Many years ago, I bought a copy of "Ye Dehui's Books", and I only knew that Ye Shi had died as a "local tycoon and inferior gentleman", and according to Yun, he was shot six times when he died, which can be described as unbearable to see. And Ye Dehui once wrote the "Shulin Qing dialect" that was respected by readers, which can be described as a great reader, and later scholars commented that he "wrote and engraved dozens of books, most of which were written and engraved in the world." "In my heart, I was quite interested in his people and his deeds, and reading this book carefully under the lamp, he felt very deeply, and his learning was really good, and people had to admire him. As for the paradox of his character, it is a matter of opinion, and those who are born later like me can only find the style of their predecessors in their books. As a reader, I focus on learning, which can be identified by myself. And the morality of the person is beyond my prying eyes. Whether human nature is complex or knowledge is easy to grasp.
Ye Dehui (1864-1927), zi yi bin, the number of the Garden, also known as Zhishan. His ancestral home is Wu County, Jiangsu Province. During the turmoil in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, his father Ye Yucun began to move to Hunan and occupied Changsha (later Ye Dehui bought a Xiangtan County nationality when he was studying at Yuelu Academy). Ye Dehui was born in Changsha, so he called himself a "half-Wu and half-Chu person". In the eighteenth year of Guangxu (1892), he entered the priesthood and was appointed as the head of the official department, and two years later returned to his hometown - Sujia Lane in Changsha. Since then, he has been engaged in sutra studies and primary school research at home, as well as collecting books, school books, and engraving books. Ye Shi was very diligent in philology, and he was very diligent in the "Shuowen", and he took the hundreds of articles of a certain author mentioned in the "Shuowen" to prove it one by one, and he came up with creative ideas from time to time, which was quite praised by the scholars at that time. In the decades of living in Changsha, although Ye Dehui had all kinds of bad deeds, such as compiling the "Wing Sect Series" and guarding the ethics of the program, he never gave up the pursuit of learning. Therefore, the scholar Mr. Xie Guozhen made this comment in the article "Series of Books and Engraving Sources and Flow Examinations": "Ye Shi is a local tycoon in Hunan, who enters and exits the public gate, and the fish and meat township ,...... There is no merit in his people, but he is proficient in the study of catalogs, and can be a dictatorship in addition to the correct history, take historical materials from the side, and open the door for future generations to govern. ”
"Ye Dehui Shushu" selects three kinds of Ye's calligraphy and writings: "Ten Covenants of The Book Collection", "Shulin Qing dialect", and "Shulin Yu dialect". Among them, the "Ten Covenants of The Book Collection" can be called the experience of bibliophiles, which is particularly valuable. The basic rules and regulations of ancient book collection are introduced from ten aspects, such as "purchase, identification, decoration, and display". Shulin Yu dialect is the sequel to Shulin Qing dialect. These two kinds of collection are widely available, and all the historical cases involving skeletonization, printing, binding, transcription, collection, inscription, and school chicken have all been examined, so they are valued by scholars of editions and catalogs. Liang Qichao, in his book "The Introduction to Traditional Chinese Studies and Its Reading Methods", commented on the "Shulin Qing Dialect": "It is very good to discuss the source and flow of engraved books and the reasons for their palms. "The biggest aspect of Ye Dehui's academic achievements is the study of version bibliography. He spent 24 years in school magazines to compile 15 books and catalogues written by his predecessors, collectively known as "Guan Gu Tang Bibliography Series Carvings". Among them, the "Song Shaoxing Secretary Provincial Continuation Of the Four Libraries Que Bibliography" is a more important Song Dynasty official revision bibliography of Ye Dehui's examination and proofreading.
Yu read Ye's words and admired the ease of his writing and the conciseness of his narration, a volume in hand, as if the old paper smoke and clouds in the ancient books were all at a glance. However, although Ye Shi bears the name of Yan Ya, his sexual end is full of paradoxes, which are not tolerated by the theory of the times, in the words of Mr. Liang Qichao, "Ye usually does not love himself for people". Ye Shi also held a biased theory on the restoration and reform of the law and the Xinhai Revolution, blindly opposing innovation, and he especially lamented that the new study "emphasizes classes in different years and does not read the book of Confucius and Mencius", laments that the Confucian style is weakening and the Swen wants to fall, "the old school has few peers to discuss, and the Central Plains is far from the chaotic hometown"; he always compares himself with the Fusheng who passed on the scriptures during the Qin and Han dynasties, "should laugh at the old slaves who learn bitterly, pass on the scriptures and listen to the Fusheng widows"; "the white-haired transmission of the scriptures is old, and the wall is afraid of the ancestral dragon burning". He was not accustomed to all the new changes. He completely closed himself to the Qing Dynasty. Later, he was eventually cursed because of this, and died of death, which is regrettable, and there are not many people who are high in the Ye clan. Of course, from today's point of view, Ye Shi's extreme theory of the Restoration and Reform Law and the Xinhai Revolution is not completely unreasonable, at least he should not die. Yet the revolution came, and a university inquirer could only look out of the shadows.
The novelist Hongying wrote about a bookseller in his work K: The Technique in the Room, and this person was the bibliophile Ye Dehui. Ye Dehui was extremely hostile to the peasant revolution in Changsha at that time, and openly plotted to scold the couplet. Its joint clouds: agricultural transportation Hongkai, rice sorghum, wheat millet, all hybrids; the venue is vast, horses, cattle and sheep, chickens and dogs, are all livestock. The horizontal batch is: Bin Tip Card Golem (meaning not literate, not big, not small, not up, not up, not a ghost. It is a pity that the peasant revolution was in full swing at that time, and such a person who "spoke wildly" naturally ended up in an extremely tragic situation. At that time, the presiding judge, Guo Liang, the head of the Hunan peasant movement, was the successor of Xia Xi, and he carried out Xia Xi's ultra-left set. Ye Shi can be described as a representative of the disaster caused by words. If the peasants were instigated, their destructive power would be quite terrifying, such as Zhang Xianzhong at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Boxer Rebellion, and so on. They killed people, almost without any scruples, and Sichuan was killed by Zhang Xianzhong to be "uninhabited for thousands of miles.".
The death of Ye Shi caused a huge shock to Hunan cultural celebrities and national cultural celebrities. Yi Peiji, a modern celebrity in Hunan and a teacher of Mao Zedong, who was the principal of the Hunan Provincial First Normal School and the minister of agriculture and mining of the National Government, and Tan Yankai, who was the governor of Hunan Province, chairman of the National Government, and chief executive of Hunan Province, talked about the before and after Ye Dehui's murder, and was relatively sad. Mr. Liang Qichao analyzed the cause of Wang Guowei's death when Zeng Yun said: "His pessimism about the current situation is extremely profound. The most recent stimulus was the shooting of ye dehui and Wang Baoxinzhi, scholars of the Two Lakes. Jing Gong was deeply in pain, so he served Qu Zi shen abyss and did not look back. A few years later, Dr. Hu Shi, one of the leaders of the New Culture Movement, wrote a vernacular poem called "Mourning Ye Dehui": "The old man in The Garden is not afraid of death, and the muzzle of the gun is what is pointed at the chest!" Thirty years after my life, it was finally my turn today. Who is the one who killed me? Red Party also. If I were in power, I would be the same. At that time, he vowed to kill Kang Liang, and it seemed that he was also confused. I laugh when you kill me, and I recognize you as the same tune. Thirty years of right and wrong, just like killing people to wing religion. "The words are blunt, but they have a deep meaning.
Ye Shi is indeed a talent for reading, but his behavior is elusive, maybe this is a real Ye Dehui. His true colors were that of a man of letters, a scholar who was born at an inopportune time. His tragedy lies in being a student in the whirlpool of history. All the great and handsome masters have their mavericks, and if they are not dismissed by people, "Ye Dehui's Words" is indeed worth watching. Its text is easy to recite, and its academic insights are also outstanding. It's just that he died early, otherwise, he might have become a figure like Chen Yinke and Qian Zhongshu, and it is unknown. Dead, everything is difficult to say, only the speculation and scrutiny of later generations. Dead or not, the figure in history is not the same. For example, if Zhou Zuoren died before he became a traitor, then he was a different look in the discussion of later generations. The deep meaning of this may be arguable to those who know it.