Wang Guowei is a famous master of Chinese studies. How much do you know about his life? Noodles, come and have a look with me!
First, family background
Wang's ancestral home is Kaifeng. The History of Song Dynasty contains Wang's ancestors, his distant ancestors, Bing Wang, Wang Xun and other outstanding figures. Among them, Wang Gui, Bing Wang and Wang Xun died in the national disaster, especially Bing Wang died in the first year of Jingkang, and died in Taiyuan to resist nomadic people and defend the city against the enemy. He is an outstanding national hero against gold. Bing Wang's grandson, Wang Ling, went south with Song Gaozong, attacked Lord Anhua, made him the first salt official, and settled here for more than 800 years. Wang Guowei's father, Wang Naiyu, is the grandson of the king of Anhua County in Song Dynasty. The Old Anhua Temple in Haining began in Hongzhi period of Ming Dynasty, and was destroyed by fire in Renji period of Jiajing, and then rebuilt and moved to the east of the city. Today, this ancient temple no longer exists. The Wang family has long been admired by local people in Haining for resisting Venus Wang Bing, attacking the former knights and giving it to the tomb of the first salt official. Wang Guowei was also very proud of this and wrote "Supplementing the Genealogy: A Biography of the Loyalty and the Lies".
Second, life experience.
Wang Guowei, 1877 (October 29th, 3rd year of Guangxu reign), was born in Shuang Ren Lane, Yan Guan Town, Haining City, Zhejiang Province. From his birth in 1877 until he went to Shanghai to study agricultural society and oriental literature society, his childhood and adolescence were mainly spent in his hometown of Haining. When he was four years old, his mother, Ms. Ling, passed away. His life with his sister Yu Yun is mainly taken care of by his aunt and grandmother, while his study life is mainly influenced by his father Wang Naiyu. Wang Naiyu, whose real name is Zhai Zhai, studied in a tea paint shop in his early years. In his spare time, he devoted himself to calligraphy and painting, seal cutting, ancient poetry and prose, and was knowledgeable and diligent in studying, especially the theory of calligraphy and painting. He wrote eight volumes of travel catalogs, one volume of ancient currency checks and other manuscripts, and several volumes of poems and paintings. Wang Guowei lived in a well-educated family and was smart and studious since childhood. From 65438 to 0883, at the age of seven, he studied in a neighboring school with Pan Zigui (Mao Chang) and Mr. Chen Shoutian, and received the teacher's enlightenment education. Under the guidance of his father, Wang Naiyu, he read extensively, dabbled in many fields of traditional culture, initially came into contact with modern advanced scientific and cultural knowledge and reform ideas, and gradually formed his ambition and interest in reading.
1892, Wang Guowei entered Chinese studies, ranking sixtieth. In the same year, he went to Hangyingfu to try but failed. 1893 Go to Hangyingke to try again, 1894 Go to Hangzhou Koren Chongwen Academy. Since he was admitted to the state university, he has not spent his main energy on preparing for the exam, but has developed an interest in history, collation, textual research and new learning from extensive reading. 1894 After the Sino-Japanese War of 1894, western culture and science were imported into China in large quantities, and Wang Guowei came into contact with new cultures and ideas, and he had a strong desire to pursue new learning. Although he can't afford to study abroad because of his poor family, he still cares about current affairs, studies foreign political books, dangerous words in prosperous times, times news, and compilation of wisdom. At 1897, when Chen Jia was a teacher, he was very uneasy about being a tutor in his hometown, so his father asked someone to recommend him to study abroad, hoping to study abroad.
/kloc-in the first month of 0/898, Wang Guowei, accompanied by his father Wang Naiyu, embarked on a voyage to Shanghai to study. He arrived in Shanghai by water and entered the current affairs museum. In February, he joined the Oriental Literature Society run by Luo Zhenyu. At that time, he studied under the Times to improve Paijia, and also under the Japanese teachers Fujita Hafeng and Shikoka Zuozhi of Oriental Literature Society. Besides studying Japanese, he also studied English and math. Wang Guowei was deeply wronged by the death of six gentlemen in the garrison reform in 1995. It's a pity to have a wrist and a chest and scratch your head for heaven. (According to Wang Naiyu's diary). 1in the spring of 900, with the support of Luo Zhenyu and the help of two Japanese teachers, Fujita and Tiangang, Wang Guowei went to Tokyo Physics School in June and February of 1900. Due to illness, he returned to Shanghai from Tokyo on April 26 of the following lunar calendar and returned to China for illness in May. After August, I went to Wuchang Agricultural School as an interpreter. Wang Guowei's editing work began when Wang was in the Oriental Literature Society, and then he studied in Japan. He published a large number of translations of Education World in Luo Zhenyu and became the editor-in-chief and acting editor-in-chief of the magazine. He introduced a large number of modern western scholars and foreign advanced ideas in the fields of science, philosophy, education, aesthetics and literature through compilation and his own exposition. He went to Shanghai from1898 (when he was 22 years old) and from 1906 to 30 years old. Besides studying in Dong Literature Society and Du Dong, he also teaches in Nantong Normal School and Jiangsu Normal School. At this time, he mainly attacked philosophy, studied the philosophy of Kant, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, and combined the pre-Qin philosophers and Neo-Confucianism in the Song Dynasty to attack western ethics, psychology, aesthetics, logic and education. His translation of famous books on psychology and logic is groundbreaking. He called this period? World academic knowledge? What? Study alone? Period. Representative works include A Dream of Red Mansions Review, Jing 'an Poetry Draft, Ren Jian Ci, etc. In addition, Wang Guowei served as the General Affairs Department of the Ministry of Education and the Book Compilation Bureau of the Ministry of Education. After thirty, I switched to literature. For the first time, the Russian writer Tolstoy was introduced to the people of China, Shakespeare, Dante and Goethe were introduced and compared, and Tolstoy's War and Peace was introduced. Karenina, Resurrection and other famous works, as well as Byron, an English romantic poet in the19th century. At the same time, Wang Guowei also studied aesthetics and Ci-poetry, wrote the famous Ci-poetry on earth, studied the history of China opera, and wrote Qulu and other works, which laid the foundation for the completion of the Song and Yuan opera grading examination.
After the Revolution of 1911 (19 1 1), the Qing government disintegrated, and Wang Guowei and his family went to Japan with Luo Zhenyu and lived there for more than four years. With the help of Luo Zhenyu, I had the opportunity to settle down and study, and my research direction turned to classics and primary schools. He and his neighbors in Luo Zhenyu usually learn from each other, discuss and study back and forth, help Roche sort out the books in Dayun Library, get a glimpse of the Yi rubbings and other stone products in its collection, and have extensive exchanges with Japanese scholars, which is a quick academic ability. He said in the preface to the Narrative of Jin Ming in Zhou Dynasty. After crossing to the east, I asked the counselor (referring to Roche) about the study of ancient Chinese characters, because I wanted to read all the rubbings I collected. . His treatment of Oracle Bone Inscriptions began at this time. Because I specialize in newly discovered historical materials, I can study ancient history based on ancient philology, from ancient artifacts to ancient books, costumes and architecture, so I have dabbled in a wide range and written a lot. In addition, there has also been a major breakthrough in the study of traditional Chinese opera, and the book "Examination of Traditional Chinese Opera in Song and Yuan Dynasties" has been well received. A summative masterpiece in the study of China's opera history? . During his stay in Japan, Wang Guowei felt the turmoil of the current situation and the demise of the Qing Dynasty. Combined with his life experience, he published some poems and compiled a collection of poems. During this period, his life was quite stable and he made more academic achievements. He described himself here? Life is the simplest, but learning is varied. As many books have written, it is the crown of life. ? Because of livelihood problems, Zou An, a fellow countryman, invited him back to Shanghai to compile a series of academic magazines for Hatong, an Englishman. He didn't want to live in Luo Zhenyu with his family, so 19 16 returned to China. In Harbin? Hirokura learns to be embarrassed? The academic series is the editor-in-chief, a professor at Cang Sheng Zhi University. He is mainly engaged in the study of Oracle Bone Inscriptions and the history of Shang and Zhou Dynasties, and has made achievements beyond his predecessors. He once participated in the compilation of Zhejiang Tongzhi, and compiled the Collection of Miyun Building in Wujiang, Wucheng for Jiang Ruzao, a famous bibliophile in the south of the Yangtze River. Important research achievements since 1911 have been compiled into Guanlin, including eight volumes of Yilin, ten volumes of Shilin and two volumes of Miscellaneous Forest, which have great influence on later generations.