Chapter 92 anecdote

The Wen family is a rich family in Xiabahe, Xishui County, Hubei Province.According to genealogical records, it was originally a descendant of Wen Tianxiang, a national hero in the Southern Song Dynasty (according to later generations' research, the Wen family is not a descendant of Wen Tianxiang, but a descendant of his cousins), which was verified by Wen Yi many years ago.When living in Beiping in the future, Wen Yiduo took his wife Gao Zhen to see Wen Tianxiang's prison, and told Gao Zhen: "This is the place where Guan Wen Tianxiang is. We used to be named Wen, but we changed it later."

The Wen family taught their descendants more strictly.Wen Yiduo's grandfather personally set three family rules when he was alive: first, no smoking opium; second, no concubines; third, no gambling.Wen Yiduo followed the teachings of his ancestors all his life. Under normal circumstances, Wen Yiduo should have studied in Tsinghua for 8 years, but in the second year of entering Tsinghua, because he couldn't keep up with English, he stayed one level, and then because of the student riots, he stayed another level, so a total of 10 years .Liang Shiqiu said: "His classmate Luo Longji once jokingly said to himself: 'Nine years of Tsinghua University, three times to catch up with the principal. 'What's that? I stayed in Tsinghua University for a year before and after, a total of ten years.'"

One year before graduation, Wen Yiduo and his classmates moved into a new dormitory in a western-style building.Every room here has heating, and there are Western-style bathrooms and flush toilets. Each student has a large desk and a small bookshelf. The windows are wide and sunny.Wen Yiduo and Pu Xuefeng occupied the largest room and enjoyed it very much. When they were studying at Tsinghua University, Wen Yiduo, Wu Zelin and other friends once believed in Christianity and were baptized in a church in Haidian. Pu Xuefeng recalled that his Tsinghua Chinese teacher Zhao Zuihou once said: "I have taught no less than 10,000 students in my life, but there are only four students who really made me proud." These four students are Luo Longji, Wen Yiduo, He Haoruo, Pu Xuefeng.Zhao Zuihou wrote a poem: "Tsinghua University ranked first in Tiluo, followed by Yongyong in Puhe. The wind and rain and the crowing of roosters made friends, and the singing of Chaoyang Fenghuang was harmonious." Interestingly, the four favorite students of Zhao, the other three later In the United States, they all studied political science, and only one person, Wen, studied art. However, the three who studied political science were not as radical as Wen in the 1940s.

When Wen Yiduo was graduating from Tsinghua University, a certain person signed "Prisoner" and published a short story "Farewell" in "Tsinghua Weekly", narrating the parting feeling of Wen Yiduo and Wen Yiduo.Wen sent a letter back to the author. The letter was titled "My dear 'prisoner'" and signed "Criminals who make mistakes and make mistakes, you have more than one most loyal friends." Give it to Liang Shiqiu, and ask Liang to look for it on his behalf.Liang found out that the "prisoner" was Gu Yuxiu, and from then on, Wen and Gu became close friends.

During his stay in the United States, Wen Yiduo once visited the home of two professors. After dinner, the American professor took out mahjong and prepared to play a few rounds to add to the fun.Hearing that he can't play mahjong, he quickly declared that he knew nothing about mahjong.The two American professors didn't believe it at all, thinking that he was trying to evade, so Wen had no choice but to bite the bullet and go into battle, referring to the manual temporarily, learning while playing.He didn't draw a card once in one night, so he was very useless.After that, with the help of his friends, he slowly learned to play cards to deal with similar situations.

Sun Dayu is famous for his rhyme translation of Shakespeare's "King Lear". He is very conceited about his new poems, but he scoffs at other poets. He often copies a section of Wen Yiduo or Xu Zhimo's poems in class, and then repeatedly calls "shit ", and then copied a verse of his own poem, looking forward to being complacent, and admiring the verses.After such a catharsis, the emotions can be put on the right track and the class can be resumed. Liang Shiqiu once described the messiness of Wen Yiduo's study in this way: "The reference books in his study cannot be described by the word 'a dazzling array of beautiful things in eyes', nor can it be said to be a 'detter offering fish', because the messy situation makes people feel like they are in ruins. The best chair in his house is a grand master's chair carved from an old tree root. After I go, he has to remove the books on this chair so that I can have a seat."

Wen Yiduo and Liang Shiqiu went to Yenching University to visit the newly married Wu Wenzao and Bing Xin. As soon as they entered the door, they waved their fans and shouted for heat. Bing Xin quickly brought two glasses of boiled water.Wen and Liang didn't sit down, they looked around the room, Wen Yiduo smiled and said, "We'll be back after we go out for a while." Bing Xin thought they were going to visit other friends, and didn't care.After a while, they came back, Wen Yiduo took out a pack of tea and cigarettes, threw it on the coffee table and said, "Everything is good in your new house, but there is no tea and cigarettes to entertain guests, so you have to remember it in the future!" Bing Xin said again Laughing and embarrassing, so this small family has a "custom" of treating guests with tea and cigarettes.

Wen Yiduo likes to mix in the voice of "hehe..." when speaking in class.After the September 18th Incident, Wen Yin stood on the side of Qingdao University and opposed the student strike. Students wrote poems on the blackboard to satirize him: "Wen Yiduo, Wen Yiduo, you get more than 400 yuan a month, and a class lasts 50 minutes. How long will it last you?" Hearing this, he could only smile wryly. Jiang Qing, formerly known as Li Yunhe, was recommended by a friend to work in the library of Qingdao University where Liang Shiqiu was the director, and Wen Yiduo arranged to sit in the Chinese Department.

Life at Linda University in Changsha was extremely poor, and once the food was too salty, some people said that being too salty was good too, as it could prevent people from eating too much food.Wen Yiduo casually used the scriptures of Han Confucianism to explain scriptures: "Salty people are idle, so prevent idle people from eating too much." Wen Yiduo grew a beard for the anti-Japanese war, but found that growing a beard is very decent, so he became a bearded man.One time when Wen Yiduo was traveling in Shilin, smoking a broken pipe, wearing a big padded robe, cloth shoes, and leggings, and sitting on a big rock to rest his feet, a student helped him take a photo. In the glass box, the people who visited Wen's house all praised in unison after seeing it.After Japan announced its surrender, he immediately shaved Mingzhi.When the children in the yard saw him coming back, they all held out their thumbs and said, "That's great, that's great!"

Once, Qiu Qingquan, the commander of the Fifth Army, held a symposium on current affairs at the military headquarters. During dinner, he pushed Wen Yiduo and Feng Youlan with beards to sit up, saying that the two old gentlemen were very respectable.After hearing this, Wu Han interjected: "It's wrong, although his virtue is small, he is not very young. He (Wen Yiduo) will only be forty-five next year."