Tracing the old things on the road to study, Ge Xiaoyin's academic essay "Discussion on Entering School" was published

Recently, Peking University Professor Ge Xiaoyin's collection of academic essays" was published by the Commercial Press. The book contains fifty scholarly articles that attract people to read and evoke resonance, among which the memories of Lin Geng, Nie Shiqiao, Zhou Xianshen, Wang Yao and other scholars of the older generation are especially helpful for thinking about academic advancement.

Ge Xiaoyin has been a professor in the Department of Chinese of Peking University since 1989, a professor at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Graduate School of the University of Tokyo, Japan, and a chair professor at the Department of Chinese at Hong Kong Baptist University. He is currently a Liberal Arts Professor Emeritus of the Department of Chinese of Peking University and a doctoral supervisor of Guoguo College. His major works include "History of Poetry of the Eight Dynasties", "The Transmutation of Han and Tang Literature", "Tang and Song Prose", "Study of Landscape pastoral poetry", "The Climax of poetry and the culture of the Tang Dynasty", "Fifteen Lectures on Tang Poetry and Song Poetry", "Research on The Poetic Style of the Six Dynasties of the Pre-Qin, Han, and Wei Dynasties", "Essentials of Tang Poetry Flow", "Du Shi Art and Discernment", and so on.

Professor Ge Xiaoyin is a proud disciple of Mr. Lin Geng. Professor Ge Xiaoyin used five series of fifty articles in the book "Exploring the Apricot Altar", "The Shadow of a Teacher and a Friend", "The Cause of Books and Periodicals", "The Capture of The New Book", and "The Beginning of the Tide" to reminisce about the bits and pieces on the road to study, such as the memories of Mr. Lin Geng, Cheng Qianfan, Chen Yixuan, etc., and also mentioned the feelings of posterity when recalling the understanding of the way of entering the school at different stages of life, which was quite enlightening. This book can be described as Professor Ge Xiaoyin's work of "Picking Up Flowers and Nights", with simple text and sincere feelings.

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Author/Ge Xiaoyin

At dusk, there was a melodious bell in the distance. I put down my pen and listened quietly. "Guests wash the water, the frost bell rings", living in Tokyo, every day at five o'clock in the afternoon to hear the chimes of the bell, only to understand why the Tang people love the twilight bell so much. This cosmic rhythm can wash away the dust of the world and bring people into a peaceful and idyllic state of mind. Looking at the western sky, my thoughts flew to the other shore with the sound of the bell. In that place where the sun was setting, in the study hall of Mr. Geng, the Southern Garden of Northern Yannan, how many evenings there were, and I sat down with my husband across an old desk to talk. The oblique light shines through the sparse forest and shines into the window ledge. Bamboo shadows sway, the virtual room is white, this is the most beautiful realm in the life of Peking University.

When I was a student, when I wandered outside the walls of academic doors, I looked up at the academic celebrities, and almost everyone had a sacred aura behind them. After stepping through the gate, I realized that it was not an ideal paradise. The traditional influence of "learning and excellence", coupled with the social atmosphere of "official-oriented", makes it difficult for contemporary Chinese scholars to rest assured of their studies. Ten years of hard reading, often fighting for goals other than academics. The criterion for social evaluation scholars is not the amount of knowledge, but the level of position. Over the years, I have seen enough of the farces and tragedies of neo-Rulin, and sometimes I feel that in the midst of the troubles of the world, I can hardly find a pure land that can settle the soul. Only when I walked into Mr. Lin Geng's study did I feel full and quiet in my heart.

Everyone who had seen Mr. Lin Geng said that he was a fairy wind Dao bone, and from the inside out, he exuded a breath of fresh air. He is truly far from the hustle and bustle, and his detachment seems to be due to the need not to intervene in worldly strife. Whenever I brought my troubles and complaints into his study, he always smiled and said, "Come to me!" I am a pure land here. "He had a condescending vision of the world, and I used to think it was because of his seniority and fame. But after getting along for a long time, I gradually realized that this was actually determined by his poetic temperament. Mr. Lin's Tang poetry is famous for its views on "prosperous Tang Dynasty weather" and "youthful spirit". Only by becoming familiar with his personality can we realize that this argument actually stems from his understanding of the essence of poetry and the portrayal of his own spiritual outlook. My mentor, Mr. Chen Yixuan, once said: "Life is like a battlefield, only teenagers and old people do not have to participate." So I like kids and the elderly. "Mr. Lin's purity is not because he is a virtuous old man, but precisely because he has always maintained the spirit of youth until he is old.

When I went to college, Mr. Lin was in his fifties, but he still didn't lose the style of his youth. He was always neatly dressed in class, with a serious and arrogant look, and the students were in awe of him. However, in 1964, when ultra-leftist ideas had swept through the capital, some revolutionary students sniffed the "smell of the bourgeoisie" from Mr. Lin's lectures and began to criticize him and asked me, the "class representative," to convey it. After receiving the criticism, Mr. Lin did not say a word. In the next class, a passage from Engels's Anti-Dühring Theory was copied from a blackboard as an answer. Now that I think about it, in the political climate at that time, there was such an arrogant bone, and I had to bear a lot of pressure. How many scholars at that time "revised" their academic views under this pressure. But Mr. Lin believes that the right opinion must be adhered to, and he is almost dismissive of how the outside world will see him.

Mr. Lin loved singing when he was young and could sing famous Western opera songs in English and Italian. I heard that during the "Cultural Revolution", once everyone sang "Dongfang Hong" in unison, and his tail tone was lengthened a little, and as a result, he was criticized by the rebels. He didn't care what kind of song "Dongfang Hong" was, he only knew that to sing, he had to use the Western vocal method. Although he is now in his eighties, he can still sing tenors and record his own voice. When I go to his house, I often hear him playing his own recordings, and the strength is really not like an old man in his eighties. Mr. Lin also loves kites like a child, and is accompanied by his daughter to the sports field every spring. When the weather was good, he wore a jacket to the door, and everyone praised him for looking young and asked him when he was going to fly a kite. He happily borrowed a poem from the Song people and replied: "It will be said that he is a young man who steals leisure and learns." It is this kind of youthful spirit that makes people see the decay of the elderly from Mr. Lin. He was always in a hurry to walk. Do whatever you want, never procrastinate. He had never had the patience to eat foods with bones and thorns, such as chickens and fish, which he said was too much trouble and a waste of time. He also did not have the nostalgia and conservative psychology that the elderly usually have, and he could always quickly accept the emerging trends of thought and new things since the reform and opening up. Once I complained that typing on a computer was not as fast as handwriting. He advised me that I should learn computers as soon as possible and not be left behind. I often feel that many of my views are much more conservative than Mr. Lin's. Like a teenager, he always looked forward and rarely listened to his memories.

Always maintain the vitality and spirit of youth, which is also the starting point for Mr. Lin to understand life and poetry. He loves all new things that are vibrant and full of vitality. I remember once in a small talk, Mr. Lin said that he liked spring. Walking on the shore of the unnamed lake, watching the willow trees sprout and the peach blossoms blooming every year, there are some new feelings. One day I saw a couple of teenage girls playing by the lake. After a while, the other girls were gone, and only one girl sat on a large rock and meditated. He suddenly thought of a similar scene written in "Dream of the Red Chamber" and realized that Cao Xueqin had a fairly accurate grasp of the characteristics of girls of this age. Many of Mr. Lin's reflections in his studies come from such poetic perceptions and triggers in life. He emphasized the spirit of youth, believing that the essence of poetry lies in the vitality of youth and fresh life, so he liked Sheng Tang poetry, believing that Song poetry was aging except for the absolute sentence, so he did not have a high evaluation of Song poetry. His scholarly opinions and his personality and his sense of life are integrated, so his literary research is alive, and the objects of his research are ready to come out of his pen, unlike in the pen of ordinary scholars, which are like dissected corpses. When I read his articles examining Chu Ci, I am often unconsciously moved by the vigorous and eloquent power of the text, forgetting that this is a boring and esoteric examination. When he was in his seventies, he gave graduate students a special course on "Tianwen Research", which involved many difficult ancient astronomical knowledge, and the classroom of hundreds of people was full. The audience is not only admired, but more attracted by the vivid and interesting way he explains the "Book of Heaven". However, Mr. Lin is not conscious of his sense of humor and never laughs. This humor comes entirely from his fit with the subject of his research, his keenness and thoroughness of his opinions, and his eloquent eloquence.

Mr. Chen Yixuan often said that Mr. Lin's artistic appreciation is extremely high, and all the works he praises are top quality. Therefore, we disciples naturally take Mr. Lin's vision as the criterion for judging the quality of works. The modern poems written by Mr. Lin have his own unique style, and to be thoroughly interpreted, they must have the same sense of poetry as Mr. Lin. Reading his poems and articles, I have painfully realized more than once that both poetry and poetry research require talent. As soon as I arrived in front of Mr. Lin, I felt that I was a blunt root, and I was often frustrated that I could not reach Mr. Lin's vivid and lively realm of governance.

Nandu reporter Huang Qian