如果要在“五四”一代青年中找出一个符号性的人物,确实很为难,即使在近百年后,历史仍尘埃未定。我想到了王光祈,这位“少年中国学会”最重要的发起人,只活了四十五岁,而且“五四”后的十几年留学德国,埋头于音乐研究,已远离风急浪险的国内时势,然而,我在他身上看到了浓烈的“五四”气质,一种深入骨髓、化成灰都变不了“五四人”的理想主义。他之所以转向音乐,并以全力在这个领域耕耘,正是显示了“五四人”的一股子劲儿。我第一次读到他的这些话,就沉默了 If we are to find a symbolic figure in the “May Fourth” generation of youth, it is indeed very difficult, even after nearly a hundred years, the history is still uncertain. I thought of Wang Guangqi, the most important promoter of the “Chinese Learning of Young Men,” who only lived for forty-five years and studied in Germany for more than ten years after the May Fourth Incident. He has been immersed in music research and has been away from However, I saw a strong “May Fourth” temperament on him, a kind of idealism that goes deep into the bone marrow and can not be transformed into a gray one. The reason why he turned to music and did his best to work in this field is exactly what he demonstrated in his “May Fourth Movement.” When I first read these words, I was silent