Liu's later years

No Country for Old Men No Country for Old Men's Hard Old Age An article in Jinling Evening News (2011) in February 13, SOS, the historical life of a great master, exposed the bleak old age of this great historian. I believe it should attract the attention of all parties soon. The original text is as follows: 20 1 1 ancient city of Nanjing, New Year's Eve, firecrackers and fireworks in Qi Fei, neon light and shadow. Laughing men and women, old and young, gathered together for dinner, or sat around watching the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, or crowded into a sea of people at the Qinhuai Lantern Festival, swollen side by side ... and in the "nursing home" room with the rehabilitation center brand hanging in the southeast corner of the city, an old man was hung by a single bed. Having lived here for nearly 2000 days and nights, he has never left the compound. He has no idea about the outside world. A bowl of jiaozi and a plate of Chinese cabbage suggest that today is probably a holiday. The old man picked up jiaozi in his trembling left hand bowl with his trembling right hand and slowly chewed loneliness and bitterness. ...

Mr. Liu was the only expert in the study of pre-Qin history among the first batch of honorary faculty members announced by official website of China Academy of Social Sciences, and received special government allowance from the State Council in the early 1990s. Wu Rui, a researcher in the history of ancient thoughts at the Institute of History of the Academy, said that it took hundreds of years for China to produce Gu Jiegang, a master of ancient history classics. After Gu Zai 1980 died, only Liu Neng led it.

Mr. Tan Qixiang, the founder of historical geography in China, called him "a descendant of Gu Men, and a brother is the leader!" "The classics, ancient history, historical geography that Mr. Liu has studied all his life, especially the proofreading, interpretation, translation and theory of Shangshu, the earliest ancient history in China, which he specializes in, has already become a school of its own!"

Wu Rui explained that his "uniqueness" lies in his profound knowledge, and even Han Yu, one of the eight masters in Tang and Song Dynasties, called it "bowing and bowing". Before Liu's monograph was published by Zhonghua Book Company in 2004, as many as 2,000 Chinese characters had to be created by someone because they could not be found in the font. Second, there really is no successor. So far, China has not found a man who can completely inherit Mr. Liu's unfinished business.

For 70 years, Mr. Liu Qiluan has been working hard on the journey of historical research, which is beyond the reach of others. He mainly studies ancient history, specializing in Shangshu, Zuozhuan and Zhou Li. He has written more than 0/00 papers and monographs 1 1 department. Liu Erlong, who is 60 years old, has spent 20 years writing more than 2 million words, such as Study of Mr. Gu Jiegang, History of Shangshu, Continued Discrimination of Ancient History, Interpretation and Translation of Shangshu School, etc. Among them, The History of Shangshu won three first prizes, The Continuation of Ancient History was selected as a top-quality book, which was compiled into eight kinds of social science academic library series, and the 654.38+04200-word interpretation and translation theory of Shangshu School was selected as a national key book in the Ninth Five-Year Plan.

Academic experts are amazed at this: in the silent world, Teacher Liu has created a thrilling masterpiece, comparable to Beethoven's "Ninth Symphony" after hearing loss!

In the related literature, it is also specially introduced that Liu Qiyan compiled nearly 10 special historical materials with more than 30 million words in the Nanjing Historical Materials Collection Office of China Academy of Sciences in the 1950s. Together, these bars are more than 3 meters high.

When talking about Liu's academic career, he explained to reporters that as early as the founding of New China, Chairman Mao instructed that history books should be collated and translated, otherwise it would be difficult to read and use. 1954 Liu Danian, a member of the Party Group of China Academy of Sciences, made a special trip to Shanghai on the orders of Premier Zhou Enlai and invited Gu Jiegang to the Institute of History. However, it was not long before he took over the task of sorting out Shangshu, and he felt overwhelmed by various reasons such as "old age and lack of energy", so he asked Liu Laijing for help. Until 1962, under the personal coordination and intervention of Zhou Yang, then vice minister of the Propaganda Department of the CPC, Liu Cai was transferred from Nanjing to Zhonghua Book Company, and then officially transferred to the Institute of History of China Academy of Social Sciences with the help of President Hu Sheng.

After that, he stayed at Gu Jiegang's home in Nanshagou, Sanlihe, Beijing, went to work and went to Shangshu together until Gu 1980 died. From then on, Liu Qiyan was unique and pushed the study of China's pre-Qin historiography to a new peak. Liu went to Japan twice and gave lectures at six universities including Tokyo, Kyoto and Waseda. He also gave lectures at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the National Taiwan Province University of Taiwan Province Province and the National Taiwan Province Normal University. At the request of the book Origin of the Five Elements Theory compiled by the School of Asian and African Studies of University of London, I wrote the Outline of the Original Meaning of the Five Elements and its Branch Transformation.

Ikeda Suetoshi, a Japanese scholar of Shangshu, praised Mr. Liu's research on Shangshu as "proficient in Chinese, Japanese and Western languages, and no one can be better than Mr."; 1992, 20 professors from Japan 18 University formed the "Inviting Liu Jiaoshou to visit Japan Committee", saying that his research on Historical Records was "famous at home and abroad" ... Although Liu's "Juexue" was profound, he was not an old pedant in the ivory tower.

In Liu's only daughter's home, the reporter listened to her and her husband's introduction: In October of 2004, Liu left Beijing and returned to her daughter's home. At this time, he was 87 years old. Because he often suffered from leg and foot diseases and several acute pneumonia, he later encountered legal disputes within his family, and the old father had the idea of relying on his children. At that time, I rented a container weighing 10 tons, just for ancient books.

At that time, Liu was ambitious. Before he left, he declared to the historians in Beijing: "I want to complete three masterpieces in my lifetime, such as A Two-week Examination of the Palace Que in the Warring States, A Dialectical Study of Zuo Zhuan in the Spring and Autumn Period, and A Geography Examination of Gong Yu ..." Unexpectedly, Liu's daughter became seriously ill soon after she sold her house in Beijing. On March 8, 2007, it was the time when plum blossoms in Nanjing were in full bloom and spring came back to the earth. Liu Rongjun, secretary of the Party Committee of the Institute of History, China Academy of Social Sciences, led the relevant staff to drive all the way to Ning through the residual snow in the north, and came to this rehabilitation center for the elderly in the southeast of the city to celebrate the old man's birthday. Flowers and gifts are accompanied by the care of the organization and the enthusiastic care of colleagues.

At this time, although Mr. Liu was old and deaf for many years, he could only write and speak, but he was healthy, clear-headed and able to walk outside. I conveyed greetings from the leaders and colleagues of the Cheating Bureau of China Academy of Social Sciences and the Institute of History to Mr. Liu, and asked him about his food, accommodation and daily life. At the same time, he comforted the old man. ...

Liu Qiyu went back to thank her with tears in her eyes. He was so excited that he took out a poem entitled "Two Poems to Express His Feelings for Ninety Years" written a few days ago from under the pillow of a single bed and sang aloud in an old voice-

"Call" the breeze, dissolve the moonlight, sing and fly, and whisper to the white. The five emotions are melancholy, sadness and joy. Yau Ching is sincere, and those who reach it will get hurt. When I hit the pillow for a long time, I didn't pay. When you go to bed in October, insects come to sob, moan, sing short songs and the grass is empty. "

His feelings are quite similar to Liu Bang's melancholy when he recited Song of the Big Wind in his later years.

Although the old gentleman has not been intoxicated in the bookstore environment for decades, he "still misses his research career in Shangshu". He urged his daughter's family to bring four volumes of the most important book in his life, Shangshu School Ze Lun Shi, and refused to leave for a moment day and night. Between the lines, there are still many old people who have revised and annotated his writings in the "nursing home". But I don't know when, this only academic book is missing.

The old man once rummaged through the bed, searched hard and finally disappeared. As a result, sitting in a hospital bed became Liu's "Dharma work" day after day and year after year, which aggravated his. A closer look reveals that what he is holding is a broken page of Jinling Evening News more than three years ago.

When Liu's nurse took a change of clothes on the bedside table, she accidentally took out some old paper pressed under it, revealing the letter for help that Mr. Liu secretly wrote to the top of Beijing. Since it is difficult for an old woman to step out of the yard, it is obvious that these letters have not been sent yet. The reporter looked at his serious words and couldn't help but burst into tears, urging himself from his intestines-

"... although Shu is interested in learning, it is only a pity. However, I have been diligent all my life and never dared to slack off ... Therefore, I am eager not to waste what I have learned. I will make some contributions to the academic career of my motherland in the future. However, living here, I don't have any academic materials and books at hand. And there is no chance to spread shallow knowledge here alone. Every time I worry about my pillow, I will never be disappointed! Therefore, I sincerely hope that the capable elders can help them tide over the difficulties ... "

There is also a letter cloud-

"Uncle Liu Shengji, a little scholar with little talent and knowledge, only made a simple plea to Zun, just wondering if he could help? At present, there are only a handful of people who are proficient in ancient studies in China. Then wait for a helping hand, look forward to it! The exercise is about to begin. I am committed to this, I am eager to hear your voice! "

"It is difficult to prepare classics, but you are successful"-Liu Qiyu wrote a string of beliefs to reporters with trembling hands. Our reporter visited Liu five times before the Spring Festival in the Year of the Rabbit, which has completely touched the living heart and mental state of the elderly. However, what shocked us most was that Liu had mistaken the reporter for a Beijinger. He suddenly turned over, jumped out of bed, grabbed the reporter's hand and screamed, "Take me back to Beijing! Take me back to Beijing! " In Liu Lao's inner world, what kind of paradise is Beijing, which makes him so yearning and so attached? Although the old gentleman has changed his pen when interviewed by reporters, he still left many old sayings and a flood of words. But none of this can directly explain his real motivation for wanting to return to Beijing at the age of 95.

Among those who know Liu's academic career and thoughts best, he is the most important person. Liu Qimao once wrote tens of thousands of letters to Wu Rui. They are friends who have never forgotten for many years. In 2007, China Academy of Social Sciences published The Way of Learning-An Interview with Teachers. In Liu Pian, because the old man was "too old to be interviewed", the history of the academy appointed Mr. Liu's scholarship.

Take out a long letter of nearly 20,000 words on page 14 written by Mr. Liu before he left Beijing, in which he complained that he was in a humble room of more than 60 square meters on the ground floor of a dark building, surrounded by indomitable ancient books-he couldn't even think of "transforming a mop basin into a small bathtub where he could sit and take a bath" ... "My seven or eight books and/kloc-0.

Mr. Liu lived a simple life in Beijing and devoted all his energy to the study of Shangshu for decades. It doesn't matter how hard life is. The most important thing is that historical research can support it. Every time I see Liu's predicament, the reporter understands why he doesn't listen to the old man. He has always said that it is not easy for his daughter and son-in-law to get seriously ill, and he also said some good things about the medical staff and nurses in the elderly rehabilitation center.

Then there is Mr. Wang's unsent letter of help to the Beijing leaders, saying nothing about how difficult his life is. What he heard and saw was his diligent pursuit of his career. But his real life is really in trouble.

Take a debit note at the scene and write: "Mr. Xia: Please lend me 100 yuan. Thank you very much, Liu Tongxue. Please sign for only 200 minutes, and the last digit is blank. The zipper on the front of the old gentleman's trousers is gone, and a pair of wide-mouth cloth soles are broken. The nurse said: My husband and wife have to take care of two old people and can't stay with Lao Liu all the time.

His ancestral home is in Hunan, and he likes spicy food. Once when no one was around, he reached for the Chili sauce on the bedside table. As a result, he accidentally fell to the ground and the bottle broke. He grabbed the sauce on the ground and began to eat. Life is extremely difficult. People in the next bed can't stand it, and sometimes they give him something to eat ... At that time, Wu Pengfei, a photographer who came with Hu Axiang, was so sad that he wanted to cry.

Since then, some strangers who came to visit have brought all kinds of condolences to the elderly, such as Qinhuai crisp candy, Hunan hot sauce, apples and bananas, bed sheets and pillows, underwear, diapers, blankets, electric razors and so on. The warm wind of society slowly blows the hearts of the elderly.

Hou Bingyi, a famous photographer who has visited all the living academicians of Chinese Academy of Sciences, members of China Academy of Social Sciences and honorary members in China, can be said to be rare among the more than 1000 China academic masters he has seen. But I didn't hear any complaints from the old man. I just said thank you for sending someone to talk about history, and he got excited. ...

Liu is a member of the Jiu San Society. In official website, the Central Committee of Jiu San Society, a signed article entitled "A Glance at Poor Classics in Pre-Qin Period" was published by the Propaganda Department of the CPC, among which Liu Qilong was called "the last master in the field of history in the 20th century".

In 20 10, China's gross domestic product (GDP) has reached 39,798.3 billion yuan, ranking second in the world. Our society, which pursues a higher spirit, must not look at the last master in front of us and die with his "Juexue" in the "difficulty of preparing for the classics"!