The Survival Wisdom of the Beiyang Era (207): Going up to the tall building alone and looking at the end of the world
In the Beiyang period, the obscurity above the temple, no one can break free from the unfathomable quagmire of desire, but the relatively relaxed cultural atmosphere is shining with stars, and it can be called a master, which really needs two brushes. There are many maverick cattle people, and there are many celebrities who laugh and scold, but after the change of dynasty, there are still two masters with braids, one is Gu Hongming, and the other is Wang Guowei. The former keeps braids for the sake of being different, which is due to a kind of independent temperament, while Wang Guowei keeps braids, more because he can't take a heart. As a master of traditional Chinese studies, he wore braids, which really showed that he had feelings for the Qing court. Nostalgia is because of the collapse of the ideals of the world, the chaos of the early people, the destruction of life, as a master of traditional Chinese studies, Wang Guowei has also begun to find no direction, and whether the "old learning" that he was once deeply immersed in has lagged behind compared with the new learning.
But this does not mean that Wang Guowei hopes to carry out restoration, his nostalgia is more because of the old feelings, most people are nostalgic for the old time of pampering, he pays more attention to feelings. After the abdication of the Qing court, Wang Guowei served as the master of the little emperor Puyi in the southern study of the Forbidden City. The young Puyi, putting aside his complicated identity, is indeed a good child who is obedient and sensible, not only has great respect for Wang Guowei, but also has deep feelings. Wang Guowei is highly myopic, and can only see the dishes in front of him when eating, and Puyi helps him clip the dishes in the distance. It is reasonable to say that the little emperor who was supposed to be the king of a country should hold a shelf would not be so condescending to serve others, but at this time, Puyi, there was also a "foreign master" Johnston, and he was also exposed to new ideas, so it was normal to have a certain expression of his teacher. As a veritable reading seed, Wang Guowei, who has been soaking in books all his life, is also loyal to the point of almost pedantry.
After that, Puyi's courtesies must have weighed heavily in Wang Guowei's heart. In the last days of beiyang, Wang Guowei committed suicide by throwing water into the Summer Palace in the rumbling guns, and in the view of Luo Zhenyu, the out-of-control person, he naturally thought that Wang Guowei's actions were for the Qing court, but Chen Yinke said that it was for "martyrdom culture", and Liang Qichao believed that he was stimulated by the tide of revolution, which should also be the reason. Wang Guowei's suicide note was once believed to have been forged by Luo Zhenyu, but in the suicide note, it was said: "Fifty years, only one death is owed, and after this incident, there is no more humiliation." The humiliation referred to in it should refer to the Feng warlord expelling Puyi from the palace, when Wang Guowei was also present, and the abdicated Qing court was out of the palace, which naturally thought that it was a kind of humiliation in the eyes of Wang Guowei, and there was a ritual of "the death of the emperor and the subject", at this time, under the offensive of the southern army, the Beiyang army was defeated and retreated, and Wang Guowei also believed that the eldest husband could not be humiliated again.
In the end, Wang Guowei, who saw through the human realm, bid farewell to his temple and study in a pool of blue water. His whole life may have been living in his own study, although he could realize the three realms of life, but he was confused in the solitude of going up to a tall building alone and looking at the end of the world. In his eyes, the collapse of Li Le is the terrifying waves of life, all say that the wind and rain are obscure, the chicken is singing, many people seem to be slightly kind to love Wang Guowei and deliberately avoid his feelings for the Qing court, that is, these are regarded as the stains of the old master, in fact, a real and tangled Wang Guowei, without deliberately adding a lot of so-called fig leaf, who still has that braid behind it is worth scrutinizing, much more respectable than those pseudo-masters, that is a "both see the gentleman, Yun Hu does not like" sincerity and calmness.