Speaking of university presidents, everyone should be a portrait of a rich learner, gentle and elegant, with a good temperament and image, and the salary and benefits are not below ordinary people, in short, more knowledgeable and more salary. However, there are always exceptions, and a college senior rushes to write a manuscript on a cold night just to earn manuscript fees to buy cotton pants to keep out the cold.
Born in 1896, Fu Sinian, a native of Liaocheng, Shandong, was a famous historian, expert in classical literature, educator and academic leader during the Republic of China. He was one of the student leaders of the May Fourth Movement and the founder of the Institute of History and Philology of the Academia Sinica.
Fu Sinian
Fu Sinian is famous for his knowledge and talent, and at the same time, his violent temper is also quite well-known.
1. He was praised by Hu Shi as a rare genius in the world. After entering Peking University, Fu Sinian occupied the first place in the grade for three consecutive years with excellent results, and no one could surpass him, and he was called "the first person after Confucius" by his classmates. As the director of the Institute of History and Linguistics for 23 years, Fu Sinian has trained a large number of professionals in history, language, archaeology, anthropology and other fields, organized the publication of more than 70 kinds of academic works, and made important contributions to the development of the Institute of History and Language in terms of funds, equipment, and systems. The first planned and organized excavation of oracle bones in Yinxu was organized, and 15 subsequent excavations were carried out, which greatly promoted the development of Chinese archaeology and the study of the history of the Shang Dynasty. Fu Sinian also won the archives of the Ming and Qing dynasties to the Institute of History and Linguistics, organized a special sorting, and made a breakthrough in the study of Ming and Qing history. In the field of historical research, Fu Sinian attaches great importance to the role of archaeological materials in historical research, gets rid of the shackles of old papers, and at the same time pays attention to the application of the viewpoints and methods of other disciplines such as linguistics to historical research, and has achieved high academic achievements, and has a high status in modern history.
Kong Xiangxi
2. Fu Cannon, who drove away the two deans. During Kong Xiangxi's tenure as Minister of Finance and the head of the Central Bank, he did everything for the interests of his family and personal interests. In order to completely oust Kong Xiangxi, he collected a large amount of evidence of Kong Xiangxi's corruption, and it took 8 years, and finally the hard work paid off, which drove Kong Xiangxi from power. At the political participation meeting, Fu Sinian provided Kong Xiangxi with quite explosive evidence and uncovered Kong Xiangxi's ugly anti-corruption behavior. Later, Chiang Kai-shek gave Fu Sinian a banquet for this several times, but it still didn't work. In 1947, in the "rush to buy gold", he bombarded Song Ziwen, then the premier, and then ousted Song from power, and the people of the time called him "Fu Cannon".
Fu Sinian and his mother took a group photo
3. Fu Sinian, who is extremely filial to his mother. When Fu Sinian was born, the family was already in defeat and destitute. Fu Sinian's childhood was spent starving and begging for food with his mother everywhere. Although the difficult environment of growing up has made Fu Sinian strong and unyielding, he is also extremely filial to his mother. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Fu Sinian had no time to take care of his family and could not afford to accompany the old lady to take refuge because he led the relocation of various institutes of the Academia Sinica, so he specially entrusted a subordinate and two nephews to take his mother to Anhui and County to live temporarily. Later, "soon after the fall of Nanjing, Fu came to Chongqing, two nephews came to see, Fu Sinian thought that his family had escaped smoothly, very happy, when the nephew told that his grandmother did not escape, Fu Sinian was furious, slapped the two nephews twice on the spot, and kicked each twice. Immediately, he once again asked someone to try to place his mother in Chongqing.
A group photo of Fu Sinian's family
4. Rush to buy cotton pants at night. After Fu Sinian resigned from Peking University, he was invited by Mr. Chiang to serve as the president of National Taiwan University. Usually, I will rush some manuscripts to make a living. According to Fu Sinian's wife Yu Dacai's recollection, once, Fu Sinian was writing in a shabby cotton jacket in the dim light, her legs were already frozen and stiff, she was also helping him sew and mend his clothes and pants, looking at Fu Sinian who was hunched over the book, Yu Dacai urged him to rest early, Fu Sinian explained that he was anxious to get the manuscript fee to make a pair of cotton pants for himself, and Yu didn't say anything more. But who knows, one day in 1950, Fu Sinian fainted just after getting off the podium due to overwork, and although he was sent to the hospital for treatment, he still could not be rescued. And that article became the last article written by Fu Sinian, and it was only when he got the manuscript fee that Yu Dacai knew that the reason why Fu Sinian was so anxious to get the manuscript fee was actually to use the money to subsidize his family.
After Fu Sinian's sudden death during his tenure as president of National Taiwan University, Fu Renliang, who was only 15 years old at the time, was studying in middle school in the United States. After that, Fu Renliang studied and worked in the United States, but he was affected by the "hippie" atmosphere that arose in the United States at that time, and unfortunately contracted bad habits, which led to the abandonment of his studies, his life was in trouble, and he was unmarried all his life.