Subtitle of this chapter: Let's talk about doctrine first

The author declares that many of the chapters in this chapter are summarized by Murong himself, if there are any mistakes or omissions, you don't have to be polite, just slap your face.

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To make it clear, our Master Yuan has long known that the three heroes of Harvard are at Harvard University, which is not far from him.

In fact, he made a "master map" with the master ball system, and he knew where all the characters in the world who could be called masters were.

It's just that Yuan Yanqian didn't take the initiative to find someone, why...... It's complicated.

Now it is Wu Mi and Chen Yinke who are about to leave the United States. The name of "NY's NY" is too loud, and the "Harvard Three Heroes", who are still young people, have curiosity and want to hurry up to meet Neo-Yuan, which is why this dinner party is held.

I saw Master Chen Yinke raise his wine glass and said to Master Yuan with emotion: "I still remember when you and I were in Jinling during the Xin Chou period (1902), it was almost 20 years. Unexpectedly, now that they meet in New York, Brother Hongjian has become famous at home and abroad, and his reputation is ...... in the literary world."

"Come, foolish brother toast you."

I'll take it, it turns out that Lao Tzu's great-great-uncle and grandfather and Chen Yinke are still friends.

"Brother Heshou, the little brother you said is embarrassed, so I have to do it first as a respect."

Yuan Yanqian also smiled and toasted with him, and then got up to help him fill a cup and said, "Brother Heshou, aren't you also knowledgeable and highly praised now. I heard that you will be going to the graduate school of the University of Berlin to continue your studies in the near future......"

He poured himself a glass of wine and said, "Come, my little brother will also toast you, and I wish my brother to become a bridge between Chinese and Western cultures as soon as possible." ”

Master Yuan, the "bridge between Chinese and Western cultures", is not casually talked, there are indeed many masters of the Republic of China who have studied both China and the West, but the only one who is most in line with this title is Chen Yinke.

In 1949, the descendants of the Heavenly Demon visited the Soviet Union, and Uncle Iron asked him, how is Mr. Chen Yinke in your country?

It turned out that his "On the Question of the Chinese Revolution" quoted Chen Yinke's works in many places. It can be said that Master Chen's views have profoundly influenced Uncle Ironman's views on China.

Uncle Iron Man needs to read Master Chen's articles if he wants to understand Seris, he is not a bridge who is still ...... Well, now there is naturally Master Yuan who is "made of special materials".

So when Chen Yinke heard this bridge, he suddenly felt as if he knew himself, and the two looked at each other and smiled, and then had a drink.

After two glasses of wine, Master Chen's drunkenness was a little upset, and he said bluntly: "Brother Hong, Brother Fool has read your article "A Group of Wives and Concubines......"

Mr. Hongji's first vernacular text, which bloomed outside the wall and incense inside the wall, caused a sensation in China and then spread back to the United States. At that time, Shen Zhuohuan, the editor-in-chief of the "Quarterly Report of Students Studying in the United States", wrote a letter to Yuan Yanqian and asked to reprint it.

This gentleman studied at Columbia University, and he also returned to China in June in the second half of this year, and coincidentally, he actually lived in the same cabin as Wu Mi.

Master Yuan gladly agreed, and generously did not charge the manuscript fee. Therefore, many international students in the United States have read "A Group of Wives and Concubines".

"But, Brother Hong. The son doesn't say anything about the father's fault, you are a bit too much. ”

"Boom!"

Yuan Yanqian, who didn't agree with each other, lit a cigar without saying a word, and was very unhappy in her heart.

After the nineties, where would he scruple about "the son does not say anything about the father's fault", not to mention that Old Man Yuan is not his father but his great-grandfather, he has not met for too many generations, and he can't get close if he wants to.

He coughed and said, "Brother Heshou, you don't dare to agree with what you say. If we want to hold on to the set of monarchs, ministers, fathers, sons, and sons, how can our country catch up with the advanced countries of the West? What's more, the concubinage system is backward, reactionary, and uncivilized in today's world, and it is not ......."

Anyway, he can't take concubines now, he can only raise an outer room, so he naturally has to strongly oppose the backward, reactionary, and uncivilized concubine system.

"Since we have come to study in a civilized country like the United States, it is natural that we want to bring modern civilization back to China. Civilization is also divided into material civilization and spiritual civilization. In addition to improving our country's material civilization, we naturally want to beat the drum to attack our country's spiritual incivility, and I think my brother should also understand......"

"And the most uncivilized spiritual in our country is the Confucian set of monarchs, ministers, fathers and sons, self-denial and revenge ......"

He is a master of neoclassical liberalism, so naturally. He doesn't necessarily advocate pure freedom while also talking about the Three Principles and the Five Constants.

"Brother Hong, be careful!" Wu Mi on the side couldn't help but interrupt, "The father and son of the monarch and the minister do belong to the feudal dross, but self-denial and revenge are the supreme principle. Even my teacher, Professor Billy Brown, was very respectful......"

Wu's teacher Bai Bide was not Chinese, but the American Irving Babbitt (1865–1933), a Harvard-graduate Harvard professor who was one of the founders of neohumanist aesthetics and the founder of comparative literature.

So what is the New Humanism?

This is a very important thing for the history of modern Chinese thought, and I have to go into detail about it.

The so-called old humanism is the ideological system formed during the Renaissance: opposing theocratic bondage and pursuing individuality; oppose hierarchical ideas and pursue liberal democracy; oppose obscurantism and pursue the supremacy of reason......

In short, it is "human beings as the measure of all things".

At the beginning of the twentieth century, a new humanist trend emerged, represented by Bai Bide.

In the beginning, New Humanism was only a critical theory of literature, arguing that literature should return to the tradition of humanism with "moderation" as the core, and they believed that naturalistic tendencies (including romanticism, critical realism, and other currents of thought) would sacrifice the full meaning of beauty and should be rejected.

Later, it expanded beyond literary criticism, and they criticized the utilitarianism and romanticism of the modern West for bringing about moral degradation and loss of human nature, and called for the control of emotions and desires and the restoration of humanistic order.

In short, ethics is the foundation of human behavior. And this concept is very much in line with the Confucian saying of "self-denial and retribution".

Therefore, on the one hand, as Wu Mi said, Bai Bide admires Confucianism very much.

It may be because his father grew up in Ningbo, Zhejiang, so he "has a preference for China". He realized that "China must be organized, capable, and have the machinery of Europe and the West to avoid the aggression of Japan and foreign powers," and that "China must also shake off the old customs of blind obedience and the shackles of the pseudo-ancient school." At the same time, he also reminded that "while China strives for progress, it should not follow the example of Europe and the West, and dump the children in the basin with the bath water." ”。

On the other hand, his Chinese students are embraced by the new humanism.

In addition to the three masters of Harvard, the masters of the Republic of China who were influenced by him also included Mei Guangdi and Liang Shiqiu. This group of people is the "Xueheng" faction, which was on a par with the "New Moon" faction in the twenties.

In the future, Wang Guowei, Liang Qichao, Xiong Shili, Liang Shuming, Ma Yifu, Zhang Junmao, Feng Youlan, Qian Mu and other big bulls will also join in. They are the first generation of "neo-Confucianism".

In fact, if you think about it from their perspective, it is easy to understand why these people are so enthusiastic about embracing the new humanism.

Take Wu Mi as an example, as a young intellectual who is interested in saving the world, he originally wanted to study chemical engineering. However, he is an unforgettable prodigy, so Zhou Yichun, the principal of Tsinghua Academy, thought it was a pity for him to study science and suggested that he go to the United States to study English literature.

And when he came to the United States, when the Chinese students heard that he was coming to study English literature, they all regarded him as a monster and a waste, which made him feel a lot of pressure.

At this time, Wu Mi met Mei Guangdi (1890-1945), China's first doctor of literature in the United States, who was not only Hu Shi's Huizhou countryman but also Hu Shi's sworn enemy in the New Culture Movement. It was he who introduced Wu Mi to Bai Bide.

Well, a young intellectual who has received a traditional Chinese education has already painfully admitted that traditional Chinese culture is not good and has to learn from the West. Now he met a well-known Harvard professor and told him that you are actually very good at Chinese culture, even better than the mainstream of modern Western thought......

What would this Chinese intellectual think?

So these people naturally became conservatives among the liberals, and they compared and integrated the new humanism with the Confucianism of the East, and promoted it in China.

These "neo-Confucians" sincerely believe that this is the only way to save the world and preserve traditions.

Now I know why these people studied in Europe and the United States, and after drinking a belly of foreign ink, they actually became masters of Chinese culture after coming back.

In January 1922, Mei Guangdi, Wu Mi and others founded the magazine "Xueheng", and immediately started a polemic with Hu Shi, Lu Xun and other cadres of the New Culture Movement. It is conceivable that all of them who lived to the end of 49 years became big rightists.

Because Blowing Si listened to it, the retro "Xue Heng" school revived after the eighties of the last century, and was inherited by the third generation of "new new and new Confucianism". Later, Nanjing University also had a "Xueheng Research Institute", which published a "New Xueheng" magazine, which put forward the proposition of "global localization".

In fact, the real third generation of neo-neo-Confucianism is quite reliable, and in a certain large country in the East in the 21st century, this is also one of the three mainstream trends of thought that can compete with Marxism and the ***** faction.

It has to be said that the existence of the new new and new Confucianism is still reasonable. Assuming that a person's ass really can't sit on the side of the proletariat, and this person's head can't accept the "good idea" of **** no matter what, then this person has no choice but to go with those masters.

However, under the guise of Neo-Confucianism, what kind of "scripture reading school" and what "female virtue school", that is what I don't know, it can be called a group of demons dancing wildly.

To sum up, after the introduction of neo-humanism to China in 1922, it profoundly influenced the traditionalism of liberalism, and Neo-Confucianism was born. Since then, there have been attempts to modernize Confucianism, which has led to the second generation of neo-Confucianism represented by Mou Zongsan and others; After the eighties, neo-humanism remained the theoretical basis of the third generation of neo-neo-Confucianism.

After talking about the "Xueheng" school and new humanism, it is time to talk about the position of our Master Yuan.

In the field of ideology of the Republic of China, there are three distinct cultural currents, that is, radicalism on the left, conservatism on the right, and liberalism on the left and right.

Yuan Yanqian can only choose liberalism now, and according to his heart, if he wants to be a liberal, he must be a radical among liberals, that is, a ***** faction.

I know why he doesn't want to get close to the three heroes of Harvard, the Tao is not the same.

"Hahaha......" our Master Yuan looked up to the sky and said with a long smile, "self-denial and revenge?!" Hahaha......"

He laughed and recited, "Yan Yuan asks Ren." Zi said: 'Self-denial is benevolence. One day of self-denial and revenge, the world will return to benevolence. For the sake of oneself, and for the sake of others?'"

Of course, not to mention Wu Mi, who is an unforgettable genius child, who here has not memorized the Analects? Who doesn't know this Confucian "important words"?

Yuan Yanqian stopped laughing, squinted at Wu Mi and asked, "Brother Monk Yu, may I ask Yan Yuan to ask Ren, who is Ren?" ”

Of course, Master Wu said without hesitation: "Brother Hongji, naturally it is the benevolence of a gentleman......

"Shine! It's the benevolence of a gentleman! ”

Our Master Yuan interrupted Wu Mi in a loud voice.

After looking around at everyone, he suddenly raised his hand and pointed at one person: "Then he is the only one among us who can be called a gentleman!" ”