Chapter 61 Chapter 11 Mount Luojia - 1946

We are the first batch of demobilized students to return to Wuhan University. Stepping into Luojia Mountain, the famous campus of Wuhan University for the first time, was full of disappointment.Not only is it desolate everywhere, but it has been destroyed by the Japanese and the village neighbors to an uninhabitable condition. . When I was in Sichuan, I always heard famous teachers say how magnificent the palace-style buildings are, and how vast and beautiful the East Lake is.But when I found the girls' dormitory in September 1946, the workers were still rushing to install the window panes and wooden doors.I was assigned to the last room. I was in the same room as Kuang Shufang, who was in the same class. She has been very kind to me for four years in school.Soon after, Xie Wenjin, who returned to school, came to live in Shanxi.

During that year, the three of us attended classes together. We often took the ferry from Wuchang to Hankou on weekends. We bought leftover canned food from the U.S. military at street stalls along the Yangtze River, and most often bought large cans of ice cream powder. School expensive milk.In winter, after the dormitory supervisor’s rounds at night, he secretly set up a small charcoal brazier and roasted many different things to eat. The small sweet potatoes and ginkgo are really delicious. Compared with the life in the Leshan dormitory, he is simply richer.Xie Wenjin married his childhood sweetheart Meng Baoqin two years ago and dropped out of school after giving birth to a son.She is in a stable mood, and she spends time with her husband and son after reading the book wholeheartedly. She does all the homework seriously, bringing a kind of stable force to our dormitory.Both Shu Fang and I envy her marriage.

The school motto of Wuhan University is "Ming Cheng Hongyi". Like the school mottos of most schools, the four words originally had some deep meaning, but I can't remember its true meaning.But at least its serious and pragmatic attitude is everywhere.In China in 1947, it seemed that half of the people were running from east to west, north to south, like ants moving their houses, but they seemed to have no purpose of coming and going.Half of the teachers in our Department of Foreign Languages ​​are educated elsewhere. Mr. Zhu Guangqian has already planned a new bureau in the Faculty of Liberal Arts of Peking University. Before he left, he hired Professor Wu Mi (named Yuseng) to head the Department of Writing at Wuhan University.

Mr. Wu did not go back to Tsinghua University in Peking with the Southwest Associated University, but came to Wuhan, probably because of his personal friendship with Mr. Zhu.In my senior year, I took two courses from him. One is "Literature and Life", which is open to the whole school. It is said that it is a very famous course he taught at Tsinghua University when he returned from Harvard University. It will only be reopened at Wuhan University. Taught for two years.He himself has read a lot and has high ideals. The course outline and lecture content listed are really from all over the world. For example, in a peaceful and prosperous age, it should be an early start for the study of comparative literature in China.It is a pity that most of the students in 1947 were worried and premature young people who could not find a settlement in reality. They were not as simple as the previous generation in pursuing the ideals of the so-called "realistic moralists".He ran the "Xueheng" magazine and advocated throughout his life that literature should be "righteous in purpose and sincere in rhetoric", but the story of his infatuation was also rumored at the time.

What I remember of Mr. Wu is more vividly the "long poems" he taught for the third and fourth grades of the department, which seems to be a continuation of Mr. Zhu's English poetry class. I just started to teach Milton's ("Joyful" line 152) and ("The Melancholy" line 176), with profound words and many allusions, which is extremely difficult for us.Only the title of the article reads smoothly and nicely in Italian, so I still remember it. Because Mr. Zhu memorized poems in class, I still remember them deeply. We thought we had to memorize these two poems, so we recited them while reciting them. I still remember most of them. They were very useful for my later study and the history of English literature I taught.

Milton could only teach some outlines and read some key famous sentences. It was not until he taught Coolidge's "Ode to the Ancient Boatman" that long poems should not be memorized, but the examination questions required interpretation from a wider angle and viewpoint. .Later, I read Shelley's "AlastOr", "AdOnaiS" and Keats' "endymion", explaining the conflict between the early romantic thoughts and reality of these two poets. After the start of the semester, Master Wu announced that he would take over the thesis of Mr. Zhu Guangqian, including mine.Before leaving for Peking University, Mr. Zhu told him that I would like to further study Shelley or Keats' thesis topics.Teacher Zhu probably also told him that I was trapped in sadness and couldn’t get out of it—the teachers would also talk about the “personal relationship” of the students they cared about behind their backs!

Teacher Wu suggested that I write Shelley's long poem "Epipsy Chidi On" (Greek, meaning "To the Young Soul") as a thesis. I wrote to ask my father to ask someone to help me find a copy in Shanghai, because the school books did not have any Fully restored. "Time and Tide" has been republished in Shanghai. Mr. Deng Lianxi, the editor-in-chief, was from the Department of Foreign Languages, and he teased me when we met later. "How did you start to study Shelley's view of love? It turned out that Wu Mi was replaced as the instructor." I flipped through the book for a while when I received it, and felt that Shelley's view of love was different from my "love school". I want to change to Keats's one, but I don't have enough time and knowledge.

Soon, Teacher Wu called me to go and changed almost half of the outline I had drawn up.He wrote a two-page English outline with a brush, and added a sentence in Chinese: "The Buddha said that love is like a torch of fire. Ten thousand fires lead it, and its fire remains the same." Tell me to think and love towards a love that transcends the world. For people in the world, sympathy, compassion, and "love" are not just for one or two people. I tried my best to read some related books, and wrote a childish first draft according to the outline revised by the teacher. I handed it in in mid-April, and then hand-copied the half-revised first draft (I hadn’t seen a typewriter at the time) into my graduation thesis.

Mr. Yuan Changying taught us the "Shakespeare" class in the fourth grade, and she still made the progress throughout the year at her usual steady pace.Shakespeare's thirty-seven plays are divided into three types: tragedies, comedies, and historical dramas. Selected representative works are introduced one by one, but there are no books, only the outlines in the lecture notes and notes by listening attentively.I'm pretty good at note-taking, and it would be helpful to read further.Shakespeare's lesson is broad and profound, and it takes a lifetime, which I have not dared to try.

Teacher Yuan led us into the gate of the palace, just like the "Drama" class in the third grade, teaching reading first, and then reading some scripts. The textbook COninental Dramas used is the same as the "English Poetry Treasury" in the English poetry class, which is also a worldwide standard textbook.I clearly remember the vivid and moving expressions of her reading Hauptmann's "Sinking Bell" and Rostand's "Cyrano" (translated by Wang Ruobi, "The Lover with the Big Nose", Yuanliu, 1994). My lifelong inspiration.Later, when I read the article "My Teacher Left Me Shakespeare Love" written by my classmate Sun Fali, I recalled more specifically the "fifth quadrant" that Teacher Yuan used when analyzing scripts. The three quadrants of line, plane, and body are space quadrants, and time is fourth quadrant.Relationship (structure) is the fifth quadrant.I was really lucky to have such a high start in my literary career during the turbulent wartime.