The Draft History of the Qing Dynasty has been published with new punctuation, which is an important matter for both academic and cultural circles. I can't help but think of Ke Shaochen, a Jiaoxian scholar who was in charge of compiling the "Draft History of the Qing Dynasty" at that time.
After xinhai, the "Qing History Museum" was established, and the first director was Zhao Erxun, the last governor of the three eastern provinces of the Qing Dynasty, and also the "Han Army Banner" of the "general", who was a standard "widowed old man", who at that time called himself "a Qing Dynasty official, a Qing Dynasty person, ate Qing Dynasty meals, and repaired the history of the Qing Dynasty" to dispel ridicule. However, although his thinking was backward of the times, it was very desirable for the history museum to recruit talents, and Ke Shaochen was one of the revision experts he extended. Later, Zhao Erxun died shortly thereafter, and the Qing History Museum was presided over by Ke Shi. After thirteen years of dismal operation, in 1927, this huge history book of five hundred and thirty-six volumes was finally completed, and Ke Shi contributed. At the end of 1929, the Draft History of the Qing Dynasty was strictly ordered by the Nanjing government at that time to "forever prohibit circulation", which was said to be instigated by Li Shizeng of Gaoyang. Speaking of which, this is also a long-forgotten historical case.
Ke's character Fengsun(荪), a native of Jiaoxian County, Shandong, is a very famous scholar of the north in recent times. In the ninth year of Tongzhi, he was only twenty-one years old, until Guangxu Chengshu (1876) began to become a jinshi, and it had been sixteen years since he went to Zhongju, when Ke Shi was thirty-seven years old. Later, he successively served as Shonan Gakusei and Kuniko Supervisor, and was sent to Japan to investigate Xuezheng. Later, he served as the supervisor and general supervisor (i.e. the president) of The University Hall (the predecessor of Peking University).
Although Ke's father did not have a family name, he had great roots in the study of history. His mother was the daughter of Li Changbai of Ye County, a famous boudoir poet at that time, and his "Book of Remembrance after Chaos" poem Yun: "Insert five thousand scrolls, and even teach a torch to die." Si Min is with the catastrophe, and he dares to speak of hurting..." This poem was recited for a while, and from this poem, it can also be imagined that The edification of Ke's early mother's teachings. Ke's early wisdom, it is said that when he was seven years old, the famous sentence "Swallows do not come late in spring, and the empty garden is full of lilacs." "It is very clear that the feelings of a precocious child are evident. Ke Shi and Xu Shichang, the provisional president of the Beiyang government, were Hanlin in the same year as Ying Shu, who participated in Xu Shichang's "Evening Qing Poetry Society", and in addition to compiling history, current affairs chanted, and although poetry was not his specialty, it was also very clean, and its title was "Water bamboo village people's jianghu fishing book" Yun:
"A fishing rod, a fishing rod, a white pingzhou nagisa writes about the cold, I don't know where the fisherman lives, seventy-two smoke and water wide."
Regardless of its "history", it is enough to pass on its poetry alone, not to mention his world-famous work "New Yuan History"? Because of his literary name, Ke Shi also had a marriage: Lady Ke Died Earlier, and was the daughter of Wu Rulun of Tongcheng. It is reported that when the marriage was discussed, Mr. Ru Lun's wife did not agree because of the large difference between the age of his new son-in-law and his daughter, and the string was continued, but Mr. Zhifu loved Ke Zhicai, so he firmly advocated this marriage, and eventually became a marriage match, and Wu Shi was also a very talented lady.
When Wang Jing'an walked in Puyi's south study, Ke Shi also walked in the palace. In a letter to Luo Zhenyu in January 1924, ke wrote an interesting story:
"Elder Feng went up this morning to face for half an hour, the words have not yet been heard, when the person was heavy, the car rope was broken, causing him to fall to the ground, but he was not injured, which can be described as the jiren tianxiang also ... With the phoenix's high year straight forward, I am afraid that Bing should be moved, and when it crashes, it will smell it if you want to go up. ”
Ke Shi died in 1933 at the age of eighty-four, six years later than Mr. Wang Jing'an, and lived an extra thirty-three years, which was also considered to be an advanced age at that time. Ke Shi not only has a family origin, early wisdom at an early age, but more importantly, he concentrates on his work in his life, is diligent in his studies, and his health is very poor due to excessive exertion at an early age. Moreover, he is also able to treat arithmetic and can hand-make antique arithmetic instruments. I began to wonder about the art of "Tianyuan" (now algebra), thinking hard all day, sullen and unhappy, and suddenly one day when I was eating lunch, I shouted: "I understand, I understand!" Since then, the technique of "Tianyuan" has been solved, and the so-called "thinking of thoughts, ghosts and magic powers" has been solved.
The most famous work of Ke's life was his "New Yuan History", which took thirty years of hard work to complete. Ke Shaochen Guangxu thirty years (1904) as a Guozi supervisor, when he enrolled in the school (Fu Kao Zhongxiucai), he took his teacher, that is, Chen Daiqing, the governor of Jiaozhou, Sichuan Yibin, came to Beijing to see him, and wrote "A Little Journey to the North", Zeng Yun: "Ke Fengsun Shao Si Cheng, Yu Quan Jiaozhou Shi Ye. ...... He is the author of the "New Yuan History", and has tasted the secret history of Europe, which is not found in Middle-earth. Yu zaijing saw his first draft and thought that the strange book would be passed on. Later, fifteen or six years later, when Xu Shichang was the president, the "New Yuan History" was engraved and published, and Xu Shi praised it and ordered it to be listed as one of the "correct histories". Although Xu Shichang was a favor to the old man in the same year, the "New Yuan History" itself has its own important academic value, for which Ke shi won a doctorate in literature from Tokyo Imperial University in Japan, which is a good story in the history of Sino-Japanese cultural exchanges sixty years ago.
There were a lot of Chinese students in Japan at that time, and very few of them got doctoral degrees. Moreover, Ke Shi did not study in Japan, but Hanlin of the Qing Dynasty once went to Japan to investigate the study of politics. In modern history, only ke Shaochen was the only one who received a doctorate in Japan with such qualifications, and the reason for this was because of a "New Yuan History". At that time, Tokyo Imperial University in Japan had a "doctoral dissertation review meeting". Depending on the paper, different experts are hired to review. The censorship of the "New Yuan History" was Dr. Kinuchi Tsuneyoshi, a highly prestigious historian of the Tokyo Emperor at that time, who was a professor at the time. The work is extremely careful and conscientious. One day, his student, Professor Takeshiro Kuraishi, went to see him and saw that the room was full of books, and his teacher was nervously checking the information. He said to him: The value of this work can be above that of a doctor; it is also possible to compare the differences between the original book and the old "yuan history" one by one, and only after checking and verifying and evaluating can we know, so these tasks are quite troublesome. (To the effect that it is.) It is conceivable that the emperor's attitude was rigorous when he reviewed the "New Yuan History". But later, after all, it passed the review and obtained a degree. Later, Japan set up the "General Committee for Oriental Cultural Undertakings", and because Koshi was a doctor of literature at Tokyo Imperial University, he was hired as its chairman.
Lady Ke is Wu Zhifang, the younger sister of Wu Rulun's daughter Wu Zhiying. Ke Shi also paid attention to the education of his children at home, and later The following brothers such as Mr. YanLing (the eldest son Changsi) were also famous scholars, but Mr. Jing'an did not have a high evaluation of them, and wrote to Luo Zhenyu in 1922:
"The Book of Shang Jun (referring to Shang Xiyong, Zi Chengzhuo) of the "Yin Virtual Script Class Compilation") has been seen in the first volume, and its saying is still plain and unsupportable, that is, this has become the basis of the far reaches. It is far better than Brother Yanling. ”
Mr. Jing An has a lot of eyesight at this point, but these few unfortunately have fallen to the end one after another, and very few people know about it today.
More than ten years ago, the old principal of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Dong Yibo wanted me to sort out Mr. Sun Mofo's "Book Sources" and prepare it for publication, but because the number was too large, I could not accept this task. However, I have read ten celebrity prefaces to this book printed by the Commercial Press in 1935. The first one was written by Elder Ke Feng, and the last one was written by Mr. Yan Ling, and the father and son duo were very popular with this book. Mr. Yan Ling and I knew each other very well, and I visited my home in Xianguang Bo Street many times, but it was forty-five years ago.
About author:Deng Yunxiang, scientific name Deng Yunjun (1924.8.28---- 1999.2.9) is a native of Donghenan Town, Lingqiu, Shanxi Province. The elder of the Shanghai Red Academy, together with Wei Shaochang, Xu Gongshi and Xu Fuming, is known as the Four Elders of Shanghai Red Studies. As a teenager, he studied at Xicheng Middle School in Beijing, Normal University and private Chinese university. He graduated from the Department of Chinese of Peking University in 1947. He has taught at Shanxi Datong Middle School and Tianjin Middle School. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he worked in the Central Fuel Industry Department in Beijing. Since October 1953, he has been teaching at Suzhou Electric School and Nanjing Electric School. In January 1956, he taught at Shanghai Electric Power Institute until his retirement in 1993.