Chapter 45 anecdote

Liu Shipei, Zhang Taiyan, and his disciple Huang Kan were collectively known as the "Three Crazies of the Republic of China". He advocated the "three unhealthy lifestyles" throughout his life: don't clean your clothes and shoes, don't wash your face, and don't cut your hair. Once, Liu Shipei saw a relative wearing glasses with gold frames and was very envious, so he asked his grandmother for them.The grandmother loved her grandson very much, so she said to him: "How can we have so much money! Let's make a pair out of my jewelry!" Immediately, she took out several pieces of gold jewelry and handed them to Shipei Liu.Liu Shipei asked others to make it, and a few days later he got the gold-rimmed glasses. He was so happy that he couldn't stop jumping.

Liu Shipei was "weak in physique" since he was a child, "barren and thin like unbearable clothes". He suffered from tuberculosis when he was a teenager. He often coughed in autumn and winter, and the cough was often bloody.Liu Shipei was a big smoker, and his desk was often covered with soot, and his sleeves often had holes burned by the smoke.He likes to read while smoking, and sometimes he gets so absorbed in reading that he often inserts cigarette butts into the cartridge by mistake. After interacting with Chen Duxiu, Zhang Taiyan and others, Liu Shipei began to devote himself to the revolution. After the occurrence of the "Su Reporting Case", Liu Shipei immediately wrote the anti-Qing monograph "Rang Shu", which was sold out as soon as it was published.Qian Xuantong, who was studying in Suzhou when he was a student, bought a copy with great difficulty. Halfway through reading it, he was so excited that he immediately asked a barber to cut his braids to show that "Yi is not Emperor Qin".

Zhang Taiyan was very angry with Sun Yat-sen because he suspected that Sun Yat-sen was accepting bribes from the Japanese. Liu Shipei was influenced by this and had a very low evaluation of Sun Yat-sen: "Gai Sun is a person who does not learn texts. He is greedy by nature and does not know what morality is." Tao Juyin wrote in the "Biography of the "Six Gentlemen" of the Chou Anhui": Liu (Shi Pei) is slovenly, disheveled, disheveled, and looks like a madman.He lives in the Datong Apartment in Baimiao Hutong, Beijing.One day, Yi Kebian, an old colleague from the Ministry of Education, came to visit and saw him biting a steamed bun while reading a book. There was a plate of soy sauce in front of him, but because he was concentrating on reading, he dipped the steamed bun into the ink cartridge by mistake and put it in his mouth to eat. He and his face were all painted black, and he looked like a living ghost again.

When Zhang Zhongxing went to Peking University to study, he heard people from the old Peking University say that during the May 4th Movement, Mr. Liu Shipei, an ancient writer of Peking University, and Mr. Cui Shi, a modern writer, lived opposite each other. They called each other Mr. X and bowed at the same time; but after the class, it completely changed, because the two had different academic views, so they always attacked each other's absurdity in class, and they were merciless.