2005-7-26

On the eve of the 60th anniversary of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's victory, someone donated the seal carved by Wen Yiduo 60 years ago to the relevant departments. According to the news from China News Service, the word 126 is engraved in cursive script on the border of this jade seal: "Yi and Yutang have been friends for more than ten years and lived in peace until the end of the Anti-Japanese War. Those who deserve it kneel down and victory comes. Yutang was also invited by Oxford, and he won a trip abroad. Believe it! The country should have glory, and so should the individual. I was ordered to print it because I attached a few words of thanks, not just as a farewell memorial. I stayed in Xicangpo, Kunming on September 1 1 day, 34. The news said it was a "letter from home" in the war of resistance.

This is the seal that Wen Yiduo carved for Sun Yutang. Sun is a historian. After Tsinghua University graduated, he went to study in Japan. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, both of them taught at the National Southwest Associated University, which was a "friend-to-friend relationship". After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Wen recommended him to be a visiting professor at Oxford University. This passage is actually a farewell message. It is not unreasonable to regard it as a special form of "letter from home"; However, Indian rulers use frontier money to record current events and express their feelings, which is one of the main characteristics of seal cutting, and most young people nowadays don't know much about it. Mr. Wen left a lot of information on the Indian border. For example, at the end of 1944, he gave a seal to China, and wrote in the side note: "I am strict in age, trying to seal for my brother, and I also wrote an inscription: Stubborn right side, one more chisel, paid contract with Professor Feng Yi, not shabby, not rich, humble in teeth seal, elegant in wood seal. If it is before the war, it is not worth two cents. " It is also a discussion, and I feel a lot. Hua later said in "Brilliant Model of Intellectuals": "I have been cherishing it for decades during my migration. Every time I take it out, I think of a gentleman. The revolutionary friendship of my friends in trouble has become the driving force for my continuous progress. 」

Wen Yiduo ruled India, mainly during the period of National Southwest Associated University. At that time, the Japanese aggressors committed various crimes in China, and the people of China lived in an unprecedented disaster. Although Wen Yiduo is a professor, his salary can't support his family, so he has to list and print to subsidize his family. He said in the letter: "My brother's financial situation is even more difficult to ask. Two years ago, I lived under the threat of cutting off cooking. I started taking part-time classes in middle school, but it was not enough. By friends? It is made up by the listing stamp. Two-thirds of the income recently depends on this. From1April 1944 to1July 1946, Wen Yiduo left over 1400 prints, which shows his diligence in managing prints and his family's economic situation. His seal is of great artistic value. Pujiang Qing specially wrote an example of Professor Wen Yiduo's "Jin Shi Run", calling him "Huang Changjiu Piao, I see him now; "Being an iron pen is pleasing to people, and the world respects its learning." According to Ji Zhenhuai's Chronicle of Wen Yiduo, Professor Pu Jiangqing has specially explained these two sentences, saying: "Huang is a famous sculptor in the Ming Dynasty, a man with a long beard, symbolizing Mr. Wen's demeanor; Cheng is a famous Confucian scholar in the Qing Dynasty and a master of seal cutting. It is most appropriate for him to imitate Mr. Wen. " This article "Professor Wen Yiduo's Examples of Jinshi Rune" was signed by more than ten professors including Mei Yiqi, Feng Youlan, Zhu Ziqing and Pan Guangdan, and became famous for a while.

Wen Yiduo runs the printing industry to subsidize his family, but his running the printing industry has never affected his teaching. In Tsinghua, he studied knowledge very seriously. Zhao Lisheng's "Jin Lietang's Self-Report" said that "as soon as he returned to Tsinghua, he worked hard and wrote many detailed reading notes in the new south campus". When the National Southwest Associated University moved south, the College of Liberal Arts took classes in the former site of Bible College in Hengshan Mountain, Nanyue, and the dormitory was tense. Wen Yiduo once shared a room with Qian Mu, Wu Mi and Shen Youding, only to see that he was calm and meticulous, devoted himself to academic research and studied hard to prepare lessons. Qian Mu's "Parents' Eighty Memories, Miscellaneous Notes on Teachers and Friends" recalled this incident and said: "In the dead of night, there was a long table in the room, and more than one light spontaneously stood in front of it. At that time, many people often read The Book of Songs and Songs of the South, and wrote articles when they came across new ideas. A person sits quietly under the lamp and writes. Life is hard, but research is unremitting. 1944, I finally finished the academic monograph "Revision of Songs of the South", which was recognized as a masterpiece in literary research by academic circles after publication. This professionalism is fascinating.

Zhu Ziqing said in the preface of Wen Yiduo's Complete Works: "He is a fighter. But he is also a poet and scholar ... He will always be a poet, and he will always be a fighter during the period of poets and scholars. " Managing India also reflects his image. Chen Mingyuan's "Cultural Man and Money" has a chapter "Wen Yiduo's Economic Life", which is about an event after the student movement in Kunming was suppressed. Li, the culprit of the "12. 1" tragedy, is actually arty. Please look at more than one lettering, which means it will be finished in two days, and the example is generous. Wen Yiduo simply ignored it and returned the stone as it was. This angered the spy and smashed the shop signs printed and collected by Wen Yiduo on the street in public to vent his anger. In his usual leisure articles, there is one that says "traitor". He wrote an inscription and often stamped this seal. People asked him why he was called a traitor. He said, "I want to be a traitor to the old world!" " Isn't this a just fighter?