What, Zhang Heng, who made the earth moving instrument, will also write poetry?
Yes, in addition to being a scientist, Zhang Heng is also a literary scholar.
I have to say that the ancients were really versatile, and while engaging in science, they did not relax their study of language. In addition to the famous "Erjing Fu", Zhang Heng also has a poem that has been passed down through the ages, and you may not have read the whole poem, but you should have read the sentences in it:
"My thoughts are in Taishan.
Wanting to go to the Liang Father's hardship, he looked east sideways at Shu Han.
The beauty gave me the wrong knife, how to repay the Ying QiongYao.
The road is far away, what is the worry and upset. ”
——An excerpt from Zhang Heng's "Four Sorrowful Poems"
"The beauty gave me the wrong knife, why repay Ying Qiongyao." This poem is very famous, expressing the "courtesy exchange" in the "Book of Poetry" of "throwing me a wooden peach, repaying it with Qiong Yao". The poem is divided into four chapters, and Zhang Heng lists a distant place name in the four directions of east, west, south and north, expressing the poet's sad and sad mood of looking for beauty and not being able to get it, and expressing the hatred in his heart that is not appreciated by the king.
Lu Xun, the founder of modern literature in China, also imitated Zhang Heng's "Four Sorrowful Poems" and wrote a "lost love poem".
"My Lost Love"
Lu Xun
My beloved is on the mountainside; I want to look for her mountain too high to look down and I can't shed tears.
The lover gave me a butterfly scarf; returned her what: an owl.
From then on, he turned his face and ignored me,
Somehow it startled me.
My beloved is in the middle of the city; people who want to look for her are crowded, and they can't cry when they look up.
The lover gave me a double swallow figure; what was back to her: the ice candy pot Lou.
Somehow confused me.
My beloved is on the riverbank; I want to find her the depth of the river, and I can't cry when I tilt my head.
The lover gave me a golden watch som; returned her what: sweat medicine.
Somehow it made me nervously weak.
My beloved is at the Howe family; I want to look for her without a car, shaking my head and not being able to cry.
The lover gave me roses; returned to her what: the red snake.
From then on, he turned his face and ignored me.
Somehow it was up to her.
The first reading was a surprise: Xun Ge'er would even lose love?
Reading it again is a surprise: what's going on, is Xun Ge'er so "straight man", sending a girl "red snake"? Should I have no girlfriend?
It wasn't until I went to find the background of the poem that I suddenly realized: it turned out to be a satirical poem. Lu Xun also did not lose love, but was "pretending to be out of love".
In this regard, Lu Xun himself explained in the preface to "Wild Grass":
"Because of the satire of the loveless poems that were prevalent at that time, he wrote "My Lost Love.""
Later, it was further explained:
"It's just three oil poems, titled 'My Lost Love', which is a joke when I saw the prevalence of loveless poems like 'Ah, Ah, I'm going to Die' at that time, and deliberately made a 'let her go' ending thing."
Allowing Lu Xun to explain in such detail twice, it seems that the people who read Xun Ge'er's works at that time were also very concerned about Lu Xun's emotional state like the author.
If you don't tell you the source of this poem, you probably can't guess that its author will be Lu Xun, and that the "language textbook nail household" that always has a face in our impression and is always "bitter and bitter" will be such an interesting person.
Yang Changxi believes in the book "Interesting Facts of the Literati" that Lu Xun wrote this poem to satirize Xu Zhimo. Because Lu Xun's poem was written in October 1924, and it was in April of that year that the famous Indian poet Tagore came to China and was received by Lin Huiyin and Xu Zhimo as translators.
Xu Zhimo's feelings for Lin Huiyin should be clear to readers. During the reception of Tagore, taking the opportunity of "near the water tower", Xu Zhimo launched a warm pursuit of Lin Huiyin.
However, after Tagore left China, Xu Zhimo accompanied Tagore to Japan, and Lin Huiyin and Liang Sicheng went to the United States to study together under the arrangement of their families. As a result, Xu Zhimo naturally "lost love".
In some of Xu Zhimo's poems, we can also see the kind of overly strong emotional expression that Lu Xun said, "Ah, Ah, I'm going to die." Therefore, many people believe that Lu Xun's poem is satirizing Xu Zhimo.
However, the modern scholar Xu Shousheng said in the article "Lu Xun's Game Article":
"Most readers think that they are talking nonsense and think it is funny, but they do not know that the owl is his own favorite, the icing sugar pot Lu loves to eat, the sweat medicine is commonly used, and the red snake also loves to see." Still a serious book, nothing pretentious. ”
In fact, Mr. Lu Xun is not only not old-fashioned in his life, but even a very interesting and very cute person. The "interesting soul" that modern people call him refers entirely to him, but the gentleman is more serious on the surface.
If you don't write a high level of articles, he will say: "I admire only one thing: this kind of thing actually has the courage to publish." ”
When he was a child, he would say, "When I was a child, I didn't treat him as a person, and when I was older, I couldn't be a person." ”
Invited by the Beijing Normal University to give a speech, he would say: "I saw in the newspaper that Lu Xun was about to 'make a comeback' again, and this is because some people are afraid that I have robbed them of their jobs." Yesterday I also told reporters that Lu Xun was about to 'make a comeback' again. ”
He loves to smoke, loves sweets, and not only writes books, but also designs book covers. The Lu Xun who always has a straight face in the textbook is a first-class interesting person in life.
Perhaps, rather than the serious and serious articles selected for textbooks, or the more casual prose and essays, it is more helpful to understand Lu Xun himself.
This set of Lu Xun's works includes "A Q Zheng Biography", "Chao Hua Xi Shi", "Story New Compilation", "Weeds", "Scream", "Wandering" these six works, there are novels, poems, essays, essays, if you want to understand Lu Xun, then there is no doubt, reading his works is the best way, there is no one.
This landmark figure in the history of literature is not only a "national soul", but also an interesting soul. It's just that the image he established during his lifetime was too tall, which led many people to misunderstand him.
Lu Xun's literary achievements do not need to be repeated, and time has already given the best answer. Today we are still reading Lu Xun, mr. Li abandoned the medical practice in order to awaken the numb Chinese. Living today, when we re-read Mr. Lu Xun's works, we will have a different experience.