Chapter 12 in one sentence

⊙Yan Xishan said to friends who supported Yuan Shikai's proclaiming emperor: "You are trying to push the president into the furnace." ⊙Ma Bufang has always maintained a semi-independent attitude, and the Jiang faction has never been able to enter Qinghai half a step. In 1943, He Yingqin sent a telegram to invite Ma Bufang to Chongqing to "discuss the affairs of the state" with the intention of motivating the teacher to question the crime.Ma Sui carried a large amount of gold and jewels and made friends with powerful and powerful family members. He Yingqin and others had a lot of questions at first, but their tone gradually eased.Ma Bufang said to his entourage: "It's better to fight openly than to fight secretly. Who can resist digging from the old nest!"

⊙Jiang Baili said: "The concept of the country has never been strong enough in the Chinese people. The central government of a country is often not strong unless it was founded a generation ago. However, defending the local area can exert greater power. Therefore, sometimes a new powerful The power of life often rises from the local (folk)." ⊙Some people commented on the gains and losses of Yuan Shikai's career in his life, thinking that he has nothing to do, "only training is his strength."Yan Fu said that Yuan Shikai had trained soldiers for decades, and he had raised some arrogant soldiers, "not only can't use them externally, but he can also be strong internally and externally."

⊙Liang Qichao said: "I respect Li Hongzhang's talent, I cherish Li Hongzhang's knowledge, and I feel sad for Li Hongzhang's encounter." ⊙Zhou Zuoren said about Huang Kan: "His Chinese studies are among the best. But his eccentricity is in direct proportion to his knowledge. Speaking of some things, it is really not flattering." ⊙Lin Shu said: "I know the reason why ancient prose should not be abolished, but I can't say why." ⊙Gu Hongming ridiculed the authorities: "China's current officials treat three things: treat the common people as bandits, treat students as prisoners, and treat subordinates as slaves."

⊙ Gu Hongming said: "A banker is someone who lends you an umbrella when the sky is sunny and takes it back when it rains." ⊙Hu Sijing said in "Guowen Beicheng": "In the last years of Guangxu, there were two shortcuts for the villain to get rich: one is the Ministry of Commerce, which is dominated by Zai Zhen; the other is Beiyang, which is dominated by Yuan Shikai." ⊙Hu Hanmin was at odds with Sun Ke. He often told people that Sun Ke had three tempers: first, he was the son of Sun Yat-sen and had a revolutionary temper; second, he grew up abroad and had a foreign temper; third, he He is an only son and has the temperament of a young master.And these tempers, sometimes one or two, sometimes three together, no one can bear.

⊙Yu Dafu said: "It turns out that prostitutes and opera singers are a kind of art. The more they can fake, the more they can deceive people, the more they can see their beauty." ⊙Du Yuesheng said: Eating is real merit, gambling is hedging, whoring is failure. ⊙Zhang Jingsheng said: "Let me ask all the living beings in this vast universe, who dares to come out and call himself a gentleman? Ask yourself, who can be worthy of the world and others? Some people are dignified and full of benevolence and morality, but they are full of male robbers and female prostitutes. Who can hide it from?"

⊙Cai Yuanpei advocates the equality of men and women. He once said publicly: "People are of the same kind, and it is appropriate not to distinguish between men and women. As for the difference between the sexes, it only exists between the beds, but it is best to find out after closing the door." ⊙ Hu Zhengzhi, one of the founders of "Ta Kung Pao", said: "When Chinese people do things, two people will have opinions when they work together, and three people will have parties when they work together." ⊙ On the Double Tenth anniversary in 1930, He Yingqin said: "The Revolution of 1911 was an empty signboard of the Republic of China. It did not actually build the Republic of China. In terms of overthrowing the Manchu Qing, it was certainly a success. The purpose of the entire revolution However, it cannot but be called a failure.”

⊙After Ding Ling disappeared, Shen Congwen once wrote to Hu Shi, judging that Ding Ling was captured by the Kuomintang.The reason is: she has no money, is not beautiful, and will not be kidnapped by ordinary people. ⊙Du Yuesheng said: Don't be afraid of being used by others. If they use you, it means that you are still useful. ⊙Huang Kan said that before reading, "you must be as if you don't know a word" before you can read.It is also said that scholars cannot "kill the head of the book", which means that they only read the beginning of the book.Every time Huang reads a book, he not only reads it from beginning to end, but also makes detailed annotations.

⊙On June 6, 1916, Yuan Shikai died of illness, and Li Yuanhong succeeded him as president.Many people applauded and celebrated, saying "the world will be peaceful from now on".Yan Fu said: "No, Huangpi (Li Yuanhong is from Huangpi, Hubei) has more than enough virtue but not enough talent." ⊙Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao promoted the reform, and many people greatly appreciated it.Only Yan Fu belittled him. He said: "Kang was too enthusiastic, and his death became a tragedy of betraying the king and selling friends, while he fled away alone. Shi Shiran pretended to be a loyal minister and a man of lofty ideals, which was shameless. Liang was more than eager to show off. , the desire to save the country is insufficient.”

⊙Du Yuesheng said: If you spend one penny, you will get the effect of ten pennies. This is a good money spender. ⊙Gu Hongming said that to evaluate a civilization, one must look at "what kind of people, what kind of men and women it can produce". ⊙Huang Kan said: "If you want to know the joy of buying a book, it is when you open the package and read it. For example, when you get married, isn't it the happiest time when you are newly married?" ⊙Lei Haizong said: "The ability of Chinese intellectuals to keep silent can rank first in the history of the world."

⊙Hu Linyi's Quotations: A country needs talents, just like fish need water, birds need forests, people need energy, and plants need soil.A talented person has nothing to ask from the world, the world should ask for it. ⊙After the Revolution of 1911, Zhu Jiabao, the governor of Anhui Province who suppressed Xiong Chengji's uprising, not only did not lose a single hair, but changed himself and became the first governor of Anhui Province.Some people commented that this kind of people are "when the Qing court is here, they wag their tails and become slaves; ⊙Tan Yankai is famous in the Kuomintang for his smooth handling and exquisite appearance. He is known as "Licorice in Medicine" and "Prime Minister with Food".Song Ziwen disagreed with Chiang Kai-shek's pursuit of his sister Song Meiling. Tan was entrusted by Jiang to persuade Song: "You should not take too much care of your children's marriage, let alone the eldest sister, it is sad and true." Soong Ziwen had to obey.

⊙ Hong Shuzu knew that death was inevitable, so he wrote an elegiac couplet to defend himself: "Serving the government will bring disaster to oneself, and he has a clear conscience; in troubled times, life is better than death, where is the dust?" ⊙In 1927, one of Tang Shengzhi's subordinates once said to Feng Yuxiang: "Zhang Zuolin and Wu Peifu are the old warlords, and Chiang Kai-shek is the new warlord. The old warlords are corrupt and easy to fight. But the new warlords will deceive people with doctrines, which is difficult to deal with. .” ⊙Du Yuesheng said: To do things, you must cut the tofu with a knife and make both sides smooth. ⊙In June 1932, Wang Jingwei accused Zhang Xueliang of falsely resisting Japan, saying: "Give up Shenyang last year, and then lost Jinzhou, resulting in 30 million people and thousands of miles of land falling into the enemy's hands. To send out a soldier and shoot a single arrow, but keep asking the central government for military funds, is to use the name of resistance to gather money." ⊙Chen Jiongming said: "Opening a congress is a boring act, but when the country is in a desperate situation, there is no other way but to follow the trend." ⊙After the restoration of Yuan Shikai Hongxian, someone used the word "Hongxian" to make an embedded couplet as follows: the flood flooded Han, Manchu, Mongolia, Hui, and Tibet; . ⊙ Gu Hongming said: "To understand the real Chinese and Chinese civilization, that person must be deep, broad and simple." Because "the three major characteristics of the Chinese character and Chinese civilization are deep, broad and simple. , and more sensitively." ⊙Du Yuesheng said: Heroes are not afraid of low birth, the key is to have a good brain.He also said: There are three bowls of noodles that are the most unpalatable in life: human face, scene, and human face. ⊙Peng Hanfeng, a well-known fortune-teller, once compared Feng Yuxiang with the characters of the Three Kingdoms: "Looks like Liu Bei, but is as talented as Sun Quan, but as ambitious as Dong Zhuo, as deceitful as Lu Bu, only Yuan Shaoer is lucky!" ⊙Kang Youwei went into exile overseas after the reform failed. In July 1917, he joined Zhang Xun to restore Beijing. At that time, Zhang regarded himself as a "warrior sage", while Kang was regarded as a "literary sage".After the restoration failed, someone wrote a couplet in the name of Kang Youwei: "There must be" a country that is about to perish, and "doing" is to grow old and not die. ⊙Du Yuesheng said: You must be sincere to people. Even if someone deceives me for a while, I can always move him with sincerity and convince him.My way of life is all in the word "sincerity". ⊙Lin Sen likes to collect antiques. Someone asked him: "Many of your antiques are fake, right?" ⊙Du Yuesheng said: First-class people have skills but no temper; second-class people have skills but temper; bottom-class people have no skills but have a temper. ⊙Ma Jiyuan claimed that fighting in the Northwest did not work hard because "we cannot completely wipe out the Communist Army in northern Shaanxi, and Chiang Kai-shek will transfer us to the Shanxi battlefield." ⊙There are four coachmen in the capital, and the proverb goes: "The first one is complacent, the second is not discouraged, the third is in the dark, and the fourth doesn't know where to go." The talker used this as a metaphor for the minister of military affairs. ⊙Du Yuesheng once said to a literate friend: You used to be a carp, you practiced for 500 years and jumped the dragon gate and became a dragon, but I was a loach, you practiced for 1,000 years and became a carp, and then It took five hundred years of practice to jump the Dragon Gate.If we both fail together, you are still a carp and I am a loach.You said how can I not be cautious in doing things? ⊙Qian Mu said: "Scholars who serve the country should live up to their talents and abilities. They should make their own choices and avoid disturbances." ⊙Fu Sinian said: "There are only twenty-one hours in a day, and the remaining three hours are for meditation." ⊙Zou Rong said in his book "Revolutionary Army": "There are barbaric revolutions, and there are civilized revolutions." , Gabonari, Italy, adding trouble to the people." ⊙Zhang Zhidong asked Yuan Shikai the secret of his military training. Yuan Shikai said: "Military training may seem complicated, but it is actually simple. The main thing is to practice absolute obedience to orders. We hold officials and money in one hand, and swords in the other. Obedience brings officials and money , Eat the knife if you don't follow." ⊙Du Yuesheng said: There was no justice in Shanghai when it was occupied, and there was no justice in Shanghai after victory.The national government treats you like a urinal. ⊙Feng Yuxiang wrote a pair of couplets on the issue of "meeting the wind" long ago: a table of fruit, half a table of refreshments, do you know the sufferings of the people; a meeting at three o'clock, and all at five o'clock, what is the revolutionary spirit? ⊙ Gu Hongming said: "The most wonderful characteristic of the Chinese is that, as a nation with a long history, it not only has the wisdom of adults, but also can live a life like a child—a life of the soul." ⊙In 1922, Jin Yuelin published an article "Excellent Molecules and Today's Society" in China, in which he said: "My income from running a barber shop is much more independent than that of the secretary of the Ministry of Communications, so it is better to open a barber shop than to be an official. Better to sing at the fruit stand than flattering at the ministry." ⊙When Wang Yao was dying, she once wrote a paragraph to her daughter: "I suffer from being too sober, and have analyzed many problems. I think it is very profound, but needless to say, it is worse than dementia!" ⊙Qian Mu, a master of Chinese studies, said: "From today's perspective, everyone sympathizes with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and thinks it is a national revolution, but it is not always true. At least they are too ignorant of politics. They have occupied Nanjing for more than ten years and have hardly made any institutional achievements. "Their country name, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, could have foreshadowed their failure. Such a country name is too contrary to the historical tradition. It is precisely because there are too few scholars in this group." ⊙Du Yuesheng said: Being scolded is fake, but the money is real.He also said: Carelessness wins the world, carelessness loses Jingzhou. ⊙Huang Zunxian wrote after observing the election speech in the United States: "The yellow beard is coiled, and the blue-eyed falcon is shining. The mouth is like a hanging river, and the waves are endless." ⊙Ding Richang said: "People's hearts are the foundation of coastal defense." ⊙In June 1879, Ding Richang presented to the Qing court, putting forward 16 suggestions on coastal defense and other issues, and said that Japan "if it does not attack Taiwan in the south in three to five years, it will surely take Korea (Korea) in the north." ⊙Rong Wing put forward the idea of ​​developing "device for making utensils" in China, that is, using machines to produce modern warships, ships and guns.Ding Richang deeply agreed, saying: "Once there is a device for making devices, all devices can be produced from one device, just like a father begets a son, and a son begets a grandson." ⊙In 1899, when Empress Dowager Cixi was about to dethrone Guangxu, who had been imprisoned in Yingtai, and set up a new emperor, Jing Yuanshan, the general manager of the Shanghai Telegraph Bureau, called Sheng Xuanhuai, hoping that Sheng Neng could write a letter with him to discourage this matter.Sheng Xuanhuai replied with a short nine-character telegram: "The building will collapse, and no single tree can support it." ⊙On October 3, 1912, Shanghai "Shenbao" published an article "Undercurrent of Kuomintang Competition", saying: "The old Tongmenghui in the Kuomintang, the division of its characters, was originally divided into three factions: Sun Wen, Huang Xing, and Song Jiaoren .” ⊙Gu Hongming said: "Even if Confucius and Mencius put on monkey skin, they are still sages; even if monkeys wear python clothes, they are still beasts. The heart has not changed, but the appearance has changed, it has nothing to do with it." ⊙Lu Xun said: "Any stupid and weak citizens, no matter how healthy and strong they are, can only be used as materials and spectators for meaningless publicity. It is not necessary to consider it unfortunate to die of illness. Therefore, our first priority is to changing their spirits." ⊙Yan Fu said: "It is said that Chinese and Western affairs are the most different and absolutely incompatible. There is nothing greater than Chinese and Western love of the past and neglect of the present." ⊙Deng Wenyi said: "Need is truth! Action is theory!" ⊙Zhang Jingsheng said: "Philosophy of life, what is more important than sexology? And ethnology, customs, etc. are (everywhere) related to sexology." ⊙Liang Shuming said: "The greatness of Chinese culture is none other than the greatness of human rationality. The lack of Chinese culture is not a lack of rationality, but a lack of early enlightenment of reason and early maturity of culture." ⊙Zeng Guofan said in his family letter: "There are only two things for me to study in my generation; one is the matter of advancing morality, which emphasizes the way of honesty and righteousness, so as to be born without shame; , in an attempt to defend himself." ⊙Du Yuesheng said: The wine in the glass is always full, and there is no empty seat on the table.He also said: Money can't be used up, but friendship can't be eaten up.So when others save money, I save friendship.No matter how much money you save, there is nothing more than gold and silver, and friendship is like heaven and earth!Let others do the icing on the cake, and I only do things that give charcoal in a timely manner. ⊙Chen Yinke said: "Although I am engaged in learning, I must not rely on learning to make a living. Morality is especially not helpful for hunger and cold. It is best to seek a place to live in addition to learning and morality. Business is the best." ⊙Zhou Fohai once scolded Wang Jingwei in an article: "Industrious, sincere, perfunctory, and muddled." ⊙Du Yuesheng said: People need two things to live in this world, courage and wisdom.I broke through with two hands and a whole body of courage. ⊙In 1931, Mei Yiqi said in his inaugural speech at Tsinghua University: "The reason why a university is a university is whether there are good professors." Mencius said: "The so-called old country does not mean that there are trees, but that there are ministers." That’s right.’ Now I can imitate and say: ‘The so-called university is not meant to be a building, but a master’.” ⊙Qian Mu said: "Study and travel in the mountains, and work hard with one heart." ⊙Zhang Zhidong said: "The old ones eat and waste because of choking, and the new ones are overwhelmed and the sheep perish. The old ones don't know how to understand, and the new ones don't know the basics. If you don't know the basics, you won't have the skills to deal with the enemy; if you don't know the basics, you will be meager The heart of famous teaching." ⊙Sun Jianai said: "For those who are not prepared in middle school, use Western learning to make up for it; for what is lost in middle school, use Western learning to return it." ⊙After Yuan Shikai left the mountain, the German ambassador to China thought: "If people ignore the fate of Yuan Shikai's government and let some immature political attempts that lead to a chaotic situation develop freely, the danger will be even greater Big." ⊙Liang Qichao said that Li Hongzhang "has talent but no knowledge, experience but no blood". ⊙Mao Zedong said: "Tracing the origin of the unity of the people in our country, we should refer to the establishment of the Advisory Bureau at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the formation of the Revolutionary Party-Tongmenghui. The Advisory Bureau is the result of a coalition of provincial advisory bureaus petitioning for the early opening of the Congress. There is a Revolutionary Party It was a move to call for soldiers at home and abroad to fill up the platoon. The Revolution of 1911 was a joint performance of the Revolutionary Party and the Consultative Bureau's "drinking the yellow dragon." ⊙Yan Xishan once talked about the relationship between age and health, saying: "When a person's body reaches the age of fifty, it will feel that every year is not as good as one year; One day is not as good as one day; and at the age of eighty, one moment is not as good as one moment." ⊙Gu Hongming said that the social chaos was mainly due to the absence of a monarch: "For example, the law, you have to say 'law' (the voice is very low when you say this word), no one is afraid; you have to say 'law of the king' (raise the voice eight speed, gritted teeth and stared and slapped the table), everyone was afraid, and it would not work if the word '王' was missing." ⊙ On October 9, 1923, Hu Shi wrote this sentence: When I woke up, Cao Kun was elected president. ⊙ Wang Guowei said: "There are no noble and great personalities, but there are noble and great articles!" ⊙When Wang Jingwei was in Huxi, he occupied a small territory. Because of his admiration for Yuan Shikai, someone made a couplet: "The country is not long, and the Emperor Yuan is in the 80s; He Ping, who is in the frontier, has three or two street Wang regimes." ⊙Li Hongzhang's last words before his death: "In today's China, if a person is seriously ill, he must rest and recover his vitality before he can gradually recover. If he jumps and staggers and screams, he will die quickly." ⊙Du Yuesheng said: People can be illiterate, but they cannot be illiterate.Think about yourself in the first half of the night, and think about others in the second half of the night.He also said: Don't do things absolutely, but leave room for them.I am not afraid of gentlemen, I will not provoke thieves! ⊙After Yuan Shikai's death, there was a couplet circulated in Beijing: the six gentlemen who got sick, and the two Chen Tang who died.On the surface, "Six Gentlemen" and "Erchen Tang" are both names of traditional Chinese medicines. In fact, "Six Gentlemen" refers to Yang Du, Sun Yuyun, Yan Fu, Liu Shipei, Li Xiehe, and Hu Ying from the Chou Anhui. "Er Chen Tang" refers to Chen Shufan from Shaanxi, Chen Huan from Sichuan, and Tang Xiangming from Hunan. They were originally Yuan's confidantes, and later responded to the national defense army to overthrow Yuan. ⊙ In September 1876, the Treaty of Yantai was signed.Afterwards, the British said: "This document is neither wise nor practical. It is meaningless and just a bunch of redundant words." ⊙Zeng Guofan said: "Li Shaoquan (Hong Zhang) worked desperately to be an official, and Yu Yinfu (Yu Yue) worked desperately to write books." ⊙Sun Yat-sen commented on Li Hongzhang: "There is no belief in doctrine, and he lacks insight into the overall situation. Moreover, he is old and has already seen through the fame and career." ⊙The "National Defense Theory" edited by Jiang Baili became the basis for the strategic guidance of the Chinese army during the War of Resistance.On the title page of this work, Jiang wrote such a sentence: "Turning thousands of words into one sentence, China has a way." ⊙Liang Sicheng said: "If a city in an ancient oriental country completely loses its artistic characteristics in architecture, it will be very painful in terms of cultural expression and viewing." ⊙Xu Shichang said: "Xiang Cheng (Yuan Shikai) is a man who is open and closed on the surface, but in reality he first seeks stability before he is willing to do it." ⊙On the stone benches that Lin Sen donated to Guling Road in Lushan Mountain, he inscribed "No one with concubine is allowed to sit".Some disdainful people say, I have a concubine, I sit sideways, let's see who can control it.Hu Shi later said that Lin Sen was using a stone bench to explain his views, if he stood up and stated his position, he would not be Lin Sen. ⊙Fairbank said that Yuan Shikai was "dismissed by the Qing government and returned to his hometown in 1909, which actually increased his prestige". ⊙ Gu Weijun commented on Yuan Shikai: "He belongs to the old school completely. Compared with the stubborn conservatives, he seems to be quite new, and even has some liberal ideas, but his views on things are the same as those of the old school." ⊙Prince Chun Yixuan left a family motto to his descendants: the wealth is great, the birth is also great, and later the descendants will suffer great misfortunes. The wealth is small, the production is small, and the disaster for the descendants will be small. If you ask what the reason is, the children and grandchildren are timid if they have less money. ⊙Li Hongzhang advocated the purchase of foreign warships. He said to the court: "If you want to be self-improving, you still have to get rid of prejudices and order iron armor." With "a few iron armored ships, cruising the ocean, it is enough to cover the north and south ports." "Never buy iron armor The day of self-improvement is the day when there will never be self-improvement." ⊙Fu Sinian said: "Many Chinese people are 'older', and when they grow up, almost everyone will sink." ⊙The "Memoirs of Li Hongzhang" published in the United States in 1913 mentioned the hidden dangers of the Boxers: "According to Li Hongzhang, he was the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi at the time. The main issue, or the North will talk mainly with fists." ⊙When Liang Qichao talked about the "Treaty of Shimonoseki", he said: "It is true that Li Hongzhang's merits can be achieved at the speed of peace negotiations. I thought it was Qin Huiye and Zhang Bangchang, but I wondered what would happen if they were placed in Li's position." ⊙The U.S. Minister to China, Rui Enshi, commented on Duan Qirui: "He is not a politician and hates political theory. He is always willing to hand things over to his subordinates, and his subordinates often make him adopt a policy that he would not have adopted. .” ⊙After the second Zhifeng War, Zhang Zuolin and Feng Yuxiang supported Duan Qirui as the interim ruler of the Republic of China.Staff member Zeng Yujun said to Duan: "I think the boss is eager to get on stage in such a situation, just like a three-legged table, which will fall down when attacked." Yes, I hold it in my hand and it won't break for a while, but if I let go, it will fall to pieces." ⊙Yan Fu commented on Li Yuanhong and said: "Li Gong's morality is believed by the world. However, saving the country and saving the country is definitely not effective for such morality. Why? Because of softness and darkness! I have read the history of the Duke of Li, and I think that the most dangerous person in the world has no fault of goodness A cowardly person. Being the head of a family will not be enough to protect his family, and being the head of a country will not be enough to protect his country." ⊙Duan Qirui's most proud way of playing chess is to live a piece in the opponent's space, and he calls it: building a small house in the park.Later, when Japan invaded the three provinces in the Northeast, Duan told people, "It's fine to build a small house, but you can't keep it for yourself." ⊙Ito Hirobumi once said to Li Hongzhang: "With Yuan Shikai's talent, he only works as a small job. No wonder your country lacks talents." ⊙In 1927, Liang Qichao's son Liang Sizhong wanted to terminate his studies in the United States and return to China to participate in the "Northern Expedition", but was stopped by Liang Qichao.Liang Qichao said: "This kind of excessive heat will not be able to withstand the cold water." ⊙Feng Youlan said that the so-called democracy is "the minority obeys the majority". The way to achieve democracy is elections. "Nothing can overwhelm individual human rights. There is only one thing that can overwhelm, and that is the 'majority'." "If there is no real election, That's not democracy." ⊙Wu Zhihui held many vacancies during the period of the Republic of China. He once said to his nephew Wu Yuqing: "At the meeting, invite me, the so-called 'veteran', to the rostrum, take pictures and let me stand in the front row, very similar to Wuxi Huishan Clay Figurines' big brother Fu', put it in the window for display." ⊙During the Anti-Japanese War, Chiang Kai-shek asked Ma Yifu, the "Confucian of a generation", how to govern the country.Ma said: "Only sincerity can touch people, only emptiness can touch things." Jiang Wenzhi was stunned. ⊙After the September 18th Incident, Jiang Menglin, Mei Yiqi of Tsinghua University and other university presidents jointly published "Letter to Classmates" and "Letter to Classmates for the Second Time", pointing out that "mass activities with bare hands can only waste studies, and are by no means effective in saving the country method", and called on the students: "Resume class immediately! Do our duty first." ⊙Zeng Guofan said: "When you are in prosperity, you often think about it when you are in decline. When you are on the stage, you should think about your end. Wealthy people must keep this saying in mind." ⊙When Wang Kaiyun was in Beijing, he saw that the current situation was in disarray, politicians big and small were selfish, and the theory of monarchy was already on the verge of coming out.With a lot of emotion, I made a couplet and said: the people are still the same, the country is the same, no distinction between north and south; in a word, in general, it is not east or west. ⊙Guo Songtao was on a mission to the West, and saw that the customs of various countries were neat, unlike rumors. After returning to China, he said to everyone he met: "Confucius and Mencius deceived me." ⊙When Jin Yuelin was a teenager, he felt that the Chinese saying "money is like dung, and friends are worth a thousand gold" was logically flawed.He said that if these two sentences are taken as the premise, the logical conclusion should be "friends are like dung". ⊙Tang Degang recalled that during the Anti-Japanese War, prices in Chongqing rose, and Ma Yinchu made a speech criticizing his "student" Chiang Kai-shek.Ma said: "Chiang Kai-shek is a soldier, so he happily shouted 'sit back, stand at attention'. This time he will also call 'stand up' to the price, but the price will not do it." The audience roared with laughter. ⊙When Zhang Zuolin died, Zhang Xueliang asked Sanyuan (Chen Sanyuan) for 20,000 gold to make a grave watch for his father, but Sanyuan refused.Hou Xueliang begged Taiyan with 10,000 gold, and Taiyan was pleased to write.Therefore, everyone in the world knows how much the two are worth. ⊙Yi Shunding was a Juren in the first year of Guangxu, and was known as a "child prodigy" since he was a child.He once left a famous saying: Three lines of hot tears are necessary in life. The first cry is that you cannot do anything about the world, the second cry is that you will not meet a confidant, and the third cry will never meet a beautiful woman. ⊙Jiang Menglin studied in the United States for nine years and has a deep understanding of Chinese and Western cultures. He said: "The deeper you understand your own culture, the easier it is to understand Western culture." ⊙In "A General Theory of Chinese Grammar", Liu Bannong ridiculed the tendency of Europeanization in the vernacular.He gave an example: “‘Isn’t it pleasant to learn and practice from time to time?’ is too old-fashioned. ‘Isn’t it pleasant to learn and practice from time to time?’ This is better. But the best Isn’t it pleasant to say, ‘Learning while practicing it from time to time? The Master said’. Why is it best? Because it’s Europeanized.” ⊙Feng Youlan said: "The reason why people from Britain, America and Western Europe are 'wise, rich, and strong' is not because they are from Britain, America and other countries, but because they are city dwellers; the reason why Chinese people are 'stupid, poor, The weak' are not because they are Chinese, but because the Chinese are countrymen." ⊙Huang Kan said that there are four problems for beginners: one is eager to find solutions, one is eager to write books, one is unable to doubt, and one is unable to obey goodness. ⊙Feng Youlan once recalled his feelings when he was studying at Shanghai China Public School: "When you enter a store or walk on the road, if you can't speak Shanghainese, you will be called a 'Jiangbei guy'. But if you can speak a few words an English word, and he immediately becomes respectful." ⊙On February 8, 1862, Luo Xiaoquan, Hong Xiuquan's religious teacher, issued a statement in "North China Herald News", saying: "I believe he (Hong Xiuquan) is a madman, completely unable to make a messy government run normally. He and his An indifferent king could not form a government, could not share the interests of the people, and could not even compare with the old imperial government." ⊙Jiang Menglin first came to the United States to study, and saw many lifelike nude statues of men on the campus gate, and there were also nude statues of Greek goddesses in the reading room of the library. at the fountain of wisdom".An ethics professor said to him: "Letting female students see more nude images of men can correct their coy habits." Jiang later said: "A perfect mind resides in a perfect body." ⊙Jiang Menglin said: "I have been engaged in universities for decades, and after many trends, I discovered a rule: There are three factions in a university: one is the principal, the other is the professor, and the other is the student. Among these three factions, If two factions unite against a third faction, the third faction must fail." ⊙Some people say that Wang Jingwei's family is "serially afraid" - son Wang Mengjin is afraid of his father Wang Jingwei, Wang Jingwei is afraid of his wife Chen Bijun, and Chen Bijun listens to his son Wang Mengjin. ⊙In 1937, Chiang Kai-shek used more than 20 million yuan to buy Chen Jitang's air force, and each plane was three or four times more expensive than buying a new plane on average. Some people said it was not worthwhile.Jiang said: "You don't know how to settle accounts. This business is not a loss. We can only buy one of his new planes. Now we buy his one. I have one more and he has one less. It is worth the price of two planes; besides, it costs more to train an airman than to buy one plane, if you buy him one, I will have one more, and he will have one less, naturally one will pay for two.” ⊙Gu Hongming once advised Westerners that if they want to study real Chinese culture, they might as well go to Bada Hutong.Because from the singers there, one can see the dignity, shyness and grace of Chinese women.In this regard, Lin Yutang said: "Gu Hongming is not wrong, because those singers, like Japanese geisha, can blush, but modern college girls can't." ⊙When Zhang Xun was restored, Xu Shuzheng privately said to his staff: "Zhang Xun is the head of the restoration, let him do it first, and our opportunity will come." ⊙In 1914, Yuan Shikai hired Wang Kaiyun as the curator of the National History Museum. At that time, Wang was already 83 years old.When he came to Beijing to take office, someone asked: "You are so old, why did you come all the way to be an official?" Wang replied: "The easiest thing in the world is to be an official. I am old and can't do anything, so I have no choice but to come to be an official!" ⊙Sun Dianying said: "Gambling is not a bad thing. I can see everyone's temperament from it, and I can make many friends according to everyone's temperament. These friends can help me a lot, even if some are unwilling to help , at least not to speak ill of me. I'm a rough person, I don't have real skills, if I don't even have this idea, why should I mess around?" ⊙When Su Manshu was in Nanjing, he helped Wu Zhongwen translate the military system.Wu Zhongwen joked: "Buddhists take abstaining from killing. Why do you participate in military activities? Did you use murder?" Manshu replied: "If you can make good use of the military system, you can prevent the superiors from killing innocent people indiscriminately. Isn't it a great gift!" ⊙ Gu Hongming said: "Americans are great and simple, but not profound. The British are profound and simple, but not great. Germans, especially those educated Germans, are great and profound , but not simple. Therefore, none of them can understand Chinese culture. Pure Chinese people are not only profound, simple, and great, but also subtle.” ⊙After the Wuchang Uprising of 1911, the cabinet Natong resigned and recommended Yuan Shikai to replace him.Someone asked Natong: "Isn't this a quick Qing Dynasty?" Natong said: "The general situation is already the same. If you don't use Yuan to point to the sun, you will die. If you use Yuan, you will die later, or you may not die." ⊙During the Zhifeng war, someone suggested to Cao Kun that General Wang Chengbin was from Fengtian, and it was possible to pass Fengtian.When Wang learned about it, he explained to Cao Kun: "Fengtian is my mother's family, and Zhili is my husband's family. Which girl who has gone out of the family can care about her mother's family and ignore her husband's family?" ⊙During the period of warlord melee, Liu Zhennian said to his subordinates: "Jiang, Feng, and Yan are all warlords, and the melee between them is like dog eating dog on the cross street. It is disgraceful for us to help them, so our representatives in Jin and Nanjing must Get in touch with them more, just ask them for more money and more things!" ⊙ Gu Hongming said: "A strong woman in ancient China often died for face, because her naked body was seen by irrelevant men. However, in the West, a man who was slapped in the face and did not propose a duel is a loss of honor, while It’s not about face. In China, an official lord went to a brothel and was rejected. He felt humiliated, and when he returned home, he brought a group of people to retaliate. The brothel was not enough to catch the kiln sisters, which means that he won back himself. face, but we generally cannot say it is defending its own honor." ⊙Wu Zhihui concluded after breaking up in love: "This time, after being stimulated by Alice, I weighed it again, and I lost as much as 18 pounds. At this time, I realized the importance of mental hygiene. Marriage cannot be based entirely on love , Wealth is the power that determines everything, my wealth is not as good as others, and I can only retreat when I face difficulties." ⊙At that time, people called Chen Cheng the "Four Generals" in person, and praised him for his ability to work hard, hard work, hard work, and quick work; behind his back, he was called "General Sanchang", and teased him for losing Nanchang, Wuchang, and Yichang . ⊙With the revolution of 1911, the elders of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties left the capital one after another, and housing prices in the Tianjin and Shanghai concessions rose sharply.Someone once wrote a couplet saying: "The king is here, why dare the subject die? Kou Zhi, I will escape first."