Chapter 3 anecdote

Many researchers of Huang Kan will attribute Huang Kan's character of laughing and cursing to the true biography of his father Huang Yunhu.It is said that Mr. Huang Xiangyun was an official in Sichuan during his lifetime. He was a second-rank official and a famous scholar in the Qing government. He wrote many books in his life, but he was extremely indifferent and leisurely.Mr. Huang Lao used to handle a very serious errand for the Qing court. He was attracted by the tranquil scenery of Jinfeng Temple in Ya'an, Sichuan. As soon as he stepped into the temple, he sang happily with a monk who was good at writing and poetry. After lingering for many days, I actually forgot about my serious errands.The boss was quite annoyed, and still impeached him.The staff who wrote the book scribbled down the matter to the four characters of "lingering on the golden phoenix".The court mistakenly thought that "Jinfeng" was the name of a prostitute.Back then, officials in the Qing Dynasty explicitly forbade sex with prostitutes.Huang Yunhu was almost severely condemned by the court for this.Therefore, it is generally believed that Huang Kan not only inherited his father's "foolishness", but also developed it into "crazy" and "crazy".

When Huang Kan was teaching at Peking University, he admired his name and there were many scholars from him.People call the children of the Huangmen "the servants of the Huangmen".Before Fu Sinian got acquainted with Hu Shi, he was one of the servants in the "Huangmen servants". Huang Kan acted quite strangely. When he was teaching at Peking University, he liked a student named Zheng Dian very much.Every time Huang went out, Zheng often carried a purse for him.After Zheng Dian graduated, he stayed at Peking University.One day, Professor Huang Jie, who teaches poetry at Peking University, invited guests to dinner at home. Huang Kan and Zheng Dian were also invited.After the meeting, Huang saw that Zheng was wearing a fur jacket, and he was very displeased and said, "I haven't put on a fur jacket yet, and you are wearing a fur jacket?" Zheng replied, "I wear a fur jacket, and you don't care about me. "Huang was very angry when he heard that, and has been a stranger since then.

Huang Kan gave lectures to many listeners.One day, he said to the host: "Although the visitor is diligent in listening to the lecture, I seem to lack two things on the teaching desk." Asked: "What are the two things?" He smiled and answered: "A pot of clear tea, a plate of melon seeds .” There are quite a lot of celebrities who teach part-time at Central University. Most of the professors are in suits and leather shoes, and they come in and out of cars, at least they have rickshaws.Huang Kan was the only one who went in and out, each wearing a half-new long gown or gown, and a piece of green cloth wrapped in a few books that he often read.

Huang Kan once taught the "Literary Research Method" course at Central University and used it as a textbook.He usually only gives lectures and never assigns homework to students.When the final exam was due, he refused to read the exam papers, and he did not mark the grades.This approach will not pass the test at the Academic Affairs Office, and I have been urged repeatedly.In the end, Huang Kan was driven into a hurry, so he wrote a note to the Academic Affairs Office, writing "eighty cents per person" in five big characters.What he means is that students always want to get the first grade, and giving ninety points is too much, and seventy points is not the first grade.Eighty is just right.The Academic Affairs Office had no choice but to stop mentioning this matter.

Cheng Qianfan once recorded that he read a letter from his teacher Huang Kan replying to the scholar at the home of a scholar in Chengdu, and the words were extremely modest.This scholar wrote to appreciate Huang Kan's "Yin Lue", Huang Kan wrote back and said: "Tasting self-smile is not a summary of economics, but a summary of carelessness. What does Mr. He Yi praise?" Cheng Qianfan then sighed, the teacher He has a bad temper and loves to swear, so people often overlook the very cautious and modest side of his character. Huang Kan defends the national heritage everywhere.He believes that board books are convenient for marking, holding and reading while lying down. He ridicules hardcover Western-style books as "leather boots and hard collars". He also said that the civilization and comfort of Chinese clothes are far better than suits. He put it on again, pointed to a classmate and said, "Look, it's not so convenient for you to wear leather shoes!"

Yang Shuda, a university student, asked Yang Bojun (a historian of ancient literature) to worship Huang Kan as his teacher. Yang Bojun was only willing to pay respects, but refused to kowtow.After apprenticeship, Huang Kan said with a smile: "My knowledge is also obtained from kowtow. Don't feel that you have been greatly wronged." Huang Kan is talented and quick in writing, and everyone who has been taught admires him.Once, someone asked him to write an inscription on his behalf, and made an appointment to pick it up in five or six days.After four days in a row, he didn't start writing.On the fifth day, when the person who took the inscription came, he asked his disciples to grind and spread the paper, and ordered the paper to be marked.After the grid was finished, he did it overnight, and even wrote the last grid with the text of the upper and lower paragraphs, word for word.

Ye Chuyou, Su Manshu, and Huang Kan were drunk at a banquet, and it was already midnight, so he drove his carriage to Weichun Garden to drink again, and the night is good when the moon is bright.Huang Kan recited a Chinese sentence in Gong Zizhen's "Writing the Spirit and Thoughts": "There are lights in the building, and there are pavilions; if you don't understand a word, it turns into a spring star." After wandering for a long time, he returned.To this end, Ye wrote a poem: When Huang Kan was in Beijing, he lived in a house owned by Wu Chengshi (Jian Zhai). The two were originally students of Zhang Taiyan, and they had a close relationship.Huang Kan is proud of his talents and often speaks freely in class. Once, a girl sued Wu Chengshi, the head of the department.Knowing Huang's temper, Wu tactfully asked him to pay attention, but if they didn't agree with each other, the two fell out.Unfortunately, in July of this year, Huang Kan's eldest son Nianhua, who was studying at Peking University, died of illness suddenly. Nianhua was only 19 years old.

Later, when Huang Kan moved away, not only did he not pay the rent, but he also used a brush to fill many big characters with ghost characters on the white wall, drew many black crosses, climbed to the beam of the house and wrote a line of big characters: "No. A Haunted House", and then threw the pen away.When Wu asked him for the rent, he not only refused to pay, but also said confidently that if he asked for more rent, he must pay it back to my son!Seeing that he was so unreasonable and in the pain of losing his son, Wu had no choice but to give up. Huang Kan cherishes viewing books more than anything else.One day when I sorted out the books, I found that the second letter of "Ancient Book Series" was missing, so I suspected that someone had taken it.So he wrote in his diary that day: "I take books here, and I never tell you, I hate it!" I wrote a note and stuck it on the bookshelf.The speech said: "Blood and sweat are exchanged, food and clothing are subtracted. Buy this Chenbian, only for weeds. Day and night, wives and children are angry. Stealing without borrowing is unforgivable." The next day, "Ancient Book Series" The second letter was found on another bookshelf, and Huang Cai's anger disappeared.

Huang Kan lectures, a lot of strange things.Tian Jiongjin recalled in "Six Years of Peking University": "One afternoon, when we were in class, we heard the doors and windows of the classroom next door rattling, and there was a lot of people's voices. When class was over, we saw many glass windows on the windows of the classroom shattered, and there was no one there. I heard that a familiar student in the class said: When Mr. Huang was giving a lecture, he made a metaphor: it seemed that the house was about to collapse. After Fang Bi, he picked up his schoolbag and ran out. The students didn't know what happened, so they ran out. When they went out, they rushed to the windows and smashed many windows."

Huang Kan used to be a part-time lecturer at Jinling University, and many people came to attend the lectures.Unexpectedly, Mr. Mou, the dean of the school's agricultural college, just came back from the United States with a doctorate in agronomy, and he is arrogant.One day, this gentleman suddenly had a whim, and wanted to perform "Xinfa Barrow" in public in the auditorium of the school headquarters.The poster was put up, causing a sensation in the whole school.That day coincided with Huang Kan's class, and there were very few students attending the class because there were so many students going to watch "New Method Barrow".Huang asked why, and announced: There are not many people in class today, so everyone is going to join in the fun.At the scene of the "Bowling Pig" performance, the dean Mr. Mou triumphantly asked the students to tie up a big fat pig, tied it tightly to the operating rack, and then opened the intestines, who knew that after a long time, they couldn't find where the pig's ovaries were. , The pig that was "castrated" soon died. The "Bowling" performance turned into a "Slaughtering Pig" demonstration.Huang Kan quickly recited a poem to satirize him and his affairs:

Liu Chengyu wrote in "Shizaitang Miscellaneous Memories Ji Huang Jigang's Interesting Stories": "Huang Jigang has three fears in his life: one is afraid of soldiers, the other is afraid of dogs, and the third is afraid of thunder." the point.Huang Kan left an 800,000-character essay, from which he can see that the saying of being afraid of thunder, fear of soldiers, and fear of dogs is absolutely true.Huang Kan also explained the reason why he was afraid of thunder, mainly because he was influenced by "Lunheng Lei Xu" and literature books, so he fell into the root cause of palpitations. Huang Kan wrote a poem "Boudoir Love" with seven rhythms. In the poem, he used numerals such as one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, hundred, thousand, ten thousand, half, double, and two in one go. , which is quite interesting.Poetry goes: Huang Kan liked "Book of Changes" in his later years, and he was especially good at the rhetoric of divination, divination and calculation.One day, when the divination was successful, he went to buy a lottery ticket and won the first prize.Huang was very proud, and said to everyone he met: "What I got today is Ji Guli." Later, he bought a new house with the lottery proceeds.