Xia and Shun
On the afternoon of June 2, 1921, Lu Xun sent his second brother Zhou Zuoren to the west wing of the Biyun Temple in Xiangshan to recuperate, and the third brother Jianren and nephew Feng went together.
On the afternoon of the 6th, he went to the library branch and returned 50 yuan to Song Zipei and 50 yuan to Qi Shoushan.
This day, I went to Liuli Factory, bought "Bhikkhu Farang Statue" and yin a total of two, one yuan.
The situation of "The Statue of Bhikkhu Farang" is not clear, Lu Xun is financially constrained at this time, and he has to consider the reality of his wallet when visiting the factory to buy ancient books.
On the morning of June 11, he sent Sun Fuyuan a translation.
This is the short story "Rashomon" by Japanese writer Ryunosuke Wasagawa, which was published in the "Morning Post Supplement" on the 16th and 17th of this month, and was later included in the "Collection of Modern Japanese Novels".
△"Modern Japanese Novels" included in the "Universal Bunko"
A total of $600 was received on this day for January and February 1921. He immediately donated $15 to the flood disaster, paid $27 for coal, $200 and $6 for interest.
Although Lu Xun suspended lecturing at Peking University for more than three months, the course did not end, and he continued to correspond with the director Ma Yuzao and the Department of Literature of Peking Dada. On the 10th, on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, he also sent a letter to the registration department of Peking University. On the morning of the 14th, 17 examination papers were sent to the University Registration Department. In the afternoon of the same day, I went to the West Mountain Reclining Buddha Temple to buy three kinds of Buddhist books for my second brother.
On the 17th, in the afternoon, I went to Liuli Factory and Qingyunge to buy sundries. It is not recorded whether there was any harvest and what was purchased.
On the morning of the 18th, he received a letter from Sun Fuyuan. In the afternoon, I went to the Wat Pho Temple to buy three Buddhist scriptures for my second brother, and then bought four kinds of "Lenga Sutra" and other four volumes, a total of eight volumes, and one volume of "Jiaxing Tibetan Catalog", a total of one yuan, seven corners and five cents.
△Beijing Engraving Office "Jiaxing Collection Catalog"
"Jiaxing Zang", also known as "Jingshan Zang" and "Fangshu Dazang", is a collection of famous Buddhist classics, divided into three parts: the main collection, the continuation of the collection, and the continuation of the collection. In 1920, the Beijing Engraving Office reprinted Kangxi's 16th year "Jing Value Painting I", that is, the "Jiaxing Collection Catalog".
On the 22nd, he went to the Reclining Buddha Temple to buy one copy each of the "Brahma Net Jingshu" and "Li Shi Ali Tan" for his second brother. In the afternoon, I received a letter from Sun Fuyuan, and I replied.
On the 24th, in the afternoon, we went to the General Telephone Bureau of Liuli Factory and the Higher Normal School. By the way, he purchased the "Remains of the Goguryeo Monument of Wuqiu Jianping Goguryeo" in Deguzhai and inscribed a total of two pieces, one yuan and five corners.
△ "Buqiu Jianping Goguryeo Fragment" rubbing
"The Remains of Goguryeo in the Qiu Jianping Dynasty", also known as the "Monument of the Gonggong of the Ji Gong of the Qiu Dynasty", a stele from the Cao Wei era, the remnants "The first three years of the Goguryeo rebellion... Du Qiyamen begging for Guli" and other texts. In the 32nd year of Guangxu (1906), it was discovered in Banshi Ridge, 50 miles northwest of Ji'an County, Jilin Province. Wuqiu Jianzi Zhonggong, Hedong Wen Xiren, was a Shangshulang and Yulin supervisor during Emperor Wei Ming, and later served as an official to Jingzhou.
On July 2, he received a letter from his second brother and sent four Buddhist books. Send Chen Duxiu (Zhongfu) letter and a manuscript, which was collected and forwarded by Li Ji.
This manuscript is a translation and postscript of Hiroshi Kikuchi's novel "The Last of Miura Right Emon". The manuscript was sent and returned on the 18th, and on the 19th it was sent to Chen Duxiu, published in New Youth, Volume 9, No. 3 (July 1921), and later included in the Modern Japanese Novels.
On the 7th, he sent a letter to the Peking University Compilation Office, and sent a thousand prints on behalf of his second brother, intending to reprint Zhou Zuoren's "History of European Literature", and asked the Peking University Compilation Office to transfer it to the Commercial Press, and the next day it was returned for printing by the Peking University Compilation Office. I went to the Reclining Pho Temple to buy five kinds of Buddhist books for my second brother, and I also purchased one each of "Mahayana Faith on Hai Dongshu", "Ten Sentences of the Heart Shengzong Theory" and "Golden Seventy Treatises", a total of five books, priced at nine corners.
Review: Yu Fanghua