Chapter 21 anecdote

During Liu Wendian's study of "Tao Zang" classics in Baiyun Temple, because the life was too poor, he couldn't help but steal some meat when the Taoist priests were not paying attention, but was "caught" by the Taoist priests on the spot and made a fuss A big red face. When Liu Wendian lived in Baiyunguan, a man came from the temple, took a collection of poems wrapped in old newspapers, broke into the room and said: "My talent is too high, so it is very bitter. This is my collection of poems. The poems are so good. You read it carefully." Liu Wendian found it funny, so he lowered his head and pretended to read poetry, and the visitor continued to make a high-level statement: "I like philosophy, and now I study Buddhism and writing. I use philosophy as a method, political activities For the purpose, politics is also a layer of my rational philosophy." The visitor went around for a long time before getting to the point, saying that he wanted to ask for a travel fee to go back to his hometown. This is the reason why I can become great and my talent and learning can be so successful." Liu Wendian suppressed his laughter and gave him all his change.After counting the money, he insisted on leaving the collection of poems to Liu for him to read in the morning and evening.Liu Wendian thanked him repeatedly, but he was willing to take it back.When we were parting, this person repeatedly said, in fact, you should read my poems carefully and not just do the boring work of school books.When he walked to the door, he suddenly remembered the Taoist priest who had not yet visited the monastery, and said, "Religious philosophers must meet religious scholars." Liu Wendian hurriedly stopped him, saying that old Taoists don't understand anything, and they can't afford to be a university like you. He was sent away only after the visitor's visit.

In 1918, Chen Duxiu wrote an article "Questions about Ghosts", and a man named Yi Yixuan immediately wrote an article "Answer to Mr. Chen Duxiu's "Questions about Ghosts"" to criticize Chen Duxiu. After Liu Wendian saw Yi's article, , To help Chen Shi, he wrote "Difficult Yi Yixuanjun" for rhetorical questioning. When teaching at Tsinghua University, Liu Wendian needed to consult some kind of Buddhist scriptures.He heard that a temple in Xiangshan had this Buddhist scripture, so he went to borrow it.The temple has strict regulations, non-Buddhists are not allowed to borrow books.Borrowers are allowed to sit upright in the chanting hall of the temple, and are not allowed to dip their fingers in the saliva to turn the pages of the book. They must use the special bamboo strips made by the temple to flip through the pages.The old monk who manages the collection of books in the monastery knew Liu Wendian, and specially allowed him to borrow books, and explained the rules of borrowing books to him, and Liu agreed immediately.

After the old monk left, Liu Wendian sat quietly and read scriptures.After a while, Liu felt tired. Seeing an empty bed in the room, he took the opportunity to read in bed with a book.Unexpectedly, after reading it for a while, he fell asleep and the book fell to the ground.After an unknown amount of time, he suddenly heard scolding in his sleep and was hit on the head and face.He opened his eyes and saw that the old monk reprimanded him while beating him, "You didn't believe what you said, and you threw the Buddhist scriptures on the ground!" The old monk originally wanted to talk about Buddhism with him, but when he came in and saw the book fell on the ground, he suddenly became furious and took it. Pick up the broom and hit.While apologizing, Liu Wendian "run away" in the Buddhist hall.

Liu later recalled this incident and said: "He was beaten with a broom seedling. If I were beaten upside down with a broom bump (handle), I would be miserable. The monk saw that I was willing to bear the beating and did not teach me how to put on airs. His anger changed and he said Chi let out a laugh. We became good friends later on, and I once hosted a vegetarian restaurant in Tsinghua University. Although my head is not very noble, it is not something anyone can beat. But this time I should be beaten, and a gentleman must not lose his promise!" The preparation room for liberal arts teachers at Peking University is called "Maozihao".Coincidentally, there really were two old rabbits and three little rabbits here: Chen Duxiu, then dean of liberal arts, and Zhu Xizu, who lectured on the history of Chinese literature, were both born in the year of Jimao (1879). They are called "Old Rabbits"; Hu Shi, Liu Bannong and Liu Wendian were all born in Xin Maonian (1891), and they are not yet twenty-six years old, so they are "Little Rabbits".

Zhou Zuoren recalled: Liu Wendian disliked Chinese medicine the most. It is absolutely necessary. You can see how many old people and other non-human beings live in China. If these people don’t die, it will be a disaster for China. But murder is against humanity, and it is impossible to conspire. Fortunately, they all believe in the quintessence of the Chinese nation, so their first-line crashes are all in the hands of such doctors. How can you attack them?" Liu Wendian criticized the members of Congress at that time: "Thinking of these people, I really feel pitiful, and I don't want to scold them. In short, it's our own fault. If we have the strength to bribe them, but still go on so nonsense, then This should really be caught and spanked. But since we have no money to give them now, then this can only be left to them to sell themselves."

Zhang Zhongxing recalled that once in class, Liu Wendian was suddenly impassioned, stood up from his seat, and said with wide eyes that the inequality in the world made him angry, for example, some people ride in cars and others pull them.The students wondered how Professor Liu suddenly changed from "born into the world" to "joined in the world".After class, some students saw him walk out of the school gate and get on a rickshaw. After he got on, the driver picked up the handlebar and ran westward.Only then did the students suddenly realize that he was the one "riding the car".

After Liu Wendian's eldest son died of illness, he loved his youngest son very much. He took him to the classroom during class. During lectures, the child sat beside him, but because the child was young, he was always noisy. At this time, the students chipped in to buy candy for him. .Once, the child couldn't sit still and went outside the classroom to catch butterflies. Liu Wendian saw it and hurriedly called "Come back soon". At that time, the students were listening intently. What Liu said was written down word by word, and these three words were suddenly interspersed , it is really incomprehensible, because it appears too abruptly.

Liu Wendian had always been confused in life. When he arrived in Mengzi alone, he hired a male servant to take care of his life.A year later, his wife Zhang Qiuhua brought her son to Yunnan.One day, Zhang Qiuhua went to the market to buy some vegetables from Yunnan, and came back to cook some side dishes.After Liu Wendian tasted it, he asked in surprise: "Where did you get this dish?" Zhang replied: "It's the local vegetables bought in the market." After hearing this, Liu Wendian said with emotion: "I didn't expect Yunnan to be so delicious. Vegetables to eat!" It turned out that for the sake of convenience, the male servant only cooked salted duck eggs and steamed eggs for him. He ate them for more than a year, but he didn't know that there were fresh vegetables in Yunnan.

When in Kunming, prices soared and the currency depreciated, the professors lived very hard, and so did Liu Wendian.At that time, Li Guangping, the grandson of Li Hongzhang, was also in Kunming. He and Liu Wendian were both fellow villagers and distant relatives. They also had similar temperaments, so they often helped Liu.When Liu Wendian was "difficult to cook", he wrote the words "Wash the pot and wait for it" and sent someone to give it to Li.Li immediately "send charcoal in the snow" to help him out of trouble. In the early days of liberation, Li Guangping was arrested.Although the suspicion was ruled out after investigation, a guarantee was required before he could be released.After Liu Wendian found out, he borrowed the car of the principal of Yunda University to go to the prison to pick up Li. He told the person in charge of the prison, "I watched Li Guangping grow up, and he has no problems. I will be responsible for any problems after he is released on bail."After completing the formalities, he took Li to Yunda.

Not long after arriving in Mengzi, one evening, Liu Wendian walked along the embankment of Nanhu Lake in Mengzi. When he came to a village, he happened to meet a farmer beating his wife. The woman did not fight back except crying.Liu Wendian couldn't see it anymore, so he went up to dissuade him, but he didn't expect the other party to ignore him at all: "I beat my mother-in-law, what does it have to do with you!" Liu was extremely annoyed, and raised his hand to slap the farmer.The man was "raided" suddenly, he was stunned for a moment, looked at Liu, thinking that Liu had a background, the more he thought about it, the more afraid he became, and he ran away.Unexpectedly, the woman who had been beaten before was unwilling to let her go. She rushed over and grabbed Liu by the collar, pulled Liu to question why she beat his man, and hurled insults at him.This made Liu very embarrassed. Fortunately, some sensible people in the village quickly came over and stepped forward to relieve the siege.When Liu Wendian thought of these past events, he couldn't help but say with a smile: "I didn't expect to flatter the horse's leg."

When he was at the Southwest Associated University, Liu Wendian often had to run to the "alert" because of the Japanese air raids.In his letter to Hu Shih, he wrote: "The only thing I can comfort my old friend is that my humble body is far more stubborn than before, because the enemy planes often come to Kunming to disturb, and sometimes they come to shoot after seven o'clock in the morning. My brother therefore I had to get up at dawn, and when I heard the alarm, I ran to the mountains in the suburbs, and didn’t return to my apartment until the alarm was lifted in the afternoon. Because getting up early, seeing more sunlight and air, and exercising a lot every day are the most beneficial to health, so I am in good health.” Liu Pingzhang recalled that when they were living in their new house on the 72nd floor of Longxiang Street in Kunming, there was a sudden air defense alarm in Kunming, and the family ran out of the house. After a while, the apartment was bombed by enemy planes, and a big hole was blown in the roof. Clothes, books, and manuscripts were blown up and scattered everywhere.Mrs. Zhang Qiuhua saw it, and she was so distressed that she burst into tears. Bombs don't have eyes, so running the alarm is a daily chore.Wu Mi recorded in his diary on October 28, 1940: "In the morning, shortly after class, the alarm came at 7:15. Kaike (Chen Yinke) went out with the crowd, and continued northward, and took refuge after reaching the second mountain (Xiaohongshan) At 12:30, nine enemy planes arrived, and failed to hit Yuantong Mountain, and shot at the east gate. When Mi fell asleep, Ke sat next to Mi. It was the day to read the "Vimalakirti Sutra", and the end... 2:00 the same Ke ate two sauced rice cakes in front of the second mountain. Encounter fate (tomorrow, meet here again). After 3~4 (hours) in the cave in front of the first mountain (Baini Mountain), with Liu Wendian and his wife Let’s talk. Please change Runmi into a poem about longevity.” Liu Wendian said that he admired Chen Yinke "120,000 points".When he was at the Southwest United University, one day, the alarm sounded, and Liu Wendian hurried to avoid it. Halfway through the run, he suddenly remembered that Chen Yinke, whom he admired "120,000 points", was weak and had poor eyesight, so he hurried to Chen Yinke with a few students. Together they helped Chen escape outside the city.On the way, the students wanted to help Liu, but Liu refused to let him go. He shouted: "It's important to preserve the quintessence of China! It's important to preserve the quintessence of China!" and asked the students to help Chen go first. Liu Wendian admires Chen Yinke very much. Whenever he hears someone say that Chen Yinke is wrong, Liu Wendian must defend Mr. Chen, and yells: "You don't have eyes! Mr. Chen is a well-deserved university student, and he is a professor among professors." ', you can knock you down with your eyes closed, which round will you teach him!" Tao Guang, a young teacher of Southwest Associated University, is Liu Wendian's favorite student. He feels guilty for not visiting his teacher for a long time because of his lesson preparation.Finally, I took time out to visit my teacher.Unexpectedly, as soon as Liu saw Tao, he yelled at Tao as a "slacker", "worthless", "ignoring the teacher's words", and so on.Tao was puzzled for a while, and he recalled: "I think he was not eating enough opium, and he was crazy. I always respect teachers, but students are not slaves. I can't bear to insult casually. I want to exchange violence with violence. When I was about to fight back with angry eyes, Suddenly Mr. Liu slapped the table hard, and said louder: "I rely on you to become famous and start a family, as the capital of bragging. You don't understand my painstaking efforts. Do you have the heart to make me despair?" His angry face suddenly turned into a pitiful one. face." Tao Guang was very moved when he heard that the teacher regarded himself as a "capital for bragging", so he turned his anger into a smile, helped the teacher to sit down, explained the reason to Liu, and poured tea to apologize.Liu Yi turned his anger into joy and stayed with Tao for dinner. When he was at the Southwest Associated University, Liu Wendian's student Li Yan once borrowed a copy of "Tang Sanzang Master Biography" from Liu Wendian.When Li opened the book, he found that the blank space was full of annotations written by Liu Wendian in multiple languages. In addition to Chinese, the annotations also included Japanese, Sanskrit, Persian and English.When Li Xun was engrossed in reading it, he found a picture of a mouse drawn by Liu Wendian with a brush in the book.Li was very puzzled, so he went to ask Liu for advice.Liu Wendian said that it was when he was reading a book with a sesame oil lamp in the countryside, and saw a mouse crawling on the lamp panel late one night, brazenly eating the oil dripping from the wick on the lamp panel.He originally wanted to kill the mouse, but he felt that the mouse was also seeking a living, just like he was studying to earn a living, so there was no need to kill each other. At that time, he drew a picture of a mouse with a brush and stuck it in the book.Li Xun then said with emotion: "Sir, you really have the virtue of loving life!" Zhang Zhongxing recalled that when Liu Wendian gave lectures, Wu Mi (named Rain Monk) also went to listen and sat in the last row of the classroom.Liu Wendian always closed his eyes and talked, and when he talked about what he thought was his unique experience, he always raised his head and opened his eyes to look at the back row, and asked, "What do you think, brother Yuseng?" Wu Mi stood up as usual, respectfully, and nodded One side replied: "It's a great idea, it's a great idea." It made the audience laugh secretly. Wu Mi admired Liu Wendian's knowledge very much, and he often went to listen to Liu Wendian's lectures and speeches.He recorded in his diary: "Listen to Dian's lectures and answer students' questions. It rained heavily at that time, and hit the tin and iron on the roof like thunder." He wrote again: "Listen to Dian's open-air lectures." Once, Liu Wendian talked with his students about Zhong Miaoyu's theory of drinking tea: "One cup is a product, two cups is a thirst-quenching fool, and three cups is drinking cows and mules." Liu Wendian joked: "I drink tea to quench my thirst. fool's ear." When Wang Yanming was in school, there were various anecdotes and anecdotes about Professor Liu Wendian among his classmates: ...it was said that he graded the student test papers very sloppily, and graded them all based on impressions; Qian Mu recalled Liu Wendian in "Miscellaneous Memories of Teachers and Friends": "One year, Yu Shi was in the same car with him. He had an addiction to editions. He often read a book in his hand in the car. The book must be a good edition. And he held a cigarette in his hand. , the smoke dust grows with the inhalation, the car is shaken, and the smoke dust in the hand can not fall." Liu Wendian is very addicted to smoking.One day during class, Liu Wendian ran out of cigarettes, so he asked the male students in the front row to ask for cigarettes. The students were afraid that the cigarettes would be too bad, so they were embarrassed to take them out.But Liu signaled again and again that a student surnamed Zhang was about to take out a cigarette. At this moment, the classroom door opened, and his family brought cigarettes to Liu. Liu Wendian and the famous Bai poet Ma Yao once worked together at Yunnan University. Both of them are fond of cigarettes and often taste cigarettes together.After Hou Ma left Yunda, whenever Liu found good cigarettes, he invited Ma to taste them together.And Ma reciprocated. In 1951, Cheng Yanqiu performed in Kunming, and it was hard to get a ticket.Ma knew that Liu was a fan of the theater, so he tried to get tickets and delivered them to Liu's house in person. Liu Wendian likes opium.Qian Mu said that after Liu Wendian studied at Yunnan University, he "would lie on the couch day and night, and never leave the house except for class."It is said that after liberation, in Yunnan, Premier Zhou Enlai personally approved two people to smoke "cloud soil", one was the former chairman of Yunnan Province Long Yun, and the other was Liu Wendian, a professor of Yunnan University. When he was in Yunnan, Liu Wendian fell in love with Yunnan opera.At that time, Tao Guang, a student of Liu Wendian who was teaching at Southwest Associated University, fell in love with a talented and beautiful female artist of Dian opera, and wanted to ask Liu Wendian to be a matchmaker for her, so he often took Liu to watch Dian opera.Tao Guang has reached middle age, Liu is naturally happy with the beauty of adults.As a result, Liu has been fascinated by Dian opera since then, and Tao also embraces the beauty.This incident became a good story for a while.Liu believes that only Dian opera can truly maintain China's orthodoxy.In the 1940s, he went to watch Yunnan Opera almost every day. "He reserved the two seats in the front row of the Guanghua Theater all year round. Rain or shine, he and his wife would come every night. He was especially fascinated by the singing art of the famous old student Li Chengzhi." , once known as 'Yunnan is called the sky', and presented a poem "Sandalwood eulogizes the intention, but Yiliang is difficult to sing the sunny sky. White hair and sadness, saving food and haggard Li Guinian." After liberation, Liu Wendian often strolled to teahouses to listen to Yunnan opera after dinner.One evening, Mrs. Liu and his wife were strolling along Green Lake to listen to an opera. Suddenly, a small jeep stopped beside him. A provincial cadre got out of the car and asked Mr. Liu where he wanted to go, and he could take it by car.But Liu declined politely and said, "walk in peace." After speaking, he walked away with his wife. Liu Pingzhang recalled that in March 1957, during Liu Wendian's meeting in Beijing, he saw a cartoon in "Soviet Pictorial" called "The Shoeshine" in a bookstore. squatting on the ground in the cold wind to shine shoes for his son "kolya".Liu Pingzhang, who was studying in Chengdu at the time, wrote to his father to "beg" for living expenses. Liu Wendian happened to read the "shoe shiner" cartoon, and thought of how much he doted on his son, he couldn't help but blame himself.So he called his son "kolya" and signed it as "shoe shiner" in the letter to his son. He didn't mention sending money in the letter. financial crisis.This letter is now housed in the Liu Wendian Memorial Hall. Liu Wendian has several strong feelings for his hometown. He is from Hefei, and he will sign "Hefei Liu Wendian" on his old works. In 1949, he printed a business card for himself with only the words "Liu Wendian, Hefei, Anhui".After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, someone once suggested that Liu Wendian return to his hometown to teach, and Liu Wendian was very happy.However, due to the turmoil in the current situation, his wish was not fulfilled, which became his lifelong regret. After Li Biyu entered Yunnan University, senior students wrote the word "尗疋" for him to read, and he was speechless.At this time, the senior classmate told him that when he first entered the school, the previous classmate also wrote these two words for him to recognize, and he mispronounced it as "kabu".The classmate told Li that these two characters belonged to Mr. Liu Wendian, pronounced "Shu Ya", and the students also called Mr. Liu "Kate" (pronounced kate) behind their backs, which was a nickname for his old man. .