Chapter 128 8. Liang Shuming

Liang Shuming has been pursuing two issues throughout his life: one is the issue of life, that is, why people live; the other is the issue of China, that is, where is China going. Liang Shuming's life was full of legends: he started reading at the age of 6, but he couldn't wear pants; he went to four primary schools and studied ABCD; He was born and raised in the city, but he has been engaged in rural construction for a long time; he has devoted his whole life to the study of Confucianism and traditional Chinese culture. Why do people live; the second is the issue of China, that is, where is China going.

Liang Shuming said: "The right and wrong of my life should be judged by future generations. I am a human being, and what I have practiced all my life is: independent thinking, consistent with the outside and the inside." In the early years of the Republic of China, Liang Shuming graduated from Beijing Shuntian Middle School and applied for Peking University, but unexpectedly failed.He went home and said angrily: "I will definitely be able to ask Peking University to invite me to be a professor in the future!" Liang Shuming has always been indifferent to money. In the 1940s, Liang Shuming ran a school in Beibei, Chongqing. He was in financial difficulties. In order to maintain school expenses, he sold his wife's wedding ring.He was the president of Guangming Daily in Hong Kong, and Sa Kongle was the manager. He set himself a monthly salary of 100 yuan, but Sakongleo set it at 200 yuan.Because he lived frugally and lived alone in Hong Kong, his expenses were small; while Sa Kong left his family in Hong Kong, the burden was heavy, and Liang Bie gave half of his 100 yuan salary to Sa Kong.

When Liang Shuming remarried in 1944, his son Liang Peishu was unwilling to accept his stepmother, so he copied a poem about a widow, "The kindness and righteousness of the old man is so great, I can't bear to fly back together" to his father.Liang Shuming nodded after reading it, and it was considered that the father and son had exchanged opinions. During the Anti-Japanese War, Liang Shuming was running a school in Chongqing. He had a theory of being against the "government", and Shen Zui brought spies into the school to investigate him.Liang Shuming, on the other hand, was upright and awe-inspiring, confronting each other: "I'm just a small scold, it's good for you and the Anti-Japanese War, if you still don't repent, I will scold you again in the future."

Liang Shuming wrote a poem commenting on Guo Moruo: Liang Shuming always regarded Mao Zedong as a friend. On December 26, 1972, Mao Zedong's birthday, Liang Shuming sent the unpublished manuscript of "China—The Land of Reason" to Zhongnanhai as a gift to celebrate Mao Zedong's birthday. 94-year-old Liang Shuming recalled the controversy and said: "At that time, I had a bad attitude and spoke indiscriminately, which made him very embarrassed. I should not have hurt his feelings. This is my fault. Some of his words are not in line with the facts, just like my statements are also inconsistent with the facts, these are inevitable, understandable, nothing. They have passed away for ten years, and I feel deeply lonely." Here "They" obviously included Zhou Enlai.

Zhou Enlai once said that Liang Shuming wanted to "get promoted and get rich" and "always be a reactionary", but Liang Shuming didn't mind.He believes that Zhou has a "high character", and he "will not change his understanding of Zhou because of one incident". During the "Cultural Revolution", he said to his critics: "Pasting up big-character posters for me is the right thing to do... It is all right to criticize me and refute me. This kind of refutation and reprimand is worse than less, more than light. Heavy, if it’s bland and relaxed, it’s not exciting, that’s not good.”

Liang Shuming has always respected Liang Qichao, but in the article commemorating Liang Qichao, he not only commended his merits and virtues, but also judged his political gains and losses; and miss.Liang believes that "the public weapon of the academic world, being loyal to academics is why I am loyal to my husband."I thought that this was the only way to live up to the 40 years of friendship. At the age of 94, someone asked Liang Shuming how he felt about the sufferings he had suffered in recent decades. His answer was: "The flow of clouds and flowing water is nothing to worry about." I suffered a little material loss, not just my family, but thousands of households all over China were harassed. My woman suffered a lot, but I’m fine. I survived. All the calligraphy, paintings, bamboo slips , Books are burned. These are all belongings, nothing. However, thoughts cannot be destroyed!"