Chapter 97 Duan Mu

Wang Guowei is obsessed with moral cleanliness, and he always associates articles with personality.Wang Guowei said: "There are no poets of the following three generations than Qu Zi, Yuan Ming, Zi Mei, and Zi Zhan. If these four sons have no literary genius, their personality is self-sufficient through the ages. There is no noble and great personality, but there is nobility and greatness. There are almost no such articles." Wang Guowei was naturally melancholy and pessimistic. He himself said: "The body is weak, the nature is depressed, and the problems of life come to me day by day. Since then, I have decided to engage in philosophy."

Wang Guowei said of himself: "The nature of the rest is that if you want to be a philosopher, you have a lot of emotions but know that you are a little bit. If you want to be a poet, you have a lot of emotions and a lot of reason." Believers are not lovable; they know the truth and love their error." Wang Guowei thinks very highly of himself, and has always been regarded as a genius.After he was 30 years old, he devoted himself to literary and academic writings.And filled in a lot of words, saying: "Yu Yu's Ci, although his writing is not as good as Baiyu, but since the Southern Song Dynasty, except for one or two people, there has been no one who can match the rest, so he is confident in his daily life."

Because Wang Guowei has a high self-esteem, he has few friends.This also made him more dedicated to academic research.He wrote in his poem: "Hidden scrolls have a lot of troubles in life. When you are full, you become more sorrowful and obstinate. I sometimes hear the sound of singing and complaining about the remnants of spring. There is nothing to pass the day when you sit down, and you are more destined to make lead pills as usual. There is no distinction between leisure and sorrow. Qinghuan .” Wang Guowei said frankly that he was stupid, and he still couldn't understand about five-tenths of "Shangshu", and he couldn't understand one-tenth of the "Shangshu".This shocked the graduate students at the time.

When interacting with people, Wang Guowei seldom chatted, let alone socializing, except for academic or business affairs.If someone asks him to look at an ancient bronze ware, he will say "unreliable" if he finds it is fake, and no matter what the person who asks him to see is how ancient and elegant the color of this ancient vessel is, how clear the green is How exquisite, there are similar descriptions in any book, provide these for his reference, and then ask him to read it carefully.After he read it, he would still say: "It's unreliable." He didn't agree or refute it.

When Cai Yuanpei was in charge of Peking University, he wanted Wang Guowei to teach at Peking University.However, Wang Guowei lived as an old man of the Qing Dynasty and could not do anything for the Republic of China, so he firmly refused.In desperation, Cai Yuanpei thought of a workaround, and asked him to be a communication tutor (similar to today's correspondence professor), teaching students for Peking University, but he was not a teacher of Peking University in name.Six months later, Cai Yuanpei sent someone to send him a salary of 200 yuan, but Wang Guowei refused to accept it because he felt that although he worked for Peking University, he was not employed by Peking University, so he could not be paid.In the end, there was a change, and Wang Guowei, who was in poverty, accepted the money in the name of reimbursement for the postage of the communication professor.

Another time, Peking University invited Wang Guowei to visit the school, and the aisles were arranged in advance to show grandeur.Wang Guowei refused again. The reason was that there were all kinds of welcomers, and there were inevitably those who had different opinions and were not speculators. He Wang Guowei could not accept their welcome.Fortunately, Peking University had seen many weirdos. Cai Yuanpei laughed it off and changed the welcome ceremony into a tea party between professors and Wang Guowei who shared research interests. Wang Guowei's appearance is always serious and serious.Zhao Yuanren's wife, Yang Buwei, was quite afraid of him.Yang Buwei has a straightforward and loud voice, but he always keeps silent when he sees Wang Guowei.On Wang Guowei’s 50th birthday, colleagues from Tsinghua University organized three banquets to celebrate his birthday. Mrs. Zhao refused to share the same table with Wang Guowei: "No! No! I will not sit at the same table with Mr. Wang." It was silent all the time, but Mrs. Zhao's table was full of laughter.

Wang Guowei has a calm personality and doesn't like to socialize with others. In Tsinghua University, he usually doesn't take the initiative to talk to students except for lecturing.He always left after class, returned to his residence in the West Courtyard, and went into his study to study academics.However, if students visit or send letters, whether they are asking for advice or debating, they have always been received without discrimination, regardless of age, seniority or inferiority.Some students from Southeast University at that time even went to Beijing to ask for advice and lived in Mr. Wang's house.In his view, academics are the public tools of the world, and there should be no sectarianism. Therefore, no matter whether he is a disciple of his own or not, even if he is busy with his studies, he always answers all questions.During his two years of coaching at Tsinghua University, I don't know how many Tsinghua students have received his favor.

Once Jiang Liangfu filled out a poem and wanted to ask Wang Guowei to read it for him.He arrived at Wang Guowei's house at 7:30 in the evening. After reading it, Wang Guowei said: "You used to want to be a poet. You are more rational than emotional. Ci is the product of complex emotions. This poem is not bad." So I helped him revise it, and it took nearly two hours to revise it.When he was changing the lyrics, Jiang flipped through two books, one of which was the German version of "Das Kapital". Jiang saw that the book was marked with pens of several colors.Wang Guowei looked at Jiang Liangfu and said, "I read this book more than ten years ago when I was reading German works." At that time, Jiang Liangfu felt that Mr. Jiang not only had extensive knowledge, but also advanced thinking.After nine o’clock in the evening, Jiang Liangfu left after the words were corrected. Wang Guowei asked his family to send Jiang with him by lighting lanterns. He sent Jiang to the Liushui Bridge behind the Tsinghua University Auditorium. He did not go back until Jiang crossed the bridge. He said to Jiang: : "Your eyes are too bad, cross the bridge, and the road will be easier to walk." Hearing this, Jiang almost shed tears, and he will never forget it for the rest of his life.

Wang Dongming, Wang Guowei's son, recalled his father: "In my father's life, there may not have been the word entertainment. At that time, radios were not common. Although there were broadcasts in Beijing, there was at most a small box-like ore radio. Wear headphones to listen. It’s not bad. All modern audio-visual entertainment is beyond the reach of dreams at that time. He has done a lot of research on Chinese opera, but he has never seen him go to a theater.” Wang Guowei seldom travels. In the Tsinghua Academy of Chinese Studies, he and his colleagues only once swam across the West Mountain, riding a donkey up the mountain, and had a great time.

Wang Guowei didn't know how to draw, and children pestered him to draw people, but he only knew how to draw an old man with a stick or a boat.He will also personally teach the children to read "Mencius", and he never reads the book when explaining or listening to the children's recitation, and the explanation does not speak word for word. . Wang Guowei wears simple clothes. In winter, he wears a robe, a gray or dark blue blouse, a black sweat towel belt, and a black mandarin jacket. In summer, he only wears a silk or linen gown.He usually only wears cloth shoes, never wears leather shoes, and wears a small melon skin hat on his head, even on cold days, he does not wear a leather hat or woolen hat.

When Wang Guowei lived in Shanghai, there were often Japanese guests at home.Wang Guowei's children were still young and very naughty.They knew that the Japanese liked turtles, so they quietly used white plaster powder to print the pattern of a small turtle on the clothes behind the guests while the Japanese guests were not paying attention, and then hid aside and laughed mischievously.Wang Guowei didn't blame him when he saw this scene.Wang Guowei's children did not know until they were adults that the object of their jokes was not an ordinary person, but a Japanese scholar who had close ties with Wang Guowei in academic research and had made outstanding contributions to Sino-Japanese cultural exchanges, such as Suzuki Torao, Kanda Kiichiro, etc. Gong Zizhen, who was full of love all her life, was very good at using poems to describe the emotional entanglement between men and women. In her later years, she wrote a light and graceful quatrain: "Once I Fu Lingyun I am tired and fly, and I am idle when I am idle. Said that looking for spring is your return." After Wang Guowei read it, he denounced it as: "He is so cold and incompetent that he jumps between paper and ink." (Note: Gong Zizhen is a pedant of heaven and man, talented and rich, and his poems are mostly lingering, graceful and graceful sentences, while his actions are free and unrestrained. He was not allowed to enter the Hanlin because he was not good at books, but taught his daughter, his daughter-in-law, his concubine, and his favored maidservants to learn the "Guange Style". Housewives, there is no one who must enter the Hanlin." Gong also loves to swim, likes to gamble, and learns Buddhism in his later years. When there is nothing to do, he visits either prostitutes or monks. When he meets high officials and nobles, he often rolls his eyes. In particular, the "Mysterious Lilac Case" in which he and Gu Taiqing, a well-known poet at the time, were suspected of melons and plums was even more confusing. He didn't say anything because of it.) A few days before his death, Wang Guowei was entrusted to write a fan for Xie Guozhen, who was his student and later became a famous historian.Wang wrote two seven-character regulated poems, "Jiemu" and "Dengnan Shenguang Temple Pagoda Courtyard" by Han Xie at the end of Tang Dynasty. When the inscription was available, the word "brother" was mistakenly planted after Xie Guozhen's name.Friends, no matter how old or young, can be called "brother", which is the old etiquette.But when a teacher calls a disciple "brother", it violates etiquette.Therefore, on the day when he entered the lake, Wang Guowei first went to Tsinghua Research Institute to deal with the academic affairs as usual, and used ink pen to write "brother" on the fan for thanking him. In this way, he not only followed the traditional ritual, but also Incorporating Wang's consistent modesty in dealing with people.After finishing this matter, he took the car to the Summer Palace, walked to the West Fish and Zao Pavilion in the Hall of Dispelling Clouds, wandered by the stream for a while, and then resolutely sank.At that time, it was the Dragon Boat Festival when durian flowers were in full bloom, and Qu Yuan, who was serious and meticulous, also sank himself in this season.