Jiang Shuiyuan was also very surprised, and hurriedly stepped forward to Jiang Li: "Hello Grandpa Chen!"

It turned out that this acquaintance was Chen Mingyi, an old man who taught Jiangshuiyuan Taijiquan last summer. He said before that he was invited by others to come to Huai'an Mansion to teach people boxing during the summer vacation, and the "person" who was invited by others was Mr. Han Xianru?

Han Xianru was quite surprised: "How do you know each other?"

"Yes, of course I know!" Chen Mingyi suddenly became angry, "This little friend is the boy I told you before who can finish the fight from beginning to end after watching me practice boxing a few times in the park." At that time, you didn't believe me, saying that I was fabricating lies and deliberately discouraged others, and I argued with you several times. Now that the living man is standing in front of you, I don't think you believe it or not!"

Han Xianru laughed: "Believe, of course I believe! If it were someone else, even if you Chen Jiaotou said it wildly and nodded stubbornly, I still had some doubts." But if you want to talk about Jiang Xiaoyou, don't say that you practice it a few times, even if you learn it by just a few glances, I believe it convincingly. ”

"Huh, don't you usually claim to be 'everywhere'? Why did you change your personality today?"

"It depends on who. Han Xianru explained while letting Jiang Shuiyuan into the house, "I guess you don't know that you are a wild master who came out halfway and picked up a ready-made cheap one, right? Jiang Xiaoyou's memory is unprecedented, even if you read a history book of millions of words, you can memorize it backwards, and it's not easy to remember your seventy or eighty style Taijiquan? What kind of green dragon out of the water, white crane with bright wings, can also be embarrassed for an old guy with a declining memory like me!"

Chen Mingyi said curiously: "Speaking of Lao Han, how did you know this Jiang Xiaoyou? I spent so much time in your house last summer, but I have never heard you say that there is such a person from beginning to end. Why, are you afraid that I will rob you of your mantle and the heir will deliberately hide it, or do you know you before I know each other?"

"It just so happened when you lived here. I don't know Jiang Xiaoyou yet, and as soon as you left, I met him in the bookstore on the back foot. What do you call this? This is called fate!" Han Xianru deliberately replied to Chen Mingyi, "But at that time, I was really intimidated by him, so in the blink of an eye, he went around the bookstore, and when he came back, he memorized an inadvertent ancient text of Zhang Yuzhao very well!"

"So to speak. I'm his master, you should be the second master, right?" Chen Mingyi was very happy to be able to suppress Han Xianru.

Han Xianru pointed at Chen Mingyi and said to Jiang Shuiyuan: "Look, look, this is a typical example of a teenager who is greedy for fun and doesn't study, and always comes here to make jokes! After fighting for a long time, he won himself a name for cooking, and he had to pull me to be a cushion. You have to be warned!"

Chen Mingyi was anxious: "What do you mean by that? What do you mean that I have won the name of cooking for myself after fighting for a long time? You explain it to me clearly!"

Jiang Shuiyuan couldn't help but smile and explained: "That's the case, just now Grandpa Chen, didn't you say that my master master and Mr. Han are my second master? ”

"Old fellow, you know how to make fun of me. When I was young, I loved to drop my bookbag, and when I was old, I couldn't help but feel acidic, and I wasn't afraid of too much stomach acid!" Chen Mingyi looked indignant, and then persuaded him bitterly, "Jiang Xiaoyou, don't learn from him! You said that we are all big men, and we are reasonable, and we will move our fists if we are unreasonable." Like that old guy. Every day, I know that the upper lip touches the lower lip there, and takes advantage of the mouth. What's the point?"

Han Xianru was too lazy to bother with Chen Mingyi, and asked Jiang Shuiyuan directly: "Didn't you say that you wrote something?" ”

Jiang Shuiyuan hurriedly and respectfully handed over the manuscript.

The book he wrote, "The Difficult History of Chinese Studies", has 300,000 words, and it took two or three hundred pages to print A4 alone. I can't give you any advice for a while. But first, what was your motivation for writing this book?"

Jiang Shuiyuan replied: "In February and March this spring, I came to visit you with Senior Sister Xinying, and you once instructed me that the best way to eliminate confusion in the shortest possible time is to write a book by yourself. On the one hand, I have a feeling of cloudy fog covering the content of Chinese studies, and on the other hand, I have to deal with the competition, so I think about whether I can write something to clarify my thinking, and at the same time provide enough knowledge support for the competition. This is the root cause of writing.

In order to prepare for the annual contest on the difficulty of Chinese studies, the seniors of the Kodansha have gone to great lengths to collect almost all the books on the market that can be seen on the difficult topics of Chinese studies. As far as I can see, most of them introduce debating skills, and a few explain the rules of the competition, but there is no book that can tell the development of Chinese studies for more than 40 years from a historical perspective, as well as the wonderful stories that have happened around the competition. Therefore, I want to start from this perspective to clarify the evolution of the difficult theory of Chinese studies, so that I and others can have a more comprehensive understanding of the development of the difficult competition of Chinese studies. So you have the manuscript you have now. ”

"Ah, Jiang Xiaoyou started writing books at a young age, it's really amazing!" Chen Mingyi couldn't help but be surprised, but at the same time he didn't forget to demean Han Xianru: "But you can't be like this old guy, you can't even find a daughter-in-law in the future!"

"A young talent like Jiang Xiaoyou, who wants to learn and learn, and who has good looks, doesn't have to worry about finding a daughter-in-law in any era. Even if you can't find a daughter-in-law, don't I still have a granddaughter, old man? Now, in these days, people like your grandson who are simple-minded and have well-developed limbs and can solve problems with their fists at every turn really can't find a daughter-in-law!" Han Xianru spoke without mercy at all, and then said to Jiang Shuiyuan: "You wrote this manuscript for yourself and for others to solve your doubts, and you can notice that the failure of your predecessors to speak and the failure of your predecessors to speak is already very good in terms of concept. So how did you feel while writing the book?"

Jiang Shuiyuan groaned slightly: "If you want to talk about feelings, there are two main ones, one is that the book is less than the prescription." Before I started writing, I felt that I had read a lot of books, and when I really started writing, I found that I didn't know this, and I didn't know that.

"Another feeling is that I hate books and prescriptions. Compared with the extreme lack of information in the early years, the materials in recent years have been so abundant that they are outrageously abundant, and various books, newspapers, periodicals, and video materials have emerged one after another, some of which are similar to each other, and some of which are very different. Copying it all in, right? It looks top-heavy, and it's suspected of plagiarism. Don't you choose to go in, right? I'm worried that the content will be missing. It is no easier to cut a large amount of information into concise tofu cubes, compromise the views of various schools, and keep the style consistent, than to write an article of 30,000 or 20,000 words!"

Han Xianru nodded again and again: "This is also the thorny problem that many scholars often encounter when writing books and papers, and if you can feel this way, it means that you have stepped into the threshold of academic research with one foot." So what did you feel about it after you finished writing?"

Jiang Shuiyuan scratched his head: "In fact, being able to insist on writing this 300,000-word manuscript is my biggest gain, although it may be very naïve and full of mistakes, but after all, it has been written." Moreover, in the process of writing, I did realize my own shortcomings, learned a lot of knowledge points that I did not know and understood before, and gave me a relatively clear understanding of the difficult development of Chinese culture for more than 40 years. ”

"Since you have gained something, do you feel any regrets after you finish writing?" Han Xianru asked again.

"Of course there are regrets. Jiang Shuiyuan did not shy away from the shortcomings in his manuscript, "The biggest regret is the lack of information." It has only been more than 40 years since the Chinese Studies Theory was held, and the contestants who participated in the first few competitions are now only about 60 years old, and they should all be still alive. However, due to the limitations of time, ability, capital and many other factors, this part still relies on second-hand materials and their own imagination.

"Another regret is that I don't have enough historical knowledge. Liu Zhiji of the Tang Dynasty proposed in "Shi Tong" that historians should have the 'three longs' of historical talent, historiography, and historical knowledge, and in modern times, Liang Rengong proposed the 'four chiefs of historians', that is, historical virtue, historiography, historical knowledge, and historical talent, and ranked historical virtue in the first place. If you think about it carefully, history can be cultivated, history can be supplemented, and history can be learned, but this historical knowledge needs to be sharpened for a long time and guided by famous teachers, otherwise it is difficult to achieve positive results. However, historical knowledge is the most important, because talented and ignorant cannot become an excellent historian. However, the historical knowledge that leads the whole book is flawed, and this manuscript can only be called a compilation of materials. ”

Han Xianru praised approvingly: "You can realize what kind of problems you have in yourself and the book, which is already the beginning of success." As for how well your manuscript is written, I will read it carefully and finally give my opinion. Until then, you can go back and condense what you think is the most original and creative idea in your book into two or three papers, and then take a look at me.

In fact, under normal circumstances, a paper with the same number of words is definitely more valuable than a book, because the book inevitably has to explain the ins and outs clearly, taking into account all aspects, and the paper only needs to highlight your creative ideas and discuss them, and it is full of new things and new ideas, so you must write well. I'll show you a few collections of papers by famous modern and modern scholars later, and you might as well think about it when you go back!" (To be continued......)