Chapter 43 Ye Gongchao: Literati are the most free (2)

This is the literary spirit in his bones.His contemporaries did not use "gentleman" to describe him, although he had a degree in the "gentleman"'s hometown of Cambridge University, and he had traveled in the most formal diplomatic circles for a long time.A more appropriate description is "celebrity" --- those who are elegant enough to be compared with the royal family and the prime minister are celebrities; those who are vulgar enough to scold urchins are also celebrities. Celebrities are used to "seeing adults, they will despise them".When the "ambassador to the United States", he said to his friends: "When I met Eisenhower (President of the United States), I regarded him as a soldier psychologically. When I met with Kennedy (President of the United States), I thought he was just a playboy. Just a rich guy."

Former students congratulated him on being awarded the "Ambassador to the United States". He smiled and whispered, "Don't mention it, it's a loss-making business!" Zhu Ziqing mentioned Ye Gongchao in his diary, describing him as "moody, mad and honest. Getting along with him is like drinking a glass of fine wine and eating a plate of chili..." In the era of literati freedom in the 1930s, friends were always used to "buried deep in the comfortable sofa of Professor Ye's home (the most comfortable sofa in Tsinghua University), sipping the famous Pu'er tea from Professor Ye's home, and letting Professor Ye His amusing talk goes on and on without restraint", and his talk "covers everything under the sun, plus some above the sun—the whole range of the encyclopedia".

However, some friends have tasted the taste of chili.Once Ye Gongchao was talking about a certain British poet with his friends. Ye took out his collection of poems and dug out a few masterpieces, and asked his friends to read them, saying that they would discuss them after reading them.The friend is very tired, throws the scroll and sleeps.Ye Gongchao was furious, picked up a big book and threw it over.Although the friend did not bleed out, he was also shocked. Ye Gongchao lived in seclusion in Taiwan in his later years, and used calligraphy and painting to relieve his loneliness, "Writing about bamboo angrily, and writing about orchids when he likes it", but he wrote more about bamboo than orchid.