Wu Mi is a modern Chinese scholar with three titles: writer, master of sinology and poet. Let's take a look at Wu Mi's resume. Wu Mi, also spelled Yu Monk and Yu Heng, pen name Yusheng, was born in 1894 in Jingyang, Shaanxi. The founder of the study of Chinese comparative literature, he is known as the father of Chinese comparative literature.
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Wu Mi Introduction: Wu Mi was admitted to the Beijing Tsinghua Preparatory School for Studying in the United States in 1911, which is the predecessor of Tsinghua University, so Wu Mi is often said to have graduated from Tsinghua University. After graduating from Tsinghua School in 1916, he went to the United States and studied at the University of Virginia in 1917. A year later, in 1918, he transferred to the Department of Comparative Literature at Harvard University, where he received a bachelor's degree in 1920 and a master's degree in 1921.
From 1930 to 1931, during this year, Wu Mi traveled to Europe and engaged in literary research at Oxford University and The University of Paris. After returning to China, he served as a professor at many well-known universities in China, including Tsinghua University, Peking University, Peking Normal University and many other famous universities. Since 1950, he has been a professor in several departments at Southwest Normal College. After that, he also served as a standing committee member of the Chongqing Municipal Federation of Literature and Literature and a member of the Sichuan Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
Wu Mi has taught courses in English, English prose, foreign literature, Western critical literature, history of world literature, old Chinese poetry and old novel studies, and has also participated in the compilation of lecture notes and teaching materials such as "General History of the World", "Selected Readings of Masterpieces of Foreign Literature", "Concise English Grammar", and "Latin Grammar". During his time at the Tsinghua Institute of Chinese Studies, he also trained a number of famous scholars for China, including Qian Zhongshu and Ji Xianlin.
In the 1940s, he began to give lectures on the Dream of the Red Chamber all over the country. He also published papers in Chinese and English, such as "Comments on the Book of Stones", "Dream of the Red Chamber and World Literature", etc., which made many contributions to the development of China's red studies to the world.
How Wu Mi reads
There is a famous writer in modern China named Wu Mi. But how Wu Mi reads is still not known to many friends. Let's popularize how Wu Mi reads. Wu Mi is the pinyin wumi, "Wu" is pronounced as the second sound, and "Mi" is pronounced as the fourth sound. In the two words, the main pronunciation difficulty is the word "Mi". Next, I will talk about the word "Mi" for everyone.
The word "Mi" is a polysyllabic character with the pronunciation of "volt" and "secret". When pronounced as "secret", it means quiet, and if the surname is "Mi", it is also pronounced "secret", such as "Mi Zi Zhen". When "Mi" is pronounced as "volt", it is equivalent to the word "volt". For example, in ancient times, "Fuxi" was often written as "Mi Xi", which is pronounced fu and pronounced as the second sound.
The word "Mi" is split into two parts: "宀" and "必". "宀" refers to the place, the place where it is located. The original meaning of "must" is to say that "the heart is real but invisible", which gradually extends to the meaning of "hidden". Therefore, the combination of "宀" and "必" is the meaning of the hidden place.
When pronouncing the sound "secret", there are four meanings. The first is the meaning of tranquility. In xu shen's "Shuowen" of the Eastern Han Dynasty, it is recorded: Mi, An Ye. The second is the meaning of stillness, silence. For example, Mi Mu means peaceful and quiet Mu. The third is the meaning of secret, not public. There is a sentence in Gengxin's "Wai Jiang Nan Fu": Jackals are strong, and the poison is blown. Here is the meaning of secret. The fourth is the meaning of water rushing. For example, Mi.
When pronouncing the sound "volt", as mentioned earlier, the word "volt" is the same.
What did Wu Mi do
Wu Mi is a famous literary critic and scholar in China. But everyone seems to be unclear about what Wu Mi is doing. Today, I will talk about what this Wu Mi is doing. Wu Mi actually did a lot of things, mainly literary research and knowledge transfer. Now let's take a look at it little by little.
After Wu Mi returned to China in 1921, she was hired by Southeast University as a professor at the Faculty of Letters, responsible for teaching courses such as the history of world literature. The content of Wu Mi's lectures is very rich, and he often combines the four traditional cultural theories of Greco-Roman culture, Christian culture, Indian Buddhist culture and Chinese Confucian culture, and then compares them with each other. This kind of lecture is what we do best, because he graduated from Harvard's Department of Comparative Literature.
In 1924, Wu Mi was hired to Shenyang as a professor in the Department of Foreign Languages of Northeastern University. A year later, Tsinghua University was founded, wu Mi served as the director of the Tsinghua University Research Institute, and he also hired four scholars such as Liang Qichao and Chen Yinke as the tutors of the institute. This institute was later known as the "Institute of Sinology" and produced many outstanding sinology talents for The country.
In 1930, Wu Mi traveled to Western Europe, and after returning to China, she opened the Department of Foreign Languages at Tsinghua University. Under his efforts, the Department of Foreign Languages of Tsinghua University has grown rapidly and has become the first-class department in China. In 1941, Wu Mi was hired by the Ministry of Education as one of the first professors. In 1943, he became the head of the Department of Foreign Languages at Southwest United University.
In 1946, he refused the request of Zhejiang University and Henan University to hire him as the dean of the Faculty of Letters, and went to Wuhan University as the head of the Department of Foreign Languages. Later, he resigned from lingnan university, national taiwan university and other universities, and settled in Sichuan as a teacher in the history department of Southwest Normal University. In short, Wu Mi's whole life has been dedicated to the cause of education.
Qian Zhongshu Wu Mi
Qian Zhongshu was born in a family of scholars, and was very intelligent from an early age, and was known as the "Talent of the Republic of China" at that time. When Qian Zhongshu was young, he was a little arrogant. In 1929, Qian Zhongshu was admitted to the Department of Foreign Languages of Tsinghua University and became Wu Mi's proud protégé.
Qian Zhongshu (left) and Wu Mi (right) photo
Qian Zhongshu's English scores have always been very good, and he entered with full marks in English when he was admitted to Tsinghua University. Therefore, when he was in class at Tsinghua University, Qian Zhongshu never took class notes, and he was not very serious about listening to the lectures, but after every time the test results came out, Qian Zhongshu was always the first. Therefore, as a teacher, Wu Mi naturally likes Qian Zhongshu, a student with excellent grades.
But the good relationship between the two of them did not last long, and when Qian Zhongshu studied in the UK with his wife after graduation, he sent a letter to the teacher Wu Mi, and it was this letter that led to the breakdown of the relationship between the two. The letter is actually a book review titled "Mr. Wu Mi and His Poems." In order to avoid the teacher's anger, Qian Zhongshu also wrote a letter saying that he hoped the teacher would not be angry.
However, after Wu Mi saw the book review, she was still furious. And wrote in his diary: "The content of this article is extremely harsh and harsh to Mi Bei. But what makes Wu Mi even more sad is that Qian Zhongshu compares the woman he once loved deeply to a woman who has lost her old age, which makes Wu Mi extremely sad.
In the book review, Qian Zhongshu described Wu Mi this way: "He constantly whipped himself and washed dirty clothes in public. "He's actually a 'playing with fire, and a man like him is a great man and a fool." This kind of taunting sentence of Wu Mi is everywhere. However, Wu Mi's heart was very broad, and she finally forgave this student who had offended him, and did her best to keep Qian Zhongshu to stay at Tsinghua University to teach.