Lu Xun and Guo Moruo, both important figures in the history of Chinese literature, the two have never met in their lives, but there was a super-level air confrontation, in this confrontation, both of them used extremely simple language, Lu Xun used five words, and Guo Moruo only used four words.
It is difficult to say who is right and who is wrong. But it should be Lu Xun who provoked the incident, Lu Xun first wrote an article to scold Guo Moruo, Guo Moruo was angry, and scolded Lu Xun with the four words "clothed beast".
So how did Guo Moruo provoke Lu Xun and let Lu Xun write an article to scold him?
Lu Xun has actually never looked down on Guo Moruo, not Guo Moruo's talent, but his private life.
Guo Moruo's love history
My fair lady, a gentleman, the pursuit of beauty, this is the common love of people, but Guo Moruo has some abnormal places, it can be said that he is merciful everywhere and desperate everywhere.
In the early years, under the arrangement of his parents, Guo Moruo was forced to marry Zhang Qionghua, a woman who had never read a book, Zhang Qionghua was a typical old-style woman, and Guo Moruo, who hated feudalism, naturally did not look at him. But the order of his parents is inviolable, although Guo Moruo married Zhang Qionghua, but his heart was extremely dissatisfied with this arranged marriage under the feudal autocracy, in order to show his determination to resist, on the fifth day after marriage, Guo Moruo abandoned his new wife and quietly ran to Chengdu to study alone, and left for 27 years.
It was not until Guo Moruo returned to his hometown in 1939 that he bowed to Zhang Qionghua to apologize, but their marriage has always been a nominal empty shell, and only Zhang Qionghua kept this empty shell alone for 68 years until his death.
It was undeprehensible to express resistance to feudal arranged marriages, but later in his autobiography, he exaggerated the image of Zhang Qionghua, saying "a three-inch golden lotus" and "a pair of open-air orangutan nostrils"... In today's terms, it's a little too scum!
Zhang Qionghua and mother-in-law
Although Guo Moruo left home, Zhang Qionghua is still the daughter-in-law of the Guo family, filial to her in-laws, taking care of housework, and fulfilling her due responsibilities and obligations. However, when Zhang Qionghua was silently and tirelessly working hard for the Guo family, Guo Moruo went to study in Japan and had the opportunity to visit a friend at St. Luka's Hospital in Tokyo, and he met Tomiko Sato, a Japanese female nurse who also escaped marriage, and then the two fell in love.
Fuzi's parents are firmly opposed to their daughter marrying a Chinese, but Fuzi, who has zero IQ in front of love, recognizes Guo Moruo and thinks that Guo Moruo is the person he can rely on in his life. When communication with her parents was ineffective, she resolutely broke off relations with her parents, and abandoned her Japanese surname and first name, changing her name from Guo Moruo's surname to Guo Anna. After following Guo Moruo, Guo Anna gave birth to four boys, one girl and five children for Guo Moruo.
Just when Guo Anna loved Guo Moruo with a dead heart and was content with hard-won happiness, China's Anti-Japanese War began, and Guo Moruo chose to return to China without hesitation. His departure this time, silently, left his wife and children, for 11 years.
Because of Guo Moruo's quiet departure, Tomiko was persecuted a lot in Japan, and the Japanese authorities tortured this weak woman, searched her family's letters and documents, and feared that Guo Moruo would bring important information back to China.
In the past 11 years, Guo Moruo has not sent a letter or mailed a penny. Until 1948, Guo Anna finally had the news of Guo Moruo, taking five children to find a husband, and when she faced Guo Moruo with tears on her face with excitement, Guo Moruo was no longer the man who praised her "lips like cherries", but was already the father of five children of pure Chinese descent.
Guo Moruo, Guo Anna and children
Beautiful people have loved merry talents since ancient times, but they have caused a lot of life. That's right, in fact, after Guo Moruo and Guo Anna married in Japan, they did not have any responsibilities and responsibilities as husbands, and he soon had a relationship with Yu Lichen, a reporter of Ta Kung Pao in Tokyo. When Yu Lichen happily told Guo Moruo that he was pregnant, Guo Moruo had no intention of having this child. Yu Lichen, who calmed down, slowly understood that she fell in love with someone she shouldn't love, and she chose to have an abortion and hang herself after returning to China.
However, Yu Lichen's death did not make Guo Moruo feel uneasy, and Guo Moruo soon met the movie star Yu Liqun after returning to China, and Yu Liqun is Yu Lichen's own sister. It was at his sister's funeral that Yu Liqun met Guo Moruo for the first time, and the two had a brief exchange. At this meeting, Yu Liqun also handed him his sister Yu Lichen's poems missing Guo Moruo.
It was this meeting, even if it was such a sad atmosphere, Yu Liqun, who had two small pigtails, a blue shirt, and a steady and dignified manner, still aroused Guo Moruo's interest. And for this relationship, Guo Moruo's rhetoric is: "I have the responsibility to protect Liqun, I hope I can transfer my love for her sister to her!" ”
Yu Lichen is a sister in Liqun
Yu Liqun knew that Guo Moruo was a friend of his sister, so he respected him very much. At that time, she didn't know that Guo Moruo had killed her sister, but she didn't know that she was young and beautiful and fell in love with this man 24 years older than her at first sight.
Because of love, because she cares, because she is obsessed, she trusts him wholeheartedly, and Guo Moruo is a mountain in her heart.
In 1939, after the wedding of the two, Yu Liqun announced that she would stop working, and she devoted all her efforts to this man, giving birth to four boys and two women for him, a total of six children.
For the cause of his sister's death that year, Yu Liqun did a lot of investigations, but he never thought that it was his beloved pillow person who indirectly killed his own sister; For Guo Moruo, perhaps his hidden relationship with Yu Lichen has disappeared and will never be known again.
In 1978, 86-year-old Guo Moruo died, and Yu Liqun found the letters and materials of Guo Moruo and his sister Yu Lichen when sorting out the relics. The truth surfaced like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, Yu Liqun wanted to cry without tears, and hanged herself at home sadly and indignantly half a year after Guo Moruo's death, she loved and hated to the depths, and did not hesitate to end everything in a self-defeating way.
It was precisely because of Guo Moruo's unbearable emotional experience that Lu Xun felt that he had problems with his private morality, so he aimed his dagger-like pen at Guo Moruo and wrote an article specifically to satirize Guo Moruo's flower heart. The influence of Lu Xun's article is naturally self-evident, and it was soon known by Guo Moruo, so there was an invective of the four words "clothed beast".
Then why did Guo Moruo call Lu Xun a "clothed beast"? In my opinion, this is obviously a bit far-fetched!
Lu Xun's love history
Although Lu Xun had two women in his life, his wife Zhu An was a feudal woman with no education, and the union of the two was also a typical arranged marriage.
At that time, Lu Xun's mother took a fancy to Zhu An's "virtues" of adhering to the feudal way of women and following the three obedience and four virtues; And the Zhu family was because Zhu An was too old, and she was already a 23-year-old leftover girl at that time, and she was afraid that she would not be able to marry too much, so she reluctantly chose the Zhou family, a scholarly family with a down-and-out family.
It was such a marriage, and Lu Xun was also prepared to work hard at the beginning. During his studies in Japan, Lu Xun constantly asked the Zhu family to put Zhu An's feet on his feet and arranged for her to study in the academy. The Zhu family, who was too deeply influenced by feudal traditional ideas, naturally would not agree, so the marriage was delayed again and again, and this delay was four years.
Seeing that Zhu An's age was getting older and older, under the constant urging of the Zhu family, Lu Xun's mother lied that she was critically ill, and a family letter tricked Lu Xun back.
Lu Xun reluctantly married Zhu An, and on the wedding night, there was no spring dinner, Lu Xun spent the night in tears, and did not sleep all night. When he got up and returned to Japan on the fourth day after the marriage, he did not mean to hurt Juan, he was rebelling against the feudal arranged marriage in this way. The tragedy is Lu Xun's, but also Zhu An's.
Zhu An, 39 years old
After the marriage, Zhu An followed the way of the woman and took good care of her mother-in-law. Until Lu Xun returned to China, although he was grateful to Zhu An for his hard work in taking care of his mother, he was never able to treat him as a wife.
A 30-year-old young man has very active physical desires, and Lu Xun is no exception. He once told Yu Dafu that he only covered a thin quilt in the cold winter month, just to restrain sexual desire. He does not love Juan, but he will never possess her in the name of a false husband to solve his physical needs.
Lu Xun's friends knew that he was living a titular, legal but unconscionable marriage and persuaded him to divorce. But Lu Xun knows Zhu An, she has a weak personality, and once she divorces, she is likely to go to a dead end. Therefore, he can only carry this marriage disaster to the end, which is both ruthless and merciful. He said: A woman with small feet, if I withdraw from marriage, the rest of her life can be imagined, and she will definitely be ridiculed.
So he never divorced Zhu An, but in order not to let his wife be ridiculed, even if Lu Xun later met his true love Xu Guangping, Lu Xun still insisted on this marriage contract with Zhu An in name only.
In 1922, Xu Guangping was admitted to the National Beijing Women's Higher Normal School and studied at the Department of Chinese Literature. In her sophomore year, she read Lu Xun's "History of Chinese Novels", was deeply attracted by his literary style, and admired Lu Xun.
In the fall of 1923, Lu Xun was invited by his best friend Xu Shoutang to give a lecture at the Beijing Women's Higher Normal College, and Xu Guangping finally had the opportunity to meet his idol. Xu Guangping, who is tall, always sits in the front row during class, although he is so well-intentioned, he does not attract Lu Xun's attention. Xu Guangping, on the other hand, is different, her feelings for Lu Xun are no longer just admiration...
Later, there was a school wave against the principal, and Xu Guangping was the backbone of this school wave, in order to solve many confusions in her heart, she took the initiative to write a letter to Lu Xun, and it was from this letter that the number of exchanges between them also increased. Over time, they became confidants who supported each other in struggle, helped each other in their careers, and cared for each other in life.
That night, in Lu Xun's studio, Lu Xun lay on a rattan chair near the desk, while Xu Guangping sat at the end of Lu Xun's bed, Xu Guangping took the initiative to hold Lu Xun's hand, and Lu Xun also held her hand tightly, so these hands were held for ten years.
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Guo Moruo called Lu Xun a "well-dressed beast", probably based on his teacher-student relationship with Xu Guangping. And after Lu Xun heard Guo Moruo's abuse, he did not be angry like Guo Moruo, but smiled and changed hands back to Guo Moruo's five words: talent plus hooligans.
The two images of talent and hooligans are so incompatible, but Lu Xun used Guo Moruo alone, and caused a lot of applause from many insiders. Why do you say that? Because if you don't understand Guo Moruo's emotional history, you don't have some cultural reserves, and you really can't understand how incisive Lu Xun's five words are.
Although Lu Xun and Guo Moruo had such a fierce confrontation, after all, the two did not have any deep hatred, and they still respected each other's talents, which is the demeanor of a master! After the death of Mr. Lu Xun, Guo Moruo wrote three pairs of elegiac links, full of regret and respect for Lu Xun.