Mr. Fujino
Tokyo is nothing more than this. When the cherry blossoms in Ueno are in full bloom, they do look like light crimson clouds, but under the flowers there are also groups of "Qing students studying abroad" crash course, with big braids on their heads that are as high as the tops of student hats. It rises high, forming a Mount Fuji. There are also those whose braids are untied and tied flatly, and their hats are removed to reveal a shiny look, just like a little girl's bun, and they have to twist their necks a few times. It's really beautiful.
The concierge of the Chinese International Students Association has a few books to buy, and sometimes it is worth a visit; if it is in the morning, you can still sit in some of the bungalows inside. But in the evening, the floor of one room will often make a loud banging sound, and the room will be filled with smoke and dust. Ask someone who is well versed in current affairs, and they will answer, "That's learning to dance."
How about going somewhere else?
I will go to the Medical College in Sendai. Departing from Tokyo, I arrived at a post station soon and wrote: Nippori. Somehow I still remember the title. Secondly, I only remember Mito, which is the place where Mr. Zhu Shunshui, a survivor of the Ming Dynasty, died. Sendai is a small town; it is extremely cold in winter; there are no Chinese students yet.
Probably because things are more valuable than hope. When cabbage from Beijing is shipped to Zhejiang, the root is tied with a red-tipped rope and hung upside down in front of a fruit shop, where it is revered as "glue cabbage"; aloe vera that grows wild in Fujian is brought into the greenhouse as soon as it arrives in Beijing, and is euphemistically called "agave" ". I also received such preferential treatment when I arrived in Sendai. Not only did the school not charge tuition, but several staff members also took care of my room and board.
I first stayed in an inn next to the prison. It was quite cold in early winter, but there were still a lot of mosquitoes. Later, I covered my whole body with a quilt and wrapped my head and face with clothes, leaving only two nostrils for breathing. In this place where breathing is endless, mosquitoes have no way to interrupt, and they sleep peacefully. The food isn't bad either. But a gentleman thought that this inn also provided meals for prisoners and it was not suitable for me to live there. He said this again and again.
Although I feel that the inn also provides meals for the prisoners, it has nothing to do with me, but it is difficult to give up the good intentions, so I have to find another suitable place to live. So I moved to another house, which was far away from the prison. Unfortunately, I always had to drink taro soup that was hard to swallow every day.
Since then I have seen many strange teachers and heard many new lectures. Anatomy is divided between two professors. Originally osteology. At that time, a dark and thin gentleman with a mustache and glasses came in, holding a stack of large and small books. As soon as he placed the book on the podium, he introduced himself to the students in a slow and frustrated tone: -
"My name is Fujino Genkuro..."
A few people in the back started laughing. He then talked about the history of the development of anatomy in Japan. Those large and small books were about this subject from the beginning to the present. At first, a few books were thread-bound; there were also Chinese translations. Their translation and research on new medicine were no earlier than China's.
The person sitting in the back laughing was a repeater who failed last school year. He had been in school for a year and was quite familiar with the story. They then lectured the freshmen on the history of each professor. It is said that Mr. Fujino was so immodest in his clothes that he sometimes forgot his tie. He wore an old coat in the winter and was shivering. Once when he got on the train, the conductor suspected that he was a pickpocket and called the man in the car. Guests, please be careful.
What they said is probably true. I saw him once in class without a tie.
A week later, around Saturday, he sent his assistant to call me. When I arrived at the research room, I saw him sitting among human bones and many individual skulls - he was studying the skulls, and later published a paper in the school's magazine.
"Can you copy my lecture notes?" he asked.
"You can copy a little."
"Bring it to me!"
I handed over the handout I copied, and he accepted it. He returned it to me in three days and said that from then on, I would give it to him once a week. When I took it down and opened it, I was surprised, but also felt uneasy and grateful. It turns out that my lecture notes have been revised with red pen from beginning to end. Not only have many omissions been added, but even the grammatical errors have been corrected one by one. This continued until he finished teaching the subjects he was responsible for: osteology, vascular science, and neurology.
It’s a pity that I didn’t work hard at that time and was sometimes very willful. I still remember one time when Mr. Fujino called me into his laboratory, pulled out a picture from my lecture notes, which showed the blood vessels of the lower arm, pointed at it, and said kindly to me:——
< p> "Look, you moved this blood vessel a little bit. - Of course, it does look better with this move. However, anatomical diagrams are not art. The real thing is like that, and we can't change it. Now I've changed it for you. From now on, you have to follow the picture on the blackboard."But I was still not convinced. I agreed verbally, but thought in my heart:——
"I still draw the pictures well; as for the actual situation, I naturally remember it in my heart."
After the experiment in the school year, I went to Tokyo to play for the summer. When I returned to school in the early autumn, my grades had already improved. I was published. Among more than a hundred classmates, I was in the middle, but I didn't fail. This time, Mr. Fujino's assignment was anatomy practice and regional anatomy.
After about a week of practicing anatomy, he asked me to go again. He was very happy and said to me in a very restrained tone:——
"I heard that He said that Chinese people respect ghosts very much, so they were worried that you would not dissect corpses. Now I am relieved that this is not the case.”
But he sometimes makes me very embarrassed. He heard that Chinese women have their feet bound, but he didn’t know the details, so he wanted to ask me how to bind the feet and what kind of deformity the foot bones had become. He also sighed, "You have to take a look to find out. What is going on." What? "
One day, the student union officer at my level came to my apartment and asked to borrow my lecture notes. I checked it out and gave it to them, but they only checked it once and didn't take it away. But as soon as they left, the postman delivered a very thick letter. When I opened it, the first sentence was:——
"Repent!"
This is Just sentences from the New Testament, recently quoted by Tolstoy. It was the time of the Russo-Japanese War, and Mr. Toto wrote a letter to the emperors of Russia and Japan, which began with this sentence. Japanese newspapers criticized him for being disrespectful, and the patriotic youth were also angry. However, secretly they had long been influenced by him. Secondly, it roughly means that the topic of last year's anatomy test was marked in Mr. Fujino's lecture notes and I knew it in advance, so I was able to achieve such results. The end is anonymous.
I just recalled something that happened a few days ago. Since there was a peer-level meeting, the clerk wrote an advertisement on the blackboard. The last sentence was "Please come to the meeting and don't miss anything", and added a circle next to the word "missing". Although I thought it was ridiculous at the time, I didn't mind it at all. Only now did I realize that the word was also mocking me, as if I had got the problem the teacher had leaked.
I informed Mr. Fujino about this; several classmates who were familiar with me were also very dissatisfied and went to question the clerk for the rudeness of pretexting the inspection and asked them to publish the results of the inspection. . Finally, the rumor was eliminated, but the clerk tried his best to withdraw the anonymous letter. In the end, I returned the Tolstoyan letter to them.
China is a weak country, so of course the Chinese are imbeciles. If the score is above 60, it is not their own ability: no wonder they are confused. But then I had the fate of visiting and shooting Chinese people.
In the second year, Tim taught mold science. The shapes of bacteria were all shown in movies. After a paragraph was finished but before the get out of class ended, a few movies about current events were shown. Naturally, they were all victorious by Japan. The situation in Russia. But there were Chinese people caught in the mix: I worked as a detective for the Russians, was captured by the Japanese army, and was about to be shot. There was also a group of Chinese people watching around me; there was also me in the lecture hall.
"Long live!" They all clapped their hands and cheered.
This kind of cheering happens every time I watch a film, but to me, this one was particularly harsh. After that, when I returned to China, I saw those people who were just watching the execution of prisoners. They also cheered like they were drunk - Wow, it's unthinkable! But at that time and place, my opinion changed.
At the end of the second academic year, I went to find Mr. Fujino and told him that I would not study medicine and leave Sendai. His face seemed a little sad, and he seemed to want to speak, but he didn't.
"I want to study biology. The knowledge my husband taught me is still useful." In fact, I didn't decide to study biology, because I saw him a little sad, so I said a consolation His lies.
"Teaching anatomy and the like for medicine will not be of much help if you are afraid of biology." He sighed.
A few days before he left, he asked me to come to his home and handed me a photo with two words written on the back: "Farewell", and he also said he hoped to give mine to him. . But I didn't have time to take any photos at this time; he then told me to take photos and send them to him in the future, and he also sent letters to him from time to time to tell him about the situation thereafter.
After I left Sendai, I hadn’t taken a picture for many years, and because the situation was boring, talking about it would only disappoint him, and I was afraid to even write a letter. More and more years have passed and I have no words to talk about, so although I sometimes want to write a letter, I find it difficult to write. Until now, I have not sent a letter or a photo. From his side, it seemed that there was no news since he left.
But somehow, I always remember him. Among the teachers I consider him, he is the one who makes me most grateful and encourages me. Sometimes I often think: His enthusiastic hope for me and tireless teachings are, in a small way, for China, that is, he hopes that China will have new medicine; in a big way, it is for academics, that is, he hopes for new medicine. spread to China. His character is great in my eyes and heart, although his name is not known to many people.
I have bound the lecture notes he corrected into three thick volumes and kept them as a permanent souvenir. Unfortunately, when I moved house seven years ago, a book box was destroyed and half the box of books was lost. It happened that these lecture notes were also lost. I asked the transportation bureau to look for it, but got no reply. Only his photograph is still hanging on the east wall of my Beijing residence, opposite my desk.
Whenever I feel tired at night and want to be lazy, I look up and catch a glimpse of his dark and thin face in the light, as if he is about to say something in a measured tone, which makes me suddenly realize my conscience and gain courage. So he lit a cigarette and continued to write some words that were deeply hated by "gentlemen" and his like.
Extended information:
In the essay "Mr. Fujino" written by Lu Xun when he was teaching at Xiamen University, he recalled his time studying at Sendai Medical College in Japan (now the Faculty of Medicine of Tohoku University, Japan) Time spent with my mentor Mr. Fujino. Mr. Fujino's simplicity, academic focus and kindness to others left a deep impression on Lu Xun, who made Lu Xun feel warm in the cold climate of Sendai when he first arrived in a foreign country.
He is a simple man and cares about students
Fujino Genkuro, known as "Mr. Fujino", was born in Fukui Prefecture, Japan in 1874. His family has been practicing medicine for generations, and he is already the sixth generation of his generation. .
After graduating from Aichi Medical School (the predecessor of Nagoya University School of Medicine) in 1896, Fujino Genkuro stayed at the school as an anatomy teacher's assistant. In 1901, he was employed as a lecturer at Sendai Medical School, before Lu Xun came to Japan to study. Promoted to professor in two months.
As a newly-minted professor, Mr. Fujino does not feel that his life should change because of his title of professor. He is used to walking to school, and does not take a rickshaw back and forth to school like other professors. He still maintains his original living habits and lives a peaceful life. Live a simple life. He was more concerned about the students' learning situation than material enjoyment, and he was even more concerned about the new foreign student Lu Xun.
No prejudice, cherish talents
Mr. Fujino was different from the average Japanese at that time. He had no prejudice against Lu Xun, who came from China, and he never thought that China at that time was a weak country, so China It is impossible for people to get more than 60 points in the exam. Instead, he was concerned about Lu Xun's anatomy internship, because he was worried that Lu Xun would not dare to dissect corpses because of the respect for ghosts and gods in Chinese culture.
When Lu Xun told his mentor about his decision to give up studying medicine, the disappointment in Mr. Fujino’s eyes showed his love for talents. He may be regretting that China has lost an excellent doctor. But he never imagined that the young man in front of him would use his pen to wake up the sleeping lion in the East. Presumably this medical expert would be pleased to know that the thoughts and words left by his beloved disciple on the other side of the sea have cured the Chinese people's inferiority and cowardice.
Victims of campus mergers
In 1907, the Japanese government established the third Imperial University in Sendai, Tohoku Imperial University (now Tohoku University), where Mr. Fujino taught. The medical school was also merged with this imperial university in 2015 to become Tohoku Imperial University Medical University.
This memoir essay "Mr. Fujino" narrates fragments of the author's life when he studied in Japan. The article praises the Japanese scholar Mr. Fujino's noble qualities of integrity, enthusiasm, seriousness and responsibility, and no narrow national prejudice. It expresses It expresses the author's sincere and deep nostalgia for Mr. Fujino, and expresses the author's ideological changes when he abandoned medicine to pursue literature and his determination to fight the reactionaries to the end.
1: Positive expression of Mr. Fujino’s greatness
The author selected four typical examples of his interactions with Mr. Fujino: 1. Adding and correcting handouts. Show Mr. Fujino’s serious and responsible spirit from beginning to end; 2. Correct the anatomy diagrams; reflect Mr. Fujino’s strict requirements for students and his perseverance; 3. Care about the anatomy practice, reflecting Mr. Fujino’s concern for “me” and respect for culture; 4. Understand foot binding. . It embodies Mr. Fujino’s rigorous and realistic spirit.
On the surface, although these four things can reflect Mr. Fujino’s noble qualities, as teachers, it seems that we would not use the word “great” to evaluate him. Here, we have to pay attention to a detail.
"A week later, about Saturday, his assistant came to call me. When I arrived at the research room, I saw him sitting among human bones and many individual skulls - he was studying at the time Skull, a paper was later published in the school's magazine."
The purpose of Mr. Fujino calling "I" was to talk about correcting the lecture notes, but the place where he saw "I" was intriguing. Such conversations between teachers and students are most often held in classrooms, and then in offices, although they can be held in other places as well. The content of the conversation is coherent even if the location of the conversation is not written.
But why did Mr. Fujino choose to be in the research room and sit among human bones and skulls to ask "me" about the lecture notes? What is the purpose of the author writing so much? Combined with Mr. Fujino's language and demeanor when he was concerned about the anatomy internship later, we will naturally understand why Mr. Lu Xun used "great" to evaluate Mr. Fujino.
After about a week of internship in anatomy, he asked me to go again. He was very happy and said to me in a very restrained tone:
"I heard about China." People respect ghosts very much, so I was worried that you would not dissect the corpse. Now I am finally relieved that this is not the case.”
Mr. Fujino changed from “worried” to “reassured” and “very relieved.” "Happily," he said in a very melodious tone, could it be that "about a week" of anatomy practice could make him feel at ease with Lu Xun? Apparently not. That is, originally it was intentional that he was sitting among human bones and skulls. Moreover, the word he used was "respect", not "fear" or "superstition".
As a medical researcher, Mr. Fujino knows a little about Chinese culture, but he does not laugh at China's ignorant understanding of "ghosts". What he wants to do is to quietly influence and pay attention. , first of all, let "me" know that studying skulls is his daily work, nothing to make a fuss about, so that "me" who will also have anatomy internship in the future can have a psychological adaptation period and a buffer period in understanding.
Furthermore, he used the word "respect" as a positive word, not as a derogatory word. These fully reflect Mr. Fujino's carefulness, which is not only reflected in his concern for "my" academics, but also his respect for "my" personality and culture. Because of this, the author exclaimed: "In my Among all the teachers I consider, he is the one who makes me most grateful and encourages me.”
2. Others highlight Mr. Fujino’s greatness
When the author first arrived in Sendai. , are "preferentially treated". Here, we can see the kindness and friendliness of the Japanese people, but the author infers all these goodwill as "things are more valuable than hope". Why? The tone of this incomplete speculation reveals that the author did not feel respected, but that his self-esteem was hurt and he felt sad as a citizen of a weak country.
Because the kindness of the staff here was only reflected in their concern for his life. Later, when he met Mr. Fujino, he felt that his care and help were based on equality and respect. Mr. Fujino's feelings for him were sincere and sincere.
Although the anonymous letter incident and the movie watching incident prompted Lu Xun's change of thought from abandoning medicine to studying literature, they are more important in expressing the character of Mr. Fujino. At that time, the so-called patriotic young people in Japan were influenced by militarism and were arrogant, narrow-minded, and extreme. In such an environment, Mr. Fujino was still so caring and caring for Lu Xun, who came from a poor and weak China. Therefore, Lu Xun said, "His character, in my eyes, is The heart is great."
From the perspective of writing techniques, the author’s description of the preferential treatment he received in food and accommodation when he first arrived in Sendai is a positive foil to Mr. Fujino’s concern and help; while the anonymous letter and the movie-going incident are a reflection of Mr. Fujino’s care and help. Mr. Fujino’s noble and great personality. These contents enhance the touching effect of the characters and fully express the author's nostalgia and admiration for Mr. Fujino.
Of course, there is another hidden thread in the article, which is to express the author's patriotism.
However, we can see that the editor has a clear preference for text processing in the unit prompts. Moreover, Mr. Lu Xun lost contact with Mr. Fujino after leaving Sendai. However, in 1935, a Japanese publishing house planned to publish "Selected Works of Lu Xun" and specifically sought Mr. Lu Xun's opinion. Mr. Lu Xun replied: "Everything is arbitrary, but I hope "The article "Mr. Fujino" was selected and included." It can be seen that the author's starting point is to express his memory and admiration for Mr. Fujino.
Therefore, although we can feel the author's deep patriotism from the text, in the teaching interpretation, the focus should still be on learning the "greatness" of Mr. Fujino.
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-"Mr. Fujino"