Ji Xianlin in his later years
The master of guoxue, something that many people have been out of reach all their lives, but there is one person who insists on not accepting it from beginning to end.
It is not because he is not academically enough, but he thinks that his field of study is not compatible with it. He even jokingly said that he was just a small master of traditional Chinese studies.
He was Ji Xianlin, a young man who remained frank and authentic until his death, the last figure in Yanyuan to be called a master.
Teenager, and another teenager
Young Ji Xianlin
Ji Xianlin's childhood was unfortunate, he was fostered by his parents in the city's relatives' house from the age of six, and he never had the opportunity to see her again until his mother died.
So after his mother's death, Ji Xianlin once recalled this sad and powerless feeling, he said that attending his mother's funeral, although he was in tears, he could never remember his mother's appearance.
The son of Ji Xianlin, the struggle for inheritance is in turmoil
But Ji Xianlin was undoubtedly extremely intelligent, and when he was in middle school, he had already published his own articles in the newspaper, and then he was successfully admitted to Tsinghua University. Later, he studied in Germany, studied multiple linguistics, and eventually became a generation of masters.
But in fact, before he became a master and enjoyed fame in the eyes of the world, he was also a bad teenager.
It wasn't until his memoirs were later published that people discovered this interesting soul.
When he was studying at Tsinghua University, he was also troubled by the exam, and in his personal diary, he expressed himself frankly and spit out lotus flowers.
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"Fuck, these bastard professors, didn't do anything meaningful!" Not only do you not know that you are discouraged, but you also take the exam all day, either you take the exam, or I take the exam, what is the test of his mother?"
In fact, when the publishing house was publishing his memoirs, he asked him whether this part should be deleted, and Ji Xianlin resolutely said no, he felt that he was not a saint, so naturally there was flesh and blood.
From here, it can actually be seen that Ji Xianlin's most affectionate side, his voice has not changed this juvenile spirit. And perhaps it is precisely this kind of personality that hurt his son Ji Cheng.
In the eyes of his son Ji Cheng, he was a "failed and ruthless literati".
The quarterly undertaking of the press conference
There are many reasons, one of which is that less than three months after Ji Cheng's birth, Ji Xianlin was admitted to the University of Göttingen in Germany, so he went to Germany to study, and served for eleven years without feeling his father's care. It wasn't until his father sent back photos from Germany when he grew up that he learned the stranger was his father.
After returning to China, Ji Xianlin went to Peking University to teach, and could not see Ji Cheng until the winter and summer vacations. Later, Ji Cheng experienced a failed marriage, and before he divorced his ex-wife, he had a relationship with Ji Xianlin's nanny. This act of betrayal of the marriage left the father and son without contact with each other for thirteen years.
It was not until the last days of his life that father and son finally reconciled.
A teenager Ji Xianlin, in his youth, did not enjoy the attention of his parents' love.
Ji Xianlin and his wife in his later years
Thirty years later, another teenager, Ji Cheng, grew up in an environment where he did not feel his father's presence.
Perhaps for them, this is some kind of fate, or the price of "youthful spirit".
Guoxue masters, and do not accept
Ji Xianlin's favorite self-title is "a cloth dress", and he has always been reluctant to resign to the top hat given to the master of traditional Chinese studies by the people and the government.
The closest master of Peking University
According to his own memoirs, Miscellaneous Notes on the Sickbed, this is how it is described.
"About twenty years ago, mo once held a meeting in the lecture hall of Peking University, which had not yet been rebuilt, to talk about Chinese studies to the students. There were five professors sitting on the podium, each of whom went up to give a speech, and I was ranked first. A senior reporter, an alumnus of Peking University, thanked a long article in grief, "The Fever of Traditional Chinese Studies Quietly Rises in Yanyuan". Since then, four of these professors, including me, have been called masters of traditional Chinese studies. What they think of this laurel crown, I don't know. I myself was put on this laurel crown, but I got goosebumps. ”
In this memoir, Ji Xianlin expressed his true thoughts, "I am not even a little master of traditional Chinese studies, let alone a master, so please take the laurel of a master of traditional Chinese studies from the top of my head." ”
Ji Xianlin, who works in illness
Mr. Ji's reasoning is also very real, he is fluent in Sanskrit, Pali, Tocharian, English, German, French, Russian and other languages, and is one of the few scholars in the world to engage in The Study of Tocharian language.
But when it comes to Sinology, he feels that "in addition to being able to recite hundreds of poems and dozens of ancient texts, his knowledge of Sinology has not increased, except for being able to talk about some topics related to Sinology on a macroscopic level." ”
Sanskrit literature
To tell the truth, in terms of achievements, Ji Xianlin has made outstanding achievements in ancient and modern times, especially in many fields such as linguistics, culture, history, Buddhist teaching, Indology and comparative literature, and he can be called a generation of masters in his field. But he remained sober until his old age, facing honor, and doing what he received and did not receive.
Love to write a diary, and the first generation of scribblers
Ji Xianlin is also a strange man who loves to write a diary, and he will keep a diary every day, so later when his memoirs are published, everyone finds out that this master of governance is such a sullen side. The content of the diary is eye-opening, the so-called master writes a paragraph, and the paragraph holder will lose his job.
Excerpts from a few, all the kings to enjoy.
"Today I heard Liang Xingyi say that the Summer Palace drowned a Yan university student, and they were swimming in Kunming Lake, but they tripped over the water and grass, so they panicked. Shout 'help!' in your mouth. Ordinary Chinese people who know English and think that they are playing with ghost words, do not know that they will drown. Yan Da is inferior to the root, and tells you to speak English. ”
"Watching the Tsinghua women's basketball game against the attached middle school, to be honest, watching women play basketball, in fact, is not to watch basketball, but to look at the thighs, the thighs of the female students of the attached middle school are black, only to watch the half-court and return."
"At night, I came back from walking around and played my cards in Wang Hongdou's house, and I didn't return to the house until ten o'clock. Get a big sleep. ”
"After the afternoon sports test, standing on one leg and closing his eyes for twenty-two seconds, at first it was easy to see, but it was extremely difficult to do, but finally passed, and others did not pass more miles."
"Graduation is really not a good thing. When I was sent off last night, I felt as if I had been abandoned by someone else. ”
"Shen Congwen wants to know me, how can I go to see him?"