Chapter 106 Consciousness - the tombstone should face the Pacific Ocean

Yin Haiguang dictated his will, and after regretting his wife and children, he said: "When my mind is about to mature, I am afraid that I will not be able to write it down to make a contribution to the suffering Chinese people. For the younger generation, I may not be able to have a The final confession, "Thoughts and Methods" and "Prospects of Chinese Culture" are just the beginning, not to mention that I have been changing and revising my own thinking. If I die in Taiwan, I hope to erect a large stone monument in the east, engraved with the words " The tomb of Yin Haiguang, a free thinker, his body turned into ashes and scattered in the Pacific Ocean, the tombstone should face the Pacific Ocean.”

Zhao Shuli criticizes current events, often in humorous language.There was a period when many works exaggerated the rural situation. He went back to his hometown for a while, and came back to give a report, saying that the rural situation was not as good as described in many works.For example, he said, my watch can buy five donkeys in the countryside. This is a "five donkey watch"!He was criticized for it. After liberation, mass movements continued.Ge Jianxiong once remembered that Tan Qixiang wrote a summary for the end of another movement in his later years. Ge Jianxiong was surprised that Tan wrote it very quickly, unlike academic articles that would take many days.Tan Chang sighed: "Hey, I don't know how many things like this have been written since liberation, I'm just scolding myself!"

In the early days of the "Cultural Revolution", before Sun Yefang was imprisoned, he lived in a cowshed with Gu Zhun and worked together in a labor camp.Gu Zhun said to Sun Yefang: "Anyway, I have suffered so much, so I don't want to hurt you anymore. There is no blood on my hands." Liang Sicheng said: "If a city in an ancient oriental country completely loses its artistic characteristics in terms of architecture, it will be very painful in terms of cultural expression and viewing. Because this fact clearly represents the decline of our culture. As for the disappearance Phenomenon."

Some people say that Feng Youlan's philosophical works have always contained elements of "responsibility to the emperor", which changes with the changes in the political atmosphere of the times.But in the seventh volume of "A New History of Chinese Philosophy", all utilitarian shadows have disappeared.After many years of repetition and self-criticism, the author’s mood in his later years was peaceful and upright. He said that he felt that he was close to the state of "the sea and the sky are flying by myself". , Walking into a new world of "enemies must be reconciled and resolved".

In 1986, Wang Yao, who was in her later years, knew Lu Xun in this way: "Mr. Lu Xun is a real intellectual. What is an intellectual? He must first have knowledge; secondly, he is a 'element' and has independence. Otherwise, the element is not independent, and the intellectual It will also deteriorate." Bo Yang's young and middle-aged man had many misfortunes. He said in his later years: "I don't think I am the most suffering person in the world. The vast majority of Chinese people suffer more than me. This is a disaster for the nation and a disaster for the times. It is not a disaster of a certain person. Looking back at the time when the wind and sand came, I am much luckier than most Chinese people to survive these disasters, which makes me full of gratitude."

Zhong Kailai said to Shen Congwen: "Mathematical research has reached a certain level, just like writing lyric poetry in literary creation." Shen Congwen therefore wrote: "Expressing an abstract and beautiful impression, writing is not as good as painting, painting is not as good as mathematics, and mathematics seems to be not as good as music. " Cheng Shewo said: If you want to enjoy freedom, you have to use actions to prove that you are worthy of the word freedom; if you want to enjoy freedom, you have to fight to the end with those forces that prevent you from being free.

Zhang Shenfu was Zhou Enlai's party introducer and the first scholar to introduce Russell to China.He said to Shu Hengzhe in his later years: "I hope it is possible, I hope very much, we must talk frankly, because for me, the time to tell the truth is running out." He once said to his friends: "I suffer because I didn't write Here comes a big book." Chen Daisun said at Peking University on his 95th birthday: "In the past few decades, I have only done one thing, that is, I have been teaching in schools."