Chapter 3 Zhang Taiyan: Mi Heng in the Republic of China, the "lunatic" proud of the world

Zhang Taiyan (1869.1.12—1936.6.14), named Binglin, courtesy name Meishu, was originally named Xuecheng.Later, it was renamed Jiang and named Taiyan.In the early years, he was also known as "Master of the Gaolan Room", "Liu Zijun's private disciple" and so on.Born in Yuhang, Zhejiang, a democratic revolutionist and thinker in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China, a famous master of Pu Xue in modern China, and a famous scholar. His research scope covers primary school, history, philosophy, politics, etc., and he has written a lot. Zhang Taiyan was born in a scholarly family in Yuhang, Zhejiang.His grandfather Zhang Jian and father Zhang Fu were both well-educated and reasonable people, and Zhang Taiyan received a relatively good traditional education since he was a child.However, the traditional feudal education did not make him a "obedient citizen" loyal to the rule of the Qing Dynasty. The concept of revolution and anti-Manchu took root in Zhang's mind very early.When Zhang Taiyan was 12 years old, one day his grandfather led him to read "Donghualu". When he read about Zeng Jing's case, his grandfather said: "The defense of Yi and Xia is the same as the righteousness of the monarch and ministers." Zhang Taiyan asked: "The predecessors talked about Do you say that?" Grandfather replied: "Wang Chuanshan and Gu Tinglin have said it, especially what Wang said, saying that the collapse of the country in the past dynasties is of no importance, but the death of the Southern Song Dynasty, the clothing and cultural relics also perished with it. "The grandfather's words aroused the thoughts of the young Zhang Taiyan. He said angrily: "Ming died in the Qing Dynasty, it would be better to die in Li Chuang!" In the heart of the young Zhang Taiyan.

When he was an adult, Zhang Taiyan became a teacher of Yu Yue, a master of Confucian classics in the Jingshe, and studied the history of classics. He spent eight years studying hard in the cold window.However, internal and external troubles, times are becoming more and more urgent, and the turbulent political situation has forced Zhang Taiyan to no longer sit in his study with peace of mind. In the summer of 1897, he bid farewell to his mentor, went to Shanghai, and started his own process of advocating revolution. The fledgling Zhang Taiyan worked successively as the editor of "Current Affairs News", "Zheng Xue Bao", "Jing Shi Bao" and other publications, but due to various reasons, he failed to fully display his talents and ideas.Until 1903, he began to write the "Su Bao", changing the paper's previous conservative political stance, and propagating revolutionary ideas with great fanfare.At this time, Zhang Taiyan was full of talent and thinking, and his battle proclamations were like artillery shells, blasting at the vital points of the Qing government.In one article, Zhang Taiyan ruthlessly ridiculed the extravagant and extravagant birthday ceremony of the Empress Dowager Cixi:

Go to Nanyuan today, go to Beihai tomorrow, when will you go to ancient Chang'an again?Sighing that the blood of the people is all dry, only singing for one person to celebrate; Ryukyu was cut off at fifty, Taiwan was cut off at sixty, and now the three eastern provinces are cut off. In "Refuting Kang Youwei's Theory of Revolution", he even wrote without fear: "You are a clown, and you don't distinguish between wheat and wheat." It was shocking at the time to directly call the name of the current saint and denounce him for being incompetent. Argument.According to the criminal law, it should be the crime of beheading.For this reason, the Qing government identified Zhang as an "anti-Qing bandit", and sent a secret telegram to the Shanghai Dao Note to issue a ticket to arrest him.Others persuaded him to avoid it, but he said: "The revolution begins with bloodshed, and the bloodshed begins with me." Together with his revolutionary confidant Zou Rong, he was generously imprisoned, and his nickname "Crazy Zhang" was also born at this time.

In prison, despite being tortured by the jailers in every possible way, Zhang Taiyan had fun in pain and had a high fighting spirit.In order to encourage the young Zou Rong, he specially wrote a poem: Zou Rongwu's younger brother was sent to Yingzhou. Quickly remove the braids with scissors, and use dried beef as rice noodles. When a hero is imprisoned, the world is also sad. When you are about to die, you have to mix your hands, and there are only two ends of the universe. Zou Rong also gave back a chapter poem: My brother, Uncle Zhang Mei, is very worried about the country. And without a confidant in the world, my life is miserable.

Once in hell, when will the demon atmosphere be swept away? Last night, I dreamed of reconciling myself with the revolutionary army. Trapped in prison, the two of them cared about the great cause of anti-Qing Dynasty, and they sang and sang with each other. This kind of fearless spirit is really admirable! It's a pity that there is no holiday, and a year later, Zou Rong was seriously ill and died in prison.The two revolutionary friends, who wrote poems to encourage each other not long ago, have separated Yin and Yang in a blink of an eye. Zhang Taiyan couldn't accept this fact. Holding Zou Rong's body, he couldn't help crying bitterly.

The three-year sentence passed quickly. After Zhang Taiyan was released from prison, he went to Fusang and continued to engage in the revolutionary cause.Because of his unyielding performance in prison, Zhang's reputation among scholars at this time is growing day by day, and he has become a model of righteousness and thinness.Everyone admired him very much, and they had the posture of "if you don't know Zhang Taiyan in your life, it will be in vain to visit all the famous people". After he went into exile in Japan, Zhang Taiyan was very indignant when he saw the Japanese despise the Chinese. However, because he was plotting a revolution, he had to endure it with all his strength, and had nowhere to vent his anger.One day, the Japanese police went to his apartment to check his household registration and asked him to fill out a form.Zhang Taiyan wrote:

Occupation: Saint Birth: Bastard Age: Longevity This is because everyone calls him a "saint", and Japan has the most illegitimate children. Faced with Zhang's ridiculous answer, the Japanese police couldn't laugh or cry. On July 15, 1906, Zhang Taiyan gave a speech at the Jinhui Hall in Kandacho, Tokyo. More than 2,000 people came here admiringly. For a while, there were crowds inside and outside the venue, and some even climbed onto the eaves to see the legendary figure.In his speech, Zhang Taiyan talked about his own views on the so-called "crazy": Probably living in the world, being called crazy by others, categorically refuses to admit it, except for the first-class people who are proud of mountains and rivers, poets, masters and painters, it is another matter, the rest are always the same.The only brother admitted that I was insane, that I was insane, and he was very happy to hear that I was insane and that I was insane.Why?Generally speaking, if you are not a neurotic, you must not be able to think about any very strange comments, but you can think about them but dare not say them.Having said that, when encountering difficulties and hardships, you are not a mental patient, and you must not go back and do your own way.Therefore, in ancient times, those who have learned to achieve great careers must have neuropathy to do so... For this reason, my brother admits that he has a neuropathy;Recently, there are rumors that so-and-so is insane, and so-and-so is also insane. From my brother's point of view, I am not afraid of being insane, but I am afraid that the insanity will be cured immediately when wealth and fortune are in front of me.For those who are slightly taller, although the tonic of wealth and fortune cannot cure his neurosis, the poison of hardship and hardship can still be cured.The brother tasted the poison the most.Counting from the year of 1898, there have been seven checks, but six times they couldn't get it, and they didn't get it until the seventh time.In the past three times, I was implicated in other matters, or arrested the new party, not just for me; the next four times were all about the independence of Manchuria.But brother, in this difficult and difficult vortex, did not have the slightest remorse. With your poison, this neurosis can never be cured... But the neurosis mentioned by brother does not mean rough and reckless, jumping around, trying to kill those people. The fine-needed thoughts are loaded in the neurosis.For example, thought is a commodity, and neurosis is a steamboat. Without thought, a hollow neurosis will have no real value. Without neurosis, can this kind of thinking be automatic?

At the end of the speech, Zhang Taiyan shouted: "I want to infect all kings with my neuropathy, and infect 40 million people!" Nickname, not only did he not feel inferior or dissatisfied, but he seemed complacent everywhere.His speech was passionate, academic, humorous, and extremely combative, making it a masterpiece of modern speeches.The image of his charismatic "learned revolutionist" was thus presented to everyone.No wonder Song Shu, a good friend of Zhang’s, once half-jokingly said: “A Confucian scholar like Zhang Jun, who has no power to restrain a chicken, wants to overthrow the three-hundred-year-old empire of Manchuria. Is the soul possessed?"

Zhang Taiyan's main activity in Japan was editor-in-chief of "Minbao", which became a very brilliant period in his life.At the invitation of Sun Yat-sen, Zhang Taiyan became the president of "Min Bao".As of the final issue of Min Pao, he edited 16 issues and published 83 articles.It can be said that wherever the "Minbao" went, it was also where Zhang Taiyan's articles and thoughts were influenced.As Lu Xun later recalled: "I love to read this "Minbao", but not because of Mr. (Zhang)'s ancient style of writing, to solve the embarrassment... It is because of his struggle with Liang Qichao, who advocated royalism, and the ××× of ×× Struggle...is really invincible and fascinating!" Indeed, Zhang's articles are revolutionary and full of attack power, disturbing the fragile and sensitive nerves of the rulers all the time, and naturally become a thorn in the side of the Qing government, making them gnash their teeth , Difficulty sleeping and eating.

In order to ban Minbao, the Qing government sent people to Japan to conspire with the Japanese government on this matter.According to unofficial records, in order to facilitate this transaction, the Qing government did not hesitate to sell its sovereignty and "generously" gave the Japanese government a "big gift package".This "big gift package" includes the territory of Jiandao (Yanji area), the coal mines in Fushun and Yantai, and the Xinfa Railway (newly delivered to Fakumen), which is really shameless!After receiving the benefits, the Japanese government immediately ordered the police station to seal down the "Minbao" agency.

After Zhang Taiyan learned of this incident, he was filled with righteous indignation and decided to fight to the end to expose the true face of the Japanese government.So he went to the local court to sue the Japanese government.Japan specially dispatched five or six defense lawyers in an attempt to besiege Zhang Taiyan and make him succumb. On the day of the debate, Zhang Taiyan was well-founded and plausible, and the scene was truly unforgettable.Zhang asked the chief referee: "To disturb the law and order, you must have a certificate. If you say that I buy a pistol and I keep an assassin, it may be called disturbing the law and order. One stroke of ink, a few words, how to disturb the law?" The chief was speechless. Zhang also asked: "My writing may incite people, or incite people, cause trouble, harm the local area, or it may be called a disturbance of public order. If two or three literati, pretending to be a topic, study each other, and fill the paper with empty words, what do you call it a disturbance? Security?" The director was speechless again. The defense experts hurriedly smoothed things over for the director, trying to suppress Zhang Taiyan on the charge of obstructing the social order of Japan by the "Minbao" speech.Zhang Taiyan asked rhetorically: "I talk about revolution, I revolutionize China's life, not your country's life, my writing is to incite people, that is, to incite people, to incite Chinese, not to incite Japanese, to incite Chinese, not to incite Japanese , What does it do to the order of your country? What does it do to the law and order of your country?" All the defense experts were speechless. The more Zhang Taiyan spoke, the more excited he became. He roared: "Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and the laws of civilized countries are all the same, and the same is true in your country. What is my crime? I speak of revolution, and my country does not shy away from revolution. The revolution of Tang and Wu should follow the heavens." For people, the words of the sages of our country are also. Therefore, according to the laws of our country, rebellion is guilty, but revolution is not.In the end, the head of the Judiciary Office forcibly closed down Min Bao under the name of endangering social order and fined it 120 yuan.Although "Min Bao" died halfway, Zhang Zhi's struggle gave it the last touch of glory. At the beginning of the Republic of China, Yuan Shikai became the interim president, and his words and deeds disappointed his supporters.He first sent people to assassinate Song Jiaoren, and then sent troops to suppress the "Second Revolution". His perverse behavior made Zhang Taiyan intolerable.Regardless of the persuasion of relatives and friends, Zhang resolutely decided to go deep into the tiger's den to save the crisis.He said confidently: "I have decided to confront Yuan Shikai, who harbors evil intentions. I know it is a tiger's den, but if I don't enter the tiger's den, how can I get a tiger's cub?" Before leaving, he left a poem, which can quite reflect his mood at that time: Shi Wei entered Chang'an with his sword straightened out, fighting for five steps before bleeding. Who knows that Xuqi Province in the south of the Yangtze River does not allow people to snore on the couch. There are two allusions in this poem.The first two sentences come from "Warring States Policy", which is the story of the Warring States Period.The counselor Tang Ju was entrusted by Lord Anling to go to Qin alone, but he fulfilled his mission and forced the King of Qin to give up his aggressive ambitions; the last two sentences are from "Lei Shuo", which is an old story in the Northern Song Dynasty.Zhao Kuangyin's troops came to the capital of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and Li Yu sent Xu Xuan to sue for peace.Zhao Kuangyin drew his sword and said sharply: "How can you allow others to sleep soundly on the side of the couch!" He raised his troops to attack, and the Southern Tang Dynasty died.When Zhang wrote this poem, he obviously wanted to imitate Tang Ju and enter the capital with a straight sword. No matter whether Yuan Shikai is the domineering King of Qin or the mighty Zhao Kuangyin, Zhang is determined to warn the world with the act of "putting down two corpses and bleeding five steps". Fulfill your own ideals of democracy and republic. Not long after entering Beijing, Zhang staged a good show of making a big fuss at the presidential palace.One day, Zhang dressed in an oily torn cotton gown, held a folding fan, deliberately affixed the second-class medal awarded by Yuan Shikai to the handle of the fan, swaggered to the presidential palace, and planned to have a good argument with Yuan Shikai.The guard prevented him from seeing Yuan.At this time, the deputy chief Xiang Ruikun received a notice to go to the mansion to meet Yuan Shikai, Zhang Taiyan was furious, and the "crazy" energy in his body suddenly broke out: "Xiang Ruikun is a child, he can see Yuan Shikai, can't I? "From early morning to evening, Zhang scolded all 1,000 people in the presidential palace, and smashed the utensils in the palace with his cane.Yuan Shikai hid in the inner room and witnessed Zhang Taiyan's "nonsense", but he dared not speak out in anger and let him vent.It can be seen from this that Zhang Zhi's demeanor of a madman is better than that of Mi Heng.In the end, Yuan Shikai had no choice but to send Lu Jianzhang, the director of the Military and Political Law Enforcement Department (who was known as a butcher who arrested and executed revolutionaries at the time), to go out, falsely claiming that the president had seen the chapter in Ju Ren Tang, and took him to the army Barracks, house arrest.Later, he was moved to Longquan Temple near Taoranting in the southern city of Beijing and several deep houses in the city. Between turns, Zhang Taiyan began a rather long period of captivity. At first, Zhang Taiyan was extremely uncomfortable with this kind of life without freedom.He yelled and made a fuss in the house, and once wrote a couplet: "Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy".His friend Chen Gan admired the couplet of "seven killings and seven madnesses" very much, so he asked a stonemason to carve it into a stone tablet and stand it in the ancestral hall.This stele is still on the bridgehead of Baita Village, Changyi, Shandong Province, Chen's hometown.In addition, Zhang Taiyan often drank with his friends so much that he cursed angrily after getting drunk, and even wrote the word "Yuan Thief" all over the window paper and walls to vent his anger, or wrote the word "Yuan Thief" in big seal, small script, cursive and other fonts. The characters, buried the paper and burned it, shouting: "Yuan thief burned to death!" What's more interesting is that Zhang Taiyan called all the servants in the apartment and set six rules: First, greet me morning and evening; Second, when you see me outside, you must stand with your hands down; Third, call me an "adult" and call myself a "servant"; Fourth, the visitors are collectively referred to as "Master"; Fifth, when someone comes to visit, no matter what the matter is, he must return to the Ming Dynasty to make a decision, and he must not stop him directly; Sixth, every new moon, you must kneel down and kowtow three times to me. After Zhang Taiyan announced the six rules to the servants, he said: "If you can abide by these six rules, you can stay; if you can't, please leave." The servants had no choice but to obey.Qian Xuantong, a disciple of Zhangmen, was curious, so he asked the teacher why he established this family rule.Zhang Taiyan's answer made people laugh even more: "I made this name for no other reason, just because 'adult' and 'lord' were both titles in the former Qing Dynasty. As for 'sir', it was obtained by our revolutionaries desperately." A substitute. Now that Beijing is still a place where the remnants of the imperial system are entrenched, how can it deserve the title of 'Mr.'? This is still the world of 'Master' and 'Master'. Isn't it reasonable to ask them to kowtow?" After a long time, Zhang Taiyan felt that laughing and cursing alone was not enough to deter Yuan Shikai and others, so he decided to go on a hunger strike to protest.In the farewell letter sent to his wife Tang Guoli, Zhang wrote: "I am haggard, and knowing the king has no interest in being a living person. I live in seclusion for several days, and I worry less. Therefore, I have to study academically intensively, and I am a teacher. If there is chaos in the middle, it will be hard work. If you don’t die when the Qing government buys and arrests, but after the Republic of China is completed, what can you say! After my death, the Zhongxia culture It is also dead. The words are all here, and Linying is sad and indignant." In the article, there is not only his resentment because the ideal of democracy and republic has not been realized, but also his confidence in his own level of Chinese studies, which is true and even true! Zhang Taiyan went on a hunger strike, and his body became weaker and weaker day by day, and his spirit deteriorated day by day.This not only caused Yuan Shikai a lot of headaches, but also made Zhang Taiyan's disciples very anxious.They tried every means to make Zhang Taiyan change his will to die and eat immediately.There have always been two versions of the records about disciples and old friends persuading Zhang Taiyan to give up the idea of ​​hunger strike and to eat again. The first one is the Wu Chengshi version.After hearing the news of Zhang Taiyan's hunger strike, Zhang's old friend Ma Xulun, disciples Wu Chengshi, Qian Xuantong and others rushed to visit.From morning till night, the disciples kept urging him to eat.Zhang Taiyan just lay on the bed, rolled his eyes and shook his head blindly.In desperation, Wu Chengshi suddenly remembered the story of the Three Kingdoms, and asked: "Sir, how are you compared to Mi Heng?" Zhang Taiyan stared, and said, "How can you compare yourself to me?" Wu Chengshi hurriedly said: "Liu Biao wanted to kill You Heng. He didn't want to bear the notoriety of killing national officials, so he borrowed Huang Zu's hand. Now Yuan Shikai is much smarter than Liu Biao. He doesn't need to ask Huang Zu to kill himself by himself!" "What are you talking about!" Zhang Taiyan turned over and jumped out of bed when he heard this.The disciples hurriedly brought out the poached eggs that had already been prepared, and asked the teacher to eat them.Zhang Taiyan stopped the hunger strike. The second is Ma Xulun's version.Ma went to visit Zhang Taiyan, and when his friends met, Zhang Taiyan was refreshed. In addition to talking about the current unmanageable personnel and state affairs, Ma Xulun tried his best to talk with Zhang Taiyan about Confucius and Mencius, Lao Zhuang, Buddhism, and Zhang Taiyan. Talk about science.The two were wild and unconstrained, chatting very excitedly, from noon to dusk, the meaning is still endless.Ma Xulun looked at the sky and got up to leave. He said: "I have to go. I came out in a hurry at noon. I didn't eat. I'm hungry now." Zhang Taiyan said: "This matter is easy to handle. Let my cook prepare meals for you." Ma Xulun shook his head again and again, and said, "No way, no way. During your hunger strike, I ate and drank in front of you. It's against humanity. How can I swallow it? I really want to eat this meal and spread the word, don't I?" Is it despised by the gentlemen of the world?" Zhang Taiyan wanted to keep Ma Xulun, so he immediately agreed to eat with him. Zhang Taiyan in Wu Chengshi's version is not in common with Yuan Shikai, and he thinks he is more pure and mad than Mi Heng of the Three Kingdoms, and he looks quite cute under Wu's aggressive method; while Zhang Taiyan in Ma Xulun's version is more concerned with academics, because he talks about politics with Ma Xulun. He gave up the hunger strike because he was intoxicated, and his spirit of regarding academics as his life is very respectable.The two versions actually reflect the two most valuable qualities of Zhang Taiyan: a heart for the common people and a heart for academics. After Yuan Shikai set his title as "Hongxian", he wanted to find someone with high morals and prestige to write a New Year's Edict for him. Some people recommended Zhang Taiyan, thinking that he was the only candidate.Yuan Shikai sighed: "Why do you have to be difficult for others? Have you forgotten his hunger strike? If you use this to force him, you will hasten his death! I don't want to let Taiyan be your balance, how can I become a disguised form?" What about Huang Zu? If he is really dead, at least he will be Fang Xiaoru, and I can’t fulfill his reputation. When the empire flourishes in the future, it won’t be too late to deal with Zhang Taiyan, now is not the time to move him.” This remark reached Zhang Taiyan's ears, and he said contemptuously: "The surname of the emperor of Ming Dynasty is Zhu, and the surname of emperor Hong Xian is Yuan. I am neither Mi Heng, nor Fang Xiaoru, nor Yuan Shikai, nor Zhu Di, the emperor of Ming Dynasty. I just took advantage of the chaos and rose up." , it’s just Yuan Shu who was addicted to the emperor.” On June 6, 1916, Yuan Shikai died in panic amidst the crusade from all over the country, and Zhang Taiyan regained his freedom.Looking back on this period of life under the threat of bayonet, although Zhang Taiyan brushed shoulders with death several times, he still remained the same and was unyielding.No wonder Lu Xun sincerely praised in his recollection article "Two or Three Things about Mr. Taiyan": Examining his life, there is no second person in the world who uses a large medal as a fan pendant and faces the gate of the presidential palace to criticize Yuan Shikai for harboring evil intentions; seven were hunted down and three were imprisoned.There is no other person in the world who has the ambition of revolution to be unyielding; this is the spirit of the sages and a model for future generations. In the first year of the Republic of China, after Zhang Taiyan entered Beijing, he met Chen Huan, who was the general of Beiyang at that time. Zhang Taiyan said bluntly to Chen, "Oh, you Chen Huan was really a genius at that time!" He was overjoyed, and just about to answer his thanks, Zhang Taiyan said again: "From now on, the Republic of China will perish in your hands!" At this moment, Chen Huan's face turned livid, he suppressed his anger, and bowed to leave.In fact, he already held a grudge, and later in the plot to put Zhang Taiyan under house arrest, he tried his best to vent his anger!Unexpectedly, after Zhang Taiyan passed away, maybe his conscience discovered that Chen Huan not only praised Zhang Taiyan's theory vigorously, but also lamented: "Oh, once Master Zhang leaves, there will be no one who really understands me in the world!" Zhang Taiyan is proficient in medicine and has written "On Cholera" and "Zhang Taiyan's Treatise on Medicine" (formerly known as "New Treatise on Sudden Disease").Someone once asked Zhang Taiyan: "Sir, is Confucian classics or history the first?" He replied: "To be honest, I am the first in medicine." Hu Shi wrote the book "Outline of the History of Chinese Philosophy". When it was published, he gave a copy to Zhang Taiyan, with the words "Mr.Seeing that there was a black line next to his name, Zhang couldn't help cursing: "What kind of Hu Shi! How dare you scribble under my name!" When Hu's name also had a black line next to it, he calmed down and said, "His There is also a line next to the name, even if it cancels each other out!" This legend is not credible, Zhang Taiyan published "Xi Shu" (printed version) in the late Qing Dynasty and other works used side lines as names and book titles.The so-called new style of punctuation had already started in Japan in the late Qing Dynasty and the Meiji era, so it is not surprising. After ending his prison life, Zhang Taiyan left Beijing and moved to Shanghai.Once, he took a rickshaw from Tongfuli's apartment to a second-hand bookstore on Sanma Road to buy books.When I came out of the bookstore to go home, I stopped a rickshaw, got in the car, and signaled the driver to go west.According to his words, the coachman walked westward for a long distance, and he was puzzled and asked, "Sir, where are you going?" Zhang said, "I don't know myself. Everyone in Shanghai knows that I am Zhang." Crazy, you just have to take him to Zhang Crazy’s house!” The coachman was confused by what he said, and out of helplessness, the coachman had no choice but to drag him back to the second-hand bookstore and let him find another way.Zhang's family was extremely anxious, and sent more than 20 people to search around the city, and finally found him at the door of the second-hand bookstore. There are two other anecdotes related to Zhang Taiyan's inscription.Zhang Taiyan writes good characters that are hard to buy, and everyone in the world wants to get a piece of paper.However, Zhang Taiyan has a eccentric temper and does not appreciate his calligraphy easily, so his ink marks become more and more precious.At that time, there was a painter in Shanghai named Qian Huafo, who was very good at appealing to Mr. Zhang and making him happy, so he got a lot of authentic works from Zhang.Zhang Taiyan's favorite food is stewed products with a bad smell, especially stinky tofu, which is so smelly that everyone in the house hides their noses to avoid it, but only Mr. Zhang eats it with relish.Once, Qian Huafo brought a pack of purple-black rotten eggs. Zhang Taiyan was overjoyed when he saw it. There was a pen on the table at that time. Huafo immediately took out several white papers prepared by Dou Fang, each of which had to write the four characters "Republic of the Five Races", and signed with the three characters "Zhang Taiyan".Zhang Taiyan was also straightforward, without making a sound, he did it in one go.Two days later, Qian Huafo brought another jar of surprisingly smelly amaranth stems.Mr. Zhang was overjoyed, and said to Qian, "If you have any paper, just take it out and write it." Qian still asked to write the four characters "Republic of the Five Races". This time, Zhang Taiyan actually wrote more than 40 sheets in one go.Later, Qian brought a lot of stinky peanuts, stinky wax gourds and other things. Mr. Zhang naturally returned generously with more than 100 pieces of writing, but he never asked what these words were for.It turned out that a new kind of "five-color flag" wine arrived at a fan restaurant in Shanghai. The wine was very cloudy when it was poured out, and after a few minutes of precipitation, it turned into five colors of red, yellow, blue, white and black.Qian Huafo had an idea and came up with the idea of ​​making a "Republic of the Five Races" banner. He asked Mr. Zhang to write it in Chinese.Qian Huafo also made a fortune as a result. After all, there are very few lucky people like Qian Huafo, and the vast majority of them are old men who are hard to change.What's more, he was teased by Zhang Taiyan Haosheng.There was once an upstart surnamed Wang who was arty and elegant, and asked Zhang Taiyan to write an inscription for him, but Zhang Taiyan naturally ignored it.But the nouveau riche still didn't give up, and was willing to pay a high price to ask someone to intercede on his behalf. Zhang Taiyan was really impatient and despised him as a human being, so he wrote a couplet with a stroke of a pen: one two three four five six seven, Filial piety, loyalty, propriety, righteousness and honesty. The nouveau riche was very proud of getting the couplet written by Mr. Zhang, and immediately ordered people to hang the couplet in the high hall, and said to everyone, "This is the word Zhang Taiyan, the master of Chinese studies, wrote for me!" One day, a discerning man smiled at the upstart Hu said: "The writing is very good, but it's a pity that the first couplet is forgetful, and the second couplet is shameless. It seems to be a bit of a joke and hurt people. It probably means 'Bastards, shameless!'" After hearing this, the upstart was so angry that he was ashamed endlessly. In the autumn of 1934, Zhang Taiyan moved to Suzhou, held seminars on Chinese studies, recruited apprentices and taught them, and trained a large number of talents in Chinese studies.He often said: "The disciples of the big country can only play the hands of the two countries; but the disciples of the two countries can only play the hands of the big country." After hearing this, most of the disciples didn't understand it.Zhang explained: "The students of the big national players often follow the teacher's wishes and dare not think independently. How can they develop academically? The students of the two national players keep improving on the basis of their teachers, so they often come out of the blue and come from behind. Therefore, Gu Yanwu, the master of the generation Under Jiang Yong’s sect, no one is as tall as Pan Xiao; and under Jiang Yong’s sect, there is a generation of master Dai Zhen.” It can be seen that Zhang Taiyan does not advocate that his disciples stick to their own academic path, but encourages them to develop freely and innovate continuously , have the courage to break through the predecessors and form a family of their own. In addition to preaching and teaching karma to solve doubts, Zhang Taiyan also joked with his disciples humorously.Zhangmen disciples have their own strengths and characteristics in learning.Zhang Taiyan rose up by accident, imitating the title of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and jokingly named his disciples kings.He named Huang Kan the Heavenly King, Wang Dong the Eastern King, Zhu Tixian the Western King, Wu Chengshi the Northern King, and Qian Xuantong the Wing King.Although it is a joke to say that the disciple of Fengmen is the king, it can also be seen that Zhang loves the disciple. Although he has retired from the political arena, Zhang Taiyan still pays attention to the political situation and people's livelihood, and vigorously criticizes the current problems whenever he has the opportunity. In March 1925, Sun Yat-sen, the pioneer of the revolution, died of illness. In June 1929, the coffin was transported to Nanjing.When the memorial service ceremony was held in Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum, Zhang Taiyan made a special trip to Nanjing to offer his condolences.Remember what you saw along the way.He deeply felt that many revolutionaries had become corrupt, and he was very angry.Zhang Taiyan is a hero of the revolution, and the dignitaries and dignitaries naturally want to host a banquet to welcome him.During the banquet, someone was arty and asked him to write an inscription as a souvenir.He felt it, and wrote a pair of couplets with a pen: All kings and rats steal dogs and jump, and Si Jun cries bitterly; Dragons and tigers occupy this place, an ancient falsehood. When everyone saw each other, they looked at each other in blank dismay, but because of Zhang's status as a veteran, they couldn't get angry, so they had to let Zhang Taiyan scold them. In 1935, He Yingqin, the representative of the national government, signed the "He Mei Agreement" with Japan's Umezu Yoshijiro, which humiliated the country. There is no persistence on the Huai River, and the heart of the river is still safe. Lianjun is not poor and clever, so he even tries to look blue. The beauty of this poem is that it uses the past to speak about the present.The Kuomintang government did not defend itself in the area of ​​the Huaihe River, and even easily lost the Central Plains, but remained indifferent.This is like the shameless ministers of the small imperial court of the Southern Song Dynasty, who are still enjoying themselves at ease in Jiangxin Temple in front of the enemy.It's a pity that Wang Boyan and Huang Qianshan in the Southern Song Dynasty were not clever in their traitorous tactics. Let's look at the officials and lords in Nanjing today, they are really better than blue. Zhang Taiyan said: "People marry wives for food, and I marry wives for medicine. People from the two lakes are very good, Anhui people are second, and northern women are the most unsuitable. Cantonese women can't speak, like foreigners, that is the least suitable." Dare to do it." Later, she married Tang Guoli, who was good at poetry and prose. Although she was from Zhejiang, she was not from the two lakes that Zhang Taiyan imagined, but she could speak Hubei. Before, Zhang Taiyan only married one concubine, Wang.From his self-made chronicle, it can be seen that he did not marry a regular wife before Tang Guoli.His self-made chronicle is very brief about family affairs and private affairs, especially about his marriage. At the earliest, there is only one line: Guangxu eighteen years, 25 years old, concubine Wang.The epitaph of Mr. Zhang Taiyan in Yuhang written by Wang Xuchu, Zhang Taiyan's disciple, mentions his first marriage, which says that "the first house is set up, and three daughters are born", and "room" refers to "concubine".It is said that Zhang Taiyan suffered from epilepsy in his early years, and he was often regarded as a "crazy man with crazy words". No one wanted to marry his daughter to him, so his mother had to betroth her dowry girl to him.This kind of marriage has no intermediary dowry, so it cannot be regarded as a formal marriage. According to the customs at that time, it can only be regarded as "concubine". Zhang Taiyan was the first person to apply for marriage in the newspaper. In the twenty-ninth year of Guangxu, Zhang Taiyan's concubine Wang passed away. Zhang Taiyan desperately embraced the revolutionary spirit and wanted to set a precedent. So he published in Beijing's "Shuntian Times". Put out an advertisement to openly seek marriage.At that time, the Japanese Takeda Hee wrote "Zhang Binglin's Marriage", and another Japanese called Takada Jun wrote "Zhang Binglin's Biography", both of which mentioned the details of Zhang Shi's marriage requirements. These two paragraphs roughly say: Zhang Taiyan’s advertisement for marriage is the first in history to publish a newspaper for marriage. There are five conditions for his marriage: The first one: limited to women from Hubei.Article 2: You must be fluent in writing and be able to write short texts.Article 3: Make everyone a lady.Article 4: To be born in a school, both parties are equal and free, respect each other, and maintain virtue.Article 5: Women who oppose footbinding can remarry after their husbands die; if the husband and wife do not get along, they can divorce. After Zhang Taiyan's advertisement was published, newspapers all over the country wrote it into news, thinking it was a strange story, so although his advertisement was only published in "Suncheon Times", newspapers from all over the country rewritten the news and became a voluntary advertisement, which spread all over the country.Of course, there are many pedantic scholar-bureaucrats who think that after the death of their husbands, they can remarry if they do not obey the rules, which is an extremely absurd thing. After Zhang Taiyan's marriage advertisement was published, it is not known whether anyone applied for it at that time.According to the "China Literature Daily" published in Japan in August of the 11th year of Showa (1936): "Ms. Wu Shuqing, 19 years old, volunteered to join the revolutionary army. She was called a revolutionary woman and was a sensational news figure at that time. Willing to be Zhang Binglin's partner, intending to show love. Zhang was stunned and never minded. Seeing this situation, Li Yuanhong is willing to be a matchmaker. Zhang puts revolution first, marriage second, and it has not become a reality." After being rejected, Wu Shuqing was excited and wrote a The article "Wu Shuqing's Toujun Wen" was published in "Minli Daily" on September 10th of Xinhai (that is, October 31st in the Gregorian calendar), and it was also recorded in Japanese. But I know a little bit about state affairs, and I don’t fear the difference between men and women today. I hope that the 400 million compatriots in our country will work together to take up the responsibility of revitalizing the human rights of the great Chinese and carrying forward the glory of the descendants of the Yellow Emperor..." It is said that at the wedding of Zhang Taiyan and Tang Guoli, Zhang made a lot of jokes again.Zhang Taiyan was used to wearing cloth-soled shoes all his life, and the place where they held their wedding was Aili Garden, a famous foreign-style place in Shanghai, so Zhang Taiyan had to wear suits and leather shoes.The family bought him a pair of leather shoes, but the person who was doing the work was careless and did not guide him to wear the leather shoes. As a result, when he put them on, he couldn't even tell the left from the right, and they wore them backwards, which made all the guests laugh wildly.He is notorious for not being particular about his clothes and socks.Once a family member saw a bulge on the instep of his shoe and asked him to take off the shoe to take a look, but he was wearing the sock with the bottom upside down. It turned out that the socks woven by machines at that time had extra thick soles to ensure durability. , while traditional hand-knitted socks do not distinguish between bottom and bottom, Zhang Taiyan ignores this at all, not only shoes can be distinguished from left to right, but even socks are difficult to distinguish between inside and outside bottom. After 6 o'clock that day, there were more than 100 guests in the Yipinxiang hall. The seats were arranged for the bride and female guests on the left, and the groom and male guests on the right. (It shows that men and women still sat separately at that time.) At the banquet, both men and women held an after-party, and asked the groom to compose poems impromptu.Otherwise, ten cups of wine will be fined, and Zhang Taiyan will compose four poems impromptu within 20 minutes, and recite them himself.The bride only wrote an old work "Hermitage", and the groom Zhang Taiyan also rushed to recite it. Unfortunately, Zhang is short-sighted and misread eight characters. Those eight characters are "Zhang Tong Tang Fu, Guo Yuan Bing Bing", Zhang Taiyan read At that time, his disciple so-and-so whispered these eight characters to others, but Master Zhang misunderstood it.There was a commotion at the ladies' table, and Zhang was ordered to drink eight glasses of wine, but halfway through the drink, his protégé Huang Jigang (Huang Kan) and Wang Xuchu rushed to replace the drink.The joke was made, and the laughter shook the sky.If there are more than three people laughing too much, they will be fined eight cups of wine; if there are more than five people, they will raise their glasses and sing loudly.However, Mr. Taiyan had a strict face and no smile. Instead, the audience burst out laughing, and then there was another fine drink, the bride expressed hesitation, and everyone was sensational again.But for the sake of respecting women's rights, the male guests expressed their opposition to punishing the bride with alcohol, and there were four girls singing at the bride's banquet to add to the fun. There are two introducers for Zhang Taiyan's marriage this time, one is Zhang Ji, and the other is Shen Hefu.沈是汤女士的同乡，相知有素，所以由他推介给张继，因为汤女士认为章师学识渊博，已有许嫁之意。张继也看过汤女士的诗词，所以经过介绍之后，一拍即合。谁知到了结婚那天，张继因有要事不曾到场，而章在爱俪园举行婚礼，孙中山先生和黄兴、陈其美等都到场，门禁森严。沈和甫是吴兴文士，有些土头土脑，见到了爱俪园前门雄伟，已经畏怯非常。况且要求进园参观的人成百成千，司阍的许福，以为他是陌生的参观者，拒不许入。沈和甫说的是软软糯糯的湖州话，许福也听不懂他说的是什么。章师的婚礼延误了一些时间，两个介绍人都不来，在不得已情形之下，就临时拉人，权充介绍人，才完成了这个结婚大典。 章太炎与汤国梨结婚后夫妇唱和之乐，为章太炎一生最欢乐的时期，从后来发表的84封家书看来，怪不得日本作者高田淳称章师为“大情人”。 可是章太炎那时革命的热情比夫妇的热情还高一些，婚后一月匆匆告别，被袁世凯软禁。章太炎被困的时间极长，屡次求速死，又长期绝食，在这种情况之下，留在上海的师母汤国梨女士的心境，当然是坏到极点，她为章师的生命担忧，那是可想而知的。 汤国梨嫁予章太炎是很感委屈的，她自己说：“关于章太炎，对一个女青年来说，有几点是不合要求的：一是，其貌不扬；二是，年龄太大，他长我15岁；三是，很穷。”章太炎又穷，又丑，还老，汤国梨则被时人誉为务本女学（汤国梨就读的学校）的“皇后”，她嫁予章太炎真可以说是“下嫁”，不过一是看重章太炎的才华和民国元老的身份，一则也是负气。因为嫁的时候就有些怨望，婚后大概不免时时数落章太炎的穷蔽。