Li Zehou's death:
A paper is worth 150,000,
Jin Yong only funded $6,000
Text | Foggy barricads the river
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There are many "sinology scholars" overseas.
Sinology is broad and profound, and it has not been possible to touch the door for many years of research, and some sinologists are already white-haired.
In 1958, a paper on Chinese poetics went overseas. The old scholars read it and suddenly screamed: Oh my God, please take my knees, this is the depth and realm of the master of thought, I hope to see the true face of the master as soon as possible.
Admired overseas, but for a long time there was no chance to see real people.
Finally one day the news came that the master had arrived in Singapore.
Old Singaporean scholars rush away: Where is the master? Where is it...... When I saw a young man in front of me, I asked: Where is your teacher?
My teacher... The young man wondered and replied: My teacher was at home feeding the chickens, and I came alone.
Are you alone? The old scholar was surprised: Didn't you say that it was a master who wrote a treatise on Chinese poetics?
It was me, the young man replied: I am the one who wrote the poetic treatise.
No way! Sinologists desperately shake their brains: that paper, without 50 years of immersion can not write... Did you really write it?
It's true. The young man answered.
Old Scholar: You... How old was I when I wrote that paper?
The young man replied: 28 years old.
Oh my God, save me, people really can't compare! The old scholar fainted in despair.
The 28-year-old person who poured out scholars at home and abroad with a paper is called Li Zehou.
A generation of master minds.
On November 2, 2021, li Zehou, a master of thought, passed away at the age of 91.
Li Zehou
The master of thought went west, and the controversy re-emerged.
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Li Zehou passed away, and many scholars first thought of the martial arts master Jin Yong.
When Jin Yong died, Li Zehou wrote an article saying that he went to Hong Kong as a young man to visit Jin Yong's home. When Jin Yong gave 6,000 US dollars when he bid farewell, Li Zehou was furious and whisked his sleeves away.
Li Zehou pointed out that Mr. Jin Yong's family is big, but he is extremely stingy, which makes him very dissatisfied.
This lace news came out, the people said everything, grasshoppers are also meat, no matter how little is money, that is US dollars, don't say give me 6000, even if you give me 6 US dollars, I will not be polite to laugh. Li Zehou is also a master of thought, such an attitude, is it a little narrow-minded? Isn't that a little impersonal?
Even if Li Zehou personally passed on his disciples, he was also speechless in this incident, and he did not know how to justify it.
However, to interpret Li Zehou and Jin Yong, it is still necessary to look at Mr. Li Zehou's academic attitude from the cognitive dimension.
Jin yong 's
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Mr. Li Zehou's life is roughly divided into four stages:
The first stage was born, the family had mines, and the parents had money.
He was born in 1930 in a wealthy family, and then his parents both abandoned the world, and the family road took a sharp turn.
In the second stage, the family fell in the middle of the road and struggled to survive.
Poverty continued from Li Zehou's youth to youth.
At the age of 15, he graduated from junior high school with excellent grades, and many famous schools extended an olive branch to him, but asked him to pay tuition.
He had no money and couldn't afford it.
So I studied teacher training without money. The young child is growing up, the school subsidy is not enough to eat, and his eyes are blue with hunger.
After many years, Li Zehou said to reporters affectionately: You can't understand the pain of not having food to eat.
Li Zehou thought that if he couldn't eat, it was the trough of his life.
However, it was actually a small climax of his life, a real pain, and it was coming to him unhurriedly.
In the third stage of life, poverty and illness are compounded and the burden is heavy.
At the age of 20, Li Zehou was admitted to the Department of Philosophy of Peking University.
When he got the acceptance letter, his cognition jumped three steps:
Previously, he thought that a person without money was bitter.
Now he knows that it is really not a matter of not having money, and it may even be a very happy stage of life.
When he was at Peking University, he not only had no money, but he also suffered from severe tuberculosis because of malnutrition — and then he had to pay for children.
The child he was going to raise was a cousin. The cousin is also in the middle of the family road, the parents are dead, only such a cousin was admitted to Peking University, out of work, so I asked my cousin to help.
This was the most desperate time in Li Zehou's life, constantly coughing up blood, no money, but also to find a way to send money to his cousin, he could not even afford to buy paper and pencil, bitter to the extreme.
He has a crush on a girl at school, but does not dare to open his mouth.
If he opened his mouth, what would he say to people? This classmate, do you want to raise a cousin with me?
Forget it.
In this way, I walked through the bleak years of Peking University and entered the Academy of Social Sciences.
He also entered the fourth stage of his life.
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In the fourth stage of life, young people are golden and happiness flies.
At the age of 26, Li Zehou fished the first pot of gold in his life.
1000 yuan.
In that year, adults earned up to 300 yuan a year, which was enough for a family of five.
Li Zehou's 1,000 yuan, some people say that the top is now 150,000, and some people say that the top is now 500,000, in short, it is a lot of money.
How did he get this bucket of gold?
——He wrote a paper, the professional media read it, was amazed, and immediately knelt down to present 1,000 yuan.
At that time, the professional magazine fee was only a few tens or a hundred yuan. The reason why Li Zehou was given such a high price was because his academic standard was too high, belonging to the level of a grandmaster, in today's words, called a set tone, for scholars who were twice or even three times his age to study.
The next other magazines were paid several times more than other authors.
When he had money, he drifted away, and Li Zehou bought a hand-cranked record player that was extremely rare at that time and began to enjoy life.
Classmates and colleagues, see this to write articles.
But some people can't write it, some people write it out too poorly, the media doesn't give it, and some media also give it, but the remuneration given is not enough ink money.
In short, Li Zehou is not short of money, guess how much royalty he has when he visits Jin Yong's home?
He hadn't told anyone, but definitely over a million.
By the time Li Zehou was paid over a million yuan, Chinese's goal of getting rich was "ten thousand yuan households", and the 10,000 yuan in that year and month was equivalent to 1.25 million yuan now.
Li Zehou's net worth at that time was already over 100 million.
Of course, this is Mao's calculation, and a large part of the manuscript fee has been spent by Li Zehou. And he's going to the U.S., and the money isn't that generous.
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Commenting on Li Zehou, we need a higher scholar than him.
Our cognition is superficial, and we can only say things from money:
The first: Li Zehou is a person who came out of a desperate situation, which is difficult for ordinary people to understand.
Li Zehou during the Peking University period, poor and sick and raising cousins, could not participate in any activities, and could only seek to live in death and read books. If you can see it clearly, you solve the problem. If you don't understand it, then he has never existed.
He understood.
I also understand the hearts of the people in the world.
When he was studying, other students had various life pursuits, but in the end they did not even catch a hair. Only he Li Zehou became the winner, so why should he demand himself according to your wrong standards? He just lived frankly and honestly, just ok.
He felt that Mr. Jin Yong gave less money, which was suspected. He was not happy in his heart, that is, he said, do not accept you to bite him?
Everyone wants to live frankly, but Li Zehou is the one who is qualified to be frank.
Second, Mr. Jin Yong is kind and kind, but there is a gap in the cognition between the two sides.
If Jin Yong does not take this 6,000 US dollars, there is nothing wrong with it.
He is not Li Zehou's father, not giving money is his share, taking out money is a love share, what qualifications does Li Zehou have to be dissatisfied?
So an example is needed:
It's like you're worth a million, you have to live in another place. As the old saying goes, moving a house is equivalent to losing a fire, which is very laborious and hurtful. So you move into financial trouble and have to go to a rich friend's house and try your luck.
If your friend doesn't say anything to drive you away, it doesn't matter.
But if a friend is warm and welcoming, when you leave, take out 50 yuan and say: Don't be too little, take a full meal for the child... You will definitely smash these 50 pieces on the other person's braincase.
If you don't give money, it's your duty, and people don't owe you in the first place.
But if you take a small amount of money and use you as a beggar, it is tantamount to insult.
Therefore, Li Zehou will be grumpy.
But Jin Yong's money is not blown by the wind, it is also a word code out, and the literati code words are super hard. Mr. Jin Yong took out his hard-earned money for no reason, and it was also the pain of the knife's heart. Jin Yong is right, Li Zehou is unhappy in his heart - this is the characteristic of the normal world.
The third, concentration, is the secret to our career.
There is a story in "Liezi" about a man named Ji Chang, in order to learn archery, he lay under his wife's loom, stared at the weaving shuttle with his eyes, practiced for three years, and practiced until his eyes could not blink. Then he hung a lice on the beam of the house again, lay on the bed and stared at the lice for three years, and saw that the lice were as big as a wheel. Then Ji Chang picked up the bow and arrow, and was shocked to find that no matter what he wanted to shoot, the target was as huge as a mountain in his eyes, and it was too difficult not to shoot.
This story can explain Li Zehou's academic cultivation. When he was studying at Peking University, he was poor and sick, he couldn't go anywhere, he couldn't do anything, he could only lie in the attic and read, look, look, look, look, the vein of Chinese humanistic thought, in his eyes, was bigger than the mountain, he casually wrote a paper, and the old scholar who had studied all his life was stunned. This is the gift of a life of suffering, something that ordinary people cannot imagine and is extremely difficult to understand.
So the question for today is: