Qian Liqun's New Year's wishes: observe, wait, persevere, and do things

"Observe, wait, persevere, do things": Mr. Qian Liqun's four New Year's wishes

Editor's note: This article is Qian Lao's four New Year's wishes, in Qian Lao's view, the epidemic has exposed some hidden truths to the world, and the specific direction of China and European and American countries is uncertain, so it can only observe, wait, stick to and do things.

First, observe. This is an era without direction and without truth, and every individual must carefully observe and grasp the true information as much as possible;

Second, wait. Be patient, and even mentally prepared for a long wait;

Third, persevere. In such an era, we must especially adhere to the principles of life, adhere to the conscience and bottom line of being a human being, and never sell our souls;

Fourth, do things. Today there is still room to do things, to do what you want to do, what you should do.

Sun Yu, dean of the Faculty of Letters at Chinese Min University, once said: Qian Liqun is the "Don Quixote" of our time.

He often rushed to the windmill with a sincere and bold posture, leaving us with a tragic and majestic image. He found problems where people did not find problems, and realized the crisis in the scene of peace. He clearly sees the pathologies of education; he is still full of deep expectations for China's current youth. He faced sentient beings with a worried heart, but his enthusiasm was higher than ordinary people.

As one of the few surviving "30s" universities in China (pointing out that he was born in 1930-1939) and a symbol of the spirit of Peking University in the past, Mr. Qian Liqun accumulated decades of work to finally write the final volume of the "Trilogy of the Spiritual History of Chinese Intellectuals in the 20th Century", "The Vicissitudes of Time", which was the historical mission he was determined to undertake in his later years.

However, Mr. Qian Liqun is well known to the public, not because of the vicissitudes of time, but because of a word he coined a few years ago: "exquisite egoist".

However, in fact, "exquisite egoists" also has the second half of the sentence: Why are exquisite egoists rampant, and there are very few real intellectuals? The answer to this question is actually between the lines of "The Vicissitudes of Time".