Master Li Ao, driving Hexi to Kuyan has been nearly 3 years. The controversy surrounding him, whether it is a bluster or a mockery, a slander or a support, has gradually settled.
Li Ao. 1935-2018, a native of Buyeo City, Jilin Province
Li Ao, of course, is particularly complicated. His complexity lies in the impurity, not the turbidity. This person can go to jail for the sake of ideals, and can not be afraid of losing his head for the sake of public welfare, but at the same time, he is arrogant, arrogant, greedy for money, treacherous, and first-class kung fu. Even, he went around blackening himself, and the whole world shouted, afraid that others would not know how bad he was.
Li Ao is a real "Ya Pi", a veritable temperamental person, but also has a mild "exposure fetish", I do my own thing too much like the modern You Heng, a lifelong reality show. But he is by no means hypocritical, can spread everything in the sun, frank, naked to people.
According to the viewpoint on time, Li Ao's biggest black spot lies in the "three views are not correct." People who have a bit of moral purity will especially hate Li Ao.
Middle school years
Our people have always had higher hopes for the private morality of intellectuals, for example, Westerners lack this concept of "character". In terms of personal morality, he is indeed not great and righteous. Some celebrities openly scolded him, saying that he was inferior, indecent, and despicable, and boring, tasteless, immoral, and shameless. A female friend solemnly told me that she would rather commit herself to Zhou Libo than like Li Ao, an "old hooligan".
But who can deny that he was indeed a spiritual icon for generations of Chinese, and always showed people the code of conduct? Ma Jiahui and Liang Wendao's gang were pretentious enough, and they still respected Li Ao, and even their opponent Wang Shijian had to weep for it. Li Ao is a man, and he can be judged in eight words: private morality can be discussed, and major festivals are not depraved. The so-called "private morality" is also arrogant and lustful, laughing at the ex-wife, breaking with old friends, and not being serious. Besides, do you say he did anything lacking in virtue?
Ma Jiahui: When he was young, he deliberately transferred from Hong Kong to follow Li Ao
At that time, when Liang Qichao wrote the biography of Li Hongzhang, he sighed, "Mencius knew that people talk about the world, the world is not easy to discuss, and people are easy to know? "Li Ao is not easy to say, he is an outlier in Chinese society, a strange thing in Chinese culture, completely free, walking alone, doing whatever he wants. The old ghost is Li Ao, "although tens of millions of people are going to die" is also Li Ao; the next three abuses are Li Ao, and it is also Li Ao who "prefers to be crushed for jade rather than for Waquan" for those in power; it is Li Ao who relish the fact that his ex-wife is dirty, and it is also Li Ao who can be martyred for his lover; it is Li Ao who scolds the benefactor Wang Baguo, only because Hu Shi Yin Haiguang once reached out to help, and later the "offspring" who most missed them was also Li Ao.
In order to make some money, it is Li Ao who does not hesitate to go to court with his old friends; it is also Li Ao who can sell the mansion and donate it to "do good deeds". Such a Li Ao, which one is true and which is false?
Originally, Li Aohua had been gone for three years, and with the time that he had lengthened and his emotions had cooled down, it was time to objectively evaluate him, but it was still difficult for people to write.
How he sees himself is actually capricious. At the beginning, he was about to return to the mainland, and he made a big fuss on the "Threesome of Gong Gong", saying that "everyone just worships me, and they are not qualified to comment on me", but a few days later, when fudan gave a speech, he "retracted" on the spot and admitted that the boasting "master" Yunyun was indeed a bit exaggerated, nothing more than a scene of drama.
Therefore, in my eyes, Li Ao has never been a shameless person. The Li Ao I am imagining is such a Chinese literati: cynical because of conceit at heart, and crazy because of contempt on the outside. He laughed and cursed, cynical, and actually lived more seriously, bravely, and responsibly than most Chinese literati. In 2005, his ex-girlfriend Wang Shangqin published an autobiography "Li Ao For Whom WePt", talking about Li Ao is also grateful. Affectionate and responsible, Li Ao folded himself. He tried his best to "start chaos and eventually abandon" from the black, but he was stunned that none of his girlfriends scolded him. Isn't that weird?
When I was in graduate school in the History Department of National Taiwan University, I studied with Yao Congwu
Li Ao's style is really crazy, not dirty. A few years ago, a reporter interviewed him and compared him with Wang Shuo, "You are very similar, you all love to scold people", Li Ao smiled contemptuously: "Can he compare with me?" He scolds people, and I scold people who can get me in jail." Wang Shuo's people, who laughed at him in a big way, really lacked confidence and capital. The current professor, the last courage left, that is, to harass the female students, Li Ao even the lustful position, are beyond their reach. He is a streamer, not a slut.
With his ex-wife Hu Yinmeng: Scolded for half a lifetime, he wanted to reconcile before he died
Some people say that Li Ao is "outer circle and inner square", and I also feel very fit. In fact, he has been sticking to the correctness of his own beliefs all his life, and under the cover of cynicism and fanaticism, he has been chopping waves all the way, singing all the way, and all the way to life, laughing and proud of the rivers and lakes for nearly 70 years.
In the traditional Chinese value system, the criteria for judging celebrities are in the 6 characters of "meritorious service, meritorious speech, and moral virtue". Putting aside the untickable private morality, I think Li Ao is remarkable in these three aspects. Comprehensive scoring, remotely followed by Lu Xun Hu Shi's legacy, no one can reach in contemporary times.
Out
According to these three levels alone, it is completely possible to give Li Ao a rough historical positioning. Talking about "Li Yan" and "Tianzi No. 1 Character Demagogue", the Western media even called him "the most outstanding critic in modern China". The 85 volumes of the "Complete Works of Li Ao" have influenced generations of Chinese, allowing him to be called a "famous master"; in "Lide", he is a "famous scholar", and what he has established is "public morality" in the public domain, "with a sacred heart, blinded by the color of madness, and foolishness in the world", giving people infinite spiritual inspiration; on "meritorious service", he is a "fighter" who "lives to the old age and works until he is old"; at that time, he had the same kind of pride as Tan Sitong, and promoted the historical process of the island with his own strength, and was a real "intellectual".
Li Ao, the "well-known" on the island, is obviously more worthy of a special book. On the basis of intellectual creativity, he is still far from the "master"; on the depth, his vulgar writings can hardly become a generation of "thinkers"; but in the 20 years before and after the 1960s, on the island of silence, his determination and indomitability to resist the unjust and righteous power is actually the conscience of Chinese readers and the most shining light in the intellectual circles. He is not selling fame and reputation, not shouting slogans with coffee, but "I recommend Xuanyuan with my blood." Such a man teaches people how not to admire?
The old house of Beiping, where I lived when I was a child
His career of more than 80 years has brought too many surprises to our ordinary era. Nowadays, there are very few intellectuals who are not favored by his words, but when talking about Li Ao, they must first laugh and express their shame on some of his behaviors, as if they can raise their own level as if they can thus raise their own level.
Liang Wendao said, "I don't know if Li Ao is opportunistic, I only know that his books have inspired too many people like me," and "Li Ao and the few people of his generation who speak with common sense have cultivated a small piece of soil under the development of the situation that they may not have expected." This is fair.
Therefore, since I have always been a scholar, although Li Ao is not particularly a scholar and is not particularly great and just, he is still worthy of our commemoration.
I think that his greatest significance is not in the "top three of vernacular articles", but in the era of Zhizang, the inspirational effect displayed: for those who intend to shout but are not courageous enough, for those who still have a weak conscience in the dark moment, for those who are unwilling to keep promises in the ordinary times, the name "Li Ao" is still an encouragement, a symbol, and constantly inspires them, they can live differently from their neighbors, they can be fearless among tens of millions of people, and they can fight for their ideals.
Back to prison
The vast majority of Chinese literati are self-made And they are the most refined beneficiaries. For the ticket, for the luxury car, for the house, for the position of power, for Yan Ruyu, working hard for half a life can not be described as not being diligent, but when it comes to dignity, it seems that something is always missing. In this life, Li Ao, a large number of articles and works, became famous for his lonely and different words, Wei Jin's demeanor was quick to take revenge, and he was not ignorant of the great righteousness of the lie, and he could be called the most worthy Chinese literati after 1949. This northeast brother is a big husband and a tough guy. You lash out at Li Ao, I want to say: China He Xing, and Li Ao; China He Gu, Li Ao is too few!
Of course, he deserves to suffer the crusade. In terms of his life's work, whether it is an article or a person, the major deficiencies are obvious. In the final analysis, in the ambition is too sharp, the scale is too large, the package is too much, the blame is too harsh, the conceit is too much, the comrades are too lonely, and it is suitable to become a "lone ranger". Success is also here, defeat is also here, reputation is also in Si, destruction is also in Si. But before the age of 50, Li Ao can finally be called a history of indomitable struggle, a history of happiness and revenge. Therefore, I am a person who ignores Master Li and forgives his heart, and I often feel his sincerity and mourn his encounters.
Summed up by Liang Xinhui's cliché, I respect his talents, serve his people, cherish his place, and mourn his encounters. With his courage and ability, no matter what field, he should have achieved higher. He led that era, but he was also delayed by that era.
After middle age, Li Ao seems to degenerate into another person: love money, sprinkle, crazy, and mess around, I think I can forgive and understand.
In this way, Li Ao, rather than saying that he has fallen, is better to say that he has seen through; rather than saying that he caters to the public, it is better to say that he is more contemptuous of the current world. I have always felt that we cannot evaluate him with common sense: You and I do not have the blood-colored life of "three into the palace", you and I do not have the heart trauma of being slandered, abandoned, or even betrayed by my lover, you and I do not have the sad and indignant encounter of being betrayed by "confidant comrades", you and I have not been encircled, framed, and tortured, and the humiliating fact that I have not been encircled, framed, and tortured, and it is not deep enough to say cold words. His early friend Wang Shangyi said that he was "stimulated too deeply", which is a matter of self-understanding.
In his later years, Bai Yang
On the surface, he is uninhibited, but in fact he has always had his own right and wrong insistence, bottom-line ethics, and even moral courage. For example, his Chinese feelings, his concept of unity, his hatred of arbitrariness, his contempt for hypocritical celebrities, etc., have been consistent throughout his life and have not made false remarks. Those "comrades" he once had, such as Bai Yang, were almost unanimously softened, compromised, and then helped after they were imprisoned, and Li Ao abandoned them. What is the "highest honor praise order", he not only disdains, but also regards it as humiliating.
Analyzing the slanderous, the wind and bones of that side, Li Ao has never changed. He looked down on Bai Yang and Yu Guangzhong, saying that they were "the ugly people who were high above" and "the followers of the Quanmen Song and Dance Class": "In the special seat of the audience, Mr. Adult sat in the front row, and behind them were second-rate politicians such as you, third-rate scholars, fourth-rate eunuchs, fifth-rate literary policemen, and sixth-rate followers", which may not be wrong, or even show some kind of wind bone. 36 years ago, when Ma Jiahui first met Li Ao, he complained that he was too mean to people, and Li Ao "very resolutely" told him, "Jiahui, those who have a vendetta and do not repay, must also be a person who has grace and does not repay." You remember my words."
Yu Guangzhong. Silent response
Indeed, to be fair, although Yu Guangzhong is a famous literary artist, he is indeed able to be a guest of honor left and right no matter what era or place, is there nothing suspicious about this?
It can be said that Li Ao's 82 years of long life road is actually a "Shu Road" for himself to walk, and he walks alone in the lofty mountains and high pits and deep valleys. It is both sad and lonely, noisy and helpless.
Those who scolded him to the point of uselessness should not forget that he really used the pride of his great husband to resist all public injustice, knowing that he had hit the stone with a pebble, but still frankly bet on a glorious future, precious freedom, beautiful love, and even the crushing of life to "cash out" some civilizational value flames. On September 23, 2005, he returned to his hometown, gave a speech at Tsinghua University, and shouted out the sentence "This is my motherland, I want to let him be free". I think that's his ultimate ideal.
However, it is also undeniable that after middle age, Li Ao did gradually move towards the young Li Ao, the antithesis of an idealist. He makes money everywhere, he walks up to the screen, he gags, he pretends to be crazy and stupid, he shows vulgarity, in order to maintain the heat and get applause. Writer and fighter Li Ao is increasingly out of the circle, flipping into an unpopular entertainment industry person, or a marginal role.
"Li Ao" is almost the same as the "old ugly", and he has long lost the intellectual spirit of "a soldier and a gentleman". So that I, once an "iron fan", in the era of entertainment to death, the elderly Li Ao, who desperately "entertained", was forced to open for business, or was he happy in it?
His confidante Chen Wenxi, in that famous eulogy, said that this was his pretense after seeing through "the world is not worth it". She said that in her later years, Li Ao slowly realized that the society he had welcomed with the suffering of his own life, although it was no longer popular, was a completely vulgar world, and he felt that the sacrifices of the past were not worth it, and his heart was both lonely and indignant.
"This era was ridiculed by him, but his emotions were frustrating." On the surface, he is "reconciled with the world", but in fact he is more contemptuous.
As a result, he completely abandoned the elite intellectual figure and behaved more vulgarly than the entertainment industry people with "average academic qualifications in high school".
He leans over with the world, he is with the light, he laughs and scolds, he finds pleasure, and he makes fun of the little ones. But at the same time, an inevitable paradox arises: he "rubs the heat" and actually dilutes his own value; and before he bids farewell to us, most people in this society have actually bid farewell to him first. A hundred years of life, fate returns to a dream; ape crane insect sand, for example, are dust, in his later years Li Ao is arbitrarily ending himself.
It's not that he doesn't know the antics and irony in it. "The previous drama of the bottle is not laughing, I am dead and the kings think of me madly", see how has this quoted poem ever been confused? Before his death, he in the ward himself concluded, "I am a correct person, living in the wrong place, originally going to the Western Heavens to learn the scriptures, but in the end it was reduced to the East China Sea sermon, and provoked the anger of the heavens", the tone is full of pity.
This person, with a hippie smile for half a lifetime, seems to have nothing to do, but when the hustle and bustle recedes, the heart is infinitely sentimental.