Page 1 About the Author
"The Strange Situation Witnessed in Twenty Years" is written by Wu Woyao (1866~1910) from Foshan, Guangdong, with the character Xiaoyun, the number of the zhaoren, also known as the cocoon person, don't call me Foshan people, Ye Shishi, old Shanghai, cramp master, etc. He came from a family of petty officials, his great-grandfather Wu Rongguang was the governor of Huguang, and his grandfather and father were both minor officials. Wu Zhaoren lost his father at the age of seventeen and his family was in a difficult situation.
In 1883, the eighteen-year-old Wu Zhaoren left home and came to Shanghai, first working as a partner in a teahouse, and then working as a copyist at the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau. In 1897, Wu Zhaoren began to found tabloids, and successively hosted newspapers such as Zilin Hu Bao, Cai Feng Bao, Qi Xin Bao, and Fable Bao. In 1906, he became the chief writer of the magazine "Moon Novel".
He was dissatisfied with the corruption of the Qing Dynasty politics, the decay of the bureaucracy, the re-collapse of the social atmosphere, the aggression of imperialism, and especially the hatred and fear of foreign ideas, and he exposed and lashed out in the novel. He advocated enlightenment, progress, and renewal, and strived to improve society through small views, "the evolution of the rule of the masses," and to save the atmosphere of "moral degeneration."
Wu Zhaoren was poor all his life, often shy in his pockets, tired at work, and poor in life. Wu Zhaoren is the author of "The Strange Situation Witnessed in Twenty Years", "Painful History", "Blind Deception And Strange Stories", "Hate the Sea", "New Stone Record", "Nine Lives of Strange Injustice", "Confused World", "The Ashes of the Disaster", "Shanghai YouxiaoLu", "The Secret of Fortune", "The Strange Status Quo of the Past Ten Years" and other long novels, "The Ghost of the Black Book", "Long Live the Constitution", "Guangxu Ten Thousand Years", "Pingbu Qingyun" and other short stories. Among them, "Twenty Years of Witnessing the Strange Situation" is the most famous.
Page 2 Celebrity Reviews
1. Mr. Lu Xun's evaluation of "The Strange Situation Witnessed in Twenty Years" is:
"The author has more experience, so the races described are also more collusive, and the officials, teachers, and merchants are all recorded... Unfortunately, when he describes the lost Emperor Zhang, sometimes he is hurt by the overflowing evil, and his words are contrary to the truth, then the touching power is slight, and in the end, it is only a series of words, which is only enough for the idle people to talk about the pen."
2. "The Strange Situation Witnessed in Twenty Years" was rated as one of the four major condemnation novels of the late Qing Dynasty, and the other three were: "The Appearance of the Officialdom", "The Journey of the Old Remnant", and "The Flower of the Evil Sea". The so-called condemnation of the novel, as defined by Mr. Lu Xun, is: exposing the hidden treasures, showing its evils, and in the current politics, strictly correcting the bullets, or expanding them, and harmonizing customs. In the Qing Dynasty, the internal affairs were corrupt, the diplomacy was weak, and the country's power was gradually weakening, and many literati with reform ideas used the form of novels to pinpoint the shortcomings of the times, so they condemned the novel and began to flourish.
Page 3 Background of writing
In the last years of the Qing Dynasty, after a series of internal and external troubles, China's national power declined, officials fainted, and politics became corrupt. The Qing government relied on raising taxes and selling officials to increase fiscal revenue, and the bureaucracy was chaotic, and the official trick of being an official was to "prostrate more heads and talk less", and most of them did nothing politically, while plundering a large amount of people's wealth internally, bending their knees and surrendering externally, and currying favor with the invaders.
In 1859, British and French envoys each brought a fleet into the Dadu Port, and the dadu soldiers and civilians rose up to resist and repelled the British and French Navies. In 1860, the British and French navies once again sent troops to occupy Tianjin and push into Beijing, the weak and incompetent Qing government was unable to resist foreign aggression, and the Xianfeng Emperor abandoned the palace and fled.
The British and French armies marched all the way into the capital and looted and burned the magnificent Yuanmingyuan. Subsequently, Russia occupied a large area of our territory, the Sino-French War, the Qing government was defeated without a fight, the French army was victorious without a fight, and in the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War, the Beiyang Marine Division was completely destroyed. In the face of the weak and incompetent Qing government, the imperialist powers intensified the struggle for interests in China, and China was like a fat piece of pork to be slaughtered.
"The Strange Situation Witnessed in Twenty Years" was produced in such a social context. It forcefully condemned the darkness of the officialdom and the corruption of the government, criticized the degeneration of social morality, profoundly exposed the traitorous behavior of the Qing government, and pointed out that the demise of the Qing government was the inevitable result of social development
Page 4 Main content
When I was 15 years old, my father sent four urgent letters from Hangzhou, saying that he was critically ill and telling me to go to Hangzhou. I took a three-day boat ride to Hangzhou, and my father actually choked up a hour ago. After my father's funeral, I opened a shop, and the amount of silver and gold on the account was considerable. I entrusted my father's friend YunXiu to bring back 132 yuan of silver for my mother, and the remaining 5,000 silver was deposited by my uncle in the money house. Half a year later, I learned that the money that Tuo Yunxiu was carrying was actually greedy by him. My family's livelihood was difficult, so I went to my uncle in Nanjing to withdraw profits, and the people in the mansion said that he went to the countryside to handle the case, and my aunt refused to see me, so I had to do a book opening by Wu Jizhi.
In the days of the book, I saw and heard many things: a countryman who relied on a prostitute to become a taoist platform; The young alternate Dodai was promoted, let his wife betray the hue, and stuttered the platform; The alternate county grandfather became a thief because of his dismissal; The owner of the jewelry store defrauded the guy 19,000 taels of silver; The fallen officials Gou Cai set up a poor shelf in order to seek a high promotion.
My uncle finally met me. One day, a woman in her 40s begged to see her. Her husband was an alternate Zhixian, had no way to be promoted, had no errands for 7 years, and hanged himself due to poverty. The family is surrounded by walls, and it has become difficult to bury the husband. He then gave her 100 taels of silver and promised to find someone to help.
A telegram came from my hometown saying that my mother was critically ill. I hurried back to my hometown. It turned out that the elders of the clan had distributed silver to the ancestral hall of the clan and brought me back. I appeased the elders of the clan, sold my land, and left home with my mother, aunts, and newly widowed cousins to settle in Nanjing. During the trip, I met the distant prince Bo Shu.
He was an official in Datong Province, Shanxi, shrewd and strong, and concerned about the sufferings of the people. During the private visit of the micro service, he met Futai, who also paid a private visit to the micro service, because the eyes were short-sighted and did not recognize the Futai, he accused the evil government of Futai without any cover, offended the other party, and was dismissed from his post and probation.
When we arrived in Nanjing two days later, we had rented a house for us, and I and my successor worshipped our respective mothers as dry wives, and then our mothers also accepted their cousins as dry daughters. One day, he listened to the master of the gate talk about the thief who became a thief: this platform was originally a thief with a cornice walking on the wall, and he listened to the words of a fortune teller, stole a sum of money, and donated a ZhiXian. While in office, he still did not stop stealing. Later, I actually made an Anhui table.
A few months later, he continued: In order to have a way out in the future, he opened a business in Shanghai, which included 2,000 shares of my own. He asked me to go to Shanghai for a while, buy him a gift, and at the same time go to reconcile the accounts. I took a boat to Shanghai the next day.
One morning, a former guy from my uncle's family, Li Jingyi, came to see me and said that his brother had died and had no money for burial, and asked me for financial support. I promised him. After he left, the people in the business told me that Li Jingyi was not a good person, and in order to get the inheritance of his elders, he forced his own brother to die, and then sold his brother-in-law Qiu Ju to the brothel.
Then the letter came, asking me to open another sitting house in Suzhou so that I could receive the goods at both ends. A year later, I went to Shanghai to investigate, and then asked me to return to Nanjing as soon as possible. He had to go to the field before the expedition to wait for the papers and ask me to help him.
When the expedition arrived, I entered the inner curtain as an entourage and sealed the door and added a seal. In the evening, I saw a pigeon standing on the eaves, and the pigeon had a piece of paper tied to its tail, but when it was taken apart, it was a piece of scientific research paper. Then he was shocked, saying that someone was cheating, and he ordered his men to bury the pigeons and burn the title paper.
He said: Over the years, the cheats in scientific expeditions have been strange, passing on articles, changing volumes, stealing topics.... Endless.
After the tenth day of the first year, there were rolls sent in. I and the successor approved some good papers from it and recommended them to the examiner. Soon after, he refused to accept bribes from the servants of the new domain, offended Shangfeng and was removed from his post. We moved both families to Shanghai. The business that followed grew stronger, and I audited for him everywhere for a few years.
In Nanjing, I met Gou Cai. His eldest daughter-in-law was beautiful. Gou Cai was dismissed, in order to reinstate, Gou Cai asked his daughter-in-law to be the aunt of the station, in exchange for the joy of the station, within ten days, he got the position of Suzhou Futai. He was dismissed from his post within a few days of his arrival. Soon after, he was poisoned by his young son.
A few years later, one day, I received a letter from my friend Wen Shu Nong, saying that my uncle and aunt had passed away, leaving behind two young sons and asking me to make arrangements. On the way, I heard that our business had collapsed. At this time, I received the news that my uncle had died of illness in Yichang, and I hurried to the burial. At this point, I had no choice but to take my two little brothers back to my hometown.
Page 5 Quotes
1, the river is horizontal, ancient and modern smoke lock Jinling. Remembering the rise and fall of the Six Dynasties several times, it is like a chess game. Seeing the wind fluttering under the eyes, the lookout tower was depressed and frightened. Generations of sheng songs, ten years of drums, can not look back and sigh zero. Thinking of the old Qin Huai Yong, it seems to be the first awakening of a dream. There was a bright moon left in the air, and the fishing fire was sporadic.
2, about the world is the majority of fools; fools can not read esoteric books, see a novel, that is, the golden rule, when talking is there a book as evidence, not like we read novels as a pastime. The novel can coax them to move, they believe, not involuntarily, even the superior people follow him to believe, just make trouble, please add a title, what king grin, emperor grin, make such a trick, in fact, the soul of the ancients, has not known where to go. I really laughed to death when I wanted to wear it!
3, bustling to the extreme, it is easy to fall into the void.
4. "Wildflower" poem
Pengmen Mo smiled at the low root, and did not share the yang flowers and horseshoes.
Self-pity clings to the wilderness, adding makeup is not allowed to enter the deep boudoir.
Rongku has the fate to labor and plant, and WenDa has no heart to thank the question.
(To be continued)
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