At that time in the Republic of China, Gu Hongming's international influence was the greatest, and it was said that he said: "When you go to Beijing, you can not look at the three major halls, and you must not look at Gu Hongming." When Zhang Xun was sixty-six years old, he felt sorry for each other and sent a couplet: "Lotus has no rain cover, and juju is still proud of frost branches." When I first arrived at Peking University, when the students saw the long braid, they laughed loudly, but Gu said calmly
"The braids on my head are tangible, but the braids in your heart are invisible."
His life can be summarized as the "four oceans": born in nanyang, studied in the west, married in the east, and married in the north ocean. The ancestor of the Gu family was surnamed Chen, born in Tong'an, Xiamen, and fled by killing people by mistake, and changed his surname to Gu. On July 18, 1857, Gu Hongming was born in Penang, Malaysia, to a Portuguese mother, so he was of mixed race. When he was 10 years old, he went to Europe with his righteous father Brown, and was bullied, and once, his classmates pulled his braids and pushed him into the women's toilet.
Gu Hongming was very competitive, won thirteen degrees in various disciplines, and learned nine languages. Once, Gu Hongming read the newspaper upside down, and caused a voice of contempt, saying: "Your English is too simple, and you can't show your ability to read it." "Then turn your back like a stream. Back in Malaysia, once, he met Ma Jianzhong, the author of China's first grammar book " Ma Shi Wentong " , and after three days and three nights of conversation , he decided to return to China and became Zhang Zhidong's copywriter.
As soon as he took office, he ordered more than 30 foreign newspapers and more than 500 magazines to help Zhang Zhidong and clarify the international trend. Sun Yat-sen once said: "There are only three and a half Chinese proficient in English. Its first Gu Hongming, its second Wu Chaoshu, and its third Chen Youren. "There are still half who refuse to say, probably referring to Wang's favor." Once, The Great Confucian Shen Zengzhi said in public: "I understand what you say, and if you want to understand what I say, you have to read books for twenty years." Gu Hongmingzhen began with the Kangxi Dictionary, read it hard for 10 years, and then said, "Ask Elder Shen, just refer to a book."
After more than twenty years of mixing in the official arena, he went from a different stream and said: "Those who are officials in China treat the people as bandits, as prisoners to students, and as slaves to subordinates." In 1913, Yuan Shikai engaged in a large loan for the aftermath, Gu Hongming did an interpreter for the Bank of The Six Nations, and offered a price of six thousand oceans
"The so-called banker is the kind of person who lends you an umbrella on a sunny day and takes it back fiercely on a rainy day."
Yuan Shikai once said that Zhang Zhidong was a scholar, and I was only doing practical things, but Lao Gu said, "Then it depends on what happens." Except for my mother pouring the toilet, I haven't heard of anything that doesn't require learning. He translated the Four Books to the West, believing that the Americans were lost, the British lost their vastness, and the Germans lost their simplicity, and in 1913 he and Tagore were nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature at the same time.
Why the royalist? Gu Hongming believes that Chinese does not talk about the law, but talks about the king's law. His aesthetic standards are small feet, willow waist, thin eyebrows, why a wife and a concubine? He said that Chinese wives are sleeping pills, and Japanese concubines are stimulants, and by extension: "Men are like teapots, women are like teacups, one teapot with four teacups, it is natural." ”
Once, people asked why not a female polyphov? He asked, "Madame, did you come by car, how many pumps did you have for four tires?" Haha, enough. In fact, similar to the saying, Pan Jinlian said: "Women are like soup bowls, men are like soup spoons, a soup bowl, of course, should be accompanied by several soup spoons." ”
On April 30, 1928, Gu Hongming died of ineffective treatment for lung disease at the age of 71. When Maugham visited China, he was invited not to come, so he had to visit the door, and Lao Gu, with his braids, said, "Don't underestimate this discernment of mine, it is a symbol, I am the last representative of ancient China."