Among all the causes of death, Mr. Wang Guowei's friend Chen Yinque seems to be more reasonable. Among many utilitarian and secular speculations, I am more inclined to agree with Chen Yinque's point of view.
Mr Chen Yinque is a colleague and friend of Mr Wang Guowei. He believes that Wang Guowei died of his academic beliefs. The bitterness of life, "no desire" for "liberation", this kind of death seems to be more in line with his "grandeur" in "Words on Earth". Mr. Wang Guowei's thought of "the death of culture" makes me feel more at ease, reminds me of the tragic death of Mr. Wang, and will not be too sad.
What does it mean to say in the suicide note that "the world has changed and there is no more humiliation"? What Mr. Jing 'an is afraid of is the change of the times, which will insult his spirit. This feeling is unprecedented in the world.
The state of being alive is more of an instinctive reaction of the masses.
Wang Guowei's spiritual world is beautiful and close to perfectionism. His feelings are always delicate because of warmth. When he was teaching in Tsinghua, he often worried about Puyi's life and death, which was only the teacher's concern for the students, and nothing else.
Mr. Jing 'an's love is true, love is true, love is true.
Deeply influenced by Schopenhauer's philosophy, coupled with pessimism in his bones, Wang Guowei seems to know more about the original sin in human nature, which makes him give in step by step mentally.
Schopenhauer once said, "Man is a wolf that eats himself." Just like an old saying in China: "If you do evil yourself, you can't live." Wang Guowei's step-by-step concession is to let himself stand completely outside the dispute of interests, and academic research is his spiritual habitat.
He once said, "We disappear into the void, just like water drops in the sea." Life is complicated, so we should wait and see.
People can't live without their special identity.
No matter how detached and enlightened you are, people's desires always make you unable to escape from such shackles. In any case, it is empty and dark in the end.
Mr. Jing 'an is obsessed with his purity and inner cleanliness, so he can't stand the insult of the changes of the world.
The Qing Dynasty was overthrown and the new government disappointed Wang Guowei. "No more humiliation" means that he is unwilling to change his principles and mentally unwilling to be humiliated.
His persistence is just his way out of his misery, but as everyone knows, his way is just his misery.
His pure material is the subjective cause of his self-destruction.