Read my teacher when you are successful
In 1926, the "March 18th" massacre shocked the country. Lu Xun and many students were included in the authorities' blacklist. With the idea of "changing his life in a different place", he accepted Lin Yutang's invitation and came to the newly built Xiamen University.
Lu Xun regarded teaching at Xiamen University as a short "rest". Even so, his classes were still exciting. The class bell has just rang, and the classroom is already full of people. Even the corridors and windows are full of people. Not only liberal arts students, but also law, science, and business students, as well as young teachers, reporters and editors from outside the school, also gathered together.
The courses Lu Xun taught at Xiamen University at that time were the history of Chinese literature and the history of Chinese novels. In the Chinese literary history course, he rewrote the lecture notes with the purpose of "saying something that others have not seen". Lu Xun systematically sorted out the origins of literature, and re-understood the status of writers such as Qu Yuan and Li Si in literary history. This handout was the later published "Outline of the History of Chinese Literature".
When teaching the history of Chinese novels, Lu Xun used the lecture notes he gave in Beijing, and used the research of novels, a literary form that has historically been difficult to achieve "elegantness", to discover the folk values contained in it that deviate from orthodox values. The idea of value.
It was in this pure campus life that Lu Xun, a teacher, recalled his mentor and wrote this article "Mr. Fujino" after being away from Japan for more than 20 years.
In April 1902, with the spring breeze blowing on his face, 22-year-old Lu Xun traveled across the ocean to study in Japan. Like many Chinese students studying in Japan, Lu Xun studied Japanese at Hongwen College. Lu Xun vividly described this scene in "Mr. Fujino":
Tokyo is nothing more than this. When the cherry blossoms in Ueno are in full bloom, they look like crimson light clouds, but under the flowers there are also groups of "Qing Dynasty overseas students" crash course, students with big braids on their heads. The top of the hat-making hat rises high, forming a Mount Fuji. There are also those whose braids are untied and tied flatly, and their hats are taken off to reveal a shiny look, just like a little girl's bun, and they have to twist their necks a few times. It's really beautiful.
"Tokyo is nothing more than this." The word "ye" expresses the decadent atmosphere brought by Qing students studying abroad in Tokyo. Although the "Qing students studying abroad" have left their homeland, and although most of them came with the purpose of patriotism and saving the people, they still have "big braids on their heads." Lu Xun used a metaphor with local characteristics here - the braid raised the top of the student hat like a Mount Fuji.
Lu Xun used a metaphor and a "beautiful" irony to vividly paint the image of Qing students studying abroad who still retained the remnants of thousands of years of feudalism despite going abroad.
Such an environment made Lu Xun feel suffocated, so he went to the Medical College of Medicine in Sendai.
Lu Xun’s impression of Sendai was that it was small, it was very cold in winter, and there were no Chinese students studying there. However, Lu Xun was treated like "things are rare but valuable": the school did not charge tuition fees, and the teachers were particularly worried about Lu Xun's food and accommodation. The weather is cold and the conditions are simple, but the teacher is warm.
Lu Xun met Mr. Fujino for the first time in the osteology class in anatomy:
At that time, a dark and thin teacher with a mustache, wearing glasses, and a stack of large and small books came in. As soon as he placed the book on the podium, he introduced himself to the students in a slow and frustrated tone: "My name is Fujino Genkuro..."
Mr. Fujino is such an ordinary and passionate person. As a teacher of medicine, the books he brought were the works on this subject of anatomy from the beginning to the present.
When Mr. Fujino spoke, there was laughter in the class. Those were the students who failed the grade. So these repeaters told the students Mr. Fujino's allusions.
This Mr. Fujino is said to be too vague in his clothes, and sometimes he even forgets his tie. In winter, he wears an old coat, which makes him tremble with cold. Once he got on the train, which made the train manager suspect that he was a pickpocket, and he called someone in the car. Guests, please be careful.
The clothes he wears are so careless that people mistake him for a pickpocket. He is indeed extremely slovenly. How is it that such a muddle-headed gentleman teaches? About a week later, Mr. Fujino came to Lu Xun and asked to see the lecture notes copied by Lu Xun, and said that he would give it to him once a week from then on.
When I took it down and opened it, I was surprised, and at the same time I felt uneasy and grateful. It turns out that my lecture notes have been revised with red pen from beginning to end. Not only have many omissions been added, but even the grammatical errors have been corrected one by one. This continued until he finished teaching his assigned subjects: osteology, vascular science, and neurology.
Those red handwritings made Lu Xun feel uneasy and grateful - Mr. Fujino's seriousness and rigor contrasted with his carelessness. This modification was not done once, but continued for all three courses taught by Mr. Fujino.
How could Lu Xun not respect such a rigorous, serious and caring teacher?
Another time, Mr. Fujino called Lu Xun to the research room, pointed to a picture in Lu Xun’s lecture notes and said, "Look, you have moved this blood vessel a little bit. - Of course, such a move does make it look better. However, anatomical drawings are not art. They are the same as they are in real life. We cannot change them. Now I have changed them for you. From now on, you have to follow the drawings on the blackboard."
This is Mr. Fujino's seriousness about science. His attitude also represents his professionalism. Science is like this and cannot be false. So when Lu Xun participated in the anatomy internship, Mr. Fujino was very happy and said that he was worried that Lu Xun would not dissect corpses because he heard that Chinese people respect ghosts very much.
Mr. Fujino never looked at Lu Xun differently or looked down upon him because he was Chinese. Instead, he cared for him in every possible way and considered Lu Xun personally.
But the surrounding environment finally became bad. Lu Xun received a sarcastic anonymous letter, thinking that Lu Xun had obtained the questions leaked by the teacher.
In the film shown at school, Lu Xun saw Chinese people who were shot dead during the Russo-Japanese War, and the Chinese people watching were naturally insensitive. The image of bystanders like
formed a unique type of person in later Lu Xun's novels - bystanders. There were bystanders when the revolutionary Xia Yu was beheaded, there were bystanders when Sister Xianglin cried, and when Qijin was threatened in "The Storm", the villagers were bystanders...
These all come from In that bacteria class, there was a clip of the onlookers shouting "Hail!"
Lu Xun realized that spiritual healing is more urgent and important than physical healing.
At the end of the second academic year, Lu Xun found Mr. Fujino and told Mr. Fujino that he would not study medicine and leave Sendai.
Mr. Fujino's "face seemed a little sad, and he seemed to want to speak, but he didn't." A few days before leaving, Mr. Fujino gave Lu Xun a photo, and told Lu Xun to send him photos in the future, and to inform him from time to time. subsequent situation.
After leaving, Lu Xun felt that his current situation was boring, and finally did not send a letter or a photo to Mr. Fujino. In the dire straits of old China, it became a luxury to pick up a pen and write a letter, even if it was to one's mentor.
Although there are many words, there is nothing to mention.
Lu Xun believed that Mr. Fujino was the one whom he was most grateful and encouraged. Because of the influence from Mr. Fujino:
"enthusiastic hope, tireless teachings, in a small way, it is for China, that is, hoping that China will have new medicine; in a big way, it is for academics, that is, hoping for new medicine spread to China. His character is great in my eyes and heart, although his name is not known to many people."
When was the bright moon the two towns?
Lu Xun bound Mr. Fujino's revised lecture notes into three volumes and kept them as a permanent souvenir. Unfortunately, they were lost when he moved. Only Mr. Fujino's photo hangs on the east wall of his residence in Beijing. Opposite Lu Xun's desk. Whenever he was tired, Lu Xun saw Mr. Fujino's dark and thin face, as if he was about to speak in a measured tone, so Lu Xun continued to write those words that were deeply hated by "gentlemen".
Not long after Lu Xun left. Sendai Medical College was merged into Tohoku Imperial University . During the school merger, Mr. Fujino was forced to "request for dismissal." Later, Mr. Fujino returned to his hometown to open a private clinic.
Mr. Fujino has been practicing medicine for thirty years. He did not charge treatment fees to poor patients, and he returned gifts from patients.
In 1935, "Selected Works of Lu Xun" was translated into Japanese and published in Japan, which had a great impact in Japan. Mr. Fujino's eldest son, Fujino Tsuneya, became a teacher. My Chinese teacher heard about this article and said, "This book contains information about your father. Take it and read it." If that's the case, tell us about those things too. "
Mr. Fujino saw this famous prose. In an interview with reporters, Mr. Fujino mentioned that all he did was revise some notes for Lu Xun. At that time, there was a trend in society of Japanese speaking ill of Chinese people. Because I once studied Chinese when I was young, so I respected the Chinese sages and felt that I should cherish the people from this country.
This is the reason why Mr. Fujino taught Lu Xun so seriously as a teacher. Quality lit up the flame of Lu Xun's pursuit of ideals, and finally carried it forward when Lu Xun became a university professor in Xiamen.
This also makes us think about what kind of teacher can be for students in today's rapidly changing science. Education that transcends "filling a bucket of water" and ignites the "spark" of students' ideals?
In August 1945, Mr. Fujino passed away forever on the way to the clinic. Lu Xun, like his mentor Mr. Fujino, spent his whole life trying to wake up.
- Author -
Zhang Yuan , graduated from Harbin Normal University in modern and contemporary literature, worked in the High School Affiliated to Xi'an Jiaotong University, and published one million words of works. , was awarded the 2007 Heilongjiang Provincial College Entrance Examination Outstanding Marker (College Entrance Examination Chinese Composition Marking). In 2018, he published his personal historical work "The War of the Princes in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Period" (published by Railway Publishing House, four volumes with 800,000 words). In 2019, he was selected to be published by Peking University. Social review team, selected for the Himalayan "Awakening of Ancient Books" program in 2020, completed the Himalayan literature and history anchor study, and lectured on "The Story Behind "Guwen Guanzhi""
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Author | Zhang Yuan
Editor | Deng Qian
Intern Editor | Geshu
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