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Old Tales Retold
故事新编 (Old Tales Retold)
von Lu Xun (鲁迅, 1881-1936)
Uebersetzt aus dem Chinesischen.
Section 1
Old Tales Retold - Preface and Mending Heaven
Preface: This small collection took thirteen years. The first story, Mending Heaven, was written in the winter of 1922. The intention was to draw material from both antiquity and the present. At first I was serious, employing Freud's theory. But I could not help introducing a little figure in ancient costume between Nuewa's legs - the beginning of the descent into flippancy. Flippancy is the enemy of creation.
Nuewa suddenly awoke. In the pink sky, stone-green clouds floated. She knelt by the sea, scooped wet clay and kneaded little beings. She continued creating with breath and sweat until her head ached. Then she tore down a vine and whipped the clay - beings splattered in all directions.
With a tremendous crash the sky cracked. Nuewa gathered stones and reeds to mend the rift. The stones melted and flowed like lightning into the crack. Later imperial troops arrived and declared themselves her descendants.
Chasing the Moon: Yi the archer returned home with crows instead of game. Chang'e grumbled about the eternal crow noodles. The next day Yi rode far out, mistook a chicken for a dove, and had to promise ten flatbreads as compensation. On the way back Feng Meng ambushed him.
December 26, 1935. Lu Xun.
Section 2
Lu Xun's Collected Works, Volume 3 - Tables of Contents for the collections Under the Canopy (华盖集), its Continuation (华盖集续编), the Continuation of the Continuation, and And That's That (而已集). These collections contain Lu Xun's socially critical essays from 1925 to 1927, a turbulent epoch of Chinese history marked by political upheavals, student protests, and the March 18th Massacre of 1926.
Section 3
Under the Canopy - Preface
In the dead of night at year's end I sorted the short essays and found more than in the four years of Hot Wind. The opinions are the same, but the attitude no longer so forthright, the phrasing more circuitous, the arguments revolving around trifles. But what is one to do? I have the temperament of clinging to trifles.
Great men perceive three ages and survey all things. But for this one must retreat into the forest. I have remained on the ground.
I live among people and have the misfortune of standing under an unlucky star. At the very start of the year I hit two great obstacles. Some advised me to cease such commentaries. But I would rather stand in the desert, laugh in joy, cry in sorrow, curse in anger - than follow the literati to Shakespeare's England to eat buttered bread.
December 31, 1925, recorded beneath the east wall of the Green Forest Study.
Section 4
This section belongs to Lu Xun's essay collection Under the Canopy (华盖集) and contains socially critical essays from the years 1925-1927. Lu Xun was not only a writer but also an outstanding literary scholar. His A Brief History of Chinese Fiction and his edition of Ji Kang's works attest to his profound erudition.
Original text (excerpt): 一九二五年 咬文嚼字（一至二） 一 以摆脱传统思想的束缚而来主张男女平等的男人，却偏喜欢用轻靓艳丽字样来译外国女人的姓氏：加些草头，女旁，丝旁。不是“思黛儿”，就是“雪琳娜”。西洋和我们虽然远哉遥遥，但姓氏并无男女之别，却和中国一样的，——除掉斯拉夫民族在语尾上略有区别之外。所以如果我们周家的姑娘不另姓绸，陈府上的太太也不另姓，则欧文的小姐正无须改作妪纹，对于托尔斯泰夫人也不必格外费心，特别写成妥嬭丝苔也。 以摆脱传统思想的束缚而来介绍世界文学的文人，却偏喜欢使外国人姓中国姓：Gogol姓郭；Wilde姓王；D’Annunzio姓段，一姓唐；Holz姓何；Gorky姓高；Galsworthy也姓高，假使他谈到Gorky，大概是称他“吾家rky”的了。我真万料不到一本《百家姓》，到现在还有这般伟力。 （一月八日。）
Section 5
This section belongs to Lu Xun's essay collection Under the Canopy (华盖集) and contains socially critical essays from the years 1925-1927. Lu Xun was not only a writer but also an outstanding literary scholar. His A Brief History of Chinese Fiction and his edition of Ji Kang's works attest to his profound erudition.
Original text (excerpt): 一九二六年 杂论管闲事·做学问·灰色等 1 听说从今年起，陈源（即西滢）教授要不管闲事了；这豫言就见于《现代评论》五十六期的《闲话》里。惭愧我没有拜读这一期，因此也不知其详。要是确的呢，那么，除了用那照例的客套说声“可惜”之外，真的倒实在很诧异自己之胡涂：年纪这么大了，竟不知道阳历的十二月三十一日和一月一日之交在别人是可以发生这样的大变动。我近来对于年关颇有些神经过钝了，全不觉得怎样。其实，倘要觉得罢，可是也不胜其觉得。大家挂上五色旗，大街上搭起几坐彩坊，中间还有四个字道：“普天同庆”，据说这算是过年。大家关了门，贴上门神，爆竹毕剥砰的放起来，据说这也是过年。要是言行真跟着过年为转移，怕要转移不迭，势必至于成为转圈子。所以，神经过钝虽然有落伍之虑，但有弊必有利，却也很占一点小小的便宜的。 但是，还有些事我终于想不明白：即如天下有闲事，
Section 6
This section belongs to Lu Xun's essay collection Under the Canopy (华盖集) and contains socially critical essays from the years 1925-1927. Lu Xun was not only a writer but also an outstanding literary scholar. His A Brief History of Chinese Fiction and his edition of Ji Kang's works attest to his profound erudition.
Original text (excerpt): 华盖集续编的续编 在厦门岛的四个月，只做了几篇无聊文字，除去最无聊者，还剩六篇，称为《华盖集续编的续编》，总算一年中所作的杂感全有了。 一九二七年一月八日，鲁迅记。 厦门通信 H.M.兄： 我到此快要一个月了，懒在一所三层楼上，对于各处都不大写信。这楼就在海边，日夜被海风呼呼地吹着。海滨很有些贝壳，检了几回，也没有什么特别的。四围的人家不多，我所知道的最近的店铺，只有一家，买点罐头食物和糕饼，掌柜的是一个女人，看年纪大概可以比我长一辈。 风景一看倒不坏，有山有水。我初到时，一个同事便告诉我：山光海气，是春秋早暮都不同。还指给我石头看：这块像老虎，那块像癞虾蟆，那一块又像什么什么……。我忘记了，其实也不大相像。我对于自然美，自恨并无敏感，所以即使恭逢良辰美景，也不甚感动。但好几天，却忘不掉郑成