Chapter 101 Faith-Before Lu Xun's death: I will not forgive anyone

Before his death, Lu Xun said: "When Europeans are about to die, there is often a ceremony, which is to ask others to forgive, and I have forgiven others. I have many enemies. If someone of the new style asks me, how should I answer? I After thinking about it, I decided: let them resent, and I will not forgive any of them." When Meng Wentong was young, he once asked He Baru for advice: "Sir, mainstream historical schools don't understand you, what do you think?" Good." He told many stories he heard during his study abroad: Cantor who discovered set theory, Lobachevsky who discovered non-Euclidean geometry, and Galois who discovered group theory, all of them are world-class masters. mathematician.Cantor and Lobachevsky won the title of professor at a very young age, but after they had new ideas, they were not understood by their teachers, friends, relatives, and colleagues, and they were hit hard, driven crazy, and forced to To die or to be forced into a duel.This phenomenon may be difficult to change for a long time, so he is willing to bury his name in his hometown and do more specific things to wait for tomorrow.

After the Southern Anhui Incident, Ye Ting was arrested. He wrote a poem in prison as "a layman who hit a wall on six sides" and said: "The door for people to come in and out is locked, and the hole for dogs to crawl out is open. Come out, I give you freedom! I long for freedom, but I also know how a human body can crawl out of a dog hole! I can only look forward to the day when the underground fire will rise and burn this living coffin with me fall, and I deserve eternal life in fire and blood." In the spring of 1949, the People's Liberation Army crossed the Yangtze River, and the liberation of Shanghai was imminent. Many intellectuals considered leaving the mainland for Taiwan.Lin Tongji's father believed that the child had too many "bad" records, "With your thinking, you will suffer if you get along with the Communist Party." He advised his son to leave for Taiwan as soon as possible.Lin blurted out the words: "If China perishes, I will perish with you."

In the early 1950s, Chen Yinke said to his student Wang Qian: "You have to bring my opinions to the Academy of Sciences. You have to take the inscription to Guo Moruo. Guo Moruo once saw my kingdom in Japan. Wei Poetry. I don’t know if the stele is still there. If it is not well done, it can be destroyed. It may be better to ask Guo Moruo to do it. Guo Moruo is an expert in oracle bone inscriptions, one of the "four halls", and maybe he understands Wang Guowei better. theory. Then I will be Han Yu, and Guo Moruo will be Duan Wenchang. If someone writes poetry again, it would be good for him to be Li Shangyin. My inscription has already been spread, and it will not be lost.”

Chen Yinke said: Without free thought and independent spirit, that is to say, it is impossible to carry forward the truth, that is, it is impossible to study academics. Everything is a trivial matter, but this is a major event; When it is also equivalent to Xuanzang's knowledge-only learning, it can neither occupy the highest position in our country's ideology, and it will eventually die out.Chinese culture, after thousands of years of evolution, will gradually decline and will eventually revive.