Recently, in a variety show, actress Jiang Qinqin shared a story of Qian Zhongshu and Yang Dai's "one-word love letter". This story has made many people believe it. However, Kong Qingmao, a professor at the School of Humanities of Nanjing University of the Arts and the author of "Qian Zhongshu Biography" and "Yang Dai's Commentary", told reporters that with his reading and research of Qian and Yang for so many years, the "one-word love letter" was definitely not written by them.
Qian Zhongshu and Yang Dai
A "story club" style riddle love story, leaping into a "literary story"
Actress Jiang Qinqin shared her "just read" and "very touching" story on the show:
Yang Dai wrote a letter to Qian Zhongshu with only one word on it: instigation;
Qian Zhongshu replied to Yang Dai with a letter, and it was only one word: you.
Jiang Qinqin explained that "instigation" was that Yang Dai asked Qian Zhongshu how many people there were in his heart, and Qian Zhongshu's reply was that I only had you in my heart.
After watching this program, the reporter asked Lu Yu-style: Is it true? Is this true?
This "one-word love letter" with a strong "story club" flavor is actually written by the university scholar Qian Zhongshu and the great writer Yang Dai? Is this true?
The reporter immediately contacted Kong Qingmao, a professor at the School of Humanities of Nanjing University of the Arts and the author of "Qian Zhongshu Biography" and "Yang Dai's Commentary". Professor Kong told reporters that he is recently revising the "Biography of Qian Zhong", according to his reading and research over the years, whether it is the first-hand materials retained by Qian Yang and Yang, or the reminiscence articles written by himself, or the biographies written by others, there is no "one-word love letter" this content. Based on this, he judged that the story was completely ancillary.
However, the reporter's search found that perhaps it is through the fame of Qian Zhongshu and Yang Dai that this "one-word love letter" story has now gone viral on the Internet. The reporter searched with the keyword "Yang Dai + one-word love letter", and Baidu related search results have 58,700. The earliest record was published on March 22, 2019, and the article came from an online self-media. This is also the earliest article that the reporter can find that attaches a "one-word love letter" to Mr. Qian Yang. After this article was published, the story of Qian Yang's "one-word love letter" was quickly reused by many self-media, and it has been "sold for a long time". This story has also been reprinted by many credible media, and even edited into an exam question on a certain satellite TV puzzle variety show. Actress Jiang Qinqin's "just read" may be one of these online articles.
The reporter also found that although the "one-word love letter" was not written by Qian Yang, this story was not made out of nothing.
In the July 1996 issue of the Journal of Finance and Accounting of Chinese Trade Unions, reporters found the earliest source of the story of "one-word love letters." The magazine features a "Palace of Culture" section, which is a riddle story, the full text of which is as follows:
Interesting one-word love letters
At a mystery meeting held by the A province, Liu Xiao, a talented young accountant of the C County Federation of Trade Unions, met Li Li, a gentle and beautiful cashier of a certain enterprise, and the two had similar interests.
After saying goodbye, the two fish and geese passed on the book, talked to each other, and their feelings deepened. However, good things are more grinding, one day, Li Li suddenly heard others say that Liu Wan's feet stepped on two boats. The infatuated Li Li girl was so anxious that she rushed to write a letter to Liu Xiao, and only one word was written on the letter: "Instigation? ”。 A few days later, she received a reply from Liu Xiao, and there was only one word on the letter: "You! Li Li was relieved, and a sweet smile appeared on her face...
Comrade reader, do you know the meaning of the two words in their letters?
"Funny one-word love letter" Enigma: Li Li went to letter "instigated?" The implication is: "Do you have two people in your heart?" "Liu Xiaofu letter" you! The text reads: "I have only you in my heart!" ”
(This issue of "Palace of Culture" is edited by Lin Chun, the special editor of this column)
"One-word Love Letter" in the July 1996 issue of China Trade Union Finance and Accounting Magazine
In a 2003 issue of Old Friends magazine, the story was recast, with "Talented Young Accountant Liu Xiao" and "Beautiful Cashier Li Li" transformed into "Talented Young Teacher Yu Fei" and "Beautiful and Gentle Lan Girl".
Until March 2019, the male and female protagonists of this story were inexplicably replaced by Qian Zhongshu and Yang Dai. With the fame of Qian Yang and the two, "one-word love letters" have also leapt from riddle love stories with a strong local atmosphere in the style of "story clubs" to a "love story" in the literary world.
A 2003 issue of Old Friends magazine
Before Yang Dai's death, most of the correspondence between the two was destroyed
Back to Qian Yang and the two themselves, are there love letters between them?
Professor Kong Qingmao told reporters that for the "love letter", in fact, Yang Dai himself had memories before his death. In an interview with Wu Xuezhao, Yang Dai recalled the past before getting acquainted with Qian Zhongshu. She recalled: "No one ever wrote me a love letter because I was serious. I have also received letters from male classmates, which are nothing more than saying that you are still young, when you are studying, and you are not busy making friends. Yang Later added: "Only once, when I was in the reading room, a male classmate pretended to be drunk and stuffed me with a letter. I said, "Are you drunk?" Drunk? The letter is returned to you, saving you from regretting it tomorrow. "Just sent him away." Early the next morning, he came again, with a look of embarrassment, and finally snorted, apologized to me and left. (Wu Xuezhao, "Listening to Yang Dai Talk about the Past")
After getting acquainted with Qian Zhongshu, Qian Yang and the two fish and geese continued to return. Once, Yang Dai's letter to Qian Zhongshu was accidentally opened by Qian's father, and after reading it, the old man praised Yang Dai, because Yang Dai wrote: "Now the two of us are happy and useless, and the two fathers and brothers must be happy, and the happiness of the two of us is always unhindered." The old man praised: "What a clever man's language." ”
Qian Zhongshu's friend Xu Zhende at Tsinghua also recalled: "Brother Chung Shu told him about his love affair one by one and recited his love letter masterpieces. ”
During the training period when they went to the countryside with some old intellectuals, Qian Zhongshu and Yang Dai corresponded almost every day. Yang Dai recalled that it was the best love letter qian Zhongshu had written in his life.
For a long time, no one knew how many letters Qian Yang and the two of them had communicated. And what is the status of these letters? Kong Qingmao told reporters that as far as he knew, Qian Zhongshu and Yang Dai were people who attached great importance to privacy. Qian Yang's correspondence should now be scarce, because before Yang Dai's death, arrangements had been made in advance for the aftermath, and all the letters written to her, which involved privacy, were mostly destroyed. At the same time, she personally ruined the diary she had written for many years. Because it involves her own and others' privacy, she doesn't want to be used to play right and wrong after she dies.
On the Douyin App, "one-word love letters" have been made into videos to spread
There are so many flaws, why has no one debunked them
From the 2019 appendix to Qian Zhongshu Yang Chen's body, the "one-word love letter" has not aroused suspicion, and it has openly appeared on TV programs twice. There is no flaw in this story? Of course not.
Professor Kong told reporters that this story is not difficult to distinguish. Judging by our common sense and logic, first, the word "encouragement" has the meaning of timidity and cowardice, but in some places in Jiangnan it is rude; secondly, with the knowledge of Qian and Yang, even if they play dumb riddles in letters, they should use some slightly elegant riddles instead of such rough riddles; again, "one-word love letters" are too "story club" style, too dramatic.
And if you are familiar with the love story of Qian and Yang, it is easier to distinguish. Professor Kong said that the love affair between Qian and Yang was very simple. At that time, it was rumored that Qian Zhongshu was engaged and Yang Dai also had a boyfriend. So the first time we met, Qian Zhongshu said: I am not engaged; and Yang Daihui: I do not have a boyfriend. The two fell in love at first sight. There is no temptation plot of "instigating" and "you" to be a little boyish.
There are so many flaws, why has no one debunked them?
"Donggong Niangniang baked a big cake, And Xigong Niangniang peeled green onions", this is the imagination of ordinary people on the "Palace"; and "a word love letter" is probably also the imagination of many people for Qian and Yang. For netizens, if they really want to understand their stories, instead of reading unreliable online texts, it is better to read their works or biographies, raise their perspective to their "height" to "read" them, rather than pulling them to the "low level" of "story club" to "read" them.
In the spread of "rumors", the self-media do not know self-discipline; the communicators do not have the heart to distinguish.
In fact, from the rise of the Internet to the present, we have not seen many such jokes. Especially in the information quoted by celebrities, including people in the entertainment industry, we have seen the unknown "Nobel Prize in Mathematics", seen the fake "Lu Xun Quotations", and also seen the fake "Mo YanLuLu". And the rut is not far away. Actress Ma Sichun was also ridiculed by the group for quoting fake Zhang Ailing's quotations, and she herself fell from the position of literary goddess. It's a bit of a reminder for public figures trying to spread valuable information.
Yangzi Evening News/Purple Cow News reporter Zang Lei
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