Lin Yutang: "Li Shutong is one of the most talented geniuses of our time, the strangest person, and the most independent person left behind."
Zhang Ailing: "Don't think that I am a proud person. I have never been there. At least outside the wall of Master Hongyi Temple, I am so humble. "
Li Shutong, the master of Hongyi, is recognized as a generalist in the history of China's cultural development in the past century. As a pioneer of China's New Culture Movement, he first introduced western oil painting, piano and drama to China, and he is famous for being good at calligraphy, writing poems, learning Danqing, reaching melody, refining stones and performing arts.
19 18 In the spring, a Japanese woman and her friends searched all the temples in Hangzhou and finally found her monk husband in a temple called Tiger Leopard. 38-year-old, working as a teacher in Zhejiang No.1 Normal University opposite the West Lake. He recently quit his job as a teacher, left school and became a monk. He met his wife when he was studying in Japan ten years ago. Since then, he has experienced many reunions and separations, but this time is the last farewell. Her husband decided to leave this bustling world and convert to Buddhism.
A few people had a relatively quiet vegetarian meal in the Huxinzhai in front of Yuesi Temple. The husband gave his wife a watch as a farewell souvenir and comforted her by saying that you are very skilled and will not lose your job when you return to Japan. People on the shore can't help crying when they look at the receding ship. The people in the car didn't look back.
This is an article published by Wen Wei Po on March 7th, 1957. I also want to talk about Teacher Li Shutong. Teacher Huang Yanpei is an old friend of Uncle Tong and a modern educator. He wrote a scene in which he saw his friend and his wife say goodbye.
Five years ago, Li Shutong wrote a poem, Farewell. The lyrics are very artistic and admirable. But I didn't expect these words to be prophetic five years later, which is the most appropriate footnote for Li Shutong to leave his wife and friends. He is now Master Hongyi.
Farewell.
Outside the pavilion, beside the ancient road, there are green grass.
The evening wind plays the flute and the sun sets.
The limit of the sky, the corner of the earth, friends leave.
An unclean bottle of wine will make it the best. Don't go to Meng Han tonight.
Outside the pavilion, beside the ancient road, there are green grass.
The evening wind plays the flute and the sun sets.
This master of art, known as China's modern culture, is waiting to come out from his feet. When I was young, I became a monk at Tiger and Leopard Temple in Hangzhou. That year, his decision to break into houses shocked the whole intellectual community in China.
18801kloc-0/October 23rd, Li Shutong was born in a wealthy salt merchant family near Sanchakou, Tianjin. Born in, his father's fifth concubine, Wang, has a unique nickname and scientific name.
After marriage, Li Shutong, his mother, wife and children settled in Shanghai. With the gift of poetry and books, Li Shutong wore his weak crown and soon became a celebrity on the beach. He is romantic and uninhibited, and is closely related to Hannah Quinlivan, a geisha. He is called "five friends at the end of the world".
Many years later, recalling that romantic time, Li Shutong wrote these two sentences: "Twenty ups and downs are empty talk after all." These two sentences were written in 1905, which was the first major turning point in Li Shutong's life. The death of her mother who lived alone in Shanghai was a great blow to Li Shutong.
Li Shutong decided to study in Japan. As the first batch of international students majoring in art, Li Shutong studied at Tokyo Art School in Ueno, Tokyo for six years.
Later, Li Shutong created many firsts in the history of modern art in China. He introduced western painting to China for the first time, taught music with staff for the first time, and founded the earliest drama club in China. 1907 In February, in order to alleviate the flood in Xu Huai, Li Shutong and the students of the Drama Club planned to hold a charity performance. After careful consideration, they decided to stage La Traviata by the French writer Dumas. Li Shutong played the leading role in La Traviata, which eventually caused a sensation in Japan.
Due to an accidental meeting, Li Shutong was invited to be the music art teacher of Zhejiang First Normal University. Li Shutong changed into a student uniform, robe, mandarin jacket and cloth shoes. She is earnest and simple, just like an educator.
Li Shutong's personality is very, very special. When Xia Gaizun asked him what to do because his dormitory was stolen, it was extreme to suggest that he commit suicide to influence the students. Of course, Xia Gaizun has not done so. In class, he will bow to the students seriously. When students make mistakes, he will let them stay, that is, tell them in a low voice not to spit in the future. Then, when he finishes speaking, he will bow to the students again. You can go now. Then his education method is like this, which is completely proved. As a teacher, he takes his own personality as the background, just like Buddha and Bodhisattva have "afterglow".
Under the auspices of Li Shutong, the atmosphere of art education in the school is very strong, and he initiated the art teaching of China mannequins.
Li Shutong, a teacher, has cultivated a large number of outstanding talents in music art with his personality charm and profound Chinese and Western cultural heritage. From the early years of the Republic of China to the twentieth year of the Republic of China, almost all musicians in southern China were paid by Li Shutong, no matter his students or his students.
19 18 lunar July 13, Li Shutong walked on the road leading to the school gate as a secular middleman for the last time. He left here, ended his secular life, fled to Buddhism, and played the sound of nature in the name of Buddhism, which was called Hongyi. Teacher Li suddenly became a monk, which caused a great shock at school.
Li Shutong did not give a positive explanation for becoming a monk. In the eyes of my uncle's close friend and his Japanese wife, this change is a bit unpredictable. Among different opinions, Feng Zikai's explanation is more pertinent. A person's life can be divided into three levels, one is material life, the other is spiritual life and the third is soul life. Some people are serious in life. It is not enough to satisfy "material desire" and "spiritual desire", but also to explore real life.
Hongyi ended the life of an ascetic monk. He chose Nanshan Buddhism, the strictest discipline in Buddhism, which was lost more than 700 years ago and practiced hard.
In the 20th century, in the Buddhist circles of China, the names of the four great masters shone together. They are Virtual Cloud, Hongyi, Taixu and Yingguang. Master Hongyi eventually became the 1 1 master of Nanshan Buddhism. Li Shutong is a very decent person, like an all-around actor. He looks like an old student, looks like a minority, looks like a big face, all of which stems from a major feature of his personality, "seriousness."
194265438+1October 13 He wrote down the word "sadness and joy", which became his last words. Write it casually on a piece of used paper, small and simple, without carving. There are three slightly smaller words next to "Sorrow and Joy" and "Seeing Scripture".
Three days later, Master Hongyi bathed and changed clothes, and kept an auspicious prone position while chanting, leaving more than 500 relics.
Master Hongyi's life is full of legends, with 63 years of flying, 39 years of secularism and 24 years of Buddhism, leaving the world with endless spiritual wealth. He is an outstanding representative of the combination of China traditional culture and Buddhist culture, and a typical figure of China who is extremely gorgeous and simple. Teacher Zhao Puchu's evaluation of him is:
The deepest sorrow comes early,
The winner may eventually become an ascetic,
The endless treasure in the eyes of the world,
The full moon shines in the center of the sky.