No one is perfect, and each of us is not perfect. Although we have various shortcomings, this does not prevent us from having precious shining points. It is not advisable to grasp a certain thing or a shortcoming to characterize a person and draw a conclusion. The same is true when evaluating many famous figures in Chinese history.
Everyone knows Hu Shi is a talented man, an advocate and leader of vernacular language during the Republic of China, and many people also know that he is still a romantic figure. All the shortcomings of the literati are reflected incisively and vividly in Hu Shi. , he didn't do anything less. Let's take a look at the wonderful story that happened to Hu Shi.
The unruly
Although Hu Shi made some achievements in academic culture, he was called hypocrite by the scholars at the time, with moral corruption. Even after Hu Shi's death, the story about Hu Shi was still debated by people, and the popularity has not diminished for decades.
The Hu family has been in business for generations and has a wealthy family background. It was not until Hu Shi's father's generation that he became an official. Hu Shi's mother was the third wife of Hu Shi's father. Hu Shi's father died when he was three years old, so his mother had to take him back to the country, where Hu Shi's mother paid great attention to it. his education.
Hu Shi loved to drink since he was a child. Once, he went to his grandmother's house to play. He drank too much and stopped wearing his clothes. Hu Shi's second aunt saw it and asked Hu Shi to put on his clothes to avoid catching a cold. Hu Shi, who had been drinking too much, said drunkenly, "It's still cold, I'm gone, and it's still cold." This sentence spread to the mother's ears, and she severely criticized Hu Shi that day, criticizing him for not taking his father When talking, Hu Shi, who was ashamed, rubbed sand into his eyes.Hu Shi often made mistakes. Although his mother often taught him, Hu Shi still made repeated mistakes.
When he was a teenager, Hu Shi moved to Chengzhong Middle School in Shanghai with the support of his second brother. This middle school is very famous. Hu Shi studied well and was admitted to the U.S. Geng Scholarship at the age of nineteen.
Before going to study in the United States, Hu Shi and his friends smoked, drank and chatted in a brothel. They didn't leave until midnight in a rickshaw. The driver saw that he was drunk and became greedy. After scavenging, he was driven out of the car. Later, when the patrol police saw that Hu Shi was in a state of embarrassment, he stepped forward to inquire. The drunk Hu Shi involuntarily scuffled with the patrol police, and then Hu Shi was imprisoned in the patrol room. Hu Shi, who had sobered up the next day, was ashamed of what he had done last night and vowed to change his mind.
Hu Shi, who was studying in the United States, could get a monthly scholarship of 80 dollars, which was higher than the wages of American workers at that time. Hu Shi lived a worry-free life in the United States, and even hired two servants to repair the yard for him. , one is black and the other is Cuban. Hu Shi does not smoke, but loves cigarettes. In many cases, he used several packs a day. In the United States, Hu Shi also wanted to quit smoking, but he gave up after a few days.
Romantic affairs
After returning from studying abroad, Hu Shi, like other international students, divorced his wife the first thing he did when he returned to his hometown.
Hu Shi's marriage contract was made when Hu Shi was 13 years old. His fiancée Jiang Dongxiu was born in a scholarly family, but I don't have much culture, and I am still small. Hu Shi was very dissatisfied at times. When was studying in Shanghai, Hu Shi's mother urged him to return to his hometown to get married many times, but Hu Shi always found various reasons to evade. When went to study at a university in the United States, Hu Shi met the daughter of a geology professor Wei Liansi . The two had a good relationship and often wrote letters to each other to discuss freedom issues.The two gradually developed a feeling of admiration, but Hu Yi still had traditional Chinese conservative thoughts, and his feelings for Wei Liansi were only affectionate and polite.
His arms could not bend his thighs, and in order not to make his mother sad, at the strong request of his mother, Hu Shi not only did not divorce his wife, but also became a relative to Jiang Dongxiu. At that time, many friends such as Chen Duxiu felt sorry for Hu Shi, but Hu Shi did not. It is believed that once wrote a vernacular poem "Don't you love freedom, no one knows what it means, and I would rather not be free, but I would be free" Hu Shi's marriage was also praised by the society at that time.
Hu Shi had only one wife in his life. Although he did not like his wife, he also had children with Jiang Dongxiu. Hu Shi was also not loyal to his wife. During this marriage, Hu Shi had cheated many times, entangled with several lovers, and even visited the kiln from time to time.
In Hu Shi's own diary, he recorded his prostitution records. He visited kilns 10 times in two months, on average once a week. After 23-year-old Hu Shi went to prostitutes once, he deeply felt his own depravity. In the diary, he wrote fiercely, "prostitutes are a great evil for humanity and a great sin in society", and took this as a warning and stopped going to brothels. After
, Hu Shi couldn't help it when he attended an academic conference in Jinan, and wrote in his diary, "I want to see what the kilns in Jinan look like". When Hu Shi went to give a speech in Hankou, he went to a kiln in Hankou with his friend Yu Dafu.
At that time, his friend Gao Yihan lived in the same yard with him. Gao Yihan was single all the time, so he found a prostitute to live at home. Hu Shi understood this, and wrote to his wife Jiang Dongxiu himself, asking her to be tolerant of her friends. Hu Shi not only likes to do it himself, but also takes his friends there. Yu Dafu and Xu Zhimo were both good teammates of Hu Shi.
In addition to his love of visiting kilns, Hu Shi has several well-known extramarital affairs, the most famous is the love story between Hu Shi and Cao Chengying .
Hu Shi met bridesmaid Cao Chengying at his wedding, Cao Chengying is his cousin. Studying at the Hangzhou Women's Normal University, I admire Hu Shi very much. In 1923, Hu Shi went to Hangzhou West Lake for recuperation. At that time, Cao Chengying was in a low emotional trough, and he fell in love with Cao Chengying once and for all. The feelings were strong, and Hu Shi also left a lot of poems. Soon after, Cao Chengying became pregnant. Hu Shi asked Jiang Dongxiu for a divorce. Jiang Dongxiu took up the kitchen knife to force each other to death, and threatened to kill their children. Hu Shi had to give up for the sake of face. Hu Shi went to the United States soon, and the relationship with Cao Chengying was over, but the two never stopped writing letters, and Cao Chengying never married.
was called a "traitor"
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Chiang Kai-shek sent Hu Shi to the United States as an ambassador. The reason why he sent Hu Shi to the United States was to hope that Hu Shi would rely on his relationship with the United States to seek assistance from the United States and publicize the positive significance of China's war of resistance. However, after Hu Shi arrived in the United States, he brought smuggled goods and went to various universities to give speeches. During the four years as an ambassador for , he did not receive any assistance at all, but he obtained 36 doctorate certificates for himself.
Hu Shi once advocated giving up the three northeastern provinces in exchange for peace. He also sent a letter to Chiang Kai-shek admitting the "pseudo Manchukuo", which even Chiang Kai-shek couldn't bear, and he once scolded Hu Shi in his diary. Because of Hu Shi's capitulationist tendencies, many people called Hu Shi a traitor. After the end of the Anti-Japanese War, Hu Shi became the president of Peking University, and many students were dissatisfied with this. Two years later, when the liberation war was about to end, Hu Shi resolutely went to Taiwan.
Hu Shi has done a lot of unexpected things in his life. His morality and the way of some things cannot be agreed, but Mr. Hu Shi has also left us valuable literary wealth.Whether it was the literary monographs he left behind or the well-known poems, they all deeply influenced the Chinese at that time. As for how to evaluate Hu Shi, this issue has always been debated by people, and the outside world has been mostly negative about him. As for the story of Hu Shi, everyone may have different opinions.
