One is "Anecdotes of the Inner House of Confucius" written by Ms. Kong Demao, the other is "Young Yansheng Gong. Kong Decheng", and the other is "The Confucian Xing. Biography of Mr. Kong Decheng" written by Mr. Wang Shichun.

If you want to know Mr. Kong Decheng , I will first introduce three books to you:

One is "Anecdotes of the Inner House of Kong Mansion" written by Ms. Kong Demao , and the other is "Young Yansheng Gong . Kong Decheng, and also "The Confucianism's Action" written by Mr. Wang Shichun. Biography of Mr. Kong Decheng.

Teacher Kong’s life can be divided into three stages:

1. Qufu has sixteen years from childhood to marriage.

2 and 8 years of victory in the War of Resistance Against Japan, it took eleven years to return to Nanjing.

I went to Taiwan in 3009 and ended up in old age, and it took sixty years.

1. Qufu childhood to get married

First talk about Qufu childhood to get married.

Teacher Kong's father Kong Lingyi Mr. Sun's original wife was taken by Feng's concubine, but she had no children.

Then married Tao, gave birth to a son but died young, and took Wang as his concubine.

Mrs. Wang gave birth to two daughters in a few years - Kong Deqi and Kong Demao, and later became pregnant.

Unfortunately, Mr. Kong Lingyi went to Beijing to visit his father-in-law, but he actually fell ill and had a cervix.

Mr. Liu Mengying, a doctor from Kong's house, and other famous doctors, were ineffective in treatment. Mr. Kong Lingyi died of illness on November 8, 1919.

As the saying goes, "I die from a cervical dying after a back", which is about this condition, which should be caused by long-term accumulation of toxins in the body.

The fetus in Mrs. Wang's belly became a posthumous son. This fetus was related to Mrs. Tao's status in the Kong Mansion (note: the Tao was the main wife, and the Wang was only a concubine, so the Wang's children were still called Tao's mother). If they gave birth to a daughter, according to the agreement within the clan, Kong Detong, a boy less than ten years old in the southern five palaces, inherited Yan Shenggong. Mrs. Tao's status would disappear overnight and she had to move out of the Kong Mansion. When Mrs. Wang was about to give birth, the Beiyang government sent troops to surround the Kong Mansion, and there were descendants of Yan Zi, Zeng Zi, and Mencius, the elders and wives of the twelve palaces of the Kong family, as well as other industry supervisors gathered in the Kong Mansion.

Fortunately, Mrs. Wang gave birth to Teacher Kong, and the mother and son were at peace, and the whole Qufu County was filled with joy.

was born a hundred days ago, and at that time, Xu Shichang appointed Teacher Kong as Yanshenggong.

Teacher Kong's mother died seventeen days after giving birth. Although there are rumors that it was Dow's conspiracy, judging from the words written by Teacher Kong himself, this should not be the case.

Confucius' family is like the tutor of the imperial family, and attaches great importance to children's education. Dow respects the teachers' cultivation of Teacher Kong.

At first, the Kong Mansion found a new school graduate to teach. He also broadened Teacher Kong's horizons, took care of Teacher Kong meticulously, and even slept together.

Later, he found Grand Historian Zhuang Yanlan to teach, and then Mr. Lu Jinshan was also there. Zhuang Taishi specializes in philology, classics and , and calligraphy.

Mr. Kong practices writing every day and reads every day. The above three are his enlightenment teachers. Mr. Wang Yuhua later followed Mr. Kong to Taiwan. In addition, Mr. Li Bingnan is also beside Mr. Kong. I have seen him as a very elegant and loyal person.

I was in Teacher Kong’s class back then. In fact, I was the student who spoke the least appropriately to the teacher. The teacher was tolerant, but once I lost my temper.

Once I said to the teacher: Teacher, I admire you very much. The scriptures can be memorized so well!

Teacher said: It’s not just because I was beaten and beaten.

I asked: How dare the teacher hit you like this?

teacher said: I will not miss the photo.

Recalling the teacher’s childhood, Dr. Liu Mengying saved Teacher Kong twice. Once, the teacher swallowed the glass beads, and once, the teacher developed a rash and refused to take medicine, which delayed the condition worsened.

Doctor Liu was in a very heavy mood when he treated Teacher Kong. He even adjusted opium ointment. If the Holy Sei was not cured, he would take opium ointment and commit suicide! Fortunately, it was cured later.

Doctor Liu's son was Teacher Kong's closest friend when he was a child, and there was also the daughter of the nurse Zhang, who called her a mother girl.

Teacher Kong's nurse once chose more than a dozen, because some people had diarrhea after drinking their breasts, while others didn't.

There are also Teacher Kong's eldest and second sisters, and a few children are inside the high walls of the Kong mansion, playing wheelbarrows, bamboo cyclographs, etc., as well as glass beads. As mentioned earlier, he has swallowed them all, of course he has fun.

Teacher Kong likes to listen to operas very much. In the past, Kong's mansion also found opera troupes to act, and he later bought records. The teacher himself can sing, but he never sings it to me.

Kong Mansion worship is very important. The teacher will go on stage to host the ceremony at the age of five, and the child will kowtow in a good manner. At the age of thirteen, he will be like a general and is very skilled.

So Teacher Kong’s young photos are very mature. Due to the environment, you must always behave like hosting the Confucius ceremony.

Once chatting, Teacher Kong said: When I was a child, I met a guest and once I didn’t go to the bathroom for a week!

I said this violates the physiological state, isn’t this suffocating?

But you should know that everyone you see in Teacher Kong's identity is amazing. When Jiang was eight years old, he went to Qufu to meet him. During the meal, Jiang personally peeled oranges for him to eat.

Shandong Province Governor Han Fuju also went to meet him. The dishes and pomp of the food they served were very big, so Teacher Kong felt embarrassing to go to the toilet at that age, which led to not going to the toilet for a week.

Teacher Kong also had a deep relationship with his two sisters when he was a child. When he got married, he was very sad. Looking at the poem he wrote to his second sister when he got married, it was very touching. It was really a deep sister-in-law relationship.

or above is the general situation when Teacher Kong was a child.

A very happy thing. Teacher Kong married Ms. Sun Qifang when she was sixteen years old.

The wife of the teacher is from Shouzhou, Anhui Province, and is a lady from a wealthy family. Her grandfather was Sun Jianai, the top scholar in the Qing Dynasty, and has been a scholarly family for generations. Sun Jianai served as the Minister of Works, the Ministry of Personnel, and the Ministry of Rites. He was the teacher of Emperor Guangxu with Weng Tonghe.

We have never seen a teacher quarrel with his teacher’s wife. Master Kong’s wife is so gentle and virtuous, making people feel like she is bathing in a person like the bright moon.

Once, Teacher Kong asked me to go to his house, and the teacher said: Yongyi, you will have dinner at my house at noon.

But when I went over, the teacher went out for business, and the teacher's wife told me that the teacher was not here. According to the etiquette, I should leave, but I was ignorant and actually told the teacher's wife: The teacher wants me to have lunch here.

The resultant wife ran to cook lunch, and I left after I finished eating.

Their wedding scene was very grand. Yan Shenggong got married and set up a hundred tables. These hundred tables were not gone after eating, but were flowing tables, allowing people from all over Qufu County to come and eat until one or two o'clock in the middle of the night.

They also hesitated to use new or traditional wedding ceremony, because Han Fuju gave away the car and was embarrassed not to use it, so they took a sedan chair and took a ride, combining the old and the old.

The couple often took a car out for a ride, but the technology was not good at that time and often broke down. The bride had to get down to push the cart together, but this was also a very sweet time.

There are two important things in Qufu years. One is putting great pressure on Mrs. Tao, which is Zixing Nanzi's drama performance; the other is that after Teacher Kong took over, he encountered Yan Xishan surrounded Qufu and bombarded the Confucius Temple and Confucius Mansion.

Cai Yuanpei and Hu Shi also had remarks against the Kong family in that era. Lin Yutang wrote the drama "Zi See Nan Zi". There was no obvious disrespect for Confucius in his original work, but it was adapted by the students and teachers of Qufu Second Normal School, which was unsightly. The Confucius Mansion and traditional cultural people were unhappy and told the Minister of Finance Kong. Kong conveyed to Jiang that Jiang asked the director of the Shandong Education Department to investigate the matter, but the director of the education department was also standing with the students.

The performance of this drama made Mrs. Tao feel a lot of pressure. She died when Teacher Kong was nine years old.

Yan Xishan surrounded Qufu and when he bombarded the Confucius Temple and Confucius Mansion, Teacher Kong was placed under the table and wrapped it with a quilt. Sure enough, a cannon landed next to it, but fortunately it did not explode; the other one landed next to Confucius' tablet and did not explode. Therefore, the people in Qufu said that Confucius appeared.

1989 I led the Southern Wind Band to visit Xuanyuan Temple in , Huangling County, Shaanxi Province. Both sides of the Taiwan Strait have forgotten their ancestors. There are no lights in the temple. The county magistrate came to help, and it was not connected until midnight.

I was dressed in a good manner as the main priest at that time, and the band played from 11:00 pm to 6:00 pm.

Do you know? There are 90,000 pine and cypress trees in Huangling County, and more than 30,000 of them have been in excess of a thousand years. The total number is more than 90,000 equals the population of Huangling County. How can it be preserved so well?

Because there are thousands of years of military equipment here, no one dares to invade Huangdi, and Yan Xishan actually dares to bombard the Kong Mansion.

When the Sino-Japanese War was about to flee, Mr. Wang Xiantang, director of the Shandong Provincial Library, hid dozens of boxes of important cultural relics in the Confucius Mansion because he believed that the Japanese praised Confucius and it was safe to hide it there. Even the Japanese respected Confucius so much, so they said that Yan Xishan was hateful.

Teacher Kong's wife was pregnant when she was seventeen years old. When she heard that Japan was going to attack Qufu, Chiang ordered Sun Tongxuan, the commander of the 72nd Division, to go and escort him and ask Teacher Kong and others to pack up within two hours.

The hall decorations of Teacher Kong and his wife left were still kept there, which shows their haste.

Teacher Sun Tongxuan sent a steel car to escort them to the rear, and his eldest daughter Wei'e was born in Hankou.

Teacher Kong’s four children were named after place names. They gave birth to Weiyi in Chongqing Gele Mountain and Weilai in Sichuan . Nanjing was called Jiangning in ancient times, so the youngest son named Weining.

When he arrived in Chongqing, Mr. Jiang also took great care of Mr. Kong. At that time, supplies were very short of resources. Teacher Kong said that if there was a bowl of beef noodles, the whole family would eat it separately and eat it with relish.

Another teacher of mine, Mr. Qu Wanli, the master of Confucianism, serves as the leader of the collection team in Shandong Provincial Library. Director Wang Xiantang is an ancient artifact and philologist.

Teacher Qu Wanli's achievements are extremely impressive among both sides of the Taiwan Strait, and in my heart I am the most premier Confucian scholar.

Teacher Kong's ancient artifacts are so good, which also has something to do with his role as the chairman of the Palace Museum.

In addition, Mr. Ding Weifen is also Mr. Kong's teacher. He is very knowledgeable in vocal and rhyme studies and classics. Teacher Kong is also very moral and affectionate towards his friends.

Teacher Qu Wanli was in hard life when he was in Chongqing and it was difficult to survive, so the Kong family actually studied with him and accompanied him to study with him.

Teacher Kong was very focused on studying. At that time, it was difficult to study at night and there was not enough lights. The teacher took Wei E to study and his daughter fell asleep. He covered his daughter with a quilt, and when he was tired of reading, he carried his daughter to sleep.

Because of this hard work, he is very specialized in classics, epigraphy, and ancient artifacts.

Teacher Qu felt that it was not good to read with Teacher Kong every day and not give it, so he told Teacher Kong that he wanted to find something else to do.

Teacher Kong said: If you have a good job, then go to high school. But if you just think there is nothing to help with on my side, please don't. Whatever you eat and drink, it’s good for us brothers!

It took a while before Teacher Qu went to find other things to do.

At that time, Teacher Kong was like the parents and village heads in Chongqing, and Teacher Kong also tried his best to protect the villagers.

2. The victory of the Anti-Japanese War to the victory of the Anti-Japanese War in 1949, Teacher Kong served as a political officer. This position is quite high. He is also the youngest adviser. He was also elected as a representative of Qufu when he was in Nanjing.

1948, the government gave Teacher Kong a public fund to study in the United States, and Yale University hired him as an honorary researcher. The American scholar's spirit of perseverance and perseverance has had an in-depth influence on Teacher Kong.

At this time, Fu Sinian was also recuperating there, and the two lived in the same apartment. He takes good care of Teacher Kong and will also take good care of Teacher Kong.

Once, the teacher went out to play mahjong with a friend's house, but he didn't go home until midnight. Mr. Fu Sinian actually waited for the door, making him dare not return late again, so he respected Mr. Fu Sinian very much.

3. Family, friends, students and drinking fun

. In terms of academic research, Wang Guowei and Chen Yinke have an impact on teachers.

Teacher Kong has been a common practice since he was a child. It is very difficult for us students to memorize ancient Chinese. Once, Teacher Kong took a preface written by Mr. Chen Yinke, which mentioned the method of studying. He asked everyone to memorize it.

I can't recite it, nor can Huang Qifang and Zhang Jingming be scolded by the teacher.

It’s okay after scolding, and the teacher asked us to drink again. Drinking with Teacher Kong has a great impact on me.

​Teacher Kong has a deep affection for his family. He has a strong relationship with his teacher's wife, and the couple never quarrels.

The eldest daughter Wei'e married a major in the United States. When she got married, Teacher Kong wrote very touching words, and Wei'e was placed by her side. This is the father's deep love for her daughter who is married far away.

I am the closest to Teacher Kong. One day, I saw a piece of unfinished text and a poem on Teacher Kong’s desk in the laboratory. I saw that it was written for my second daughter Weilai, expressing my concern. The content was very touching - this is the first time I said it today because I dare not say that I peeked at the words written by the teacher.

Weiyi and Weining have a deep brotherly relationship. They and us students, like brothers, like to drink a glass of wine and be bold. These are the brotherly feelings extended by Teacher Kong's relationship.

Although we are academic disciples of Teacher Kong, we are also emotionally like father and son. Teacher Kong cried very hard when Wei Yi passed away, and I want to cry when I recall it now.

One day, Teacher Kong was chatting with our students, and he said: I think I'm going to die.

I said: Teacher, what are you talking nonsense? This is my fault, and I still talk nonsense to the teacher.

He said: You don’t know. If I don’t look at the drooping length, I will think of him and tease him. At that time, Teacher Kong had a eldest grandson in his middle age in his fifties (he had a former eldest grandson at the age of eighty). ”

I said: This is very natural. How can grandpa not love grandson? How can one die like this?

He said: I have never felt this way, which means I am old.

Teacher Kong’s friends are acquainted all over the world. Those who are often with him are Teacher Qu Wanli and Teacher Tai Jingnong.

Teacher Taiwan has been the department chair for 19 years in the Chinese Department of National Taiwan University. He likes to tell jokes with Teacher Kong, and Teacher Kong always attacks. Teacher Kong likes to bully this brother. Teacher Taiwan has the ability to make a fortune, which makes everyone laugh. We usually like to listen to their conversations the most.

Teacher Kong’s anecdotes about the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China were that teachers and students gathered together and talked a lot at the banquet, and we all thought it was very fresh.

At that time, I advocated that we should learn the spirit of Confucius' disciples' random notes. As expected, I have been memorizing it for a few days and I still dare not publish it. You will know what kind of lost texts and secrets are there.

Teacher Kong learned his ancestors' narratives without writing. He always said to others and did not write them himself. We disciples, after drinking happily with him, went back to sleep soundly, and forgot when they woke up the next day. It was a pity.

My instructor Mr. Zheng Qian (named Yinbai) and Mr. Zhang Qinghui, are both famous scholars in rhyme literature, as well as the self-taught Mr. Wang Shumin, who often goes with Teacher Kong.

In addition, Mr. Xia Deyi from the Department of History, Mr. Wang Shoukang, who was the ambassador to the Holy See, Mr. Ye Gongchao, a fellow villager from Shandong, General Liu Anqi (he served as the commander-in-chief of the Army), his younger brother Liu Anyu was the principal of the Affiliated High School of Normal University, Mr. Jiang Zengfa from the Ministry of Education, Mr. Yin Fusheng from the business world, and Mr. Tao Zihou from the textile industry. These are people who are closer to teachers, and we often stay with them.

The thing that a person remembers most clearly is something that is more proud, let alone the time he spent with his teacher when he was young.

For example, I graduated from a doctorate and became an associate professor at National Taiwan University. I didn’t have a house to live in at that time. I lived in Rugongzhen, Xinsheng South Road. In the illegal building built by a professor’s garden, opposite is Teacher Taiwan’s dormitory.

One day after class, I was walking in the garden wearing a drag board. When I opened the door, I saw that several teachers left the alley and wanted to cross the bridge in Rugongzhen, and obviously came to me.

I quickly changed into my clothes and put on my shoes. When I walked to the door, Teacher Kong just rang the ringtone.As soon as the door was opened, the teacher said: Are you going out?

I said: No, I saw that the teacher came, of course I just asked me to drink.

Teacher said: Oh, you guy.

I accompanied the teacher, including five teachers, including Teacher Tai, Teacher Dai Junren, Teacher Wang Shoukang and Mr. Xia Deyi. Everyone walked along Xinsheng South Road to a small restaurant.

Mr. Xia Deyi took a bottle of Kinmen Daqu wine. It was not easy to get Kinmen wine at that time, but Mr. Xia gave Daqu wine to everyone. For parties like this, I always listen to the conversation and it was very pleasant to listen to.

These teachers usually have a good mood. Later, we started to sort the wines for the teachers, and now we will say it by the way.

At that time, everyone recognized that they could reach the highest level of wine, and they were Mr. Shen Gangbo and Teacher Taiwan. Mr. Shen Gangbo is a historian and director of the College of Literature. Even if he knows that he has cancer, he will still drink it.

He went to the hospital for examination at the age of 70. The doctor said he had cancer. At the same time, a professor at National Taiwan University also judged that he had cancer. As a result, the professor's wife was so scared that she was paralyzed.

Mr. Shen thinks that I am afraid of even if I live to be seventy years old! He lived to be eighty years old before he died, so we feel that he is free and free and has the title of "Wine Fairy". The teacher at

has never been drunk no matter how he drinks it. He is so gentle and elegant. When he drinks a lot, he will say: Yongyi, I am enough.

and Teacher Zheng Qian, who told us back then: When we were young, we drank Shaoxing in beer glasses!

And I have read some records. Mr. Cai Yuanpei and his friends drank alcohol. He did not drink sorghum, he drank Shaoxing, and he only had to drink dozens of cups before he started eating. It is said that he had a few pounds.

So we have the saints and many wise men today. As long as people who drink are not drunk or drunk, they can do so.

Teacher Kong also received the true teachings of Mr. Ding Weifen, that is, you have to eat enough and drink drunk, so Teacher Kong sometimes gets drunk.

The second level is the Wine Saint, which was recognized at the time as Minister of Education Mr. Mei Yiqi .

My teacher, Mr. Zheng Yinbai, could drink it, but later he was more restrained and had no elegance, so he was demoted to a wine wise man.

Teacher Kong was younger than his peers at that time. Teacher Taiwan appointed him as a wine tyrant because he often asked others to drink, but he couldn't drink it. He squeezed his nose and drank it, which was a little domineering and conquered people with his might.

Mr. Xia Deyi went to stop the wine when he saw someone being poured into wine and said: Don’t worry, I’ll come and drink it for you! He is called a wine hero, but he needs to drink when he goes to a friend's house, so he is also called a wine beggar, both a hero and a beggar.

Mr. Song Wenxing is the founder of archaeology. He drank too much for a while and had a little alcohol poisoning. It was his relative who cured him, so he was called an alcoholic at that time.

Teacher Qu is not bad at drinking. After a long time of competition, he has not drunk it yet after drinking it. He likes to command it, so everyone calls him a wine stick.

Once I joked with him. He went to the student to toast. I poured a cup of tea and he asked: Is this tea or Shaoxing?

I said: Teacher, what do you think?

He said after a long time: It’s wine. I respect the teacher.

The next day I told him: Teacher, a gentleman can deceive you, you were deceived by me yesterday.

Teacher Qu cut off his stomach and left one-third of the rest, so he would drink it as usual. He is older and will buy small sorghum. He will drink three cups when he goes out to eat, and the rest will be placed in the fifth laboratory.

Once, Zhang Jingming and Huang Qifang, I, were in Teacher Qu’s laboratory. When we saw the remaining wine that Teacher Qu drank, we said: Evaporate it.

Later, Teacher Qu couldn't find the wine, so I told him that we evaporated the wine. He said happily when he heard it: It evaporated well! This is the situation where we teachers and students get along.

has another unforgettable thing. Because I am a young leader in the teacher student group, one day Mr. Liu Anyu and Mr. Jiang Zengfa came to me for negotiations. They said: Mr. Kong is already eighty years old, and you have not taken any action.

I replied: Teacher Kong’s personality is sometimes troublesome, he is very low-key, and I don’t like these, so I dare not speak.

They said: We are his friends, let’s go! I pulled me to Teacher Kong's house and said I wanted to hold an academic seminar for him at the age of 80 and publish a collection of essays for birthday celebrations. At that time, I also found Lianjing Publishing House - I had experience in helping teachers in Taiwan before.

Who knew that Teacher Kong glared at me and said: Zeng Yongyi, are you my student?

This sentence is very strict, meaning that you don’t know the teacher’s character yet? So I shut up and didn't dare to say it. The other two teachers said it for a long time and he still refused.

I said: Teacher, let’s not talk anymore, let’s drink. I was punished by Teacher Kong for several glasses of wine that day.

On the other hand, Teacher Kong often designs and plans for his friends. From time to time, I hear my friends who care about him: So-and-so, what has happened recently, it seems that it is not going well. Someone started a small business and opened a restaurant... I was very moved when I heard it. He cared about his friends so much.

Another time, the results of our Yili Group's research plan will be made into a movie, and Teacher Kong asked me to find Mr. Yin Fusheng.

He took 160,000 yuan to me and said: This is my academic work to help you, so don’t say you have to pay it back in the future. We then completed the plan. The second year after

was completed, Teacher Kong took a large bag and said to me: Take it back to Mr. Yin Fusheng. Yin Fusheng said: Didn’t you agree?

I responded: You need to know the personality of our teacher, he will not accept it. I completed this task, how do you explain it to him? That's your business.

This shows that Teacher Kong doesn’t mind asking for help from friends when he needs it, but he must have borrowed and returned it.

At the beginning, Teacher Kong served as the chairman of the presidium of the National Congress, but he did not take the funds and returned them. If you don’t take a mustard, it will set an example for us invisibly.

4. Teaching as a profession and academic attitude

Teacher Kong has students all over the world. He taught at Taichung's Agricultural College when he was young, and later merged into Zhongxing University .

When I was thirty-five or six years old, I came to NTU to teach. When I chose Teacher Kong's class, he was about forty. He also teaches at Normal University, Fu Ren University, , Tokai University, and Soochow University.

Teacher Kong likes to teach, and he still attends classes until he is 87 or 8 years old. He died at the age of 89, but later he was unable to do his physical strength, so Ye Guoliang taught the class on his behalf.

Teaching was his only career in his life. Our famous , Mr. Lin Wenyue, is a very famous at Taiwan University. He has a very elegant temperament. Teacher Kong and teacher Taiwan like to eat dishes cooked by Mr. Lin Wenyue the most, and she teaches herself.

Teacher came to her house for dinner, and I always served as a follower, and she also took me to the Mandarin Daily to participate in the editing of ancient and modern literary selections.

She served the main dish, and the teacher must say: stand up and respect the hostess.

I learned "Yi Li" with Teacher Kong. There are seventeen chapters in this book. I slowly read it from 3:00 to 5:00 a.m. every afternoon.

I found the beauty of "Yi Li": If you can't sleep, it is really a good recipe for insomnia. You can wake up and read it this way for seventeen afternoons.

Later, with the sponsorship funding provided by the East Asian Society of America, a ritual research group was established. Teacher Taiwan was named and Teacher Kong was the supervisor. This group also subsidized a considerable scholarship to the participating graduate students.

We take classes one or two times a week. After several years of experience, everyone has their own strengths. Then we put together and make the content we studied into real objects and shoot the entire "Shihun Li" video.

We couldn't buy geese, so we bought ducks. Every time we took a film, we would defecate, and I would wipe the duck's butt. I don't know how many times it took to finish the film.

The ritual scriptures are so difficult. We performed them in realistic videos, which are very concrete, making people clear about the etiquette of ancient marriages.

Later, the "Yiyi Research Series" was completed, published by Zhonghua Book Company and received great attention.

1982 I was a visiting professor at the University of Michigan. Teacher Kong happened to go to the United States to visit his eldest daughter Wei'er and his students. Our teacher-student gathering, and the University of Michigan also arranged a lunch lecture.

Teacher Kong was talking about "Qingyi" there, so I used it as a living prop. How to worship, kneel, and drink, this is the very meaningful work that our teachers and students took several years to complete.

During the winter and summer vacations, we still attend classes. Teacher Kong's serious discussions in class made us dare not take it lightly.

Where to place the utensils, what clothes to wear, and what actions to do, it contains many etiquette and customs in ancient life. Otherwise, the ancients would not have written so many annotations, and we will gradually understand their importance.

Our Chinese culture has been able to continue for thousands of years. Everyone has so many dialects, but they can communicate because our words are connected.

Every generation has Mandarin. Confucius's era was called Yayan , and later it was called Mandarin and Zhengyin. The opposite of Yayan was dialect, that is, local pronunciation, which is a very important factor in the unification of the country by Chinese culture.

So bronze inscriptions can still be interpreted now, for this reason.

I also took Teacher Kong's bronze inscription course. We had very tense moments in class and very pleasant moments.

If you are lazy, Teacher Kong will scold people. Once, Huang Qifang came to class because he rarely got married, so he probably forgot to explain to Teacher Kong in advance.

result Teacher Kong said: What happened to Qi Fang? Even if you are newlywed, you have to say it. We hung up the phone and he came the next day.

What Mr. Kong has the greatest influence on me in academic terms should be the attitude and method of studying. He once said to me: Yongyi, in order to study the ritual scriptures, I have to understand other scriptures. If I don’t know much about ancient artifacts, I can’t study them even if I read them. The scriptures in ancient books are often difficult to interpret, and there is nothing I can do if I don’t start with ancient characters. In addition, we also need to understand archaeology, folk customs, and the lives of ancient people.

Therefore, once you read the scriptures in a biased manner, the main academic achievements will be limited, and you need to complement each other in your academic field, and you must persevere. This is how Teacher Kong studied and studied since he was a child.

In the past, I also believed that we lived in Taiwan and attached importance to Taiwan’s history and traditional art. Therefore, I suggested that the department chairs at that time should include Taiwan’s history as the reading materials for freshmen so that they can know the history of Taiwan for hundreds of years.

I didn’t expect that I would die in less than two or three years. I asked the department director, and the department director said not to worry - because I didn't like Taiwan's consciousness in that era, it was as hateful as if I were intentionally going to Chinese culture now.

culture should be broad, so I led more than a dozen professors to carry forward Taiwan’s folk art and culture.

I first followed my brother Professor Xu Changhui and established the Chinese Folk Art Foundation. He served as CEO and chairman, investigated traditional art in Taiwan, and also held a four-year folk art exhibition in Youth Park, which was very time-consuming.

Our Chinese Department teachers all advised me: If you run into the world, it will have an impact on academic work. I responded: Actually, I am also doing another kind of academic.

Teacher Kong agrees with my approach: Yongyi, you did it right, this is also a very important academic work, you must learn more from Mr. Yu Dagang.

In addition, Teacher Qu Wanli and Teacher Tai Jingnong both support me in doing this. Teacher Qu was the director of the Institute of History and Language at the time, and he also handed me over the historical materials that were not compiled by the Institute of China.

He saw that it took me three hours to drive to and from the China Research Institute every day, which took a lot of time, so he asked me to transport these historical materials to the National Taiwan Research Institute.

Because Teacher Qu trusts students, I am determined to make this batch of information come alive, and then disassemble it and reclassify it, just like a doctor performs surgery.

Teacher Kong's Dharma books are very precious. Many people ask the teacher for calligraphy, and the authenticity is mixed.

is mostly fake, and they are asked to write on behalf of Ye Guoliang, Chen Ruigeng, Li Bingnan and others. Only those who drink and chat can invite the original works.

I followed the teacher all day long, always feeling that the teacher was very hard and didn't dare to ask for it, so I didn't get it.

Only once did the teacher write a pair for my wife to have dinner at the University of Michigan.

I remember one time, Teacher Taiwan and several gentlemen accompanied him to Huibin Building on Zhonghua Road for dinner. It was most convenient to take the 0-south bus from Taiwan Taiwan University.There are two types of buses in

0 South, one can be reached in half an hour, and the other can be reached in one hour.

The teacher deliberately took the bus that right and asked the guests to wait - it turned out that those guests were asking for calligraphy, which shows that the original works of the teacher's Dharma books are very precious.

Teacher Kong has developed a simple life since childhood. He lives in Section 5 of Nanjing East Road, and the 254 bus is taken by the 254 bus from class to get out of class.

My inner friend also went to listen to his class. We would send the teacher to the station to get off the bus. After waiting for half an hour, he was calm.

Teacher Kong is very frank and does not talk about politics. He must follow the rules and cooperate with what the government wants him to do. He is very self-disciplined and takes good care of his family, friends and students.

Mr. Jiang took care of him like a child, and so did Mrs. Jiang. Maybe it was because Jiang also felt that he was a hero from ancient times to the present - Jiang also attached great importance to orthodoxy.

Furthermore, Teacher Kong's youthful and elegant and outstanding will make people respect it. Jiang also liked it very much, so he will specially cultivate Teacher Kong.

Teacher Kong did not go back after leaving Qufu. I once suggested that the teacher go back, but he opposed it. I also hoped to go back with him, but none of them came true.

I didn't dare to show him the photos I took in Qufu, for fear that he would be hurt by the scene. During the Cultural Revolution, the three Kongs were damaged, and the damage caused by Konglin was particularly serious.

Teacher Kong once sighed: Why don’t you even let my mother go? This is the reason why Teacher Kong doesn’t go back. Later, when we grew back, we followed him, and the times have become different.

Teacher Kong was displaced in his early years, and later, four generations lived together. It can be said that it was passed down from generation to generation in terms of culture, academics and teaching.

He said that Confucianism and Confucius' thoughts will never be overwhelmed by the times. The spring water of a river is vast and will always nourish our land of China.

As students, the best thing we learn from Teacher Kong is to never tire of learning and teaching. I'm seventy-eight years old this year, and I still have ten years left.

I am now full in the morning and still read when the lights are on. No matter what, I will learn from Teacher Kong, be a inheritor and scholar of culture, and learn from his example of gentleman ethics.

Zeng Yongyi : "Academician of the China Research Institute" in Taiwan and professor of the Chinese Department of Taiwan University and Shixin University. This article was originally published in the first issue of the seventh issue of "Research on Chinese Culture" (June 2019), pages 1-22.

Editor in charge: Qingsi

Source: Folk Confucianism