Today, I would like to talk to you about a Wei Daofu in the late Qing Dynasty, Liang Dingfen: a native of Guangzhou, talented, calligraphy everyone, a jinshi of the sixth year of Guangxu, and also a teacher of Puyi, the Xuantong Emperor.
If you don't know Liang Dingfen, always know Lu Xun, Lu Xun likes to scold people, in fact, this gene should come from his teacher, the famous master of traditional Chinese studies Zhang Taiyan.
Photo of Liang Dingfen
At that time, Liang Dingfen and Zhang Taiyan both worked together under Zhang Zhidong, and because Zhang Taiyan published the "Theory of Pai Manchu", he was held down by Liang Dingfen of the Zhongjun WeiDao, and beat him hard with a car stick, from letting Zhang Taiyan smell the "Liang" discoloration and talk about the discoloration!
Liang Dingfen belongs to the typical southerners, not tall, resolute and resolute in doing things, with eyebrows like a sword, and repeatedly impeached the powerful. Including Li Hongzhang, Yuan Shikai and other powerful ministers, who were disliked by Empress Dowager Cixi, they were demoted to five consecutive ranks and became a small official of Jiupin, who engraved himself on the side of the "twenty-seventh year of dismissal" Xiaoyin, resigned his official in anger, and went to Zhenjiang to study behind closed doors.
Zhang Taiyan
At the age of 27, Liang Dingfen resigned from the government to study behind closed doors, and before leaving, he entrusted his wife Gong Shi (who heard that there were sinking fish and falling geese) to the care of his friend Wen Tingshi (24 years old) in Beijing.
Probably because of the unbearable empty room and the appearance of Lang Cai's daughter, Gong And Wen Tingshi lived together to verify that "the wife of a friend is not welcome"!
Wen Tingshi was ostracized because he was an imperial party and was forced to return to his hometown of Pingxiang, Jiangxi, but the Gong clan still followed.
Back in his hometown of Pingxiang, because Wen Tingshi already had a wife and concubine, Gong clan could only live together awkwardly as a lover, and the two had a total of 3 children, which reminded Xiaobian of "there is true love in the world"!
Legend has it that after Liang Dingfen returned to Beijing, he heard about this matter, and also went to Pingxiang, Jiangxi Province, to see two people, and the three of them also had a drink, the specific situation, because the ancient language was too concise to be restored, please carefully make up the painting style.
Later, due to the unsuccessful career path, he ended up depressed. Gong's life is in a difficult situation, so he went to find Liang Dingfen to fight the autumn wind, Liang is also very reasonable, and he sent Ruyi 3000 taels, which shows Liang Dingfen's generosity!
I wonder how many men today can do it!
For this good story, please see Mr. Gao Baishi's "Trivia of the Ancient Spring Wind Building" for yourself!
Liang Dingfen's calligraphy
Some people say that Liang Dingfen is conservative, but also solidified and ignorant, but in fact, it is not!
First of all, let's talk about the side of Liang Dingfen's Zhongjun Wei Dao:
Braided door:
By the time of the Republic of China, there were three people who stuck to the braid: Zhang Xun, Gu Hongming, Wang Guowei, and in fact, there was a braid that was Liang Dingfen.
After the Wuchang Uprising, many people lost their braids, including Li Yuanhong, the governor of Hubei!
Li Yuanhong and Liang Dingfen are old friends, the relationship is very good, in order to let his friends and feudal remnants demarcate the boundaries, as soon as possible to embark on the road of revolution, he planned to invite Liang Dingfen to dinner, incidentally cut his braids!
As a result, liang Dingfen did not go to the banquet, and Li Yuanhong let his men forcibly reduce Liang's braids, and Liang broke off relations with Li Yuanhong and took the boat owner. Until his death, he never set foot in Wuhan again.
In 1919, Liang Dingfen dragged another gray hair braid to bid farewell to the world. The last words are: "People's hearts are dead, my generation must not die, do every point counts one point."
Liang Dingfen single-handedly held a coffin ceremony for the Guangxu Emperor and Empress Longyu, he took a bottle of snow water as a gift, asked the relatives and noble ministers to raise donations for the Chongling tree, and even planted more than 100,000 trees, many of the trees seen today were planted by people he brought people to plant.
Qing Chongling
Liang Dingfen actively cooperated with Zhang Zhidong to carry out the foreign affairs campaign, opened the Two Lakes Academy, and cultivated many new talents, and he once wrote to himself that "Chu materials must be useful, and teach six thousand gentlemen."
Later, many revolutionaries, including Huang Xing and Song Jiaoren, were his students, and even when Huang Xing was wanted by the Qing court, he also sponsored Yin Liang and arranged for him to take refuge in Japan.
In the face of Huang Xing's revolutionary actions, although he did not approve of it, he did not stifle it, and a sentence surfaced his contradictions: "Soldiers have their own aspirations, and Yu no longer bothers to say words." From then on, the son is the revolutionary (fate) party of the son, and The remaining is the great Qing minister of the Yu, and each of them does what is also. ”
Huang xing
In the face of the wheel of history, as the old literati of the Confucian and Mencian way melted into his blood, let him betray his ideals, which is tantamount to asking for his life! On the other hand, this is also a kind of "honest" and "lonely" belief, and also a traditional moral night watchman!
Compared with those scholars and doctors who knelt down first to Li Zicheng and then to the Qing Dynasty after the fall of the Ming Dynasty, Liang Dingfen had his own glorious side!
This kind of faith is particularly valuable in the era of fame and fortune!
Just like in the boundless night, there is a fire stick, although the screen is like a bean, but this is the value, he wants to tell the world: not everything will be erased and removed. The night was thick and the fire was still raging.