------ Chu Shui, president of the Chinese Popular Literature and Art Research Association
On September 16, 2006, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences "Xu Fancheng Anthology" published a symposium, 16 volumes of imperial masterpieces, impressively on the rostrum, people are stunned, more interesting is:
"Who is Xu Fancheng?"
---- not only young scholars do not know, middle-aged scholars do not know, even among senior old experts, not much is known. It is simply incredible that a true master of Sinology is so little known. Xu Fancheng ---- a Student of Changsha who studied geography under Chairman Mao Zedong in his early years. In 1928, he was admitted to Fudan University in Shanghai, wrote "Talk about Fudan University", and submitted it to the "Language Silk" edited by Lu Xun, so he got to know Mr. Lu Xun, was highly appreciated, and was also considered a student. After studying at the University of Heidelberg in Germany, he became an expert in Nietzsche's research. In 1945, he went to India as a professor at Tagore International University, where he lectured for 27 years. At the end of 1978, he returned to China alone, and the famous scholar Mr. Ren Jiyu recommended him to the Institute of World Religions of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences as a researcher. Mr. Xu Fancheng, who is "quiet and even lonely", has been trying to reinterpret the classics with "spiritual philosophy", thus forming his own unique academic system.
---- this old gentleman who is not under Mr. Ji Xianlin and Mr. Jin Kemu in the study of Sanskrit, especially in Hinology, until 2006, at least I had not heard of this person, nor had I heard Mr. Ji Xianlin mention him. Only later, and only from Mr. Liu Haisu's old secretary ---- the famous art critic Mr. Ke Wenhui, I heard about the difficulty of publishing the "Xu Fancheng Anthology", just like a devout ascetic, pilgrimage to a long journey, bear loneliness, is equivalent to enjoying loneliness, and lonely life.
In fact, The 10-year-old Zhu Qianzhi of Changxu Fancheng is also similar, if it were not for the mid-1920s, Yang Kaihui's classmate Yang Wujie of Changsha Girls' High School, who lived in seclusion in Hangzhou West Lake and tried spiritual love, Mr. Zhu Qianzhi would have been almost forgotten. After the founding of New China, Mr. Zhu Qianzhi, who also co-taught with Mr. Ji Xianlin at Peking University, I have not heard Mr. Ji Xianlin talk about him. It may be that Mr. Zhu Qianzhi focused on the study of the influence of Chinese culture on Europe, and later transferred to the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, at least, in the 13 apartments of Langrun Park, Peking University, there is no Mr. Zhu Qianzhi.com. However, Mr. Zhu Qianzhi, who was born in 1899, is also the predecessor of Mr. Ji Xianlin in age.
People who are willing to be lonely, in fact, need some kind of spiritual endowment, such as Mr. Lu Xun said that cattle eat grass and milk is milk. Endure loneliness, enjoy loneliness, in order to grow and complete in loneliness, such as Xi Murong's "A Flowering Tree", isn't it? In fact, loneliness is the greatest wealth in life.