One: Ma Yifu’s beloved wife was recently bereft, and he groaned in grief and anger: Only I will open my eyes all night long, and repay my unfurled eyebrows all my life.
The lush orchids and fragrant flowers are rooted in the mountains. It is not necessary to admire orchids before they are planted, and it is not necessary to remove flowers or flowers immediately.
When frost and snow fall from the emperor’s sky, how come they wither away! Good night can be chased at the end of the year, and you can donate by yourself when you are good.
When the river passes, there is no backflow, and when the flower fades, there is no return to beauty. For whom is the fragrance sent? It's too late to be embarrassed.
This is a deeply emotional eulogy. As for the owner of the poem, I believe that any scholar who has dealt with modern China will not be estranged from him. He is Mr. Ma Yifu, who together with Liang Shuming and Xiong Shilijun is known as the three leading figures in Confucianism.
Perhaps it is the indifferent and elegant character that naturally penetrates into Mr. Ma Yifu’s bones. Throughout his life, Mr. Ma never pursued a prominent position like his fellow travelers. He is not as famous as Liang Shuming, but he is famous in Jiuzhou because of his numerous works and his political integrity. He is not as beautiful as Xiong Shilijun's March trip to the south of the Yangtze River and the garden full of peaches and plums. In that great era full of variables, he was only content to be a quiet leader of New Confucianism.
Of course, his insight still won the respect of his contemporary scholars.
It was the early summer of 1921 when the green shade filled the pond. Mr. Liang Shuming, 28, rushed from Beijing to Hangzhou to pay homage to Mr. Ma Yifu, who was ten years older than him. While the guests and hosts were enjoying a cup of clear tea and a stick of sandalwood, the soft-spoken Ma Yifu told Liang Shuming about the great scholar Yang Cihu of the Song Dynasty and the subtleties and great meanings of the thoughts of the Ming Dynasty scholar Luo Jinxi. Master Liang Shuming sighed in his later memories: Listening to your words is better than reading several years of books. This meeting made Mr. Liang Shuming think more carefully about the positioning of New Confucianism.
Eight years have passed since this meeting. After a serious illness, Mr. Xiong Shili seemed to have been reborn. At this time, he had already made great aspirations and vowed to dedicate his life's energy to the profound and profound philosophy of the sages. After careful consideration, Mr. Xiong Shili also entrusted Mr. Ma Yifu with the most important treatise of his life, "New Theory of Consciousness Only," for final revision and publication.
In this way, the influence of the solitary Mr. Ma Yifu initially covered all major eras in modern China. Mr. Chen Duxiu, the enlightener of the Chinese revolution, once called him a "great Confucian" with respect. His profound understanding of the unique use of the wonderful mind in Buddhism is praised by Buddhist masters as "Nan Ma Bei Tang (Tang Yongtong)". At that time, Ma Yifu was the same as Lu Xun and Cai Yuanpei, two other cultural giants who were both from Shaoxing. They stood in their own different but indispensable cultural positions. They will have an indelible impact on China's contemporary culture and the future. profound influence.
In fact, Mr. Ma Yifu, as a model of a generation of academics, was not limited to academic rigor. In his personal private life, he is even quite self-respecting and self-loving. Since the sages of the past have said that "starving to death is a small matter, but being dishonest is a big deal", Mr. Ma Yifu, as a great scholar of the generation, consciously shouldered the responsibility of maintaining social ethics in his love life. His serious and serious attitude towards life and his unremitting value orientation for love, in today's increasingly impetuous environment, are they not worthy of the deep thinking of those who come after him?
Today, we read the biography about Mr. Ma’s life in a peaceful mood. We can find that Mr. Ma Yifu showed his intelligence and precociousness in his childhood.
Mr. Ma comes from a family of scholarly officials who have studied for generations. My father's poems and essays were quite famous in the local area. Mother He is also a woman who received a good traditional cultural education in her boudoir. Especially when it comes to the inheritance of traditional literature, my mother has her own opinions. Therefore, Mr. Ma Yifu's family should be enlightened in the society at that time. Influenced by her mother, Ma Yifu's sister can play with words at home.
Mr. Ma Yifu’s childhood was fully endowed with the teachings of his loving mother. When he was 9 years old, he was familiar with classics such as "Chu Ci" and "Selected Works of Literature". In the winter when I was 10 years old, I visited the Chrysanthemum Garden with my mother. The mother pointed to the vibrant chrysanthemums and asked Ma Yifu to try to compose a five-rhyme poem chanting chrysanthemums. The young Ma Yifu almost had no time to think and blurted out: "I love Tao Yuanliang. I pick chrysanthemums on the east fence. The branches are proud of the frost and snow, and the petals are filled with clouds. I am originally a fairy, and I moved to the house of a virgin. Morning meal in autumn." Cleaner, no need to envy Hu Ma. "The little boy has such a rapid interest in poetry, and He must have felt a chill of joy in his heart. However, mother He still sighed and stroked her son's head, saying: When my son grows up, he should be able to write poems. Although this poem has a childlike quality, it is quite similar to the poem "Don't Eat Fireworks". You may not suffer from lack of literature in the future, but you will rarely be blessed.
This smart and beautiful mother has always had a faint worry about the future of her noble and proud son.
In 1899, 16-year-old Ma Yifu followed his father's orders and took the county examination for the imperial examination. This year, Mr. Lu Xun, the future standard-bearer of China's literary and art circles, should have also participated in the imperial examination. That year, Ma Yifu's grades ranked first among all students. As a result of the circulation of imperial scrolls, young Ma Yifu's talent shocked the gentry at that time.
At this time, Mr. Tang Shouqian, a well-known and well-known figure in Shaoxing society (later the first governor and chief of transportation of Zhejiang Province), admired Ma Yifu, a brilliant young man, for his talented writings. He entrusted a matchmaker with a lot of money, determined to betroth his beloved daughter Tang Xiaomin, who was known as elegant and quiet, to the Ma family. In this way, Ma Yifu and Tang Xiaomin, who were basically matched in terms of family status and had a reputation as a talented lady, still got married in the same year.
Although it was a traditional marriage under the strict orders of his parents, Ma Yifu always had a happy emotion towards his newlywed wife. Therefore, from beginning to end, their married life was filled with a kind of rippling joy. The bride's features are clear, she knows etiquette, and she is filial to her family. She is just like the moist and bright sunny days in Shaoxing countryside back then, with such a frugal and subtle look. The young and humble Mr. Ma Yifu has no reason not to respect such a stylish bride.
Although he was newly married, Ma Yifu, who was rational and quiet, would go out during the day to visit his literary friends who shared the same feelings and desires. In this way, Tang Xiaomin, who was leisurely at home, might have felt a little calm after looking at the careless flower shadows swaying on the stone steps at the door. The newlyweds are unwilling to reveal their worries about losing their youth. But the flexibility of Ma Yifu can be seen. He asked his sister, who was living at home at the time, to spend some time with Mrs. Tang, who was like a willow in the spring breeze.
Sister Ma’s temperament is also as gentle as Tingting Yishu Bai Jasmine.
She fell in love with this fresh sister-in-law at first sight, who was like the bank of willows and the waning moon in the morning breeze.
Sister Ma’s family is from Boji Qun. Her play since childhood was to recite poems and fight verses with her mother and younger brother as they enjoyed their family life. Before the bride married into the Tang family, the Ma siblings had already had some very expectant discussions about the future couple. Sister Ma's sister heard that the newcomer came from the lintel of Mr. Tang Zhexian, a sage who had returned from the government and the public, and she already had a feeling of admiration for the newcomer. The Ma family sister had previously teased her younger brother: In a family with Tang Zhe as its founder, the newcomers must have been trained in the court since childhood and have extraordinary talents. A talented person like my younger brother would probably be hard-pressed.
So, the sister-in-law relationship between the Ma family sister and Tang Xiaomin initially had the harmony of two sisters who had known each other since childhood.
During that period, if Ma Yifu went out, it happened to be a sunny day in March. Sister Ma and Tang Xiaomin moved two Ming and Qing dynasty carved and embossed dark flower chairs and sat among the mottled green shadows of the low garden wall to do some prostitute work. The newcomer's job as a female celebrity is exquisite. Tang Xiaomin embroidered the pattern of a burning peach. Immediately, a slightly reckless new bee buzzed around Tang Xiaomin's embroidery without secrets. Therefore, Sister Ma's sister would often stop what she was doing, hold the bride's hands and look at them again and again. Sister Ma's sister often couldn't help but sigh: My sister really has a pair of skillful hands. Tang Xiaomin smiled shyly and silently.
Later, Sister Ma and Tang Xiaomin were tired from sewing. The two of them walked side by side among the autumn colors with the sound of water and the shadows of trees. At this time, in the gray and yellow dusk, a cuckoo bird was singing proudly. Sister Ma's poetry became popular. He suggested with great interest: Sister, why don't we sing about the autumn colors. Tang Xiaomin's pretty and graceful pink face slowly turned red.
The Ma family sister tilted her face and looked at her sister-in-law, waiting for Tang Xiaomin's response. The bride lowered her head and there was no reply for a long time. Sister Ma's expression expressed a kind of confusion. Tang Xiaomin finally raised his head in shame, with tears streaming down his face. Tang Xiaomin said: I'm sorry, sister. I can't recite poetry. I am illiterate.
In fact, in the old-style women's society at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, it was a virtue for a woman to have no talent, and illiteracy was generally a normal life for most women. Although Mr. Tang Zhexian's own thinking at the time was new, when it came to educating girls, he still instinctively followed the old teachings of three obediences and four virtues. This is also the eve of a great era where the old and the new change, and some new characters are hesitant and contradictory in their personalities. At that time, strong men like Lu Xun and Hu Shizhi were leading the times. When they were dealing with their private lives, they were always unable to completely marry old-style women like Zhu An and Jiang Dongxiu. The earth breaks the cage and goes its own way peacefully. Therefore, it is not the fault of the bride Tang Xiaomin that she is illiterate, it is just that she married into a family whose ideas were one step more fashionable than others in society at that time.
However, Tang Xiaomin was the beloved daughter of Tang Zhexian, the leading gentry in Shaoxing at that time. Her reputation for gentleness and humility was recognized by the upper class families in Shaoxing. The genes passed down in the Tang family's bloodline from origins, poems and books all make the descendants of the Tang family not to do something if they don't do it, and to do the best when they do. In those days, many women from official and scholarly families were noble and self-satisfied. At that time, Tang Xiaomin married into the Ma family. The men, women, and children of the Ma family are all capable of poetry and chanting. Tang Xiaomin felt that it was because of his laziness in the past that his father's reputation had been brought to shame. She felt that although her father had neglected women's education in the past, as long as she persisted, her father might not stop her. She retreated and returned to her incense room, thinking about such problems with self-pity. The expression on his face was also unhappy.
Ma Yifu came back from outside and noticed the strange expression on the bride's face. He found out the whole story and felt a sense of guilt in his heart. He felt that he was too focused on the intellectual articles of the man and neglected the exchange of ideas with the bride. Ma Yifu encouraged his bride and said: "Being unable to read is better than being blind; being unable to read is better than walking in the dark." He promised Tang Xiaomin that he would make time to teach her to read and write.
In fact, Sister Ma is also a thoughtful and thoughtful person. Although Ma Yifu promised his wife, he taught her how to recite poems and write poems in his spare time. However, many young men at that time had great ambitions to make achievements in learning. A young couple will be ridiculed by current commentators if the husband does not leave the boudoir day and night and the young couple stays together for a long time. Therefore, during the quiet and leisurely time during the day, Sister Ma found Tang Xiaomin and agreed to discuss words with her. This was something that naturally made Tang Xiaomin overjoyed.