When Mr. Wang was in his forties, he was able to recite Engels' Family Private Ownership and the Origin of the Country in large paragraphs, which was amazing. On one occasion, President Huagang gave a report on the history of social development to the teachers and students of the whole school. In the discussion after the meeting, the teachers argued endlessly about the details of the report and had different opinions, so they invited Shuye Tong to judge. He repeated President Huagang's report completely. When the teachers and students of the medical school asked for supplementary listening to the report, the school asked Shuye Tong to convey it for them. It is said that he not only conveyed every word, but also President Huagang coughed whenever he talked about it. His memory is so strong that it is shocking. At that time, there were so many folk songs, which can be seen: "My waist is sour and my skin is thin, and I study all night until dawn." Why torture yourself? Determined to catch up with Professor Tong in ten years. "Shuye Tong once said that he has a spirit of three strictness.
First, treat commitments strictly. Never make a promise easily, once you make a promise, you must honor it, and never allow any exceptions or individual situations to happen;
Second, strict reading plan and observation time. Whatever you do that day, rain or shine, day or night, can never be put off until the next day. Shuye Tong is never late for classes or meetings.
Three, Shuye Tong strictly abide by the class time, put an end to the phenomenon of class pressure. Shuye Tong never takes notes, handouts and other things in class. He came in person and improvised, but he was logical and methodical. What's more strange is that whenever he finishes a long paragraph and announces the class is over, the bell for class always rings at the same time or within a minute or two. Its time accuracy is amazing.
Can do this, on the one hand, because Shuye Tong has an amazing memory, so he is familiar with the content of the lecture. But the main reason is that he is extremely diligent in preparing lessons. According to Professor Han, we should not only write a high-level lecture a few days before class, but also give a lecture in front of the clock the night before class, just like an artist rehearsing for acting, so as to accurately grasp the teaching progress, rhythm and settable time limit of each class and avoid the phenomenon of tight before class or after class, and even cause pressure on the class. Therefore, Shuye Tong's lesson preparation has reached the point where no mistakes can be made.
As we all know, Shuye Tong has a gift for memory, but he never relies on his own talent and memory. Because he has free access to many historical materials, he doesn't look up books in the process of writing, but after writing, he always rechecks quotations and the like. Even when his works are revised or reprinted, he always checks and proofreads them repeatedly to avoid the spread of fallacies. This serious attitude runs through Shuye Tong's whole academic career. Shuye Tong's academic fields cover a wide range, such as China history, ancient geography, China's history by stages, ancient oriental history, China's handicraft business history, pre-Qin philosophers' thoughts, China's painting history, porcelain and so on. Monograph 14, paper 129. This not only reflects Mr. Wang's strong academic vitality, but also reflects his extraordinary insight.
From 65438 to 0945, Yang Kuan, who worked in Shanghai Museum, hired Tong as the director of the history department of Shanghai Museum. However, museum work is not Shuye Tong's strong point, but during this period, Shuye Tong took advantage of his frequent contact with ancient paintings and porcelain in the museum to conduct in-depth research on them, and gradually discovered some vague places in the history of paintings and porcelain. With profound knowledge of ancient culture, he made a detailed textual research, corrected some incorrect traditional statements, and wrote works such as A New Examination of the North-South Division of China Landscape Paintings and A Study of Boneless Flowers. Academically, Shuye Tong has an amazing memory, but in real life, he often can't remember other people's names and forget the way home. During his stay in Qingdao, Shuye Tong sometimes went out to see a play at night, but he often didn't know the way. Once I got lost when I came out of the theater at night, so I had to go to the nearby police station to ask for directions. The policeman at the police station didn't believe that this unkempt thin man was actually a professor at Shandong University, so he called the duty room of Shanda University, and finally the school sent a car to pick him up. Another night, Shuye Tong broke into the student dormitory and pointed to himself and said, "My name is Shuye Tong. I am the deputy director of the history department. I can't recognize the way home. Who will take me back? " Finally, Sun Daren, a history student, respectfully sent him home.
Shuye Tong can accurately grasp the time in class, but in other cases he often completely forgets the time. There is such a thing. When Shuye Tong was reading in the school library, he completely forgot the time after work. By the time he finished reading it, he had been off work for more than an hour. When people found a thin old man yelling at the window of the library stacks, I didn't know what happened, so I gathered around to watch and ask, and had a heated discussion for a while. There are countless anecdotes about Shuye Tong. For his behavior, Mr. Huang Miantang has this explanation: "People think this is due to nervousness. Although it is not unreasonable, I personally think that the more essential reason is that Shuye Tong's over-intensive investment in academics and extraordinary specialization have forgotten everything, thus reappearing the loss and confusion in Han Yu's works. " Is this statement true or not? For Shuye Tong, reading and writing are an extremely important part of his life, even everything in his life. He has devoted all his energy to his studies, so it is not surprising that he has no time to take care of the details of life.
In his later years, he suffered from extremely serious lung disease. At that time, his lung had rotted into a big hole, which caused a serious old obsessive-compulsive disorder. But in this case, Shuye Tong wrote Textual Research on Zuo Zhuan in the Spring and Autumn Period and Notes on Zuo Zhuan in the Spring and Autumn Period. When the latter was completed, it was only a few months before his death.