Chapter 76 Courtesy

Chiang Kai-shek treated Qian Mu with courtesy, so that there were always different opinions about the relationship between Chiang and Qian, and Qian Mu was scolded a lot for this. During the Anti-Japanese War, Qian Mu met with Chiang Kai-shek several times in Sichuan, and talked about Confucianism and history. Jiang asked Qian Mu to write "The Case of Confucianism in the Qing Dynasty" and invited him to speak at the Chongqing Central Training Group. When the Kuomintang army was defeated in 1949, Qian Mu was one of the people who advocated that Chiang Kai-shek should step down.In the future, Chiang Kai-shek treated Qian Mu more politely, and even publicly said that perhaps what Qian Mu and others said at the time was "beneficial to state affairs"; in order to express his respect for Qian Mu, Chiang Kai-shek specially changed the Chinese tunic suit to a Chinese tunic when meeting Qian Mu. Wearing robes; Qian Mu's specialization in the theories of Zhu Xi and Wang Yangming, and Chiang Kai-shek, who admired Wang Yangming, hit it off.

Qian Mu once recalled his meeting with Chiang Kai-shek: the first meeting, "less than a few minutes of conversation, has made me forget all restraints, full of power, as if meeting a teacher, as if meeting an old friend, as if still in my daily life In academic life." The second time Chiang Kai-shek hosted a banquet, "Two seats are prepared at the dining table, one with its back to the entrance of the room door, and one on the right. I see that the seats are different, that is, the seat on the right side. The seat with the back to the door. I dare not move, the president has repeatedly ordered to stop. The waiter told me that I should not resign because of the chairman's intention. So I changed to the seat with the door behind the door. The waiter saw that I moved the seat and was about to There are two bowls and chopsticks on the table, and I know for sure that this seat is reserved for the president, so I feel uneasy, but there is nothing I can do."

After Qian Mu founded New Asia Academy, Chiang Kai-shek not only personally invited Qian Mu to come to Taiwan for a speech, but was entertained by Soong Meiling and Chiang Ching-kuo. At the same time, he instructed Taiwan’s administrative authorities to allocate 3,000 Hong Kong dollars per month for New Asia to relieve its financial difficulties, which lasted for four years. , until Yale University provides a subsidy for New Asia College. After 1950, Qian Mu was invited to Taiwan about every year to give a speech or have a small talk with Chiang Kai-shek. Chiang Ching-kuo would often accompany him and establish a certain friendship with Qian Mu.Qian Mu once considered setting up a new Asian branch school in Taiwan, but because he did not receive the support of the Kuomintang, it fell through.

The Cultural Revolution in 1966 made Chiang Kai-shek, who was in a corner of the island, rise up the idea of ​​confrontation and launched the "Chinese Cultural Revival Movement".In order to build Taiwan into an international center of Sinology, Chiang Kai-shek paid homage to corporals and strongly invited masters who had lived abroad to return to Taiwan. Qian Mu praised this move as "the biggest thing since 1911", and he himself became the object of Chiang Kai-shek's urging.In addition to Qian Mu, Lin Yutang in the United States and Zhang Daqian, who lives in Brazil, are also pointers.

Due to Chiang Kai-shek's kind invitation, coupled with the sudden changes in the situation in Hong Kong, a new wave of refugees has formed, the leftists have continued to fight, and the political situation is unstable. At the invitation of the students of the New Asia College of CUHK, he returned to Hong Kong to give a lecture on the "May 4th Movement". In August, he decided to settle in Taiwan. In October, 73-year-old Qian Mukai's wife Hu Meiqi moved to Taipei, where he will live forever. At the beginning of moving to Taiwan, Qian Mu first lived in the "Freedom House" in downtown Taipei, and then rented to live in Jinshan Street, Taipei. With the high courtesy of Chiang Kai-shek, the National Government allocated the land next to Soochow University in Wai Shuangxi, Taipei, and Allocate public funds to build houses for Qian Mu and his wife to live in.This elegant villa-style two-story building is the famous "Sushu Building".The Palace Museum specially hired him as a researcher, which not only freed Qian Mu from worrying about life, but also allowed him to browse important classics such as Siku Quanshu and create with peace of mind.

After Chiang Kai-shek's death, Qian Mu claimed that he was "shocked and overwhelmed. Daily reading and writing can't be sustained, but sitting in front of the TV and watching the funerals of various parties, mourning a little." In 1986, at the invitation of Chiang Ching-kuo, the ninety-two-year-old Qian Mu was hired as a senior adviser to the presidential palace.To express respect for Qian Mu, Chiang Ching-kuo's special committee, Secretary-General of the Presidential Office Shen Changhuan, personally went to the Sushu Building to present the letter of appointment.Qian Mu said that before him there was no precedent for a scholar to serve as a senior minister, and he set this precedent for intellectuals.

Li Ao couldn't understand Qian Mu's attitude of praising Chiang Kai-shek. He said: "Take a look at Qian Mu's "President Chiang Kai-shek's Birthday Congratulations". And to follow the luck of the chastity, so as to see where the heart of heaven belongs. In this era of our country and the nation, the great responsibility of the Yuan Dynasty is under the chastity, so it must be won by the public'. It is completely shameless for the intellectuals to be so reactionary. , It’s really disappointing! Recalling Qian Mu’s letter to me in the past, flaunting the relationship between “study” and “virtue”, but now “knowledge” can’t stop the decline of “virtue”, I can’t help but feel sad for him !" And said: "Historically, the true 'generation of Confucianism' will not fall into the arms of the ruling class!"