Chapter 169 support

Fu Sinian, Luo Jialun, Wang Jingxi, Mao Zishui and more than 20 students voluntarily organized Xinchao Society, the first student group in the school to respond to the alternative cultural movement, and founded the "Xinchao" magazine. Hu Yingshi invited him to serve as a consultant for the magazine.With the help of Hu Shi, Xinchao Society received 400 yuan of public funds from Peking University every month. When Lin Yutang was studying in the United States, his life was very difficult.In desperation, he remembered that when he went abroad, Hu Shi invited him to study abroad and return to teach at Peking University, so he wrote to Hu Shi, asking if he could advance his salary.Hu Shi sent him $1,000.Later, Lin Yutang got into trouble again and asked Hu Shi for help, and Hu Shi sent him another $1,000.Lin Yutang, who returned to China with a master's degree from Harvard and a PhD in Linguistics from Leipzig, was warmly received by the Department of Foreign Languages ​​and Languages ​​of Peking University, and was hired as a professor of the English Department and a lecturer at Beijing Women's Normal University.The first thing Lin Yutang did when he arrived at Peking University was to thank Hu Shihan in person. The advance of two thousand dollars was a great help.Unfortunately, Hu Shi went south to recover from his illness, and Lin Yutang found Jiang Menglin, the dean of Peking University at the time.Jiang Menglin was puzzled, "What two thousand dollars?" After careful study of the ins and outs, Lin Yutang realized that Peking University had no plan to subsidize foreign students at all, and it was Hu Shi who made an oral agreement with him privately in order to attract talents.When Lin Yutang asked him for help, Hu Shi paid the huge sum of money out of his own pocket in order to abide by the agreement.Lin Yutang deeply buried Hu Shi's promise as a gentleman.They all agreed not to mention it.After Hu Shi's death, Lin Yutang made the past public.

Hu Shi invited Shen Congwen to teach at the school. At that time, many students came to the school attracted by his name.Shen Congwen was teaching students for the first time, looking at the black heads in the classroom, he was nervous for ten minutes and did not speak, but then he spent another ten minutes to finish all the content he planned to talk for an hour.Shen Congwen was extremely embarrassed, and wrote on the blackboard: "It's my first class, and I'm scared when I see so many of you." The students roared with laughter.Some students reported it to Hu Shi, and Hu Shi asked the students: "Are there any students who chased Mr. Shen away?"

Gu Jiegang was a student of Hu Shi, and Hu Shi's method of textual research had a great influence on Gu Jiegang.Mr. Gu Jiegang said that he learned this set of "scholarly methods" from reading Hu Shi's "Water Margin Textual Research". In the 1930s, Hu Shi had a unique insight, promoted, appointed, and helped Liang Shiqiu to complete the "translation of the complete works of Shakespeare", which was later called one of Liang Shiqiu's "three major achievements" in the literary world. Ji Xianlin was a student of Hu Shi, and he was proficient in Sanskrit, Pali, and Tocharian. He was promoted by Hu Shi during his early return to China.

In the winter of 1935, a Peking University student made an appointment with Hu Shi. Hu Shi told him on the phone that they would meet at 7 o'clock tomorrow morning, but the student misunderstood it as afternoon.When I went there at 7:00 p.m., the concierge told Hu Shi that he had left home and that the students were about to turn back when Hu Shi came back.Hu Shi asked: "I'm waiting in the morning, why don't you come?" The student replied: "I misunderstood that it was afternoon." Hu Shi smiled and said: "I also suspect that you misunderstood, so I tend to come back."

When Chen Cunren met Hu Shi, Hu told Chen time and time again: You must use vernacular when writing articles, and you should quote less idioms, and you should "the whiter the better."Because the classical Chinese of each dynasties is different, the Han, Wei and Six Dynasties have the classical Chinese of the Han, Wei and Six Dynasties, the Tang and Song have the Tang and Song classical Chinese, the Ming and Qing have the Ming and Qing classical Chinese, and the policies and theories of the Qing Dynasty are all piled up. worthless.After the early Republic of China, Yan Fu created a new style of classical Chinese, and Liang Qichao created a new style of classical Chinese, which had refurbished the old classical Chinese, but it was not as influential as the vernacular.Those who do literary work should avoid writing profound ancient prose, because the more ancient the article is written, the more incomprehensible it will be, and the meaning of writing will be lost.These words had a great influence on Chen Cunren.Hu Shi also suggested that his writing should be "clearer and better", and Chen also followed his advice for a long time, and never wrote a cursive script even when prescribing medicine.

Hu Shi is willing to help others.When he was recuperating in the United States due to a heart attack, he suddenly wanted to get up one day to write a letter, but the doctor forbade him to move, but he ignored it.Because he found in his diary that before his illness, he had promised a student he had never met to help him borrow a rare Chinese book from the library of Columbia University (ordinary people probably couldn’t borrow it).