Chapter 122 Linked language

A couplet written by Chen Yinke to hold back Wang Guowei: The soul of the family and the country has been lost for a long time in seventeen years, and there are still water and mountains left, and he is left with Lei Chen as a sacrifice; 5,000 rolls of toothpicks are touched by new hands; . (On the day when the Northern Expeditionary Army entered Peiping in 1927, Wang Guowei sank in the Yuzao Pavilion in the Summer Palace. He was loyal to the Qing Dynasty, and his suicide note said: "In fifty years, only one death is owed. When this happens, there is no more humiliation. "Qing Zuo finally announced the third year of Xuantong (1911), and it was seventeen years since Wang Guowei's death. , achievements in bronze inscriptions.)

Chen Yinke is famous for his profound knowledge, but he is very funny.In addition to his academic studies, he also likes to make couplets.In 1926, he served as a tutor of the Tsinghua Institute of Chinese Studies. At that time, he, Liang Qichao, Wang Guowei, and Zhao Yuanren were called the "Four Mentors" of the Chinese Academy.Chen Yinke said to the students: "I have a couplet for you." Lianyun: "The sage of the South China Sea, pass it on to his disciples; the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, a classmate boy." ("Nanhai sage" refers to Kang Youwei. Liang Qichao, one of the tutors of the Institute Kang Youwei’s disciple, and another mentor, Wang Guowei, was the master of Xuantong Emperor Puyi. So he said that his student was Kang Youwei’s reincarnated disciple and a classmate of the Qing Emperor.)

During the Anti-Japanese War, Chen Yinke was teaching at the Southwest Associated University in Kunming. When encountering Japanese imperialist bombing, he often had to "run the alarm" (to avoid Japanese air raids). Not far from the suburbs, some people dug a The pit is covered with a thick wooden plank, and people enter the pit to escape.Chen Yinke made a couplet because of this: act according to the opportunity, and rest in peace. (Those who "enter the soil" hide in the air-raid shelter. It is a common idiom to act according to the situation, and to be safe in the soil, but its use is amazing.).

Chen Yinke not only used couplets to "quiet" the "moness" of students, but also used couplets to "quiet" the "moness" of university presidents.When Luo Jialun became the president of Tsinghua University, he gave Chen Yinke a copy of "Science and Metaphysics" edited by him, and Chen returned a pair of couplets: I don't understand family law, scientific metaphysics; incoherent, Chinese and Western.Hengbiao: Confucian generals are romantic.Luo asked what was the reason, and he explained: "You were a major general during the Northern Expedition, aren't you a Confucian general? You also got a beautiful wife, she is a romantic."

In the summer of 1932, Liu Wendian, director of the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Tsinghua University, asked Chen Yinke to draw up questions for Chinese language admissions.The first grade is "Sun Xingzhe" and "the young and old leave home and return home".