Chapter 9 Paranoid

Satsuma Yuji recalled Gu Hongming: "Mr. is often proud of having braids. If someone asks about it, he will shake his head and say: 'This is my passport.'" Wen Yuanning said of Gu Hongming: "The ostentation of his braids is enough to reveal his whole personality. He is stubborn and lives a life of confrontation with others. He denies what everyone admits; he dislikes what everyone likes; What everyone respects, he despises. Being different is his joy and pride; because cutting braids is fashionable, so he wears them. If everyone wears braids, I believe that the first person who cuts braids must be It's Gu Hongming."

Zhou Junliang wrote in "Reminiscences of the Geek Gu Hongming": "After the abdication of the Qing court in 1911, a group of survivors organized a group called the 'Zongshe Party', and Gu Hongming was also a member of it. At that time, Xuantong still owned the emperor. In name, I once issued an order to all the elders to cut off their braids, and all the elders obeyed the order, but Gu’s braids were left uncut. China also had very beautiful braids in the period when men had braids, which grew on the heads of teenagers. His hair is very long and black, but Gu Hongming's hair is sparse and short, half yellow and half black, braided, as thin as a finger, all on the back of the head, curvy, very weird. He didn't think it was strange After the elders cut their hair as ordered, only one male braid remained on Gu Hongming's head in the world, so this braid became Gu Hongming's special symbol."

Gu Hongming had a driver who also had braids, and he took him around the streets.The servant in his family is also a person who insists on not cutting the braid. The servant of Gu Hongming's family is named Liu Er, who has followed Gu for decades.Gao Baishi recorded: "As soon as you enter Chunshu Alley, you will "peck" and "peck" twice at his gate, and an old man will come out from the side door, with a red silk hat, a gray beard, and a blue cloth coat. Shuangliang shoes, with a short braid hanging down the back of the head. If you have never met Gu himself, you may think that he is Gu Tangsheng, who is well-versed in both Chinese and Western cultures. Before you say hello, he will politely say "oh", "you Are you looking for an adult?" Gu also knew that it would be misunderstood, so he often said to his friends: "Liu Er is my shadow. I dress similarly to him. The difference is that I am as good as others. Liu Er It's Pi Ni Li's handle.' Pi Ni Li is Li Lianying, which means that Liu Er has been a bachelor all his life, and besides his wife Shugu, he also has a Japanese wife such as Rong Zi."

Once, Gu Hongming talked about why he kept his braids and said: "I think that the survival of China depends on Germany and not on braids. It doesn't matter if you cut your braids or not. You think that you can save China if you cut your braids and change your clothes." ?" Hu Shi wrote about Gu Hongming in this way: "When people see Gu Hongming dragging his braids and talking about 'respecting the king's righteousness', they must think that he has always been stubborn, but they don't know that Gu Hongming was the first to cut his braids. Wanshou, he sat still. Later, people talked about the revolution, so he kept his braids. During the Revolution of 1911, his braids were not fully raised, and he dragged the braids attached to the wig and ran around in a carriage, which was very popular. This kind of psychology can be studied. At the beginning, he was 'innovative', but now he is 'not returning after a long vacation'."

Gu Hongming has contributed three times to the English-language newspaper "Beijing Daily News", advocating concubinage.The editor-in-chief of the United States persuaded him to stop writing, and he cursed: "American men dare not marry concubines, they are worthless!" He also cursed foreigners for pretending to be serious on the surface, being monogamous, secretly looking for sex, looking for mistresses, and visiting brothels , In the end, he also sang a high profile of monogamy. Gu Hongming once explained the reasons for advocating taking concubines: 1. Men can pass on the seed until they die, but women no longer have the function of reproduction at the age of forty or fifty; In this way, there must be more women than men; 3. From the statistics of the world, if one hundred boys are born, one hundred and five girls will be born, so there must be more women than men.If monogamy is practiced, there will definitely be resentful women in the world.Moreover, both Roosevelt and Sun Yat-sen advocated increasing the population, so they should take more concubines.In addition, Gu Hongming also analyzed the irrationality of polyandry from a physiological point of view.He believes that if it is polyandry, one only knows that there is a mother, but not a father.

In 1920, Peking University began to recruit female students.When Gu Hongming was in class, he was surprised to see girls in the classroom.Someone told him that it was a newly recruited girl named Wang. He asked, "I speak English, can Ms. Wang understand?" The girl stood up and said she understood, so he asked her to read the text to him.As soon as the girl read a sentence, he waved his hand to stop it and said, "No, the pronunciation is all wrong!" He drove the girl out of the classroom.After class, Gu immediately sent a letter to Cai Yuanpei: "I suddenly found a woman in the classroom. The men and women are not close to each other. Please resign from the teaching position." It was a joke for a while.