Qian Zhongshu said: "The whole Qinghua, Ye Gongchao is too lazy, Wu Mi is too stupid, Chen Futian is too vulgar, and none of them are qualified to serve as a mentor for someone in my money." Wu Mi didn't get angry after listening. But because of the later appearance of "Siege of the City", the two reached the point where they did not interact with each other.
Wu Mi was one of the founders of Tsinghua Guoguo College, also known as the father of Chinese comparative literature, at the time of the Southwest United University in Kunming, he was a professor of foreign languages, and his disciples were also masters, such as Qian Zhongshu, Yang Dai, Ji Xianlin, Cao Yu and so on were his disciples.
Among his disciples, the most crazy was Qian Zhongshu, who complained about Shen Congwen: "The speech is delicate and delicate, soft and pleasant, and the sound next door is quite enough to make people misunderstand and break their hearts." But listening to a man speak softly in person, many people were impatient, eager to dial him like a radio and amplify his voice. ”
Spit on Lin Huiyin: "Among all the famous wives, she looks the best, she is the most elegant and luxurious, the furnishings of her living room are the most exquisite, she has the most guests, the dishes and refreshments of the guests are the most exquisite and rich, she travels the most widely, and her husband is the most tame and unhindered." ”
Even at the time of graduation, Feng Youlan personally told him that he would be admitted to the university to continue his master's degree in Western literature studies. Qian Zhongshu refused, and said: The whole Qinghua, Ye Gongchao is too lazy, Wu Mi is too stupid, Chen Futian is too vulgar, and none of them are qualified to serve as a mentor to someone in my money.
After these words reached Wu Mi's ears, Wu Mi did not get angry, but only said: Qian Zhongshu is not the kind of peacock-opening-screen ostentation, he is the kind of arrogance of the literati who are arrogant and arrogant, and he has capital for this. Today's outstanding talents in China's literary and historical circles, the older generation should first recommend Mr. Chen Yinke, and the younger generation should first recommend Qian Zhongshu, and others such as you and me, but Erer.
Qian Zhongshu's madness is indeed capitalized, because he has been smart since he was a child, arrogant and proud, and at the same time he has read a lot of books, so he has also cultivated a good mouth.
He had the reputation of "Kunlun of Culture", excelled in Both Chinese and English, and was admitted to Tsinghua University; when he first arrived at Tsinghua, he was rumored to be a beautiful talk because he "swept through the Tsinghua Library"; during his study at Tsinghua, he published nearly twenty articles, and later even the famous scholar Zhang Shenfu exclaimed: "Qian Zhongshu is the most special genius in Tsinghua now, and in the whole Chinese, none of the talents and academic abilities can catch up with him." ”
Qian Zhongshu's madness is a capital madness, and all his arrogance has a knowledge to support him, but he has also regretted his madness when he was young.
Qian Zhongshu's teacher had a long emotional entanglement with Mao Yanwen when he was young, and their emotional entanglement was for a long time the talk of people after tea and dinner at that time, and even, in order to save Mao Yanwen, Wu Mi also published letters to her in various newspapers.
Qian Zhong, who was studying in Europe at the time, wrote a book review called "Mr. Wu Mi and His Poems", wantonly ridiculing the matter between Wu Mi and Mao Yanwen, and saying that Mao Yanwen was "a woman who showed off her style in her old age", which made Wu Mi and his identified love a laughing stock for a while.
Wu Mi was sad at that time, but later Qian Zhongshu went to Kunming to apologize to him, and the matter passed. Later, Wu Mi and Qinghua agreed that they intended to hire Qian Zhongshu as a professor of foreign languages, but when Qian Zhongshu arrived, he was only hired as an associate professor, so the young and crazy Qian Zhongshu counted this matter on Wu Mi's head.
Later, Qian Zhongshu's "Siege of the City" was published, and some people thought that the "Sanlu University" in the book reflected the "Southwest United University", and the "Gao Songnian" in it referred to Wu Mi and another professor.
Many years later, Wu Mi's daughter wanted to ask Qian Zhongshu, who was more than 80 years old, to write a preface to "Wu Mi's Diary", qian Zhongshu wrote in the diary: "I am young and ignorant, and I only write articles for a while, but I did not expect to make the teacher so sad!" Your own sins cannot escape, you really should burn out the paper and pencil! ”
However, at this time, Wu Mi had already died for many years.
Qian Zhongshu's pride is a kind of pride unique to the literati, when he was young, he had the talent and momentum, so he may not have looked down on many people and things, and at that time, the things of Wu Mi and Mao Yanwen did become the laughing stock of many people, and most of the literati had some high-mindedness and some feelings of solipsism.
Finally, after experiencing a series of changes, after understanding that many things cannot achieve the unity of knowledge and action, he may understand the suffering of some people, but when he understands, some things can no longer go back.
