Chapter 106 temperament

Cai Yuanpei was appointed as the president of Peking University, and invited Ma Yifu to come out again to serve as the dean of Peking University's liberal arts department. When the warlord Sun Chuanfang was the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces of the five southeastern provinces, he visited Ma Yifu admiringly, but Ma refused to meet him.Fearing Sun Chuanfang's power, the family members said to him, "Can you tell Sun Chuanfang that you are out?" Ma Yifu said decisively, "Tell him: I am at home, but I just don't see you!" Sun Chuanfang couldn't step down.

Master Guangqia of Singapore admires Ma Yifu very much. Seeing that Ma Yifu is very frugal, he always wants to send some money to make up for his shortage every time he returns to China. Take the things and eat them, how about eleven squares?" During the war, Ma Yifu lived in Leshan, Sichuan for 6 years, running an academy, accepting students, and writing books.The mother of Kong Xiangxi, the powerful finance minister of the Kuomintang, passed away, and the funeral was extremely luxurious. Kong Xiangxi sent someone to ask Ma Yifu to write an epitaph praising his mother, but Ma Yifu tactfully refused.Kong Xiangxi did not give up, so he sent someone Yangma Yifu to write the epitaph, and promised to pay him a thousand taels of gold.When Ma Yifu heard that it was a money transaction, he immediately stood up from his chair and said coldly, "I never bend my waist for five buckets of rice, please go back!"

Ma Yifu went to Sichuan to run an academy, and when he arrived in Chongqing, he received a grand reception from the officials.Chiang Kai-shek hosted a banquet in person, and after the banquet was over, he deliberately pulled Ma Yifu aside, saying that he had always admired the master's virtue and wanted to ask for advice on how to govern the country.Ma Yifu declined again and again, and finally said: "Wei Confucianism has two words to tell you: only sincerity can touch people, and only emptiness can touch things. This is the fundamental law of governing the country." Chiang Kai-shek couldn't help being stunned.Ma Yifu was unwilling to be involved in the political vortex as a "teacher of the emperor", so he quickly turned the topic to the affairs of the academy, and Chiang Kai-shek immediately promised to allocate 30,000 yuan as a fund for the construction of the academy.

Wang Boyin is a high-achieving student in the academy. He is very intelligent and understands poetry. He has been asking Ma Yifu for ten years.On the other hand, Ma Yifu deliberately trained him to become a writer, and often changed poems for him, until the last poem "Autumn Yin" before he became seriously ill.After Wang Boyin's death, Ma Yifu was very sorry, and wrote a poem "Sorrow for Wang Boyin" to commemorate him.He wrote in the preface before the poem: "Before he was ill, he used the five character genus of "Qiu Yin" as a point, and gave him a short rhythm. It doesn't mean that it was not ten days old, so it became a must. Because I wrote this with Zhiwu Sorrow makes you know after death, and expresses your sorrow."

There are many rules for Ma Yifu to write and sell calligraphy.When writing for others, I don't like adding titles and payment. If payment is necessary, the profit will be doubled.He sells calligraphy, and there are 5 "not books": one does not write the tombstones of the ancestral hall, the other does not write the longevity couplet, the preface, and the memorial, the third does not write the obituary, the description, and the praise, and the four does not write the inscription and Shixian's works , Wubu Book Market Recruitment.In addition, there are no books without introductions, no books with established records, and no books with inscriptions and postscripts on calligraphy and painting rubbings.Others wrote poems and asked him to write them, all of which were limited to one poem.

In September 1953, at the CPPCC National Conference, Liang Shuming had a "court dispute without a break" due to his different views with Mao Zedong. After Liang contradicted Chairman Mao at the meeting, he insisted on his own opinion and never admitted defeat.For three days in a row, the atmosphere of the meeting was extremely tense, and no one dared to slow down.Zhou Enlai saw that the matter was urgent, so he called Mr. Shen Yinmo in Shanghai and asked him to go to Hangzhou to invite Mr. Ma Yifu to Beijing to persuade Mr. Liang to review in order to protect Mr. Liang to pass the customs.But Mr. Ma Yifu flatly refused, saying: "I know that Mr. Liang is a strong and unyielding man. If he thinks the reason is right, even if he persuades him, it will be useless."

In 1958, Ma Yifu once wrote a "Self-inscribed Tomb Citation" for himself: "Who is feasting on this mountain? He is called Ma Fu. He is old and peaceful, and he will have no desire to forget his worries. Learn Not enough to be famous, or the same stream of Confucianism and Mohism. Taoism cannot be said to be happy, and life cannot be sought after. Follow my goodness and stay away from vulgarity. Thinking about poverty and mystery is extremely secluded. But resentment. Only fitness is to fulfill one's life, like the return of a long-time guest. Going away, taking advantage of transformation. The cicada sloughs off at the site, according to the ancestors. The body and the name are both obliterated. , why do you have a husband to stay?"

In 1963, Ma Yifu dedicated 357 pieces (volumes) of calligraphy masterpieces he had made over the years to the country; the next year, he dedicated the only Song painting in his collection to the country. Ma Yifu once said to his family: "Buddhism regards life and death as a major event, while Confucianism believes that life and death are the same day and night, the same cold and heat, and the same breath, but it is a common thing." Ma Yifu wrote a poem when he was dying: