Chapter 120 patriotic

After the Japanese occupied Hong Kong, they sent flour to Chen Yinke and his wife.At that time, living materials were extremely scarce. According to Chen Zhesan's "Anecdotes of Chen Yinke and His Works", "Probably some Japanese scholars wrote to the military department, asking them not to bother Professor Chen. Many sacks of flour were sent to the house, but the military police moved into the house, and Mr. Chen and Mrs. Chen dragged them out, but they just refused to eat the enemy’s flour.” On December 8, 1941, the Pacific War broke out and the Japanese occupied Hong Kong. Chen Yinke immediately resigned and lived idle. The Japanese authorities appointed him to run the School of Oriental Literature with 400,000 yuan per day, but he firmly refused. In the spring of 1942, someone was ordered by the Japanese side to invite him to give lectures in Shanghai, which had been occupied by the Japanese army.He refused again.

Facing the peril of the nation, the corruption and incompetence of the Kuomintang government, passive anti-Japanese and active anti-Communist, Chen Yinke felt distressed, but some imperial literati in Guilin even initiated a boring activity of presenting nine tripods to Chiang Kai-shek, and persuaded him to participate. "Jiuding inscriptions argue for morality, and a century of roughness always hurts the poor."To show irony. When Chen Yinke was teaching at Tsinghua University, many scholars went to Japan to study Chinese culture. Chen said angrily: "The country can be destroyed, but history cannot be destroyed." Die. Tian Balu Zhong failed to achieve both, and he will be shamed by the kings."

Chen Yinke also rejoiced at the development and strength of New China.When the atomic bomb test was successful, he said excitedly: "Our country has enough self-defense capabilities, so we don't have to rely on other people's umbrellas." After the outbreak of the Pacific War, Chen Yinke took the risk to return to the mainland from Hong Kong, and chanted a poem on the sea, "All nations are fighting with one leaf boat, so Qiu returns to death without hesitation". In 1949, under the entrustment of Fu Sinian, Minister of Education Hang Liwu sent people several times to persuade Lingnan University President Chen Xujing to mobilize Chen Yinke to teach in Taiwan, but Chen Xujing never agreed.Hang Liwu retreated to the next best thing, and urged Chen Yinke to go to Hong Kong to see the situation first, and said that it would be more than enough to advance and retreat, but Chen still ignored it.At the critical moment of the Kuomintang's complete defeat, the red-eyed Hang Liwu rushed to Lingnan University with Xu Kan, the Minister of Finance of the "war cabinet", and had a showdown with the president Chen Xujing, asking Chen to go with him to persuade Chen Yinke to go to Hong Kong.It is said that Hang Liwu had reached the point of begging at that time, and told Chen Xujing that if Chen Yinke agreed to go to Hong Kong, he would immediately give Chen Yinke 100,000 Hong Kong dollars and a new house. Let him live in the new house." Seeing that Chen Xujing refused to cooperate, Hang Liwu had no choice but to bring the Minister of Finance to Chen's house to persuade him, intending to cash in on it immediately, but Chen Yinke remained unmoved. During the "Cultural Revolution", Chen Yinke said in the seventh confession: "When Guangzhou was not liberated, Fu Sinian, the director of the Institute of History and Linguistics of the pseudo-Academia Sinica, called many times to urge him to go to Taiwan. I am determined not to go. As for Hong Kong, it is the British imperialists. Colonial. Colonial life is what I despise all my life. So I don’t go to Hong Kong either. I would like to stay in China.”