Chapter 61 anecdote

Su Manshu has many titles, aliases, and pseudonyms, but everyone in the world knows his dharma name "Manshu". "Manshu" was originally the name of his brother. "Manjusri" was originally the title of Manjusri Bodhisattva, Manjusri is wise, and "Manjusri" means "wonderful". Su Manshu was curious by nature and prone to mysteries. He had many pen names and even used the names of ancient people at will, such as Song Yu and Guo Pu.Liu Yazi said that Manshu had as many pen names as Fu Qingzhu, a famous scholar in the late Ming Dynasty. Su Manshu's real name is Yuanying, and Xuanying was changed by Liu Yazi.Because Kangxi’s name was Xuanye, the Qing Dynasty avoided the word Xuanye, and even the “Tiandi Xuanhuang” in the thousand-character text was changed to “Tiandi Yuanhuang”. Liu Yazi was not convinced, and often changed the word Yuan to Xuanzi, so Manshu’s "Ying" was also changed to "Xuanying" by Liu, after which Manshu was also called Su Xuanying.It is quite a coincidence that the Yuan Dynasty painter Ni Zan whom Manshu admired was also named "Xuanying".

When teaching in Changsha, every time Su Manshu was in class, the students arrived first, then re-read, opened the book to give some explanations, and murmured non-stop.When the whole hall chanted loudly, Manshu supported his chest with his right hand and fell asleep.When he heard the bell, he opened his eyes and smiled, and left with his book. In Changsha, Su Manshu did not dress up as a monk, so the students of the Industry School did not know that he was a monk.When he left Changsha, Manshu invited his students to eat at the Beef Restaurant. He sat by the side without raising his chopsticks, and when he asked him, he smiled and did not answer.After eating, the teachers and students also took a photo together.Manshu sat in the car, took out his cassock and put it on, as if he was a monk. The students were amazed. When they looked at his hat, they realized that the braids were fake. He usually wore a hat without showing the top of his head. Suddenly realized, and laughed with each other.

Su Manshu's was originally serialized in a certain newspaper in Nanyang, but later that newspaper ceased publication, and was then serialized in Shanghai's "Pacific News". As a result, "Pacific News" also ceased publication. On October 4, 1907, Su Manshu went to visit Cai Zhefu and called it his birthday.In fact, according to the records of the Su family tree, Manshu’s birthday was September 28, and October 4 was the birthday of Qing Dynasty writer Zhu Yizun (Zhu Yizun). Manshu admired him a lot, so he said that day was his own birthday.Cai didn't know it, and immediately followed the Guangdong custom, using pork, pork liver, and fish to make "Sanji porridge" to celebrate Manshu's birthday.Manshu was very happy, and ate two bowls in a row, and then proposed to play leaf opera, but he was not good at it, and he was repeatedly defeated.Cai asked Manshu to paint, but Manshu was unwilling to write, and instead asked Cai to make a seal for him, and Cai gave him a stamp of "Same Day as Zhulong" as a gift.

In the summer of 1909, Su Manshu and his good friend Liu Jiping spent the summer at the Baiyun Temple in Hangzhou when they accidentally received an anonymous threatening letter.The general idea is that the revolutionaries have long seen that Su Manshu behaved suspiciously and had close ties with the traitors Liu Shipei and He Zhen and his wife, and warned him that if he dared to collude with Liu and He and did not restrain himself, there would be another Su Manshu in the palace of hell. new ghost.This letter was written by Lei Zhaoxing, a revolutionary who lived with Manshu in Baiyun Nunnery. Manshu was terrified when he saw it, and fled to Shanghai in a hurry.

In 1909, when Su Manshu was in West Lake, he often went to Gushan to find a tea seller, and even took her to Baiyun Nunnery to play.After Manshu left Baiyun Nunnery, he gave the little girl his lunch.The girl has been selling tea in Gushan since then.Many years later, the poet Yan Meng went to Gushan many times to visit the tomb, write manuscripts, and tasted the green tea and lotus root powder she sold.He guessed that the girl had loved Manshu, so he wrote the prose "The Smile of Plum Blossoms" and published it in "Ta Kung Pao". Once, when Su Manshu was chatting with his friends, one of them found a lice in his clothes and was about to die.Manshu hurriedly stopped him, saying, "Don't kill it, just throw it out of the window. You know, it's already in great pain if you catch it in your hands!" Once again, Manshu lived with a friend.In the middle of the night, his family members made a noise, saying that a thief had entered the house, and they had fled with a bright light to search for them.Manshu rubbed his sleepy eyes and asked, "Did the thief catch him? Don't hurt him, give him two small silver dollars, and let him go!" Everyone laughed: "The monk is so merciful!"

When Su Manshu was down and out in Fusang, his clothes were nothing to change.The hotel has heating, and the room temperature is warm throughout the day, which is quite springy.Manshu took off his clothes, washed them, and dried them on the radiator.Not long after that, the heating was turned off.The next day, Manshu had to stay in bed and wait until the wet clothes dried naturally before going out. One day in the twelfth lunar month of a certain year, a Cantonese surnamed Chen was detained by the police near Yuewang Temple for some reason and tied to a tree.He has a pale face and wears glasses. Although he is bound, he refuses to let people remove his glasses.When the story spread to Zhu Zongyuan's ears, he judged from his appearance and characteristics that "this must be my friend". He was worried about the cold weather. police station.The other party replied: He has been released on bail by his fellow villager Su.Zhu breathed a sigh of relief and said, "This must be Manshu." Later, they met and asked, and it was really good.

Both Su Manshu and Li Shutong once studied in Japan, became monks successively, and worked as colleagues in the Shanghai "Pacific News". It is a coincidence that Li Shutong's dharma name is "Hongyi" in his friend's letter.Interestingly, when Manshu was in Japan, he had watched the dramas of Chunliu Club founded by Li Shutong, and he disapproved of the new dramas, saying: "The Black Slave's Call to Heaven, The Last Days of the La Traviata...all these dramas are childish... ..." When Li Shutong was not shaved, his friend once said to him: "As soon as Manshu became a monk, you literati who were before the sentimentalism became more convinced that life is a tragedy, suffering and impermanence."

On Su Manshu's pilgrimage, he encountered a tiger.Once, Manshu went to the river to wash his face, and suddenly a yellow tiger sprang out from the jungle on the other side of the river, with its head held high, its ears erect, its eyes fixed on Manshu, and it remained motionless.After a stalemate for about ten minutes, the tiger seemed to think that Manshu was harmless, so he lowered his head to drink from the river, then turned and disappeared into the jungle.Seeing the tiger leave, Manshu let out a long breath.That night, Manshu stayed in a village not far away. Manshu told the villagers about the tiger he encountered during the day. The villagers were all surprised when they heard this, saying that he was blessed with great fortune.

When Su Manshu and Liu Yazi lived together in Shanghai, Liu Ziwuji was already six years old. Manshu always regarded him as a girl, and sometimes changed his name to Wugou.He once gave Liu Wuji a set of landscape pictures, and wrote "The income of Mrs. Wugou", and also gave Liu Wuji two silk flowers, and said in the attached letter "Mr. Wuji's income".It was not until 1917 when Liu Wuji was 11 years old that Manshu admitted that he was a boy.After Liu Yazi's second daughter was born, Liu Yazi named her Wugou to commemorate Manshu. Su Manshu loved to play mahjong. Zhou Nankai recorded: "When Manshu was in Qingdao, the wife of Riyu Juesheng, the wife of Japanese Xuanye Changzhi, Jiyu, played with playing mahjong. Sitting on the ground, Yu suffered a lot. And they all knew I never get tired of it, and I am forced to do it every day. Every time I see the elders and daughters of the house calling, and they call, it is said that the death penalty is announced. For a long time, this saying has been widely spread, and it has become an idiom. It is said that the sparrow play is the announcement of the death penalty Also. Although Gu Manshu is good at this, but his skills are very poor, and he will lose every bet. But you can be lazy in everything, but you are very enthusiastic when you hear about gambling." Lu Lingsu also recorded that in the first year of the Republic of China, Manshu visited, and after eating the eight-treasure rice, he was very interested Gao, invited them to play "a play of meaning and money", but Lu Tui said no, it couldn't be a game, and Manshu was "quite displeased".

When living in Baiyun Nunnery in Hangzhou, Su Manshu once said a couplet: "The small window allows me to be quiet, and the earth allows people to be busy." According to Zheng Yimei's records, someone later saw the huge couplet written by Manshu for the temple in Putuo Puji Temple. : "The universe allows me to be quiet, and fame and fortune are busy."