The students at Trinity College, Cambridge University, are among the best in the UK, they have their own ideas, they don't obey authority, or they are unruly.

Most of them came to listen to Lin Zixuan's speech out of curiosity, but as Britons, they did not necessarily agree with Lin Zixuan's statement.

In the British media, the British expatriates in China were greatly exaggerated as being threatened, and the Chinese rioters were extremely hostile to the British, who were only defending themselves.

This is reported by the British mainstream media.

At the end of the speech, these students raised a lot of questions, some of them simply wanted to know more about the truth, to which Lin Zixuan patiently answered.

Some people questioned Lin Zixuan.

Why do you only say that the Chinese are harmed, British citizens are also in danger in China, and the British government has a responsibility to protect the safety of its own nationals.

"Since May 30, hundreds of Chinese civilians have been innocently shot dead on the land of China, and this is exactly the bloody crime caused by Britain and Japan, as long as this kind of atrocity is not stopped, the resistance of the Chinese people will not stop, and the British expatriates will always be in danger." Lin Zixuan responded.

"Who is responsible for all this? Is it Chinese? No, it's the British government. "The British government's repressive policy in the Far East has led to this tragedy, and where there is oppression, there will be resistance." ”

"You love your country and worry about your compatriots, but I also love my motherland and the land where I was born and raised." Lin Zixuan said in a deep voice.

He ended his lecture at Cambridge University with a poem.

"If I were a bird, I should sing with a hoarse throat: this storm-struck land, this river of our sorrow and indignation forever. The angry wind that blows endlessly, and the incomparably gentle dawn that comes from the woods......"

"—and then I died. Even the feathers rotted in the ground. ”

"Why do I have tears in my eyes? Because I love this land so much......"

The poem is called "I Love This Land" and was written by the poet Ai Qing on November 17, 1938.

The poem expresses love for the motherland and hatred for the invaders.

China is undergoing a great transformation. The people are rising, the nation is awakening, and the dawn will eventually come.

The last two sentences express the heart directly, showing the poet's deepest patriotic feelings of determination to be born in the land, sing in the land, and be buried in the land, and depend on the land for life and death.

This poem just shows Lin Zixuan's mood at this moment.

His speech at the University of Cambridge attracted the attention of the British press.

In Western countries, there are ruling parties, opposition parties, and more radical social organizations.

They used the incident to accuse the ruling party of having a problem with its policy in the Far East, and that it was the failure to control the situation that caused the plight of the British expatriates in China, and the government should bear a heavy responsibility.

They don't really support or sympathize with China. Rather, it is a political ploy to use this to attack political opponents.

Lin Zixuan's appearance gave these people an excuse, and his speech was published in the newspapers, including the poem.

The opposition parties in Britain saw this as the voice of a poet from the Far East, a writer from China who had voiced the roar of a nation, and that our country's foreign policy was in danger of failure.

Lin Zixuan doesn't mind being used by British politicians, what he wants is to expand his influence and put pressure on the British government.

It was the only thing he was able to do.

Because of the media publicity, his poem was widely circulated. The British literary world remembered that Lin Zixuan was first known precisely because of his identity as a poet.

Thomas Eliot admired Lin Zixuan's poetry collection "One Generation".

He confessed that the inspiration for the writing of his poem "Wasteland", which shocked the European poetry scene, came from Lin Zixuan's poetry.

and the poem "Goodbye, Kangqiao" written by Lin Zixuan, which has become a model of lyrical poetry.

England is a country of poets, and Byron, Keats, and Shelley are all great poets. The English love of poetry is as strong as their love of theatre.

This symbolist poem became popular in London's literary circles at once.

Patriotic poetry is a long-standing subject in any country, but it is not easy to write well.

The song "I Love This Land" is full of deep feelings, especially the last two sentences that sublimate the theme. It's unforgettable.

Lin Zixuan's actions in Britain were transmitted back to China through various means, and some students sent telegrams back to China. There are also reporters' reports, which have caused great repercussions in the domestic media.

In fact. Prior to this, some voices attacking Lin Zixuan appeared in domestic newspapers.

After the May Day tragedy, Lin Zixuan has been relatively low-key, and when the Vientiane Bookstore and radio station were seized, it was even more difficult to see him, and he did not write any articles.

While the national media were condemning and protesting against the atrocities of the concession authorities, as a leading figure in the literary world, he did nothing.

This made many people quite disappointed, thinking that Lin Zixuan was scared.

At the end of June, Lin Zixuan left Shanghai and went to the United States, which was interpreted by those who targeted him as going out to avoid the limelight.

As a result, some articles appeared in the newspapers criticizing Sang and scolding Huai, criticizing Lin Zixuan's behavior as a weakness and compromise for foreigners, a capitulation faction, and a disgrace to literati.

This unfavorable remark paused slightly when Lin Zixuan gave a speech on the Chinese Dream in the United States.

But then some people criticized Lin Zixuan for only shouting empty slogans, without actual action, and taking the line of compromise.

These attacks on Lin Zixuan were in the United States and did not know about them.

When he was in Shanghai, he was busy printing "The Man in the High Castle" when the bookstore was closed down and no one disturbed him, and he didn't pay much attention to the outside world, and then came to the United States, and he had no way to understand it.

Most of those who attacked him were enemies of previous polemics, and the most fierce attack was Guo Moruo.

During this time, Guo Moruo was very active in Shanghai, and led a group of people to write a lot of articles and debate with all parties.

Just as he stayed up late and wrote another article criticizing Lin Zixuan, he saw the newspaper that had just been published.

Above is Lin Zixuan's speech in the UK, as well as the song "I Love This Land".

Guo Moruo didn't expect that when he was still writing articles in China that he didn't know if he had influence, Lin Zixuan had already gone to the enemy's lair to attack.

Whether or not this attack is effective, the height at which the two are standing is not the same.

The domestic media unanimously praised Lin Zixuan's behavior in the UK alone and the British government's arguments.

He believes that Lin Zixuan is worthy of being a world-class literary scholar, using his influence in the West to make a voice and fight for fair treatment for China, showing the dignity of the Chinese.

As for those who attacked Lin Zixuan, this slap hit them hard in the face.

Lin Zixuan still didn't know about these things, and it was this ignorance that made those people even more hurt, no matter how you attacked, people didn't care at all, and they could inadvertently send out a deadly counterattack.

This is exactly what no trick wins.

At this time, Lin Zixuan was meeting with the British dramatist George Bernard Shaw in London. (To be continued.) )