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There has always been a passage circulating on the Internet: Lu Xun was created by Qian Xuantong.
This means that without Qian Xuantong, there would be no great literary hero Lu Xun in this world. In fact, this is also true, if it were not for Qian Xuantong's stalking to Zhou Shuren to submit articles, it is very likely that Zhou Shuren would not have become the famous Lu Xun.
In 1917, Qian Xuantong was the fan editor of the magazine "New Youth" founded by Chen Duxiu, and spent all day looking for high-quality writers for the quality of the magazine, and the two brothers Zhou Zuoren and Zhou Shuren, who lived in the Shaoxing Guild Hall outside Xuanwu Gate, were the objects that Qian Xuantong wanted to fight for.
Zhou Zuoren, Lu Xun
Zhou Zuoren was very good at talking, and soon submitted articles to Qian Xuantong, but Zhou Shuren, who had quite a personality, refused to write for a long time, and Qian Xuantong broke his leg and exhausted his tongue, still going his own way and not being moved.
Entangled with Qian Xuantong too often, Zhou Shuren finally said the reason why he was reluctant to write: "If an iron room is windowless and difficult to destroy, there are many sleeping people in it, and soon they will suffocate, but from sleep to death, they do not feel the sadness of dying." Now that you are shouting and startling up a few of the more sober ones, and causing this unfortunate minority to suffer from irreparable dying, do you think you are worthy of them? ”
Qian Xuantong understood the pain and helplessness in Zhou Shuren's heart, because he was one of the "more sober people." But unlike Zhou Shuren's pessimism, since someone could wake him up, he also had the obligation to wake up other sleeping people, so he retorted, "But since a few people have risen, you can't say that there is absolutely no hope of destroying this iron house!" ”
Qian Xuantong
It was this sentence that gave Zhou Shuren a great shock and made him see the hope of breaking free from the iron house, so he also joined the team that took it as his duty to awaken the sleeping people, and wrote the first vernacular novel in the history of modern Chinese literature all night long, the "Diary of a Madman" aimed at attacking the old etiquette, and left behind the most important name in the history of Chinese literature - Lu Xun.
Since then, Lu Xunru has opened the valve of literary creation, and he has been out of control, his works have continued, and he has carried the banner of the main army of the new cultural movement.
For Lu Xun, Qian Xuantong was to some extent a Bole who inspired and achieved his thousand-mile horse, but he did not waste Qian Xuantong's duties as a teacher.
Qian Xuantong and Lu Xun
During his teaching at Peking University, Qian Xuantong's popularity among the student body has always ranked among the top three. Compared with Hu Shi's personable personality charm and Qian Mu's erudite talent of learning and wealth, Qian Xuantong's biggest impression is his witty and funny sense of humor.
Once, Qian Xuantong talked about "opening sounds" and "closed accents", and students who were accustomed to listening to passages asked the teacher to give an example.
Lu Xun, Qian Xuantong and friends
Qian Xuantong was at ease with the passage and said:
"There is a female artist in Beijing who sings the Beijing rhyme drum, who looks extremely beautiful, but due to an accident, he knocked out two front teeth, and afterwards, he tried to close his lips as much as possible to avoid talking. If you have to answer as a last resort, you will always use a 'closed accent' in order to cover up the ugliness.
For example: 'Your last name?' ''Surname Wu.'' ''How old?'' ''Fifteen.'' ''Where does the family live?'' ''Bao'an House.'' ''What do you do?'' ''Sing the big drums.' These are all 'closed accents' that can not leak teeth.
Later, the female artist reloaded a pair of white and shiny front teeth, very satisfied, and when talking to people, she switched to the 'opening tone' in order to show beauty.
Or is it the previous question that becomes: 'Your surname?' ''Surname Lee.'' ''How old?'' ''Seventeen.'' ''Where does the family live?'' ''City West.'' ''What do you do?'' ''Singing. These are all 'opening sounds' that require missing teeth. ”
A seat made the students laugh, but in addition to being cheerful, they vividly distinguished the difference between open and closed accents.
When there is a teacher in the classroom, every class is like listening to a talk show, such a class is afraid that no student wants to miss it.
It is said that humorous people have a warm nature, but Qian Xuantong is not. His temperament is extremely fierce, and he often goes to extremes. Throughout Qian Xuantong's life, he was in a fierce ideological struggle, and his words were quite fierce.
He once advocated the abolition of Chinese characters, and even threatened that "Chinese characters do not die, China will die", which is evident in its publicity. But at the same time, thanks to Qian Xuantong's advocacy, our learning today is more convenient because of pinyin and punctuation.
Qian Xuantong's idea of abolishing Chinese characters did not materialize, but other cultural and educational initiatives were implemented, such as:
Elementary school textbooks and newsprint side-by-side phonetic letters; use the AD year; specify the grammatical word order; change the writing style from left line straight down to right line horizontal; write number characters with Arabic numbers and formulas; and punctuate articles.
Today, these changes, which seemed bizarre at the time, have long since become the norms of learning, and we have almost never thought about the convenience of all these things when we use punctuation marks to break texts, learn words with pinyin, and count with Arabic numerals.
Qian Xuantong has always liked to say the words of ten points to twelve points, and he once declared: "When people reach 40, they should die, and if they don't die, they should be shot." ”
Because of his extreme words, when he was about to turn 40, his friends around him were preparing for his funeral, obituary, bang lian, etc. were ready, and they were also preparing to issue a contract to issue a "Mr. Qian Xuantong Chengren Special Number".
What is even more funny is that Hu Shi, who is very different from Qian Xuantong's personality, also specially wrote a "Commemorative Song for the Anniversary of the Death of Mr. Qian Xuantong", which wrote: "Damn Qian Xuantong, how can he not die so far?" ”
Hu shi
There are so many interesting points in Qian Xuantong's body, and I will not repeat them all. For Qian Xuantong himself, the proudest work of his life should be his children, especially his son Qian Sanqiang, who surpassed his reputation.
The Qian family is full of talents, casually saying that one is a well-known figure in history, Qian Zhongshu, Qian Xuesen, Qian Mu, qian Weichang are all from the Qian family. Because of this, few people associate Qian Sanqiang with Qian Xuantong.
For the Chinese nation, Qian Xuantong and Qian Sanqiang can be described as father and son soldiers, and have made great achievements in their respective fields.
Qian Xuantong, leaving aside, as the pioneer of the new cultural movement and the master of traditional Chinese studies of the older generation, his reputation has long been apparent.
As the son of a master of traditional Chinese studies, Qian Sanqiang is even more worth talking about. He did not inherit the mantle of his father Qian Xuantong and continued to study traditional Chinese studies, but instead opened up another frontier, followed the footsteps of natural science, and became a famous nuclear physicist.
Money three strong
As we all know, Qian Sanqiang is a well-known honorary recipient of two bombs and one star, and is known as the father of China's atomic bomb. The master of traditional Chinese studies in literature and art became an expert in atomic energy, which was destined to become a beautiful talk in Chinese history, and all this was closely related to the teachings of his father Qian Xuantong.
When Qian Xuantong was young, he was deeply suffering from feudal etiquette, so he was open to his son's education, focusing on participation and guidance, and never making arbitrary decisions.
Qian Xuantong once said: "In the future, we will never wrap three ropes of hemp (three principles) around the heads of children... I myself fought hard to save only the youth and children. ”
In the era of alternating between the old and the new, it is qian Sanqiang's luck to have such an open-minded and erudite father.
Because of Qian Xuantong's support, Qian Sanqiang's enlightenment is different from other children's Caregivers, but starts from the Roman alphabet and Traditional Chinese Studies, and reads new extracurricular books such as "Children's World", "Robinson Crusoe", and "Scream" on weekdays. When he was a little older, Qian Xuantong guided Qian Sanqiang to read the essence of Traditional Chinese studies such as "Dream of the Red Chamber" and "Journey to the West".
Although Qian Xuantong is a master of traditional Chinese studies, he has never asked his son to take his own path, and he consciously cultivates Qian Sanqiang to develop in all aspects, and music, painting, literature, and sports blossom in many fields.
Qian Sanqiang and parents
Qian Xuantong said to Qian Sanqiang: "A person should have a scientific mind, and for everything, he should use his own intellect to analyze, study the truth, judge its right and wrong, right and wrong, and then determine the measures for reform." ”
Qian Xuantong did this with himself, and under the guidance of words and deeds, Qian Sanqiang also practiced his life in this way.