the crowd.

As for Lin Zixuan, although he is the big boss of Vientiane Bookstore, he is also a famous literary scholar, and he has long been out of the scope of the publishing industry, with different grades, and there are not many people chatting with him.

He was just gossiping with Xu Zhimo and Yu Dafu.

Xu Zhimo and Yu Dafu are very interesting, they are both from Zhejiang, they are similar in age, and they are still studying 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, and he was admitted to Jiaxing Fu Middle School, and after the second semester started, he thought that Jiaxing was far away from home, and transferred to Hangzhou Fu Middle School.

The two spent half a year in a school.

In Hangzhou Mansion Middle School, Yu Dafu's impression of Xu Zhimo is: his body is not high, his face is very long, his head is very big, and he wears gold-rimmed myopia glasses. I usually don't work very hard, and I always get the first place in the exam.

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

When Yu Dafu was in middle school. He published his old style poems in newspapers in Zhejiang Province under a pen name.

They all have the experience of studying abroad, just in different locations.

When Yu Dafu was seventeen years old. His brother was going to Japan for an expedition, so he followed him to Japan. In the second year, he was admitted to Tokyo Daiichi High School and obtained the qualification of a government-sponsored student.

Japan's higher education system is equivalent to China's high school.

At that time, the study abroad policy of the Beiyang government stipulated that five colleges and universities were designated in Japan, and those who were admitted were government-funded students.

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

After graduating from high school, Xu Zhimo was admitted to the preparatory department of Peking University, and then went to the United States to study at his own expense.

He first attended Clark University to study history. After graduation, he was admitted to Columbia University to study economics.

This was the time with Lin Zixuan.

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

Interestingly, they didn't study literature abroad.

If you think about it carefully, most of the writers in the Republic of China period had the wrong majors, or they all changed careers.

Lu Xun studied medicine when he was studying abroad. Hu Shi studied philosophy, and Zhou Zuoren first studied naval technology in Japan, and finally studied Greek, which is considered a foreign language talent. Guo Moruo studied medicine.

For example, Shen Congwen and Zhang Zhenshui didn't even graduate from middle school.

plus Xu Zhimo and Yu Dafu, none of these people have studied literature seriously, and no one has taught them how to write. But it was by virtue of their talent and self-study that they became literary masters.

This shows that it doesn't matter what major you study. What matters is what you like, and only liking can you reach your potential. in order to do a good job.

What is Literary Talent?

When Yu Dafu was in Japan, his novel "The Death of Silver Gray" was published in a domestic newspaper, and then he published China's first collection of new literary novels, "Sinking", a year before Lu Xun's novel collection "The Scream".

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

By 1927, he was ready to publish The Complete Works of Duff.

Of course, his fame cannot be compared with Lin Zixuan, but Lin Zixuan is cheating, he is really talented.

Needless to say, Xu Zhimo's poetry talent, even if he doesn't have "Farewell Kangqiao", he can write countless talented poems.

"The most is the gentleness of the bowed head, like a water lotus flower that is not shyness in the cool breeze."

Verses like this can't really be written without a little talent.

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

Xu Zhimo and Yu Dafu are both people with true temperaments, and they will speak out 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 Nationalist government in Guangzhou.

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

Liang Shiqiu belongs to the younger generation of the literary world, a member of the Crescent Society, and is also connected to the Creation Society.

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

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

One day, Xu Zhimo went to visit Liang Shiqiu and saw Go in the courtyard, so he asked to play against Liang Shiqiu.

Xu Zhimo's chess strength is higher, and when he reached the middle game, the general trend was set, and he did not chase and fight, but left under the pretext.

This is the gentlemanly demeanor, and it is also the reason why Xu Zhimo can travel widely.

He will take care of his friends' emotions, will not embarrass people, and has a kind of detachment and free and easy bearing of a literati and celebrities.

In comparison, the feeling of the Creation Society for Liang Shiqiu is decadent.

"I once sent my mother back to Hangzhou in the summer, passed through Shanghai, and arrived at Hounanli, Min, Hatong Road, and saw Guo, Yu, and Cheng, and I was surprised not by the hardships of their lives, but by the decadence of their lives, especially depression."

"They led me from one end of the four roads to eat a big bowl of rice wine, all the way to the other end, chasing pheasants in the big world, and playing tea in the hall, all of which is terrifying enough for a Tsinghua student."

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

put forward two requirements in person: one is to visit the ruins of the Old Summer Palace, and the other is to visit the fourth-class kilns in Beiping, which makes Liang Shiqiu even more disliked.

Liang Shiqiu commented on Yu Dafu in the article.

"For example, a literati like Mr. Yu Dafu are not too poorly paid, spend all day drinking, and live an intermediate and decadent life, and when they pick up the pen, they complain bitterly, as if they have suffered the most unfair treatment in society, and they have to be reduced. This is the most despicable place. ”

In the ancient Chinese literary world, there is a saying that celebrities and madmen say that if Xu Zhimo is a celebrity, then Yu Dafu is a madman.

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

Xu Zhimo's family is wealthy, he is the son of a big family, and he has the capital to become a celebrity; Yu Dafu's family is defeated, and it is inevitable that he will be cynical and decadent, which is the condition for becoming a madman.

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

When Lin Zixuan was adrift at sea, a major event happened in Shanghai, or in China, that changed the domestic situation. (To be continued.) )