Chapter 12 11.daily life

Yuan Shikai got up at 5 o'clock in the morning every day, first went to the office to review documents, and then drank tea, beef juice, and chicken juice. Breakfast at 7 o'clock, usually steamed buns and shredded chicken noodles. At 10 o'clock, add deer antler and a tureen. Have a cup of ginseng at 11 o'clock. Lunch at 12 o'clock. There is often steamed duck in the recipe, which is a must-eat almost every day after winter.Eat pastry once in the afternoon, and take homemade Huoluodan and seal kidney.Dinner at 7pm.Yuan Shikai's day, in addition to business, can be said to be spent in love.Over nourishing, his dream of a strong body finally came to naught, and it backfired, only living to be 57 years old.

When Yuan Shikai was in power, Xu Shichang was the Secretary of State.After Yuan Tumou proclaimed himself emperor, Xu resigned and returned to his hometown, living in seclusion in his hometown in Hui County, Henan. Xu Shichang's retired life is roughly like this: In addition to his original wife, Mrs. Xi, he also has five concubines, each performing his own duties at this time.Xu's three meals a day are supervised by the aunt and wife, and served by the wife of the fifth aunt.He gets up at dawn every day, washes up and has breakfast.After the meal, accompanied by my fourth aunt, I wandered around the garden, and then went into the house to sleep for two hours.Xu Tiantian passed the time by reciting poems, writing, and drawing. Fifth Concubine rubbed ink and laid paper for him.At that time, some people said that Xu's calligraphy was not as good as poetry, and poetry was not as good as painting, so painting was the most popular.Xu ate every meal with the company of his fifth aunt, and Mrs. Xi ate with other concubines; at night, Mrs. Xi took care of her.Xu Shichang's bedroom has two bunks, one for Xu himself and the other for Mrs. Xi.This was all done by Mrs. Xi alone, but in the long run, the other concubines would inevitably harbor ill will toward her.

Duan Qirui's daily life is inseparable from chanting scriptures (Buddhist scriptures), taking a nap, playing Go and mahjong.Even in the days when he was in power, even when major events happened frequently, this happened every day, so that many important military and political affairs had to be done by others. Wu Dingchang's life is very regular.When he was the chairman of Guizhou Province, no matter how busy he was with his official duties, except for special circumstances, he would not have guests on general holidays or after get off work, and he would not talk about business affairs, and enjoy family happiness at home.The subordinates are also aware of his habit, and they don't want to disturb him at home.On holidays or weekends, Wu Chang and his wife go to Huaxi Scenic Area in the southern suburbs of Guiyang for vacation, where they read, write and enjoy the scenery, and live a leisurely and quiet family life.His work "Huaxi Leisure" was written in Huaxi on weekends and holidays in those years.

Gu Weijun goes to bed at 11 o'clock every night, wakes up at 10 o'clock the next morning, and spends nearly half of the day sleeping.Gu is a diplomat and politician who traveled around the world for most of his life. His life is irregular, but he can enjoy a long life, living to 98 years old. This is somewhat due to his good sleep.Gu Weijun once said: "Some people completely separate sleeping and waking up, thinking that 'waking up' is life, and falling asleep in a dream is not life. This is really inaccurate. 'Sleeping' is also an important life. My life Just pay attention to sleep. To ensure rationality and work efficiency when awake, 'sleep' can be regarded as the first priority in life."

, and other works came out, Zhang Henshui became famous and his pockets gradually swelled.He rented a big house in Beiping. There were many flowers and trees in the yard, which was quite quiet.But he didn't stop working since then, on the contrary he became even busier. During this period of time, Zhang Henshui wrote for six or seven newspapers at the same time, creating behind closed doors every day.Generally, I write from 9 o'clock in the morning to six or seven o'clock in the evening, and then stop writing for dinner.Take a break after dinner, and then continue to write until 12 o'clock in the middle of the night.After getting into bed, I have to read a book and "refuel" for an hour or two.

Zhang Daqian's children recalled: My father never drank, smoked or played cards all his life.He eats well, loves to walk, has a strong memory, has no rest day for many years, and works more than eight hours a day. In the 1920s, Shaanxi salt merchant Wu Huaichen worked as an apartment in Shanghai. He fell asleep when the cock crowed every day and got up at four or five in the afternoon.The rest of the time, most of them indulged in the smoking couch. Liu Shujing is a well-known celebrity in Hebei, and later entered the "Holy Family" nuns in Cao County, Shandong.In her later years, she described "a nun's day"-poverty, monotonous, regular, and imprisoned: get up before 5 o'clock in the morning, go to the hall to read scriptures half an hour later, and then meditate for 30 minutes. The title comes from "The Complete Book of Meditation" ".Then there is the "Mass" and the "Holy Communion". Breakfast at 8, lunch at 12 and dinner at 6 pm.After breakfast and lunch, everyone worked independently, and no one was idle.There is a half-hour break after dinner. The nuns call this period of "relaxation". Everyone can talk freely, but they must not make loud noises.Then, they went back to the church collectively to "read evening classes". After 30 minutes, the group began to sing hymns, praising Jesus and Our Lady.Return to the dormitory at 9:30 p.m. to rest.Back then, the nuns lived in dormitories, and even though they slept next to each other, they couldn't talk casually.

After Li Yuanhong left the field for the first time, he retired to the German Concession in Tianjin.Every morning after he gets up, he will ride a big ocean horse to the Haihe River for a gallop. In the early years of the Republic of China, the first family was prosperous—Yuan Shikai had many wives, concubines and children.Besides Beijing, Yuan also had several houses in Tianjin.There are hundreds of buildings in Yuan Mansion in Xiaobailou in the British Concession. After Yuan passed away, most of his family members lived here.At that time, half of the Yuan family smoked opium.The fire in the kitchen is always on day and night. Whoever wakes up after three o'clock in the afternoon will have dinner at that time.After four o'clock, the tea service in the western restaurant would bring all kinds of snacks, snacks, and meat and vegetable dishes to the Yuan mansion for sale on carts, and the business was naturally good.Three meals a day are served on time as usual, but the Yuan family seldom comes to eat, and the male and female servants can enjoy them as much as they want.Among the wives, young masters, and ladies of the Yuan Mansion, some smoke opium after dinner, and some play mahjong.At around nine o'clock in the evening, I went to brothels, theaters, dance halls and other entertainment places.At 12 o'clock in the evening, I still often eat supper in southern restaurants such as Bei'anli, Xianji, and Zizhulin in the French Concession.Usually play until two or three o'clock in the middle of the night before going home to sleep one after another.People in the Yuan family went in and out of the house every day, and their clothes, hats, shoes and socks were put on and taken off by male and female servants. They only raised their arms and stretched their legs.The young master and the young lady each have a five-drawer chest for cosmetics.Perfume bottles are umbrella-shaped, human-shaped, animal-shaped, insect-shaped, and bird-shaped. There are all kinds of strange things, and most of them are French.

Qi Baishi lived a very regular life.In his later years, he rose at dawn to water the vegetable garden.Painting in the morning.Take an hour nap.After waking up, I continued to draw.Draw three or four pictures a day, no matter how big or small.There is a pair of dumbbells on his painting table, and he uses them to practice his hand strength during rest, so his wrist strength will not fade until death.After dusk no longer work, decades as a day. Before the May 4th Movement, Cao Rulin held several important positions such as the chief of transportation, the chief of finance and the prime minister of the Bank of Communications of the Beijing government.He goes to work every morning, first to the Ministry of Communications, then to the Ministry of Finance, and returns home for dinner at noon.Go to the Bank of Communications once or twice a week.Cao is from Shanghai, and he was originally born with beautiful features.Due to too many part-time jobs, he drove back and forth every day, and once collided with the car of Li Shiwei, another chief executive, in Zhao Tangzi Alley, disfiguring him and leaving scars on his face.

Hu Hanmin once described his daily life during his tenure as the President of the Legislative Council: "Have a bath at 9:30 every night, go to bed at 10:30, wake up at 3:30 in the morning, do some exercise, and have breakfast. Work and read at 5 o'clock. See, attend the meeting after 8 o'clock, go to the party headquarters, the state government or the Legislative Yuan to review documents." After Song Meiling became the first lady, her daily schedule was busy but not chaotic.She has the habit of reading, and reads various newspapers and magazines every morning, many of which are sent from abroad.Song usually likes to read history and biography books.During the lunch break, the internal staff played the gramophone, and the records were all violin solos, without songs or large-scale symphonies.All the records were selected by Song Meiling and placed in the box. The phonograph was outside the bedroom, and it stopped playing when Song opened the door after lunch break.

When Chiang Kai-shek was in Guangzhou, he closed his eyes every day after getting up, put his hands on his knees, and meditated for a quarter of an hour.In the "Daily Work and Rest Schedule" that he personally formulated, he called it "self-cultivation". When Lu Xun was teaching at Xiamen University, he wrote to Xu Guangping: "It takes about 80 steps to get to the postal agency, and another 80 steps to get to the toilet, so I always walk three or four times a day, because I have to go Xiaojie, and it is in the middle of the way, as long as you stretch out your head to take a look, it will be easy. When it gets dark, I won’t go there, and I will do things on the grass downstairs. The way of life here is so loose... ..." Later, Lu Xun even avoided "getting trouble on the grass." In another letter to Xu Guangping, he said: "But when it gets dark, I won't walk on the grass, and I won't even take a nap at night." When I went upstairs, I used porcelain spit pots, and when there was no one in the middle of the night, I poured it from the window. Although this is close to a rogue, but the school’s equipment is so imperfect, I can only do this.”

During the Anti-Japanese War, Lao She once lived in Beibei, Chongqing.He does Tai Chi every morning.I write in the morning, write for a while and play for a while. I have played five levels with playing cards, and sometimes I have played a hundred with dominoes.Play for a while and write for a while.Take an hour nap after lunch.In the afternoon and evening, I read books and meet friends, and rarely write. After the Seventh Gentleman was arrested, he was locked up in the detention branch of the Suzhou High Court, and his life was not difficult.They get up at seven or eight in the morning, wash up and run around the patio in front of the house.Li Gongpu can run 50 laps, Zhang Naiqi can run 25 laps, Wang Zaoshi and Zou Taofen can run 20 laps, Sha Qianli can run 17 laps, Shen Junru is the oldest and can also run seven or eight laps.After running, Shen Junru did Taijiquan, Zhang Naiqi did Xingyiquan, and the others did gymnastics.After breakfast, each went to work.Wang Zaoshi translated books, Zhang Naiqi and Zou Taofen wrote essays, Shen Junru and Li Gongpu wrote calligraphy, and Sha Qianli learned Japanese.After lunch, take a short break and continue working.After dinner, some read books, some played chess, and some chatted.There was laughter from time to time in the cell. In 1914, after Zhang Yuanji moved to Jisfell Road, he got up before dawn every day, and first boiled a pot of water on the gas stove in the bathroom to wash his face.After washing up, I started to work, turned on the lights, crouched on the table to review official documents, write letters, and look up information.After dawn, turn off the lights, open the blinds, and continue to work.Breakfast at 7:30, a big bowl of meat noodles, sprinkled with chopped green onions.After dinner, he packed his briefcase and went to work in a carriage.Before leaving, take two newspapers of the day and read them on the road. Yang Hucheng served as Chairman of Shaanxi Province in 1930.After getting up every morning, he first went to the Xincheng playground to watch the exercises, and then went to the Xincheng building to work, listened to the secretary reading telegrams, reading newspapers and telling the secretary what he had to deal with, and then went to the reception room to receive visitors.Questions raised by visitors are handled at any time. Lunch is served at 11 o'clock. If the visitor has not finished talking, we will eat together and talk while eating.The meals are generally rice soup, steamed buns, four dishes: two meat and two vegetables, plus a hot pot in winter.Go out after dinner, inspect factories, schools, hospitals and other places, and sometimes go to see cultural relics and historic sites.For dinner, I either go to a friend's house, or invite friends to eat at home, mostly pasta.Meeting guests at night, chatting with friends, scholars, subordinates, bureaucrats and politicians, etc., talking about the sea and the sky, regardless of the size. Calligrapher Deng Sanmu wrote down such a "self-study" in his diary when he was 42 years old: "In the morning: visit the pond at six, write books at seven, print at nine, and study at eleven. Afternoon: seal at one, write at three, and write at seven. I drink at times and read at nine. On Saturdays (Sundays) afternoons, I am free to meet customers, and I don’t see them during working hours.” Deng likes wine, so he included drinking in his work schedule. When Zhang Jiluan presided over the "Ta Kung Pao", he went to the newspaper office every afternoon, usually to meet guests or watch Kunqu Opera.At night, after the important news has been generally understood, the editorial is written or revised. Xiong Shili gets up at 4 o'clock in the morning every day and starts reading and writing. He doesn't rest at noon and just sits quietly with his eyes closed for a while.There is a note on his desk: "Speak no longer than three minutes." Liu Yunruo was a novelist as famous as Zhang Henshui back then.He spends most of his time in Tianjin's small smoking dens every day. After he has had enough of smoking, he gets up and asks for a piece of toilet paper, and writes in teeny lowercase letters by the lamp.The newspaper office sent someone to sit in the opium hall and wait for the manuscript to be collected. After he finished writing a page, he handed it over to the newspaper office staff, took it back and sorted it out, always just filling up the reserved space. Xiao Hong described a day in Lu Xun's later years in the article "Recalling Mr. Lu Xun": "Mr. Lu Xun will accompany the guests from two or three o'clock in the afternoon until five o'clock and until six o'clock. It is necessary to drink tea together again, or just leave after drinking tea, or another guest comes before leaving, so I stay with you again, until eight o'clock, ten o'clock, often until twelve o'clock, from noon From two or three o'clock to twelve o'clock at night, for such a long time, Mr. Lu Xun sat on the rattan reclining chair, smoking continuously. When the guests left, it was already midnight, and it was already time to sleep , but Mr. Lu Xun was about to start work. Before work, he closed his eyes a little, lit a cigarette, and lay on the edge of the bed. He fell asleep. Hai Ying fell asleep with the nanny on the third floor at this time. The whole building fell silent, and there was no sound outside the window. Mr. Lu Xun stood up, sat at the desk, and began to write articles under the green desk lamp Mr. Lu Xun fell asleep when everyone woke up." When Zheng Xiaoxu was living in Shanghai, he got up at dawn every day, calling himself "the old man who gets up at night".After getting up, I took a walk in the garden, and then I entered the room and faced the pool.Soon the guests came in droves. In the 1930s, when Hu Shi was the dean of literature at Peking University, he got up at 7 o'clock every day and went to work at Peking University at 7:40.Go home for lunch at noon.At 1:40 p.m., go to work on the Board of Directors of the China Education Fund.Dinner is eaten outside. Go home at 11.When I got home, I went to the study to write and read, and didn't go to bed until two o'clock in the morning the next day.Hu Shi sleeps five hours a night and one hour in the afternoon.He said: "It is a superstition to sleep eight hours a day. Napoleon only slept six hours a day." On Sundays, Hu Shi receives guests at home from 8:00 am to 12:00 pm, does not have guests in the afternoon, works at home, and eats dinner outside. Go home at 11. In 1929, Lu Xun said: "Lying on my back - smoking - writing articles are indeed the three things I do every day." Scholar Chen Xujing has taught in Nankai and other colleges and universities for many years, and is also in charge of school affairs.He gets up at 4 a.m. every day to write, and goes to work with his briefcase in his hands after dawn.A large number of his writings were completed during the time before dawn. In the early period of the Republic of China, Tsinghua University had strict requirements on the work and rest time of students. The April 1927 issue of "Tsinghua Weekly" introduced this in detail.Students wake up at 7:00 every day, have breakfast at 7:30, and start their first class at 8:00.There are 4 classes in the morning, with a 10-minute break between classes, and calisthenics at 9:55. Lunch at 12 o'clock.After dinner, I usually read newspapers in the library.Classes are held from 1pm to 4pm. As soon as 4:00 came, the trumpet was blown five times (later it was changed to eight bells), the library and dormitories were closed, and students had to go to the playground or gymnasium for "compulsory exercise". After finishing, they had to take a bath and have dinner.Free at leisure after dinner.7:30pm to 10:30pm for self-study. Retire at 10:50, lights out at 11. When the painter Tang Dingzhi lived in Shanghai, he got up at 6 o'clock every day, washed up, had breakfast, and began to create. Lunch at 12 o'clock, take a nap after the meal, stop painting after the lunch break, but look at the paintings, saying: "Viewing paintings in the afternoon is a good preparation for painting before noon tomorrow." Then go out to visit friends, or drink tea at Xinya teahouse on Nanjing Road .Xinya Tea Room is a place where literati gather, and it is full of friends every day, no appointment required.Chinese and foreign, ancient and modern, have been chatting until the sun sets.Sometimes I buy some Xinya char siew buns to take home.Go to bed at 9:00 p.m. on time.When Tang lived in Beijing, he also maintained this kind of living condition, except that the tea place in the afternoon was changed from Xinya Tea Room to Zhongshan Park or Beihai Park. Painter Shen Xinhai never sleeps in. He wakes up early every morning, enjoys the flowers and trees for an hour or two, and then eats and treats his affairs.Never write after dusk.Zheng Yimei said: "His behavior coincides with the way of hygiene."