Who is "Wen Huaisha"? I believe that many people do not know, especially after 90 and 00. The author asked about this person at the same time and friends around him, and found that young people hardly knew who this person was, and the elderly middle-aged and elderly colleagues heard this name and only said: A little impression, as if it was a fake master, who was exposed by others a few years ago, and then there was no news.
With this question, the author went online to find relevant information, and a large amount of data on the Internet showed: Wen Huaisha fake incident.
It turned out that just a few days after the Lantern Festival in 2009, Li Hui, a reporter from the People's Daily, published articles such as "The True Age of Wen Huaisha -- The Absurd Life of the Master of Traditional Chinese Studies" and other articles, exposing a series of fraudulent things in Wen Huaisha, stirring up thousands of waves with one stone, and the major media reprinted them one after another, netizens from all over the world speculated and commented on this incident, and various articles about Wen Huaisha appeared in the media overwhelmingly, countless.
The article "The True Age of Wen Huaisha - The Absurd Life of the Master of Traditional Chinese Studies" mainly questions and presents evidence about Wen Huaisha's age, special age experience, and honorary titles - "Master of Traditional Chinese Studies, Master of Literature and History, and Chu Ci Taidou". Wen Huaisha claimed to have been born in 1910, so he was called a "centenarian" in 2009. However, after investigating the relevant materials, Li Hui found that the birth time of Wen Huaisha on the first roster of the People's Literature Publishing House was 1922; the time filled in by the National Drama Theatre of China was January 15, 1921; and wen Huaisha was 43 years old when he was re-educated through labor in December 1963.
Therefore, Li Hui believes that Wen Huaisha's actual age at that time should be about 11 years younger than that of a hundred years old, that is, he believes that Wen Huaisha was born around 1921 instead of 1910. And on the form of retirement procedures of the China Youth Art Theater, Wen Huaisha's date of birth column shows: 1921.1.15, while the payment time of the form is 1981. A report by the China Youth Art Theater agreeing to Wen Huaisha's visit to the Soviet Union for a lecture reads: Wen Huaisha, a retired cadre of our academy, is male, born on January 15, 1921. Therefore, Wen Huaisha's real age is a mystery.
Li Hui questioned Wen Huaisha's experience in his special era, describing that in 1966, Wen Huaisha was beaten into an outlaw for publicly saying bad things about Jiang Qing, which led to Wen Huaisha being imprisoned for his crimes. This later put gold on Wen Huaisha's face, making Wen Huaisha later become a "villain". The truth of the matter is that Wen Huaisha was imprisoned for the crime: In 1963, he committed another crime, was convicted of being a bad element, and was expelled from public office for re-education through labor. This is the real "WG experience" of Wen Huaisha.
As for Wen Huaisha's title of "Master of Traditional Chinese Studies", it is mainly because Wen has worked in the publishing house before and published some books written by himself, such as "Qu Yuan's Collection" and "Nine Songs and Present Interpretations", but in fact, these books are not written by Wen Huaisha, but are only proofread by him. Moreover, the books annotated by the text also have problems such as grammatical inconsistencies and incoherent translations. Moreover, Wen Huaisha claimed to be a disciple of Zhang Taiyan, which was also questioned by the world.
Regarding his academic level, Mr. Tang Bingzheng, a true disciple of Zhang Taiyan, mentioned Wen Huaisha in a letter to Tang Xubo in 1988, which probably means that many people originally had no academic achievements, but they were happy to declare great events to increase their fame. I am against this set. The "Shakespeare" you mentioned should refer to Wen Huaisha, this person is of average level and average, how dare he compare with Guo Moruo after only translating a few of Qu Yuan's articles.
Regarding the level of Wen Huaisha, the literary scholar Mao Dun put forward his own views. In 1977, Wang Dehou, a researcher of Lu Xun, sent Mao Dun a copy of "Lu Xun's Old Poems and New Interpretations" and asked Mao Dun how it was written. Mao Dunzhi was very rigorous, studied the book in detail for more than a month, and wrote to Wang Dehou to talk about the book, to the effect that: "The people who wrote this book have a very poor ability to understand Lu Xun's poetry, and it can be said that they do not understand it at all. The 'press' of 'the river flowing east day and night' is inexplicable, and many other sentences cannot be 'pressed' out. So I boldly guess that this person is a delusional person (writing this book), and this book is trying to deceive people to pull some people in the literary and art circles to support them, and in the end it is deceiving people. ”
Even the university scholar Mao Dun said so, it seems that Wen Huaisha's academic level is indeed not very good.
As soon as Li Hui exposed the WenHuaisha counterfeiting incident, various media responded one after another. Cultural scholar Zhu Dake said in an interview that Li Hui's questioning represents the views of many elderly people in the literary world on Wen Huaisha, and as early as the 80s, he had heard a lot of rumors about Wen Huaisha, but everyone laughed it at that time. But unexpectedly, There are more and more "masters" in China, and they are getting more and more intense. Therefore, Zhu Dake believes that Li Hui's revelation of Wen Huaisha's counterfeiting incident is actually a "clean-up of the portal" action in the literary world. Although the rhetoric of Li Hui's article is a bit extreme, it can help people reflect on the current situation of Chinese culture. It helps to decipher the cultural myths of the real masters and restore their "human" true colors; and to expose the false masters, leaving them with no way to escape.
Look at the netizens' evaluation of Wen Huaisha at that time: suddenly found that Wen Huaisha was called a master of traditional Chinese studies, and he turned out to be a liar, and he was very confused. I was so angry that I deceived the world! Li Hui unveiled well, unveiled in a timely manner, reasonable and powerful, supportive! I have seen the books he wrote about Chu Ci before, very thin, not badly, actually became a "master of traditional Chinese studies", probably the current style is exaggerated.
Most of these comments are people who think that Wen Huaisha is a cultural liar, he goes around flaunting and cheating under the banner of "Master of Traditional Chinese Studies", and his people are also huge, and they have even talked about the experience of health on TV programs: eat more fat and drink more, make friends with the opposite sex, and live at least to ninety-nine. There is a story that Wen Huaisha has boils on his hands and must undergo surgery.
The doctor who did the operation let two nurses come in to give Wen anesthesia injections, and Wen saw two beautiful little nurses and said, "Don't give me anesthesia injections, you two are so beautiful, stand next to you when you do the operation, I can stare at you and appreciate your beauty to forget the pain, can you?" This incident was shared with everyone by Wen Huaisha, not fabricated by the media, and its purpose was to instill his health care methods in others.
Regardless of whether Wen Huaisha was a "master of traditional Chinese studies" or a "cultural liar", he died in 2018. He may have been 108 or 97 when he died, and it is not an exaggeration to call him a "centenarian" at the moment of his death. His true age is known only to him, but his academic level is no longer hidden from the world, and although the series of traditional cultures he preaches seem reasonable, we still need to look at him dialectically. The length of people's lives does not lie in how many health lectures they have listened to, but in whether they have lived their own wonderful lives, and what we need is not a "master" that everyone can become, but people with real knowledge.
Text/Yu Xin