Chapter 48 anecdote

Fu Sinian was intelligent and eager to learn since he was a child, and he was familiar with Confucian classics. He was known as the "No. 1 Talent in the Yellow River Basin" and another "Fu Sage" in the past two thousand years after Confucius. Fu Sinian went to Tianjin Fuli No. 1 Middle School to study. When he first entered the school, because the student dormitory had not yet been built, he lived in Yinglian's home for several months.During this period, Fu Sinian actually became friends with Ying Lianzhi, who was more than 30 years older than him.Ying Qianli, Ying Lianzhi's son, once recalled Fu Sinian: "When I lived in my house, I was not very close to him, because in the eyes of a nine-year-old naughty child, seeing this fourteen-year-old Brother Fu is a tall and dignified "adult". Every day after school, in addition to reviewing his homework, he would accompany his late father to discuss some Chinese and foreign current affairs or classics and historical articles. He would never play or be naughty with me, a "little bean". So I have only 'awe and awe' towards him, although after forty years, I haven't completely got rid of it."

Fu Sinian's graduation exam results in June of the fifth year of the Republic of China (1916) are recorded here: 93 points in Western History, 85 points in Economics, 94 points in Psychology, 94 points in English Composition, 96 points in Theory, 98 points in Classical English, 80 points in General Law, 98 points in English Literature, 97 points in German Grammar Reading, 99 points in Article Studies, Geography 100 points, 99 points for history, 85 points for philology, 95 points for ethics, 70 points for Latin, 100 points for conduct, and 3 points for absenteeism. The total is 1482 points, the total average is 92.6 points, and the actual score is 94.6 points.

Fu Sinian entered Peking University to study liberal arts because he was influenced by Zhang Taiyan, a master of Chinese studies at that time, and at that time Peking University's liberal arts were mostly dominated by Zhang Taiyan's disciples.Fu Sinian stood out among his classmates, and was valued and cultivated by Huang Kan, Chen Hanzhang, and Liu Shipei. They expected this student to inherit the mantle of Zhang's School in the future.The classmates around him also looked at Si Nian with admiration and kept them in awe. Some even called him "the first person after Confucius".According to Mao Zishui's recollection: "In my opinion, his wish at that time was really to understand the whole of the so-called 'Chinese studies' at that time; but language and characters were the way to read all books, so he entrusted himself with the Department of Chinese Literature. At that time, Peking University's Literature and History The study atmosphere of science students was greatly influenced by Mr. Zhang Taiyan’s theory. Mr. Fu was also one of the people who believed in the Zhang family at first, but because of his outstanding talents, he soon rushed out of the Zhang family’s cage; , Sometimes it is unavoidable to have a contemptuous tone. It is not so much to live up to the kindness of the enlightenment, but rather to say that it is because of the fact that I have worked hard on that school, so I have seen more clearly the disadvantages of that school, and even hated it more deeply.”

When Huang Kan was teaching at Peking University, he admired his name. There were many scholars from him, and his disciples were called "Huangmen servants".Before Fu Sinian got acquainted with Hu Shi, he was one of the masters in the "Huangmen Servant". In the autumn of 1919, the Shandong Provincial Department of Education recruited foreign students with government fees from the province, and Fu Sinian was selected with the second place in the province.However, in order to allow their cronies to study abroad, those in power regarded Fu as a "fierce element rather than a well-behaved student" in the May 4th Movement, a "vicious leader of student demonstrations", a "dangerous radical who beat, smashed, looted and burned. " and other reasons, refused to admit.A section chief named Chen Xuenan from the Shandong Provincial Department of Education stood up to fight for a place for Fu Sinian against all opinions, and said, "If a student with such excellent grades is not allowed to study abroad, what kind of education is there?" A group of officials with cultural conscience also took the opportunity to stand up for Fu Sinian.In the end, due to various considerations, those in power finally made concessions and included Fu in the list of government-funded international students.When Fu Sinian heard the good news, he yelled "My mother!" on the spot and almost passed out.

In 1924, Zhao Yuanren and his wife went to Berlin and met Fu Sinian.Zhao Yuanren discovered that although the Chinese students studying abroad at that time came from all over the country, they almost all spoke the four tones of the national accent, yin, yang, up, and down. Only Fu Sinian still had the accent of "Flash Dong Liaocheng" (Liaocheng, Shandong).Zhao Yuanren chatted with him, only to realize that it was not that he could not speak Beijing dialect, but that he disdained to speak it.It turned out that Fu Sinian went to Beijing to study at university, and the whole family moved to live in Beijing.At that time, the servants they hired were all Beijing locals.Fu Sinian learned Beijing dialect not long after he entered school. His family members laughed at him when they heard that he had changed his Beijing dialect, "Why did you speak the old mother's language?" They laughed back Fu Sinian's Beijing dialect, and his " Flash Dong material scale" and laughed again.

Fu Sinian once wrote an article in "Shenzhen Free Talk", describing the philosophy of life contained in 136 mahjong tiles.To be able to win in mahjong, the key is to have good luck and good luck. "The life of us Chinese is also like this. As long as we are lucky, the opportunity is good, and the journey is smooth, the secretary can be the chairman, and the horse will be the supervisor. If the lottery ticket can be won If you win the first lottery, not only can you get celebrities and famous people at your fingertips, but it is also very easy to be a director or director. Therefore, we Chinese pay the most attention to the destiny..." You said: "This is like People's attachment to life, no matter how desperate, is unwilling to give up the will to live and commit suicide."

Fu Sinian said that in China, courtiers and concubines have always been treated equally, and the bureaucratic style is the style of concubines.A bureaucrat's outlook on life: try to flatter and flatter his masters; Fu Si was poor and poor in his childhood, so he can have a deeper understanding of society and human relationships.During a chat, student He Ziquan once asked him how he knew so much about people and the world.He said: "I am also cheap when I am young, so I can do more despicable things." Professor Zhang Zhenglang once told He Ziquan that during the Anti-Japanese War, he accompanied Fu Sinian to Sichuan and waited for a ship change in Yichang.He cleaned up and found a book under Fu's pillow, which was "Das Kapital"!

In 1939, Jin Kemu visited Fu Sinian in Kunming.The two met in an old temple-style house, a large room separated by a white curtain, and there were only tables and chairs inside.Jin Kemu recalled that when "Fatty Fu" came out to see me with a pipe in his mouth, he didn't put on airs and didn't ask why he came.After sitting at the table with each other, the first sentence he said was: "History is a big grocery store." It was not like a lecture, nor like a conversation, but rather like whining to himself.Without saying a few words, Fu Sinian said that no one studied "Western History".Jin Kemu interrupted him and proposed a professor.Fu Sinian took a puff from his big pipe and said, "That's teaching, not research." At this time, Jin Kemu found that the pipe was filled with fragments of Yunnan tobacco leaves, not foreign tobacco shreds, and the fire had long been extinguished, only smoking, not smoking. "I don't know Greek, don't look at the original materials, and study some Greek history." Fu Sinian encouraged Jin Kemu to learn Greek, and gave Jin Kemu a copy of Caesar's "Gallic Wars" written in Latin with English annotations. "When he talked about Latin, he still persuaded me to learn Greek. He went all over the world, talking endlessly, with a lot of English and ancient languages ​​in between, and he didn't care if I interrupted."

Dong Zuobin once ridiculed the Academia Sinica and the Institute of History and Philology at that time: "Mr. Zhu Jiahua is the acting dean, Mr. Fu Sinian is the acting director-general, and Mr. Li Fanggui is the acting director. Our group consists of three generations (easy-going note: refers to Xia, Shang , Zhou, the people below the so-called best era of Confucianism!" Na Lianjun’s memoir article mentioned the scene of Fu Sinian’s life in Kunming: Mr. Fu took a rickshaw in Kunming, probably from Tuodong Road to his residence in Dihuaxiang.The rickshaw pullers in Kunming always run fast when they pull up their carts, just the opposite of the gentle and slow walk of the Changsha rickshaw pullers. rush down.This time, because Mr. Fu was fat and heavy, he approached the death slope (just beside the green lake, it is a relic of the Nanming Dynasty, and there is still an inscription "Emperor Yongli was martyred"). It was a huge slope, and the car slid down quickly. , slipped too hard, so the car overturned, the people in the car fell off, and the car broke down.The funny thing is that instead of apologizing, the driver blamed the passenger for being overweight and asked him to pay for the car.

Fu Sinian, Li Jihuan and Qiu Shanyuan attended a banquet together in Chongqing.When the banquet was over, the host hired sliders especially for the three of them.Six workers carrying sliding poles stood guard in front of the door.The first one to come out was Qiu Shanyuan. Seeing that he was a big fat man, the workers were unwilling to carry him, so they gave way to each other.Li Ji came out second, and the remaining four workers looked fatter than the ones who came out just now, and they gave in to each other again.When Fu Sinian came out at the end, the last two workers were shocked when they saw it, because Fu Sinian was much fatter than the two people just now, so the two workers raised their sliders and turned around and ran away, messing up the treats. The host is very embarrassed!

Fu Sinian's defense of his own obesity was even more incisive.Once Luo Jialun asked him: "How can you, a big fat man, fight with people?" Fu Sinian replied: "I multiply the volume by the speed, and generate a great momentum, which can overwhelm everything!" Fu Sinian is fat, so he also has the common problem of fat people, that is, snoring.Once he and Li Ji went from Yibin to Chongqing, took a boat, and lived in the same room with the crew.The next day, the two complained to each other, saying that the other was snoring too loudly.Later, the crew members who lived with them told them: The two gentlemen snored quite loudly, which caused us to not sleep well all night. Fu Sinian doesn't pay much attention to clothes, and doesn't accumulate property. His hobby, besides studying and doing business, is eating.But because he is fat, he can't eat at will.Mrs. Yu Dacai recalled: "Meng Zhen was forbidden to eat due to illness, and could only eat rice, unsalted vegetables, fruits and a little sweets. I once tried to use pleasing colors to serve bowls and put a few flowers in vases on the dining table, which aroused his attention. But in the face of such a bland diet, who can have an appetite? He deals with school affairs every day, is exhausted, and goes home very hungry to eat. Look at his expression of pineapple juice bibimbap to satisfy his hunger but hard to swallow ,I am so sad." Mao Zedong also admired Fu Sinian very much. In July 1945, Fu and other members of the cultural circle visited Yan'an. At the banquet, Mao Zedong said to Fu Sinian wittily: "We are old acquaintances. I knew you when I was at Peking University. You At that time, he was very famous, and he was called the first person after Confucius!" Fu Sinian said: "Mr. Mao is too famous, that is a joking word from his classmates, it is not worth it." After that, Mao Zedong and Fu chatted for a whole night.Farewell to Mao Ying Fuzhi asked to write a letter as a gift, and attached a book: "I wrote the number as instructed, and it doesn't look like it. Let's talk about it as a souvenir. What Chen She and Wu Guangzhi said today is too modest, so I will use the language of Tang people to broaden it. "The banner wrote an epic poem by Du Mu: "Bamboo, silk and cigarettes are sold to the emperor's business, and Guanhe is empty to lock the ancestor's residence. Shandong is in chaos before the ash is exhausted. Liu Xiang didn't study." For the achievements during the "May 4th Movement", Fu said that we are nothing but Chen She and Wu Guang, and you are Liu Bang and Xiang Yu.Liu and Xiang Xian refer to the leaders of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.The poems written by Mao, "classic" and "modern classics" are very opposite, answering Fu's humility and praising Fu's self-reliance through learning. In November 1945, Mao Zedong published "Qinyuanchun·Snow" in Chongqing's "Xinmin Daily Evening".A week later, Wang Yunsheng wrote to Fu Sinian, copying Mao's poem to him, and asked him to see "what kind of thoughts this man is full of". After the "December 1st" tragedy happened, Fu Sinian put pressure on the professors of the United Nations University. The authorities asked the students to resume classes as soon as possible.At the professors' meeting, Feng Youlan joked to Fu Sinian: "You used to be the head of the students, and you specially made troubles with the school authorities. Now the troubles have come to you. It's really 'see the hair-shavers, people shave their heads'." In 1947, Fu Sinian suffered from high blood pressure and went to the United States for treatment.Yu Dacai recalled: "When he recovered from the hospital, he lost more than 30 pounds. The few sets of clothes he had were too big, and the waistband of his trousers was four inches wider. I remember the day he came home from the hospital, he stepped into the door, Tightening the waist of his trousers with one hand, he said: "I can be said to have a slender waist now, and I am no longer fat Fu." He has never paid attention to clothes. He never made new clothes on the day he was discharged from the hospital. When he died, he still wore those old clothes." As the principal of National Taiwan University, Fu Sinian often went to the night market wonton stalls; squatted on the side of the road to study the chess endgames on the street stalls; wrote signboards for small bookstores.He wrote a banner to bookstores in mainland Taiwan: "Reading is the happiest, and reading books is also fun; reading and reading, enjoy yourself!" Fu Sinian is delicious, and he often can't help eating meat behind his wife's back. Sometimes on the way to work, he goes to a roadside food stand, buys a meat pie or pig's trotters, and eats it deliciously, or occasionally goes to a snack shop to eat his favorite on the way home. He ate northern pasta, and told Secretary Na Lianjun who was traveling with him: "I am a glutton, so don't tell my wife when I get home." Due to high blood pressure, Fu Sinian could only eat vegetables and simple food without salt or oil every day. His wife was afraid that he would go out to eat too much, so she only gave him a small amount of money to buy some sugar and a few slices of bread.So when he was the president of National Taiwan University, students found that he would sometimes go to the restaurant after meals, go to the welfare agency to buy bread, and eat while walking. Once, Na Lianjun, the secretary who was off work, was eating in the secretary's office. Fu Sinian happened to come to see him. He saw greasy stewed meat and yellow burnt bread in Na Lianjun's lunch box. He probably didn't know the taste of meat in March. Feeling greedy, he picked it up with one hand and stuffed it into his mouth. While eating, he said happily, "Meat in bread is a very good sandwich." The secretary was amused by his funny greasy hands, But after laughing, I feel a bit bitter.Na Lian sighed: "Principal Fu has been spending all his time on Taiwan University for the past year and ten months, except for the time for eating and sleeping. A generation of great scholars work so hard for official business every day, but they don't even have a delicious meal." You can't even enjoy the food!" On the eve of Fu Sinian's death, he published an interesting talk. He said: Mr. Jiang Menglin is not as good as Mr. Cai Zimin in knowledge, but he is worse than Mr. Cai in his work.I am not as knowledgeable as Hu Shizhi, but I am better at handling affairs than Mr. Hu.Finally, he criticized Mr. Cai and Hu with a smile and said: "These two gentlemen are really unflattering." Jiang Menglin who was present added: "Meng Zhen, what you said is absolutely right, so the two of them are from Peking University. Heroes, the two of us are just meritorious dogs of Peking University." He Ziquan, a student of Fu Sinian, visited National Taiwan University with his wife, and paid homage to Fu Sinian's tomb with his companions.A few people were strolling in Fu Garden, when Mr. He suddenly disappeared.Everyone looked around and found that he was kneeling in front of Mr. Meng Zhen's tomb with tears streaming down his face.Mr. He Ziquan wrote in his autobiography: "We went to pay homage to Mr. Fu's tomb. First bowed three times in front of the tomb, and then went around to the tomb. I knelt down and mourned in silence... thinking of Mr. Fu's love for me before his death, I cried It is. It is raining heavily at this time, and the wind and rain are miserable."