How "crazy" zhang Taiyan is
On the morning of January 7, 1914, a celebrity from the reception room of the Great Presidential Palace in Beijing came to the side of a passerby.
This person's head is like a flying canopy, his clothes are not neat, he has long fingernails, but he holds a lupine in the cold weather, and on the handle of the fan is a large medal made of cloisonné, which is not like a good class. He pulled out a business card that was one foot and five inches long, and said that he wanted to find the president and ask the proclamator to convey it.
Chengxuanguan recognized at a glance that the medal was a medal issued by Yuan Shikai himself, and it seemed that this person was not small. Looking at the business card again, it turns out that this celebrity who does not trim the edge is a big star in the political and academic circles with a high exposure rate in the political arena of the Republic of China: Zhang Taiyan.
Turning to the big newspapers and small periodicals of that festival, news about Zhang Taiyan always appeared in an endless stream. It is no wonder that this gong was a great general in the early political arena of the Republic of China, and at the same time a generation of masters in the academic circles. In his early years, when he was lecturing in Tokyo, there were ten disciples, and later he succeeded in his own names, such as Huang Kan, Qian Xuantong, Lu Xun, and Zhou Zuoren; of course, more importantly, Zhang Taiyan was known as "You Heng of the Republic of China", and was also known as "Zhang Crazy Maniac". A history of the Republic of China, if this character is missing, I don't know how much it will be reduced.
At that time, there was a saying that if Zhang Taiyan pointed at someone's nose and scolded, who would have a sharp decline in reputation, a great decrease in his value, a serious illness, and who would die. Because of this, although Zhang Taiyan bears the name of a madman, no one dares to take his words seriously, of course, most of them are taken out of context by those with ulterior motives. Whenever he made any remarks, he would always be reported with great fanfare, with the title of "Zhang Crazy Crazy Goes Crazy"; if Zhang Taiyan scolded them right, the title published in the newspaper the next day would become: "Zhang Crazy Man is not crazy."
Back to the scene that happened in front of the presidential palace.
The propaganda official pushed that the president was receiving Premier Xiong; Zhang Taiyan said: Then I will wait. After waiting for half a day, there was still no follow-up, so he wanted to see Yuan's secretary again. The secretaries pushed back and forth, and no one wanted to come out to see the thorn. Zhang Madman finally couldn't help but have a big explosion, fisted and kicked at the same time, and smashed the utensils in the reception room into a mess.
This disturbance finally alarmed Yuan Shikai, who ordered someone to prepare a car and horse to deceive him out of the presidential palace, and then sent him to the military instructor near the presidential palace for "reception."
Discovering that Zhang Taiyan, who had been deceived, was full of anger and anger, along the way, he named Yuan Shikai by name and scolded Yuan Shikai as a "one-man thief" who "harbored evil intentions", and was bound to be "discredited"; this way he was scolded bitterly, but the guards escorting him could not bear the abuse and covered their ears one by one. Later, his student Lu Xun once described this vivid scene in "Mr. Zhang Taiyan's Two and Three Affairs".
Zhang Taiyan can be so crazy, he has his own capital. He once said in a crazy way: "After I die, the Culture of Mid-Xia will also die."
How crazy should it be to have such a big tone? But in today's Land of China, there is really no one whose knowledge can be compared to it. His attainments in scripture, historiography, the Hundred Schools of The Sons, Paleography, Paleophonology, Literature, Buddhism, and even medicine are unfathomable and unmatched.
When he was alive, he had already approved the scriptures of Kang Shengren to the point that he could only fight back and had no power to fight back. In his eyes, Hu Shizhi was "what", and Wu Zhihui, a great talent of the Kuomintang, rebuked the "face up" people in the "yin ditch". He talked to Liu Bannong, who taught "ancient sound law" at Peking University, on ancient sound rhymes, making Liu listen to a half-fool. The literary hero Lu Xun studied under his disciples for a few days, learned to write the teacher's "Diary of a Madman", and let go of a cannon battle that history is all cannibalism, which is famous in the world.
Academically, the two masters and apprentices could not be compared, but even in terms of cursing, Lu Xun had to bow to the inferiority. Zhang Taiyan's scolding can be described as an exclusive and incomparable. Celebrities in the late Qing Dynasty and early Minchu, he almost scolded everywhere. He is a bit of Don Quixote, and whenever there is movement, regardless of enemies or friends, he wields his sword; but he is wiser than Don Quixote: he cursed the emperor during the Guangxu years, and became a great revolutionary; During his exile in Japan, he cursed Kang Youwei and became a guoxue taidou; Hong Xiannian scolded President Yuan Da and scolded Cheng Guoshi; When it came to scolding Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek, under the fame, no one dared to ignore him and simply called him "Zhang Crazy".
Literati writing, can make people read and hate to kill you, this fire is home, and to kill and kill is not enough, is the kung fu of people. Zhang Taiyan wrote a lifetime of writing and scolded people for a lifetime, and it seems that both sides have done it. Although he was imprisoned several times, escaped several times, and was beaten by the soles of his shoes, punched in the mouth, and spanked by people, he cursed all over the world and offended the magnates, but he was able to start and end well, and even received the courtesy of a state funeral after death, and was buried on the shore of the West Lake Lake, which was something that You Heng of the Three Kingdoms and Ji Kang of Wei and Jin could not think of.
It has to be said that the times are progressing.
But I still can't help but think, if Zhang Taiyan lives in the present, most of them are not regarded as "crazy people", but "mad dogs", right?
How "crazy" liu Wendian is
I once hated Liu Wendian as a person.
Probably because of the appearance of people.
Having seen some pictures of him, or standing or sitting, I felt very embarrassed, and to put it bluntly, there was a hooligan habit. A frame of photos, Liu Wendian sat there, taking a silhouette, a strand of hair covered with glasses, how to see is the appearance of an opium ghost, not much cultural people's feelings.
Later, when I read Zhou Zuoren's article about him, I sure enough, this public had the vice of smoking opium, not to mention the unspeakable disgust.
Looking back now, I feel so naïve, he is such a crazy person, in such a chaotic era, what can he do without being depressed?
At that time, at southwest United University, he was not the only professor who was "strange in shape". The students recalled that Yu Pingbo was short in stature and bald, liked to wear wide clothes, walked waddling, and looked like a small monk in the Huguo Temple; Chen Yinke wore a leather robe inside, a blue cloth coat and a green cloth coat, a leather hat with ears on the top, cotton pants on his legs, cotton shoes under his feet, and a large blue cloth bag in his right hand, and he looked very strange when he walked high.
Speaking of the generation of the Republic of China, on fame, on learning, on influence, it takes several fingers to turn him Liu Wendian, but he has become a legend with a story of false rumors.
And what makes him legendary is nothing more than the "crazy atmosphere" of his self-brushing sense of existence. This generation of madmen, who have never changed themselves in the slightest, no matter what kind of war and poverty they have experienced, are worthy of Being Zhang Taiyan's students, and how "crazy" the teacher is, how "crazy" he is.
There are many legends about his madness and grotesqueness, which are not repeated here, and the curious jun can ask Du Niang.
As for whether there is a difference between his "madness" of bumping against and kicking Chiang Kai-shek because of the student tide and the "madness" of repeatedly ridiculing Shen Congwen, and whether there is a contradiction or not, I will put it aside for the time being and will not discuss it.
Just say the provenance and underpinnings of his "madness".
Confucius said, "If you don't go in the middle and go with it, you will be crazy." The madman is enterprising, and the cunning is not doing anything." Although he himself may not particularly like "crazy" and "cunning", the explanation itself is quite positive. "Crazy" and "cunning" both have their own independent thoughts and independent personalities, which our ancestors appreciated.
In the "four-product orientation" of the Bank of China, Madness, Cruelty, and Rural Wishes, Confucius could not tolerate the "Township Wish" the most, calling it "the thief of virtue".
Our culture has always had the tradition of the madman, such as the tradition of "virginity", the tradition of "traveling", the tradition of "chivalry", in a broad sense, the tradition of romantic poetry, the tradition of painting, the tradition of calligraphy, which can also be regarded as the tradition of the madman.
The pre-Qin dynasty had madness, the Wei and Jin dynasties had birth madness, the Tang Dynasty had poetry mania, and the Ming Dynasty had holy madness, and these madmen left us with many precious cultural memories. Only after the Qing Dynasty, the spirit of the madman gradually faded, and a century-long text prison made the readers of the world collectively lose their voices, the social conditions of madness were gone, and the psychological basis of madness no longer existed.
When the wheel of history came to the Republic of China, wars and famines continued to reincarnate, and society was in sharp turmoil, and death became a topic that must be faced every day. Only in this deepest darkness can people break free from all kinds of shackles, open their eyes, and see the stars in the sky.
When Gu Hongming wandered by the shore of the unnamed lake with his braids on his back, when Zhang Taiyan made a big fuss at the presidential palace barefoot, when Huang Kan "improvised scolding" in the lecture hall, when Liu Wendian and the head of government shot at each other... Their confidence should be the same, all from the cultural traditions behind them, and the afterglow and singing of thousands of years of civilization.
Finally, an allusion. It is said that at the Southwest United University, some students asked how to write the article well, and Liu Wendian replied with the five words "Guanyin Bodhisattva". Puzzled, he explained: "Contemplation is to observe life more, the world is to understand the world's feelings, the sound is to talk about the rhyme of the article, and the bodhisattva is the bodhisattva who saves the suffering and cares for all sentient beings." ”
With these five words, Liu Wendian, this "crazy life", can become a Buddha on the spot.
Author: Licorice seeds, not petty bourgeoisie, not literary, not charming, not style, idyllic and self-guarding, sex like grass and trees