Regarding the external evaluation, he smiled and asked, "What's wrong with me? When they came to me and couldn't get what they needed, they said I was strange. "
In addition, it is said that because of the long-term care of the person in charge of Shuangta Park, such as free admission and free boiled water, he agreed to be a private school consultant out of affection.
There is a Twin Towers Park in Suzhou in the south of the Yangtze River. The twin towers standing in the park are regarded as two pens and are one of the cultural symbols of the city. The former residence of a master, Zhang Taiyan, is nearby.
Every morning from 10 to noon 12, there is always an old man who comes from two miles away for tea on the hardwood chair at the corner of the corridor outside the park "Xiao Xuan". On an old red-painted wooden table beside the old man, there are always glass jars, kettles and a small plastic bag serving as a teacup. He doesn't talk to others, just looks at the green trees and sunshine quietly, or closes his eyes.
On the other side of the yard, a group of old people are chatting or playing cards, and the noise from time to time sets off the loneliness of the former.
This old man is Zhang Taiyan's close disciple Zhu Jihai. He is 9 1 year old this year. Lu Xun is his fellow brother and Chen Yinque is his contemporaries. His Interpretation of the Songs of the South is called "a heavenly book in academic circles" because it is abstruse and difficult to understand. However, unlike Lu Xun and Chen Yinque, this legendary figure in Chinese studies seems to have been out of public view.
Some people say that in Suzhou, Zhu Jihai has the oldest qualification, the greatest knowledge and the strangest temper. He is a "somewhat stupid, pedantic, eccentric and crazy master".
Some people say that Zhu Jihai has been down and out for a long time, and he is a "three-no-one" with "no money, no labor insurance and no one to take care of".
There are still all kinds of rumors. It is said that Huang Kan, Zhang Taiyan's eldest disciple, wanted to meet him very much, but he didn't get it in the end. Zhu Jihai said, "They both rely on their abilities, that's all." . It is said that Kuang Yaming, the former president of Nanjing University, wants to invite him out of the mountain. The old man's answer is: the monthly salary is set by him, "neither too much nor too little", "and each class only lasts for 20 minutes because I have no water".
Recently, he went out to be a consultant in a modern private school, which caused various speculations and discussions. Recently, the reporter went to Suzhou to visit this mysterious master of Chinese studies.
A real and lovely old man
Mr. Zhu Jihai can't make an appointment because he doesn't have any contact tools except writing letters. The only way to see him is to wait at the Twin Towers Park from 10 am to noon 12 am.
Under the recommendation of a friend, the author was fortunate enough to sit in front of Mr. Zhu Lao. When he learned that the reporter was from Guangzhou, the old gentleman immediately said that the English word "TEA" came from the pronunciation of tea in southern China, because tea in China was first shipped to the west from southern ports. Such an opening remark suddenly relaxed the reporter's nervous nerves.
This is an old man with a thin face, healthy spirit and few spots on his face. His clothes are simple and elegant: a wool hat, a gray jacket, a pair of striped trousers and a pair of tweed shoes. Evaluate his "three best" to the outside world. He asked, "What's wrong with me? When they came to me and couldn't get what they needed, they said I was strange. "
He showed us the newspaper in his hand and pointed to a piece of news above-"Jiangsu will eliminate 200,000 natural villages". "What's this for?" He told us that he had no money to subscribe to newspapers, so he could only buy some cheap newspapers to read. He paid close attention to the present world through this. Regarding some people's theory that reading is useless, Zhu Jihai said: "Confucius failed to change Lu, but if we look at it for a long time, he can influence the world."
As for the so-called "revival of Chinese studies" and "return to tradition", he said: "Now we are not returning to tradition, but picking up the lost humanities. Confucius is not a signboard or a spell-just say a few spells and everything will be fine. Now the so-called commemoration of Confucius is a' cultural blind spot'. Just like falling out of the water, it will be gone in a few days. " He went on to explain: "What do you mean by returning to tradition? The so-called tradition means that it will be passed down all the time, and what cannot be passed down is not a tradition. I am advancing every day, where can I go back? "
Why do you want to be a private school consultant? He didn't answer, but said helplessly that the original agreement was just a formal name, no interview, no photos, and now it's all over. The reporter heard a saying that the owner of the private school asked the person in charge of Shuangta Park to match the bridge. Zhu Jihai agreed because he was taken care of by the person in charge of Shuangta Park for a long time, such as free tickets and free boiled water.
He has a great opinion about the current environmental pollution. Now it is a garbage civilization, making all kinds of garbage, so cancer appears in large numbers. He even expressed his extreme distrust of tea: "It's all pesticides."
He comes to Twin Towers Park every day because there is nowhere else to go, he said helplessly. Zhu Jihai's bedroom is on the street, so he can't sleep well at night. Therefore, there are three purposes for coming to the Twin Towers: keep moving, breathe fresh air and "catch up on sleep". Hearing a joke in the conversation, the old gentleman laughed so hard that his mouth was about to spit out tea and tears came out.
In front of us is a real and lovely old man.
The reporter invited Zhu Jihai to eat in the restaurant. As soon as he entered the hall, Zhu Jihai said that the air was bad and smelled of oil smoke. When ordering drinks, Zhu Jihai suggested drinking red wine-"Drinking some red wine is good for the heart", and at the same time, drinking it against the juice.
He is afraid of getting sick because he "looks down on the disease and nobody cares". Therefore, Zhu Jihai said that the first thing to learn now is to "protect yourself".
Zhu Jihai said that he can't afford to buy books, and his monthly income is not enough to eat and dress.
Fu Qi, head of Fuxing private school, told reporters that Zhu Jihai sometimes went to a roadside shop to eat something at noon, and sometimes he didn't eat. An old mother in Shuangta Park feels sorry for him and sometimes cooks a meal at noon and invites him to eat together.
High-spirited young people
Zhu Jihai was born in 19 16. His father is also a scholar. I studied in Japan and met the revolutionary leader Huang Xing.
Zhu Jihai 16 years old studied under Zhang Taiyan. Regarding "The Last Disciple of Zhang Taiyan", Zhu Jihai said that he was not the last student to listen to Zhang Taiyan's lecture, because Zhang Taiyan's lecture in his later years was open: anyone can come to listen as long as he pays the money. He is one of the youngest disciples. Zhang Taiyan attached great importance to this clever and diligent student, calling him a "swift horse" and entrusted him with a heavy responsibility, so the outside world was called the "last disciple".
"Mr. Taiyan said that Shuo Wen Jie Zi is word for word. Every lesson must belong to Lu Xun and Zhu Xizu. Lu Xun also took notes, which are now in Lu Xun Memorial Hall. He later said,' I don't remember a word'. "
Zhu Jihai thought this was Lu Xun's so-called "revolutionary position" at that time, and "this is a kind of" left-wing infant disease ".
"Teacher Zhang asked me to do two things: one is to organize a seminar on Chinese studies; One is to establish the magazine "Creating Words". " Zhu Jihai recalled that the main way to learn from Mr. Zhang was to chat.
Zhang Taiyan appointed Zhu Jihai as the keynote speaker after 1935, when Zhu was only about 20 years old. One can imagine how energetic a young man with a weak crown is to give lectures to a group of scholars older than himself.
Surprisingly, Zhu Jihai chose physics as his major in college because he was "interested in everything". Zhu Jihai did not hesitate to use a word to describe himself when he was young-"chic". At that time, like other fashionable young people, he liked playing and watching movies. The difference is that he has a strong interest in everything in the world, even profound knowledge. "Research is also fun."
Recalling his boyhood, one of Zhu Jihai's favorite stories was his first trip to Beijing. The cause of this trip is not pleasant. Because of Zhang's workshop on Chinese studies, he had a conflict with his classmates and went sightseeing in Beijing. This trip to Beijing opened his eyes and gained a lot. At the invitation of Jiang Menglin, he attended the opening ceremony of the new library in Peking University. I learn Sanskrit and Pali from the German scholar Li Huade. I wanted to learn guqin, but my favorite teacher was not there. What makes him feel most comfortable is to visit the book stand in Dongan market during the day and read the Taoist scriptures in the hut next to Wuying Hall in the Forbidden City at night.
In Zhu Jihai's memory, his stay in Beijing was full and enjoyable, which was hard for him to feel when he came to Beijing twice in the future.
When talking about roommates, the reporter asked if the rumor that they refused to see their eldest brother Huang Kan was true. He immediately denied this statement: "Of course I will go to see him when I have the opportunity." He said that Teacher Zhang and Huang Kan have a good relationship, and they should show each other everything they write. At this point, his eyes began to turn red.
Zhu Jihai is very critical of Lu Xun, another famous disciple of Zhang Taiyan, especially for Lu Xun's writing "Zhang Taiyan's Shuo Wen Jie Zi" in "About Mr. Zhang Taiyan's Two or Three Events".
"Mr. Taiyan said that Shuo Wen Jie Zi is word for word. Every lesson must belong to Lu Xun and Zhu Xizu. Lu Xun also took notes, which are now in Lu Xun Memorial Hall. He later said,' I don't remember a word'. Why? " Zhu Jihai thought this was Lu Xun's so-called "revolutionary position" at that time, and "this is a kind of" left-wing infant disease ". Mr. Zhu believes that to save the country, we must first have culture. "Without our history and culture, what would we have? "Lu Xun's starting point is not bad, but he can't understand it clearly." "The coinage is also to limit their tendency to comprehensively study Soviet Russia."
But I can still understand his extreme, because his father died unjustly.
From 65438 to 0946, Zhu Jihai, who was proficient in Britain, Germany and Japan, came to work in Nanjing National History Museum. He doesn't like the deputy curator who is good at gaining, and the deputy curator is also very dissatisfied, saying that he is "ultra vires"; Hearing this, Zhu Jihai hit back: "This is' the chief has no eyes'!" . So, two years later, he didn't move to Taiwan Province Province with the National History Museum. "The deputy curator is a bureaucrat, knowledgeable, but not very smart, but much taller than some current officials." Zhu Jihai said.
Zhu Jihai has always been very disapproving of the increasingly thick academic works. "That's for the illiterate. Illiterates don't look at it, just put it there. " He thinks that a book may not be as good as an annotation. At the beginning of People's Republic of China (PRC)'s founding, he contributed to Language Studies hosted by Lv Shuxiang, but there was no response. Then we met in Shanghai. "I asked him, how about the manuscript, why didn't you send it? He said, we want a paper here, and we can't publish one at a time. I said, what is a line? Academic is to ask whether it is true or not. As a result, he sent it as soon as he came back. This is the first time I have published an article in Language Studies.