I once read another sentence: men should develop the habit of reading and writing. This sentence can be extended to: a man who doesn't like reading and never writes is not a real man, but a man at best. I didn't say this sentence, but I think the angle is good and the thinking is deep. Why can I only say that a man who can't drink is not a real man? Haha, stop here, or I don't know how many people will be offended!
Notes on "Crossing the South and Returning to the North" (continued)
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University is a place to study. However, once learning and political career are compared, all scholars and masters can't feel at ease and quiet, and the culture is gradually desertified. If you persist in doing things, you can't tell the truth, do what you want to do, or even stick to your beliefs. How do you innovate and be unique in your own field of study? On the other hand, flattery and flattery have become the normal state of work, but academically they are disrespectful, plagiarizing, deceiving the world and stealing fame, and fishing for fame and reputation. What I want is how to wear the title of "academician of the two academies", instead of being indifferent to fame and fortune and concentrating on scientific research like Nan and Tu Youyou. Such a learning environment, even if there are beautiful buildings and beautiful environment, I am afraid it is difficult to cultivate talents with precision instruments! I finally got a "master"!
The outdated and backward teaching equipment of National Southwest Associated University can be seen from the following fragments. Student Wu Daguan finished the experiment and threw an empty matchbox into the garbage. At that time, Professor Yang Shixian, head of the Department of Chemistry of National Southwest Associated University, angrily wanted to stop his experiment. Yang said, "Even matches are precious, let alone empty matchboxes?" The implication is that matchboxes are equally precious and cannot be discarded. Life is even worse: if you can't eat meat and have no money to buy meat, you will try to catch mice, peel them, clean them up, cut them into pieces and braise them in soy sauce, which is delicious. "This is the story of Pan Guangdan eating rat meat.
It is under such crude experimental conditions and harsh living environment that students have no distractions. journey to the south still adheres to the qualities of concentration and inner prudence, and retains the fire full of hope and light until it burns and becomes a fire to start a prairie fire.
Not only the staff are embarrassed, but the headmaster is no exception. Jiang Menglin, president of Peking University, was forced by life. In order to "earn some money to support his family", he gave up writing in his mother tongue and changed to English for publication in the United States. In such a difficult life and situation, Jiang Menglin's thoughts and outlook on life have changed. In the end, he finally bid farewell to the post of president of Peking University, which is a pity. Of course, in the face of the menacing student tide, Jiang Menglin was worried about the unreasonable demands and arrogance of students in the student tide, which was one of the reasons why Jiang left the post of president of Peking University. In the face of difficulties, he was unable to turn the tide, so he had to compromise or even ignore everyone's dissuasion and avoid it. He entered the Song Temple in an attempt to preserve his sanity.
In such a tense environment, the true backbone intellectuals of the Republic of China can remain poor, keep their inner beliefs, persist in learning for the sake of learning, and persist in holding high the banner of national justice! Fu Sinian is one of them. For those pseudo-Peking University teachers who "pay attention to personal honor and struggle for survival", Fu said surprisingly: "Han thieves don't even shake hands!" As for Zhou Zuoren, he was soaked in muddy water, swearing that he was a "big traitor" and a "turtle bastard"! It is such a cultural fighter who distinguishes right from wrong, upholds truth, advocates justice, dares to speak and do, and "holds high the banner of national justice". His personality charm is commendable, heroic and commendable, and he is a model. It is worthy of being "the first cow in the academic circle of the Republic of China". Cows have blood and backbone! Li Ao's evaluation of him is: He is a real liberal in the cracks!
Hu Shi is both a scholar and a politician. He is the core figure of the New Culture Movement and advocates western learning, academic freedom and spiritual independence. President Peking University, the first academician of Academia Sinica, is known as "the great scholar of Confucianism" and "the master of scholars". After his death, Chiang Kai-shek wrote him such an elegy: a model of old morality in new culture and a model of new ideas in old ethics. This evaluation is both pertinent and true, complex and meaningful. Hu Shi, as the ambassador of the National Government to the United States, mediated between the National Government and the American Government with his outstanding diplomatic skills and academic status (having obtained doctoral degrees from many American universities). On the one hand, he prayed for the support of the American government; on the other hand, he wanted to safeguard the interests of the country and the nation. It is said that because of his diplomatic wording, the United States made up its mind to drop two bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which contributed to Japan's unconditional surrender. If so, how good would it be? The epitaph written on Hu Shi's tombstone by Mao Zishui, a student of Hu Shi and a professor at National Taiwan University, sums up his life in this way: People who have worked hard for academic and cultural progress, freedom of thought and speech, national honor and human happiness rest here.
Fu Sinian and Hu Shi are both patriots, but they have different beliefs and political views. They chose a different road from others, a road they have been taking, and they can only go on without hesitation. No matter which way they choose, they all have a persistent feeling of learning for the nation and freedom, which deserves our respect and admiration. They are all "masters" in our hearts!