"Crying bitterly to the ancients, leaving them to the visitors." Chen Yinke wrote in "The Verse of the Manuscript". This is also a major reason why Chen Yinke made " Liu Rushi's Breaking Hidden ". What kind of legendary woman is this master of Chinese studies who devotes his efforts to make and keep it for future generations?
Chen Yinke's ups and downs
This starts with who Chen Yinke is. He and Wang Guowei, , Liang Qichao, , Zhao Yuanren, and became the ", Tsinghua ," . But now, compared with Liang Qichao and others who have made great contributions to the Chinese revolution and have been widely praised, Chen Yinke's name has become silent among the people like water.
Of course, this is closely related to Chen Yinke's character. He studied history and literature in Tsinghua Park . He is called "the most learned person in China in the past three hundred years", but he himself does not care about his false reputation and is immersed in his own small world.
When Tsinghua University first established a research institute, a capable teacher was urgently needed. Liang Qichao mentioned Chen Yinke to Cao Yunxiang, who was then the president of Tsinghua University, and asked Cao Yunxiang if he was willing to hire Chen Yinke.
Cao Yunxiang was quite interested, so he asked who he was, and asked him which country he was from and what works he had. Liang Qichao rejected these questions one by one, saying, "His answer is neither a doctor nor a master's degree, nor a book with ." This answer made Principal Cao not know what to do, and sighed repeatedly, this was difficult. But Liang Qichao said: " Although I have works, all my things may not necessarily be as valuable as Mr. Chen's hundreds of words as Mr. Chen."
At that time, Liang Qichao was the initiator of the world's Reform of 1888, and he was also a juren who was young and high school. Even Liang Qichao respected a gentleman. Can he be an ordinary person? Cao Yunxiang asked Liang Qichao in detail. Liang Qichao introduced to President Cao one by one. Although Chen Yinke did not have a diploma, he was hired by Harvard University for a large sum of money. Even professors from Paris University and Berlin University praised him and respected him very much. Principal Cao hurriedly replied: "I will hire him! I will hire him!"
He seemed to be omnipotent. Chen Yinke, born in , Qing Dynasty , was proficient in the Four Books and Five Classics. When he was a teenager, he went to Japan to study. He was proficient in more than a dozen languages and was full of genius. After returning to China, he applied the knowledge he learned to his own research in full. Such a knowledgeable and talented Chen Yinke was of epoch-making significance to the stormy China at that time.
A nation and a country, the most important thing is to have its own roots and its own national spirit, and Chen Yinke is like the pillar that supports the Chinese spirit. But Chen Yinke is not the "old antique" we imagine. He does not agree with the monarchy and the Three Bonds and Five Constant Virtues that have been passed down for thousands of years. Instead, he digs out the "highest realm of abstract ideals" from it, and advocates absorbing the excellent Western culture and integrating it with the excellent Chinese traditions to burst out new vitality.
Such a master, even though he was blind in his later years, he struggled extremely poor. He spent nearly ten years and worked hard. He left a masterpiece like "The Biography of Liu Rushi" for later generations in oral form. Later generations also regarded the Liu Rushi in the book as a mirror image of Chen Yinke's inner world. This book is truly worth exploring.
Liu Rushi's legendary life
Putting aside his life experience, Liu Rushi is extremely talented, and poetry and painting are all things that this woman is good at. This strange flower that is flourishing in the era of "a woman without talent is virtue", exuding her own fragrance freely. Her name is Liu Rushi, because Xin Qiji "I saw the green mountains so charming, and I thought the green mountains should be like this", so I expressed my words as "rushi".
The wine and meat smell bad, and the bones on the road are frozen to death. No matter what era, there are always pitiful people. In 1618, the wife of the Yang family who lived in Wujiang, Jiangsu gave birth to a little girl. But the family was barely bare and everyone was almost starving to death. How could there be any extra money to raise children? The Yang family exchanged the baby who was still in her infancy with human traffickers to support the remaining family in the family.
The baby bought by human traffickers was Liu Rushi, and her name was Yang Ai at that time. She was displaced at a young age and was ups and downs in the life of her life until she was 10 years old. Xu Fo picked her up from the suffering of life like a savior sent by God. Although Xu Fo is a fair woman, she is proficient in both piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. Yang Ai, adopted by Xu Fo, grew up under Xu Fo's knees and became a graceful woman who has a lot of poetry and books and talents. Although she faced the pain of wandering and displaced, she was raised by a woman in a low position and was not able to control Yang Ai's fate. She was taken by the then Grand Secretary, Zhou Daodeng, and was forcibly taken as a concubine. But Zhou Daodeng was old and weak, and he didn't enjoy the days when the beauty was pregnant for long, so he kicked his legs and died.
Yang Ai, who had no support in the Zhou family, was eventually expelled from the Zhou family and re-entered. at that time was already shaking. Yang Ai, who was full of poetry and books and righteous, had lamented countless times that he was born not a man, could not defend his country and could only become a toy in the hands of others in the bustling streets. It was this sorrow that prompted her to rename "Liu Rushi".
Xin Qiji is a lucky poet, a frustrated person who shouted " Lian Po is old, can you still eat?" After the empty years, Liu Rushi deeply felt the patriotic poet's heart, and this seems to be a portrayal of Liu Rushi's life.
Liu Rushi's talent was destined to be invincible to ordinary men. At a good age, Liu Rushi chose the 59-year-old Qian Qianyi as his husband. Qian Qianyi can be said to be a famous scholar in the late Ming Dynasty . He also holds a high position and has his own opinions on improving current problems. Two people with harmonious views quickly got together.
Qian Qianyi, admired by literati all over the world, married the courtesan on the banks of the Qinhuai River with the courtesy of his wife. This incident attracted countless curses from literati students, and even the couple was smashed with countless vegetables when they took a boat to the river. But Liu Rushi read it right. Qian Qianyi still firmly believed under countless pressures. People's words are terrifying, but when the two rely on each other, they will have countless warmth.
The Ming Dynasty soon declined. Liu Rushi, who had been independent since childhood, made an appointment with her husband to jump into the river to commit suicide after the city was broken to show her patriotism. This simple patriotic feeling has long surpassed countless women and surpassed the countless children of aristocratic families behind " business women do not know the hatred of the country, but still sing the back garden flowers across the river ".
Chen Yinke’s implication
Such an independent and self-reliant woman even dares to wear men’s clothing and discuss with men’s strategy, which is also reflected in "The Biography of Liu Rushi". Chen Yinke summarized it as "the spirit of independence, the thought of freedom." This is not the spirit possessed by a few people, nor is it the independence praised by the high-ranking officials and nobles, but the spirit that belongs to the broad masses of people.
With the inspiration of the biography of a generation of famous prostitutes, countless people flocked to it, just to have a glimpse of the private emotional life and erotic and interesting things of the 5 prostitutes in Jinling, and this is the beginning of misunderstanding.
Why do you write this "Biography of Liu Rushi" with more than 800,000 words? This is about a red bean.
Chen Yinke, who once bought old books in Kunming, saw a red bean produced in Qian Qianyi's hometown at the owner's house. When he was young, Mr. Chen had read many works of Qian Qianyi. He was a literati and poet born during the war. Chen Yinke naturally felt sympathy for Qian Qianyi. After the conditions were given, Mr. Chen, who had regained his pen, was blind and could only finish writing this work orally.
When it comes to content, it may make countless readers suffer. This book is not as smooth as a novel. Instead, it requires stopping to figure out the verbal words. Of course, Liu Rushi's distinctive character, unafraid of power, and outstanding talent are even more vivid under the portrayal of Mr. Chen Yinke.
Flesh and soul are all important things. If a person loses his soul, it is like an empty shell. Even if he has a beautiful appearance, he can only be a beautiful vase waste. This also applies to culture. If a nation and a country do not have the cultural spirit of faith to believe in it, it is like losing its soul.
Chen Yinke portrayed Liu Rushi, which was more like portraying the images of thousands of women. Looking at the past and present, No matter which dynasty is in, women seem to be vassals of everything. They live under the gaze of traditional men and lose themselves. Women are educated to cater to the secular world and men, but they only forget to be themselves. Liu Rushi seems to be a small green leaf drilling out of the cracks of the rock. Although he has gone through a lot of hardships, he still repaid the whole world with all his vitality and also casts the light of women to this world.
Mr. Chen Yinke repeatedly mentioned Liu Rushi's freedom, saying that she "gathered chivalrous, talent and backbone, and integrated the three in Liu Rushi", which is also the ardent hope for people today. Liu Rushi is no longer a woman of eternity here. She has transformed into a symbol of the national spirit under Chen Yinke's spring and autumn brushwork, and is also the embodiment of Chen Yinke's aspect. His helplessness in the face of history is self-evident.
Ethnic and ethnic group, only people have ethnic groups. The people are the creators of history and are also among all living beings. Just as Mr. Chen Yinke’s hope for us, stick to his heart, freedom and independence will eventually belong to us.
