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Chapter 13 The days of studying at Peking University

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    There was a popular saying among female students in Peking in the old days: "Beijing University is old, Normal University is poor, and only Tsinghua University can be accommodating." This means that the male students of Peking University are sluggish, the male students of Peking Normal University are poor, and only the students of Tsinghua University have both.  Money and vitality make him a suitable boyfriend.

    "However, Zhang Hanqing's arrival has become a breath of fresh air in the Peking University community in advance, because he is neither poor nor old, and he has a bit of color.  However, the fly in the ointment is that there are not many girls who are outstanding enough to go to university at this time. Even at Peking University, which is famous for its liberal arts, there are not many people of the opposite sex that Zhang Hanqing can take notice of.  As for Ma Jue, the first school beauty of Peking University who later became very famous and whose beauty Zhang Hanqing wanted to see so much, she was only a five or six-year-old girl at this time. It is very disappointing to think about her.

    They come, the security.  At this time, universities were not too involved in politics, and professors and students still focused on academic research.  As for the debauchery and debauchery in the private lives of professors after class, it does not affect the academic atmosphere in the classroom or the greatness of their personalities.  Zhang Hanqing still had a dawdling attitude at first, but once he got a deeper understanding of these current situations, he couldn't help but have a sincere respect for them.

    At this time, Peking University was the first of its kind for a hundred schools of thought to contend in the academic world.  Among all kinds of Peking University professors, there are some who are radical and conservative; some who have a vision to move towards the world and want to find a way out for China, and some who are looking for principles to save the country and the people in the pile of old papers; some who apply foreign things to China, and some who use the past to adapt to the present  To name a few.  During this period, Peking University was a gathering of talents, and numerous masters came from this school and became famous at home and abroad.  While marveling, Zhang Hanqing was particularly interested in a controversial cultural monster, or a stubborn and conservative defender.

    At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, when Chinese and Western civilizations were in conflict, and almost all Chinese advanced elements advocated the complete negation of China¡¯s traditional culture and the unreserved absorption of Western civilization, there was a man who was knowledgeable in both Chinese and Western cultures, was proficient in nine languages, and had received 13 Ph.D.  A cultural geek with a bachelor's degree bravely stood up to defend traditional Chinese culture. He used Western language to promote the ancient oriental spirit.

    He is Gu Hongming.

    If Zhang Hanqing¡¯s appreciation of Gu Hongming is simply understood as his isolated, courageous and sparing-nothing promotion of traditional Chinese civilization, then the understanding of Zhang Hanqing would be too superficial, or the understanding of Zhang Hanqing¡¯s thoughts would be too one-sided.  Because in an atmosphere of comprehensive learning from the West, Europe, America, and East and Japan, Mr. Gu's love for China and the Chinese people is so unique.

    Every bit of this is reflected in the just-published English version of the book "The Spirit of the Chinese".

    Once upon a time, Zhang Hanqing, who traveled through time, had a strong sense of responsibility and urgency to achieve his wish to awaken the people and strengthen the country.  However, after gradually integrating into this era, he saw facts that could not be shown in movies, TV dramas and history: poor and weak countries, ignorant people with no ideals and future, lofty intellectuals and bureaucrats who are divorced from the people  In just a few months of running in, he even felt that the horse bandit soldiers of the 27th Division were cuter than the former

    He always felt that it was very difficult to change this situation, and it was not possible to awaken the people by using one or two advanced weapons and one or two shocking "prophetic" methods as he had originally imagined.  What does China look like now?  Taking Beijing, the representative capital, as an example, it is full of the atmosphere of decadence and backwardness - the Qing Dynasty has collapsed to the point of decay, and Yuan Shikai still thinks about being reborn from this piece of carrion!

    Today¡¯s China, from the top to the local level, from the upper class to the ordinary people, has been groping and hesitating about the hope of revitalizing the country. Otherwise, there would not be so many students and talented people studying abroad.  Today's citizens already have deep-seated criticism and distrust of Chinese culture.  "Foreign monks like to recite sutras" probably took root in the land of China at this time. The great style of the Han and Tang Dynasties has become a trace in the memory, just waiting to be recalled.

    ¡°It¡¯s not that Chinese people are born to worship foreign countries, but that in foreign negotiations time and time again, the country has lost both dignity and face, causing the citizens to lose their last bit of confidence.  A mere oriental Japan can make the Yuan government helpless and the people shocked and frightened.

    At this moment, Gu Hongming stood up and gave the Chinese people a ray of sunshine in the dark clouds.  Although his various performances give people the image of a feudal weidegger, even though he still has pigtails that symbolize decadence and backwardness, even though he advocates concubinage, preaches loyalty to the emperor, and has a morbid liking for women's feet.  Faced with the raging Western trend of total Westernization and the criticism of the over-corrected traditional culture, what he chose was the same fierce and sharp act of protecting traditional culture: resisting in extreme ways and praising the excellence of Chinese traditional civilization!

    Regarding Gu Hongming¡¯s conservatism, the new-school professors criticized a lot and even questioned it.By.  A group of Chinese people who have awakened after the Westernization Movement believe that the overall decay of Chinese traditional culture is the crux of China's poverty and weakness. Therefore, the comprehensive replacement of classical Chinese with vernacular is already fully brewing. They even go so far as to believe that traditional  Chinese characters, the carrier of culture, are all "sinful".

    This is not a joke, but a fact.  For example, Qian Xuantong, a well-known language reform activist, phonologist, and one of the advocates of China's "May Fourth" New Culture Movement in official history, believed that Chinese characters were completely behind the times and that if China wanted to catch up  In developed countries, it is necessary to eliminate Chinese characters.  His views can be represented by one of his own words: "I declare boldly again: If we want to prevent China from being destroyed and make the Chinese nation a civilized nation in the twentieth century, we must abolish Confucianism and destroy Taoism as the fundamental solution.  The fundamental solution is to abolish the Chinese language that records Confucianism and Taoist myths."

    Many people don¡¯t know who Qian Xuantong is, but in official history, the three major tasks of writing reform after the founding of the People¡¯s Republic of China: simplifying Chinese characters, promoting Mandarin, and formulating and implementing the ¡°Chinese Pinyin Plan¡± were proposed by Qian Xuantong thirty years ago and have been implemented in  Practice it physically.  This master of linguistics, with the mentality of hating that iron cannot be transformed into steel, is exploring ways to make China strong again from its roots, but it is just a bit excessive.

    It seems now that "abolishing Chinese characters in order to strengthen the country" is nonsense, but at that time, this argument was still very popular and considered a mainstream voice. Its supporters included many big names in literary history: Chen Duxiu, Qu Qiubai, Wu Yuzhang, and Lu Xun  , Liu Bannong, Zhao Yuanren all rushed to the hospital because of their illness. In a weak China, there is really no other way to save the country!

    Don¡¯t laugh at these pioneers. Didn¡¯t you see that in the 1980s, after the birth of computers, when countless people in the Chinese scientific and technological circles were troubled by the inability to input Chinese characters into computers, the once-popular "Chinese character backwardness theory" once again clamored for supremacy?  This is still the case seventy years later, let alone back then?

    "Gu Hongming "goes against" the trend and respects Chinese culture. Of course, many people will rebound and attract constant criticism.  In addition, his literary thoughts are conservative, but his style is very trendy, and he always has bullets for criticism.  Because even though he tried his best to respect Confucianism and Confucius, if you think that he was completely influenced by the Confucian tradition, he would also say some words that would put Confucius to shame. For example, he and his British colleagues once vigorously promoted the cultural taste of Chinese prostitutes: "A  If a person wants to truly understand the spirit of Chinese culture, he must go to the "Eight Big Alleys" to see with his own eyes the elegance, hospitality, and charming yet dignified demeanor of those singing girls. Pay special attention to how disgusting the swearing words can be.  They blush"

    Zhang Hanqing turned to him as a close friend. Is this what a "gentleman is magnanimous"?  Dare to do and dare to speak, this is what a man is!  Besides, visiting the Eight Hutongs is not a big sin in this era. Hu Shi, Yu Dafu, Chen Duxiu have all visited them.  Of course, the "willful" behavior of celebrities is not entirely due to sex, but Chinese literati have this tradition. If you don't go to a brothel, you will be embarrassed to create!

    ¡°Maybe he has this kind of tolerance for scholar-bureaucrats visiting brothels in his heart. Anyway, Zhang Hanqing firmly followed Gu Hongming¡¯s footsteps at Peking University at a young age. It only took a short period of time for him to go from being unknown to attracting attention here.  There is no way. At this time, the vast majority of Chinese people are firmly "advocating foreigners and favoring foreigners." Maybe this term is not very accurate when used here, but it is indeed the consensus of knowledgeable people who have been bullied for decades.  Only reform can save China. Only learning from the West and East can strengthen China. The two gentlemen "Saiins" (science) and "Democraci" (discipline) can save China from fire and water.  Therefore, although everyone shared a ardent patriotism, the mainstream opinion criticized Gu Hongming for suppressing the new cultural trend of thought, which made him stand out in Peking University where trendy young people gathered. However, he acted like no one else and went his own way.

    Only Zhang Hanqing seemed to understand the inner world of this cultural giant, and even echoed strongly when taking his class: "I very much agree with Mr.'s admiration for Chinese culture. I think it's not that Chinese culture is not good, but that the crooked monks chant the sutras."  Wrong! China has led the world in all aspects of science and technology, economy and even culture for thousands of years in history. Only China among the four ancient civilizations still maintains its strong vitality. This fully shows that Chinese culture has its own uniqueness.  As the saying goes, "whatever exists is reasonable," how can we forget our ancestors just because of a little setback? With the inclusive characteristics of Chinese culture, we can fully absorb all foreign advanced experience, science, and technology for our own use, but we completely deny it.  I have overcorrected. Chinese culture is our root, and through the efforts of our generation and two generations, it will definitely regain its glory!"

    This was the opportunity for him to express his worldview by taking advantage of the "Twenty-One" to make the Chinese people hold their breath. It was also his first cry since time travel, issued from Peking University, which is about to become the birthplace of China's entire intellectual elite.  , there is a strong sense of fate.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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