The Institute of History and Language is divided into three groups: history, language, and archaeology, commonly known as the first group, the second group, and the third group, while Chen, Zhao, and Li are the "three directors" who preside over the work of each group, and can also be called the "three mentors", or the "three King Kongs".

At the beginning of its establishment, Yan Buwen invited Dai Wangyu, Su Wenjin and others to volunteer to be members of each group, after all, their knowledge is nothing compared to Chen, Zhao, and Li Zhen, and it is better to learn more. Dai Wangyu and the two teachers were assigned to Chen Yinke in the first group of history, the other two Daxia teachers were assigned to Zhao Yuanren in the second group of language groups, and the rest of the people, including Su Wenjin, were assigned to Li Ji, that is, the three groups of archaeology, the most difficult group.

At the inaugural meeting of the Institute of History and Language, Yan Buwen also put forward his own idea, that is, the "Purpose of the Work of the Institute of History and Linguistics" proposed by Fu Sinian. Yan Buwen clearly stated: "History is not history; The history of the past is more or less a bit of the ancient and medieval meaning, and every time it takes the means of an ethicist, it is the ability of an essayist. Modern historiography is only the study of historical materials, using all the tools provided to us by the natural sciences to organize all the historical materials that can be encountered, so the scope of modern historiography is from geology to the current newsprint, and Darwinism outside of historiography is the culmination of historical methods......"

Yan Buwen's profound knowledge and genius ideas made the three directors nod frequently, and then Yan Buwen completely published the "Purpose of the Work of the Institute of History and Linguistics", and completely conquered the three directors.

Yan Buwen put forward three criteria for the Institute of History and Language in this book of "Interests": (1) Where materials can be directly studied, progress will be made. Those who indirectly study the systems that have been studied or created by their predecessors without making extensive and detailed reference to the facts contained in them regresses. (2) Where a learning can expand the material of its study, it progresses, and where it cannot it regresses. (3) Progress is made to the extent that a learning can expand the tools used in its research; If you can't, you will regress.

Yan Buwen also emphasized: "One cent of material is worth one point, ten points of material is worth ten of goods, and no material will not be shipped." We are not people who read, we are just going up and down to the Yellow Spring, looking for things with our hands and feet! ”

In the end, he stood up without hearing anything, raised his arms and shouted, quite like a leader: "Those who mix some traditional or self-made "benevolence, righteousness, propriety, and wisdom" with other subjectivity with history and linguistics are definitely not our comrades!" ”

"It is our comrades to build history and linguistics on the same level as biology and geology!"

"We want the orthodoxy of scientific orientalism in China!"

Soon, three groups of investigation areas were designated, and in the early stage, they used their own money to pave the way, and for one group to find the archival materials flowing out of the Forbidden City, and designated the research scope of Han Jian and Dunhuang materials; The third group delineated the survey areas of Anyang and Luoyang, with Yinxu and Longshan as the focus. The linguistic survey of the second group was carried out accordingly.

Among them, Li Ji is the happiest, archaeology is his own life, and now he is not aware of a series of standards formulated, and he envisioned very close, but Li Ji is also very worried, for this brilliant development prospects, Li Ji, who is full of rational and scientific concepts, warned: "The slogan is shouted, the enthusiasm is drummed, how to implement it?" If this further problem cannot be satisfactorily resolved, the slogan will stop at the slogan, and the enthusiasm will eventually dissipate. After all, there are many things that are thundering and raining, but soon Li Ji's doubts were completely dispelled, and Yan Buwen, who had been far-sighted when he came to Beijing before, quietly rushed to Yinxu in Anyang and began to collect oracle bones.

This person is also introduced by Fu Sinian, an associate professor of Sun Yat-sen University, and a current correspondent of the Institute of History and Language, Dong Zuobin.

After the meeting, each group had its own tasks and began to arrange the preliminary work. Yan Buwen also breathed a sigh of relief, and walked out of the gate of the school building, Yan Buwen only laughed, Fu Sinian's "Purpose" is really the deepest article of brainwashing, fortunately I remember, otherwise the opening conference of the Shiyu Institute really can't deter the three major tutors

Li Ji also said in his recollections: "The call to build a "scientific oriental orthodoxy" in China with the Institute of History and Philology as its base camp is highly encouraging; The first person to raise this banner and lead the way forward was Yan Buwen, who was in the prime of life; He was just over twenty years old, full of spirit, full of energy, and full of vitality; Not only did he have a strong foundation in Chinese studies, but he also had a thorough understanding of the history, linguistics, psychology, philosophy, and history of science in modern Europe, and he was the ideal leader of this movement. He awakened the highest national consciousness of Chinese scholars, and in a short period of time, he gathered many middle-aged and young scholars who could use modern academic tools. ”

Li Ji's remarks also indirectly prove that after the establishment of the Institute of History and Language, Yan Buwen was widely respected and admired by the academic community because of his outstanding knowledge and strong organizational ability.

If Yan Buwen knew Li Ji's evaluation, he could only smile: "False praise, false praise." This remark was originally Li Ji praising Fu Sinian, but now Fu Sinian's work is all done by Yan Buwen, so Li Ji naturally began to praise Yan Buwen. Fu Sinian, a predator in the political and literary circles of the Republic of China, has now become a step forward for Yan Buwen.

Soon, Chen, Zhao, and Li resigned from all their positions at Tsinghua University and concentrated on studying at the Institute of History and Language, which also made Tsinghua a lot dimmed in an instant, if it weren't for Wang Guowei and Liang Qichao, I am afraid it would not be comparable to Peking University. This also makes many people curious, what is this Shiyu Institute, which can allow the three major mentors to join unconditionally, and who is the leader of the Shiyu Institute, Yan Buwen, is it the one who left in the middle of the last speech. But soon everyone knew that he was a young man, a little unusual, only in his early twenties, but the courage he exuded was unmatched.

As long as the celebrity masters of Tsinghua University and Peking University are mentioned, Chen, Zhao, Li Yuan, Tsinghua tutors, Wang Guowei and Liang Qichao are mentioned, some people will inevitably mention the newly established Institute of History and Language, and the preparer of the Institute of History and Language, Yan Buwen, Master Yan!

If people knew about Yan Buwen before, it was through various newspapers and magazines under Xinglong Newspaper. Now I know that Yan Buwen is because of Yan Buwen's knowledge and courage, as well as foresight, to explore Chinese treasures!