The private Fudan University was founded in 1905 and was originally named Fudan Public School. It was the first university founded by the Chinese. Its founder was Ma Xiangbai, a well-known modern Chinese educator, and his first director was Sun Zhongshan, the founder of the founding father.

In later generations, this was a school that Lin Zixuan could not reach. Now he was honored to be able to give lectures.

Before the New Year, Fudan University also invited him. At that time, Lin Zixuan and Guo Monuo had a great conflict with the members of the Creation Society because of the debate on new poetry.

Now Guo Moruo and others are preparing to publish the quarterly magazine "Creation" in Shanghai, publishing their literary propositions and poetry novels and other works.

An emerging literary group is about to show its strength.

This time, Fudan University’s invitation was more sincere, not as formalistic as last time. The director of the Department of Literature of Fudan University wrote a letter to him, hoping that Lin Zixuan could talk about literary creation and his insights on new literature.

It is best to offer a course at Fudan University.

In today's literary world, Peking is the center of new literature, with leaders like Hu Shi and Luxun, both students and professors, who are deeply influenced by new culture.

There is an atmosphere of spreading new literature there.

In comparison, Shanghai is the base camp of the Mandarin Duck Butterfly School, which seems quite conservative. Moreover, the ten-mile foreign market is full of rich and rich words, and there is no soil for new literature to breed.

But Lin Zixuan is an exception. He writes new poems and popular novels.

Writing new poetry became the founder of new poetry, writing martial arts novels became a master character, and even writing foreign novels was sought after by Americans, and Lin Zixuan became a phenomenal character.

Some literati in Shanghai even called him "Three Heroes of New Literature" together with Hu Shi and Luxun from Peking.

This is a bit of a praising.

After all, Lin Zixuan can only be regarded as a rising star. He did not participate in the enlightenment of new literature. In the literary world, where qualifications are emphasized, Hu Shi and Luxun are leaders of new literature, and Lin Zixuan can only be regarded as followers.

Haven't you seen the outcome of Guo Moruo trying to challenge his senior status?

So Lin Zixuan would not talk about his views on new literature in college, nor could he say anything, and it would easily cause controversy and cause trouble.

He doesn't want to talk about literary creation either. If there is anything to talk about, it's just plagiarism.

So, what should I say?

If you don’t want to cause trouble, it is the best way to talk about history or literary classics in history, and no one can offend anyone. Lin Zixuan’s memory has this kind of subject matter.

"Excerpt from the Three Kingdoms", "Dream of the Red Chamber", or "What Things in the Ming Dynasty"?

"The Three Kingdoms" is a reinterpretation of the history of the Three Kingdoms by Yi Zhongtian in the "Hundred Schools of Life" of the later generations. It was sought after by many media and caused a lot of controversy.

The Three Kingdoms is an era of changing storms, vast seas, and heroes emerge in a fascinating way.

Yi Zhongtian puts together the Three Kingdoms in official history, unofficial history, novels, and dramas, and uses simple and easy-to-use words to deconstruct the history of the Three Kingdoms. It is indeed very exciting.

But some scholars believe that history is serious and professional, and that serious matters are entertainment, vulgar or even vulgar, which is disrespectful to history.

This is also a question that Lin Zixuan needs to worry about. In the history of "speech" in the Republic of China era, it took great courage.

It can be imagined that once he started teaching "The Three Kingdoms" at Fudan University, those professors in history would definitely come out to criticize him, and even think that he forgot his ancestors.

As for "What Things in the Ming Dynasty", we cannot talk about it, and it is also a restructuring of history.

Lin Zixuan can write them out and publish them in a book under the pseudonym to see the market reaction, but he cannot take them to the podium to speak.

In this era, the classroom is a very sacred place, and teachers must teach and answer questions.

In the end, I can only choose "Dream of Red Mansions".

Redology is a great subject, and according to the division of later generations, it can be divided into three periods.

From the Qianlong and Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty to 1921, it is called the "Old Red Learning" period.

From 1921 to 1954, it was called the "New Red Studies" period.

In 1954, he criticized the bourgeois thought in the study of "Dream of Red Mansions" and entered the "Contemporary Redology" period.

It is divided into various factions, which are extremely chaotic.

It is roughly divided into four major schools: commentary school, testimony school, search school, saiyin school, and creative school.

Each school has been further refined into several branches, mainly including topics, comments, appreciation, encyclopedia, criticism, Caoxue, version studies, abilities, qi, exploration of loss, etc.

During the Republic of China period, to be precise, 1921 was the dividing point between the old Redology and the new Redology.

Because in this year Hu Shi published the book "Research on Dream of Red Mansions", which opened a new era of research on Redology, and Hu Shi also became the founder of the new Redology.

Based on the novel itself and the notes, chronological biography, biographies, poems and other materials of the Qing Dynasty from the same era or later, Hu Shi verified that the author of "Dream of Red Mansions" was Cao Xueqin.

Cao Xueqin is the grandson of Cao Yin, "Dream of Red Mansions" is Cao Xueqin's "autobiography", and the last forty chapters are topics such as Gao E's continuous supplement.

From then on, Cao Xueqin was recognized by most Redologists as the author of "Dream of Red Mansions".

It is recognized that Cao Xueqin is the author of "Dream of Red Mansions" in later generations, but before 1921, there was no conclusion on the author of "Dream of Red Mansions". Many scholars even believe that the author of "Dream of Red Mansions" was a certain Beile in the Qing Dynasty royal palace or the Qing Dynasty poet Nalan Xingde.

The reason why Hu Shi was proficient in "Dream of Red Mansions" was accidental.

Because of the promotion of new literature and vernacular Chinese, on February 2, 1920, the Ministry of Education of the Beiyang Government issued the No. 53 instruction "The General Order to Adopt New Punctuation Document".

Therefore, various bookstores began to use new punctuation marks to print books.

Since many classical classics require punctuation to break sentences and segments, they require more professional literary knowledge, many scholars participate in the proofreading work, including Hu Shi and Chen Duxiu.

Among these new punctuated novels, the publication of "Dream of Red Mansions" is the most complicated because the book is large in size, high in cost, and has many versions, and the situation is complicated.

After the proofreading was completed, the bookstore asked Hu Shi to write a preface to the new version of "Dream of Red Mansions".

In order to write this preface well, Hu Shi began to study "Dream of Red Mansions", read various documents and repeatedly pondered them, and used textual research methods to figure out the origin of Cao Xueqin and the origin of the Cao family.

This is determined that Cao Xueqin is the author of "Dream of Red Mansions".

Interestingly, at Peking University at that time, the president Cai Yuanqi was a leader in the old Redology and representative of the indexing school. He published the book "Index of the Stone" in September 1917.

Hu Shi's "Dream of Red Mansions" is definitely a slap in the face of the old Red School.

Once this test was released, it overturned all the old Red Studies index schools, causing great controversy.

However, Cai Yuanqi was not annoyed, but instead actively helped Hu Shi find literature to prove that Hu Shi's proof is reasonable and well-founded.
Chapter completed!