How did the Chinese scholar Wang Zengqi comment on the Southwest Associated University in history?

Some people have summarized: mass education and adult education are the most fundamental education that create the miracle of Southwest Associated University. To cultivate general talents, we must first become adults and then become talents. "Philippines", this is the first secret of its continuous inheritance of cultural genes.

The rigorous academic style and academic standards are the second secret of the continuous inheritance of the cultural genes of the General Assembly.

The union of the General Assembly is a union of education, a union of academia, and a union of the spirit of the Chinese nation.

Dare to take on responsibilities and be prepared for danger in times of peace - this is the third secret of the continuous inheritance of the cultural genes of the General Assembly.

Wang Zengqi believes that the talents produced by Southwest Associated University are all due to "freedom."

Why, you can read his two memoirs.

"New School Building"

In his later years, Wang Zengqi wrote in an article titled "New School Building": "A writer and professor who once taught at Southwest Associated University gave lectures in the United States. .

The Americans asked him, in the past eight years, the facilities and conditions of Southwest Associated University were so poor, and the lives of professors and students were so difficult. Why could there be so many talents who specialized in studying the history of the Associated University? American professors believe that Lianda University has produced more talents in eight years than Peking University, Tsinghua University, and Nankai University have produced in thirty years. Why? This writer answered with two words: freedom. ”

Wang Zengqi’s alma mater. It's the Southwest Associated University.

In 1939, he traveled from Shanghai to Yunnan via Hong Kong and Vietnam to attend university, and stayed in Kunming for seven years.

Wang Zengqi was average in mathematics, outstanding in composition, and liked drawing. He was a partial subject student in middle school. When he applied for the Southwest Associated University, which was formed by the merger of Tsinghua University, Peking University, and Nankai University, he had a somewhat luck-based mentality.

He thought at that time that if he failed, he would take the National Art College in Kunming again, so that the later Wang Zengqi would be a painter rather than a writer.

Wang Zengqi’s classmates all come from different regions from all over the world. There is a classmate from Henan who came step by step from his hometown, and a classmate from Xikang bought a donkey and rode all the way there. It can be seen that during the war, University is so difficult.

Wang Zengqi said: Most of his classmates came here to look for truth and wisdom, but he asked and answered himself like this: "What am I looking for? Looking for chic."

During that period, the conditions for running a school were very poor. Very hard.

The campuses of Southwest Associated University are scattered. There are borrowed schools, buildings, and ancestral halls from Kunming, as well as new self-built campuses. The conditions are indeed not that good.

Wang Zengqi is studying in the Chinese Department and lives in the new campus.

The student dormitory is to the west of the new school building, with earthen walls and grass roofs. Wang Zengqi said: "There are several square holes cut in the earthen wall, and a few unpeeled tree sticks are erected on the square holes. Windows.

There are two double wooden beds lined up against the earth wall, ten on each side. Forty people can live in a dormitory.

There are no tables and chairs.

Two boxes of soap. The big box is both a desk and a wardrobe.”

The teaching area is also simple.

The classrooms have earthen walls and green-painted iron roofs. Wang Zengqi said: "These classrooms have different directions and sizes. There are some wooden chairs with a flat plate on one side on which you can take notes." , all are natural colors, no paint... The advantage of this kind of chair is that it is not fixed and can be moved from one classroom to another.

Mr. Wu Mi talks about "Dream of Red Mansions", take a look below. Some girls were still standing, so they put down their canes and went to other classrooms to move chairs.

So some male students also hurried to other classrooms to move chairs.

, Sister Lin all sat down, and Mr. Wu started to speak."

Many famous professors have lost their elegance at Tsinghua University and Peking University, and they are all in rags. Wang Zengqi mentioned an example: "There are some. A girl was walking from the South Campus (girls dormitory) to the new school building. It was already dark and there was no one on the road. She heard the footsteps of Tili Tulu from behind. She thought it was a bad guy chasing after her. She was very nervous. When she looked back, It was Chemistry Professor Zeng Zhaolun.

He was wearing an unprecedented pair of shoes (with open toes) (the heels were broken, so he could not lift them up, so he could only stand half-up), so he sounded like he was standing on the stairs. sound.

"Even if we are so poor, the teaching quality of Lianda University professors has not been compromised, as evidenced by the large number of talents trained by Southwest Associated University.

Wang Zengqi recalled: "Professors from Lianda University There is never any interference in the lectures. You can talk about whatever you want and how you want to talk.

Mr. Liu Wendian has been talking about Zhuangzi for a year. I only remember the first sentence: ""Zhuangzi", I don't understand it, and no one understands it.

'" In an article, he detailed the style of several professors' lectures: "Mr. Wen Yiduo's lectures on Chu Ci always started with 'drinking heavily and reading "Li Sao" thoroughly, and then he was called a famous scholar. '...He goes to class and smokes.

Students who take his class also smoke.

When he talks about Tang poetry, he does not follow the words of his predecessors.

Let’s talk about the poetry of the late Tang Dynasty and the paintings of the late Impressionism, especially the ‘Pointillism’.

Mr. Wen should be the first person in China to use the method of comparative literature to talk about Tang poetry.

His lecture on "Ancient Myths and Legends" was very popular. "

In his later years, Wang Zengqi wrote in an article titled "New School Building": "A writer and professor who once taught at Southwest Associated University was giving lectures in the United States.

The Americans asked him, in the eight years since Southwest Associated University, the equipment conditions were so poor and the lives of professors and students were so difficult, how could it produce so many talents? ——An American professor who specializes in the history of Lianda University believes that Lianda University has produced more talents in eight years than Peking University, Tsinghua University, and Nankai University have produced in thirty years. Why? The writer answered with two words: freedom. ”

Wang Zengqi: The Chinese Department of Southwest Associated University

The professors in the Chinese Department of Southwest Associated University are from Tsinghua University and Peking University.

There should also be professors from Nankai University.

But I can’t remember which professor is from Nankai University. I really can’t tell the difference between professors at Tsinghua University and professors at Peking University.

The department at Lianda University. The dean takes turns.

Mr. Zhu Ziqing served as the department head for a long time.

The one who served as the department head for a long time was Mr. Luo Changpei. Call him "Sir Luo".

Mr. Luo went to the United States to give lectures, and Mr. Wen Yiduo acted as his agent for a period of time.

During their "administration", the Chinese Department was still the same. None of them had a "policy program".

In fact, the head of the department at that time was "clean and simple", which was close to governing by doing nothing.

The style of study and other aspects of the Chinese Department. The departments are similar: democratic, free, and open.

There was no word "open" at that time, but there was this fact.

The Chinese department seemed to be more liberal than other departments.

Mechanical drawing papers in the School of Engineering must be submitted on time and must be graded strictly; in the School of Science, the data must not be careless.

This is not the case in the Chinese Department.

< p> I remember that I submitted a prescribed map of Macedonia to Mr. Pi Mingju’s “General History of the West” class. After reading it, Mr. Pi made two lines of comments: “Your map has high artistic value and full scientific value. none. "It seems that this is okay.

All in all, students in the Chinese Department are more casual, and the Chinese Department embodies the "Beijing University" spirit more fully.

If we say that the Chinese Department of Southwest Associated University If there is any "school", it can only be called "Beijing School"

Southwest Associated University has a book called "Freshman Chinese", which is a must for students in all departments. > This book is very biased.

The Analects of Confucius is highlighted in the classical Chinese section, the most prominent of which is "Zeng Xiran You Gong Xihua Sitting"

"In late spring, when the spring clothes are ready, five or six crown princes and six or seven boys will bathe in Yi, dance in the wind and return with chants." This ultra-utilitarian attitude towards life is close to the straightforward and natural Confucianism of Zhuangzi's thought. The ideological couplet has a profound and broad potential influence on college students.

There is also an article "Preface to the Record of Jinshi" by Li Qingzhao.

Most middle school students have read some of Li Qingzhao's poems, but I don't know that she can. Writing such a profound and free-flowing prose has an influence on Lianda's style of writing.

For the stylistic part, Lu Xun chose "Showing to the Public".

It was unexpected to choose an article called "The Cambridge I Know" by Xu Zhimo.

It is a bit special to choose "A Wasp" by Ding Xilin.

What is even more special is the selection of "Beyond the Window" by Lin Huiyin.

This "Freshman Chinese" can be said to be a "Beijing style Chinese".

Mr. Yan Jiayan compiled a history of Chinese literature and counted me as the last "Beijing School". This may be related to my reading of the United Nations General Assembly, or even to this "Freshman Chinese Literature".

This is the book that inspired me to embark on the path of literature.

This book is probably hard to find now.

If you can find it, reprint it, it will be interesting.

No one talks about the "Beijing faction" all the time.

The professors at the Lianda University are not very “clique-y”.

Mr. Tang Lan talks about Oracle Bone Inscriptions, Wang Guantang (Guowei), Dong Yantang (Dong Zuobin), and Guo Dingtang (Moruo) - when he talks about Guo Moruo, he always calls him "Guo Mo (read as Sister) if".

Everyone knows that Mr. Wen Yiduo once talked about (wrote) "the poet who beats the drum".

No one has ever interfered with the lectures of Lianda professors. They can talk whatever they want and how they want to talk.

Mr. Liu Wendian lectured on Zhuangzi for a year. I only remember the first sentence: ""Zhuangzi", I don't understand it, and no one understands it." His lecture was rambling. Sometimes it involves things that have nothing to do with Zhuangzi.

Some of the curse words left a deep impression on me.

He said that some people who are engaged in editing can only say that A did something, and B did so, - "What should we do?" He scolded some annotators, who only said what A said, and what B did. How to say: "What do you say?" He also criticized some professors for taking a notebook with annotations and giving it to students in plain text. "You give the annotations to students! Otherwise, you also get a plain text!" I think his opinions are right.

He taught "Selected Works" for one semester, and only half of Mu Xuanxu's "Hai Fu".

Several classes focused on "Onomatopoeia".

He wrote a long French word on the blackboard and gave many foreign examples.

I have seen several recollections of old classmates, saying that Mr. Yiduo’s lectures on the Songs of Chu always started with "drinking heavily and reading "Li Sao" thoroughly, and then he became a famous scholar."

Someone asked me, "Is that so?" That's true.

He goes to class and smokes.

Students who take his class also smoke.

When he talks about Tang poetry, he does not follow the words of his predecessors.

Let’s talk about late Tang poetry and late Impressionist paintings together, especially “Pointillism”.

Mr. Wen should be the first person in China to use the method of comparative literature to talk about Tang poetry.

His lecture on "Ancient Myths and Legends" was very popular.

During class, even students from the School of Engineering walked through Kunming and came from Tuodong Road to listen.

It was really "full of pits and valleys". The large classroom of Kunming North Campus was full of people inside and outside.

Mr. Wen pinned the picture of Fuxi and Nuwa that he hand-drawn on the whole piece of rough paper to the blackboard, and explained the rather tedious research in a vivid and attractive way.

Another "popular" class was Mr. Luo Yong (Yingzhong)'s lecture on Du Shi.

Mr. Luo does not bring any piece of paper to class.

Not only could Du's poems be recited and written on the blackboard, but he could even recite his poems.

Mr. Tang Lan (Li'an) lectures in a different style.

He teaches ancient literature, and one year he suddenly opened a "Selected Poetry" course. I don't know if there is no one to teach it, or if he is interested in it.

When he talked about "Cymography", he mainly talked about "The Collection of Flowers" (he himself once wrote the lyrics, which was very beautiful).

His method of speaking words is: don’t speak.

Sometimes I just recite (actually sing) in Wuxi accent: "'The fragrance is red between the temples, the jade hairpin is windy' - good! So good!" This poem is passed.

"Mr. at the Southwest Associated University" was published in "People's Literature", so I won't go into details here.

When he talked about the essence of creation, he only said "write according to the character".

When listening to his lectures, you need to focus on one and three, otherwise you will feel "unintelligible".

Generally speaking, professors at Lianda University do not discuss each other’s strengths and weaknesses.

You tell your story, and I tell mine.

But sometimes it doesn’t matter if it’s the first day of the month.

For example, Mr. Tang Li'an once commented on two professors in the office in front of some lecturers and assistants, saying that one was a "culmination of thorough analysis" and the other was a "culmination of instigation".

He did not consider that someone would "spread gossip", nor did he consider that the two professors would lose their temper because of this.

The professors of the Chinese Department of Southwest Associated University do not have strict requirements for students.

Except for some basic courses, such as philology (taught by Mr. Chen Mengjia) and phonology (taught by Mr. Luo Changpei), which must be attended on time, the rest are more casual.

The more serious ones are Mr. Zhu Ziqing's "Song Poems".

He lectured one by one, requiring students to take notes, memorize them, and take regular exams, small exams, and major exams.

Some classes also have exams, and exams are just that.

Usually it’s just a book report at the end of the semester.

The reading report of the Chinese Department of Lianda University does not focus on copying books, but focuses on whether there are original insights.

Some of them can be said to be weird theories.

A classmate handed in a report about Li He to Mr. Wen, saying that other people’s poems were painted on a white background, while Li He’s poems were painted on a black background, so the color It is particularly strong and highly appreciated by Mr. Wen.

In the "Selected Poems of Han, Wei and Six Dynasties" class taught by Mr. Yang Zhensheng, a classmate wrote a short report "Fang" on the reasonable and unreasonable imagination of "a wheel gives birth to four corners". wheel".

Based on this report, during the final exam, Mr. Yang announced that the student could be exempted from the exam.

Most professors at Lianda University love talents.

Mr. Luo Changpei once said that he likes two kinds of students: one who studies hard and the other who is talented.

He introduced a student to teach in the preparatory class of Lianda University and asked the student to take his handwritten letter of introduction to Mr. Li Jitong, the teacher of the preparatory class.

The letter of introduction reads: "...this student has great creative talent.

..." A classmate wrote an abstract painting based on a new poem written by another classmate. I wrote a poem "May the palace be destroyed before it is built" and gave it to Mr. Wang Yi as an exercise in the "Poetry Technique" class. Mr. Wang's comment was: "You have immortal bones in your body, and your tailoring is wonderful." There is no need to comment on everything. "Having "early wisdom" and "immortal bones", this kind of exaggerated evaluation of students would probably not be written by today's university professors.

I was a lazy student at Southwest Associated University. I often didn’t attend class, but I read a lot of books randomly.

There was a period when I went to the department library to read books every night.

Sometimes it’s just me.

The Chinese Department is in the northwest corner of the new school building. Outside the wall is the cemetery, which is very quiet.

There is no need to go through any borrowing procedures to read books in the department. You can pick out any book on the shelf and read it.

And you can smoke.

One day, I heard the sound of a small group of music outside the wall.

How can there be music in the middle of the night, in a cemetery? I did hear it, it wasn't an illusion.

If I had not studied at Southwest Associated University, I might not have become a writer.

At least not as a writer as I am now.

I might become a painter.

If I failed to pass the National Art College, I planned to take the National Art College, which was also in Kunming at that time.