Chapter 64: Rebuttal (please collect and vote for further reading)
"Didn't I tell you, we are here to visit Professor Mi Ruizhe, and we came to the botanical garden to visit him when he was away." Li Li quickly explained, After a pause, he asked:
"What about you and Zheng Quan? We're not classmates, are we? How can we go to the botanical garden together?"
"He is my boyfriend." Unexpectedly, Ma Xiaojuan was so big Fang Fang admitted.
Li Li was surprised when she heard this.
"Wow Xiaojuan, you are so brave. According to school regulations, dating is not allowed during college!"
"I am 20 this year and he is already 25. According to the newly promulgated "Marriage Law", we are both You can get married, why not let us fall in love? Love is a beautiful thing, why should we ban it? "Ma Xiaojuan said plausibly.
"How did you guys meet?" Li Li was a little curious.
“Last summer, we met at a fraternity party between our two schools. He is from Henan Province. He once joined the team in Beidahuang. He was admitted to the Foreign College in the first year after the college entrance examination was resumed. He was the first person in their group to take the exam. The educated youth who went to college were shocked when they heard what he said.”
At this point, Ma Xiaojuan’s face was filled with pride.
"He is five years older than me and is very good at taking care of others. He will graduate next year. Because he is very good at French, the provincial foreign affairs office asked him to be named. As for me, I can also be assigned to work as a teacher in the city after graduation, so we discussed Okay, we will get married after I graduate!"
"Bless you."
Li Li said sincerely.
"Thank you." Ma Xiaojuan replied, then looked at Fang Minghua who was walking side by side with her boyfriend in front of her, quietly put her arm around Li Li's shoulders, and whispered:
"Li Li , this Fang Minghua looks pretty good, tall, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, knowledgeable and well-educated in literature, but it’s a pity that he is not a college student.”
"What's wrong if you're not a college student? I think diplomas are important, but character and knowledge are more important!" Li Li couldn't help but retort.
"Ouch. It seems you like this Fang Minghua." Ma Xiaojuan smiled.
"Don't talk nonsense, we are just ordinary friends! I don't fall in love during college!"
Seeing Li Li's serious expression, Ma Xiaojuan couldn't keep joking anymore.
The two girls followed behind muttering, but they heard the two boys in front suddenly arguing about something.
"I admit that French literature is excellent and has produced writers such as Victor Hugo, Maupassant, and Dumas, but how can our Chinese literature be inferior? Not to mention the prose of pre-Qin scholars, Tang poetry, Song lyrics, Yuan music, and the four famous works of the Ming and Qing dynasties. Even in modern times, we have produced famous writers such as Lu Xun, Mao Dun, Shen Congwen, and Cao Yu," said Fang Minghua.
“But the works written by those writers are outdated.” Zheng Quan retorted.
“Outdated?!” Fang Minghua almost laughed in anger.
“Hugo, Maupassant, and Dumas are all people from the 19th century, right? You say they are not outdated, but people from this century like Lu Xun and Mao Dun, you actually say they are outdated?!”
"I didn't mean the era they lived in, but the works and writing techniques!" Zheng Quan blushed and retorted:
"Take the stream-of-consciousness novels you know about. France produced the great Proust, who wrote this book "In Search of Lost Time," but what about us in China? Who has written a stream-of-consciousness novel?!"
"That's because you are ignorant."
Fang Minghua stopped and looked at the other person: "Have you read "Journey to the West" and heard of "Journey to the West"?"
Zheng Quan shook his head.
"Then I suggest you read it. This is a fan novel of "Journey to the West" written by Dong Shuo, a writer in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. After reading it, you can tell me whether there are any stream-of-consciousness novels in China!"
Zheng Quan was silent.
"Well, you may think that "Journey to the West" is just a popular novel, and "Journey to the West" is probably not high-end enough, then Mr. Lu Xun's "Diary of a Madman", Guo Moruo's "The Last Spring", Yu Dafu You should have read "The Sinking"? Didn't you understand the stream of consciousness creative technique in it? Oh, by the way, it was called "New Sensationism" in China at that time. "
Zheng Quan. Zi blushed again and said. "I've only read "Diary of a Madman"."
"Not bad." Fang Minghua looked at him and smiled.
"Then you should know that in Mr. Lu Xun's novel, Kun Zhong expresses the theme of alienation in the image of a "persecution maniac". The plot structure is composed of his personal messy conscious activities, and through his Personal "inner monologue" expresses the psychological activities of the characters and uses a lot of symbolism. Isn't this a stream of consciousness? ”
This.
Zheng Quan wanted to open his mouth and refute, but he couldn't say what to say. Finally, he choked out a sentence: "It is not an authentic stream of consciousness novel!"
" Not authentic? Well, let me tell you a few authentic ones. Have you read "Shi Xiu" by Shi Zhecun? "Wu Zixu" by Feng Zhi, "Ninety-nine Degrees" by Lin Huiyin, and by Xiangjiang Liu Yichang. "Drunkard"!" Zheng Quan was dumbfounded.
Don’t say you have seen it, some of them have never heard of it!
Ma Xiaojuan also looked dull.
She also studied Chinese at Shaanxi Normal University, why didn’t she know it?
Li Li looked at Fang Minghua with a happy face, little stars popping out of her eyes.
Most of these arguments were fruitless. Finally, the four of them left the botanical garden and said goodbye to each other politely.
"Wow Fang Minghua, I didn't expect you to read so many books." Li Li looked at Fang Minghua with an expression of admiration.
"Actually, I haven't read some of them, such as "Journey to the West", and the dormant "Stone Show". I just heard that it was a stream of consciousness novel, and I deliberately frightened him."
Fang Minghua She explained with a smile: "Lest he belittle himself or even worship foreigners."
Li Li was immediately amused.
"You are really bad, but it is true that many college students now do not like to read domestic novels and prefer to read Western literature."
"You said this problem the other day, not only Western literature Literature also includes a lot of foreign things, right?" Fang Minghua said lightly.
"Hmm. Foreign ones are good, imported ones are good." Li Li said.
Fang Minghua sighed softly after hearing this.
Now, the Chinese people have experienced poverty and backwardness, and are now experiencing the era of "three turns and one sound".
Seeing the colorful external world, they have a sense of inferiority and think that foreign things It is high-end, this is an objective existence.
Fang Minghua doesn't think that someone can change these views and ideas by speaking loudly, even if he travels through time.
However, he decided to give some lectures to the girl in front of him.
"What you said makes sense. Now our country's products and even its economy are indeed inferior to those of developed countries in Europe and the United States. But I think one day we will catch up and people will no longer envy foreign color TVs and refrigerators because our country produces It’s better.”
“I believe this too! Why else would our generation of college students study hard?” Li Li said!
What an ambitious girl!
Fang Minghua gave the girl a thumbs up in his heart and continued.
"But in the field of culture, especially literature, even now we are not inferior to the West. This must be clearly understood. There is no need to be like Zheng Quan who worships foreign countries."
Fang Minghua just said something , Li Li took over the conversation and said:
"I know, you said the other day that young people didn't know how good Sister Yu was, and mistook lolita for treasure."
Huh? !
After hearing this, Fang Minghua couldn't help laughing anymore.
Li Li also laughed, but she was thinking in her heart.
Hmph. I must understand what a loli is and what a royal sister is!
(End of this chapter)