Chapter 83 serious

Feng Zikai said: "Mr. Xia Yuzun once pointed out a characteristic of Mr. Li Shutong's life. He said: 'Do the same, look like the same.' When I was a celebrity, I was like a celebrity; when I was a drama, I was like an actor; I was learning oil painting, like an artist; I was learning piano, like a musician; I was running a newspaper, like an editor; He is an eminent monk. How can Mr. Li do everything like the same? It is because he does everything 'seriously, solemnly, and dedicatedly'." Ouyang Yuqian recalled that Li Shutong's acting was not for fun, and his attitude was very serious: "He often looks for materials in paintings, and pays great attention to the posture of movements. He has a lot of headgear and clothes, and he dresses up alone in the room and looks in the mirror. I used myself as a model for my own research. When I got the result, I tried to act on the stage according to the result.”

Li Shutong was able to call out many students' names in the first class he taught in a two-level normal school.It was only later that the students found out that a few days before the start of school, Li took back the student registers and recorded the names of the students carefully. Feng Zikai recalled: "Mr. Li has a one-hour class, and I'm afraid it will take half a day to prepare. Because he wants to use the fifty minutes most economically, everything that must be written on the blackboard in this class must be written in advance. OK. The blackboard is a special double blackboard. After using one, push it away and use the second one. The class bell did not ring, and Mr. Li had already sat on the podium to "wait" for the students. Don’t dare to be late. Often the class bell has not rung, but Mr. Li and all the students have arrived. As soon as the bell rings, Mr. Li stands up and bows, and then starts class. He often looks at his watch during class, and follows the lesson plans he has set up precisely. Not a single second was wasted, which shows that he spends a lot of energy and time preparing lessons."

Li Shutong always uses the half hour before breakfast, the three quarters of an hour between lunch and class, and the three periods after 4:00 pm until before going to bed to conduct extracurricular exercises of picture music for students.These two classes require individual teaching, so students take turns to go to be taught during these periods, but Li Shutong has no rest, he always advances lunch and dinner, and then works from morning to night.He spends almost all of his energy and time on educating students, and the two courses of music and drawing that he presided over have also become extremely important courses in the school.

Every time in art history class, Li Shutong always collects representative works of various eras and famous artists in advance, writes them on a note, and shows them to the students.Before the start of each semester, he will make a detailed compilation of the content and order of the teaching in this semester, and notify the students in advance. In 1915, Li Shutong sent his student Li Hongliang to Nanjing Higher Normal School (the predecessor of Southeast University) to take over as a substitute.After the meeting, Li Shutong showed Li Hongliang the teaching progress of this semester, and after telling him the situation in the school in detail, he specially instructed: the bedroom is far away from the teachers' lounge, so you must align your watch with the big clock in the clock tower every morning , because the sound of the trumpet is sometimes inaudible.If you have something to go out, when you call the car back to the school, you must make it clear to the driver that you will take it to the teacher's room, otherwise the front door is very far from the teacher's room.When eating, remember that each person has two pairs of chopsticks and two spoons. If you feel inconvenient, you can take care of the kitchen and bring the food to your room alone.And the worker who manages the room, you have to pay attention and so on.

Master Hongyi gave a lecture on the Law at Zhanshan Temple, and gave a lecture on "Random Karma".In class, he does not sit in the front seat of the lecture hall, but sets up another table at the side to study with everyone, and does not regard himself as a teacher.Because of his frail health, he only spoke for half an hour in each class, and his speech was concise and he did not say superfluous words.He spends a long time preparing before each class. The Huotou monk of Zhanshan Temple recalled that when the class was over on the first day, Hong Yi said: "I have studied the precepts for more than 20 years, and I have prepared the first class this time. Seven hours." After more than a dozen lectures, Hongyi was really unable to hold on, so he could only ask his disciple Renkai to speak for him. He was responsible for compiling the lecture notes and answering questions.After talking about "Random Karma", he also talked about "The Precepts of the Quarterly Law Bhikkhu with Notes".