Ye Dehui is a scholar of modern China and a master of traditional Chinese studies.
A native of Xiangtan, Hunan, he was a jinshi in the late Qing Dynasty, the same year as Zhang Yuanji and Li Xisheng. Later, he resigned from the capital and returned to Xiang. The reason for resigning, it is said that it is better to be an official than to return to Xiangxiang to do business.
Full of economy, conservative thinking, Yuan Shikai's "die-hard fans"
He is a famous bibliographer and a great bibliophile, and his works such as "Shulin Qing dialect" and "Ten Covenants of The Book Collection" have been published, and he has been very popular.
It is said that Ye's collection of books, sweat cattle, volleys, volleys, magnificent, as many as more than 200,000 volumes, known as "Hunan's first bibliophile".
Many of the books in the collection are ancient and good books, or rare and rare books.
His collection of books is not shelved, but used for academic research. Therefore, he was proficient in collation, examination, and falsification of books, and was also proficient in catalogs and editions, becoming a giant of catalog versioning.
He was also very knowledgeable, full of economy, and his writings were all over the place, and in the academic circles at that time, he was in the sky. He once served as the president of the Hunan Education Association and the president of the Changsha Chamber of Commerce, and the political and business circles "eat all", switch freely, and have a prominent reputation.
It can be seen that he is not only knowledgeable, but also a business wizard, starting from the tea business, becoming the "richest man" in Hunan, and can be called a xiangchu figure, which is the limelight for a while.
However, he is extremely conservative in his thinking, and as an old-school figure, in order to safeguard his vested interests, he is willing to risk the world's great disobedience and act perversely, and he is a hardcore reactionary.
During the Restoration Movement, he opposed hatred of the Restorationists, denounced and criticized Kang Liang's change of law; in the Xinhai Revolution, he was hostile to attacking the Northern Expedition, moving against the tide of history, and stubborn.
Yuan Shikai's restoration, he stepped forward, was Yuan's "die-hard loyalist"; the Xiang people Tang Cai often rebelled against the Qing Uprising, he compiled the "Record of Jue Fan", stabbed him in the back.
Some people say that the greater the learning, the more reactionary he is.
After the Northern Expedition, he was quite favored by Chiang Kai-shek, circling between officials and businessmen, exploiting and oppressing the people.
The rich side is unkind to the rich, arrogant to death, stubborn to the end
In 1910, floods occurred in Hunan. He hoarded Juqi, colluded with profiteers, coaxed up the price of rice, and detonated the "wave of rice grabbing in Changsha." In the end, he was stripped of his meritorious name by the Qing court, and his reputation was discredited.
In 1927, the Changsha Agricultural Association asked him to write a couplet. Arrogant and arrogant, he had already suppressed his anger and finally found an outlet.
He pondered for a moment, splashed ink and waved, and the upper link: agricultural movement Fang Xing, rice liang and wheat millet, a class of hybrids; lower link: the venue was expanded, the horse, cattle, sheep, chicken and dog were full, and the six animals were full of halls. Horizontal batch: bin, tip, card, shame. The four words are taken apart, that is, "no literature, no weapons, no big, no small, no up, no people and no ghosts."
After Ye finished writing, he lost his pen and was very arrogant
When the president saw it, he was furious, and this was repaid, and he openly insulted and confronted the workers' and peasants' revolution, and it was not enough to kill the people in anger.
At that time, Liu Zhixun, the president of the Changsha Agricultural Association, was the one in "I lost my pride and Yang Jun lost willow".
If you don't do it, you won't die. Because of the rapid anger of the moment, a couplet, which invites the disaster of killing, is self-inflicted.
Ye Dehui was killed, and there is another version, Zhou Zuoren said in the "Essay after dinner" that Ye was a "star scout" draft for Yuan Shikai, stepping on iron shoes, looking for and foraging, willing to serve Yuan Shikai, serving the work of dogs and horses.
People are doing it, and the sky is watching. Wan did not expect that one of the humiliated women, who later became a cadre of the peasant association, was really a narrow road and could not escape.
On April 11, 1927, Ye Dehui was taken to the Liuyang Literacy Ridge Execution Ground and executed by firing squad at the age of 63.
Wives and children are separated, and the family is broken. The books, calligraphy, paintings, and treasures that he had devoted his life to were all robbed. The family wealth is scattered, the collection of books is lost, and the end is sad and lamentable.
True celebrities, self-styled, morally unworthy, and have mixed reputations
As a bibliophile, he likes to mix pictures of beautiful women in his collection. Someone asked him why he did this? He said, prevent fires!
Because the fire god was a yellow flower girl dressed in red, she later made a mistake and was reduced to mortal dust by the Jade Emperor and became a maid under the stove. Deal with fire all day long, see who is not happy, go and put a fire. But because I was born in a boudoir, if I saw such a picture, I would be shy to escape.
It seems that the beauty figure also has the role of a fire extinguisher, which is ridiculous to the extreme.
Because he was a university inquirer, he reasoned so far and heresy that the tiger was stunned and did not know whether it was true or not.
It seems that learning and character are more contrary to him.
As a celebrity in the late Qing Dynasty, although he was talented and full of economy, he was not worthy of the position and had a mixed reputation in his life.