is another year of college entrance examination season. If you ask which university you dream of going to? Peking University is definitely an answer to their dreams.
Peking University was not built in a day. In the history of Peking University, there was such a legendary principal Jiang Menglin.
He served as the principal for 17 years, and became the longest-serving in the history of Peking University, but he was expelled from Peking University in his later years.
He traveled south and returned to the north. In the midst of war, he worked with Tsinghua Mei Yiqi, Nankai Zhang Boling and others to promote the birth of the legendary university Southwestern United University .
Jiang Menglin is like
, and the wind and the moon are boundless. Jiang Menglin first abandoned his original partner at and married his friend’s widow , and then at the age of 75, despite Hu Shi’s dissuasion, he had trouble with Xu Xianle, a "school flower" gold-worship girl. What exactly is good education? What is the perfect marriage ? The legendary life of Jiang Menglin really brings us too much inspiration.
01 Abandoning the original rural spouse and marrying a friend’s widow for “fulfilling his duties”, friend Hu Shi praised his courage
Jiang Menglin, born in 1886, has three marriages in his life, and almost every paragraph can be written into a modern marriage revelation. When facing marriage, the intellectuals of
had two distinct choices: was Lu Xun's style, relying on personal choice and free love. One is Hu Shi-style, observing traditional morality and parental orders.
Hu Shi and his wife Jiang Dongxiu
, while Jiang Menglin’s choice of love and marriage is much more complicated and ambiguous than Lu Xun and Hu Shi.
He first obeyed his father's order and married Sun Yushu, a rural girl from the same town. After marriage, they had three children and one daughter.
Jiang Menglin (first from left) took a photo with Cai Yuanpei, Hu Shi and others
was originally a happy family, but the good times did not last long. In 1928, Jiang Menglin, who served as the Minister of Education in Nanjing, and Tao Zenggu, the young and beautiful secretary of , got together.
Jiang Menglin first broke off the marriage contract, sent his original partner back to his hometown to take the child, and then quickly married Tao Zenggu into the house. The divorce of
was praised by his friend Hu Shi vigorously as: " is a symbol of the changes of the times!"
It turned out that Tao Zenggu was the widow of Jiang Menglin's colleague Professor Gao Renshan at Peking University. Jiang Menglin claimed to marry a friend’s widow and gave Tao Zenggu’s mother and daughter a solid support in troubled times. can both send mourning to old friends and perform obligations for old friends.
Jiang Tao's marriage was a sensation. Is the reason
sound-sounding or sincere? Different people have different opinions.
However, following his mother's life and insisting on remarrying his friend, Hu Shi, who never abandoned his original partner, the obedience and resistance are really intriguing.
Hu Shi and his wife
Jiang Menglin in their marriage to Tao Zenggu, they gave out each other:
"Because I love brother Gao, I love the person he has loved more, and love her twice as much, so that I can be worthy of a dead friend."
's remarks even had a taste of "new language", but Tao Zenggu's words and deeds after marriage made Jiang Menglin's friends feel agitated. After getting married, Tao Zenggu lived extravagantly and intervened in Jiang Menglin's education from time to time. In the most extreme case, during the war-ridden Southwestern United University, Tao Zenggu organized female students from the United Nations University to accompany American officers to dance ballroom dance. The petty bourgeoisie style of
has greatly reduced Jiang Menglin's image in the hearts of Peking University colleagues.
In 1945, Jiang Menglin, who served as the president of Peking University for 17 years, resigned from the post of principal amidst the depravity of Beijing masters and students. It was his friend Mr. Hu Shi who replaced him.
How will different choices of marriage affect men's career? This incident is really contrasting with Jiang and Hu.
02 "The old house is on fire" can't help, but Hu Shi's dissuasion is not allowed, the 75-year-old pays a 500,000 divorce fee for the divorce
1958In 1 year, Tao Zenggu died of illness. If it is said that Jiang Menglin abandoned his original wife to marry Tao Zenggu, there are many reasons for the cultural level to be too different from that of the original wife, and the reasons for taking care of the friend's widow, then the next marriage of Jiang Menglin can be said to be almost "dog blood".
In 1959, the 75-year-old Jiang Menglin suddenly "the old house was on fire" and met 52-year-old Xu Xianle at a banquet. Although Xu Xianle was already a "semi-old mistress" at this time, she was born in a famous family, received an elite education, and had a very good talking temperament. She was once a school flower of Shanghai Guanghua University.
Xu Xianle
After seeing him for the first time, Jiang Menglin was rejuvenated and completely desolate, and began to frantically pursue Xu Xianle, who was 23 years younger than himself.
" changes my heart, for your heart, I know and remember each other deeply. " Jiang Menglin used a five-generation erotic word to tell the goddess in his heart.
Jiang Menglin's love poem to Xu Xianle:
You come and I meet, and seeing that you are about to step into the marriage hall, Hu Shi, who has always been gentle and elegant, is also anxious. He wrote to Jiang Menglin when he was still ill, persuading this old friend to rein in the precipice, and even pointed out that Xu Xianle’s current approach to Jiang Menglin was the same as her approach to her ex-husband and her former ex-boyfriends, all asking for tickets in the name of love. , Talking about marriage, the other party must hand over the economic power before getting married.
You must know that the second marriage of Jiang Menglin was also supported by Hu Shi. At that time, Hu Shi ignored the blockade of the "tigress" at home and had to go out to prove marriage for his friends. When
arrived at Xu Xianle, Hu Shi's attitude changed suddenly, which is enough to explain what kind of woman Xu Xianle is.
It's a pity that the scholars are too late, and they can't get off. Regardless of everyone's opposition, Jiang Menglin married 52-year-old Xu Xianle at the age of 75.
But in front of the lover Xu Xianle, where is the 70-year-old Jiang Menglin her opponent. Xu Xianle quickly took control of Jiang Menglin's economic power. What's more, she spent money like the earth but only gave her husband Jiang Menglin 20 Taiwan dollars a day for food. One year after the marriage of
, Jiang Menglin was injured by an accident, and Xu Xianle took the opportunity to transfer property and borrowed money to swindle money in the name of her husband. After
took the money, she did not take good care of her husband. She was extremely demanding on her husband's medical expenses.
After this series of blows, Jiang Menglin finally woke up and started a divorce lawsuit with Xu Xianle in early 1963.
A generation of Peking University principals, in the evening scene, even had trouble with a money-worshiping wife, which is really embarrassing.
He told reporters in tears: "The family is the abyss of my pain. I deeply regret not accepting the advice of my old friend Mr. Hu Shizhi. I am ashamed of my old friend..."
Jiang Menglin paid Xu Xianle in 1964 At the cost of alimony of 500,000, he finally divorced his money-worshiping wife. But the old man passed away, and Jiang Menglin died of cancer five months later in a bleak evening scene.
Wenrou Township is a hero's grave. This life-saving marriage is really the pain of Jiang Menglin's life.
03 Returning from the south to the north, shells blew up the beams, Jiang Menglin died, and the Southwest Associated University in his nine-death life
Although Jiang Menglin was confused about the matter of wind and moon, Jiang Menglin did a great job in China's education in the age of turmoil. An obliterated contribution.
As early as 1919, Jiang Menglin, who went to the United States to study at his own expense, obtained a doctorate in education from Columbia University. Like Hu Shi, studied under the American philosopher Dewey who had a huge influence on China.
Dewey is the representative of pragmatic philosophy. Jiang Menglin's management of education is also a true doer.
When he was the editor-in-chief of the "New Education" magazine, the magazine sales broke 6000 copies per issue! It complements each other with the "New Youth" magazine in the south.
He returned from school in 1919, and was entrusted by Cai Yuanpei to act as the principal of Peking University under the chaotic situation of Peking University.
He boldly uses newcomers, balances all parties, and preserves the strength of Peking University in the cracks. And when the "March 18" tragedy happened, Jiang Menglin came forward for the three dead Peking University students and publicly condemned Duan Qirui. He is thereforeWas included in the assassination list.
A true educator is for the students and not for the power, and for the country, he puts personal safety out of the picture.
cherished this belief. After the September 18th incident broke out, Jiang Menglin went to the meeting alone without changing his face and heartbeat when facing the Japanese "Hongmen Banquet".
He wrote in his autobiography "Western Tide": "Are you afraid of ? No, no. The Chinese saints have said that we are not immune to danger. "
means to face danger, not to avoid shrinking, to Head up.
Jiang Menglin took this "" role as and brought it to the legendary Southwest Associated University during the War of Resistance.
After the Lugou Bridge Incident in 1937, the three universities of Peking University, Tsinghua University, and Nankai moved south from Changsha to Kunming. temporarily formed a university-Southwest Associated University.
Jiang Menglin dedicated himself to the birth of Southwest Associated University. From site selection to fund-raising, he did everything by himself.
It was a time when the sound of artillery fire was compared with the sound of reading. In a violent bombing of 27 enemy planes on , most of the dormitories of the unit were bombed, and several offices of the school were razed to the ground.
A beam in Jiang Menglin's office was blown off and fell directly and pierced his desk. Fortunately, Jiang Menglin had run out of the office at the time, but he was still in shock.
It is in such an environment that Jiang Menglin can move between three universities with different personalities and revitalize the entire UN General Assembly.
Jiang Menglin once said a thought-provoking sentence:
"The biggest secret to the success of the UN General Assembly is that the teachers study and behave to a certain standard. They don't perfunctory and cheat their meals. They all treat students as students. People are never indecent, and treat them as soldiers and their own warlords. everyone is a gentleman, and there are many criticisms of each other, which can sometimes make people uncomfortable. But for to do business, never use despicable means ."
The student
was born in the war-torn Southwest Associated University, like a phoenix reborn from the ashes, from here out of countless great masters in modern history.
is just like what Mei Yiqi said: so-called university is not a building, but also a master.
Southwest Associated University’s school building in Kunming
Jiang Menglin has contributed his life to Peking University and Southwest Associated University. He hopes that the students will "grow up the spirit of independence, a sound personality, and precise and clear thinking". Ideas also illuminate future generations.
is like singing in the song: What kind of era makes me love so deeply. The literati of that era, Fengyue, is just a little condiment for Fengyun.
That is indeed an era in which intellectuals shoulder moral responsibility and idealism can change the world!
Now click on the link below to get closer to the storms and winds of that era, and watch the road to rebirth of Southwestern United University
"After the master, there is no master." The Southwestern United University run by Jiang Menglin and others is a phoenix in war and chaos. The Pearl of China. Yue Nan described the arduousness of a generation of scholars during the War of Resistance Against Japan in "Fleeing from the South to the North", reappearing the example of a master of national disaster. The book tells the magnificent history of Chinese academic masters and Southwest Associated University in the 20th century in , which is very helpful for us to understand modern Chinese history. This book therefore was highly recommended in the 2015 "People's Daily" series of "22 Good Books in 22 Fields". Now click on the link below, all three volumes of "Going to the South and Returning to the North" are only 128 yuan, and a hand-painted library ticket is also included with the book~
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