Chapter 163 temperament

Liang Qichao is naive, straightforward, enthusiastic, enterprising, open-minded, introspective, selfless, and emotional. He calls himself "China's new people" and "young China's youth". Hu Shi said: "Ren Gong is the most kind and lovely person. He has no city and is childish. People say he is a conspirator, which is exactly the opposite. Although he sometimes misses a little bit of competition for me,——Ru Minba His works in vernacular, such as criticizing my "History of Philosophy" in a public lecture at Peking University, such as asking me to write "Mo Jing Annotation·Preface" and then moving it to the second preface, put his answer book at the beginning of the volume instead of mine. ,——but it all shows that his innocence is completely undisguised, and it is not his shortcoming. It is just his loveliness. Taking the matter of "Mo Jing Annotation·Preface" as an example, I dare not ask for a preface because of his modesty. Instead of repaying him with sincere discussions, the preface directly pointed out the mistakes of his method, but this attitude was beyond the understanding of old scholars, so he couldn't help being a little bit concerned at the time. I was also a little bit concerned at the time, but I forgave him later. "

In 1923, at the request of "Tsinghua Weekly", Hu Shi published a "Minimum Bibliography of Chinese Studies" for young people, and Hu Jiang and "Nine Lives and Strange Injustices" were also included in it.Liang Qichao was also invited to issue a list of books. In "Comment on Hu Shizhi's Minimum Bibliography of Chinese Studies", he said: "I don't agree with Hu Jun's bibliography, because his text is not right." He also said: "One Zhang Bibliography, called "Minimum of Chinese Studies", contains "Nine Fate Strange Injustice", but there is no "Historical Records", "Hanshu", isn't it a joke?" He also said: "If you say not to read, "Nine Fate Strange "Injustice" is not enough for the minimum of Chinese studies. To tell the truth, Hu Jun said that a mere boy is someone who has never read these two books. But not convinced."

In the first month of 1924, Liang Qichao and Hu Shi co-chaired the commemorative meeting of Dai Dongyuan’s 200th birthday in the Anhui Guild Hall. Almost monopolized two hours of speech time, and finally left ten minutes for Hu Shizhi." Before Hu Shi took the stage, Liang introduced: "Now please talk about the unreasonable Hu Shizhi and the unreasonable Dai Dongyuan!" When Hu Shi was young, he was deeply influenced by Liang Qichao.However, after Hu Shi returned to China after studying and became famous for advocating vernacular Chinese, he stimulated Liang Qichao with innovative ideas from time to time, so Liang wrote "Two Roads to Governance" and "Historical Statistics" in anger.In this regard, Zhou Shanpei said that Mr. Ren is often ashamed of not knowing anything. For example, if Hu Shi and his like occasionally have an article on a very worthless thing, Mr. Ren will also study this worthless thing, and sometimes publish it. An article to compete.Zhou often advised him: "In terms of your age and qualifications, you should stand in the position of advocacy and creation. It is right to ask people to run with you, but you always run with others. Insufficiency is a virtue, but like this There is no limit to the ways of seeking satisfaction, and you are nearly 60 years old, when will you be able to achieve your wish?" Liang Qichao also nodded at that time, but he couldn't control the word "name" all the time, thus creating an omniscient Miscellaneous.

Liang is an emotional person.He once said: "I am the person with the richest feelings. I refuse to suppress my feelings and let them develop as much as possible." Liang Ji admired Liang Qichao. He visited four times and "did not see one, and submitted letters twice without answering." Regret", wrote to Liang Ji's son Liang Shuming, saying "Qichao has no teeth and dare not forget the teaching of Mr. (Liang Ji)...". When Liang Qichao was in Japan, he heard about Wang Chonghui's name, so he sent a letter to Wang, inviting him to Koishichuan East Asia Business School for talks.After Wang got the letter, he didn't go there. Instead, he replied to Liang Qichao for being impolite, saying that Liang Qichao was the leader of a party, and he should be a corporal.After Liang Qichao read the letter, he was not angry, but instead sent a letter of thanks.

Ji Yuancheng and Qin Lishan said in the "New World" magazine that Liang Qichao plagiarized Tokutomi Su Feng's article, "he is just a beggar among journalists and a gang of thieves."At that time, new ideas and new knowledge were competing to be imported, and the intellectual circles were often proud of being the first. Whenever there was a new theory, people competed to spread it. There was no such concept of "private knowledge" and "copyright".Liang Qichao did not shy away from plagiarism, so there was no palindrome to defend. Liang Qichao said: "All my life I rely on interest as my source of life. I have a strong interest in learning and politics... I think what I should do is to restore the courage I had when I was in my twenties and become a scholar. career political commentator."

Li Renfu recalled that when Liang Qichao gave a speech, he was not eloquent.Although he is persuasive and persuasive, at critical moments, he often crosses his hands on his chest, as if preparing to fight someone, and is very nervous. In 1922, Liang Qichao gave a speech in Tianjin. At the beginning, he said: "If someone asked me, what doctrine do you believe in? I would answer: I believe in taste doctrine. Someone asked me, what is your outlook on life based on?" I replied, "Take interest as the basis. All my life, I have always done what I do with relish, and I am very excited. What are pessimistic and world-weary? In the dictionary I use, you can say Not at all. I often fail in what I do, but I not only enjoy success in success, but I also enjoy failure in failure."

Jiang Liangfu wanted to take the Tsinghua University exam. The time for the exam has passed, but the list has not yet been released.Jiang wrote to Liang Qichao, hoping to get a chance to make up the exam.Then he was called for an interview.Jiang Liangfu was interviewed by Liang Qichao himself when he came to Tsinghua University. After that, Jiang Liangfu passed Wang Guowei's test again. In this way, he entered Tsinghua University to study. When Liang Qichao was teaching at Southeast University, his student Luo Shishi asked him: "The quintessence of the country is about to perish, what can we do?" Liang asked back, "Why is the quintessence of the country about to perish?" Angry, he clapped the table and said, "It's been so rare since ancient times!"

Among the four mentors of Tsinghua National Academy, Wang Guowei is often ranked first, but sometimes Liang Qichao is also ranked first.Liang also admired Wang very much. He said to his students: "Wang Jing'an is the most difficult to teach. His specialized knowledge is almost a masterpiece today, and he is modestly called a researcher, and he is ten times higher than me." He also said: "Mr. Wang has a keen mind, a faithful spirit, a shrewd method, and he is extremely humble. He is a number of scholars in China, so I personally feel fortunate to be able to get along with him."

Xu Zhimo fell in love with Lu Xiaoman, and in order to marry him, he wanted to divorce his first wife Zhang Youyi.At that time, most of Xu's friends advised him not to divorce because of Lu, and Xu's father even thought Xu was insulting his family. His teacher Liang Qichao also wrote to Xu Zhimo, urging him to rein in the precipice, so as not to be criticized by the world.Liang said in the letter: "Woohoo, Zhimo! Is there a perfect universe in the world?" Xu Yi was determined, and replied: "Woohoo, my teacher! I can only seek it in the vast sea of ​​people. I get it, but not my life. So earful!"

On the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar in 1925, Xu Zhimo and Lu Xiaoman got married, and the witness was Liang Qichao.Liang was unwilling, but because of the affection between Xu Zhimo's father and Hu Shi, he agreed to attend the marriage ceremony.Liang Qichao said in his marriage speech: "Xu Zhimo, you are impetuous, so you have no achievements in learning; you are not dedicated to emotion, so if you remarry and remarry, you must change your past mistakes and start a new life in the future." After a short pause, he said again: "Xu Zhimo, Lu Xiaoman, listen, you are all divorced people, you are all people who have been here! It's all because of your lack of affection, you must repent and regret it in the future, and I hope you don't become divorced again. Come here. I, as Mr. Xu Zhimo, if you still recognize me as Mr., I would like to send you a word, I wish you this is the last marriage." His words made all the guests dumbfounded, and Xu Zhimo had to beg: "Sir, Save some face for the students and Gao Tang."