The statement from the family pointed out that Li Ao's condition turned critical recently and he passed away peacefully at 10:59 am on the 18th at the age of 83. Li Ao, born on April 25, 1935, is a Taiwanese writer, scholar, and current affairs critic. He once served as Taiwan's

According to the People's Daily, Taiwanese writer Li Ao died today (18th) of a brain tumor. The statement from the family pointed out that Li Ao's condition had recently turned critical and he passed away peacefully at 10:59 am on the 118th at the age of 83.

Li Ao, born on April 25, 1935, is a Taiwanese writer, scholar, and current affairs critic. He once served as Taiwan's "legislator". When his term expired in 2008, he announced his retirement from politics.

Li Ao's writing style is sharp and critical. He "awakens the world with cynicism and saves the world with scolding." He is the author of "Beijing Fayuan Temple", "Impotence America", "Li Ao has something to say", "Red 11" and other 100 books Multiple books.

After he was diagnosed with brain cancer, Li Ao wrote this final letter to his friends and enemies:

To my family, friends, and enemies:

Hello, I am Li Ao, I am 83 years old this year. At the beginning of the year, I was diagnosed with a brain tumor and have just completed radiotherapy. Now I have to take six steroid pills a day, so my body has become like a battlefield. Recently, I was hospitalized for a second acute pneumonia infection. I am in pain, as if hell is not far away from me.

In my life, I have scolded many people and hurt many people; I have countless enemies and few friends. The doctor told me: You can live for up to three years. If you want to do anything, hurry up!

I just thought that in this last period of time, in addition to the goal of adding 41-85 volumes to "The Complete Works of Li Ao", I just want to see my family, friends, and enemies again and say goodbye. You can understand it as This is the last meeting in our lives. "Goodbye Li Ao" and after that, we will never see each other again.

Because this is the last meeting, I hope this meeting is sincere and frank. Not only how we met and understood each other, but also how we loved and killed each other.

To the guests, I will tell you the truth; I also want you to tell the truth to me. The speaker will be guiltless and the listener will be warned.

Maybe we had a lot of cruel struggles before, but maybe we also had a lot of good memories before; I hope that through this meeting, we will have no regrets. No regrets, this is my promise to you and my expectation for you.

For guests, no matter where you are, I will send you a handwritten invitation letter. Invite you to Taipei, come to my study, we can have a meal together, take a picture together, I will take you to see the cute cats, I will record our last meeting throughout the whole process, on the one hand, it will be reserved for you and me Memorial, on the other hand, it also satisfies my selfishness: I have bid farewell to the mainland media for nearly 10 years, and I want to use these videos to let everyone see me again, get to know a different me again, and witness the end of my life.

Looking back on Li Ao's life, someone asked him: How can I not live in vain? He answered: Like what you like, defeat what you don’t like, and live through what you hate.

Li Ao

, who had a relationship with Hangzhou, this talented man who was full of jokes and curses, once visited Hangzhou on August 30, 2010. Although he only stayed in Hangzhou for one day, the whole journey was compact and interesting. It was also the only time Li Ao visited Hangzhou in his life.

That time, Li Ao had just been in Shanghai the day before, so he did not avoid suspicion. Like ordinary people, he came to Hangzhou by train.

Because there were so many people watching, the train station staff had to ask everyone to move out of the circle, so that Li Ao and his family were able to get off the train and leave the station smoothly.

Li Ao appeared in front of everyone, energetic, wearing his favorite combination - red clothes, white shirts, and gray plaid ties. According to him, this suit is his "lucky shirt".

After getting off the train, Li Ao went straight to the West Lake State Guesthouse without resting. At that time, he also joked that he used to think that people in Zhejiang were all speculators, "because none of the 72 martyrs in Huanghuagang were from Zhejiang." But now he knows that there are Qiu Jin and Xu Xilin in Zhejiang.

At the noon banquet, Li Ao also had a full meal. From Shoukang chicken, to Ningbo fresh Ao Dongpo meat, to Zhoushan's soy sauce small yellow croaker, anyway, he tasted the most famous delicacies in Zhejiang. He told his son privately that Dongpo pork was his favorite.

At about 3 o'clock that afternoon, Li Ao went to the Gushan Hall of Zhejiang Museum, which he had longed for, and saw the treasure "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains (The Remaining Mountain Scroll)" that he had longed for. He even wrote the inscription "Dizzying" "Here, I can't thank you enough."

Although it was raining that day, many fans still came after hearing the news. At that time, Li Ao's wife and son were surrounded by reporters and readers because they didn't get out of the car fast enough, and they finally escaped.

An 83-year-old man also gave Li Ao a fan written by himself. Many of the fans who gathered at the entrance of Zhejiang University had already figured out Li Ao's route through Phoenix TV's preview. Some people in the crowd shouted "Master, welcome to settle in Hangzhou", but Li Ao just smiled.

At that time, regarding the issue of settling in Hangzhou, Li Ao quite seriously listed two conditions. The first is that after death, he can "leave a place" for himself next to Su Xiaoxiao's tombstone in Hangzhou; the second is that if he can have a study room in Hangzhou, he will definitely consider moving all his belongings from Taiwan.

Around evening that day, Li Ao followed everyone to Lingyin Temple, but stopped at the entrance of the Tianwang Hall. He said that he realized that he had drank alcohol at noon and the smell of alcohol still lingered on his body, so he "won't go in."

In Lingyin, Li Ao was most interested in the various treasures in the cultural relics room of the Sutra Library. In particular, he saw the pages of the "Diamond Sutra" written by Dong Qichang in the Ming Dynasty. "Yongzhen Yunqi". According to the staff description, "His glasses were almost stuck to the glass."

As night falls, it’s time for what Li Ao has been talking about for a long time - boating on the West Lake. While admiring the misty West Lake on the double-decker boat, the rush of the day seemed to have quietly faded away. He listened to the Shaoxing opera with great interest for more than ten minutes, and even made a joke by asking the actor, "Did you just sing a Kunqu opera?" It caused everyone to laugh.

Someone also asked Li Ao abruptly about his evaluation of Hangzhou girls and whether he would consider a Hangzhou girl as his wife. The "prodigal son" smiled: Hangzhou girls are really beautiful, but Li Kan already has a wife!

Li Ao’s son Li Kan also talked about his father’s physical condition on Weibo.

Before his death, Li Ao did something very Li Ao.

In September 2005, Li Ao visited the mainland and delivered a series of speeches titled "Vajra's Angry Eyes, Bodhisattvas' Low Brows, and Nuns' Thoughts on the Extraordinary" at three top universities: Peking University, Tsinghua University, and Fudan University.

In February 2017, Taiwanese media interviewed Li Ao and learned that he had brain cancer and said at the time that he only had 3 years to live. Li Ao previously revealed that he sought medical treatment due to difficulty moving his left foot and found a brain tumor. Fortunately, it was found to be benign at the time. But his agent said that two hospitals said they had never seen such a case, which was very rare.

On May 31, Li Ao’s friend Chen Wenqian posted on Weibo that his condition had deteriorated a few days ago and he had just been rescued.

Before his death, Li Ao did something very Li Ao - launched a video album "Goodbye Li Ao", live broadcasting his gathering conversations with family, enemies and friends.

The "Planning Book" was written by Li Ao himself. I copied a few paragraphs -

"Because it is the last meeting, I hope that this meeting will be sincere and frank. Not only how we met and how we got to know each other, but also how we met Love and kill each other. To the guests, I will tell you the truth, and I also want you to tell the truth to me. The speaker is innocent and the listener is warned. Maybe we have had many cruel struggles before, but maybe we have also had it before. Many good memories; I hope that through this meeting, we will have no regrets..."

Ma Jiahui wrote such an article about Li Ao in his WeChat "Ma Jiahui in Hong Kong" "About Goodbye Li Ao", excerpt Part of the interesting content -

Li Ao said that he will write a letter to each invited guest, so as to respond solemnly and know without asking.

After this news came out, many friends asked each other on their mobile phones, have they received it? Have you been invited? Was he invited?

It can be seen that everyone wants to go to Taiwan to see Mr. Li "for the last time"; if they fail to receive the invitation, it means that the last time they saw Li Ao was the "last time", and they will not be able to meet him in the next life.

Those Li Ao-style famous quotes

When he was eighty years old, Li Ao said: I am determined to live to be a hundred years old; but I can look forward a hundred years and summarize eighty years. Unless I was impatient with my treason and concubine a hundred years ago, my life's qualitative positioning can be stopped with this autobiography written at the age of eighty. I want to use my eighty-year determination and positioning to appear to people and make them feel that future generations will have a hard time imagining that "such a flesh-and-blood person has ever walked in this world." - This was me before I was a hundred years old. 80th Remarks. It's all there.

1. "If I am not Li Ao, I would like to be Li Ao second."

2. "If I want to admire someone, just look in the mirror."

3. In life, N is good, why pursue N+1?

4. Sadness is not a memory. Sadness is a wrong attitude towards life, which makes happy memories covered with dust.

5. "In the darkroom, I want to create my own light."

6. "As a person who is fascinated by the worries of mankind at midnight, and as a person with unique thoughts and talents that last through the ages, I was born at the wrong time and in the wrong place."

7, "I was supposed to be a person born fifty years later, because my realm on this island is at least fifty years older. Many of my enemies and friends and I are not 'lucky for meeting each other late', but 'lucky for each other'." "It's early to see the hatred."

8, "My profession is a bit like that of a butcher, except that he uses a knife and I use a pen."

9, "I am not afraid of loneliness. There is a long way to go, and I can hardly find anyone who shares the same path with me, so I just stumble forward alone. "

10, "My way of scolding others is that others call them bastards, but I have a skill. I can prove that you are bastards. . "

11, "The British say that Britain has no eternal friends and no eternal enemies, only eternal interests. For me, Li Ao, I have no eternal friends and no eternal enemies, only eternal justice."

12 , If you are a weak person, you will not have a good life; if you are a strong person, you will not have a good life.

13. Sometimes explanations are unnecessary - your enemies don't believe your explanations, but your friends don't need your explanations.

14. The terrible thing about stupid people is not that they are stupid, but that they are smart. Stupid people cannot do the stupidest things, but smart people do the stupidest things.

15. I can't wait for the final judgment to deal with all the villains and enemies. I also want to kill a few of them in the middle of the journey.

16. Someone challenged me and said, "Come here." I didn't reply, just sprinted away and shot him down in hindsight.

17. A thinker and writer of the new era has appeared, namely Li Ao, who created "Virtual Seventeen Years Old".

18. I don’t envy other people’s youth. I only envy me last year or me in the first half of the year.

19. The ancients had great ambitions and "took down the heroes of the whole generation", but I think they were talking big words, and the one who truly achieved this level of courage was Li Ao himself, who was alone in thousands of mountains, and Li Ao who was alone throughout the ages.

20. I don’t have many friends in my life, and I don’t spend time recruiting friends, so I am “arrogant” and rely solely on myself to flatter myself. Those who can't stand my boasting should be ashamed. You should have been bragging for me, but you dodge, so I had to do it myself. I brag because you are silent.

"The Complete Works of Li Ao" is a collection of most of his works, with a total of 80 volumes.

It was expected that friends were not allowed to visit Li Ao when he was in bed. A strong person always only wants to let his friends see his strong side. Once he is weak, his friends can accept it, but it is the most difficult for him to face it.

After surviving the dangerous period and being discharged from the hospital, Mr. Li immediately regained his spirit of being a strong man and turned his back on guests. He invited his enemies and friends to see him "for the last time." That is to say, I, Li Ao, are not just something you can see if you want. I must take the lead. I want to see you, you'd better show up quickly. At this moment, he is still the strong one, and you have no other choice but to obey his orders. Anyone who receives his invitation is like receiving the martial arts sacred fire order. No one dares not to go, not to mention, no one is willing to go.

When he was in his early seventies, he became ill and had prostate cancer. He was hospitalized for treatment. After the operation, he brought his young lover, who was in his early twenties, to his bedside in the hospital. To use his own rhetoric, he "sent her away." Just because he didn't want the other party to see his sunset process. It is said that Chen Wenqian happened to visit the hospital that night and saw her little lover leaving the ward with tears in his eyes. Li Ao lay on the bed with a smile and told him the whole story. He wanted to firmly control every step and pursue himself. Love in the heart is the most powerful beauty.

This is the last Weibo post that Li Ao updated before his death.

Another example is that on a certain day of a certain year, Li Ao suddenly appeared in a certain hospital in Taipei, strode into a certain ward, stood beside the room, hands on his hips, deliberately showing an arrogant and powerful look. The patient on the bed woke up and was so frightened by his tall figure that he almost screamed. When he took a closer look, he saw that it was Li Ao and he quickly asked him what he was doing. Li Ao smiled and said, when I was arrested by the Kuomintang and put into a cell, didn't you also stand in front of me with this posture? Weren't you very majestic back then? I want to return this position to you and let you taste the feeling of being humiliated! ——This is what he owed Li Ao, and Li Ao came to collect the debt. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, Li Ao is not willing to suffer anyone's loss.

I met Li Ao for the first time thirty-four years ago. We had dinner and chatted with him. I asked him about some grudges and grudges in the literary world. He knew what was going on in my mind, and my younger self complained a little about him being too mean to his enemies. So Li Ao looked at me with a determined expression and said: "Jiahui, a person who refuses to repay a grudge must also be a person who refuses to repay a favor. Remember my words."

Thirty-four years have passed. I still dare not say that I completely agree with this sentence, but I have always seen the true practice of this sentence in Li Ao. He repays favor and takes revenge, with precise force and clear price. People can't help but admire his perseverance and will. Although what is kindness and hatred, what is precision and what is clear, he has his own way, you can't control it, he I won't let you take care of it either.

"Don't laugh at me if you are acting in front of me, I will kill you for thinking this." The only pity is that once Li Ao passes away and the play ends, there will only be a rewatch and no sequel, which is a hidden regret.

——At the end of the article, Ma Jiahui wrote this.

Have a good trip!