Chapter 31 flaw

According to the "Scholar's Essays", a certain professor used to have a good friendship with Feng Youlan when he was in Southwest Associated University and Tsinghua University, but when he went to foreign countries for several academic conferences, Feng Youlan pretended not to know him when they met him. In 1971, Feng Youlan wrote a poem and entrusted Xie Jingyi, a minion of the Gang of Four, to convey to Mao Zedong: "Those who save things generally will never abandon them, and those who are good at saving others will never abandon them. With Dongfeng's hard work, the rotten plants will also be green." Later Feng Youlan wrote the poem "Ode to History" again.After the great earthquake in 1976, Jiang Qing came to see him, and he took the opportunity to write a poem praising Mao Zedong and the Gang of Four: "The chairman's care is like the rising sun, and the cheers of the crowd are better than the cold night."Be criticized by people.

In the spring of 1973, Liang Shuming had lunch at Feng Youlan's home. They talked for a long time before leaving. Liang Shuming recalled: "Shortly after the start of the 'criticize Lin Biao Confucius' movement, I saw him publish an article in the newspaper, contrary to his own traditional views, and followed the trend of denying Confucius 100%, I felt very uncomfortable, so I wrote I wrote a letter criticizing him and asked him to answer why I did this. Not long after, he met me quietly, accompanied by his daughter, and described his reasons, including his difficulties. I still insist on my point of view, and it is wrong to criticize him. But he explained it to me face-to-face, and my heart became calmer. Everyone has his own ambitions and difficulties, so you can discipline yourself, so why force it on others!"

Feng Youlan was drawn into the writing group "Liang Xiao" of the Gang of Four. It is said that after the Cultural Revolution ended, his wife complained to him, saying: "It was almost dawn, and I even took a pee on the kang!" For Feng Youlan's 90th birthday, Ren Jiyu, Zhang Dainian, Li Zehou and other celebrities were invited to a family banquet, and Liang Shuming was also invited.Not only did Liang not go to the banquet, but he also wrote a letter to Feng, to the effect that we were the only old people in Peking University left, and we should meet, but he didn't want to come to the birthday banquet because he flattered Jiang Qing.Moreover, there was no previous paragraph in the letter. According to Feng Youlan's understanding, "if you can see its meaning, Gai doesn't want to have a title."In other words, he didn't want to call Feng an "old classmate" or "old friend", and he was ashamed to be a friend, so he didn't ask for a payment.Feng Youlan still deeply admired Liang Zhi's uprightness, and wrote back, "I don't dare to have regrets, and I am very moved by the frankness and frankness of the letter, thinking that although the legacy of the past cannot be passed."

On June 23, 1987, a generation of Confucianist Liang Shuming passed away, and Feng Youlan sent such an elegiac couplet: Ms. Wang Youqin wrote in "Mr. Lin Tao and the History of the Cultural Revolution": Mr. Lin was locked in a room with Professor Zhang Tingqian of the Chinese Department.One day Zhang Tingqian said that he was very distressed because Professor Feng Youlan said that he was a member of the Kuomintang District Party Committee when he was in Southwest Associated University, and that would be a "historical counter-revolution".Feng Youlan's daughter Zong Pu and Qian Zhongshu's wife Yang Jiang also caused a pen-and-ink lawsuit because of Zhang Tingqian's Cultural Revolution.