Because Liang Qichao’s study was called the Ice Drinking Room, everyone called him the owner of the Ice Drinking Room.
The word "drinking ice" comes from "Zhuangzi: The World": "Now I am ordered to drink ice at night, how can I feel the heat in my heart?" The original meaning is to metaphorize one's inner worries and imply the concern for the country and the country. Feelings of worry and anxiety. Later, Bao Zhao, a native of the Song Dynasty in the Southern Dynasties, said in "Xie Yong'an's Order is Unleashed and Forbidden": "Drinking ice to calm down affairs, and holding fire to death" to express the panic of being ordered to enter politics and worry about the country.
At that time, Liang Qichao was ordered by Emperor Guangxu to carry out reforms and reform. He was ordered to do so at a critical moment. Facing the country's internal and external troubles, one can imagine Liang Qichao's inner anxiety. How to relieve his "internal heat"? The solution can only be found by "drinking ice". Later, when the Manchu Qing Dynasty failed to establish a constitution, Liang called himself the "Master of the Drinking Ice Room" to express his regret that "a minister is not worthy of his duties."
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Origins of other celebrity names
1. Xie Wanying--Bing Xin
The famous modern female writer Bing Xin, formerly known as Xie Wanying, Her nickname is Brother Ying. She has written essays and novels such as "For Young Readers", "Little Orange Lamp", "Superman" and "Going to the Country". "Bingxin" is taken from a poem by Wang Changling, a poet of the Tang Dynasty: "Friends and relatives in Luoyang are like asking each other, and a heart of ice is in a jade pot."
In 1919, Bing Xin used "Bing Xin" as a pen name for the first time when she published her first novel "Two Families".
According to Bing Xin, “At that time, I didn’t want my classmates to know that I wrote the article, and the stroke of ‘Bing Xin’ was both simple and easy to write, and it also matched the meaning of the word ‘Ying’ in my real name, Xie Wanying, which means ‘smooth, clean, and clean’. "Transparent" is consistent. After I was born, my grandfather asked a fortune teller to tell my fortune. The fortune teller said that I should be a male and have the star Wenqu in my destiny. He also said that there was a lack of fire in my horoscope, so my second uncle named me 'Wanying'. , there are two characters "火" on the prefix of "Ying". In addition, I am too timid and afraid of being laughed at and criticized; the two characters "Bing Xin" are new and people will not think of these two characters when they see it. What does the word have to do with Xie Wanying?"
2. Bai Juyi - Xiangshan layman
Xiangshan Temple is located on the hillside of Longmen Dongshan in Jiaozuo, Henan. Bai Juyi once lived in the temple and placed himself in Luoyang 12. The 800 poems he wrote in 2000 were compiled into ten volumes, named "Bai Shi Luo Zhong Ji", and placed in the Sutra Collection Hall of Xiangshan Temple, so he was named Xiangshan layman.
3. Wang Anshi - Banshan Jushi
Wang Anshi retired from office in his later years and lived in seclusion in Banshan Mountain, Jiangning. He built Banshan Garden here and named himself Banshan Jushi.
4. Ouyang Xiu - Liuyi layman
In 1069, Wang Anshi implemented the new law. Ouyang Xiu criticized the Qingmiao Law but did not implement it. This year he changed his name to "Jiuyi layman".
"A guest asked: What is Liuyi?"
The layman said: "My family has a collection of 10,000 volumes of books, a collection of 1,000 volumes of inscriptions and stone manuscripts from three dynasties, and a qin There is a game of chess and a pot of wine. The guest said: "It's the fifth day of the year."
Reference materials:
Baidu Encyclopedia--Drinking Ice Room