After Mr. Lu Xun's death, the essayists who can be counted in the modern literary world should be Bai Yang and Li Ao, Bai Yang and Li Ao were originally good friends and felt sorry for each other, but later they broke off their friendship.
Bai Yang was born in 1920, Li Ao was born in 1935, 12 years is a generation, they are not a generation. However, they were like-minded, and they were all imprisoned for a few years for writing critical articles, so their fellow believers became friends, admired each other, loved each other like brothers, and wrote letters to each other.
In 1968, Bai Yang wrote certain articles and was arrested and imprisoned. Friends from all walks of life came to rescue him, including Li Ao. According to Li Ao's Memoirs, he relied on the help of american friends at that time to spread Bai Yang's defense letter overseas and make his grievances known to the world.
However, after his release from prison, Bai Yang did not appreciate Li Ao at all, cut off contact with Li Ao, and did not express his gratitude to Li Ao in the article. Li Ao was very strange, and inquired in many ways, only to learn that Bai Yang listened to the rumors and thought that Li Ao and his then-wife Ai Mei (Ni Minghua) had an affair.
Ai Mei is Bai Yang's fourth wife, young and beautiful, many years younger than Bai Yang. During the rescue of Bai Yang, Li Ao and Ai Mei had a lot of contact, and Li Ao has always been very interested in beautiful women, so rumors have spread. And Ai Mei also took advantage of Bai Yang's imprisonment to divorce Bai Yang.
Li Ao was very angry, thinking that Bai Yang looked down on his own morality, so he regarded Bai Yang as an ungrateful person, denounced Bai Yang, scolded Bai Yang in the article, and even attacked him personally, so that the grievance was promoted, but Bai Yang did not respond, and remained silent, which was really the wind of a gentleman.
Is Mr. Bai Yang really ungrateful? He was very grateful to another Mr. Sun Guanhan who participated in his rescue and never forgot the grace of saving his life. In the Collection of Bai Yang's Writings, Mr. Bai Yang mentioned Mr. Sun Guanhan many times, and the words were grateful.
In fact, Li Ao should have asked Bai Yang to explain, but Li Ao did not, but took an extreme way to aggravate the contradiction, which could have been clarified and the misunderstanding could never be solved. It can only be said that Li Ao has problems as a person and never thinks about others. Just like he scolded his ex-wife Hu Yinmeng for decades, ordinary people can't do it.
Bai Yang was abandoned by his young and beautiful wife in a difficult situation, and his heart was very hurt. And Li Ao and Ai Mei are really Guatian Lixia, there have been rumors, and Bai Yang suspects that there is also affection.
Bai Yang wrote "The Ugly Chinese", and Li Ao wrote "The Study of the Ugly Chinese", saying that Bai Yang regarded the ugliness of parts as the ugliness of the whole, which was a "cowardly act", and he said that Bai Yang was a "minister of literary servants" of the government (government) and a "truly ugly Chinese".
Li Ao's "Ugly Chinese Study" is a very rare comment on Bai Yang's works throughout the book, all of which are comments on Bai Yang's character, which is an obvious personal attack.
In the book, Li Ao says that Bai Yang is the ugliest Chinese, who can only play tricks and is ungrateful. He also said that Bai Yang's cultural standards were not enough to talk about history, let alone the proposition of "ugly Chinese", and that he was not qualified to translate the book "Zizhi Tongjian" and so on.
The book "Ugly Chinese Research" has hundreds of thousands of words, and its content is that Li Ao repeatedly said that Bai Yang misunderstood him to wear a green hat for Bai Yang, and that Bai Yang's learning was not good and his personality was poor. Can write a book to scold a person, only Li Ao can do. I don't know who would buy this book to read.
Now that Bai Yang and Li Ao have been dead for many years, in another world, can they "cross the robbery wave brothers and meet each other and smile and hate each other" or not.