Chapter 8 36-40

Chapter 36: Mr. Wen / Chen Hengshu (6) Mr. Xiaoqian attaches great importance to reading works.Not only to read, but also to recite, including related content in the exam.Once I looked through the original post on the BBS and found that after a final exam, many students complained about Mr. Xiaoqian because the exam questions were too difficult.I took a look, and it seemed that there was nothing difficult. It was just filling in the blanks of some very common poems, and many people couldn't answer them.But when Mr. Xiaoqian taught us, he still didn’t change the old ones. He also told us that good works should be read more, and it’s best to memorize them, and we should hurry up and take advantage of our good memory.He also told us that when he was studying in Zhejiang, his teacher told him that things that a person can memorize before the age of 20 will basically never be forgotten in this life.It is basically difficult to have such a good memory later.I counted, there were only three months left, and I was very sad. Teacher Yu Xiaoqian really felt like seeing each other late.Indeed, for learning ancient literature, there is always no harm in reading more, memorizing and memorizing.Teacher Zhang Jian also insisted that we memorize more when he talked about the history of Chinese literary criticism. He said that the current education tells everyone not to memorize by rote. There was a whole side of recitation questions in the exam, and I ended up with a terrible answer.This is basically consistent with Mr. Xiaoqian's idea.

I remember that before the final exam of that semester, Mr. Xiaoqian arranged a question and answer session.At that time, there was a room full of people, and they probably went with the purpose of being able to solve some questions. When they went, they asked, teacher, what is the test for this time?What not to take?Mr. Xiaoqian responded with some vague words, and they couldn't ask any more questions, so they just sat there without saying a word.It's just me talking to Mr. Qian about things that are not related to the exam.Mr. Xiaoqian suddenly asked, have you read all the collections of a certain writer?I said that I have read Tao Yuanming's collections.Mr. Xiaoqian asked again, have you read it completely?I say yes.Mr. Xiaoqian showed a smile on his face, slapped the table and said, okay, this will definitely help you, although I took the exam this time for Du Fu... I didn't slow down at the time, and when I returned to the dormitory, someone patted me My shoulder said, okay, you, you just turned the corner and got the test questions out.I thought about it.Oh, that seems to be the case.As a result, at the end of the semester, I really took a big question related to Du Fu.But I didn't answer well. I wasted Mr. Xiaoqian's praise that day, and I still feel a little ashamed.

Kong Qingdong Mr. Wu Xiaodong once said in class that when he first entered the Chinese Department of Peking University, there was a brother jumping up and down in that dormitory building, with "abetting" as his main task. This person was Kong Qingdong.As Mr. Wu Xiaodong said, Lao Kong was an active member when he was a student, and became a man of influence at Peking University when he became a teacher.The deeds of Lao Kong can be described as overwhelming. If a "Shi Shuo" is compiled for the teachers of the Chinese Department in the future, Lao Kong will definitely occupy a considerable amount of space.In the newly published "Peking University Literature Lecture Hall", there is a speech by Lao Kong, which is basically a real record. Many humorous remarks of Lao Kong have been recorded intact. I listened to that lecture, and now I read it. Still find this lecture very interesting.But today, let's not talk about Lao Kong's humor, but talk about Lao Kong's serious side.

Chapter 37: Mr. Wen / Chen Hengshu (7) The first time I came across Lao Kong’s articles was when I was a sophomore in high school, and I laughed so hard holding one. Later, Lao Kong wrote a lot of books, but I think they are not as good as that one.From then on, I felt that Lao Kong was a very funny person.Later, Lao Kong always said that he was not humorous, and that there were "a handful of bitter tears" behind his "paper full of absurd remarks".I ran up to ask after a class, your writing is so interesting, where is the bitterness?Lao Kong said to me very seriously, you must know that China at that time was different from China now, and Peking University at that time was even more different from Peking University now.I suddenly discovered that Lao Kong was indeed a serious person.

After I entered the Chinese Department, I didn’t seem to see Lao Kong teaching a professional class. I guessed that Lao Kong was too famous, and the professional class would be crowded, which would definitely affect the quality of teaching.Lao Kong has taught general elective courses for four or five semesters. From Lu Xun to Jin Yong to Lao She to modern Chinese drama, it is very easy to understand for all undergraduates, especially those who are not majoring in Chinese. He always writes articles in a humorous style, and the class has always been very popular.Once I sent an email to him and said, I am afraid that most of the people in your classroom are watching the excitement.He replied to me an email very seriously, saying, indeed, there are many people who watch the excitement, but real talents often grow from the people who watch the excitement. We must not only meet the needs of high-level talents, but also We must take care of the common people watching the excitement, and we must not despise or abandon them.I often hear a kind of criticism of Lao Kong, saying that he only tells jokes in class and does not teach knowledge. I think this probably means that he did not understand Lao Kong’s class. Still quite audible.As for what Confucius said, it has its own reasons, so we shouldn't deny it arbitrarily.

Lao Kong sometimes looks very "angry".When it comes to modern literature, it is already a little distance from the current situation.But he always insists on the view that "all history is contemporary history", and he often pulls out someone or something that happened around us today to laugh and curse.In his own words, the Qianjia elders may not be indifferent to reality, but we now interpret them as "pure scholars".Of course, Lao Kong is not an ordinary "angry youth". He claims to insist on "tough fighting, not for victory, just for fun, and experience the thrill of fighting in toughness. This way, the fight may last longer and be less afraid of failure." . "Old Kong wrote so many articles, laughing and cursing, perhaps it is what he called "the battle of toughness".Therefore, I would rather understand Lao Kong's "anger" as a strong sense of reality. I remember the first time I listened to Lao Kong's class, he waved his arms and shouted at us: "If you are still thinking about future food and clothing , This is an unpromising performance! What you should consider now is An De Guang Mansion with thousands of rooms!" I think, this will also be a sentence that inspires me all my life.

Chapter 38: Mr. Wen / Chen Hengshu (8) Li Jiahao In the last semester of my junior year, I took Mr. Li Jiahao's "Introduction to Shuowen Jiezi" as an elective course.Before the first week of class, I went early and slept in the first row. I suddenly heard a thunderous sound. I jumped up from the table. I didn’t hear what was said at the time, but I thought about it later. For a moment, something like "We're starting class now."Mr. Li is like this almost every time he attends class. He comes in silently with his head sullen, takes out his lecture notes without any preparations, and turns the volume to the maximum without any preparatory actions.This is also good, listening to such a loud lecture in class, no matter what, I will not doze off.But there is still a problem: Mr. Li is from Hubei and has a very strong accent. The southerners listened well, but the northern students could not understand at all in the first few lessons.I remember that during the first class break, a classmate from Beijing went up to Mr. Li and said, I am really not used to your accent, can I read your lecture notes?Mr. Li handed over the speech with a smile and said, sorry, my handwriting is rather sloppy.The Beijing classmate turned over two pages, returned it, and said, I'd better listen to you.

Mr. Li's own speeches are sloppy, but writing on the blackboard is absolutely meticulous, just as the legendary attitude of his academic research is as rigorous.Especially for some ancient characters, 籀 characters and Xiaozhuan characters that are similar to pictures, he has to draw and draw, and change and change according to his own lecture notes, without being sloppy at all.Every time I talk about an example, I must quote from various sources, write it all over the blackboard, and finally refer to my own opinion, which is well-founded. Anyone who has a complete note of this course should be an excellent academic example.It's a pity that I was too lazy at the time, and I really didn't want to write down many tedious things. Now that I think about it, I really regret it.

Mr Li is notoriously demanding academically.It is said that there was once a graduation thesis for an undergraduate student. Many masters gave some comments on the graduation thesis of the undergraduate students in a macroscopic way, but Mr. Li corrected it very carefully, and asked the student to change his draft seven times. After handing in the final draft, the student breathed a sigh of relief, and suddenly received a call from Mr. Li at night: "I just found a new material, come over tomorrow, we will add it..." I think the senior brother must have I was about to collapse, but it was a very happy thing to be able to receive such careful guidance from such a teacher.

Mr. Li is also very "angry" sometimes. I remember once he slapped the desk in class with his eyes wide open and shouted: "How can a teacher take advantage of students!" As for the reason, I don't remember at all. It seemed that such a sentence came out of nowhere at that time.Mr. Li also resentfully talked about an experience he had in the library.He said that when he was a teaching assistant for Mr. Zhu Dexi, he went to the rare book room of the library to check an important material.In the end, he was obstructed for no reason by an administrator. After a lot of questioning, he finally agreed reluctantly, and finally asked, "Can't you check it?" Everyone laughed when Mr. Li said that. Mr. himself laughed, very helplessly. "I don't dare to go to the library anymore, especially the rare book room." He would say this sentence to every class of his students. It must have been ten or twenty years, and he is still so "angry"--in fact, Peking University This is probably not the case in the Rare Book Room anymore. Mr. Ge Zhaoguang said that he could borrow the thread-bound books back to the dormitory to read. I went there last semester and even borrowed manuscripts from the Qing Dynasty.I remember reading an article by Mr. Qi Yongxiang a few months ago - "Is it a "library" or a "library"", describing his experience in the Suzhou library. In fact, it is very similar to Mr. Li, and he is also seeking books. He couldn't see it at a glance, and was even ridiculed by the staff in every possible way.The article was written with righteous indignation, and later this incident was called the "Sutu incident", which caused a great uproar in the academic circles.In the end, Mr. Qi also failed to read the book he wanted to read, and he must be "angry" about this matter even now and in the future for many years.But from this kind of "anger", I did see the true love of academics for academics.

Chapter 39: Mr. Wen / Chen Hengshu (9) The last time I saw Mr. Li was when I went to help sort out the ancient text reference room during the summer vacation.At that time, the reference room had not been managed for a long time, and the sundries were piled up in disorder, the ground was full of dust, and it was in a mess.Not long after we went in, Mr. Li arrived. As soon as he came in, he picked up a mop at the door and started mopping the floor. He held it so tightly that he couldn't grab it.Mr. Li also said with a smile while pushing me away: "I will do it simply, I will do it simply." He said "just do it", but I saw him hunched over and busy in the room for a long time For more than an hour, I tried to snatch the mop off several times, but failed.This really made me respect Mr. Li again. Last semester, Mr. Qiu Xigui and Mr. Shen Pei went to Fudan University. It was rumored that Mr. Li would also leave, but Mr. Li finally stayed.There are two courses in this semester - "Characteristics" and "Shuowen Jiezi" Introduction, six hours a week, very hard work.I suddenly thought of two lines of lyrics by Luo Dayou: "The lonely mood behind the lonely figure is my eyes that will never complain." Yes, I remembered Mr. Li's eyes in class again, so focused and persistent. Zhang Ming Mr. Zhang Ming is a very cute character, I believe everyone who has come into contact with him will say so.Maybe everyone has different praises and criticisms for other teachers in the Chinese Department due to personal preferences, but for Mr. Zhang Ming, they almost agree with each other. The first time I saw Mr. Zhang Ming was at the Chinese Department's New Year's Party in 2003.When Mr. Zhang Ming appeared in the venue wearing a gray cloth shirt and a pair of black cloth shoes, many senior students stood up, applauded, and even cheered. And such eccentric characters.In the middle of the party, Mr. Zhang Ming walked to the center of the venue amid the cheers and applause for him once, and said that I will perform a show for everyone tonight, and I will sing Su Shi's "Niannujiao Chibi Nostalgia".We were all taken aback at the time: we knew that Song Ci was used to sing back then, but we didn't expect that there are still people who can sing today.It turned out that he really sang it. The first time he listened to it, he felt weird, because it used an ancient tune, which was translated by Mr. Yang Yinliu from the ancient score during the Republic of China, but because it was fresh, he still applauded along with it.Later, I heard Mr. Zhang talk about the history of Song and Yuan literature, and I also sang in class when I was talking about Song Ci. Later, I also held a "lyric meeting". At that time, I gradually heard some flavors. At the 2005 New Year's Day Gala, Mr. Zhang Ming appeared again - it is said that he has never missed any New Year's Day Gala of the Chinese Department, and he must attend every time, and he must sing lyrics. One, as soon as he opened his mouth, a solemn and classical atmosphere permeated the rather modern venue.Under the shroud of light blue light, Mr. Zhang's white hair, gray shirt and cloth shoes show the elegance of an ancient scholar.The rhythm is as harmonious as mountains and rivers, and the listeners are all amazed.In fact, I have also heard some song lyrics sung with modern pop music, and it feels good, but compared with Mr. Zhang's quaint voice, it is a bit tacky. It is popular literature. Chapter 40: Mr. Wen / Chen Hengshu (10) Mr. Zhang is very serious and responsible in teaching.First of all, it shows that his classroom capacity is extremely large.Every time I go to class, I must arrive at the classroom ten minutes earlier, and try to attend class as early as possible.Every time before it was time, he knocked on the desk in front to silence everyone.When the class lasts about an hour, he always asks: "Do you want to take a break?" That means: "Let's not take a break, let's continue." As long as there is nothing much going on next, he will say: " Then let's continue." At this time, there will be a big commotion below, and then he put down the lecture script helplessly and said: "Okay, take a five-minute break."--In fact, there should be a ten-minute break between classes.Every time when get out of class is about to end, he will habitually look at his watch, and then act surprised, saying: "Oh, there are still ten minutes." Then he looks at everyone helplessly and says: "What should I do? Let's finish the get out of class after I finish talking about this question, okay?" We couldn't help but say "no", so he kept talking, often dragging on for five to ten minutes.At first we thought it was an accidental phenomenon, but later we found that it was the same every time - it turned out that this was Mr. Zhang's "usual trick". After accumulating this way, he was able to win one more class time every semester.The other is his correction of student papers.We only handed in a 3,000-word book report once.A month later, when the homework was sent out, we were surprised to find that there was a long string of comments at the end of everyone's articles, ranging from two to three hundred words to seven or eighty words. There were red pen outlines and comments in the articles Comments with the article, I think it is very detailed.The most rare thing is that, no matter the score is high or low, most of Mr. Zhang’s comments are praising the benefits of this article, and the shortcomings are clearly pointed out, but they don’t take too much weight. This is a kind of encouragement rather than criticism. The way of putting lessons first - Mr. Zhang is not only responsible, but also knows how to be a teacher. Mr. Zhang is an interesting person.One of his most famous catchphrases is "fun".A very important reason for his large classroom capacity, according to himself: "This thing is too long to talk about, and it would be a pity not to talk about it, because I think this thing is more fun..." Sometimes when I talk about a funny paragraph A story or a funny article, before we reacted, he laughed himself first, because he thought it was "fun".But this kind of mentality does not hinder his academic research, on the contrary, it adds a lot of fun.He always came to our classes wearing a cloth shirt, some people jokingly called it "long shirt". Mr. Zhang quickly clarified that what I was wearing was not "long shirt". Why, Mr. Lu Xun said in it, "only wearing The long-clothed man walked into the room next door to Dianmian, asked for wine and food, and sat and drank slowly", while he himself was a "short-clothes gang" who was "not so rich". .This explanation amused everyone.But this dress did add a lot of quaint atmosphere to Mr. Zhang, including those few libretto performances, which really made us feel that Mr. Zhang is an authentic "Song man".Sometimes I try to imagine the scenes of Mr. Zhang "riding a donkey into Jianmen in the drizzle" or "sharing tea with fine milk in the clear window". It must be very "fun".