Chapter 184 eccentric

During the Anti-Japanese War, when Hu Shi was stationed in the United States, a reporter wrote a report about Hu Shi, saying that Hu Shi was a collector, one collecting matchboxes and the other collecting honorary degrees. Hu Shi likes to study strange things.Hu Shi began to collect stories about henpecks from all over the world in 1942, and he believed that he could find the key to understand international issues from them.He found that there are hundreds of stories about henpecks from China, hundreds of stories from the United States, Britain, and Northern Europe, but none from Japan or Germany.Therefore, he concluded: "This low-level seed of henpeck among human beings can only reproduce in democratic countries, and will not grow on the soil of totalitarian countries." The next year, he collected a lot of stories about henpeck in Italy, It was deduced from this that Italy would not be happy in the Axis powers, and sure enough, Italy surrendered to the Allies in September of that year.

In 1958, Hu Shi gave an impromptu speech on this topic to his friends.Hu Shi said that he has collected more than 5,000 matchboxes.There are more than 30 honorary degrees in his collection, but they are not counted as his collection, they are all gifts from others.His real collection is the stories of henpecks from all over the world. "I've collected all kinds of stories about henpecks in the world." Hu Shi talked with great enthusiasm, and vividly told the famous story about henpecks in Italy: the highest devil in hell summoned all the high-level devils to discuss the problem.Because all the ghosts who have committed crimes, these ghosts say that they have not committed a crime, but that their wives have brought the crime, and there is no way for him to deal with it.The Demon King doesn't understand the situation in Yangjian. Are all the women in Yangjian so scary? He needs to be sent to investigate. The one he sent wants to marry a wife in Yangjian, experience it, and then report back.It was probably a high-risk job like an undercover job, and all the senior devils were unwilling to do it, so a lottery was drawn to decide that one of the top devils in hell would go.The devil brought a lot of money to Feilingcui and married a beautiful lady.The following, needless to say, also know that this devil is not only afraid, but quite afraid.When he was acting like a domineering man, when he heard the farmer say that his wife had come, he was so frightened that he ran away without a trace.

When Hu Shi was in Beijing, he was obsessed with textual research because of the phrase "new wine in old bottles".He said: "People today like to quote the old Western proverb 'new wine in old bottle', which must have been mistranslated. Its source is in the second chapter of the Gospel of Mark, where the Jews put new wine in sheepskin instead of porcelain glass." At that time, someone wrote a doggerel specially for this matter: Mr. Special Session on Textual Research, Chapter 2 of the Gospel of Mark.It was originally an old skin, and it was difficult to put new wine in it.

Hu Shi ate papaya, and in order to confirm whether it was the papaya in the book "Throw me a papaya and repay it with Qiongju", he took it out and read it, but he was still not sure whether it was referring to the current papaya.Later, I checked the "Dictionary of Plants" and found out.He said to people: "This kind of papaya is very small, so we say 'throwing', but you can't vote for a big one." Qi Baishi once made a divination, and a fortune teller said that he was in trouble at the age of seventy-five, so he deliberately "jumped" the age of seventy-five.This problem was discovered when Hu Shi compiled his chronicle.

In Taiwan, Hu Shi has always been very concerned about the cultural developments in the mainland.He also read Mao's poems carefully. Seeing that Li Shuyi's rhyme ran out of bounds, he sincerely asked Zhao Yuanren if it was possible to use such a rhyme in Hunan dialect, and Zhao replied no. Hu Shi researched Tao Hongjing's "Zhengao" in the Southern Dynasty, and found that "Zhengao" was a plagiarism of "Forty-two Chapters". Hu Shi thought it had solved a thousand-year-old theft case.The historian Chen Yinke told him that Zhu Xi discovered it as early as seven hundred years ago.

Cai Yuanpei commented on Zhonghua Book Company's "Dream of Red Mansions Suoyin", and his textual research was to record the secrets of Mingzhu's family.Not long after, Hu Shi published another article, "A Textual Research on A Dream of Red Mansions", which focused on the textual research on the author Cao Xueqin's life experience and version, which completely overturned Cai Yuanpei's "Suo Yin".At that time, there was a Yadong library in Shanghai, which first published novels such as , etc. with new punctuation. There must be a textual research by Hu Shi in front of the book.

When Hu Shi was studying in the United States, one day he asked 50 Chinese friends whether they believed in "Tianyanlun", and all of them answered yes.Houhu then asked on what grounds "Tianyanlun" was established, but only two or three people answered. Hu Shi said that he became an atheist when he was a child because he read Wang Chong's "swords and blades". Monks love to tell lies." Hu Shi went to the bookstore for the sole purpose of reading, so he didn't buy a book easily.Moreover, his habit of buying books is to only buy books worth less than one silver dollar, and he will not buy more than this value.When he was at Peking University, whenever he came across any good books, he always had to issue a book list and hand it over to the Peking University library to buy.

Hu Shi resolutely refused to ride in a rickshaw, thinking that "people pull people" is inhumane.