Chapter 84 Liyan-Being the father of a gifted daughter is not an easy blessing

Lin Changmin said: "Being the father of a talented daughter is not an easy blessing. You have to lower your family's seniority and first seek to achieve friendship and understanding." Liang Shuming believes that the greatness of Chinese culture is none other than the greatness of human reason.The lack of Chinese culture is not a lack of reason, but a lack of rationality and culture. Lu Xun criticized the "national quintessence faction" who defended autocratic politics by preserving the national quintessence. He said, "We want to preserve the national quintessence, and we need the national quintessence to preserve us."

Xu Chuncao has an ideal, that is, justice is like a torrent of water, fairness is like a river, flowing unimpeded on the land of the motherland.He was originally a mason and participated in various important struggles in modern history such as the Revolution of 1911, the crusade against Yuan Shikai, the crusade against Chen Jiongming, and the Anti-Japanese War.He has a few famous sayings, one: the people do not need to file a record with the government when they oppose tyranny; If you have the strength, you will give your life. If you have no money or power, you will give your life. "I will give my life."

Zhang Ailing said: "Be famous early! If you come too late, you will not be so happy." Gu Weijun has repeatedly expounded on one of his basic principles for diplomatic negotiations, which is to deny the theory of total victory.Gu said: "Every Chinese intellectual remembers an old saying: It is better to be broken than to be whole. In other words, it is better to stick to principles than to only care about partial interests. I have always regarded this sentence as a precious motto in my life. , because a man's life is limited; but this maxim does not apply to diplomacy, because the state is eternal and cannot be broken, and a diplomat cannot see his country go to ruin because he must stick to his principles."

Yun Daiying was one of the earliest members of the Communist Party of China. He worked with Chiang Kai-shek at the Whampoa Military Academy. After being arrested, Jiang failed to persuade him to surrender and killed him.Yun calmly dealt with it, and he wrote poems in prison: Wandering in the rivers and lakes, remembering the old travels, the old man lives and dies in different ways.The ordinary things of worry have been abandoned, and the pride remains as a prisoner of Chu. Jiang Baili said: The concept of the country has never been strong enough in the Chinese people, and the central government of a country is often not strong unless it was founded a generation ago.On the other hand, defending the locality can exert greater strength, so sometimes a new vital force often arises from the locality (people).

Chen Yinke said: "Although I am engaged in learning, I must not rely on learning to make a living, and morality is especially not good for hunger and cold. It is best to find another place to live besides learning and morality. Business is the best." When Xia Chengtao commented on Chen Yinke, he said: "There are three kinds of books: first, to benefit readers; second, to make the study itself discoverable; third, to make readers admire the author's erudition and meticulousness. Chen Jun's book is between two and three." In 1931, Mei Yiqi said in his inaugural speech at Tsinghua University: "The reason why a university is a university depends on 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 what it is.’ Now I can imitate it and say: the so-called university does not mean that there is a building, but that there is a master.”

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" and "weak" people are not because they are Chinese, but because the Chinese are country people. Yu Dafu talked about Lu Xun's death: "A nation without great figures is the most pitiful group of creatures in the world; a country with great figures but no support, love, and admiration is a hopeless slave state."