On the relationship between novels and group governance >

Liang Qichao's On the Relationship between Novels and Group Governance (November 14, 192, New Novels, No.1, 192). ), the full text is as follows:

If you want the people of a new country, you must first read the novels of a new country. Therefore, if you want a new morality, you must have a new novel; If you want a new religion, you must have a new novel; If you want new politics, you must have new novels; If you want new customs, you must have new novels; If you want to learn new skills, you must learn new novels; Even if you want a new heart and a new personality, you must create a new novel. Why? Novels have incredible power to dominate humanity.

Now let me ask: Why is it that human beings are less fond of other books than novels? The answer must be: it is easy to solve the problem with its shallowness, and it is fun and interesting. Yes, of course.

though, it's not enough. Those who are shallow and easy to understand do not need novels; Letters from ordinary women and children and red tape are not difficult for readers to keep. Who cares about them? Restlessness is the only thing. He who is highly talented and knowledgeable can read tombs, study insects, fish and plants, and he should have no choice but to look at ancient and simple texts. Why should he be addicted to novels? It's the first thing to say. There are many people who enjoy pleasure in novels, but these people are not very important to the world. The most popular ones are those who can be shocked and saddened, and those who have endless nightmares and tears when reading them. The husband loves this because he wants to have fun, but what is it to take this inverse proportion and suffer from it? It's the second thing to say. There are two reasons why I meditate and bow in poverty: human nature is often self-satisfied with the present state; And this stupid body, the realm it can touch and accept, is stubborn and limited; Therefore, I often want to be directly touched by it, but indirectly touched by it. The so-called body outside the body and the world outside the world are also. This kind of knowledge is not only beneficial to all beings, but also to all beings. And those who guide their roots and make them dull and profitable are no more powerful than novels. Novelists often guide people to swim in other realms, and those who change the air they often touch and receive are also. This is one. People's constant feelings, in the imagination they embrace and the realm they have read, often have people who don't know what they are doing, but they don't pay attention to it. Whether for mourning, for joy, for resentment, for anger, for love, for horror, for worry, for shame, if you know it often, you don't know why; Want to describe its situation, but the heart can't self-describe, the mouth can't self-announce, and the pen can't autobiography. If someone tells the whole story, and reveals it thoroughly, he will exclaim:

Good! If so! The so-called "master's words are of great concern to me."

it's so touching. The second is. These two are the true meaning of the article and the power of the pen and tongue. If we can approve this article and guide it, no matter what it is, it will be enough to move people. Among all the articles, the one who can be extremely wonderful and skillful is the novel. Therefore, novels are the best in literature! From the former, the idealistic novels are still lacking; From the latter point of view, the realistic novels are still lacking. Although there are many kinds of novels, none of them are beyond the scope of these two schools.

There are four kinds of powers to restrain the novel from dominating humanity: one is to smoke, and those who smoke are baked by it, as if they were near the ink and ink, and those who "turn knowledge into knowledge" in Lengga Sutra rely on this power. People read a novel unconsciously, but their eyes are fascinated by it, their brains are shaken by it, and their nerves are paying attention to it. Today, it will become one or two, and tomorrow it will become one or two, and in a flash, it will continue. Over time, the realm of this novel will enter its platform and become the seed of a special essence. Because of this seed, it will touch the recipients even more in the future. If it is smoked, the seeds will flourish and smoke others. Therefore, the seeds can spread all over the world. All things in the world, the sentient world are made, so they live, all of which are karma. And the novel is so majestic that it can manipulate all beings. Second, immersion, smoking with space, so the size of its force, the breadth of its boundaries; Immersed in time, so its strength depends on the length of its boundary. Those who are immersed in it are also immersed in it. When people read a novel, they often can't get over it for days or decades.

A successful reader of The Red Chamber will have more love than sorrow; Those who read Water Margin will be more quick and angry. What is it? The power of immersion also makes it. It's a masterpiece, and the more volumes and facts there are, the more people are immersed in it! Such as wine: if you drink for ten days, you will be drunk for a hundred days. My Buddha started from under the Bodhi tree, and he said that there was such a big "Hua Yan", which is also the reason. Three words: stab, stab, and stimulate. The power of fumigation and immersion, the use of gradual; The power of the thorn, use the meal. The power of fumigation and immersion is making the receiver feel unconscious; The force of the thorn is making the receiver suddenly feel. Those who stab can suddenly feel strange in an instant, but they can't control themselves < P >. I was kind and gentle, but I read Lin Chong's snowy days and Wu Song Feiyun Pue. Why did I suddenly get angry? I was happy, but I read Qingwen's coming out of the Grand View Garden and Daiyu's dying in Xiaoxiang Pavilion. Why did I suddenly shed tears? I was awed by this, but I was reading the heart of the piano, rewarding Jane, sleeping in Dong Tang and visiting Cui. Why did I suddenly feel moved? If it is, it is called stimulation. Generally speaking, the more sensitive the brain is, the faster and more dramatic the stimulus will be.

and it must be proportional to the size of the stimulus contained in the book. One of the great Zen Buddhism drinks, and everyone uses this stimulating power to measure others. This power is also useful, and words are not as good as words.

However, the power of language can't be broad and long, so we have to rely on words. In writing, classical Chinese is not as good as its proverb, and Zhuang theory is not as good as its fable, so the one with the greatest power is not the end of the novel!

four times, the first three forces are poured in from the outside; The power of lifting, from the inside out, is the best of Buddhism. Anyone who reads a novel will always be the master of his book.

Those who read "Wild Sou Exposes Words" must write their own essays. Those who read "The Story of the Stone" will draw up their own Jia Baoyu; Those who read "Flower and Moon Scar" must draw up a self-portrait of Han Hesheng's infatuation with beads; Those who read the water margin will draw their own black whirlwind as a monk; Although the reader argues that there is nothing in it, I don't believe it. Since the husband turned his body into a book, when he read this book, he was no longer mine, and he completely went to this world to enter another world. The so-called Huayan Pavilion, the imperial network is heavy, a trillion lotus flowers in a pore, a thousand disasters at a glance, and the words moved people. So far! However, if the master of my book is Washington, the reader will become Washington; If the master takes

to break LUN, the reader will become Napoleon; If the master is Sakyamuni and Confucius, the reader will be transformed into Sakyamuni and Confucius, and there will be no doubt. The only way to live in the world, has there ever been this? These four forces can be Lu Mou I, the pavilion is full of poison and ethics, and it is not bad that the leader can establish a religion and the politician can organize a political party. If a writer can get one, he is a writer; Can have the fourth, it is Wen Sheng. If you use these four forces for good, you can benefit hundreds of millions of people; If these four forces are used in evil, they can be poisonous for thousands of years. And the four forces are the easiest to send, but novels. Lovely novel! Awesome novel!

The novel is as easy for everyone as it is for others, and so is the susceptible person for its use. Therefore, the universality of human beings is not as good as that of novels, which is a natural function of psychology, and it is easy without human resources. This is true of all flesh and blood in the world, not the people of China in Chixian County. The husband has been addicted to it, and he has been addicted to it all over the world. Then the novel is in a group, and it is like air like millet. If you want to avoid it, you can't avoid it. If you want to screen it, you can't chew it. Here, if the air contains filth, and if the millet contains toxicity, then those who eat and rest here will be haggard, wilted, miserable and degenerate, and this will not be decided by the turtle. If we don't clean the air here, and don't choose the millet, we will be lured with ginseng and fesr every day, but the people in this group will never be saved because of their old age, illness, death and suffering. Knowing this meaning,

then we can know the root cause of China's mass corruption. Where did my China people's idea of being the number one scholar come from? Novel also, my China beauty talented person's thought? Novel also; Where does the thought of China Jianghu thieves come from? Novel also; Why does my China shemale's thought of witch, fox and ghost come from? Novels are also. If so, how can you taste someone, mention their ears and teach them, pass them on and teach them? All these thoughts must be in one place, from the child's childishness to the master's learning. Don't make it, if or make it. The power of hundreds of novels directly or indirectly poisons people, so it is even worse. That is,

there are people who are hard to read novels, and these novels have gradually collapsed into society and become the trend; It has not been born, and it has already inherited this inheritance; It not only entered the WTO, but also suffered from this infection again. Although there are wise men, they do not extricate themselves, so they are called connections. Today, my people are confused about the future, confused about fate, confused about divination, confused about praying for divination, stopped railways because of geomantic omen, stopped mining, and fought for graves, killing people like grass, spending millions of dollars every year to meet the God Games, wasting time and trouble, and consuming national strength, saying that novels are the only reason. At present, my country's people are eager for the first place in Mu Ke, eager for the highest position in the world, servile, shameless, but thinking that it will take ten years of fireflies and snow, and it will be easy to < P > return to their arrogant wives and concubines, and arbitrarily sing in the countryside for a day, so those who are famous for their great efforts to prevent sweeping the floor will say that they are only novels.

At present, our people despise faith, are crafty and treacherous, and are hard on cool thin. They are so tame that everyone is eager to learn, and the whole country is full of thorns, saying that novels are the only reason. Today, our people are frivolous, addicted to debauchery, in love with bed, weeping in spring flowers and autumn moon, and grinding their youthful and lively spirit; Young children, from 15 to 3 years old, take affection, sentimentality, worry and illness as their major career. They are affectionate and have little wind and cloud, and even they are immoral and poisonous to society, saying that they are only novels. Today, the heroes of our national greenwood are everywhere. Every day, there is the worship of Taoyuan, and the alliance of Liangshan is everywhere. The so-called "big bowl of wine, big pieces of meat, weighing gold and silver by scales, and wearing clothes" and other ideas are filled in the minds of the inferior society, and they have become brothers and broadswords, and they have died like boxers, falling into Beijing, calling for foreign troops, saying that they are only novels. Whoo! The trap of novels drowns people, and even so! Even so! Tens of thousands of words from the Great Sage Hongzhe are not enough, but Jia Yishu of Huashifang is corrupted and < P > has more! The more things are disdained by elegant gentlemen, the more they have to be exclusively attributed to Hua Shifang Jia. And its nature, its position, like the air, like the grass, is something that can't be avoided and screened in a society, so the Hua Shi Fang Jia, then to grasp the sovereignty of a country and manipulate it.

ouch! If we die here for a long time, can we ask about the future of our country? Can you ask?

Therefore, if we want to improve group governance today, we must start from the revolution in the novel world! If you want new people, you must start from a new novel!