Chapter 22 Deng Guangming, the figure guarding integrity: the lost style of study (1)

Deng Guangming (1907-1998), courtesy name Gongsan, was born in Linyi, Shandong.Historian, the recognized master of the Song Dynasty. Deng Guangming studied ancient history, but he was first known for his new literature. Before he was admitted to the History Department of Peking University in 1932, he studied at Fu Jen Catholic University, and it happened that Zhou Zuoren came to the school to give lectures on new literature.Zhou Zuoren claimed that he "neither compiled the lecture notes nor wrote the outline, but just talked about it and it was over." Who knew that after the lecture, "Mr. Deng Gongsan took a draft of his notes and asked me to review them. Not only did he make few mistakes, but he also sorted out my nonsense in a certain order, which I especially admire."

As a result, this notebook was published under the name "The Origin and Development of Chinese New Literature" that year.Zhou Zuoren gave the manuscript fee to Deng Guangming, who bought a thread-bound Twenty-Four History with the money.An old friend Zhang Zhongxing later lamented that Zhou Zuoren’s lectures were mixed with northern dialects and southern accents, and there was a lot of professional knowledge in them, which was not easy to remember. It is simply incomprehensible that the students in the school are so talented and rich in learning.” Chen Yinke wrote in "Deng Guangming's "Song History · Official Records" Preface": "The culture of the Chinese nation has evolved over thousands of years. "There is hope for "revival", so "the historical events of the Song Dynasty are the ones that should be urgently devoted to today."However, this task is not easy to do, because "History of the Song Dynasty" has a lot of mistakes, and among all official histories, it has the most volumes, so "for hundreds of years, there are really few people who can really read it well."

It can be seen from this that if you want to rule the history of Song Dynasty, you must have courage and talent.Deng Guangming is undoubtedly one of the few "few people". Zhou Yiliang, a great historian, even thinks that he can be called "the first person in Song history at home and abroad in the 20th century". Deng Guangming devoted all his life to the study of Song history, and when he read Romain Rolland's "Biography of Beethoven" in his early years, he also had the idea of ​​writing the biography of the heroes of the Chinese nation. Biography, indictment and defense for them, and make a fair evaluation of them.When he wrote about Wang Anshi, he wrote about the spirit of the three deficiencies of "the change of the sky is not enough to be feared, the ancestors are not enough to follow the law, and the popular words are not enough to be sympathetic." ; When writing about Yue Fei, he wrote about the lofty ambition of "waiting for a new beginning and cleaning up the old mountains and rivers".

His "Yue Fei" is known as a masterpiece. It was published by Chongqing Shengli Publishing House in 1945 when the Anti-Japanese War was won. "It's a coincidence that the publication coincided with the victory of the national war." Deng Guangming's daughter Deng Xiaonan told reporters, "The book was written during the War of Resistance, and it contained his generous heart to serve the country." In the 1980s This book has been revised and republished, with a print run of more than 170,000 copies. This is a rare print run for academic works, which shows how popular this book is.

Deng Guangming wrote about these heroes, and at the same time practiced this feeling in his own life practice.Deng Xiaonan, who has been with his father for a long time, has two words for his father, honesty and openness. "In their generation of scholars, after so many twists and turns, many people have changed, but he is still upright on the whole. He himself had words and deeds against his will in the 'movement', which he has always admitted, and he admitted it very openly .” Deng Guangming would unceremoniously criticize some old friends who acquiesced to the bad style in the academic world; his academic discussion articles always pointed to the root and were very sharp.His family advised him to be easy-going, but he dismissed it as "hometown wish".Deng Xiaonan sighed: "This is the academic atmosphere in the 1930s and 1940s. At that time, scholars were honest with each other, and everyone was used to it. But now, that era is no longer."