Chapter 91 to preach

Zang Kejia applied for Qingdao University, and there were two questions in the Chinese test paper: first, why did you apply for Qingdao University, and second, to write a miscellaneous essay.Either of the two questions.Zang Quan answered.Miscellaneous feelings only wrote three sentences: "Life is always chasing phantom light, but whoever regards phantom light as phantom light will sink into the bottomless sea of ​​suffering." Mathematics handed in a blank paper.A month later, he unexpectedly received a notice.When registering for registration, a staff member surnamed Zhuang told him: "You scored 98 points in the Chinese paper, the first place! Mr. Wen Yiduo is very strict in checking the papers. There are many 50 points and 10 points. It's easy." Zang Kejia said: "After listening to this, I solved the problem of being admitted for eating 'duck eggs' in mathematics. At the same time, I thought, it must be my three sentences of 'miscellaneous feelings' that touched Mr. Wen's heart!"

During the two years of teaching at Qingdao University, Wen Yiduo was most proud of having two students, Zang Kejia and Chen Mengjia.He put the photos of the two on the desk, and said to the guests proudly: "I have the Meng family on the left, and the Ke family on the right." Zang Kejia recalled Wen Yiduo's lectures: "I remember that when he was talking about Shelley's songs, he flew the skylark higher and higher, the singing became stronger, and the syllables used in the poems became longer and longer. He recited it in a poetic tone. Come out." "I remember one time in the class of English poetry, he said: 'If we all sit on a piece of grass and talk about poetry instead of in such a big house, I tell you to listen: it's okay to sit on the grass. Smoking cigarettes, drinking tea, it’s okay to also take a sip of opium...' He has a strong poetic temperament, and when he talks about books, he often drags his voice 'ohhhh'."

Once, when Wen Yiduo was in class, he wrote an arithmetic problem on the blackboard: 2+5=?The students were puzzled.Wen asked: "2+5=?" ​​The student replied: "Is it equal to 7?" It’s also possible.” He took out a painting titled "Galloping Thousands of Miles" for the students to appreciate, on which two galloping horses were prominently painted, and behind the two galloping horses, there were paintings of different sizes in different places. Five horses were killed, and there were many shadowy black spots behind the five horses.Wen pointed to the painting and said: "From the image of the whole picture, there are only seven horses at the front and back. However, anyone who has seen this painting will feel that there are thousands of horses galloping here. Isn't this 2+5=10000?"

In Southwest Associated University, Wen Yiduo offered nearly 10 courses such as "Book of Songs", "Chu Ci", "Book of Changes", and "Erya", among which "Tang Poetry" is one of the most popular courses at the University.He admires the five-character quatrains the most, and believes that the five-character quatrains are the masterpieces of Tang poetry. Twenty characters are twenty immortals, and there is no room for one quatrain to fill the number.When he talked about Tang poetry, he didn't follow the words of his predecessors.He connected late Tang poetry with Western post-Impressionist paintings; he talked about Li He, and at the same time he talked about pointillism in Impressionism, saying that pointillism looks like dots of different colors. In short, you can feel the inner connection between points.Wang Zengqi recalled: "There is no other person in the world who can talk about Tang poetry like Mr. Wen Yiduo. Because Mr. Wen is both a poet and a painter, and he is very familiar with Western art, so he can link poetry and painting to explain, It opened up a new realm for students.”

Wen Yiduo said: "The place where you read Tang poetry, especially the early Tang poetry, should be in Kunming. There is no extreme heat in summer, and no severe cold in winter. The spring and autumn are beautiful, and the wind and energy disappear. A volume in hand is like drinking alcohol. I am He Let's share it." Wen Yiduo talked about Tang poetry, and when he talked about Du Fu, he was most fascinated.He recited "Songs That Thatched Cottages Are Broken by the Autumn Wind" in class: "There are tens of thousands of mansions in Ande, which shelters the poor and the poor in the world. They are all happy, and the wind and rain are unmoved, and they are as safe as a mountain! Woohoo! When I suddenly see this house in front of me, my hut will be broken alone. It’s enough to freeze to death!” Wen told the students that they should not only read such poems, but also experience them with their heart; he also said that this is empathy, great sympathy, and the origin of art.

Li Ling, a student of the Southwestern Union, recalled that Wen Yiduo said that "The Songs of Chu" has a characteristic. He often waits for the evening when it gets dark, lights a censer and takes a pipe outside the classroom, and then starts to read the famous lines from "The Songs of Chu" . "Chu Ci" is very complicated, but the sentences are very elegant.Wen Yiduo, who has studied drama, can always recite some sad words and sentences very movingly. Yang Zhenning recalled that when Wen Yiduo gave lectures on "The Songs of Chu", he held in his hand the "Tianwen Shuzheng" written by Si Yiqi, and he spoke sentence by sentence without ambiguous words. Asked by Heaven".

Xu Yuanchong recalled that on May 25, 1939, Wen Yiduo gave a lecture on "The Book of Songs Caiwei". The pain of the soldiers during the war has reached the state of blending the scenes." When speaking, he stroked the beard he left at the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, expressing infinite emotion. As the Anti-Japanese War deepened, Wen Yiduo gradually saw more ugly realities. He seldom talked about romantic poems by celebrities, but repeatedly chanted "Long breath to cover tears, mourning the hardships of people's lives!" Bass, but it does not have the melodious tone of the past, and it is so deep that it makes people want to cry. Many students in the class were infected, and they burst into tears after listening to it.

Wang Zengqi recalled that Wen Yiduo talked about ancient myths with rich pictures and texts. He used whole sheets of rough-edged paper to draw various portraits of Fuxi and Nuwa, and nailed them to the blackboard.Not only the students from the Chinese Department and the Faculty of Liberal Arts of Lian Da Lian University competed to take this course, but even the students from the Faculty of Science and Engineering also came to listen to it.At that time, one of the engineering college and the liberal arts college was in the east of the city, and the other was in the west of the city. After hearing the lectures, the students of the engineering college had to travel through the entire Kunming city, but they felt it was worth it.

A student handed in a reading report on Li He's poems (written by Wang Zengqi) to Wen Yiduo, saying that other people's poems were painted on a white background, while Li He's poems were painted on a black background, so the colors It was particularly intense, and was greatly appreciated by Wen Yiduo, who commented: "It's even better than Wang Zengqi's writing!"