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On December 25, 1941, Hong Kong fell, and the Japanese army immediately burned and looted in the city.
It turned out that Chen Yinke had recently received an offer from Oxford University in the United Kingdom to become a professor of sinology in the United Kingdom.
But during the period of applying for passports, just in time for the outbreak of the European war, I had to temporarily live in Hong Kong, ready to wait for the end of the war before leaving, but unexpectedly, the Japanese invaded Hong Kong, and Chen Yinke's family was also "greeted" by the devil.
When it was, a group of devils rushed into Chen Yinke's house, only to see an old man (Chen Yinke was 51 years old at the time, but because of wandering for a long time, malnutrition, haggard face, and looked like an old man) sitting quietly in the courtyard, calm and calm, the devil was also very puzzled, is this old Chinese man not afraid of death?
Before the devil stepped forward, Chen Yinke immediately scolded the Japanese soldiers in a fluent Tokyo accent, which frightened the little devil in place, and felt that this old man had a great background, and the old man was Chen Yinke.
It turned out that the Japanese at that time had an ecological chain, and the nobility of the Tokyo area was naturally at the highest level, Chen Yinke had a very high language talent, and he taught himself Japanese when he studied in Japan, and his fluent Japanese pronunciation made the Japanese soldiers feel that his identity must be unusual.
Soon, the leader of the devil came to Chen's house, and when he saw Chen Yinke, he was very surprised, it turned out that both of them had studied at Hongwen College in Japan, and in terms of qualifications, Chen Yinke was still the senior of the leader of the devil.
What's more, Chen Yinke at that time was a well-known master of Chinese studies in the East, and he was also a household name in Japan, and many people respected him, and the leader of the devils naturally did not dare to slack off, so he immediately apologized respectfully and withdrew.
This incident has become a beautiful talk in the market, and every time the people see this report, they all admire Chen Yinke's integrity, but now, many netizens doubt the authenticity of this incident and think that this incident was made up.
So what's the truth?
In fact, a thorough examination of historical materials and official reports related to Chen Yinke has never mentioned that Chen Yinke scolded the Japanese soldiers in Hong Kong, and the descendants of the Chen family have never mentioned it in public.
However, it cannot be assumed that this incident does not exist, because it is true that Chen Yinke is trapped in Hong Kong, and his hatred of the Japanese is also recognized by the outside world.
On July 7, 1937, when the Anti-Japanese War broke out and Beijing fell, Chen Yinke was teaching at Tsinghua University and his father Chen Sanli was also a famous literati.
The Japanese sent people to woo Chen Sanli many times, Chen Sanli had a very high national integrity, and would never join the Japanese invaders, and in the face of the loss of mountains and rivers, he was sad and indignant, and died of hunger strike.
The death of his father made Chen Yinke hate the Japanese very much, and in the face of the Japanese wooing, Chen Yinke did not hesitate to refuse, he moved south with the school, and came to the Southwest Associated University to teach, along the way, he was displaced, starving, but even so he was never with the Japanese.
When they were trapped in Hong Kong, Japanese scholars heard that Chen Yinke was here, so they wrote letters to the Japanese military headquarters, asking not to embarrass Mr. Chen Yinke, and the commander of the Japanese Military Police Headquarters in Hong Kong immediately ordered someone to send flour to the Chen family to alleviate the predicament of Chen Yinke's family.
In the face of the kindness of the Japanese, Chen Yinke refused without hesitation, and directly asked his family to throw away all the flour sent by the Japanese devils.
On the night of Chinese New Year's Eve in 1942, Chen Yinke's family only drank half a bowl of gruel each, and the whole family ate a duck egg.
During this period, the Japanese also personally sent 400,000 yuan to try to get Chen Yinke to come forward to establish the Oriental Academy of Literature and promote the so-called "Greater East Asia Co-prosperity", but Chen Yinke still refused, and after that, no matter how the Japanese coerced and lured, Chen Yinke was unmoved.
It was not until May 5, 1942 that Chen Yinke finally escaped from Hong Kong with the help of his friends and came to Guilin several times, where he served as a professor at Guangxi University and Sun Yat-sen University, and continued to spare no effort in academic research.
Chen Yinke and Wang Guowei, Liang Qichao, Zhao Yuanren and called Tsinghua University Master of the Four Great Powers, Liang Qichao once introduced to friends in person: "Mr. Chen's knowledge is far better than mine", the famous historian Fu Sinian once commented: "Mr. Chen's knowledge, in the past three hundred years is only one person", Chen Yinke's academic ability is highly respected, in linguistics, history, archaeology and other fields have made outstanding contributions.
Chen Yinke never cooperated with the Japanese in his life, nor did he participate in politics, but was just a pure and nationally righteous literati.
Therefore, most people are still willing to believe that Mr. Chen Yinke scolded the Japanese, and there is no doubt about Mr. Chen's national integrity.
In that troubled era, there were still many literati with backbone like Chen Yinke, who dared to look at the Japanese angrily and scolded the atrocities of the Japanese.
On October 7, 1969, Chen Yinke died of illness in Guangzhou at the age of 79.