Chapter 182 funny

After Hu Shi received the news that his newly married wife was pregnant in Beijing, he couldn't help singing self-deprecatingly: "I really don't want a son, and the son came by himself. The signboard of 'no posthumousism' can no longer be hung up today... ..." Hu Shi said that the book "Chinese Phonology" by Gao Benhan of Sweden can overthrow the paper work of Chinese scholars in the past three hundred years since Gu Yanwu; The culture has been extended for thousands of years; the French teacher Sandroux discovered some Paleolithic tools, which extended the Chinese prehistoric culture for thousands of years; a tooth in Zhoukoudian was tested by Bu Dasheng, and the Chinese culture was extended again Tens of thousands of years.

Hu Shi wrote a poem in vernacular doggerel about writing: "Writing is not elegant or vulgar, but life and death can be said. The ancients called it desire, and today's people call it want; the ancients called it, and today's call it arrival; the ancients called it drowning, and today's call it urine; It was originally the same word, but the sound has changed a little. There is no elegance or vulgarity at all, so why bother to make a fuss? As for the ancients who called the characters, today people call them names; People in ancient times rode in public transportation, but today people sit in golden sedan chairs; people in ancient times put on crowns and headbands, but people today only know how to wear hats; if a hat must be called a towel, and a sedan chair should be called a car, wouldn’t it be a case of putting on a crown and wearing it, and recognizing a tiger as a leopard?”

After the success of the Northern Expedition, students from schools above high school and universities received military training and organized student troops.At the inauguration ceremony of the student army, Hu Shi said in his speech: "Everyone knows that Qiu Ba is the most ruthless soldier because they have weapons; at the same time, the students are even more ruthless because they have brains and knowledge, so they are called Qiu Jiu. Today the students organized a student army The army became Qiu Shiqi, and the responsibility of saving the country and the people in the future rests entirely on you, Qiu Shiqi..."

Qian Xuantong, one of the founders of the New Culture Movement, was radical when he was young. He once said: "People should die when they reach forty, and they should be shot if they don't die!" In 1927, when Qian Xuantong celebrated his fortieth birthday, Hu Shi, Liu Bannong and others Thinking of Qian's indignant words back then, he really wrote obituaries, elegiac couplets, elegiac poems, and mourning articles, and issued a notice, planning to publish a "Mr. Qian Xuantong's special issue on Chengren" in Yusi.As a result, Qian Xuantong became angry and intervened arbitrarily, so that the special account was aborted.But quite a few friends from other places believed it to be true, and some even called Peiping to express condolences to Qian's family members.

Ding Wenjiang always tilted his head towards people he didn't like, and looked at him through the glasses, with more white pearls in his eyes and less black pearls, his appearance was disgusting.Hu Shi said to him: "Historical books say that Ruan Ji can have white eyes. I never understood it. Since I met you, I have understood what it is like to treat others with white eyes." Ding laughed out loud. Hu Shi later became good friends with Yang Xingfo. One day Hu Shi went to make Yang Xingfo, but unfortunately the owner was not at home.Hu Shi was bored sitting alone, so he suddenly became interested in poetry, so he wrote a doggerel titled Yang Xingfo's big nose: "everyone has a big nose, but the king is the one who gets the most out of it. Hang a pagoda straight up, and hang two chimneys upside down. There is no part in kissing." , smelling the fragrance is a great merit. When Jiangnan sneezes, the Jiangbei is full of fish." Yang Xingfo laughed when he came back, and repeatedly shouted: "Good poetry! Good poetry!"

Hu Shi chatted with Tang Yongtong.Tang said, I have a prejudice, that is, I don’t want to say that all good things come from foreign countries; Hu Shi also smiled and said to him, I also have a prejudice, that is, that all bad things come from India.After speaking, the two looked at each other and laughed. When Yang Zhensheng was the president of Qingdao University, he once invited Hu Shi, who was passing through Qingdao, to give a speech.Unexpectedly, after the ship arrived, the wind and waves were too strong to go ashore, so Hu had to send a telegram to Yang, which said: "Wan is in the middle of the water." speechless."

When Hu Shi gave a lecture, he once said: There is an ancient saying in China that "the mighty cannot be subdued, the rich cannot be promiscuous, and the poor cannot be moved." Hu Shi often went to universities to give lectures.Once, in a certain university, he often quoted the words of Confucius, Mencius, and Mr. Sun Yat-sen in his speeches.When quoting, he wrote "Kong Shuo", "Meng Shuo" and "Sun Shuo" on the blackboard.Finally, when he expressed his opinion, the audience burst into laughter. It turned out that what he wrote was "nonsense".

Once when Hu Shi's friends were having dinner at Hu's house, Xu Zhimo rushed in like a whirlwind, holding a thick hardcover book, which was a German pornographic book with rich pictures and texts, and everyone rushed to read it.Hu Shi said: "This kind of thing, including the paintings of Gai Qixiang and Qiu Shizhou, can be seen at a glance, and it is not interesting enough. I have seen a painting, but I don't remember who made it, a bed with a hibiscus curtain hanging down, on the ground A pair of men's shoes, a pair of red embroidered shoes, and a cat squatting in front of the bed looking up at the tent hooks. It's a bit reserved."

Ji Xianlin recalled a small incident of Hu Shi: Once a professor meeting was held, Mr. Yang Zhensheng received a new valuable ancient painting. In order to let everyone appreciate it, he brought the painting to the meeting and spread it on a huge table. On, everyone praised.At this time, Mr. Shizhi suddenly stood up, walked to the table, rolled up the scroll, and put it in his sleeve, which made everyone laugh and beam with joy. In 1947, Nanjing Chengchi University invited Mr. Hu Shi to give a lecture. Hu Shi, who appeared on the podium, was about fifty years old, with Western-style haircut and myopia glasses on the bridge of his nose. The black robes are indeed the style of a great scholar.Someone at the venue was whispering: "Mr. Hu is fat, Mr. Hu is getting fat." Unexpectedly, this was heard by Hu Shi on the stage, so he started by saying: "I recently went to Nanjing for a meeting and stayed for a while. The rice is more delicious and nutritious than the wheat noodles in the north, so I don’t feel a little fat.” Hu Shi’s humorous opening remarks made everyone laugh.

For a while, Chiang Kai-shek suggested that Hu should be the president and himself the executive president.After Hu heard about it, he joked with his friends: "If Chiang Kai-shek wants me to be the president, I will do it. Anyway, Chiang Kai-shek is in charge of national affairs, so it has nothing to do with me. At that time, when I go to Nanjing, I will take care of it. Once the gate of the Presidential Palace is closed, I will also do research on my "Shui Jingzhu", and the entrance to the Presidential Palace is strictly guarded, so I can do my research with peace of mind."