Text: Teacher Wen Yiduo attends class. Wang Zengqi
Mr. Wen has a strong and decisive personality. The Japanese invaders invaded south, and Tsinghua, Peking University and Nankai became temporary universities, with a short stay in Changsha, and then The National SouthWest Associated University will go to Yunnan. Some teachers and students formed a walking group. Mr Wen took part in the Long March. He grew a beard and declared that he would never shave if he could not win the Anti-Japanese War. His beard is only on his chin, so-called "goatee", and his moustache is thick and black, similar to the word "one". His lips are slightly thin and flat, and his eyes are burning. There is a woodcut statue of Mr. Wen, turning sideways, with a pipe in his mouth, looking at the reality with hot and cold eyes, which can express Mr. Wen's inner world very well.
(2) after the conference to Yunnan, spent a year in Mengzi. Teacher Wen still concentrates on his studies and spends all day in the library. The library is upstairs. At that time, many professors loved fasting. For example, Mr. Zhu Ziqing's fasting name is "game fasting with morality", and Mr. Wei's study is called "learning everything". A professor named Mr. Wen a fast master: "Why not ask the landlord?" Because teacher Wen never goes downstairs.
(3) National Southwest Associated University arranged for the school to move to Kunming.
(4) When I was studying in The National SouthWest Associated University, Mr. Wen taught Chu Ci, Tang Poetry and Ancient Mythology successively.
⑤ There are not many people in Chu Ci class. Mr. Wen lit his pipe, opened his notes and said, "Drink more wine and read Li Sao, and you will be famous." Teacher Wen's notebook is very big, one and a half feet long and nearly one foot wide. It is written on special paper with rough edges. The words are block letters, slightly longer and meticulous. One feature of his writing is that he likes to use a bald pen. He collected all the waste pens used by others. It is really a kung fu to write fine print with bare pen. I read Chu ci with teacher Wen for a year, and I really understand only two sentences: "The autumn wind blows, and the waves in Dongting are under the leaves."
6. Teacher Wen teaches ancient myths and is very popular. Not only students from the Chinese Department and the College of Liberal Arts came to the lecture, but also students from the Faculty of Science and Engineering. The Institute of Technology is in Tuodong Road, and the College of Liberal Arts is in Daximen. It takes a whole Kunming city to listen to a class. Teacher Wen's lecture is "illustrated". He painted various portraits of Fuxi and Nuwa with a whole piece of fringed paper, nailed them on the blackboard, and described them with words and fingers. They are vivid, well-organized, brilliant, high and low, and fascinating. Teacher Wen is a good actor. Fuxi Nuwa was originally a boring topic, but after listening to teacher Fu's lecture, people felt a kind of beauty, the beauty of thought, the beauty of logic and the beauty of talent. It is worthwhile to listen to such a class and walk through a city.
There is no other person in the world who can speak Tang poetry like Mr. Wen. He also talked about four outstanding figures in the early Tang Dynasty, ten gifted scholars in Dali, and He Yue's collection of heroes, but it was in the late Tang Dynasty that he spoke the most and best. He linked the late Tang poetry with post-impressionist painting. Speaking of Li He, I also talked about stippling in Impressionism, saying that stippling looks like dots of different colors. These dots seem to have nothing to do with each other, but when we stare at them, we can feel the inner connection between dots. In this way, Tang poetry must be both a poet and a painter. Who can do that? Mr. Wen's quips about Tang poetry should be recorded. I am a careless person and never take notes in class. I heard that Zheng Linchuan, a classmate one year older than me, recorded it, compiled it into a book, Wen Yiduo on Tang Poetry, and published it. This is a good thing.
I am a genius, and I am good at making up stories. Teacher Wen appreciates me very much. I once wrote a book report about Li He to a classmate one level below me. In the National Southwest Associated University, there is no exam in the general course, and only one book report can be given credit at the end of the term. After reading this book report, Teacher Wen said to this classmate, "Your report is well written, even better than that written by Wang Zengqi!" In fact, when I wrote Li He, I only wrote one thing: other people's poems were painted on a white background, and Li He's poems were painted on a black background, so the color was particularly strong. This is also the standard for many professors in The National SouthWest Associated University to identify students: not afraid of novelty, not afraid of strangeness, but not mediocre, not like to follow others, only copying books, not original.