1938, Hu Shi was appointed ambassador to the United States. To this, Jiang Dongxiu strongly opposed, wrote a letter denouncing Hu Shi. She never wanted to be an official wife, but only hoped that Hu Shi could concentrate on his studies. Hu Shi wrote to Jiang Dongxiu and explained, "We have an old saying in Huizhou: You are not afraid of burning firewood if you stay in the green hills. Castle Peak is our country. It is precisely because there is an independent country behind us that we can look up to the world today. Our job is just to shed a little sweat for this country, this green mountain. " In another letter, he vowed to his wife: "I will definitely return to academic life when the war is over."
Hu Shi was born in an aristocratic family in Anhui. He has been well-fed since he was a child and has seen the enjoyment of European and American dignitaries, but he is still hardworking and simple. During his tenure as ambassador to the United States, he saved one point in both public money and private money. On business trips, in order to save the tip of calling a taxi in front of the embassy, he always runs to the corner of the avenue in front of the embassy to call a taxi. Jiang Dongxiu sent him clothes, and he wrote back: "Some clothes are not willing to wear, but they are still very new. Don't send it again! "
In July 1928, 15, Hu Shi talked about "chastity": "Women are defiled by rape and don't have to commit suicide. A woman who has lost her virginity has not lost her virginity. What is the difference between marrying a defiled woman and marrying a' virgin'? If someone dares to break this' virgin superstition', we should respect him. "
In the 1920s, a bar named "Si Er House" opened in Shanghai Mudeng Bridge. Many people didn't understand the meaning of "Si Er Building", so they went to consult Hu Shi, then president of Shanghai Public School. Hu is also puzzled and can't bear to face it, so he will go to the temple building for a drink in person and find a chance to ask him what happened to his master. The owner said that the name of the building was taken from "one and ten, ten and a hundred, ten and a thousand, a thousand and a thousand" in the three-character classic, but it was actually just a lucky draw. Hu Ji wants to faint.
Hu Shi said that during his tenure as ambassador to the United States, he collected many stories about countries all over the world being afraid of their wives. In this collection, he found that only three countries in the world are not afraid of their wives, one is Germany, the other is Japan and the other is Russia. So he came to a conclusion: any country with a story of being afraid of his wife is a free and democratic country; On the other hand, any country without the story of being afraid of his wife is a dictatorship or totalitarian country.
192 1 One day in mid-June, Hu Shi was invited to have dinner with Gu Hongming. Hu wrote in his diary that day: "I haven't seen this old monster for a long time. He talked the most tonight. He likes telling jokes best, some of which are very interesting and comforting ... He said: As the saying goes, a Guo Jianzi worships Confucius and Confucius is startled. I will continue for him: Confucianism worships Confucius, and Confucius will hang himself. This refers to Confucius teaching people. Although he worships Confucius, he looks down on people in Confucianism, especially that it should be pronounced as Chen bastard. "
At that time, Hu Shi once said with emotion: There is an old saying in China that "power cannot be compromised, wealth cannot be lewd, and poverty cannot be moved", and "fashion cannot be chased" should be added. This sentence was later stolen by Li Ao.
Hu Shi wrote a book with a beginning and no end. His Outline of the History of China's Philosophy has only the first half, but not the second half. Huang Kan quipped in the class of Central University: "In the past, Xie Lingyun was a secretary supervisor, but today Hu Shi can be described as a works supervisor." The student didn't understand the meaning and asked him why he said so. Huang Kan's answer is relatively negative: "The supervisor is also a eunuch. Eunuch, the lower body is gone. " Only then did the students understand that his satirical works of Hu Shi were handed down as jokes without the second half.
Hu Shi once filed for divorce with his ex-wife Jiang Dongxiu. Jiang Dongxiu raised his knife and said, "If you want a divorce, you can kill me and your two sons first!" From then on, Jiang Dongxiu became the rumored Hedong lion, and Hu Shi became a model of being afraid of his wife. To this end, Hu Shi once laughed at himself: "A country that is afraid of its wife will be a more democratic country."
Hu Shi wrote a vernacular limerick about writing: "There is no distinction between elegance and vulgarity in writing, but there is a way of life and death. The ancients called it desire, and today people call it desire; The ancients called it wisdom, and today people call it wisdom; The ancients called it drowning, and today it is called urine; It turns out that the same word, the voice has changed a little. There is no distinction between elegance and vulgarity at all, so why are you fooling around? As for the ancients' praise for words, today's people call them numbers; The ancients hung the beam, but today people hang themselves; Although the old name is not necessarily good, why not the current name? As for the ancients riding a horse, today people sit in sedan chairs; The ancients wore crowns, but today people know how to wear hats; If you must call the hat a towel and the sedan chair a spell, don't you think the tiger is a leopard? "
Hu Shi can't bear loneliness. He claimed that he attached the most importance to academics and wanted to "talk about politics for 20 years". Within a few years, he founded the weekly newspaper "Efforts" and published "Our Political Opinions". Friends may disapprove of his running a newspaper, fearing that he is a "continuation of Liang Rengong". Hu Shi himself said: "They all say that it is the best policy for me to concentrate on writing books, the middle policy for professors and the worst policy for running newspapers ... I appreciate the significance of these friends, but I really can't help it."
Hu Shi's Outline of the History of China's Philosophy is the first work in China that uses new punctuation marks. After the book came out, Hu Shi specially sent a book to Zhang Taiyan, and wrote on the cover "Mr. Zhang Taiyan refers to the fallacy" and signed it "Hu Shijing gave it". Among them, a black line is added to the right of the words "Taiyan" and "Hu Shi", which means "Ming". However, Zhang Taiyan didn't understand the application of new punctuation marks. When he saw the black line next to his name, he scolded him: "Hu Shi is nothing! Dare to scribble on my name! " Then I found a black line drawn next to the word "Hu Shi", and then I smiled and said, "His name is also wired, which offsets each other."
Hu Shi vowed not to go into politics for twenty years, but after the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, he became China's ambassador to the United States. As an ambassador, Hu is full of books, dislikes social intercourse and prefers small talk. One day, Hu read in the newspaper that Professor Smith of the University of Chicago was elected as a member of Congress. As an old friend, he invited him to dinner. This person is also very bookish. He accepted the invitation of the ambassador to China, whether Zhang San or Li Si. During the dinner, Smith suddenly said, "I knew a China scholar many years ago. His name is Hu Shi. I wonder where he is now? "
Hu Shi was invited by Chiang Kai-shek to be the ambassador to the United States. The news came out that the Japanese side was under great pressure, and public opinion suggested sending three people to let the United States boycott Hu Shi together. These three people are Kawakami Hisuke, Ishii Kijiro and Matsuoka Yanggu. "The tsunami is literary, Ishii is economical, and Matsuoka is eloquent."
In the late 1920s, Yang Zhensheng was the president of Qingdao University and invited Hu Shi, who was passing by Qingdao, to give a speech at Qingdao University. Unexpectedly, after the ship arrived, the wind and waves were too strong to dock. Hu Shi had to send a telegram saying, "Everything is in the middle of the water." After receiving the report, Yang called back and said, "It's separated from Yishui by a water, and the pulse is speechless."
Wherever Hu Shi goes, it seems that he likes to visit the kilns there. From 65438 to 0922, Hu Shi went to Jinan to attend the meeting of "The Eighth National Federation of Education Associations to discuss the new academic system". 65438+ 10 65438+March, that night, Hu Shi went to get a haircut. He seemed so sleepy that he fell asleep during the haircut. When washing his hair, he asked the master to wash his hair with cold water to wake him up. That night, the post office caught fire and lost power, so nothing could be done. He wrote in his diary: "I'm going to Jiyuan to see what the kiln in Jinan looks like. I went into three, all of which are local to Jinan, which is very simple; Most of them are two-story two-story or three-story three-story houses, and there are about two to four people in each family. Tonight, I feel even more humble because the light is out and only the oil lamp is on. Go back to the apartment at half past ten and go to bed early. "
Hu Shigang just returned from overseas and was hired as a professor at Peking University. At that time, his class was full of audiences. Gu Jiegang, a good friend of Fu Sinian, went to listen to it once and said to him when he came back, "This Dr. Hu is really learned. Go and listen! " Fu Sinian really went to listen, not only listened, but also asked, and between questions and answers, Hu Shi's sweat came down. Hu Shi later admitted that at that time, he found that Fu Sinian and other students had a deeper knowledge of Chinese studies than he did, so he was always on tenterhooks.
Hu Shi chatted with Tang Yongtong, and Tang said, "I personally have a view that I don't want to say that all good things are from foreign countries." Hu Shi also smiled and said to him, "I also have a personal opinion, that is, I don't want to say that all bad things come from India." Say that finish, two people smile at one another.
Hu Shi was invited to give a speech at a university. When he quoted Confucius, Mencius and Sun Yat-sen, he wrote on the blackboard: Confucius said, Mencius said, Sun said. Finally, when he expressed his opinion, it caused a burst of laughter. It turned out that what he wrote was: nonsense.
1923, Hu Shi once drew up a minimum bibliography of Chinese studies for young people, including three chivalrous men and five righteous men and a narrow escape. Liang Qichao said to Hu Shi: "I am a person who has never read these two books. Although I know my knowledge is shallow, I say there is no minimum for Chinese studies. I am not satisfied! "
19 10 on March 22nd, it rained cats and dogs. Hu Shi and a group of friends were drinking in the brothel and got as drunk as a fiddler. They hired a rickshaw to go home. The coachman stole his clothes, stole his wallet and left him in the rain while he was drunk.