Liu Bannong is a famous linguist in China, who actively participated in the literary revolution in his early years, opposed literary language, and advocated vernacular literature and "folk literature".
He is such a stunned person, the whole life has no plan, from time to time to surprise you, but after the surprise, but for his "unexpected move" greatly impressed.
Liu Bannong was born in a family of teachers in Jiangyin County, Jiangsu Province, since childhood is extremely smart, in primary and secondary school are record-breaking super bully, just when everyone thinks that he will successfully enter Peking University, Tsinghua University, but he chose to quit school, a person to Run to Shanghai to make a living.
In Shanghai, Liu Bannong found a job as an editor and began to write a large number of novels, but don't think that this scholar wants to realize his literary dreams, in fact, he writes some unpopular erotic novels and pastime novels, the purpose is nothing more than to earn more money.
A few years later, the newspaper was closed for rectification, and Liu Bannong's editorial work also came to an end, and he had to return to his hometown. Without income, the family has a very difficult life. However, at this moment, God threw down a piece of pie - Cai Yuanpei, the president of Peking University, actually sent him a letter of appointment for professors! This big pie smashed Liu Bannong for half a day, but this is the truth, a person who wrote erotic novels who has not yet graduated from middle school actually became a professor at Peking University!
Old Liu's life is unexpected enough, right?
Don't worry, this is just the beginning!
At Peking University, Liu Bannong quickly went from being an author of erotic novels to a pioneer of a new cultural movement.
Just when Liu Bannong rose to prominence in the north and became a legend as a "university professor in middle school", he was once again unexpected and chose to study abroad to return from a well-known doctorate.
Liu Bannong has a wide range of interests, loves to do one line after another, and is also famous, in addition to the master status in linguistics, he is also a famous poet, novelist, essayist, translator, folklorist, lyricist, photographer and so on.
In order to compile a "scolding album", Liu Bannong published a notice in the Beijing Morning Post to solicit national insults. After the linguist Zhao Yuanren saw the notice, he immediately rushed to Liu Bannong's dormitory and "scolded" Liu Bannong for a long time in the dialects of Hunan, Sichuan, Anhui and other places.
Subsequently, Zhou Zuoren also came and "scolded" Liu Bannong again in Shaoxing dialect.
When Liu Bannong was teaching at the university, he was "scolded" in dialects by students in Ningbo and Guangdong because he solicited "scolding" from students.
After that, Liu Bannong went to visit Zhang Taiyan again. Zhang Taiyan also heard that he was collecting "swearing language", so he used the Han Dynasty swear words to "scold him", and also told him who said this swear word and where it came from; then "scolded" him with the Tang Dynasty swear words, and then told him who scolded and where the code came from. It kept going from morning to noon.
Liu Bannong's people who came with him could only come out and say to Zhang Taiyan, "We have been in trouble with the teacher for a long time, and now we have to say goodbye." ”
Although the "scolding album" was not compiled, Liu Bannong continued to engage in the study of "folk literature" as always, and achieved fruitful results.
During his stay in Europe, the conditions were difficult, but Liu Bannong was admitted to the world's most difficult French national doctorate, the first to create the Chinese word "she", the book "Chinese Character Sound Experiment" won the French Constantine Volnet Linguistics Special Award, becoming the first person in China to win this international award.
Liu Bannong invented the word "she" with the female character and has been used to this day, which is a manifestation of the improvement of women's status.
Liu Bannong was also keen to collect local folklore, and he died because of it.
In June 1934, Liu Bannong went to Mongolia with several people to investigate Mongolian folklore. Although the journey is arduous, Liu Bannong is best at making fun in the bitterness, often telling everyone a joke, making a prank or the like. When I slept at night, I also placed my camp bed in the middle of the room, lay motionless on it, and jokingly said, I am in the middle of the coffin! No one expected that this joke would become his death sentence.
In the process of visiting, Liu Bannong was bitten by mosquitoes, which was a common thing, and everyone did not care, but unexpectedly contracted the disease.
After returning to Beijing, Liu Bannong was busy sorting out the information and failed to treat it in time, and unfortunately died a few days later.
At the memorial service, Peking University President Jiang Menglin personally presided over, Hu Shi choked up several times when introducing his life, and all the teachers and students cried in unison.
Later, someone commented: "In the May Fourth generation, serious people often take it too seriously and only recognize the reason of death; those who are dashing are often difficult to achieve." Characters like Liu Bannong are truly nostalgic. ”