Chapter 17 2. Feng Youlan

It is Feng Youlan's habit to sit behind the podium with a blank face every time before class, staring blankly at the students for a minute or two, and then start class with a smile on her face. Feng Youlan often indulges in thinking. After the fall of Nanjing in 1938, Wuhan was in an emergency, and Southwest Associated University began to relocate in mid-February 1938.One day, when the car passed by the city gate of Pingxiang, Feng Youlan broke his left arm by the city wall because his left arm was outside the car window.In this story, Professor Jin Yuelin once joked to Feng Youlan’s youngest daughter, Zong Pu: “At that time, the driver told everyone not to put your hands out of the window and to pass through the city gate. Everyone else took a snapshot, but only your father heard this. Then consider why it cannot be placed outside the window, what is the difference between putting it outside the window and not putting it outside the window, and what is its universal and special significance. I haven’t finished thinking about it yet, and it’s broken.”

Zong Pu recalled that when he was in the Southwest Associated University, the Japanese army invaded and life was difficult. Some teachers and students of the school could not bear the poverty, so they went to the Yunnan-Burma Highway to sell some supplies from Yangon and other places to Yunnan, and "go to sea" to do business. The situation is somewhat similar to now.Feng Youlan said many times at school and at home that people's hearts can't be used for two purposes, no matter how hard life is, they can't be distracted, and they still devote themselves wholeheartedly to his writings.

In his later years, Shen Xin studied in his study, and Mr. Feng Youlan had less contact with the outside world. Naturally, he didn't understand some things very timely and accurately.At this time, his daughter Zong Pu, as one of Mr. Feng's "eyes and ears" to communicate with the outside world, intentionally revealed some news about the outside world to Mr. Feng. The "Cultural Revolution" suddenly broke out, and the world was in chaos. Zong Pu was working at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, so he would naturally hear all kinds of rumors.One day when she came home, she told her father: Now outsiders are saying that the Jiang Qing organization criticizes Lin and Confucius, and the target is actually alluding to the Prime Minister... A reminder to Zong Pu, Mr. Feng, who wholeheartedly follows the new China, can't turn this corner, so hurry up Stop it very seriously: Don't dare to talk nonsense?You can't split the center!Zong Pu said: At that time, my father didn't listen to "gossip", he only believed in "big news".

During the "Cultural Revolution", Feng Youlan was dragged to a high platform by the rebels to "criticise and fight", and the crowd was passionate. Feng silently recited in his heart, "Bodhi has no tree, and the mirror is not a stand; there is nothing, where is the dust." Feng Youlan lost her eyesight and eyesight in her later years, and claimed to be "dumb as a chicken".Feng Youlan has a long life, everyone asks the secret of longevity, he only has three words "don't... worry... urgent". Feng Youlan and Jin Yuelin were the same age. In 1983, when the two old gentlemen were doing the 88-year-old "Mi Shou" (the rice character is 88), Feng Youlan wrote two couplets, one for himself and one for Jin Yuelin.The pairing for myself is: "It's not limited to rice, but tea is used for the phase; the mind is four-fold, and the intention is to send three pine." It means that you can't stop at "rice longevity", and hope to live to "tea birthday" (tea birthday: 108 years old) , "卄" above the word "tea" is twenty, and the bottom can also be divided into eighty-eight).The couplet for Jin Yuelin is: "It's not limited to rice, but tea is used to match each other; when talking about high white horses, Tao surpasses green cattle." The theory of "a white horse is not a horse" is higher; the theory of Dao surpasses Lao Tzu who is riding a green bull.