Brief introduction of Chen Yinke's life

1. In the sixteenth year of Guangxu (1890), he was born in Changsha, Hunan. When she was born, her grandmother, Mrs Huang, was named because of her birth value, so she was a brother. When Chen was a child, he was enlightened at home, learning four books and five classics, mathematics, geography and other knowledge.

2. In the 26th year of Guangxu (1900), after the death of his grandfather Chen Baozhen, his family moved to Jinling, Jiangsu Province, and started courses such as Four Books and Five Classics, Mathematics, English, Physical Education, Music and Painting at home, and successively hired teachers such as Wang Bokun, Liu Yimou and Zhou Dalie, masters of Chinese studies. The Chen family has always advocated the New Deal, and "Siyi School" took the lead in adopting modern education. Chen and his teachers agreed not to beat students or recite, which was a new work style and was appreciated by Zhang Zhidong, the governor of Liangjiang at that time. Such a family background has enabled Chen Yinque not only to lay a solid foundation of Chinese studies since childhood, but also to expand his horizons to the East China Sea. Before studying in Japan, he "learned Japanese from friends who studied in Japan".

3. In the 28th year of Guangxu (1902), Chen Yinque went to Japan with his brother Heng Ke and entered the Hayakawa College of Literature in Japan.

4. In the thirty-first year of Guangxu (1905), he dropped out of school and returned to China because of foot disease, and then studied at Fudan Public School in Shanghai.

5. In my second year in Xuan Tong (19 10), I went abroad to study at my own expense, and went to Berlin University, Zurich University, and Paris Higher Political School. World War I broke out and 19 14 returned to China.

6. In the winter of the seventh year of the Republic of China (19 18), I was subsidized by Jiangxi official fees and went abroad to study again. He first studied Sanskrit and Pali with Professor Lanman at Harvard University.

7. In the tenth year of the Republic of China (192 1), he transferred to Berlin University, Germany, where he studied oriental ancient characters under Professor Ludsch, and at the same time learned Central Asian ancient characters from Miao Qin and Mongolian from Heini, and met Li, who later became a master of diplomacy and culture. During his study abroad, he studied diligently and accumulated various knowledge. He has the reading ability in Sanskrit, Pali, Persian, Turkic, Xixia, English, French and German, especially Sanskrit and Pali. Writing is a tool for studying history. He has a profound knowledge of Chinese studies, is good at history, and has a large number of western cultures, so his opinions are highly praised by scholars at home and abroad.

8. In the 14th year of the Republic of China (1925), Chen Yinque returned to China. At this time, Tsinghua University transformed into a university and established the Graduate School of Chinese Studies. Tutorial system was suggested by Hu Shi. Its "basic idea is to organize the national heritage with modern scientific methods". At that time, Wang Guowei, Liang Qichao, Chen Yinque and Zhao Yuanren, the most prestigious scholars, were hired as tutors, and were called the four masters of Chinese studies in Tsinghua. Wu Mi, director of the institute at that time, valued him very much and thought he was "the most learned". Liang Qichao strongly recommended Chen Yinque as a tutor to Cao Yunxiang, the principal, and said, "Teacher Chen's knowledge is better than mine."

9. In June of the Republic of China 15 (1926), at the age of 36, he served as the tutor of the research institute together with Liang Qichao and Wang Guowei, and was known as the "Tsinghua Big Three".

10, in the seventeenth year of the Republic of China (1928), married the granddaughter of Taiwan Province Governor Tang. They have three daughters, and they have lived together all their lives.

1 1 In the 18th year of the Republic of China (1929), he first put forward the academic spirit and value orientation of pursuing "the spirit of independence and the thought of freedom" in the inscription of Wang Guowei. At that time, I was instructing graduate students at National College and working part-time at Peking University. At the same time, he studied and wrote Buddhist classics and frontier history. Tsinghua University offers courses in Chinese, history and Buddhism. He quoted many languages to prove history in his lectures; Or take poetry as history, from "Lianchanggong Ci" to "Pipa Xing" and "Song of Eternal Sorrow", all of them are casually mentioned, and the source of the text is all accurate, and the accompanying interpretation is even more accurate and amazing! Under his great reputation, he is simple and honest, modest and confident, sincere and unpretentious, and is called a scholar.

12 years, in the 19th year of the Republic of China (1930), Tsinghua National College was closed, and Chen Yinque was appointed as professor of history, language and philosophy in Tsinghua University, president of Academia Sinica, head of the first group of Institute of Historical Linguistics, and president of the Palace Museum.

13, in July of the 26th year of the Republic of China (1937), War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression broke out, and the Japanese army pushed Peiping and Tianjin. Chen Yinque's father, Chen Lisan, went on a hunger strike with indignation and died suddenly. After the funeral, Yin Ke moved to the south with the school and lived a wandering life.

14. In the autumn of the twenty-seventh year of the Republic of China (1938), National Southwest Associated University moved to Kunming, and he arrived in Kunming with the school.

In the spring of 28 years (1939), Oxford University hired him as a professor of sinology and awarded him the title of researcher of the Royal Society. He was the first professor of sinology in China hired by the school, which was a high honor at that time. He left Kunming for Hong Kong and planned to teach at Oxford University with his family. Because of the outbreak of World War II, he was forced to live in Hong Kong temporarily. 1939 taught in the Chinese Department of HKU from summer to May, 0942. 1940 succeeded Mr. Xu Dishan as the head of the Chinese Department in the summer.

16, in the 30th year of the Republic of China (194 1), on December 8th, the Pacific War broke out, the Japanese army occupied Hong Kong, and Chen immediately resigned and lived in seclusion. The Japanese authorities appointed him to run the Oriental College of Literature with a daily salary of 400,000, but he resolutely refused.

17, in the spring of the 31st year of the Republic of China (1942), he was specially invited to teach in Shanghai, which was occupied by the Japanese army. He refused again, then left Hong Kong, went to Guilin via Guangzhou Bay, served as a professor at Guangxi University and Sun Yat-sen University, and soon moved to yenching university to teach. During this period, after his busy teaching, he devoted himself to academic research, and published two books, The Origin of Sui and Tang Dynasties System and Political History of Tang Dynasty, which put forward many new views on the history of Sui and Tang Dynasties and opened up new ways for future generations to study the history of Sui and Tang Dynasties.

18, thirty-four years of the Republic of China (1945). After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Chen Yinque applied for teaching at Oxford University again, and went to London to have his eyes treated. However, due to an unsuccessful operation in China before, it was operated by a British doctor, and the eye disease worsened. Finally, he wrote a diagnosis, saying that blindness was a foregone conclusion. With disappointment, Yin Ke resigned from the employment contract and returned to the motherland on 1949 to teach in Tsinghua campus and continue his academic research. On the eve of liberation, he went to Guangzhou and refused the invitation of Fu Sinian, director of the Institute of History and Language of Academia Sinica, to teach at Lingnan University in Guangzhou. With the adjustment of departments, Lingnan University merged with Sun Yat-sen University and moved to Sun Yat-sen University.

19 and 1949. After its establishment, People's Republic of China (PRC) was successively elected as a member of the Social Science Department of China Academy of Sciences, deputy curator of the China Museum of Literature and History, and the third Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Standing Committee. (According to the Chronicle of Mr. Chen Yinque, only Guo Moruo, President of China Academy of Sciences, asked Chen Yinque to be the second director of the Institute of the History of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Academy of Sciences, and indicated that he declined politely and failed to recommend Chen Yuan for himself. The above positions are according to xiushui county's manuscript), and he continues to be a professor at Sun Yat-sen University.

20, 1957, eye diseases began to be treated.

2 1, 1962, Hu Qiaomu visited and cared about the publication of his collected works. He said: "The coffin is closed and it will be published." Hu Qiaomu smiled and answered, "It's too early to cover the coffin." With the help of his assistant, he compiled the old articles except The Origin of Sui and Tang System, The Political History of Tang Dynasty and Bai Yuan's Poems into Cold Current Hall Collection and Jinming Pavilion Collection, and wrote the monograph Liu Chuan. Finally, he wrote The Dream of Cold Willow Hall. Huang Xuan, his assistant, once said with emotion: "In his later years of blindness, he did not fear hard work, studied hard and remained anonymous before making this manuscript (that is, Liu Biezhuan). Its perseverance is really earth-shattering and makes people cry. "

22. After the Cultural Revolution began, Chen Yinque was brutally tortured. What saddens him most is that a large number of books and poems he has treasured for many years have been looted.

23.1969101October 7, died in Guangzhou; 165438+1October 2 1, Mrs. Tang _ passed away.