The Republic of China was an era that was both prosperous and lonely. The alternation of old and new trends of thought was rich in legends one after another. Southwest Associated University, the first time I learned about this special school in detail was when I read Wang Zengqi's "Human Grass". Wang Zengqi's unique romantic writing style concealed much of the misery and desolation of that era.
"The Love Past of Southwest Associated University" is a book that tells the emotional past of the people of Southwest Associated University. The group of literati who shouldered the academic expectations of the nation still maintained their pursuit of academics in troubled times. , the love of that era exudes the fragrance from the depths of history.
The book tells the past love stories of 17 pairs of intellectuals. Some have similar minds, equal talents, help each other, and grow old together. Eventually it fell apart.
Of course, in addition to love, the book also tells about the academic atmosphere of that era, the character of the literati, and the accompanying series of social and historical ups and downs.
01 Connecting with each other and growing old together
Lin Huiyin and Liang Sicheng, Yang Jiang and Qian Zhongshu, Zhang Chonghe and Fu Hansi, Shi Songqing and Wang Zengqi, Zhou Peiyuan and Wang Dihan, Mei Yiqi and Most of them, such as Han Yonghua, Chen Yinke and Tang Yun, can be called this kind of enviable love that connects their hearts and grows old together.
This kind of love is not a natural fit between two people, but because love tolerates each other, runs into each other, supports each other, and achieves each other.
For example, Lin Huiyin and Liang Sicheng, many people think that this is the combination of a golden boy and a beautiful girl. In fact, they are far from perfect as imagined. Liang Sicheng was injured during a student demonstration. Throughout his life, Lin Huiyin suffered from severe tuberculosis, and was always accompanied by low fever and coughing up blood. When they first got together, it was extremely difficult to get along. Lin Huiyin was sharp and self-centered, while Liang Sicheng was rigid and steady. Liang Qichao once said: "Sicheng and Huiyin spent several months last year living on the mountain of swords and trees. ! ”
However, love made them persevere. Once the running-in period passed, the two complemented each other in their careers and achieved mutual success, making their love indestructible. At the Southwest Associated University, Lin Huiyin's body completely collapsed due to war, inflation and the lack of medical staff. He began to learn to take care of her and do his best to pamper her, even though she was terribly thin, riddled with diseases, and her bones were broken. . This pair of lovers eventually became a legend.
02? Unable to love
Jin Yuelin to Lin Huiyin: Jin Yuelin’s love for Lin Huiyin is too pure to be blasphemed. Jin Yuelin had no understanding of the world and was like a blank piece of paper, but he had lived in the forest for half his life and protected her for half his life. Before his death, when reporters interviewed him, they took a photo of Lin Huiyin and asked him about the time and background of the photo. He held the photo tightly for a long time and said to them like a child begging for mercy: "Give it to me!" It has been more than 20 years since Lin Huiyin passed away.
Bian Zhilin to Zhang Chonghe: Zhang Chonghe is the fourth sister of Shen Congwen’s wife Zhang Zhaohe. She is a woman who is good at Kunqu opera, calligraphy, painting, and poetry, and likes to wear cheongsam. Bian Zhilin loved her for ten years and wrote more than a dozen poems to her, including the famous one "You stand on the bridge and look at the scenery, and the people watching the scenery are watching you upstairs." However, Chonghe didn't like his secretive love. She hated his "mother-in-law" and "not refreshing enough." He pursued her for ten years, but she got married and moved to the United States seven months after meeting Hansi Fu. How many people like the poet's romance, but if they don't love this kind of thing, no one can change it.
Xia Jian to Li Yan: Li Yan was really an ordinary girl in that era compared with talented women like Lin Huiyin and Zhang Chonghe, but Xia Jian loved her as a goddess and made her He had the opportunity to have contact with her, paid attention to every detail of her, and searched hard for her, but he did not dare to take any substantive action, and in the end he never married. Being too idealistic about love and thinking too much about Li Yan completely destroyed his marriage.
03? This hatred has nothing to do with the wind and the moon
Zhang Yinlin and Lun Huizhu: Zhang Yinlin was once as famous as Qian Zhongshu in Tsinghua University and was known as one of the "Four Talents in the Academy of Literature" , when he was working as a tutor, he fell in love with Lun Huizhu. This pursuit did not succeed until seven years later. At that time, she was fragile and often sick, but whenever she felt uncomfortable, Zhang Yinlin could immediately take out medicine.
However, in this marriage, when Zhang Yinlin met Rong Wan, he fell in love with this girl wishfully. Unable to keep his original intention, he eventually divorced Lun Huizhu, and Rong Wan also rejected him. This talented man died of illness at the age of thirty-seven, and his death was extremely miserable. What changed the first love? Lun Huizhu was extremely sad when she saw the news of his death from illness in the newspaper. In love, when she was young, she always thought that the future would be long, but in fact many things never happened.
Wu Mi and Mao Yanwen: When Mao Yanwen was broken up by his fiancé, Wu Mi divorced his wife and launched a crazy pursuit of Mao Yanwen. This was almost everyone in the cultural world at the time. However, when Mao Yanwen accepted his proposal, he backed down and only said: "People are often limited by time and space, and their moods change. They are involuntarily and helpless." This is probably the most popular quote from a scumbag today. The frustrated Mao Yanwen married someone else, and her husband died of illness three years later. Wu Mi learned about it and began to pursue her again, but Mao Yanwen was heartbroken and he lost her forever.
04? A free and tolerant academic atmosphere
In "Human Grass", the author has a passage describing the Southwest Associated University: "In the eight years of the Associated University, the number of talents it has produced has Peking University, Tsinghua University, and Nankai University have produced many talents in the past 30 years. Why? An American professor who studies Lianda University answered: "Freedom"
In this book, in addition to the main line of love, freedom. The tolerant academic atmosphere also always shines.
Qian Zhongshu was very good at Chinese and English, but very poor at mathematics. During the Tsinghua University Entrance Examination, he got a zero score in mathematics. However, because of his excellent Chinese and English skills, Tsinghua President Luo Jialun admitted him.
Zhang Chonghe was admitted to Peking University with a score of zero in mathematics. Peking University stipulated that she could not be admitted with a score of zero in any subject. However, she had perfect scores in Chinese and was finally admitted to the School of Liberal Arts of Peking University. He is a disciple of Chang Hu Shi.
Wang Zengqi’s wife, Shi Songqing, majored in physics when she entered Southwest Associated University. Later, she transferred to biology due to illness. However, biology was still not easy, so she transferred to the Spanish Department and changed three majors in three years. This is today’s College was unimaginable. Fortunately, at the then liberal Southwest Associated University, students could change majors according to their own circumstances. In the end, she lived up to the school's tolerance and later became a senior reporter of Xinhua News Agency's external feature team.
If we talk about the various forms of life, then in this book, love also takes on all kinds of strange forms, with the unique romance, determination of intellectuals and the imprint of that era. Life is full of life, and so is love. Only by keeping your original intention can you achieve the perfection of love.