Speaking of Mr. Nan Huaijin, I think many people who love Chinese studies should be familiar with him.
Mr. Nan has been engaged in sinology education for decades, and has a deep attainment in sinology, which can be described as a generation of masters.
In addition, Mr. Nan is also very proficient in Buddhism, Taoism, and the I Ching.
He studied through ancient and modern times, full of economics, and was a master figure who "went up and down for 5,000 years, traversed 100,000 miles, the three major religions of Jinglun and entered and exited a hundred schools".
Nan Huaijin's achievement in this way was inseparable from the careful teaching of his father, Nan Yangzhou.
After the death of his first wife, Nan Yangzhou remarried the sister of the first wife and gave birth to a well-known son, Nan Huaijin.
Father Nan Yang Zhou's life experience
Nan Yang zhou was born in Yueqing County, Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province, which is a very poor place, with many people and few land, and has been hit by natural disasters for many years.
As early as the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the ancestors of the Nan family made their fortunes by drying salt and burning salt, and soon became the famous rich men of Yueqing Wengyuan.
However, the good times did not last long, and when it came to the generation of Nan Yang Zhou's grandfather, the family road fell, and the South family became more and more broken.
In 1888, Nan Yang Zhou was born in a large mansion named "Four Points Bottom" on the back bank of the South House in WengYuan Town.
His name is Guangyu, which belongs to the "light" generation, the word Yang Zhou, the number of the degree, is actually "looking up at the Holy Week, transforming all the people".
Unfortunately, my father died two or three months before he was born in Nanyang Zhou.
As a widow, Nan Yangzhou grew up under the care of his mother.
Nan Yang Zhou has two older brothers, but these two brothers are not capable enough to bear the heavy responsibility of the whole family, so the heavy responsibility of the whole family gradually falls on the body of Nan Yang Zhou.
Nan Yang Zhou also lived up to expectations, and at the age of twelve, the little Nan Yang Zhou supported the heavy responsibility of the family.
When he was a child, Nan Yang zhou practiced martial arts, which also created his strong physique.
In order to subsidize the family, Nan Yangzhou followed others to learn to do business and trade.
When he was thirteen years old, Nan Yangzhou picked up the goods and walked the streets to sell things.
It is worth mentioning that Nan Yangzhou did not forget to study in addition to business, he went out to do business during the day, and returned home at night to study hard.
Unlike ordinary people, Nan Yang Zhou read books not to obtain a meritorious name in order to fly huang Tengda, but to gain more knowledge and be a person who knows how to read.
Several years of business experience also allowed Nan Yangzhou to accumulate some money.
At the same time, Nanyang Zhou continued to learn, and also increased a lot of talent, and also had his own set of "business classics".
With the support and encouragement of his mother, Nan Yangzhou rented a storefront at the intersection of the bridge in the village and officially opened his own business road.
The shop was called "Nan Xing Chun", and at first it was a grocery store, and the owner Nan Yang Zhou sold both rice and noodles.
Under the painstaking management of Nan Yang Zhou, it did not take long for "Nan Xing Chun" to gradually become widely known and famous.
Later, the Nan family moved from the old house to the tuanye.
A few years later, NanYang Zhou accumulated a certain amount of capital, so he decided to choose a local site to operate the storefront.
After being introduced, it was learned that there were three buildings for sale at the head of the bridge, and Nan Yangzhou took a fancy to the lot of the bridge, so he put this place down.
In the place of Dituanye, most people have the surname Ye, and few people have the surname Nan.
It is actually very difficult for a foreigner to take root in a foreign country.
Because of the benevolence and benevolence of Nanyang Zhou, he had a wide range of good relations and was soon recognized by the locals.
In addition, he raised funds to build steep gates, that is, sluices for storing and releasing water, which were used to protect against water damage and bring convenience to the lives of local residents.
As a result, Nanyang Zhou gradually became respected by the locals, and was even once elected as the township chief.
At the marriageable age, Nan Yangzhou married a local woman surnamed Zhao, but after a few years, this woman unfortunately died of unexpected illness.
In order to inherit the incense, Nan Yang Zhou tearfully remarried his sister-in-law, also known as zhao.
However, after Zhao Shi passed through the door for a few years, his stomach did not move, which was very bad for the people of the South Family.
At that time, the Nan family was not prosperous, and after marrying Zhao Shi, he hoped that she would add people to the Nan family and continue the incense.
Zhao Shi was also very depressed in his heart, to know that the ancient people advocated "no filial piety has three, no queen is greater", and failed to give birth to children but they will be gossiped about by others.
Zhao Shi, who did not believe in Buddhism originally, went to the City God Temple every day to burn incense and worship the Buddha in order to give birth to a child.
Perhaps it was her sincerity that touched Heaven, and at the age of twenty-six, she finally gave birth to a boy.
Since then, Zhao has studied Buddhism more religiously.
This child was later known as the master of traditional Chinese studies- Nan Huaijin.
Later, when the locals talked about Nan Huaijin, they all used the word "Buddha son" to describe him, which means the son sent by the Buddha and bodhisattva.
Nan Huaijin's birth
In 1917, in The Village of Dituan, Wengqu Town, Yueqing County, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, a generation of masters Nan Huaijin was born.
Because the parents have a son in middle age and are an only son, they also take good care of this child.
Especially the mother Zhao Shi, who gave birth to this son with difficulty, became more and more fond of this child.
How much does Zhao love this child?
For example, children are generally weaned at the age of one or two, while Nan Huaijin is still not weaned when she is seven years old.
At that time, Nan Huaijin was studying in a private school, and during the recess, Nan Huaijin would go home and suck a few sips of milk in her mother's arms.
Father Nan Yang Zhou also loves this child very much, but unlike Zhao's love, Nan Yang Zhou has strict requirements for this child.
At the age of six, Nan Huaijin began to attend private school and study the Four Books and Five Classics.
When he was about eleven years old, his father sent him to the county's first elementary school to attend the sixth grade.
At that time, the school was in the county seat, far from home, so Nan Yangzhou asked Nan Huaijin to live in the home of one of his friends surnamed Lin.
This friend surnamed Lin happened to have a son at home, named Lin Mengfan, who happened to be with Nan Huaijin.
At the age of thirteen, Nan Huaijin finished private school and primary school.
At this time, Nan Huaijin did not show how talented and intelligent.
On the contrary, Nan Huaijin took the penultimate first place and got a certificate of graduation.
After finishing primary school, where did Nan Huaijin go?
At this time, the South Family had just suffered a disaster.
At that time, Nan Huaijin went to Lin Mengfan's house in the county, and Nan Huaijin's parents were at home, when a group of pirates came to the family and wanted to hijack the money.
The valuable things in the family were hijacked by these pirates, and fortunately there were no casualties in the family.
Father Nan Yangzhou believes that as long as people have no problems, they can still earn money, just as the so-called "stay in the green mountains, not afraid of no firewood." ”
But I have to admit that after experiencing this disaster, the family's economic situation can be imagined.
At this time, did Nan Huaijin continue to go to school, or did she find another way out?
At that time, there was no middle school in Yueqing County, where Nan Huaijin was located, and if she wanted to go to school, she had to go to Wenzhou, and the family conditions were not enough to afford Nan Huaijin's schooling.
In that era, the mainland was in social turmoil and the economy was very backward, and many children only went to private schools, and they no longer continued to learn a few words.
There are also poor children who have no chance to learn at all.
His father, Nan Yangzhou, wanted Nan Huaijin to learn a craft or do business, but Nan Huaijin expressed his reluctance.
My father tried to persuade him several times to no avail, and as long as he went, he studied at home and studied and studied on his own.
That summer, his cousin Wang Shihe, who was studying in middle school in Wenzhou, came on vacation, and the family invited a teacher to tutor him, and after Nan Yangzhou heard about it, he also asked Nan Huaijin to listen to the class.
There were a total of seven or eight students attending the lecture, of which Nan Huaijin was the youngest.
The teacher invited was named Zhu Weiyuan, and Mr. Zhu Weiyuan was very knowledgeable and could not be admitted to the meritorious name in the former Qing Dynasty, so he traveled everywhere to give lectures.
He talked about the past and the present, quoted the scriptures, and when he was excited, he would spit and dance, and people at that time admired him.
Although Mr. Zhu Weiyuan's lecture to Nan Huaijin was only one month, this short month left a deep impression on Nan Huaijin.
At that time, Mr. Zhu taught these seven or eight children ancient texts and poems, and Nan Huaijin had already memorized the "Three Hundred Tang Poems" and was familiar with the tang poems, but Nan Huaijin only memorized the Tang poems, but he did not know where the Tang poems were.
One day, Nan Huaijin came to Mr. Zhu Weiyuan's study and saw a book of Wu Meicun's poems on the desk, which she liked very much after reading it.
Seeing this, Mr. Zhu took advantage of the opportunity to read Wu Meicun's poems for him and lent him a volume of Qing poems.
Since then, Nan Huaijin began to dabble in Qing Dynasty poetry and learned something.
Mr. Zhu Weiyuan's teachings allowed Nan Huaijin to broaden his horizons, and he believed that in addition to Tang poetry, Qing Dynasty poetry also had a different charm.
Although they did not spend much time together, Nan Huaijin regarded Zhu Weiyuan as an enlightenment teacher for his poetry study, which he would never forget.
When he was seventeen years old, Nan Huaijin thought that he could not be confined to such a small place all day, and he hoped that he could go out to see and break out of his own world.
Therefore, after his parents had raised enough money for him, they reluctantly sent him to leave.
The influence of his father Nan Yang Zhou on Nan Huaijin
In Nan Huaijin's childhood, he did not show amazing talent.
But his father Nan Yangzhou's education of Nan Huaijin in his childhood had a very profound impact on his future and even his life.
His father's expectation of Nan Huaijin was not to read and become an official in the traditional sense, but to hope that Nan Huaijin could study or do business.
Although Nan Yangzhou did not go to school much, he always believed that reading more books must be beneficial.
He did it himself, and he also demanded this from his son Nan Huaijin.
When I was in a private school, the private school teacher asked to read and recite the Four Books and the Five Classics.
After returning home, her father demanded that Nan Huaijin must memorize the texts that the teacher had asked to recite.
This request seemed impersonal, because Nan Huaijin was still very young at the time, and he did not understand the content of the text, but just blindly repeated the memory, which was indeed difficult for him at that time.
But his father, Nan Yang Zhou, did not think so, and Nan Yang Zhou felt that these scriptures must be memorized, although he did not understand them now, but when he grew up, he would naturally understand them.
In fact, these scriptures did play a great role in Nan Huaijin's later development.
The reason why he can become a master of Sinology is because of his profound foundation in Sinology.
And his profound foundation in traditional Chinese studies was obtained from the Four Books and Five Classics that he recited when he was a child.
For asking his son to do business, his father Nan Yangzhou also has his own unique views.
As we all know, in ancient times, the mainland was heavy on agriculture and suppressed commerce, and the social status of merchants was often looked down upon.
But Nan Yang zhou did not think so, he believed that the profession of businessman was very good, the business was done well, at least it could support the family, and once the business became large, it was possible that the government would come to climb.
Father Nan Yang Zhou hopes that his son Nan Huai Jin zi will inherit his father's business, work hard to do business, and do a good job.
On the road of his son Nan Huaijin's study, his father Nan Yangzhou has always been very supportive and encouraging.
When Nan Huaijin was thirteen years old, his father sent him to his cousin Wang Shihe's house to study with Mr. Zhu Weiyuan.
Under the influence of Mr. Zhu, he read all the poems of famous Artists of the Qing Dynasty.
Nan Huaijin had a large collection of books, and Nan Huaijin read the "Historical Records", "Selected Writings", Tang poems and Song Poems, Ming and Qing novels, etc. at home, laying the foundation for his future development.
The father Nan Yangzhou saw that his son loved learning so much, so he invited Ye Gongshu, a scholar who had studied both Chinese and Western studies.
Under the guidance of Mr. Ye, Nan Huaijin not only studied ancient Chinese, but also knew about Sun Yat-sen, Kang Youwei, Lincoln, Washington and other celebrities who were active in the politics of the time.
This allowed Nan Huaijin to understand international and domestic politics and broaden her horizons.
In order to let his son Nan Huaijin have a cleaner learning environment, his father Nan Yangzhou sent Nan Huaijin to the family temple to study.
At this time, Nan Huaijin was about fourteen or fifteen years old, and his father let him concentrate on studying and told him not to go down the mountain normally.
Here, Nan Huaijin quietly read books and read all the important classics of ancient China.
At the age of seventeen, Nan Huaijin left her hometown and applied for the "Zhejiang Guoshu Hall" in Hangzhou.
Inside the Kunigamikan, he not only practiced martial arts, but also took cultural lessons.
On weekdays, he often went to Wenlan Pavilion on the lonely mountain in Hangzhou to borrow the "Four Libraries of the Whole Book", and had close contacts with the monk Hu Shi of the modern newspaper celebrity Shi Liangcaijia Temple.
Shi Liangcai has a large collection of books, especially he loves to collect Taoist books, and in a few years, Nan Huaijin read through all the Taoist books that Shi Liangcai treasured.
Therefore, before Nan Huaijin was twenty years old, he already had an in-depth study of the classics of Confucianism and Taoism, which laid a solid foundation for him to become a master of traditional Chinese studies.
The biggest influence of the father Nan Yang zhou on his son is to let his son Nan Huaijin continue to pursue learning and study in depth, which is a very valuable asset for Nan Huaijin.
Fourth, Nan Huaijin's achievements and influence
Mr. Nan Huaijin has achieved great success in his lifetime, and he has many titles, such as Chinese cultural sinologist, ancient Chinese culture communicator, contemporary Chinese writer, poet, Buddhist scholar, educator, martial artist, etc.
In addition, Mr. Nan Huaijin has also promoted the development of cross-strait relations.
The most important achievement of Mr. Nan Huaijin in his life is that he has made a significant contribution to the inheritance of Chinese culture.
As a Chinese reader, Mr. Nan Huaijin is a good example of Chinese experience in reading, culture and tradition.
Unlike most people, Mr. Nan Huaijin not only reads, but also learns many principles of being a human being through reading, and in the daily life of himself and his children, Mr. Nan Huaijin uses the philosophies in traditional Chinese culture to strictly require and practice.
In this way, Mr. Nan Huaijin is a practitioner of traditional Chinese culture, and he not only "speaks", but also "teaches by example".
His life was mainly based on cultivation and self-cultivation, and his son Nan Yipeng used a "big resident" to describe his father.
In Nan Yipeng's eyes, his father had been practicing all his life and had reached a very high realm, which was not comparable to ordinary people.
Mr. Nan Huaijin had five sons and two daughters in his lifetime, of which the third son, Nan Yipeng, was most deeply influenced by his father, Nan Huaijin.
When Nan Yipeng was very young, his father taught him to read more.
Why do people read?
Father Nan Huaijin replied from the perspective of traditional Chinese culture, "Reading is reasonable."
The father let Nan Yipeng read, not simply to read, but to ask his son to do what was required in the book.
When reading the "Zhu ZiZhi Family Maxim", his father asked Nan Yipeng to do the same in behavior after reading it.
After Nan Yipeng read and read, his father asked him to endorse it.
Ancient Chinese cultural books such as "Three Character Classic", "Thousand Character Text", and "Three Hundred Poems of Tang Dynasty" were already memorized by Nan Yipeng when he was a child.
Under the strict requirements of his father, Nan Huaijin, Nan Yipeng gradually developed a strong interest in traditional Chinese culture.
This kind of family atmosphere of loving reading has a profound influence on Nan Yipeng, and under the influence of his father, Nan Yipeng not only loves literature, but also has a solid literary foundation.
Later, Nan Yipeng inherited his father's mantle and became a master of traditional Chinese studies.
For other children, Nan Huaijin also taught them to read and be sensible.
According to Mr. Nan Huaijin's children, what their fathers have always taught them is to read and be human.
When the youngest son, Nan Guoxi, went to the United States, Nan Huaijin encouraged his son, "Meritorious and rich original things, Ji Shi altruism is re-implemented."
The father hopes that the youngest son, Nan Guoxi, can abandon his fame and fortune, be down-to-earth, and be a person with ideals and ambitions.
The most precious gift left by father Nan Huaijin to the child is to ask the child to read poetry and books, know the books clearly, and become a knowledgeable and cultured person.
For the people of the world, Mr. Nan Huaijin emphasized that all sentient beings are equal and are related to the people of the world.
He regards his children as the people of the world, and regards the people of the world as his children, and truly achieves "the old and the old, the young and the young and the young".
In learning and treating others in the world, he is a model for all to learn.
Throughout his life, he treated others equally, was sincere, and was loved by everyone in words and deeds.
In 2012, the 95-year-old Nan Huaijin passed away unexpectedly.
Before his death, Mr. Nan Huaijin wrote down four big characters: "The world is public".
These four words are the true portrayal of his life, he demanded of himself in this way, and he did the same.
After his death, his children and students were very sad, and they wrote articles to remember Mr. Nan Huaijin, who was "related to the people of the world".
However, the death of Mr. Nan Huaijin is not the end of everything.
In 2019, Nan Huaijin's grandson said that a large number of his grandfather's relics were missing, and this also put the dispute over Mr. Nan Huaijin's inheritance on the surface.
According to the Nan family, hundreds of thousands of books and Buddhist statues and other collections of Nan Huaijin's life were gone, and the objects of suspicion of the Descendants of the Nan family were Nan Huaijin's former student Guo Concubine and his mother Li Sumei.
Because these collections of Nan Huaijin were placed in the Taihu University Hall during his lifetime, after his death, these collections disappeared from the Taihu University Hall.
In desperation, the Nan family chose to confront Li's mother and daughter in court, hoping to return Nan Huaijin's relics.
There is no trace of the follow-up of the legacy, but Mr. Nan Huaijin's influence has not been weakened by this entanglement.
In 2020, the new crown epidemic is raging, but the epidemic is merciless.
In February of that year, Wu Peiyong, director of the Jiufeng Police Station of the East Lake New Technology Development Zone of the Wuhan Municipal Public Security Bureau, was receiving treatment at the Optics Valley Branch of Tongji University.
He is a very responsible director, and in the case of being in a hospital, he does not forget to tell the rest of the police comrades to work well and pay attention to their bodies.
Speaking of himself, he said that he brought Mr. Nan Huaijin's "Analects of Other Languages", revisited it after treatment in the hospital, and had a new understanding of the classics.
And this, perhaps, is the charm of Mr. Nan Huaijin, so that the classic will last forever.
"Nan Huai Jin Guoxue Calendar 2022" has also been released synchronously, from the sales point of view, it is still quite good, but now, the news of Nan Huaijin's descendants has been very little, perhaps, for the descendants of the Nan family, ordinary life, is their greatest respect for Mr. Nan Huaijin.
Once, in order to inherit the incense, Nan Father chose to marry his sister-in-law, and later, with Nan Huaijin, he became an excellent master of Traditional Chinese studies under the guidance of his parents, and the cycle of cause and effect, everything, may have been doomed.
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