Chapter 10 hobbies

Jin Yuelin studied political science in his early years and had unique insights into political theory. His doctoral dissertation is still cited by foreign scholars half a century later.He is proficient in English and usually thinks about philosophical issues in English.He can accurately distinguish the pronunciation of different parts of the UK, and his prose written in English has been selected as a model essay by the foreign language department of the university.He likes poetry. Not only can he recite many famous ancient poems, but he can also make comments on ancient poems that amaze the Fang family.He is good at making couplets, and often embeds the names of his friends into the couplets, which are naturally integrated and amazing.He has a high appreciation for painting, especially a deep understanding of the layout and artistic conception of landscape paintings.

He loves Peking Opera very much, and has a collection of records of many famous actors in his home. He said that he can hear the sound when he looks at the records, and he can sing himself.He likes to play tennis, and he looks like a professional athlete in high-end tennis uniforms. He won the runner-up in a tennis match for foreign students in Paris that year.He also participated in a very high-level cricket fight, defeating a heavy star wing with a 9% red tooth black.He believes that fighting crickets involves a high degree of technology, art and science.He is also a gourmet, who can speak eloquently about the different characteristics of Chinese cuisine and national cuisines such as Britain, France, Germany, Italy and the United States, and can distinguish many different kinds of sweetness. What he appreciates most is "sweetness mixed with other things". .

Mr. Jin Yuelin studies philosophy, but he has read a lot of novels.From Proust to Sherlock Holmes, watch them all.I heard that he loves watching Pingjiang Buxiaosheng's "Legend of Heroes of Jianghu". Mr. King is a bachelor with no children, but he lives happily.He raised a very large game cock (a game cock from Yunnan).This fighting cock can stretch its neck up and eat at the same table as Mr. Jin.He collected big pears and pomegranates everywhere, and used them to compete with other professors' children.If he loses the competition, he will give the pear or pomegranate to his little friend, and he will buy it again.

Jin Yuelin loves raising chickens.In his old memories, he said that before liberation, the first time he raised chickens was a pair of black wolf pheasants bought from a temple fair in Beijing.After raising it for a short time, the rooster already weighed nine catties and four ounces.The hen also weighed more than 9 catties.When winter came, he didn't have a house for them to stay overnight. He was afraid that they would be cold, so he found a book for reference. The book said that he could feed some cod liver oil to keep out the cold.He just filled a tube.As a result, according to his words, he died soon in the nest.

Jin Yuelin loves to raise big gamecocks, and there are many cricket tanks in the corner of the house.When eating, the big fighting cock stretched out its neck and pecked at the dishes on the table majestically, but he was so peaceful and shared the meal with the chicken as an equal. When Yang Buwei and Zhao Yuanren were traveling in Europe in 1924, they met Jin Yuelin.At that time, Kim was on a study tour in Europe, traveling with his foreign girlfriends Lilian Taylor and Emma. Lilian Taylor, whose Chinese name is Qin Lilian, is a lady Jin met in the United States and came to Europe with Jin. In 1925, Jin Yuelin returned to China, and Qin Lilian also came to China.She advocates not getting married, but she is very interested in family life in China and is willing to experience family life from within the family. In 1926, introduced by Zhao Yuanren, Jin Yuelin went to Tsinghua University to teach logic.Jin Yuelin doesn't live in Tsinghua, but lives in Beijing with Qin Lilian.

One day, Jin Yuelin called and said he had something urgent to invite Yang Buwei to the city.When Yang asked what was the matter, Jin refused to say, but said that he must invite you to lie down, the sooner the better, and when the matter is settled, please eat roast duck.Yang Buwei is a doctor. He thought Qin Lilian was pregnant, and said that I can't do anything illegal.Jin replied that he probably did not break the law.Yang Buwei and Zhao Yuanren entered the city suspiciously. When they arrived at Jin Yuelin's house, Qin Lilian came to open the door, but Yang Buwei was still staring at her belly.After entering the door, Yang realized that it was not a human being but a chicken.Jin raised a chicken, and for three days, a single egg could not be laid.When Yang Buwei heard this, he was angry and funny.The chicken was caught and checked. It turned out that Jin often fed it cod liver oil, so that the chicken weighed eighteen pounds, so the eggs could not be laid, but half of them were already outside, and Yang Buwei pulled them out as soon as he took them out.When Jin Yuelin saw it, he was amazed.Afterwards, to congratulate them, they went to a roast duck restaurant to eat roast duck together.

Jin Yuelin is a "double gentleman": he is both addicted to smoking and alcohol.He not only drank white wine, rice wine and beer, but also often got drunk.He also said: "I used to be a smoker. I used to smoke water pipes, but I didn't like them very much. I smoked paper cigarettes the most, and I was addicted to them. I used to smoke good ones, but I couldn't smoke cheap ones. I like pipe tobacco very much, and I use pipes as Art works to appreciate. The best smoke is cigars. In Germany, I once smoked a huge cigar, finished it in one sitting, and got drunk... I am always optimistic. When it was over, it was the time when I was drunk."