Chapter 175 Sarcasm

Hu Shi was famous, so Hu Shi was scolded; Hu Shi advocated new culture, so Hu Shi was scolded; Hu Shi was lenient, so Hu Shi was scolded. Hu Shi gave a speech at a university in Peking with the title of "Hu Shizhi".He said: I advocated vernacular Chinese during the "May 4th" Movement, Zhang Taiyan, a master of Chinese studies, scolded: "Shizhi boy, why don't you change your name to where?" Deng Zhicheng's grandfather was Deng Tingzhen, the former governor of Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangdong.Deng did not like vernacular Chinese very much. In the student test papers, wherever "的" was used, he changed it to "之".One day, he said in heavy Southwest official language: "Students, you must understand that there is a man named Hu in the city. His name is Hu Shi. He is talking nonsense."

Hu Shi delivered a speech titled "Strive for Big Tits" at the Shanghai Chinese and Western Girls' School. He said: "Chinese women are not worthy of being mothers, because their breasts have been suppressed for too long and their fertility has been reduced. Therefore, if you want to strive to be a mother The first thing is to liberate breasts.” Zhang Jingsheng, a doctor of sexology, believed that Hu Shi’s statement had no theoretical basis, and he was suspected of bullying girls and grandstanding, so he criticized Hu Shi in the newspaper.The two had a pen battle. When Hu Shi returned to China, he was full of youthful vigor, high-spirited and arrogant.Gu Hongming believed that Hu Shi held middle and lower class English in the United States, and he did not understand Greek and German, so he must not have a glimpse of the profoundness of Western ancient and modern philosophy.

Hu Shih sent the first volume of his new work "Outline of the History of Philosophy" to Zhang Taiyan. According to the new punctuation marks, a black line was drawn next to the word "Taiyan".Zhang Taiyan said angrily: "What is Hu Shi, dare to put a black line next to my name." Seeing that there is also a black line next to the word "Hu Shi" inscribed below, he felt relieved and said: "That's all, it's considered to be offset. !" When Hu Shi was giving lectures at Peking University, he often had banquets with Huang Kan.Once, when Hu Shi talked about Mohism by chance, Huang Kan immediately scolded: "Today's Mohist scholars are all bastards." Hu He was speechless.After a while, Huang Kan said again: "It is Hu Shi's venerable old man, and he is also a bastard." Hu Shi was furious, saying that he insulted his ancestors.At this point, Huang Kan laughed and said: "Calm down, I will test your ears! I heard that Mozi received both, and he has no father. Now that you have a father, how can you learn from Mohism? Yu Feijun, let's talk about the ears of the test. "The whole audience burst into laughter.

Hu Shi was quite proud of his hometown Huizhou, so he often boasted that those surnamed Hu, Cheng, and Ye all originated in Huizhou.He also said that he asked Wang Jingwei and Ye Gongchuo, and they all admitted that their ancestors were from Huizhou.So someone ridiculed Hu Shi and said: "Mr. Hu, if we continue to expand our research, we can say that the Chinese nation originated in Huizhou." In the early 1930s, Hu Shi took a flight for the first time and wrote a little poem entitled "A Praise for Flying". Tao Xingzhi, who didn't even ride a rickshaw, was furious and wrote a poem Published in the newspaper, enumerating how much blood and sweat of workers and farmers are needed to build an airplane. The airplane is built to serve the country, not for you Dr. Hu to play as a plaything!

Hu Shi once wrote an article saying that China is suffering from the "five ghosts", namely poverty, disease, ignorance, chaos, and greed.But the imperial powers, which were the most troubled, were not mentioned.Tao Xingzhi wrote a poem Kuangzhi saying: "I am good at archaeology, but I am ignorant of the present. Catch the little ghosts and release the big ones." After the May 4th Movement, Principal Cai Yuanpei often left the school, and most of the school affairs were entrusted to Hu Shi to handle.In external activities, Cai also often asked Hu to be his or Peking University's representative, "on behalf of Mr. Cai as the chairman" and "on behalf of Mr. Cai as the master".This made the old-fashioned opponents of Hu very dissatisfied.Lin Shu referred to Hu as the "Second Emperor of Qin" who "went out from the principal and left", and Huang Kan even ridiculed Hu as a "yellow butterfly" flying up and down around Cai.

After Hu Shi became famous, Zhang Shizhao wrote "Comment on the New Culture Movement". Ask for the law of poetry." Lu Xun also mocked Hu Shi.Hu Shi published the article "Knowing Difficulty, Doing It Is Not Easy", in which he "criticized" Sun Yat-sen's theory of "Knowing Difficulty and Doing Easy", and at the same time put forward a new idea of ​​"expert politics", requiring Chiang Kai-shek's government to "fully consult experts" , clearly pointed out that "the theory of "knowledge is difficult and action is easy" is not revised, "expert politics will never be realized". In October 1931, Chiang Kai-shek met with Ding Wenjiang and Hu Shi in Nanjing.Afterwards, Lu Xun (signed by Pei Wei) published an article "Knowing Difficulties and Doing Difficulties", in which he ridiculed Hu Shi and others: "Now no one asks him what to call him. Why? Because I know, this time it is 'I call him Chairman...'Professor Liu Wendian, the president of Anhui University, was locked up for many days because he didn't call him 'chairman', and he was released on bail with great difficulty. The old fellow, old colleague, and doctor of course knew it, so'I call him chairman!' also No one asked him what he was 'inquiry' about. Why? Because this is also known, it is the 'big picture'. And this 'big picture' is not troubled by the debate between 'KMT dictatorship' and 'British-style freedom', nor ' Knowing is difficult to do is easy' and 'knowing is easy to do is difficult', so the doctor came out."

In 1937, before and after the "July 7th" Marco Polo Bridge Incident, Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Jingwei jointly invited celebrities and scholars from all walks of life across the country to hold a talk meeting in Lushan, Jiangxi. At the talk meeting on July 11, after Jiang and Wang spoke, Hu Shi gave an impassioned speech on resisting Japan and saving the nation.Hu Jianzhong, who was present, wrote an impromptu poem after listening to it: "The grand meeting in Kuanglu in the summer heat, and celebrities from all over the world came back to the river. My doctor is really heroic, and I have another generous speech." There is quite a sense of humor in the words.Hu Shi also wrote a doggerel in vernacular in return: "Where is there a cat that doesn't call spring? Is there a cicada that doesn't call summer? Is there a toad that doesn't cry at night? Is there a gentleman who doesn't talk?"

While Chen Duxiu was in prison, Song Meiling and other dignitaries came to visit, but Hu Shi did not come after passing through Nanjing.Chen Duxiu scolded him angrily: "I know that Shizhi is a very busy person. He is meeting and drinking with dignitaries at this moment. I would rather have time to visit me. It's just an old friend. It's too late." Hu Shi finally started to come, but the two When they met, they quarreled endlessly.However, Jiang Menglin, who had no close acquaintances, came to visit specially, and brought several chapter novels, which Chen regarded as a bosom friend.

In September 1947, Hu Shi presided over the Peking University professors meeting to discuss the development plan of Peking University for the next ten years.Professor Xiang Da said at the meeting: "What we worry about today is our life tomorrow. How can we have time to think about plans for ten or twenty years?" In 1948, the "Hua Shang Bao" hosted by Pan Hannian published a cartoon "Two "Hus" on the "Road"".Hu Zhengyi held Ta Kung Pao in one hand and Jiang Zhongzheng's headless zombie in the other.There is also a doggerel next to it: "True 'confused', fake 'confused', why risk your life to rescue? But the head of the 'general' is gone. May I ask 'Hu' Li and 'Hu' Tu."

On the eve of Hu Shi's proposal of "good government doctrine", Liang Qichao, Lin Changmin and others suggested to him that Wang Chonghui, Luo Wengan, Cai Yuanpei and others should be recruited into the research department.Hu Shi and Cai Yuanpei were determined to keep a distance from the research department, so they put Liang, Lin and others aside and published one by themselves.Liang Qichao said angrily: "What's so great, I can make a declaration by myself." Lin Changmin said: "We don't blame Hu Shi, he is a virgin, and he doesn't want to associate with our former prostitutes. But Mr. Cai It has always been inclusive, why does it also exclude us?"

Hu Shi likes to talk about politics. He once stood on the side of the warlords and slandered the Kuomintang, which aroused dissatisfaction among public opinion and young students. Zhang Nanxian, a veteran Kuomintang member, criticized him and said: "The warlords are rampant, and politicians are required to correct them; Scholars correct it; if scholars add it again, the suffering people of our country will never have peace.” The warlords and the Beiyang government were also not interested in him, and Bai Jianwu, Wu Peifu’s military adviser, warned him: “I am a personal friend. Qualifications, I hope you will be more cautious and improve your speech in the future." Tang Erhe, who was the Minister of Education in the Beiyang government, also persuaded him as a friend: "I advise you not to talk about politics. I read your article in the past. The current commentary also seemed to make sense. When I went to the government to check, it turned out that it was not the same thing at all! Almost none of what you said scratched the itch. You said it was a world, but we walked in another world. One world. So I advise you not to talk about politics." Feng Youlan once criticized Hu Shi's academic spirit: "Mr. Shizhi's illness is just too curious and self-confident. He often thinks that he can see what the ancients couldn't see; he can notice what the ancients didn't pay attention to. So he often It is wrong to point out people who the ancients recognized as unimportant to brag about, but to oppose those who were recognized as important by the ancients. This is wrong, because people's eyes can't be so far apart!" The defense said: "There are so many people criticizing Mr. Shizhi now, and some even wrote a book to criticize him. But their attitude is very unfair, because they often attack Mr. Shizhi's words more than 20 years ago. This How is that fair?" When Hu Shi was studying in the United States, he had a good relationship with his fellow countryman Mei Guangdi at the beginning, and they were called brothers.But when Hu Shi proposed that "poetry should be written like composition", he was immediately criticized by Mei, and the relationship became more and more tense.Hu Shi's attitude, especially when Chen Duxiu and Qian Xuantong joined the battle group and took the complete negation of Chinese culture as their mission, aroused the anger of Chinese students at Harvard.Zhang Xinhai said indignantly: "You can't fly lightly if your wings are not fully developed. He has learned a lot in his years and gathered comrades. He will definitely fight fiercely with his peers!" Therefore, it was not until 1922 that "Xueheng" magazine was founded, which means "fierce battle". "Start.Mei Guangdi once quoted what Shen Baoxu, a member of the Spring and Autumn Period, said to Wu Zixu: "If you can conquer Chu, I will restore it." When Hu Shi was the principal of the Chinese Public School, he once said in a speech that when the Communist International sent representatives to China, they first looked for him, and because he had something to do, they introduced him to Chen Duxiu.So later Chen became the Communist Party, but he was not.This word spread, and some students put up a poster to criticize him: "If you were found in the first place, you would not be able to change the Communist Party."