Weng Tongwen’s hometown tour
domestic and foreign university teaching career
Mr. Weng Tongwen
Mr.
He is smart and studious and has extraordinary insight. First, he finished junior primary school at Taishun County Primary School, then went to Wenzhou to study junior primary school and junior middle school, and then went to Jiaxing Xiuzhou Middle School to study high school. In 1935, he was admitted to the History Department of Tsinghua University. During the War of Resistance Against Japan, he transferred to the School of Arts, Southwest United University of Kunming. He graduated from university in 1939 and stayed at the Southwest Associated University Normal University as an assistant teacher. He also taught at the National Oriental Language College, Yunnan University , and Shanghai St. John's University.
In 1948, Mr. went to study in the UK at his own expense and began his thirty years of life abroad. Mr. initially studied at the University of London, England, and later went to Paris, France to study. In 1955, he was hired as an assistant by the Chinese historian of the French Sinology and a Chinese historian at the Institute of Advanced Research of the University of Paris to assist in the "History of Song Dynasty Research Project", and was ordered to compile the "Records of the Born and Death of the Song Dynasty and the Year". In 1965, the "Song History Research Project" ended, and Mr. Wang was invited to serve as a professor in the Chinese Department of Ruhr University in Bonn. In 1966, he went to the University of Wisconsin in the United States and served as a professor in the Department of Oriental Languages. In 1968, he went to Singapore to serve as a professor at Nanyang University. In 1977, at the invitation of President Duanmu, Taiwan Soochow University, many times, Mr. went to Taiwan to serve as a professor in the history department of the school and taught the history of the Tang and Song dynasties. After retiring in 1986, he was still employed by Soochow University. Although Mr. Husband is old, his research work continues to stop and works are published every year. Because the husband had been writing at his desk for many years and was overworked, he died of illness in Taiwan on March 5, 1999.
Old Film of Soochow, Taiwan
School of the Chinese and Western learning, study art history
Mr.She is young and reads classics and history well. At Tsinghua University and Southwest Associated University, he studied under academic masters such as Chen Yinke, Wu Mi, , Qian Mu, , Jin Yuelin, Yu Pingbo, , Lei Haizong, Feng Youlan, Wen Yiduo, etc., and read a lot of books and laid a solid foundation in many aspects of Chinese history and literature. After studying abroad, he worked and studied with first-class foreign sinologists for a long time, proficient in English and French, and familiar with the research results and research methods of Western scholars. Mr. has extensive knowledge and broad vision. He can gain the strengths of Chinese and foreign historical studies in research methods and integrate them. Therefore, his research field is extremely broad and many of them are creative.
During his study abroad in Europe and the United States, Mr. Wang visited major museums and galleries and had a deep study of Chinese art, especially the history of painting. Since the Tang Dynasty, many painters have unknown birth and death, or their deeds are suspicious. The teacher became interested in the study of painting history and wrote many papers, including "Examination of the Year of Painting Life and Die", "Examination of Guo Bi ", "The So-called Tang Zhang Xuan Minghuang's Music Pictures Should Be Song Paintings". For example, since the Ming Dynasty, Guo Bi, a famous painter of the Yuan Dynasty, has always believed that the name is Tianxi, and the nickname is Situi, and the name is Youzhi, and the nickname is Beishan. With various original materials, the gentleman proved that Guo Bi and Guo Youzhi were two people, the former was a painter and the latter was a collector, thus restoring the true face of history.The "Minghuang Mercy Picture" hidden in the Palace Museum in Taipei has always been exhibited as a famous painting of the Tang Dynasty painted by Zhang Xuan and . From the differences in painting styles, one of the scenes in the painting, the porcelain trunks used as seats, and the collection marks, the Mr. argued that it may be imitated by the Northern Song Dynasty people, and it has nothing to do with Zhang Xuan. These papers on art history were later included in Mr. Yilin Congkao, published by Taiwan Lianjing Publishing Company in 1977. In 1980, the book won the "Golden Gogh Award" for the best theory of the Taiwan Chinese Painting Society.
Weng Tongwen took a photo with Ding Zeliang in front of the Pantheon of Paris
The origin of printing is highly appreciated
and Soochow University, during , Nanyang University, Mr. Wang mainly taught the history of the Tang and Song Dynasties, and went deep into the field of social and cultural history after class, and studied the origin of printing technology and chairs in particular. In the preface to his book "Chinese Customs of Seating and Chairs", Mr. pointed out: "Politics is the center of the social and cultural structure, and the relevant historical materials are rich, so there are many people who follow it; social and cultural history, due to the sparse and obscure historical materials, it is difficult to get started, so that several fields are no longer interested, like a wasteland."
Printing, papermaking, gunpowder and compass are collectively known as the four major inventions in my country, and it has world significance, but few people point out that there is a causal relationship between papermaking and printing. Since 1986, Mr. has published four papers, including "Three Chain Inventions of Silkbilling and Silk Production", which have carefully verified the origin of printing and analyzed the causal relationship between four major inventions, including silkworm breeding, papermaking, engraving and printing, and movable type printing. Previously, because South Korea discovered the earliest printed products in the world (Dang Kaiyuan period), some Korean experts once believed that they invented the printing technology. Mr.'s study strongly refutes this misunderstanding. Appreciated by Taiwanese and Korean scholars, Taiwanese scholar Sun Fangduo said: "It is true that he can explain the four great inventions of China that are known to everyone and explain them in a manner that has never been discussed before and has never been published."
Weng Tongwen (second from left) participated in the second academic seminar on Song History. The first on the left is a scholar from Taishun Wu Songdi
The hub of the research of "Dream of Red Mansions"
In the research on the origin of "Dream of Red Mansions" and " Tiandihui ", Mr. Lu took a unique approach and his research was very in-depth and sophisticated. When teaching at Ruhr University in Germany, Mr. Wang offered the "Introduction to the Redology" class, began to study "Dream of the Red Chamber", and published the article "Supplementary Discussion on Zhiyanzhai for Cao Yong's Posthumous Belly". After arriving in Singapore, Mr. Hu Shi discovered that although the article "Research on Dream of Red Mansions" advocated that the book was a self-narration of Cao Xueqin's true story, Hu Shi did not find a pair of cryptic words in the book that were conducive to "autobiography". The teacher then wrote a series of articles such as "Research on Dream of Red Mansions and Identification of Cultural Relics", believing that the word "Yihong" in "Yihongyuan" points out the wealth and honor of Cao Xueqin when he was young; the word "Mo Hongxuan" in "Mo Hongxuan" implies that Cao Xueqin's mourning for the glory of the past when he was in a poor old age is actually the hub of the research of "Dream of Red Mansions".
In addition, the two characters Zhen Shiyin and Jia Yucun appearing in the first chapter of "Dream of Red Mansions" are homophonics of "true things are hidden" and "fake words are preserved". Mr. Wang called it "Zhen Jiazang Xifu Words", and "Yidao and Red Double Words", collectively known as the "two pairs of super secret words" in "Dream of Red Mansions". He believes that comprehensive and in-depth cracking of these two secret words is the basic project of Redology . Researching "Dream of Red Mansions", Professor Cen Jiazhuo believes: "From Cao Xueqin's historical materials and the practice of "Dream of Red Mansions", Mr. confirmed that "Dream of Red Mansions" is Cao Xueqin's life history. Compared with the writing of characters and trivial matters by Zhou Ruchang and others, it is more reasonable and convincing."
Weng Tongwen Redology Research Manuscript
Cracking the research problem of the origin of "Heaven and Earth Society"
Tiandihui is a secret social organization that revolved against the Qing Dynasty in the early Qing Dynasty. There are many research papers on it, but when and where did the Heaven and Earth Society originate, who was founded, and why it was founded, there have been many lawsuits so far, and there is no credible history. Mr. Mr. has written a series of articles discussing the origin of the Heaven and Earth Society, among which he is most famous for his publication "The Remnants of the Kangxi Jiayin Group "Taking Ten Thousands as the Surname"" in 1975.The article unravels the cocoon, breaks the past misunderstandings, and finds out the truth about the origin of the Heaven and Earth Society. It is certain that "the Heaven and Earth Society was established by the Wanwudazong, the Wan surname group and other remnants in Yunxiao, Fujian in the 13th year of the Kangxi reign. They "take 'Wan' as their surname and make 'Wan' as their record." Mr.'s research was widely accepted by the Chinese and Japanese academic circles, and he believes that it solved the most difficult problem in the study of the Heaven and Earth Society. Hu Zhusheng, a scholar in Wenzhou who studies the Heaven and Earth Society, said: "Those who are not skilled as masters, rarely succeed. "It is also said, "regardless of the founding of the 'Wanwuda Sect' or the accurate explanation of the 'Muli Dou Shi', it will be shocking and shocking at home and abroad. ”
Weng Tongwen manuscript
has made many achievements in cultural history and old style poems
In addition to the above aspects, in the decades of studying, Mr. Wang has made extensive research results in the history of the Song Dynasty, the cultural history of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the summary examination of the Siku summary, science and technology, and ancient literature verification. At present, he has published 6 monographs, "The History of Chinese Science and Technology", "The Collection of Arts and Formations", "The Collection of Siku summary", and 6 remaining works to be published. In his later years, he has thought and studied the similarities and differences between Chinese and Western civilizations. He said that his special papers on different topics in previous years are micro-historical studies, while Chinese and Western civilizations are macro-historical studies. In 1995, he said to Mr. Wu Songdi, a professor at Fudan University in Taishun, saying: "If I can live for a few more years, I will be confident that I will be able to write the mature macro-historical studies. "In addition to discussing learning, Mr. Husband is also good at the creation of old-style poems and couplets. Although Mr. Husband is in China and abroad, he does not stop chanting while teaching academics. His works include "The Self-Report of Yi Hai Eighty" "The Star Horses and Horses are in harmony and traveling more and more, and Taiwanese officials are studying and reclaiming new fields", "The Tomb of the Halves of the Camellia" "The remaining texts of Dumas are translated into all nations, and the surnames of the Tea Lady are spread differently", and "Thoughts of Thoughts on the Two Major Civilizations of China and India" and wrote couplets: "Jingwei is a rebellious bird in the east, hating the sea of turbulent seas, and resenting the sea of turbulent waters, carrying stones to fill the sea (from "Shan Hai Jing? North Mountain Jing"); parrots are spiritual birds living in the western region, sad about the mountains and fires, and moistening the mountains and burning the mountains (see various Buddhist scriptures)" and so on, which can all show the essence of Mr. Husband's poetic attainments.
Some academic writings of Weng Tongwen, book and film
Focus on the education of his hometown
In addition to the fruitful academic achievements, teaching and educating people is another major contribution of Mr. Tomore. Mr. Tomoe, he teaches and teaches in a very important way. He teaches and explains in an ingenious way. From home to abroad, there are many students who have made great achievements in various disciplines influenced by Mr. Tomoevil University. Huang Zhaoqiang, a student who teaches at Soochow University, praised Mr.: "The teacher always teaches in his bright and clear tone, and he speaks in his grand and clear tone." "The teacher places his works in the office to communicate with each other. "The husband had not had a philosophical inheritance, and regarded students as children, and often paid money to students. Two days before his death, he asked the students by phone to donate their books to the Soochow University Library.
Mr. loves his hometown and is in love with his hometown. Before the Qingming Festival in 1991, when he returned to his hometown to visit relatives and ancestors, he was nearly 80 years old and had a fair and beautiful hair, but his hometown accent had not changed and his steps were steady. When he returned to his hometown, which had been away for more than 60 years, he saw that the economy and society of his hometown were relatively backward, and he said with deep emotion: "My hometown is still relatively poor, but first of all, poor in education. "In 1989, he and his younger brother Mr. Weng Tonglun (born in Wengshan in 1917, later lived in Taiwan and died of illness in 2011) and others invested in the establishment of the "Weng Family Kunzhong Loves Hometown Education Fund" to reward outstanding students and teachers in Wengshan. By 2018, more than 1,300 people (times) won the award, with a reward of more than 450,000 yuan.
There is a couplet in the Weng Family Ancestral Hall in Wengshan that highly summarizes the academic achievements and love for home. I will record it below and think the conclusion of this article: "Weng Gong became a family in history and became famous all over the world; Kunzhong Foundation assistant teacher, merits and virtues will be of great success. ”
1991 In autumn, Weng Tongwen took a photo with teachers and students of Kengdi Primary School in front of the Weng clan ancestral hall
Weng Tongwen gave the elderly to the old man in Wengshan
