Chapter 161 question

When the War to Protect the Country broke out, Liang Qichao's father passed away, but Liang Qichao did not return to his hometown because of state affairs.After Hu Hanmin learned of this, he made a couplet satirizing Liang, saying: "Zhuge Liang captured seven times and made seven moves, Liang Qichao protected three times and did nothing." The "Three No's" ridicule that Liang has no king, no teacher, and no father. Because Liang's constitutional monarchy cannot succeed, he has no king; During the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, Liang Qichao visited Europe.It is widely rumored in China that Liang Qichao's departure intends to replace Lu Zhengxiang as the special envoy.After Liang arrived in France, at the welcome meeting held by Li Shizeng, Wang Jingwei and others, he delivered an impromptu speech, which made Duan Qirui's false participation in the war "obscure", and was criticized.After Liang's speech, a Chinese surnamed He questioned on the spot: "Mr. Liang, the people are opposed to participating in the war, and they are against Duan's government's participation in the war, because the people have long seen that Duan's trick is to declare no war, which will break the trust of the Allies. It’s all taught by Mr. Liang!” He said again: “In the second year of the Republic of China, the National Assembly was dissolved, which led to diplomatic disputes between China and Japan and the monarchy movement. This was also the work of Mr. Liang! The second time the National Assembly was dissolved, you and Tang Hualong carried out dismantling methods. Arouse the resentment of the people in the north and the south, and the people of Sichuan and Hunan have suffered from the war, and this is the power of Mr. Liang's entry into the cabinet to take charge of the finances!" "Today, Mr. Liang came to France from a long distance and cheated Xu Shichang of Sichuan's capital of 10,000 yuan. Do you want to carry out your ingenuity of organizing the Restoration Society in the United States in order to cheat the hard-earned money of our overseas Chinese in France? Disrupt the order of the envoys of the Paris Peace Conference! We are not the early American overseas Chinese, and we are not so easy to be deceived! Today and You said that France is a free place, and the remnants of royalists are not allowed to act here, if you ignore it, don't blame us for being merciless!" He's words made Liang Qichao extremely embarrassed.

In 1923, Wang Zaoshi published an article in "Tsinghua Weekly", saying: "I have 120,000 points of admiration for Mr. Liang Rengong who talks about learning; I have 120,000 points of doubt for Mr. Liang Rengong who talks about politics." Huang Kan once said that Liang Qichao was not good at learning, and criticized Liang Qichao’s mistakes in his speech one by one: “Liang Qichao came to Hubei to give a lecture in the summer of Zhonghua University. On the first day of his speech, there were countless laughing stocks. At that time, Wu was also the capital of Wuchang. Five sages from Hubei were named, Lao, Zhuang, Quzi, Ge Xiang, and Daoan. The four capitals of Chu and Fan never lived in Hubei. County (studying "ancient", now east of Luyi, Henan); Zhuang is a Mongolian; Zhuge, Yangdu (now Yinan, Shandong); Dao'an, Fuliu (now Jizhou, Hebei)...Qichao is the highest among the saints in the South China Sea Foot, this section takes the study of national history as the topic, in the past there was Zhong You who led the way, but today's Lu Lian, it is not difficult to ask for it, but is there no warning?"

Huang Kan commented on Liang Qichao in class, thinking that Liang Qichao's academic achievements were not great, and as for the articles, they were just "news pen and ink". Liang Qichao once taught at Southeast University. At that time, some scholars in Southeast University criticized Liang Qichao's "History of Political Thought in the Pre-Qin Dynasty" as "completely deviated from the objective scholarly attitude", and also criticized him as "more emotional than rational in his studies, and spiritually unable to agree on what to do". Once, Huang Boyi went to the office of the language group to copy reference materials, and heard several professors in the dean's office talking about Liang Qichao: "Liang Qichao wrote pre-Qin political thoughts, and Japanese scholars have accumulated a lot of materials, and they can be written into books easily, but Xiaoshi ( Hu Xiaoshi’s "History of Chinese Culture" is not easy to compile." "If Liang Qichao continues to write about the political thoughts of Han and Wei, he will feel that his talent is exhausted." "I can guarantee that with Liang Qichao's copy, he will never be able to get it out in a lifetime!" Gu Shi He also attacked Liang Qichao with frowning eyebrows: "The Tao Te Ching is the spirit of Taoist political thought, and Liang Qichao can't touch it. What he talks about is not Lao Tzu, but 'Our Lao Tzu'."

Monk Dalian of Huiju Temple in Baohuashan, Nanjing, once made a penetrating comment to his teacher Liang Qichao in front of Huang Boyi: "Liang Qichao pursues a wide range of studies and affairs without seeking perfection. Or change the course is not thorough, only relying on the inconsistency, so there is no basis for advance or retreat. Liang Qichao is always indecisive in politics alone, and he is suspicious and fickle. Compared with Naishi Kang Changsu, he is really inferior!" Huang Boyi commented coolly I told Liang Qichao, but Liang didn't refute, but just said: "That's right! I, Liang Qichao, are characterized by fickleness."

Southeast University held a Sinology Research Conference. At the meeting, someone turned the topic to Gu Shi's "Two Hundred Years of Life".Liang Qichao said: "I, Liang Qichao, must live to be 78 years old!" This remark attracted different opinions from the professors.Wu Mei (Qu An) said: "Life and death are so insignificant!" Wang Pu'an said: "If you don't know life, how can you know death?" Liu Yimou said: "Life is really difficult, but what is death like?" .” The professors had various outlooks on life, but they all opposed Liang’s viewpoints in their attitudes.Finally, Chen Zhenxuan (Zhong Fan) jokingly said: "Our Mr. Gu can do the math, let him do the math for Mr. Liang!" Liang Qichao said: "I, Liang Qichao, have never been superstitious in my life!" Like Liang Qichao, I have calculated myself, I will live to be 80 years old and one morning, and I will fight death in the last morning!" So everyone returned disappointed.

Liang Qichao once studied Buddhism at the China Inner College in Nanjing. Once, Ouyang said to Liang Qichao without solemnity: "I am by no means despising you, Liang Qichao, but your articles are highly contagious to young people-the superstition of ghosts and gods that introduce Buddhism into religion. Just imagine Think, what kind of crimes should our generation bear?" Having said this, Ouyang couldn't help crying.Liang Qichao was speechless after hearing this. Liang Qichao began to write in vernacular in his later years. Zhang Shizhao, who had opposed vernacular all his life, scolded Liang Qichao for writing in vernacular in Jiayin magazine, flattering young people.

Xia Zengyou did not admire Liang Qichao's knowledge. He accused Liang's book "Introduction to Qing Dynasty Academics" of "reading from the wrong place".