The millennium literary world, in addition to leaving us with a vast sea of classic texts, is beautiful; it also leaves us with many interesting human stories. Masters, you scare me, I scare you, it's quite hilarious. There is a pen and ink lawsuit that was actually triggered by tears, and it has nothing to do with love, let alone hatred. What kind of tears are there that make the great writers reveal each other? In this issue, we will talk about it.
These two people who hate each other are not generally famous, one is Guo Moruo, and the other is Xu Zhimo. Guo Moruo and Xu Zhimo, as the most famous poets, actually have a lot in common. They are all "merry", and they have written a lot of love works. Guo Moruo wrote to the young girl, "I have burned like this for my beloved!" "Xu Zhimo gave the Japanese girl" is the gentleness of the bowed head. "Perhaps because of similar interests, Guo Moruo and Xu Zhimo have always been relatively kind on the surface." However, in the end, they fell out because of 4 words. These 4 words are related to tears and come from a wonderful poem by Guo Moruo. The original poem is very long, and we excerpt the first four verses:
At first glance, this poem is Guo Moruo's style, and almost every sentence in this excerpt is filled with the word "I". Guo Moruo is such a self, and his poems are very concerned about self-feelings. He was always so open-minded and passionate. As he said in Tengu, "I swallowed the moon, I swallowed the sun, I swallowed all the planets, I swallowed the whole universe." ”
Guo Moruo's poems, because the emotions are too wanton and unrestrained, are inevitably exaggerated in the use of words. In the past, no one would say anything exaggerated, but this time I met Xu Zhimo. About a sentence: "I can scare others, I can't scare the connoisseur!" On May 6, 1923, Xu Zhimo published "Bad Poems, Fake Poems, and Shape-like Poems" in the 51st issue of The Weekly Journal of Efforts. In this article, Xu Zhimo does not spare the words at all, and does his best to ridicule the ability to satirize. For Guo Moruo's "tear waves and waves" 4 words, Xu Zhimo said:
In this passage, Xu Zhimo compares Guo Moruo to a woman, and even tears are less valuable than women, which hurts men's self-esteem; Xu Zhimo also pointed out that if Guo Mo is "fake", this is attacking people's personality. Xu Zhimo even asserted that Guo Moruo might not have shed a single tear at that time. Personality and self-esteem were attacked, and Guo Moruo was very annoyed. So he also published an article to refute it, and called Xu Zhimo hypocritical.
We don't talk about it, so is Guo Moruo really wrong? Guo Moruo, Xu Zhimo, who is reasonable? This problem is not actually a modern one. At that time, Li Bai wrote "Snowflakes are as big as hands" ("Mocking Wang Liyang Refuses to Drink") and "Yanshan Snowflakes Are As Big as Seats" ("North Wind Line"), which seems to be no less exaggerated than Guo Moruo. Later generations have also pointed out that Li Bai's words are excessive, but it has not affected Li Bai's poems in the slightest.
Although Xu Zhimo's criticism has a certain truth, it seems to be a bit excessive when it rises to the attack of life. After all, this former residence in Guo Moruo's poem was a memory of his youth, where he harvested love and the poetry collection "Goddess". In today's parlance, it was his lost youth. Therefore, it is actually reasonable to return to the former residence and shed hot tears, or even "tears gushing". After all, Guo Moruo's poems are much more exaggerated than this.
Writing poetry in an exaggerated way is common in modern poetry. Comparing tears to gushing water, although it is not as clever as Li Yu's use of "a river of spring water flowing eastward" to compare his inner sorrow, it can also be regarded as ingenious. Therefore, for this incident, the author believes that Guo Moruo is actually not wrong. However, everyone has their own opinion on the text, do you think these 4 words are used incorrectly? Discussion is welcome.