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Chapter 40 The Rise of the Literary Controversy

In this debate about new poetry, Guo Moruo ended in failure.

This is actually the first confrontation between the new and old forces in the literary world.

Of course, this "old" does not refer to old-school literati like the Mandarin duck butterfly School, but also advocates two forces of new literature, or it is before and after the May Fourth Movement.

In Peking, Hu Shi and Luxun are both advocates and participants in the new culture, and they are spiritual leaders.

A group of literati with European and American backgrounds gathered around Hu Shi, such as Chen Xiying and Xu Zhimo, who later founded "Modern Review".

Most of the people around Luxun have experience studying in Japan or his students. This is the team of the Literary Research Association, including the later Yusi School.

However, at this time, new literature had just begun, and everyone was thinking about how to develop new literature, without so many contradictions.

The characters in the two circles interact and are quite harmonious.

As new literature laid a foundation and gained a foothold, conflicts began to intensify due to different educational backgrounds and political propositions, which was the main reason for the rise of literary debates in the 1920s and 1930s.

This is a natural thing.

When fighting the country, everyone works together. Once the country is conquered, they will start to compete for power and profit.

Just when the conflict between the two sides was about to intensify and not yet intensify, a creative society suddenly emerged from Japan, trying to get a share of the new literature territory and being too arrogant.

How can I bear this?

But Guo Moruo targeted Lin Zixuan. If Lin Zixuan himself didn't stand out, the others would have become famous.

Fortunately, Lin Zixuan did not disappoint and fought back decisively.

In this way, they can teach this emerging creative society a lesson and tell them how to be a human being in minutes.

Not to mention that the Zhou brothers and Guo Moruo had conflicts, nor did they say that Hu Shi and Lin Zixuan were alumni, but only talked about the general environment of the literary world at this time, Guo Moruo's approach offended the literary world in Peking.

This is also one of the reasons why the Creative Society and Literary Research Association later fought to the death.

Lin Zixuan is not like Guo Moruo. There is a Creation Society behind him, and he has a target on his back.

He had no faction, and was an alumni of Hu Shi and was supported by the Zhou brothers. Naturally, there were many people who supported him. The key was that he was talented and had excellent quality of his poems.

If he was an A Dou who could not be helped, no one would have spoken up.

This debate showed a one-sided trend.

Although members of the Creation Society, such as Cheng Funwu, Zhang Ziping and others supported Guo Moruo, they were unfortunately submerged in the tide of criticism.

In the end, Guo Moruo returned to Japan in disgrace, and the debate gradually subsided.

Through this debate, Lin Zixuan became the title of founder of New Poetry, and he was also considered a figure in the literary world.

Shanghai's private Fudan University even invited him to give a speech at the school and served as a visiting professor.

This is a common phenomenon during the Republic of China period. University will invite some celebrities in society or talents with outstanding achievements in some aspects to give lectures to universities.

Visiting professors do not occupy the quota of school teachers, and do not have to attend classes on time, and pay according to the number of classes.

Generally speaking, a class ranges from about five to thirty yuan, depending on the fame of the invitee.

Lin Zixuan agreed to the invitation, but had no time to give a lecture.

He is actually not afraid of giving lectures. Even if he doesn't talk about new poetry, he can talk about "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" or "Dream of the Red Chamber".

He liked to read "The Hundred Schools of Life" in later generations, and was very interested in Yi Zhongtian's "Explanation of the Three Kingdoms" and Liu Xinwu's "Revealing the Dream of Red Mansions". He must read every issue.

When he has time, he can use it to pretend to be a cultural master. Of course, the premise is that he must carefully study these two classic books, otherwise it will be easy to reveal the content.

Lin Zixuan is busy starting a film company, first of all, purchasing shooting equipment.

In this era, film shooting equipment was monopolized in the hands of foreigners, and he could not send people abroad to buy it, so he could only let foreign companies in Shanghai purchase it on behalf of others.

Foreign companies refer to agents in trade in China.

In the 1760s, the number of foreign business agents emerged.

After 1840, foreign businessmen's foreign businessmen in China grew increasingly, and it was an important tool for foreign countries to conduct economic aggression against China.

In the 16 years before 1911, there were 120 foreign-funded enterprises with capital of more than 100,000 yuan, including cotton spinning, mining, smelting, food, shipbuilding, etc., with a capital of nearly 100,000 yuan.

Some companies have capital of more than one million yuan, and some companies have capital of even more than ten million yuan. The amount is so large that it shows the monopoly position of foreign companies in various regions or industries in China.

After 1911, foreign companies' expansion in China did not stop, but instead grew stronger.

Lin Zixuan found that if he wanted to buy movie shooting equipment, he could only choose French, British and American.

Originally, he had a little energy in the French Concession, so it was most suitable to find French people to buy shooting equipment. However, it was Shanghai Baida Company, which sold movie shooting equipment in the French Concession, and there was also a British phonograph company in the public concession that also sold shooting equipment.

However, the quality of the equipment of the British is not as good as that of the French. After all, the movie was invented by the French.

But he and BD.com are in a stalemate, so BD.com is expected to kill him hard.

He can also buy it in the name of Feng Jingyao's Feng's business, but the film used for shooting in the future needs to be purchased. This is a long-term cooperation process.

He can hide it for a while, but he can't hide it forever. He will always be known by EDA Company.

When doing business, there are no eternal friends, only eternal interests, and perhaps reconciliation is a good idea.

Lin Zixuan asked about it and after he rejected it, BD.com still released a new record of popular songs.

There is never a shortage of smart people in this world. They imitated the tune of Lin Zixuan's songs and changed a little, and then found a famous actor in the opera world to sing.

From writing lyrics to singing, there is a strong sense of imitation.

But is it that easy to imitate?

Lin Zixuan chose classic songs, and a slight change will destroy the beauty of the music. The lyrics made up and the opera-like singing style of famous actors is simply terrible.

The famous actor didn't know the difference between singing opera and singing popular songs, or singing popular songs in the tone of singing opera, giving people a feeling of being neither popular nor foreign, and inappropriate.

It's totally an imitation of Dong Shi.

The record released by EDA Company started with good sales, but with it, it was extremely poor reputation and barely recovered the cost, but the company's reputation was greatly affected.

Watching Li Jinhui and Meng Xiaodong tour the country, making a big profit.

Zhang Changfu, the manager of EDA Company, felt that this could not continue. In order to restore the company's reputation and for the company's interests, he wanted to contact Lin Zixuan to create a brand new record.
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