The mystery of Suman's life

Sumanshu and Kawai Sen.

Su Manshu (1884-1918) was a monk in the late Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the People's Republic, and his reputation was due to his achievements in poetry and novels, but it also had a lot to do with his legendary experience and deeds. It is generally believed that his birth mother is the Japanese Kawai clan, and his biological father is Su Mou, a Guangdong businessman in Japan, and Manshu was in Guangdong at an early age and was quite discriminated against by the Su family. However, this statement is very suspicious, because according to the traditional Chinese patriarchy and human feelings, all children's blood is based on the patrilineal lineage, in the eyes of ordinary people, the importance of "inheriting incense" is obviously far more than the "Huayi distinction" on the tall, and Guangdong customs have always been patriarchal, how can the Su family dislike him because his birth mother is Japanese?

Later, I occasionally read the biography of Mr. Wang Jingwei (by Lei Ming, Political Monthly, 1944 edition), which recorded the conversation between the Japanese scholar Kusanagi Anderson and Wang Shi, and slightly touched on Manshu's life: "Sir believed to me for many years that he was of mixed Chinese and Japanese descent, and corrected him: 'Both parents are Japanese. I expressed my doubts, and the gentleman solemnly said for the second time: 'Both parents are Japanese.' According to the press, Wang Shi studied in Japan in his early years, and he was also the backbone of the League, had seen and traveled a lot, and had taken care of Manshu's posthumous affairs, so it was also appropriate for him to know a lot of insiders, so I am afraid that his statement is not nonsense.

In addition, there are other records that can be corroborated, such as the "Miscellaneous Memories of Shi Zai Tang" written by Liu Chengyu, an old friend of Manshu and a veteran member of the League, which contains the article "The Lamentation of Su Manshu" (published in the "News Daily" on December 28, 1947), and Yiyun: "Su Manshu, Nissan Also " ( Note : The three characters of the "Miscellaneous Memories of Shi Zai Tang" in the popular version are easy to be "Zi Yuanying"). Young with the mother of the Hehe clan, suitable for the Lingnan merchant Su Weng", so manshu is the world's so-called "drag oil bottle" also. At this point, if the author has a sense of sudden enlightenment, because in this way, the Su family did not treat the young Manshu kindly, it is reasonable. But even so, I don't dare to think so.

Later, the author also obtained the book "SuManshu Annals and Others" (Beixin Bookstore 1927 edition) compiled by Liu Yazi and Liu Wuji's father and son, and received Yazi's "Sumanshu Chronicle Afterword" article, and only then did I know that about Manshu's life, in fact, it can be said that there is a conclusive conclusion, and there is no need to examine it anymore. Liu Wen is quite long, and now only the relevant content is excerpted as follows:

Manshu was killed, and Yu Wei recorded his will as a poem called "Su Xuanying's Biography". Gu Shu is a little different... Moreover, Si Chuan hastily contributed to the manuscript, and yu Manshu's youth affairs did not have time to widely prove it, and the first thing he heard about it was described by Manshu's former friend Taishan Ma Xiaojinjun, although Yu did not dare to be confident. He inspected the old book, and obtained the "ChaoYin Trek" written by the Japanese monk Fei Xi, and Gai Manshu wrote it by hand to see the Shu. Although it was not published in the "Chaoyin Collection", Gu Taste published in the "Pacific Newspaper", and it was advisable to report credit. Because of the school's residual transmission, it will be a thousand things... Especially keyi, Manshu's family lineage, his peers know that his father is Cantonese, business in Japan, married a Japanese woman and gave birth to Manshu, and returned to Guangdong. The heir apparent mother died to her father, and Manju was not tolerated by her mother-in-law, because she was shaved as a sand gate. The "Shio Yin Bao" says: "The first name of the name of the Emperor Nosuke, since childhood lost his life, according to the wife of the Hehe clan was born in the Yangtze River household." At the age of five, he traveled west to China with his distant relatives, engaged in business in the South China Sea, and changed his name to Su Sanlang. "There is also a saying of the "Record of broken hong and zero geese", and Shi Xian thinks that Manshu is an autobiography. It is also said that the father Zonglang, who lived his life, was promoted by the Party. Gu Manshu fell to the ground for a few months, that is, his biological father saw his back. The mother's wife surveyed the Ji Dynasty, gradually entered the pouring, and thought of carrying Manshutogen to the kingdom, so she restrained herself from her father as a righteous son; she left the islander's roots, and hoped to grow into a dragon among the people. In summary, the two views are not special and Yu Chuanwen are different, or all legends are difficult to understand. Remembering that in the first year of the Republic of China, he lived on the sea with Manshu and first read the "Chaoyin Trek" and the "Record of the Broken Hong Zero Goose", that is, he was suspicious of it. There are also people who are qualitative in this way, and Manju is concerned about him, and he is deeply reluctant to exhaust himself. In his writings, Manshu Repeatedly said that "there are indescribable fears in his life", lamenting his own lamentations and feelings of all sorrows. At the beginning and end of The Cave, the family lineage of Manshu is doubtful, as stated in the "Chaoyin Trek" and the "Record of the Broken Wild Goose", and the so-called distant relatives and fathers are directly false to the father's ears. Manshu was young, or did not know it, as if he thought he was a son of the Su clan. (Manshu has an article titled "Woo Woo Guangdong People", which denounces Chinese as Japanese nationals, and publishes it in the National Daily.) I know that when he was a teenager, he had a deep racial view. And at that time, it seems that he had not yet been born in detail, otherwise he would not have wanted to explicitly say anything about it. and to know later, but not to say it explicitly. At the turn of the nineteenth and twenty-second centuries, the old patriarchal and ritual concepts were not broken at the beginning, and it was advisable for him to remarry with his mother's clan, which was also a lifelong regret. Whether the Flying Tin Monk has anyone who is unknown or out of manjushri. When Gu's "Chaoyin" was finished, this trek was actually seen outside the collection. Look at his chest, and there are those who are silent. And ManJushri yu happy events, especially fond of collecting old relics, and this Pat is to see the sword, or also for the aftermath of the plan, and the beginning is not rambling. When Gu Yu used to write a biography for Manshu, he had forgotten about this journey, and if he did not get the book later, he could not but sigh at the end of the aura. Over the years, the people who have been praised as Manshu have sprung up, and Yu has repeatedly thought about writing a text of examination, but the pawn has not succeeded. The president, Xia Shuxia, whose son returned from Tsinghua University to Yu province in the south, has a collection of "Manshu Annals" and searches for them together. Because of the rough description of the after-view, the order is first. He had time every day, when he wrote a "Biography of Su Xuanying", detailing its upheavals.

Later, Liu Yazi wrote an article entitled "The New Biography of Su Xuanying", which is as follows about Su Manshu's origins: "Su Xuanying, zi zi gui, small character Sanlang, the original name of Zong Nosuke, its predecessor Japanese also." Wang's father Zhonglang, father Zonglang, his surname is unknown. Mother River Heshi. Other articles such as Liu Yazi's "Su Xuanying's New Biography" (all included in the "Su Manshu Annals and Others") can also be referenced. It is worth noting that Liu raised some doubts in the examination, although many of these doubts are actually very good to explain. For example, The Liu clan proposed that Why did Manshu's grandfather, named Zhonglang, and his father's name Zonglang, not avoid the same? In fact, the names of Japanese fathers and sons have the same word, especially those who are named "Lang" are really common, and it is not too much to say that it is common sense. For another example, Liu shi proposed: Since Manshu's parents were both Japanese, how could he obtain Chinese nationality and also receive financial support from Wang Daxie (then the Qing government's superintendent of students studying in Japan)? For these two questions, all the old and sophisticated, presumably can have a simple answer, right?

Needless to say, a public case has been closed so far, as if there is no mystery. wait! Unexpectedly, the "New Biography of Su Xuanying" was only a few years old, and Liu Yazi suddenly turned over the old case, which is also said to be instructed to communicate with the descendants of the Su clan, and it is known that Manshu is indeed a mixed Chinese and Japanese blood cloud ("Su Manshu's Biography", see "Literary and Art Tea Talk", Vol. 1, No. 4, 1932). Such a study seems to add a little more convincing. Not so early on, Luo Jianye also wrote the "Draft Study of Manshu" (1927), and according to rumors in the Guangdong region where Manshu lived, It was said that Manshu was actually Japanese. So what is right and wrong? After all, what the family members say may be true or false; the words of the people around them may be true or may be gossip. As a result, all kinds of doubts have not decreased but increased, and this case has been put into the gourd, allowing people to speculate. The ancients had the saying of "three different words", which is "seeing different words, hearing different words, and rumored different words", and now it has been more than a hundred years since the death of Manshu, and those who have seen, heard, and heard are more and more indistinguishable.

Wang Mengchuan