Chapter 137 anecdote

Zhang Taiyan, originally named Xuecheng, later changed his name to Binglin, because he admired Gu Yanwu, and Gu Yanwu was named Jiang, so he changed his name to Jiang, with the word Taiyan.Zhang's great-grandfather was a wealthy man in Yuhang, and his grandfather was a village doctor.His father once served as an inspector in Henan Province, and later served as the supervisor of Hangzhou Canjing Jingshe for many years.Zhang Taiyan inherited his family's education at a young age, learning from his grandfather, father and brother's management of scriptures and exegesis. The famous Japanese writer Akutagawa Ryunosuke once described Zhang Taiyan's appearance: "To put it bluntly, his appearance is really not beautiful, his skin is almost yellow, his sideburns are pitifully sparse, and his abrupt and towering forehead looks almost It looks like warts. Only those thin silky eyes—those eyes that often smile coldly behind the top-quality rimless glasses, are really different.”

Zhang Taiyan was smart since childhood.When Zhang Taiyan was 6 years old, it rained one day, and his father Zhang Jun invited more than 10 friends and relatives to have a gathering at home, drinking and reciting poems.Mr. Zhang Lao, who was of the same clan as Zhang Jun, got drunk and asked Xiao Taiyan to recite a poem in response to the occasion.Xiao Taiyan thought for a while and recited: "There are thunderstorms in the sky, and the rain is pouring down; the chickens in the cage are closed, and the dogs outside are in charge of the door." Immediately, everyone was shocked, and Mr. Zhang Lao asked people to bring rice paper and ink to record it. Zhang Taiyan's "Six Age Children's Poem".The poem is now preserved in the Zhang Taiyan Memorial Hall.

When Zhang Taiyan was young, he liked to play at his uncle Zhu Zichun's house.Zhu Zichun was addicted to drinking, but because of his poor family, he rarely got drunk.Once, when Zhang Taiyan saw Zhu Zichun buying crab wine from a peddler, because he was penniless, he took off his pants on the spot to get drunk.Zhu Zichun was good at painting ladies. At this time, someone came to ask for a painting, so Zhu went into the house and took an ancient painting worth 4 taels of gold, and transferred it to the visitor at a price of 500 yuan. Have a drink.Many people believe that Zhang Taiyan's wild and unrestrained character was influenced by his uncle Zhu Zichun.

Zhang Shizhao treated Zhang Taiyan with brotherly courtesy because of his similarities.There is a "Yuanri Fu Cheng Boxiong Mr. Taiyan" that says: "The dignified Bozi Su Wangcai, why is he suppressed and mourned. The prophet who sought the country came to Zhou Zhao, and the rest of the paper was Bo Omei. Shi Gan echoed loudly and called It is also named from my younger brother and animal. Zhejiang water, east, west, south, mountain, north, man and nature, you and me are both leisurely." Tai Yanhe said: "Ten years of vows not to go to the tomb, because I love the lake and Xiangqi, and I will gradually know Chen Ji. I'm old, and I finally realized Lu Yunchao. There is no news about Songjun in Changsha, and the braided fish in Fankou is lonely. It is expected that the spring is early in Yingzhou, and the bully upstairs is more recruiting."

Zhang Shizhao said: "I am weak and experienced in the world, and I have made friends all over the world. I think there are three people who are the most difficult to make friends with: Chen Duxiu, Zhang Taiyan, and Li Gengen." Zhang Taiyan is arrogant, but he only respects Chen Sanli.In his inscription for Wu Zongci's "Lushan Zhi", he respectfully called Chen "Yining Chen Weng".Wu Zongci said: "It is rare to see such an honorable title in Taiyan anthology." At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the revolutionaries in Japan translated many Japanese works into Chinese. At that time, Feng Ziyou translated the book "Politics" and asked Zhang Taiyan to embellish his remarks.At that time, translators took great care when translating Japanese nouns. For example, Feng translated "society" as crowd or group, while Yan Jidao translated it as group; the word "economy" was translated as finance.However, Zhang Taiyan directly quoted these words without replacing them with Chinese nouns. Nowadays, society and economy have become a common language.

When Zhang Taiyan lived in seclusion in Longquan Temple, he often dreamed at night that he went to the underworld to help the king of Hades solve the case. Zhang wrote a letter to ask Wumu mountain monk what to do.After Zhang regained his freedom, Feng Ziyou went to visit him and asked about it. Zhang told him: "One night in the twilight, I was suddenly welcomed into a carriage by officials, and I went to a government office. They surrounded me and promoted me to the court. The man who looked like a judge was holding a number of official documents and asked me to sign them. These official documents were similar to ordinary official documents in the world. After the trial, he still sent me back in a carriage. This was the case every night after that. I was dreaming I asked the judge what was going on, and the judge said that the underworld asked me to judge the case for King Yama. This has been going on for half a year. Go south freely, so I don't have this dream."

Zhang Jingsheng once solicited other people's history of sex in Beijing's "Beijing News" and published a "History of Sex". Discussion, women secretly watching late at night.After Zhang Taiyan's student Chen Cunren told Zhang Taiyan about this, Zhang was very interested and asked Chen to buy a copy for him to read.After reading it, Zhang said: "The description technology of modern vernacular Chinese is far inferior to that of classical Chinese. If it is written in classical Chinese, it will surpass Jin Ping Mei. This nature history is far behind." It will cause the vernacular to be declared spoiled."

When Zhang Taiyan was in Japan, once he had no money to live on, he wrote a note to Wang Yunzong: "I don't have a penny now, so I beg to borrow two silver dollars to buy cigarettes." Borrowing money, why don't you borrow more?" Zhang replied: "This gentleman only has two yuan of friendship." Zhang Taiyan once edited "The Biography of Mr. Shen Zhufeng" for Jiang Weiqiao. Before the revision, Zhang asked Jiang for his opinion. Jiang said, "I have no opinion on Taiyan's revision." After the article was published, Jiang said that it was no longer his writing and should be revised Too hot.

A husband from Shandong advocated equality between men and women in the early years of the Republic of China, and met Zhang Taiyan.On the 60th birthday of this grand lady, Zhang Taiyan must be invited to make her birthday preface.At this time, Zhang Taiyan did not agree with the equality of men and women, so he wrote at the end of the preface: "Jie Chao climbed to the top of Zhifu (a mountain name in Shandong), looked at the sunrise in the east, and looked back at the moon. It is also the time to call life." Although there is a saying "it is as flat as a rope", it is true that men and women are compared to the sun and the moon, and they cannot be equal.

In his later years, Zhang Taiyan lived a simple life.The daily dishes of the Zhang family are extremely simple, nothing more than fermented bean curd, peanut butter, salted fish, salted eggs, tofu, etc.; there are no servants in the house, and the dishes are all purchased by his wife Tang Guoli herself nearby.Zhang Taiyan likes to eat snacks, and friends who often visit will bring him some snacks, among which mung bean cake, bean crisp candy and various local products of Hangzhou are his favorites.Zhang Taiyan's clothes are only three or four sets all the year round, and he has never seen him wearing a new suit.

Zhang Taiyan opposes the vernacular, but he has a work on vernacular: "Zhang Taiyan's Vernacular", which is a compilation of a series of speeches he gave to Chinese students in Japan from 1909 to 1910.His vernacular essays are full of laughter and cursing. He once satirized Japanese scholars in "The Purpose and Method of Studying Abroad" and said: "There is a doctor of some kind who made a "History of Chinese Philosophy" and casually perfunctory the nonsense. A few words, just like Zhu Bajie said that he ate ginseng fruit and swallowed it whole without chewing the taste; the people over there had a cover-up saying, saying that when we read Chinese books, we only seek its righteousness, not its justice. This sentence can only deceive children. To be honest, if you read books from other countries, if you don’t understand its text, you can’t understand its meaning. If someone doesn’t understand German text and says that I understand Kant’s philosophy deeply, that’s a good idea. Are the words still in your ears?" In 1912, when Zhang Taiyan was about to continue his career, his friend asked him what requirements he had for his future wife. Zhang replied: "There are no strict requirements, as long as he can read and read, it is enough." Later, after Tang Guoli married him, he But it was stipulated that she must read "Shuowen Jiezi" every day. When Zhang Taiyan got married, Liu Chengyu and Li Gengen went to congratulate Zhang Taiyan. Zhang invited them to take a group photo.Li said to Liu, "I am older than you, so I should wait with my teeth." But Liu said, "You are just Li Mazi. Everyone in the world calls me Brother Liu Ma, so of course I should be allowed to take the position." He laughed loudly and said, "This is not a Twist University here, so it's better not to compete for seniority here!" Zhang Taiyan helped Protector Sun Yat-sen go to Yunnan to lobby Tang Jiyao, and was hired by Tang Liyu as the secretary-general. For a while, he was arrogant and ordered someone to make a banner and wrote: "Secretary-General of the Generalissimo's Mansion".When he set off with the army, he swaggered among the army, and it was much taller than Tang Jiyao's handsome flag, which was very eye-catching.So Tang Jiyao's adjutant told Tang Jiyao so, but Tang Jiyao laughed it off and ordered the adjutant to take good care of Zhang Taiyan. Liu Shipei's wife, He Zhen, was born in the Shanghai Patriotic Girls' School. She was one of the earliest advocates of socialism in China and one of the earliest feminists in China.She had an affair with her in-law Wang Gongquan, and after being discovered by Zhang Taiyan, she told Liu, but Liu didn't think it was strange, but blamed Zhang for being troublesome. Shortly after Liu Shipei's death in 1919, He Zhen also died of mental illness; it is said that she shaved her hair and became a nun, and her legal name was "Xiao Qi". Hu Shi’s diary records an interesting incident about Zhang Taiyan: “Zhongshu (Chen Zhongshu) saw many strange things in Xiong’s cabinet (Xiong Xiling’s cabinet), the state secretary. - They are old friends, - they said they want to borrow 6 million foreign debts, please President Yuan to approve it. Zhongshu asked him to send the plan first, and then it can be submitted to the Provisional Senate. Taiyan said, "I don't have time to do that troublesome plan ?' Zhongshu refused to convey it on his behalf, saying that there was no such way. Zhongshu asked him why he wanted to borrow money, and Taiyan said, "Let me tell you the truth, if I borrow 6 million yuan, I can get 600,000 yuan in kickbacks." Zhongshu laughed and pointed out in detail that this idea is not feasible. Taiyan said, "Then, why can Huang Xing and Sun Wen get a lot of money? Why can't I get some money?" He insisted on sitting for three or four hours For a long time, Zhongshu refused to speak on behalf of him, and he left in a rage. Tomorrow, he came again and asked Secretary Zhang (Zhang Yilin) ​​to meet him instead of Secretary Chen. Zhang asked Chen, and Chen told him what happened the night before. Zhang understood. When he came out for an interview, he asked honestly how much money Taiyan needed. He could ask Liang Yansun (Liang Shiyi, the finance minister who was later scoffed at by Zhang Taiyan at Yuan Shikai’s presidential palace) to help him out. There was no need to talk about borrowing. Taiyan said it would cost 100,000 yuan. Zhang discussed with Liang, and Liang said he would give him 20,000 yuan. Zhang replied to Taiyan, who was furious, and replied, "I don't want your dog money!" Zhang showed Liang the letter, so he had to ignore him. On the third day , Taiyan wrote to Zhang again, but he didn’t mention the matter one day in advance, and only asked for 10,000 yuan. Zhang discussed with Liang again and gave him 10,000 yuan. Zhang Taiyan has been very rich recently, and he has a huge sum of money. It exists in the Industrial Bank, and I want to be a shareholder of the Industrial Bank recently!" In 1914, Zhang Taiyan was imprisoned in Beijing. On New Year's Eve, full of melancholy, he wrote a couplet saying: "Learn Mr. Liu in front of the door; sell old melons by the roadside." Twenty years later, in 1935, Zhang lived At the gate of Suzhou, during the Spring Festival, this couplet was rewritten. When Zhang Taiyan went to participate in the Dharma Protection Movement, Tang Guoli was alone at home with his children. At night, he often heard people coming to the house to rummaging through boxes and cabinets. He was very frightened.After the exercise was over and Zhang returned home, Tan Renfeng came to visit one day, and he told Tan about the theft at home.A few days later, a handsome and well-dressed man came to visit Zhang Taiyan. He claimed to be Long Zaitian, and he lived opposite Zhang's balcony and was a close neighbor.He said frankly to Zhang: "I used to steal the upstairs of your house. I didn't know it was your house. Now that I know it, I feel very sorry, because everyone knows that you, Mr. Taiyan, make a living by writing articles. I should not have come to steal the money I have accumulated. But the stolen things have already been sold, and I am currently in short supply. I now offer 200 yuan in public bond notes and four pieces of the four treasures of the study as compensation, and I would like to express my apologies." Seeing this Long Zaitian was not an ordinary thief, so he accepted this batch of refunds, and was very happy, and told him not to mind. Zhang Taiyan laughed at the poet's lyrics, but he couldn't get two or three hundred words upside down.Tang Guoli retorted: "Two or three hundred characters are upside down and back and forth, but there is no feeling of inadequacy. I would rather not be the winner?" Zhang was speechless. Zhang Taiyan wrote "Epitaph of President Li Da" for Li Yuanhong, which cost several thousand yuan for embellishment. It may be the most flattering tomb writing since the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. Zhang Taiyan's main income in Shanghai in his later years was from selling calligraphy.Because he doesn't advertise and has a eccentric personality, there are very few people who come to ask for words.At that time, there was a famous paper fan shop called "Duoyunxuan". The boss often brought paper to ask him to write. Every time there were hundreds of small and large pieces; Under "Runbi" 50 yuan.If friends ask for calligraphy, there is never any charge.Every three or two months, someone came to ask him to write a birthday preface or epitaph, etc., and his wife Tang Guoli came forward to negotiate with them, and charged 100 yuan for each item.Sometimes the money has been collected, but Zhang is unwilling to write because he doesn't like the person, which often makes things very rigid. Zhang Taiyan's documents were often signed with only "so-and-so" or "so-and-so's order", and he never called "brother" or "Mr."Those who asked for calligraphy were often unhappy about this, and he liked to write Xiaozhuan, and he was not welcomed by the wealthy businessmen at that time, so he was often left out in the cold. Later, because of Feng Zizi's visit, more people asked for words.When Zhang Taiyan’s son, Zhang Dao, was seven or eight years old, people often came to ask his father for words, so they posted a note and wrote: "Write a pair of couplets, one ball; one banner, one locomotive (toy)." When Du Yuesheng's ancestral hall was completed, he wanted to ask Zhang Taiyan for calligraphy.Du Yuesheng found Xu Fusheng, a ranger who had been in prison with Zhang Taiyan for a long time, and went to Zhang for words.Zhang was very polite to Xu, but when he asked for a word for Du, he flatly refused.Du asked Zhang Taiyan's student Chen Cunren to come forward.Chen told Zhang that Tai Shigong wrote an article "Biography of Rangers" in "Historical Records", and the teacher should write an article about the completion of Mr. Du's ancestral hall.Zhang then asked Chen Du Yuesheng's story, and when Chen came along, Zhang became happier the more he listened.Chen Cunren took the opportunity to take out the rice paper and said: "The teacher's writing should be written horizontally, as the treasure of the town house of Du's ancestral hall." Zhang Taiyan didn't say a word, and he didn't start a draft. He just smoked and wrote at the same time, which took only forty minutes. , has been written.After Du Yuesheng got the article, he showed it to Zhang Shizhao. Zhang Shizhao read it and praised: "It's really a work handed down from generation to generation." Once, Zhang Taiyan's nephew, who lived in the French Concession in Shanghai, had a housing dispute with a powerful person, and they couldn't agree with each other, so he asked Zhang Taiyan for help.Zhang Taiyan wrote a letter to Du Yuesheng, asking him for help.After Du Yuesheng read the letter, he was overjoyed. Not only did he immediately try his best to solve the problem for Zhang Taiyan's nephew, but after the problem was solved, he made a special trip to Suzhou to visit Zhang on the pretext of reporting to Zhang the process and results of the settlement of the housing dispute.Zhang and Du met happily.Before Du Yuesheng left, he quietly pressed a bank note of two thousand silver dollars under a teacup on the tea table in Zhang Zhai, but did not say anything.After Du Yuesheng left, Zhang Cai found out about this important gift, so he had to accept it as a thank you.After this time, Zhang was both grateful and admired to Du Yuesheng, thinking that Du Yuesheng was loyal, respected etiquette, and had the style of an ancient hero, so the two began to make friends.After that, Du Yuesheng sent someone to send money to Zhang Taiyan every month to help Zhang's life; Zhang also looked at Du differently, often spoke good things about Du, and even revised the family tree for Du Yuesheng. When Zhang Taiyan was writing, he put the unsatisfactory ones in the wastebasket, and the servants sold them after seeing them.After Zhang knew about it, he punctured the paper and threw it into the wastebasket every time, thinking that it would be safe.Unexpectedly, the servants patched up the broken paper neatly, and still sold it. The owner of the Louwailou in Hangzhou invited Zhang Taiyan to dinner. He only ordered three dishes, all of which were based on the names of the dishes in the book. some dishes.After the banquet, Zhang Taiyan wrote a desperate poem by Zhang Cangshui for his master.After the master saw it, he felt very unlucky. Later, someone advised him that Zhang Taiyan only wrote the first paragraph of Zhang Cangshui's desperate poem because of the huge number of words. He asked him to prepare some more paper and invited Zhang Taiyan to write every day.So the owner of the building outside the building complied, and invited Zhang to eat every day. For about ten days in a row, Zhang Taiyan finally finished writing this poem and added a long postscript at the end of the volume.Zhang Taiyan's calligraphy was sold by the later owner for two hundred yuan. Fifteen years later, the value rose to twenty taels of gold. There were so many visitors in Zhang Taiyan's house, he couldn't bear it, so he pasted a note on the wall and wrote: "The conversation with visitors is limited to ten minutes." Then he forgot the rules he had set, and chatted for an hour or two, and when the guest wanted to leave, he refused to let him go.Once, the guest pointed to the note on the wall, and he hurriedly said: "Next time, it will be limited to ten minutes." In 1929, Shanghai "Times" had an article imitating the 108 generals, ranking the celebrities in the southeast literary world in turn. The first Tiankui star was Zhang Taiyan, and the second Tiangang star was Chen Sanli. In the 1930s, every time Zhang Taiyan came to Peiping, Zhang Boju would hold a family banquet to welcome him.After a certain banquet, Zhang wrote two lines of Du's poems in seal script and presented them in a couplet: "Explore Bai Yagu's mouth millet; rice cooks Qingnifang bottom celery." Zhang Dezhi was overjoyed. Zhang Taiyan admired Liu Bowen, and during his confinement by Yuan Shikai, he sent a letter to Du Zhiyuan asking him to plan his burial place: "Bowen Liu, a Chinese hero, admired him for a long time all his life, and wanted to set up the burial place as soon as possible. Judah Zhang Cangshui was buried from King E (Yue Fei). Since the king grew up in his hometown, he would like to ask for a place for me. Regardless of Fengshui, I hope the place is a little higher and open, which is close to the omen of the Liu family." Wang Dong, a disciple of Zhang Taiyan, founded "Guohua Monthly" and hosted it under the name of Zhang Taiyan.In order to raise funds, most of the characters sold in the name of Zhang were actually written by Wang. Zhang Taiyan and Li Yinquan of Tengchong are close friends. Li Yinquan once suffered from cerebral jaundice. Zhang wrote to Li’s grandson many times to discuss medical methods and recommend doctors to give medicines. The volume is regarded as an arch. Zhang Taiyan suffers from nasal disease, and he often treats it with powdered cinnamon. Later, his disciple Chen Cunren recommended the treatment method of powdered hibiscus leaves to him. The words of hibiscus leaves to treat the nose are included in the book. Gu Jie just admired Zhang Taiyan, so he named himself "Shangyan", which means surpassing Zhang Taiyan. During the "Criticizing the Law and Criticizing Confucianism" movement in the late period of the Cultural Revolution, Zhang Taiyan was considered a representative of the legalist system in the late Qing Dynasty and was rehabilitated.At that time, Shanghai People's Publishing House reached out to and liberated a group of scholars, and edited a number of Zhang Taiyan's poems, selections and annotations of his works.Although these were influenced by political trends, they laid the foundation for future research and editing of Zhang Taiyan's works.