Chapter 37 outspoken

Fu Sinian's old school foundation is very solid. In his early years, he liked Li Shangyin's poems in the Tang Dynasty the most, and later scolded Li Shangyin as a monster.Luo Jialun asked him: "When you liked Li Shangyin, why didn't you say he was a demon?" Fu replied, "I was also a demon at that time!" In 1920, "Xin Chao" published an article by Fu Sinian, in which he wrote about his impressions of studying in Europe and passing through Shanghai.After the publication of this article, Shanghainese, especially Shanghainese men resented and resisted, thinking that Fu Sinian had vilified Shanghainese.Fu Sinian wrote:

"Living in Shanghai was very short, and I didn't get much benefit. But when I saw the 'pheasant' in the area of ​​Fourth Ma Road, I could not only be shocked, but also cry bitterly. The social organization is poor, and there is such a strange situation; , then mourn but don’t be happy!' I think there is a great smell in Shanghai, that is, 'easy to imitate'. Please see that in Shanghai dialect, all nouns are mostly imitated. They do not directly state the facts, but describe them. Using A to replace B, and C to compare D, the result is nothing more than disgusting. As for the imitation of actions, let alone. From imitating "Cangsheng" to imitating "Foreign Babies", although the difference is different, we must They are all imitations. A woman of a good family imitates the clothes of a prostitute, and a son of a good family imitates the clothes of a woman of a good family, or even directly imitates the clothes of a prostitute.”

After the victory of the Northern Expedition, Fu Sinian and others were having dinner at Mr. Cai Yuanpei's house. Several of his classmates were drunk, and Mr. Cai drank even more.He said: "Our country is in order. Not only do we have to destroy the Japanese devils, but also the Western devils, and we must also drive him out of the west of the Suez Canal, from the Arctic Ocean to the Southern Ocean, except for India, Persia, and Turkey. Ask for 'of the counties and counties'." Mr. Cai became impatient when he heard this, and said, "Unless you become a general."

In 1927, Shi Fu Sinian was teaching at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, where he was the head of the department and also the dean.One day he had a quarrel with others, and after the quarrel, he found his friends Luo Jialun, He Siyuan and others. As soon as they met, he threw his purse on the ground, sat on the ground with his buttocks, yelled, opened his mouth and cried loudly, insisting that they help him to fight and vent his anger . In 1927, Li Dazhao was martyred, and newspapers published news that Li was "executed" in Beiping.Fu Sinian retorted that it was not "execution", but "victimization".

In 1932, Chen Duxiu was arrested, and Fu Sinian defended him, saying that Chen was "a brilliant comet in the history of Chinese revolution". Before Fu Sinian met Ding Wenjiang, he hated Ding Wenjiang's political stance, and even scolded Ding Wenjiang in front of Hu Shi, saying: "If I see Ding Wenjiang, I must kill him!" Later, Hu Shi introduced the two to each other, but they quickly became irreversible at the turn of.Ding Wenjiang was critically ill in Changsha, and it was Fu Sinian who was the first to rush from Beijing to take care of him. When Zhu Jiahua acted as the president of Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, he specially arranged the best and most expensive banquet for Zhao Yuanren, Yang Buwei, his wife and Fu Sinian.Zhao Yuanren and his wife left first after eating. Yang Buwei saw a Beijing noodle stall with fried sauce on the side of the road. He ordered a bowl and was waiting to taste it. Fu Sinian and Zhu Jiahua came from behind.Zhu felt sorry for not satisfying the guests; Fu complained that Yang ate on the street, which was not good.Yang said, "What's wrong with it? Can't you eat on the street?"

Fu Sinian has always opposed the promotion of traditional Chinese medicine. In 1938, when Fu Sinian was a national senator, because of the problem of traditional Chinese medicine, he argued fiercely with Kong Geng, a senator and a descendant of Confucius. "You insulted me. I will fight you after the meeting." After the meeting, Fu Sinian really stopped the door, but when he saw that Kong Geng's body was so thin, he immediately lowered his hands and said: "You are so old and thin, I won't duel with you, let you scold me!" In the 1940s, He Ziquan worked as an editor at the Central Training Committee of the Kuomintang in Chongqing.One day while walking in the yard, Fu Sinian happened to come out of Duan Xipeng's room with his hat tilted and sweating profusely.Fu Sinian smiled and said to He Ziquan: "Shuyi (Duan Xipeng) and I came to grab the books, but he couldn't grab me." He looked very proud.

When Fu Sinian "bombarded" Kong Xiangxi, Chiang Kai-shek hosted a special banquet for Fu Sinian, thinking that Kong Xiangxi would intercede.When Fu Sinian was elated and talking, Chiang Kai-shek gently persuaded him: "Mr. Meng Zhen, do you trust me?" Fu Sinian replied: "I absolutely do." Chiang Kai-shek said: "Since you trust me, then you should trust me. people." Fu Sinian immediately said: "I trust the chairman. As for saying that because you trust you, you should also trust the people you use, well, I can't say that if I cut off my head!" Chiang Kai-shek was silent for a while, and went out. Unexpectedly, everyone smiled and nodded.

After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, after the Institute of History and Linguistics and most of the staff of the Central Museum moved back to Nanjing from Lizhuang, Fu Sinian hosted a banquet in the lecture hall of the Academia Sinica building.During the banquet, Fu Sinian reminisced about the relocation of the Institute of History and Language. When talking about the eight years of the Anti-Japanese War and the arduous life, when he talked about the emotion, he choked up tears several times, and all the people present were deeply moved by it. weep with grief.In the end, Fu Sinian held up his wine glass, cheered up, and said with enthusiasm: "Congratulations to everyone who is lucky to return, and at the same time, all the hard work in the past is over. From now on, we can work with peace of mind. The eight years of homelessness at the Institute of History and Language Say it's over. Never move after moving back."

In 1949, MacArthur, commander of the Allied Forces, visited Taiwan. At that time, the Kuomintang government had just retreated to Taiwan and urgently needed the protection of the US military. Therefore, MacArthur was regarded as the overlord.When MacArthur's special plane arrived in Taiwan, Chiang Kai-shek personally led the president of the Fifth Academy, the commander-in-chief of the armed forces and other dignitaries to greet him at the airport, and informed Fu Sinian to be there. Although Fu Sinian went to the airport, he showed a distinctive style. In the photo, there were only three people seated in the VIP room of the airport that day, Chiang Kai-shek, MacArthur and Fu Sinian, the deans of the other five academies and dignitaries were waiting with hands down. Legs, unrestrained and unrestrained.At that time, the newspaper said: "Fu Sinian is the only one who dares to sit on an equal footing with the President and Mai Shuai in the VIP room of the airport."

Professor Yang Zhijiu, an expert on Yuan history, talked about an anecdote with his master Fu Sinian.Mr. Fu loves Yang Zhijiu, a student, and intends to send him to study abroad and prepare for it. But Yang declined because he was too old and ready to get married. Mr. Fu dismissed him as "worthless".Yang has been both regretful and grateful for this matter. Hu Shi said in his eulogy to Fu Sinian, "If someone attacks me, Meng Zhen will stand up to defend me. He often said: 'You are not worthy of scolding Mr. Shizhi!' Meaning, only he himself is worthy of scolding me."