Chapter 169 anecdote

When Liang Qichao was a child, his mother caught him lying once and was whipped by his mother. His mother said to him: "If you lie again, you will become a thief and a beggar!" His mother's words will be remembered by Liang Qichao for life. In 1884, when Liang Qichao was selected as a high school scholar, Liang’s grandfather was celebrating his 70th birthday. He asked Ye Dazhuo, a Cantonese scholar who served as the examiner, to “present calligraphy for the student’s grandfather’s 70th birthday”.Ye Dazhuo was moved by Liang Qichao's filial piety, and wrote the article "Preface to Mr. Liang's Birthday Celebration in Jingquan".

Liang Qichao learned Lu Wangxinxue and the book of governing the country from Kang Youwei, and then went to Beijing to take part in the general examination. The examiner thought Liang's examination paper was Kang Zhuo's pen. Liang Qichao was extremely filial. After returning from Japan, he specially celebrated his father's birthday.When his father died, he was fighting against Yuan Shikai for restoration, so he could not serve his father, so he dedicated his filial piety to his father later. Liang Qichao liked to talk about ghosts and ghosts in his spare time. He often wanted to write an article in his free time, describing his negotiation with ghosts, but he never wrote it.Liang’s classmates in Wanmu Thatched Cottage recalled: When Liang was young, he liked to talk about Xuan Fushi, and often performed Fuluan plays, and talked about poetry and papers with Qixian, which was quite enjoyable.There are different ghosts, some are Li Bai, or Du Fu. One day, Wang Wei came down to the ghost. Liang asked, "Can you connect sentences?" Shall I talk about Zen with you?" The jixian wrote an essay, which also has a lot of Zen principles.

Xia Zengyou nicknamed Liang Qichao "Ningren" (the old exegesis has the saying that a flattery is a talent).One year, when the lilacs were in full bloom, Liang Qichao went out for three days due to business, and did not see Xia. When he came back, he saw a crooked poem by Xia left on the desk at home: "I haven't seen a sycophant for three days. I don't know where to go for a sycophant." ? The spring is so busy that you don’t travel around all day long?” Liang Qichao and Zhang Taiyan had different political views.Once, when the two talked about Sun Yat-sen, Zhang asked Liang: "Who is Sun Yat-sen?" Liang replied: "This man is determined to overthrow the Manchurian government." After hearing this, Zhang said, "He has a very strong heart." Revolution is nothing more than Chen Sheng, Wu Guang and his ilk." Zhang Taiyan replied: "If one can advocate revolution, it doesn't matter whether the talent is good or bad."

After the Revolution of 1911, Zhang Taiyan's son-in-law Gong Weisheng presided over the affairs of the Zhejiang Library. Because Kang Youwei, Liang Qichao and Zhang had different political views, the entire library did not have a work by Kang Liang. Liang Qichao didn't buy land in his life. He said jokingly: "If ten yuan buys an acre of land, or ten yuan buys a chicken, I would rather eat chicken than buy a field." Liang Qichao's father, Liang Lianjian, made a special trip to Japan to ask Liang Qichao for money to buy property.When Liang Qichao told him that he was short of money and had no money to buy land, Liang Lianjian threatened to commit suicide.In the end, Liang Qichao's disciples donated money to help, and raised 1,200 silver dollars to Liang Lianjian before sending Liang's father back to China.

The Reform Movement of 1898 failed. When Liang Qichao went into exile in Japan, he called himself "a man of tears and eloquence." Wang Jingwei once wrote: "Liang Qichao's tears are tears of slaves; Liang Qichao's arguments are also arguments of thieves." Actually, he often refers to himself as "a tearful and eloquent person". Wu Zhihui likes to write articles to scold people. He scolded Liang Qichao in the article "The Chinese Who Raised Pigs and Dogs": "In the past three years, when the smell of dung is about to become strong, even if there is a Liang thief, Liang robber, Liang turtle, Liang pigs, Liang dogs, and Liang animals, the so-called Liang Qichao, advocated for no reason the theory of Manchuria's Huang Tong Wanshi, washed their assholes clean, pulled their dicks to do it, and then used their male and female voices, there is still no political revolution, responsible government, etc. The fart said, self-deception."

Wu Zhihui said: "The three of them (Zhang Shizhao, Chen Duxiu, and Liang Qichao) have one thing in common. They are more sincere in looking for elders among the dwarfs, and they want to make China a better place. Unlike those politicians who want to make money, and slick students, Only in the screw shell of "in this world, when you are in a good position, you can be careless" and do somersaults." Before the founding of the Republic of China, the royalists and revolutionaries in Tokyo developed from verbal battles to insults and even fights. Liang Qichao was once beaten by a group of revolutionaries led by Zhang Ji.At that time, Liang knew that he was invincible, and he argued and retreated. Zhang Ji grabbed his sleeve and refused to let go. In the end, Liang Qichao had no choice but to leave.

Xiong Xiling formed the "Cabinet of Celebrities": Foreign Affairs Wang Daxie, Internal Affairs Liu Renxi, Finance Liang Qichao, Justice Shen Jiaben, Army Chen Huan, Navy Sa Zhenbing, Education Fan Yuanlian, Farmer Zhang Jian, and Transportation Yang Du.After Yuan Shikai read the list of cabinet members, he asked Xiong Dao: "Is this the so-called first-rate talent?"By the time of publication, only Liang Qichao was in charge of justice, Wang Daxie was in charge of education, Zhang Jian was in charge of agriculture and commerce, and the rest were changed according to Yuan's wishes.

When Liang Qichao resigned as the president of the Currency Bureau, he once said that "a talent without talent is useless". Yuan Shikai laughed and said: "If you are outstanding, the president is really useless." Liang Qichao has a famous thesis that "shit is divided into three levels": in a certain year, a certain Xuezheng presided over the examination of students in a certain place, and the results were generally poor. fart"; the second place is "dog fart"; the third place is "fart dog".Liang Rengong explained that "shit fart" means that the farter is still a human being, "just fart occasionally"; "Dog" is not only a dog, but this dog "has no other skills except farting".

Confucius said, "The people can be taught, but not understood." Many people thought it was a policy of ignoring the people. Liang Qichao added two punctuations to change the meaning of the text: "The people can be taught, and they cannot be taught." Liang Qichao and Chen Yuan were both from Xinhui, Guangdong. In the 1920s, they were called "Mr. Xinhui" by academic circles.It is recognized that Liang is good at broad and broad, while Chen is good at specialization. During Tagore's visit to China, Liang Qichao gave a warm welcome speech: "We welcome Tagore with the emotion that Luoyang people welcomed Shemo Teng more than a thousand years ago, and we welcome Tagore with the emotion that people in Chang'an welcomed Kumarajiva. Brother, welcome Brother Taiguer with the mood that people from Mount Lu welcome the truth.”

Liang Qichao once named Tagore "Zhu Zhendan".When Tagore visited China, it coincided with his 64th birthday, and the Chinese cultural circles held a birthday celebration for him.Liang Qichao said in his congratulatory speech that Tagore's full name is Robin Dronath Tagore. "Robindronath" has the meaning of the sun and thunder, and the Chinese means "Aurora", while ancient India called China Aurora, and the Chinese called Indians Tianzhu.Therefore, he "connected the names of the two countries and gave him a new name 'Zhu Zhendan'." Tagore was very happy and thanked him again and again.Xiling Yinshe engraved two "Zhu Zhendan" seals with different fonts for Tagore.Later, Tagore often used the name "Zhu Zhendan".

Tsinghua has a fun party every Saturday, and all teachers and students will attend.Liang Qichao was very rigorous in class. At the symposium, everyone asked him to perform, and he said to recite a paragraph, but he recited the whole paragraph, which surprised the teachers and students of Tsinghua University. In 1922, Liang Qichao had withdrawn from politics and devoted himself to academics.One day, the eldest son Liang Sicheng and the second son Liang Siyong rode their bicycles on the street and were knocked down by the car of Jin Yongyan, the deputy minister of the army.The traffic police stepped forward to inquire. Jin took out his business card and told him that he had something to say to the Yamen.The police were afraid, so they had to hire a car to take Liang Sicheng and the two to the hospital for rescue.Mrs. Liang was very distressed and furious, and encouraged Liang Qichao to punish Jin with the law.The next day, Kim learned that the person he hit was not an ordinary person, so he visited the hospital in person, expressed his apology, and paid for all medical expenses.For the sake of President Li Yuanhong's face, Liang Qichao originally wanted to make a major incident into a minor one, but Mrs. Liang refused to let her go.