Chapter 136 eccentric

Zhang Taiyan likes to smoke, and the cigarettes he smokes are generally cheap "Golden Mouse" brand, and he uses "Daying Brand" to entertain guests.He also enjoys smoking hookah.Every time a hookah is smoked, there must be a cigarette butt in the ground, so there are thousands of small black spots burned by cigarette butts on the floor of the home. Zhang Taiyan is addicted to smoking. When giving lectures, he often holds chalk in one hand and a cigarette in the other. When writing on the blackboard, he mistakenly holds a cigarette to write on the blackboard;It often makes everyone laugh.

Zhang Taiyan never left his cigarette, smoking one after another, often before finishing one, he would light another one and smoke for three or four hours in a row, curling up like a thread.Whenever he ran out of cigarettes at hand, he would yell loudly: "Old Li, get some cigarettes!" When Zhang Taiyan smokes, he doesn't put the cigarette butt into his mouth like others do, but puts most of a cigarette in his mouth.Sometimes he talked while smoking, and when he was happy, the smoke burned his lips, causing him to clap his mouth with his hands in pain, spewing out embers, as if performing magic tricks.Sometimes without paying attention, the cigarette butts fell on the pants, burning through the pants and burning his legs, causing him to scream in pain and curse "ghost smoke".And the pair of pants with burnt holes, he still wears on his body.

Feng Zizi visited Zhang Taiyan and asked him to write two documents, one was Sun Yat-sen's "Declaration on the Establishment of the Government of the Republic of China" when the Republic of China was founded, and the other was "A Call to Yuan Shikai".These two articles were originally written by Zhang Taiyan, and Feng Ziyou asked him to write a copy of each in his own hand, which became "historical documents".At that time, Feng gave 20 yuan of ink and silver for moistening pens.After this incident was reported by the newspaper, many people came to ask for these two documents.Every time he asks for a book, he will send a pen fee, but Zhang Taiyan "does not talk about money", and his wife Tang Guoli or his disciples often pay for it.Sometimes when Zhang Taiyan wrote more than ten pieces, he became angry and refused to write again.Tang Guoli repeatedly persuaded him, but he remained silent.Tang Guoli had no choice but to think of a way.It turned out that he usually smoked cheap Golden Mouse brand cigarettes. Once someone gave him a can of Keliq cigarettes. Zhang Taiyan liked it very much. He called it "Foreign Golden Mouse" and often clamored to smoke it.Tang Guoli told him that every time he wrote a copy, he would buy him a can of "Foreign Golden Mouse", and Zhang continued to write happily.

Zuo Shunsheng recalled that Zhang Taiyan was "addicted to paper cigarettes. He often lit another cigarette with only an inch left. He once saw it last for three or four hours. He often smoked the beautiful brand that was popular in Shanghai at that time, and occasionally got the Platinum Dragon. It is a treasure. Mr. Gai’s calligraphy has no embellishment at the beginning, and those who want to get his brush and ink will most likely be rewarded with a few tins of cigarettes, so they can be inexhaustible and inexhaustible....Mr. Usually, he likes to hold a piece of paper alone and write quickly." "His favorite food is stewed food with a bad smell, and he especially likes stinky curd, which smells so bad that the whole room covers his nose, but his nose can never smell it The stench, all he felt was the umami of moldy food."

Shanghai painter Qian Huafo can always find stinky food to suit his liking, and obtained many authentic works of Zhang.Once, Qian Huafo brought a pack of purple and black stinky salted eggs. Zhang Taiyan was overjoyed when he saw it, and said to Qian: "Whatever you want to write, just tell me." Zhang wrote the words "Republic of the Five Races" on each of them, and proposed not to sign Zhang Binglin, but only to sign the chapter too Yan, but Zhang actually obeyed all of them, without saying a word, and signed it in one go.From then on, every few days, Qian sent smelly food, such as stinky amaranth stalks, stinky peanuts, stinky winter melon, etc. Zhang was overjoyed every time he saw him, and he responded to every request. He wrote more than a hundred "Republic of the Five Races" for Qian. .It turned out that a new kind of "five-color flag" wine was newly purchased in a Xiangfan restaurant in Shanghai. The wine was very cloudy when it was poured out. After a few minutes of precipitation, it turned into five colors of red, yellow, blue, white and black, just like the five-color flag of the national flag of the Republic of China.Qian Huafo had an idea and came up with the idea of ​​making a "Republic of the Five Races" seal. After Zhang Taiyan had finished writing it and mounted it, he hung it in the restaurant and sold it for ten yuan each, but it was out of stock.Qian Huafo also made a fortune as a result.

When Zhang Taiyan was in Taiwan, he wrote articles for "Taiwan Daily News".Readers responded that his articles often use uncommon words, which are difficult to understand.Kinoshita Shinsaburo, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper, asked him tactfully: "Is the text written by Mr. self-interpretation and self-reading, or is it for ordinary people to read and understand?" Zhang Taiyan didn't say a word, just took a pen and wrote on the paper: " I don't care if people in the world know or don't understand, I just worry about my poor writing. If my writing is good, there will be someone who knows it. Please don't ask!" Seeing this, Kinoshita Shinsaburo could only shake his head and leave with a sigh.

Zhang Taiyan liked to use uncommon characters, and Su Manshu translated many Western poems, many of which were added by Zhang for him. Zhang Taiyan and his concubine Wang had three "daughters". He named the three daughters respectively: Zhang (Li), Zhang Kui, and Zhang (four workers).After the three daughters grew up, they were all talented and beautiful, but no matchmaker came to propose marriage for a long time.For this reason, Mrs. Wang often nagged in the old man's ear.Zhang Taiyan finally realized the reason.It turns out that many people don't know these words, and the matchmakers are afraid of losing face if they mispronounce the words, so they don't come to propose marriage.So he asked his wife to set up several banquet tables at home and invite relatives and friends to be guests.At the banquet, Zhang explained the three strange characters to the guests.He said: "(Li)" read "Li", which means "pane"; In ancient Chinese characters, Duan Yucai's commentary on "Shuowen" said that "workmanship is ingenious, so the four craftsmanship is extremely ingenious", which is not surprising.Since then, there has been an endless stream of matchmakers.

In the autumn of 1940, a special college student—a middle-aged woman in her 40s—came to the Jinling Women’s College of Arts and Sciences, which moved from Nanjing to Chengdu, Sichuan due to the Anti-Japanese War. I was stumped by her name, "Zhang, Zhang, Zhang..." I couldn't read her name for a long time, and finally said in a hurry: "Her name is Zhang Sigong, because her name is four Gong characters." Brothers Lu Xun and Zhou Zuoren once published a collection of foreign novels translated by them when they were studying in Japan. They named the collection of novels "Or Foreign Fiction Collection" when they were published. "Or" is an ancient word for "Yu". The Zhou brothers named it this way because they were influenced by their teacher Zhang Taiyan.

Zhang Taiyan likes to write ancient Zhong Dingwen when writing. Sometimes Tang Guoli stands behind Zhang to watch him write, and occasionally expresses his opinion that a certain word is not well written. He turns around and smiles: "You don't know how to write!" Zhang Taiyan likes to use ancient characters and false characters.He once wrote a note to ask his servant to buy meat for soup, but the servant went all over the butcher shop in Suzhou City and couldn't find it. When he came back, he said to Zhang Taiyan, "After reading your writing, they all said no." Zhang wrote the character "meat" similar to the character "month" in seal script, which the butchers didn't know at all.

In his later years, Zhang Taiyan wrote prescriptions for people in bronze, but the people in the pharmacy didn't understand them, so Zhang said angrily, "Why do you open a pharmacy if you don't know how to read?" Zhang Xiaoquan scissors is a time-honored brand for hundreds of years, so there are many counterfeiters. There are more than ten "real Zhang Xiaoquan scissors shops" hanging in Dajing Lane, Hangzhou.One of the shop owners asked Zhang Taiyan to write an inscription in order to stand out from the competition.Zhang Xinran agreed, and wrote "Zhang Xiaoquan Qiandao Shop" with a pen.When the shopkeeper saw it, he was dumbfounded, and asked Zhang to refund the one hundred yuan fee for running the pen.Zhang Shuo wrote the word "Qian" and said: "There is already a knife next to the moon, why bother to stack the bed frame, it is criticized by people." The boss left happily after hearing this.Since then, customers have believed that "Qiandaodian" is the real "Zhang Xiaoquan", and everything else is false.

Zhang Taiyan has read ancient and modern medical works extensively, and thinks he is highly skilled in medicine, so he loves to treat diseases for others.When meeting with friends, when he heard friends occasionally talk about toothaches or stomach problems, he would examine them, write out prescriptions, and force them to take the medicines according to the prescriptions.But when he used the medicine, he didn't care about the dosage, and the prescription often cost one or two or eight dollars, so no one dared to take the medicine he prescribed. After reaching middle age, Zhang Taiyan felt that his medical skills were better. When the child fell ill, he refused to ask a doctor, and he must treat the child himself.The wife knew his temper, so she had no choice but to follow him and let him prescribe the prescription. When he didn't pay attention, she secretly invited another doctor to come for diagnosis and treatment, and told the family that if Zhang asked, she would tell him that the child ate what he prescribed. prescription.A few days later, the child was cured, and Zhang proudly told people that his child was cured after taking the medicine he prescribed, and it was his medicine that cured the child.Zhang Taiyan's friends who had been prescribed medicine by him, when they saw him next time, also said that they were cured only after taking his prescription.Zhang Taiyan was very happy, and told everyone he met how effective he was in curing diseases. He prescribed a prescription for a certain disease to cure the disease.Those who listened knew it was not true, so they just nodded their heads. Someone once asked Zhang Taiyan: "Sir, is Confucian classics or history the first?" He smiled and replied: "I am the first in medicine." Zhang Taiyan accepted Chen Cunren as his apprentice because he studied medicine. In 1928, 20-year-old Chen Cunren often sent letters to Zhang Taiyan for his Chinese teacher Yao Gonghe.One day, Zhang asked about his name and family background. He was very excited when he heard that Chen helped him write prescriptions at Ding Ganren's place and learned Chinese from Yao Gonghe at night. If you want to learn Chinese studies, why not worship him as your teacher?Chen Xi was overjoyed, bowed to Zhang San immediately, and changed his name to teacher. Zhang Taiyan studied medicine very diligently, and often consulted his students Chen Cunren and Zhang Cigong, but he prescribed Zhongjing's ancient prescriptions for others, and others did not dare to take them after they got the prescriptions.He also often asks a student who is a bell doctor (a wandering doctor who walks around the streets with a bell) for advice, because he believes that the unilateral prescriptions of the bell doctor are all derived from experience and have some value.