It is said that "beautiful skin bags are the same, interesting souls are one out of a thousand", what kind of soul is an interesting soul? I think this person is probably Mr. Liang Qiushi. Teacher Bing Xin once said: "A person should be like a flower, whether it is a man or a woman." Flowers have color, fragrance, taste, people have talent, love, fun, lack of one, can not be a good friend of the family. Among my friends, only Shiqiu is the most like a flower among men. ”
Mr. Liang Shiqiu
Many people may not have a clear impression of Mr. Liang Qiushi, mr. Liang Qiushi has many identities, he is a modern Chinese writer, scholar, essayist, literary critic, translator. As a literary critic, Mr. Liang Qiushi once had a contest with Mr. Lu Xun, which lasted until Mr. Lu Xun's death gradually subsided. But there was no hatred between them, just different views on the issues in the current situation, Mr. Liang Qiushi once said: 'I don't approve of what you say, but I desperately support your freedom to speak.' I did the same to Lu Xun. Mr. Liang Shiqiu is so frank, he appreciates Mr. Lu Xun's writings, but for the views on the problem, he also has his own insistence and will never retreat.
Mr. Liang Shiqiu sculpture
Mr. Liang Qiushi is a translator who began translating Shakespeare's works in the 1930s, until the 1970s, when Mr. Liang Qiushi translated the complete works of Shakespeare, 40 years from the beginning. In his later years, Mr. Liang Qiushi still did not forget to create, spent 7 years, completed a million words of the book "History of English Literature", he forgot his daily pen, even because of the sedentary caused by hemorrhoids bleeding he did not know anything.
Mr. Liang Qiushi is a scholar who began his writing at Tsinghua University and published in journals, after which he studied in the United States and earned a master's degree in arts from Harvard University. After returning to China, he successively served as a professor at Jinan University and the first person to Chinese the head of the Department of Foreign Chinese of Qingdao University, and a research professor and head of the Department of Foreign Languages of Peking University.
Liang Shiqiu and Yu Guangzhong (left) in 1962
So having said all this, where is Mr. Liang Qiushi's "fun"? Fun is reflected in Mr. Liang Shiqiu's daily life. Mr. Liang Shiqiu was particularly naughty when he was a child and was not interested in reading at all. Once, when his mother supervised him to read, "An old man, entering the market, buying two fish, walking home" Liang Shiqiu was puzzled and asked his mother: "Why is he not allowed to go home when buying two tails of fish?" This unscrupulous fairy tale caused the whole family to laugh.
Let's talk about an interesting thing about Mr. Liang Shiqiu's study abroad ~ During his studies at Harvard, Mr. Liang Shiqiu shared an apartment with other Chinese students, where he lived a "primary communist life", taking turns cooking and washing dishes. Once it was the turn of Chef Liang Shiqiu to make noodles with fried sauce, and the sauce was boiled in the pot, and the aroma was overflowing. It just so happened that Pan Guangdan, who was studying at Columbia University, and others came to play, and as soon as they entered the door and smelled the sauce, the students who were tired of eating Western food did not leave, and had to beg for a bowl of noodles. But what if there are many people and few faces? Mr. Liang Shiqiu had a trick and wildly salted in the sauce, which resulted in salting his compatriots. It can be seen that Mr. Liang Qiushi's naughtiness is not ordinary
Former residence of Liang Qiushi
Mr. Liang Qiushi has insisted on being himself all his life, he has opinions, knowledge, talent, and fun. As the teacher Bing Xin commented at the beginning, Mr. Liang Qiushi is really an interesting person, living innocent and human, never hiding his emotions, never putting down his pen, living seriously and accompanying, I think this is what Mr. Liang said "Elegant Life"!