Tell the truest history in the simplest words.
Chen Yin (yin) ke (que) is a rare master figure in modern China. In contemporary times, if someone mentions Yu Qiuyu and calls him a master, some people are bound to be unconvinced; if Chen Yinke is moved out as a master, the scene is bound to be silent.
Chen Yinke
"The first man in three hundred years"
Chen Yinke is a rare figure in a hundred years of modern Chinese historians, classical literature researchers, linguists and poets, one of the four philosophers in the century-old history of Tsinghua University, and together with Lu Simian, Chen Yuan, and Qian Mu, he is known as the "Four Great Masters of Historiography of the Predecessors". Such a person, his life, is wonderful.
The famous historian Fu Sinian once commented: "Mr. Chen's learning has only been one person in the past three hundred years. Liang Qichao once commented: "I Liang Mou is considered to be a book, but the total number of works is not as valuable as Mr. Chen's few hundred words." It can be seen that Chen Yinke's position in literature belongs to the peak, and what we want to explore today is the most wonderful part of his later years.
Study Abroad in Japan
Mr. Chen Yinke was truly from a famous family, his grandfather was named Chen Baozhen, the governor of Hunan, was a famous politician of the late Qing Dynasty; his father Chen Sanli was not a lulu generation, together with Tan Sitong, Wu Baochu, and Ding Huikang, and was called the "Four Princes of the Late Qing Dynasty".
In 1898, the failure of the Penghu Reform Law declared the end of the political life of his grandfather and father. Chen Yinke, who was less than ten years old, witnessed the disappearance of a generation of families like a dream. However, the tribulations of life did not defeat a great man, who began to study the Four Books and Five Classics, arithmetic, geography and other knowledge from an early age, and learned Japanese with the help of friends.
Young Chen Yinke
In 1902, Chen Yinke crossed to Japan with his brother Heng Ke and entered the Sugamo Hongwen Academy in Japan. After returning to China, tsinghua school was reorganized into a university, Chen Yinke, Wang Guowei, Liang Qichao and others were hired as professors, and Chen Yinke, because of his fame and knowledge, was called "the son of the prince and the professor of the professor" when he taught at Tsinghua.
Patriotic Chen Sanli
During this period, a sad thing happened.
Chen Yinke's father, Mr. Chen Sanli, had no intention of making a career since the change of the law, and built a house on the bank of Jinling Qingxi, called "Scattered Plains Jingshe". He often used poetry and ancient words with his friends, saying that he "relied on the wind and clouds of the column to be a shenzhou hand man." "It can be said that it is happy like a god."
Mr. Chen Sanli still cares about the motherland. He opened a primary school, founded a railway company, abolished the Eight Strands of Literature, and the old man's life was both meaningful and colorful.
Chen Sanli
However, the sound of Japanese artillery broke the door of the country and also broke the heart of the old man, who was restless day and night, and subscribed to the aviation Shanghai newspaper at the post office and read it every day. It is said that at that time, he once shouted words such as "kill the Japanese" in a dream one night. The heart of the country can be seen.
When Peiping and Tianjin fell one after another. The Japanese army wanted to attract Chen Sanli and did everything they could to persuade him, but he should not allow it. Detective Ri waited for him, Chen Sanli was angry, and called on the maid to take a broom to expel him. From then on, he did not eat for five days, and died of grief at the age of 85.
After the outbreak of the Pacific War, japan occupied Hong Kong, Chen Yinke immediately resigned and lived idly, and the Japanese authorities entrusted him with 400,000 yuan in Japanese gold to run the Oriental Literature Institute, but he resolutely refused.
Later, on the orders of the Japanese side, someone specially invited him to teach in Shanghai, which had been occupied by the Japanese army. He once again refused the order, and then fled hong Kong, completing academic works on the Sui and Tang Dynasties in the midst of turmoil and displacement, opening up new ways for future generations to study the history of the Sui and Tang Dynasties.
Tiger father has no dog
Mr. Chen Yinke, who is more than 50 years old, unfortunately suffered from eye disease, when Japan provoked the Pacific War, he could not exercise too vigorously after surgery, in order not to drag his family down and let his family escape and take refuge, Mr. Chen Yinke chose to stay at home alone.
Mr. Chen Yinke sat calmly at home, waiting for the Japanese army, and sure enough, the Japanese army rushed into his home and began to plunder unscrupulously, but Mr. Chen Yinke was too calm, and even the Japanese army was frightened.
At that time, Mr. Chen Yinke opened his mouth to speak a fluent Tokyo dialect, and he was a scolding at the unruly Japanese soldiers. Since the Tokyo dialect is a relatively noble dialect in Japan, the Japanese army does not know who this old man with extraordinary temperament is in front of him, so naturally he does not dare to act rashly.
A Japanese soldier hurried to find their officer, and it was also coincidental that this officer originally came from a school with Mr. Chen Yinke, and Chen Yinke's generation was higher than his, and he was his brother. After that, the Japanese officer could only say, "Brother Shi, excuse me!" He hurried away with his men.