The couplet "Act when the opportunity arises, you will be buried in peace" clearly draws on Chen Yinke's "Sit when the opportunity arises, and you will be buried in peace".
Fu Sinian, Chen Yinke and others dug a hole in their yard and covered it with wooden boards and sand. When the Japanese planes came to bomb, they got into the hole. Because there was often water in the hole, Chen Yinke always brought a bench with him.
To sit, so the word "si" is highlighted, which is often misunderstood as "zuo" in later generations.
The real "act when the opportunity arises and bury it in peace" is a couplet written by the playwright Lu Qian, and it happened earlier. When Lu Qian was avoiding the bombing of Nanjing, he built a basement in his home.
One is from Peiping and the other is from Nanjing. The former went to Kunming and the latter went to Chongqing. Chen Yinke and Lu Qian should have no intersection. Therefore, there is no one who copied the other in these two couplets. They should be inspired by their own feelings. It happens that only
Just one word is different.
On the other hand, another couplet "Geometry of Life, Triangle of Love" is probably really the masterpiece of a certain science student.
For the male students of Southwest Associated University, avoiding bombings is not something to be afraid of. Instead, it is a matter of romance. There are more than one or two students who have become lovers because of avoiding bombings.
There are three types of air defense warnings
The first is an advance warning, which means that enemy aircraft are found at the border of the defense area and may enter the country for bombing.
The second type is an air raid warning, indicating that Japanese planes have entered Yunnan, but may not necessarily come to Kunming. If teachers and students hear this kind of warning, they will simply ignore it and sit in the classroom and study as usual.
The third type is the emergency alarm, which is a continuous rapid staccato sound, indicating that the early warning officers have determined that the plane is coming to bomb.
During the Anti-Japanese War, China's air defense early warning system was very complete. Like the previous air battle in Chongqing, if the Japanese planes had not circled to the northeast for a sneak attack, they would have been discovered by the air defense observation station before they reached the Three Gorges.
What Zhou Hexuan heard today was an emergency alarm. The first reaction of many male students was not to run away, but to return to the dormitory to get their treasured snacks such as peanuts.
After getting the snacks, the male students stood at the back gate and waited. When they saw the female students they liked, they immediately went up to them. The danger brought about sharing life and death, and they would get closer to each other every minute. If they could hide in the cemetery again,
If we eat peanuts together while listening to the alarm, chat, talk about life ideals, etc., then we are basically not far from becoming a couple.
The "couple" who runs the air raid siren is not fixed. It is possible that just after getting to know each other this time, he will be robbed of his "girlfriend" next time. The science student who wrote the couplet "Geometry of Life, Love Triangle" is probably a girl.
The child must have been robbed, and with emotion, I gained a new understanding of geometric triangles.
Seeing the "love triangle" embedded in the stones, Zhou Hexuan couldn't help but look at Jin Yuelin and found that this gentleman was empty-handed and did not bring any suitcase.
Wang Zengqi's article records that there was a gentleman from Southwest Associated University who studied Eastern philosophy. When he went to call the police, he brought a small suitcase with him. There was no gold or silver in the suitcase, but it contained a letter written to him by a smart woman.
Many people think it is an allusion to Jin Yuelin and Lin Huiyin, but the description is wrong. Although Jin Yuelin also studies Eastern philosophy, he is better at Western philosophy, especially logic. When describing him, the word "Oriental" should be removed.
It seems that the infatuated philosophy professor is someone else...
"Boom, boom, boom!"
The sound of bombings kept coming, but the gentlemen in the cave remained calm, sitting or standing there chatting.
In addition to Zhou Hexuan and the two bodyguards, there are also Mei Yiqi, the "Geng money master", Wen Yiduo, the "flammable and explosive" man, Jin Yuelin, the "love-mad sage", Zhu Ziqing, the "orange master", and the "crotch kicker" in the cave.
"Liu Wendian, "the stairs are difficult to climb" Fei Xiaotong, and a wild male classmate carrying a rice bowl.
Zhu Ziqing blew smoke rings intoxicatedly and commented: "Mingcheng, you should live in Kunming for a long time. The problem of professors' cigarettes will be solved. It is not easy to buy Camel cigarettes here in Kunming."
Wen Yiduo smiled and answered: "I don't care, foreign cigarettes and Chinese cigarettes are not rejected, as long as you have cigarettes to smoke."
"You are a generous smoker." Zhu Ziqing said.
Jin Yuelin disagreed with Wen Yiduo's view: "Cigarettes are also divided into several grades. The top grade is cigars, the middle grade is cigarettes, and the bottom grade is hookah. Chinese cigarettes and hookahs are not easy to smoke. They are too inferior. I would rather not smoke them.
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These three gentlemen are all old smokers. Zhu Ziqing wrote essays that elevated smoking to a philosophical level; Wen Yiduo smoked with students during class, and sometimes asked students to lend him a hand; Jin Yuelin once smoked a large German cigar and got drunk.
After smoking, I had suicidal thoughts.
Zhu Ziqing laughed and said to Jin Yuelin: "Then you are an expert in smoking."
Wen Yiduo retorted to Jin Yuelin: "Foreign cigarettes are cigarettes, Chinese cigarettes are also cigarettes, cigars, cigarettes, and hookahs are all cigarettes. According to me, all cigarettes are equal, so what's the difference between superior and inferior? It's just like people, who are officials
They are human beings, those who do learning are human beings, and those who grow food are also human beings. They all have one head and two arms, and they are essentially the same."
Jin Yuelin was not good at words, so he just said harshly: "Anyway, I don't smoke bad cigarettes."
The difference in personality between the two can be seen from smoking. Jin Yuelin is the kind of person who would rather lack than smoke. Ever since he fell in love with Lin Huiyin, he has never married, as if he knows the taste of good cigarettes and would rather endure the addiction than smoke bad cigarettes.
Jin Yuelin liked raising chickens all his life, and the reason was that Lin Huiyin gave him a big rooster as a joke. He not only raised chickens in Peiping, but also in Kunming, and even raised chickens in Lizhuang. It seemed that when he saw the chickens, he saw Lin Huiyin himself.
The topic started from smoking, and gradually turned to domestic and foreign industries, and they discussed very seriously why Chinese cigarettes taste worse than foreign cigarettes.
Immediately afterwards, the conversation gradually turned to prices and wages. Liu Wendian was also a smoker. After smoking one cigarette, he asked Zhou Hexuan for another. He lit a cigarette and said, "Principal Mei, prices have risen sharply now, haven't they?"
Should wages be increased? Some teachers don’t have enough to eat.”
Why did Peking University President Jiang Menglin and Nankai University President Zhang Boling leave voluntarily after the merger of the three universities, leaving Mei Yiqi to serve as the president of Southwest Associated University?
Because Mei Yiqi is the president of Tsinghua University, he has the Gengzi Scholarship!
You heard it right, Tsinghua University’s Geng Geng money had not been used up until Zhou Hexuan’s time in time. Tsinghua University in Taiwan was still receiving checks from the Geng Geng money every year.
Mei Yiqi shook his head and said: "Tsinghua University has a limited quota each year, and it also has to pay for students' study abroad expenses in the United States. I dare not use it easily. Moreover, the Ministry of Education has the final say to raise teachers' salaries. I cannot make the decision without authorization.
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Fei Xiaotong came up with an idea: "You can't decide whether to raise wages, but you can provide subsidies to teachers."
Zhu Ziqing said: "Yes, the subsidy depends on the circumstances. Those who teach part-time in other schools may receive less or no salary. Those who teach wholeheartedly at the United Nations University may receive more. Professors with other incomes may receive less, and professors with only salary income may receive more.
.Especially for professors in science and engineering, their lives are indeed difficult.”
Mei Yiqi frowned and said, "I'll think about it again."
Literati like Zhu Ziqing, Wen Yiduo, and Jin Yuelin actually lived a pretty good life. In addition to being paid as teachers, they also received various royalties and royalties. Their family wealth was relatively strong, and it was more than enough to support the price of goods in 1939, and even
I can also go to a restaurant for a drink every now and then.
The really poor people are science and engineering professors like Huang Ziqing. Although he comes from a gentry family, he really doesn't have much spare money in his pocket.
Now that Huang Ziqing has calculated the temperature scale of water, he belongs to the international scientific community. He can easily find a job abroad and live a comfortable life. However, he chose to return to Tsinghua to teach and overcame many difficulties to establish experimental equipment for electrochemistry research.
, all the money I saved before has been put in.
From Peking to Changsha, and then to Kunming. Huang Ziqing brought his family with him and had no other income except salary. Sometimes he had to pay for experiments himself, so he was so poor that he couldn't bear to buy cigarettes.
