Chapter 14 13.reunion

The owner of Ruifuxiang, Meng Lianghou, was from Shandong. When Zhang Zongchang was governor of Lu, Meng returned to his hometown to visit the grave.Later when Zhang Zongchang went to Beijing, Meng Lianghou reciprocated and entertained him with a feast at Zhigong Guild. Famous actors such as Yang Xiaolou and Mei Lanfang were invited to sing in the hall, and leading figures such as Pan Fu and Jiang Chaozong were invited to accompany him.It is said that the cost of this banquet is no less than the property of ordinary middle-aged people, and it took months to prepare for it.And Zhang Zongchang just "listened to a good show and ate a few famous dishes", and left in a hurry.

At the turn of autumn and winter in 1929, Lu Zuofu called a grand dinner party in Beibeixia Defense Bureau, Chongqing.Most of the people who came to the banquet were some local celebrities, the so-called "educated little bourgeoisie", and the food was also very particular.But the way of eating is very special.There are no seats in the restaurant, and the guests are all standing at the table. Starting from Lu Zuofu, everyone sticks to the dogma of "eat without talking" when they lift their chopsticks. There is only a burst of clattering. In less than ten minutes, this grand dinner party will be completed. end.Afterwards, someone asked Lu Zuofu in surprise, why did he regard the dinner party as a war?Lu replied: People have to work intensely and eat their meals slowly. There is no reason to say that it is only to form a habit of slack, so we have to reform it.

After the warlord Chen Tiaoyuan's military power was sidelined, he became the president of the Military Senate of the Nanjing Government.He must have a table of banquets every day to entertain the old robes and staff who are at home.During the Anti-Japanese War, he was still like this in Chongqing.Chen's wife asks the kitchen to prepare another good dish for him every day, and Chen must share it with the guests, never eating it alone.Later, as the price of food rose day by day, the guests advised him to eat at the back instead of coming out to entertain.Chen's nostalgia can be seen here.

In 1926, Wu Xinghan organized a 1911 Revolution Comrades Club in his apartment at No. 1 Mingdeli, Huanlong Road, Shanghai French Concession, where he often met.At a banquet, Ma Yuying, who stayed at Wu's house, found that most of the guests were neatly dressed in suits, but Juzheng, who arrived late, looked like a villager in ragged clothes.Ma Dunsheng respected this attire, and after Xi left, he said to Wu: "Ju Zhengzhen is worthy of being a veteran of the revolution, and his life is so hard and simple." Wu listened and smiled: "Juesheng (Ju Zheng) is the best at pretending If you are poor, don’t believe him. If you don’t believe it, look at how comfortable the house he built in Wusong is. He deducted all the revolutionary activity fees and pensions for revolutionary martyrs that Mr. Sun gave him, and used it to repair his own house."

During the Anti-Japanese War, Fu Lei lived in seclusion in Shanghai and organized biweekly tea parties with more than ten friends.The participants were all intellectuals, including Qian Zhongshu and his wife, Li Pingxin, Chen Xihe, Zhou Mengbai, etc.Everyone took turns giving lectures on cultural or scientific topics, while discussing the current situation.Fu Lei himself talked about French literature; Dr. Zhu Binsheng talked about whether Pushkin's gunshot wound can be cured; Song Qi talked about the cuckoo problem in British poetry; Lei Yuan talked about the introduction to the theory of relativity; Research on red studies; Wu Ziang talked about modern architecture...

Qi Xiemin was a politician with a background in newspapers. During the Anti-Japanese War, he lived in the French Concession in Tianjin and spent time with "a group of so-called retired gentry in Tianjin, warlords in the field, descendants of famous people, and bank tycoons, etc., drinking and eating".They organized a "Twenty-Five Dinner Party" (meeting every Tuesday and Friday), and they took turns sitting at their home. The Tianjin Hongshang Branch was established in the early years of the Republic of China and was composed of some powerful but idle compradors.To join this organization, two conditions must be met: 1. Not an upstart; 2. Personal assets of more than one million.The branch office was located at the border between the Japanese Concession and the Chinese border, which belonged to the "three no-regards" zone, which was convenient for members to eat, drink, prostitute, gamble and smoke.There are about 50 members of the branch office, and they gather at the "office" at around 6 o'clock every evening to have fun.

The Hongshang branch does not have an accounting room, the person in charge is named Yu Laoba, and there are more than ten employees.Gambling in the establishment does not require cash, because the old eighth generation is responsible for keeping accounts, and it is liquidated afterwards.There are Chinese and Western food and dim sum department in the branch office, as well as famous wine and dishes.If someone meets a festive event, they will call Yihecheng, Juhecheng, Quanjude, Huifanglou (Muslim) and other restaurants to hold a banquet.Members can also bring relatives and friends to play, but the identity of the guests must be strictly controlled, and poor boys cannot enter.

One night in November 1922, Zhang Yinghua, Director of Salt Affairs of the Beiyang Government, held a family banquet in Xiaofangjia Hutong. Speaker Wu Jinglian and others are present.Wu and Wang were smoking opium on the couch. When they saw Sun Danlin coming in, they raised their guns to let Sun, because Sun Ci didn't know how to smoke.Afterwards, everyone sat down to play cards, and Sun was invited to join in. Sun still resigned because he didn't know how to gamble.Wu Jinglian said mockingly: "President Sun can neither smoke nor play cards. He is really a good man. No wonder he has the title of good man cabinet now."

In the autumn of 1917, after the Department of Research withdrew from Duan Qirui's cabinet, it decided to send Tang Hualong and Lin Changmin to Japan and the United States for investigation.Before leaving, Tang Hualong hosted a banquet for more than 30 dignitaries from the research department in Beijing at Toutiao’s private residence in Shibanfang Hutong.During the banquet, Tian Junfeng drank the Fenjiu Liang Sianji brought from Taiyuan, and overdosed, and died of drunkenness on Tang's sofa.Tang stamped his feet and cried, extremely sad.Unexpectedly, just as the inspection was coming to an end, Tang was shot dead by a barber at a banquet held by local overseas Chinese while waiting for a ship to return to China in Vancouver, and died as a guest in a foreign country.

After Zhang Xueliang changed his banner, He Qigong became the mayor of Beiping.One day when he had a banquet at home, he forced scholar Fu Zengxiang to drink, and if he didn't drink, he was punished for telling a joke.Fu made up a paragraph on the spur of the moment: "When I was studying in a private school when I was a child, there was a senior who couldn't understand his studies and was good at writing. He never left his mouth. On the eve of his wedding, my classmates and I sneaked to his window Listening to the room, there is no sound for a long time. Everyone is exhausted and is about to disperse. Suddenly, the bridegroom let out a long sigh and asked the bride: "How Gong (communicating fear) is it?""

On May 23, 1936, the Guangzhou Branch of Jincheng Bank opened.Zhou Zuomin, general manager of Jincheng Bank, came specially from Shanghai to preside over the opening ceremony.There were many congratulatory guests that day, and in the evening Zhou Zuomin led his colleagues to have a banquet at Nanyuan Restaurant in Guangzhou.Someone recorded: "The dishes are rich, including bird's nest, shark's fin, and roasted small pigs. The wine is prepared both at home and abroad, especially Moutai. You can eat it all. Orange juice is like running water, and everything is for customers to drink. It costs a lot overnight. "Zhou Zuomin entertained important guests in the middle hall, with Luo Wenqian, Liang Shiyi's son Liang Dingji, Guangdong Finance Department Director Qu Fangpu, etc.During the meeting, Luo Wenqian said: "I have two good friends in the banking industry, one is public authority and the other is Zhou Zuomin, but they both suffer from a common disease-fear of his wife." After hearing this, everyone laughed, and Zhou opened his five fingers to swear : "Whoever is afraid of his wife is a bastard." After the Xi'an Incident, Chiang Kai-shek went to the West Lake Villa in Hangzhou to recuperate because he fell over the wall and injured his thoracic spine.Dr. Huang from the Electrotherapy Department of Nanjing Central Hospital once went to treat him for a course of treatment, and Jiang's condition improved greatly.One morning, Jiang said to Huang in dialect: "Medical Officer Huang, Yifu talked to me, and I know that Ning is pretty good-looking. Please have dinner today, and go to the 'louwailou' to eat sweet and sour pork, how about it?" At noon Before, Huang Renlin, the head of the inspirational club, recruited all the doctors to the building outside the building, and Jiang himself went there by car.The doctors originally thought that the host and the guests would sit at the same table, but they didn't know that Jiang's guards had already reserved a special room for Jiang, and the doctors had dinner together alone. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Dai Li went to Beiping and had a banquet at the home of Huang Nanpeng, the commander of the puppet military police.After the meal, he announced that all the traitors at the banquet would be arrested according to the order of the central government. One day in the summer of 1933, Chen Binhe entertained guests at the New Asia Hotel, entertaining the German female writer Kobel.Hu Feng was invited to the banquet and said: "This is the first time in my life that I have entered an air-conditioned room." In the spring of 1938, Guo Moruo went to Changsha to visit Tian Han, and Tian invited Guo to dinner, accompanied by several people.Guo Moruo was drunk, and when he was drunk, his poems and books flourished for a while, and he wrote a poem with his pen and cursive.The waiter sighed at the side: "Who is this gentleman? You don't need to type a manuscript to write a poem, just pick up a pen and dance around, just like we sweep the floor." After the war, the writer Li Jianwu was entrusted by Zheng Zhenduo to publish the magazine "Renaissance" in Shanghai.Later, inflation and prices took off, and the magazine faced difficulties.Zheng Zhenduo invited editors and authors to have a full meal of Fujian cuisine in Temple Lane. Guo Moruo, Mao Dun, Ba Jin, Cao Yu, Qian Zhongshu, Jin Yi, Ai Wu, Xin Di, Tang Tao, etc. came to the banquet.Except that Lu Xun passed away and Lao She went to the United States, four of the "Lu Guomao and Ba Laocao" in the history of modern literature were present.During the meeting, Guo Moruo said to Zheng Zhenduo: "If you don't pay the manuscript fee, we will also write manuscripts for you." On the afternoon of May 4, 1919, Shen Yinmo, a professor at Peking University, was extremely bored, so he invited some friends to drink tea at the upper lake of Huixian Hall in Shichahai.He said to his friends, we are taking a break here, and something big might happen at this moment, and he also impromptu composed a song "Mulan Flower Poetry": 〖In Huixian Hall, sit and chant and watch.High willows and low lotus, the wind to relieve anger comes late.Snack on an ice plate, old things must be remembered when you meet each other.In the time of flowing water, it is impossible for idlers to be busy. 〗 On Double Tenth Day in 1925, Sun Fuyuan entertained guests at a western restaurant in Dashilan, Beijing, and thanked the author of the supplement of "Beijing News".There is a large long table in a restaurant, full of people sitting face to face, each with a name tag on their seat.At the banquet, Qian Xuantong kept joking with two young men, Li Boxuan and Chen Xuezhao, a man and a woman, neither of them knew how to respond. On the night of Qixi Festival in 1922, Zhao Mianyun invited five or six people, including Zheng Yimei, Fan Yanqiao, and Gu Mingdao, to Suzhou Lingering Garden Hanbi Villa for a chat. Everyone thought this kind of gathering was very interesting, so they discussed forming a society.Fan Yanqiao said that tonight is the time when two stars cross the river, so it can be called "Star Club".The star club meets irregularly, and what they talk about is nothing but literature and art.Later, people continued to join, and ten years later, it happened to be 36 people - the number of Tiangang.Their gatherings are mainly tea parties, and the snacks are all homemade. There are also two or three large-scale dinners in a year. During the period of the Republic of China, young masters in Suzhou who had no worries about food and clothing, had nothing to do every day and often went to teahouses.The teahouse gradually became a club where they chatted. Zheng Yimei later recalled: "The materials they talked about include the following: 1. gambling scriptures; Fifth, to satirize society... All world trends, national plans, unemployment panic, economic oppression, these are beyond the scope of the conversation, they are absolutely unwilling to discuss them.” When Zhang Henshui was working as a reporter in Nanjing, there was a gathering circle, all of them were colleagues, about 20 to 30 people, ranging in age from teens to forties.The circle gathers every day, and the participants may be three or four, or seven or eight people. As Jin Shengtan said: "There are very few days after all, it is not very windy and rainy, and there are few days that never come." The meeting place is not fixed. , Confucian Temple song field or restaurant, photo studio owner Wang Jianrong's home, doctor Ye Guhong's home, Xinjiekou Restaurant, Nanjing People's Daily or Hua Bao on Zhongzheng Road, Lvxiang Garden in the central shopping mall, etc.Most of the parties are guests and hosts, and whoever is happy will pay for it.When gathering in a restaurant, drinking is unavoidable, and occasionally there will be a big one, such as kicking over the table, throwing a temper tantrum at the singing girl and so on.Gatherings other than drinking are sometimes drinking tea, sometimes going to the bookstore to listen to the drums, sometimes going boating on Mochou Lake, and sometimes playing mahjong.Ten years later, Zhang Henshui sighed when recalling the past in Chongqing: "Some of these friends are dead, some don't know the news, and some are too poor to survive." Zhang Yihe said: "Shang Xiaoyun makes many friends, so he also has a lot of dinners. He and Mei Lanfang, Cheng Yanqiu, Xun Huisheng and other friends always have two or three regular gatherings every month, and each pays for it. , which is the current AA system. Their gatherings are not just for eating and drinking. These big actors and famous artists often discuss piano, chess, calligraphy and painting together, learn about skills, and pass on news. The venue is mostly at the Taifenglou restaurant outside the front door, and sometimes at Zhushikou Fengzeyuan Restaurant in Meishi Street and Zhimeizhai Restaurant in Meishi Street." In the early years of the Republic of China, Qu Yingguang used to be the governor of Zhejiang Province. Whenever someone invited him to a banquet, he would reply like this: "My brother never eats, and today he will not eat." On January 8, 1931, Pu Jiangqing invited some academic friends to dinner in the west living room of Tsinghua University's Gongzi Hall.Those who came were Gu Sui, Zhao Wanli, Yu Pingbo, Ye Shisun, Qian Daosun, Ye Gongchao, Bi Shutang, Zhu Ziqing, Liu Tingfan and others.Pu Jiangqing wrote in his diary that day: "The multi-talented lyricists at the banquet, the talk turned from ci to Kunqu opera, and Pihuang, to new dramas, to new literature. Mr. Qian was a little drunk and very happy. After the guests left, Mr. Qian I stayed with Fei Yun in the west living room to talk, and after the lights were turned off, candles were held. Fei Yun stayed in the west living room, and I went back to my room to sleep." When Zhang Yuanji was the manager of the Shanghai Commercial Press, there was an unwritten rule for gatherings: If you treat guests in the name of business, you should go to a restaurant outside.Celebrities are often invited to big restaurants such as Xinghualou (Cantonese cuisine), Xiaoyoutian (Fujian cuisine), and Duoyi (Sichuan cuisine), and the expenses are borne by the business; if they are acquaintances or colleagues, they often hold banquets at home, and the expenses are at their own expense.Every New Year, Zhang would invite his business colleagues to his home for a New Year's wine. Due to the large number of people and the narrow space, it took several days to go round.Zhang treats guests to Western food. The cook at home is Renqing, who is good at cooking Western food.At this time, the children of Zhang's family made an agreement with Renqing to set aside a portion of each dish, so that they would also enjoy it.Zhang’s menu is roughly as follows: the first vegetable and beef soup; the second fish, often fried yellow croaker pieces, with British spicy soy sauce; the third shrimp bread, chopped shrimp, spread on the bread, and fry in a pan Yellow; the last main course, grilled chicken or steak, with two or three vegetables.Dessert, fruit, and coffee are served at the end. After the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, Zhang Yuanji often invited some friends to his home to talk about the current situation. At first, there were six or seven people including Ye Jingkui, Wen Zongyao, Yan Huiqing, Huang Yanpei, and some snacks were served at home.Afterwards, the number of participants gradually increased, and it became a regular dinner party, and the venue was chosen at the Pudong Association on Ai Duo Ya Road.Participants expanded to include celebrities in the cultural, industrial, diplomatic, and financial circles, who took turns to be hosts, once every two weeks, and one more time if necessary, and became the famous biweekly dinner party on the isolated island.Military generals such as Chen Mingshu and Jiang Guangnai were also invited to attend.Later, the dinner party was changed to the YMCA on Mintini Yam Road.When Zhang Yuanji was the host, he kept a bill. He ate western food, one star anise, one soup, two dishes, and a little. It was very rich.A few of the party participants, such as Zhao Shuyong, Wen Zongyao, and Chen Jintao, later became traitors.The dinner party ended without a problem. During the isolated island period, Zhang Yuanji even organized a party.There were only five people left with Zhang who participated in the provincial examination together and lived in Shanghai.There is also Lu Tijun who lives in Haiyan. In the spring of 1939, when Lu arrived in Shanghai, Zhang Yuanji took the opportunity to invite the other four people to his home.The five guests were all in their seventies and were accompanied by their family members. The banquet was organized by the kitchen of Xinhua Bank.Needless to say, what was discussed during the meeting was inseparable from the past decades ago. During the period of the Republic of China, Zhongshan Park was referred to as a park for short, and there were many teahouses in it, where literati gathered and chatted, such as Jinyu Pavilion, Changmei Pavilion, and Chunming Pavilion.Most of Yuxuan is patronized by foreign figures; Ma Xulun, Fu Sinian, Qian Xuantong, Hu Shi, etc. are regular customers of Changmeixuan; Chunming Pavilion is mostly patronized by old-school figures, Meng Wentong, Qian Mu, and Tang Yongtong often join a table in Chunming Pavilion .Lin Sun also often came to Chunming Pavilion. When scholar Tan Qixiang was young, he was pulled by Lin to sit down and chat in Chunming Pavilion. Lin’s spoken language was in classical Chinese. In 1943, 20 literary and artistic celebrities who belonged to the horse in Shanghai celebrated their 50th birthday together.It is referred to as the Jockey Club, also known as the Chitose Club.The horse head is the painter Zheng Wuchang, who was born on the tenth day of the first lunar month; the horse tail is Yang Qingxin, who was born in the twelfth lunar month.In addition, there are Wu Hufan, Mei Lanfang, Zhou Xinfang, Wang Yachen, Fan Yanqiao and so on.During the "isolated island" period, they met at a birthday party and vowed not to serve the invaders. Liu Bannong, a professor at Peking University, said: "Even if you are a mere boy, you are a 'narrow man' (a mocking term compared to a 'rich man'), but sometimes you can have more than ten dinners in a week." After Lu Xun settled in Shanghai, Zhang Xichen, the owner of Kaiming Bookstore, once invited Lu Xun to have dinner at Gonglechun.Accompanying guests were Jiang Shaoyuan and his wife, Ye Shengtao, Hu Yuzhi, Zhou Jianren, Fan Zhongyun, Zhao Jingshen and others.During the meeting, Zhao Jingshen talked about a stand-up comedy "A Man Who Forgot the Words", to the effect that a certain actor had to babble because he forgot the words.After hearing this, Lu Xun said that nowadays people talk in a "chattering" way. At the end of the 1920s, the Crescent School held gatherings once or twice a week, with two tables each time. The participants included Hu Shi, Xu Zhimo, Yu Shangyuan, Ding Xilin, Pan Guangdan, Liu Yingshi, Luo Longji, Wen Yiduo, Liang Shiqiu, and Ye Gongchao. , Rao Zili, Zhang Zikai and Zhang Yujiu.As soon as Xu Zhimo arrived, everyone was overjoyed, because Xu never talked about literature at the banquet, but only talked about eating, drinking and having fun. In 1930, when Yang Zhensheng was the president of Qingdao University, he felt that Qingdao had scenery but no culture, so he organized a gathering for professors to drink and talk every Monday. The venue was Shunxing Building or Houdefu. The participants were Yang Zhensheng, Liang Shiqiu, Wen Yiduo, Zhao Taimo, Chen Jichao, Liu Kangfu, Deng Zhongcun and other seven people, later Wen Yiduo proposed to invite Fang Lingru to join them to make up the number of Eight Immortals in the wine. In 1920, Yang Liaogong was the host and invited Yao Yuchu, Zhu Yuanchu, Cheng Shewo, Wu Yugong, Xu Shoudie, Wen Yehe, Ping Jinya and others to drink at Xiaoyoutian Restaurant in Shanghai.During the banquet, a bureau was called, and the famous prostitute "Lin Daiyu" was recruited. Lin liked to eat flower rolls made of foreign flour, so Yang wrote a poem bell with the title of "foreign flour" and "Lin Daiyu".Zhu Yuanchu is the most creative and thoughtful, and she uttered a sentence: "The fragrance of butterflies comes to Haiguo, and the dream of mandarin ducks complains coldly to Xiaoxiang." During the chat, Liu Bannong drifted in. He went to Shanghai before going abroad, and was next door to Zhonghua Bookstore. of.After Liu entered the table, Zhu Yuanchu said: "Now they're, what, what, what', they have changed their careers, and they are different from us. Let's go down with mandarin ducks and butterflies." Liu Bannong said: "I don't understand why the people Since the beginning, novelists have loved to use characters such as 鸭蝶 as their pen names? Since Chen Diexian started, Xu Shoudie, Yao Yuchu, Zhu Yuanchu, Wen Yehe, Zhou Shoujuan, etc. have followed, always rolling among birds and insects. It's the trend of fashion." After that, Liu Bannong went abroad and left, but the "Mandarin Duck and Butterfly School" spread.Many years later, when Yao Yuchu met Liu Bannong, he said: "It's all caused by Xiao Youtian's banquet, you are the instigator!" Said: "It's unforeseen. Maybe in the future, those who compile the history of literature will regard 'Mandarin Duck and Butterfly' as the same as Tongcheng and the police." The day before the Xi'an Incident, Jiang Baili was ordered to fly to Xi'an and stayed at the Xijing Guest House.Attending the public banquet of Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng that night, Jiang Zuobin, Chen Cheng, Wei Lihuang, Jiang Dingwen, Zhu Shaoliang, Chen Tiaoyuan, Shao Yuanchong, Shao Lizi and other senior officials were present at the same table.A few hours after the meeting, the Xi'an Incident occurred, and Jiang Baili and others were detained by Zhang Yang.Jiang joked: "Yesterday I was a guest, but now I am a prisoner." Two weeks later, Jiang and others were released, and Yang Hucheng bid them farewell at the Appeasement Office. Tian Han is informal.When others invite him to dinner, he often brings seven or eight strangers to the banquet; if he invites others to dinner, he often does not bring money or does not have enough money.Regardless of whether he is the host or someone else is the host, as long as he participates, there will be embarrassing situations in all likelihood.When he treats guests, more than half of the meal slips away to the bathroom with an excuse and leaves a table of guests in the restaurant. In the end, everyone shares the money and pays the bill. It also happens from time to time. During the isolated island period, Xu Zhucheng and others edited "Wen Wei Po" in Shanghai, and were threatened by various enemy and puppet groups.One can imagine the hardships of running a newspaper.They have fun in bitterness, and get together every two or three weeks.At that time, those who have a family will cook a special dish from their hometown and bring it, while the young people who have no family will chip in to buy some cooked food such as duck wings and noodles.After the final sample is finished, the table will be stacked up and the food and wine will be served in a circle.It is said that each dish has strong hometown characteristics, and any big restaurant in Shanghai may not be able to make it.The employees are all young and middle-aged in their thirties. After three glasses of wine, some of them will sing Beijing opera and Kunqu opera.After drinking and eating, everyone supported each other and staggered to the Dafang Hotel for the night. In the late period of the Anti-Japanese War, Wang Yaowu was stationed in western Hunan, and his mansion was in Guilin.Once, he hosted a family dinner for several major editors of Ta Kung Pao.The banquet is extremely elegant, with silver-inlaid ivory chopsticks, fine porcelain dishes and bowls, and the waiters at the side are all "servants" in white clothes.During the meeting, Wang Chang was "not ashamed to ask": "According to the rules of Hong Kong, do you want to give a towel handle now?" official.Wang Guoren was sent to take over Shandong in 1945 and became the chairman of Shandong Province.But a few years later, he became a prisoner of the People's Liberation Army. When Hu Shi was the principal of a Chinese public school, there was a period when he often invited a group of friends to his home for gatherings every weekend.Once Xu Zhimo brought a hardcover German erotic book with pictures and texts, and everyone rushed to read it.Hu Shi commented: These things are so obvious that they are not interesting enough.I have seen a painting, but I don’t remember who made it, a bed with a hibiscus curtain hanging down, a pair of men’s shoes on the ground, a pair of red embroidered shoes, and a cat squatting in front of the bed looking up at the hook.It's a bit reserved. In November 1924, the magazine "Yusi" was first published. After publishing more than ten issues, a relatively fixed circle of authors gradually formed.They meet once a month at the end of each month, ranging from one or two tables each time.Major authors such as Lu Xun and Ms. Gan never attended gatherings. Zhou Zuoren, Qian Xuantong, Jiang Shaoyuan, Lin Yutang, Wang Pinqing, Zhang Yiping, Wu Shutian, Sun Fuyuan, Li Xiaofeng, Gu Jiegang, Lin Lan, Zhang Chuandao, etc., almost always attended, Later, Zhang Fengju, Xu Yaochen, Yu Pingbo, Liu Bannong also came every time, and sometimes even his wife invited them together, the situation was close to a party.During the meeting, they talked about everything from ancient and modern China to foreign countries.It is said that Qian Xuantong is the most eloquent. In the 1930s, Tang Tao was still a literary youth who went to Shanghai to explore the world. His essays were deeply influenced by Lu Xun's writing style.Once he went to Gu Yixuan restaurant on Sanma Road to attend a gathering of Li Liewen and Zhang Luo, the editor-in-chief of "Shenzhen Free Talk". Lu Xun, A Ying, Yu Dafu, Cao Juren, Xu Maoyong, Hu Feng, Lin Yutang, etc. all came to attend.This was the first time Lu Xun and Tang Tao met. Lu Xun smiled at Tang and said, "You write articles, and I will take the scolding for you." He also said, "My surname is Tang once." On the evening of November 8, 1935, Smedley took a taxi to pick up Mao Dun and then Lu Xun, and they went to the Soviet Union Consulate General to attend a private reception.According to Mao Dun’s recollection, the taxi drove to the road across the street from the Soviet Consulate General, and the three people got out of the car and transferred to a black car belonging to the consulate to enter the courtyard through the back door. "Some guests have already arrived in the hall of the Consulate General, including Song Qingling and He Xiangning, and some foreign friends, including a couple who just came from Australia. There is a large dining table in the center of the hall, which is full of cold dishes, snacks, caviar and All kinds of drinks, sofas are placed around the hall, everyone sits or stands talking casually, if you want to drink or eat snacks, you can do it yourself, the atmosphere is cheerful and harmonious. After the reception, a movie was shown." After the reception, Lu Xun and Mao Dun still They were sent home by Smedley. On the way, Smedley told them that this kind of gathering was called a cocktail party. In the early 1930s, some people in the Shanghai cultural circle organized a one-week dinner party. There were about eleven or two participants, including Zheng Zhenduo, Mao Dun, Fu Donghua, Ye Shengtao, Hu Yuzhi, Xia Mianzun, Xu Tiaofu, Chen Wangdao, Wang Boxiang, etc. .Get together once a week, take turns to be the host, each person will give one yuan each time, and the host will give two yuan.The total amount was more than ten yuan, which was enough to hold a decent banquet back then, so they chose famous restaurants in Shanghai and ate there one by one in turn.We are all acquaintances, besides eating, of course, we can also chat freely, which is also one of the fun. After Lu Xun's death, some young writers gathered around Mao Dun, and Mao Dun had the idea of ​​inviting them to meet and exchange ideas.Taking into account the economic situation of the young people, he made a slight improvement to the method of the weekly dinner meeting in those years: "First, not once a week, but once every two weeks; second, do not take turns as the host, and I will be the host regularly; 3. Using Sa Lan’s method, draw a clump of bluegrass according to the number of people at the dinner party, and mark the amount of money at the root, usually four, five, or six cents, so that most people will get four or five cents. This method is more lively; Small and medium-sized restaurants cost six or seven yuan per table, so naturally you can’t take turns to taste the delicacies of Shanghai’s famous restaurants.” Writers who participated in this dinner party included Wang Tongzhao, Zhang Tianyi, Sha Ting, Ai Wu, Chen Baichen, Wang Renshu, Jiang Muliang, Duanmuhong Good and so on.There is no pre-determined topic of conversation at the party, "Everyone can chat freely, from the political situation at home and abroad, the trend of the literary world, the trend of literary thought, personal knowledge, and even a new work of a certain writer present, you can talk about it." Once a week, but fixed on Monday, so Mao Dun named it "Moon Yaohui". On the 80th birthday of painter Chen Shiyi, Zhang Taiyan, Li Bake, Huang Qiuyue, Maoheting, Jin Songcen, Long Yusheng, Zhang Mojun, Fan Yanqiao and others gathered at Rouge Bridge in Suzhou to celebrate Chen Shiyi's birthday.Peng Helian, one of the congratulators, saw this and wrote a poem: "I dare not sing here, and all the celebrities are here." Wu Mei recorded a grand meeting he experienced in "Yuanhu Records": "Bingzi Qixi Festival, colleagues from Xiaoshe and He Zhongyiqingshe, gentlemen, will meet in the Yanyu Building in Nanhu Lake, and the music will last one day and one night. There are more than 70 people who come to the meeting from all over the forty, it is very prosperous, and there has been no such feat in decades." In the 1930s, some Tsinghua professors lived on campus and some lived in the city.Jin Yuelin lives in Beizongbu Hutong in the city, and he and Liang Sicheng's family are the front and back yards.He recalled: "Some friends have gatherings every Saturday, and these gatherings are held in my small courtyard. Because I was a bachelor, I ate agar vegetables at that time. In addition to hiring a cart puller, I also invited A Western-style chef. The coffee ice cream and coffee I ate at the "Saturday Meeting" were all made by my chef according to the strength I requested." "When we meet, we always ask Zhang Xiruo and Tao Menghe about Nanjing. The situation is just a personnel arrangement in Nanjing, and we are not very interested in that arrangement. Although I am in philosophy, I never talk about philosophy. I talk more about architecture, calligraphy and painting, especially landscape painting. " In August 1934, Xu Beihong and his wife traveled to Europe and returned to China after holding a touring art exhibition. Then they had a "feastful feast to wash away the dust, and there was no day and night" in Nanjing.One day when Dai Jitao was entertaining guests, Xu Beihong was asked at the banquet: "You have such an ideal wife, why did you name it Beihong?" Xu Beihong was slightly startled when he heard this, and said, "I chose this name before I met Biwei. " When Jiang Biwei worked at the Sino-French Friendship Association, due to work, she participated in a kind of friendship tea party organized by foreign wives. This party was held once a week, and the hosts took turns, mainly for small talk.Jiang Biwei said: "These foreign wives who are married to Chinese and have dual nationality often sarcasm and criticize China, which makes me very indignant. Once, the French wife of He Siyuan, then director of Shandong Education Department, came to When I attended this tea party in Nanjing, I heard those boring words, so I said to me in Mandarin: 'I really don't understand, why do they say these things?'” In January 1939, 11 people including Fang Lingru, Zong Baihua, and Jiang Biwei initiated a dinner party in Chongqing, which was fixed at Jiang Biwei's home once a week.In addition to these 11 people making a table for the host, another table of guests is invited. The guests are different every week and are distinguished by profession.For example, if you invite the literary circles, they are called "literature special accounts", and those in the archaeological circles are called "archaeological special accounts", etc.Each gathering is called an issue, and every 12 issues is a volume, and each volume has a host, called "editor-in-chief", and the editor-in-chief of the first volume is naturally Jiang Biwei.Zhang Daofan, Lao She, Jiang Menglin, Fu Baoshi, etc. were all invited as guests.Jiang Biwei said: "The guests and the host are very harmonious during the small gathering, talking and laughing happily, relaxed and happy, or discussing knowledge, or commenting on the current situation, and sometimes there are no exceptions to the characters of the moon and the moon. The benefits of eating and drinking are not just eating and drinking.” In the early years of the Republic of China, Shao Piaoping served as the special correspondent of Shenbao in Beijing.Once, he hosted a banquet for all the cabinet members, the secretary-general of the court and other dignitaries at the Beijing Hotel.He made careful arrangements in advance, prepared telegrams and newspapers in the next room, and kept two bicycles outside the door.These officials were full of enthusiasm and had nothing to shy away from, spit out a lot of important news after drinking.Shao Piaoping sent out messages at will, and all kinds of news had already reached Shanghai by telegram before the banquet was over. When Wu Hufan lived on Ladu Road in Shanghai, he would invite three or four friends over for a drink every month on a Sunday afternoon. Zheng Yimei recalled: "There are several dishes, all of which are exquisite. Let's drink and talk, and enjoy half a day." On June 1, 1927, Wang Guowei went to Tsinghua University's Gongzi Hall to attend the graduation banquet of the second class of Chinese Academy of Sciences. Later, someone described this scene: "There are four tables in the graduation banquet, and all the teachers and students gather together. There was a festive atmosphere, but the seat where Wang Guowei was seated was silent. People were used to his reticence, so no one paid special attention to it. When the banquet was over, Wang Guowei said goodbye to everyone as usual, After leaving the Gongzi hall, I walked home with Chen Yinke, and stopped by Chen Yinke's house for a chat." No one expected that the next day, Wang Guowei sank in Kunming Lake.The graduation banquet of the Chinese Academy of Sciences also became the last event that Wang Guowei participated in. In the 1920s and 1930s, Zhou Zuoren often invited friends to dinner in his apartment, usually by sending invitation letters in advance. For example, on November 19, 1935, he wrote to Xu Shoushang: "On the afternoon of the 21st, about Shiyuan, Jianshi, and Xiaoyu , Xuan and four or five old friends come to chat for a while. In the evening, they eat a light meal cooked by the cook in the country. Begging brothers to participate is not to eat, but to have a rough meal for chatting. If the weather is too early, the children at home will be arranged Therefore, I hope to come early in the afternoon, but the winter is short, so I don’t know if everyone can come.” The editor of the "Literary Quarterly" invited a guest in Beiping on January 6, 1934, in order to draw manuscripts and contact the author. Ji Xianlin, who was invited to the banquet, wrote in his diary that day: "Today's Literary Quarterly is inviting guests... Peking literary and art circles Almost all the well-known people have arrived, some are like barbers, some are like hooligans, some are like politicians, some are like criminals, some greet everyone, know people, some look up to the sky, ignore no one, in twos and threes A small group, talking enthusiastically." In the late Republic of China, Liang Sicheng and his wife lived in No. 8 Xinlinyuan, Tsinghua Garden.The Liang family drinks tea at 4:30 pm every day. Besides Liang Sicheng and his wife, Jin Yuelin, Zhang Xiruo and his wife, Zhou Peiyuan and his wife, Chen Daisun, etc. often come to tea.Lin Zhu recalled: "Mr. Jin Yuelin always arrives at Liang's house at 3:30 no matter the weather, and as soon as he arrives, he begins to read various books for Mr. Lin, most of which are English books, covering philosophy, aesthetics, urban planning, and architectural theory. and the English version of Engels' writings, etc." Li Zhun, whose name is Zhisheng, served as the admiral of the Guangdong Navy and the commander of the patrol battalion during the Xuantong period, and participated in the suppression of the Huanghuagang Uprising.In his later years, he worked as an apartment in Tianjin. At a banquet, he sat at the same table with Fang Erqian, a celebrity from Yangzhou. Fang deliberately teased Li, saying: "Today, I saw a picture album of Western women's nudes. Someone told me that the beauty of women lies in curves." Li nodded in agreement, and Fang Then he said: "It's skillful to use a curvy woman to fight against the straight rope general." The crowd laughed, and Li Zizhi knew that he was being tricked, but he had nothing to do.