Chapter 172 hobby

Liang Qichao is good at playing mahjong. When Liang Shiqiu was studying at Tsinghua University, he once heard a famous saying of Liang Qichao: "Only by reading can you forget to play cards, only by playing cards can you forget to study." Liang Qichao's classmate Lu Xiangfu recalled that when Liang Qichao was in Japan, he often had talks with Lu and others at night.One night, Liang Qichao's cards became popular. At that time, mahjong was not yet popular, but Tianjiu was popular, but it was late at night and there was nowhere to find cards.Liang saw a box of cards on his desk, so he thought he had a solution, and immediately started to draw "Heaven, Earth, Man and Goose" on the back of the cards, preparing to make Tianjiu cards.While Liang was drawing cards, Lu fell asleep first, and when he woke up, the cards had been nine cards all day long.

In 1919, Liang Qichao returned from Europe. Once, someone invited him to give a speech. He said, "I happen to have four people doing homework at the time you booked." Bureau. There have been rumors that Liang Qichao invented the three-player and five-player mahjong games, as well as the legend that he can solve the cards quickly.It is said that many of his editorial articles were dictated at the mahjong table. When Liang Qichao was the editor-in-chief of the current affairs newspaper, there were rumors of "writing editorials on the mahjong table".At midnight every day, Liang yelled "80,000" and "Nine Tiao" at the poker game, while dictating the editorial, which was recorded by a special person in the newspaper office, and published in the newspaper early the next day.

Someone recorded Liang Qichao's love for mahjong: "Mr. likes to make Fangcheng plays, and he uses it to entertain people. Although travelling, it is not a waste. The academic circles deeply admire Mr.'s speech style, and they are invited to give lectures. So far, Mr. has never prepared. The middle white board is the same as before, sitting together to replace the urgency, the master smiled and said: "Yuzheng is using the time of the game to get his hands on the manuscript."" Liang Qichao once said: "The dominoes are enough to enlighten Zhidou. When you touch them with your hand, the tide of thought will flow. It is more common than the dry rope, and the difficulty is very different. It has become a habit after repeated experiments."

It is said that Liang Qichao's famous essay on discussing Yuan Xie "The So-Called National System Problem" was written after the game of poker.On this day, Liang Qichao was playing mahjong with his friend, who urged him to write a manuscript quickly.Liang's hands were not going well at the time, and he had no winning cards, so he was reluctant to play the poker table for a long time.It wasn't until 9 o'clock in the evening that Liang finally played all the cards. He put down the mahjong and went to a nearby post office to send a telegram.Liang stood outside dictating, and the electrician typed. At 11:30, he finally finished typing the full text.This is the famous "Yizai's So-Called National System Problem", with a total of more than 9,000 words, without any deletion.

One day, Liang Qichao had an appointment with his friends for a game of poker, but one of them did not show up for a long time.During the waiting process of three missing one, one person asked a mahjong-related question: "I have seven ten thousand cards in my hand, I have listened to the cards, and I have listened to six, seven, eight, and ninety thousand cards. What are the seven cards in my hand?" Restricted, answer within five minutes to get 100 points, hand in the paper within ten minutes, get 75 points. Liang Qichao started answering the questions one minute later, and handed in the paper before three minutes had elapsed. The question maker read it, nodded his approval, and wrote a hundred points.The other, although later than Liang, also handed in the paper within five minutes, but only got 75 points, so he protested, "My answer is correct, and I handed in the paper within five minutes, so I should get 100 points." .” He showed the answer: seven Wanzi, three sixty thousand, two seventy thousand and two eighty thousand.

The person who wrote the question opened Liang's answer sheet and wrote: seven sheets of Wanzi, three sheets of 60,000 sheets, two sheets of 70,000 sheets, and sheets of 80,000 sheets, or three sheets of 90,000 sheets, two sheets of 80,000 sheets, and sheets of 70,000 sheets.Friends admire.