Chapter 17 Strange appearance

A student once described Liu Wendian when he was teaching at Tsinghua University: "I remember that when the Chinese class was about to start, I was sitting in the No. Finally, what came in was a frightfully haggard figure. Look! The square-shaped crew-cut hood covered the long black hair, the thin face was set with a pair of lifeless eyes, the cheeks were high, and the cheeks Long head held high like a lone crane looking at the sky; skin yellow and thin like an old monk in a secluded valley; medium build so lean that his bones wouldn't fight inside his body, but the two high shoulder bones on his back There is a great possibility of contact. The appearance is like this, what about the sound? Oh my god! It’s okay when I don’t listen to it, but it really makes me shiver a few times when I listen to it. ..."

Fu Laisu recalled his teacher Liu Wendian: "Mr. is not tall, and was frail and thin in his later years. Although he is a first-class professor, he wears a blue cloth gown and cloth round shoes on a daily basis. Demeanor. In class, I wrap the handouts or teaching materials with a piece of blue cloth, put it under my armpit, and slowly walk into the Huize courtyard and into the classroom... It’s cold in winter, and the husband’s clothes don’t change much, just under the long cloth shirt Add a cotton robe or leather robe, I have never seen such a gorgeous coat. When going out or socializing, the clothing is the same, but in every gesture, it looks like a master of traditional Chinese Confucianism.... When Mr. Zhang is reading or talking with friends and students , likes to smoke cigarettes and drink green tea. When we went to visit or ask for advice, he always opened the cigarette case and handed us a cigarette, and then he smoked one after another. At this time, the conversation was very healthy, saying From the ancient times to the present, the accumulation is thick and thin, although the body is weak and the energy is weak, I often dance with my hands, and my spirits are flying."

He Zhaowu recalled his teacher Liu Wendian in the book: "I heard that Liu Wendian belonged to the Tongmenghui in the late Qing Dynasty. He and Sun Yat-sen had carried out the revolution in Japan. He was very old-fashioned, and he was completely old-fashioned. , Some buttons are buttoned, some are not buttoned, a sloppy look..." Liu Wendian was in class, and when he was talking about Cao Pi's "Allusions · Papers", he smoked while talking, one after another, quoting from many sources, and only said one sentence in an hour. When giving lectures on "Selected Works" at Southwest Associated University, Liu Wendian asked the school staff to carry a pot of tea and a two-foot-long bamboo dry pipe before each class.Every time he talked about his favorite point, he would explain the essence of the article while smoking a pipe, and he would ignore it when the get out of class bell rang.Sometimes in class in the afternoon, he spoke in one breath until after 5 o'clock.Students said that Liu "is like a character in the Wei and Jin Dynasties in the novel".

Someone researched Liu Wendian's smoking habit.It is believed that his students recalled that he was wrong about the details of his lectures while smoking dry tobacco. Liu Wendian should be smoking cigarettes, not pipes, or pipes.Liu Wendian’s photo shows him with a cigarette in his hand. Zhou Zuoren also said in "Memoirs of Zhitang" that Liu Wendian has the habit of smoking cigarettes: "(Liu Shuya) likes to smoke cigarettes. He often holds one in his mouth. Although he is talking It also sticks to the lips, I don't know how it can be like this, but I only discard it before entering the church (classroom)."

Liu Wendian used extensive quotations in class, so sometimes he could only teach one sentence in a class. He taught "Wen Xuan" and could only teach half of the mysterious "Ode to the Sea" in a semester. Liu Wendian was addicted to opium, and when he was addicted to cigarettes in class, he smoked cigarettes to relieve his addiction. Because he smoked and talked, his pronunciation was sometimes ambiguous. In the class of "Selected Readings of Selected Works", sometimes he could only hear him whispering: "This article is good! This article is wonderful."

Zhang Zhongxing recalled Liu Wendian: "In the early 1930s, he was the head of the Department of Chinese Literature at Tsinghua University, and he was a part-time lecturer at Peking University, where he taught the Six Dynasties. I listened to it for a year... He was thin and dark-faced, and he didn't show his face at all. .Sit in class, lecture, seldom open your eyes, always seem to meditate, talking to yourself." Wen Zhongzi described Liu Wendian in "Liu Wendian: "Half a Professor"": "His gown is very long, and he walks across the floor. It is like the skirts worn by Chinese women before the Revolution of 1911. They are not allowed to see their feet, and they cannot walk. When he stepped on the hem of the skirt, he had to move slowly. He occasionally wears leather shoes, which are torn and dirty, and never oiled."

Liu Pingzhang, the second son of Liu Wendian, recalled that his father always wore a long gown in his impression.Except for wearing a suit in a photo in the early years, in the following days, even if he went to Beijing to attend the CPPCC meeting, he never changed his clothes.Liu Wendian has a lot of hair. Once he cut it short, he just "wipe it out" casually, and never bothered to comb it again. Therefore, the hair left by him, especially in the photos in his later years, is messy and slightly upward. look.