Short stories about famous people

1, Lu Xun - to help the youth

Lu Xun in Guangzhou, a young man by his penitentiary, with him to Shanghai. After arriving in Shanghai, Lu Xun warmly kept him in his apartment in Jingyunli, and later he asked Lu Xun to find him a job in Shanghai.

Lu Xun was very difficult to find Yu Dafu said there is really no way to ask a bookstore newspaper in the name of him to do things, and the monthly salary of 30 to 40 yuan by Lu Xun himself out of the bookstore newspaper by Dafu forwarded to him as a monthly salary. The extent of Lu Xun's help to the youth is evident.

2. Dr. Sun Yat-sen - Names

Dr. Sun Yat-sen used a number of names, most of which were chosen to promote the revolution or to get rid of wanted persons, and some of which were used to express his expectations in life.

Sun also used aliases such as Chen Wen, Shan Yue, Du Jialong, Gongwu, Di Zhu, Gao Da Sheng and Wu Zhong, as well as pen names such as Duke of Qiyi Worry, Zhongguo Zhilu Shi, Nanyang Primary School Student, and Nanyang First School Student. After the Xinhai Revolution, Sun Yat-sen no longer faced the pursuit of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and all of his public and private records were signed with his real name "Sun Wen".

In addition, Sun Yat-sen once called himself the second Hong Xiuquan and regarded Hong as "the first anti-Qing hero". Some people believe that this is because Sun received a Western-style education, not bound by the traditional concept of loyalty to the king, so he dared to call himself so; Republic of China history textbooks also adopted this statement.

The nickname "Sun Da Cannon", which was used by political opponents to deride Sun, existed before the Xinhai Revolution. Da Cannon means "impractical person" in Cantonese, implying that Sun's words were exaggerated and unrealistic.

The official documents of the Qing government all made an article on his name "文", adding the three-pointed water radicals, and called him Sun Wen in a derogatory manner.

3, Hu Shi-Hu afraid of Mrs.

Hu Shih, a famous modern Chinese scholar, is a rabbit, his wife Jiang Dongxiu is a tiger, Hu Shih often joked: "rabbits are afraid of tigers." Jokes about Hu Shi's fear of his wife were circulated at the time.

On one occasion, a friend in Paris sent Hu Shih a dozen French ancient copper coins, because the money had three letters on it, "PTT", which read harmonically and coincidentally as "fear of wife". Hu joked with several friends who were afraid of their wives, "If we set up a 'Fear of Wives Association', these coins will be used to make the badges of the members."

4. Kang Youwei - Antique Scandal

In "Will the World Be Alright - Liang Shuming's Late Oral Recounting", Liang Shuming disclosed two scandals of Kang Youwei about antiques: one is that, when he visited Wolong Temple in Xi'an, Shaanxi, he loaded a number of volumes of precious antique version of Buddhist scriptures in the temple on his mule cart in an attempt to steal them, which was later discovered and recovered.

On another occasion, Kang "borrowed" a very expensive painting from a banker, Yu Fan Cheng, and tried to keep it for himself. Yu was unable to get it back, so he had to send many people to Kang's house to force him to get it back.

5, Tao Hsing-chi - four sugar story

Tao Hsing-chi has such a story of education of students: a boy with a mud block to smash their classroom boys, was found by the principal of the Tao Hsing-chi to stop, ordered him to the principal's office at the end of the school day. After school, Tao Xingzhi came to the principal's office, the boy had long been waiting to be reprimanded.

But Tao Xingzhi smiled and took out a candy and gave it to him, saying, "This is a prize for you, because you came here on time and I was late." The boy took the candy. Then Tao Xingzhi happily pulled out a second candy and put it into his hand, saying, "This is a reward for you, because when I didn't let you hit someone, you immediately stopped, which shows that you respect me, and I should reward you." The boy looked at Tao Xingzhi in surprise.

Then Tao Xingzhi took out a third candy and shoved it into the boy's hand, saying, "I've investigated, you hit those boys with the mud block because they bullied the girls; your hitting them shows that you're very upright and kind and have the courage to fight against the bad guys, so you should be rewarded for that!"

The boy was touched, he cried out with tears of regret: "Principal Tao, I was wrong, I smashed not the bad guys, but my classmates ......" Tao Xingzhi smiled with satisfaction, he then took out a fourth candy and handed it over, saying: "For you to correctly recognize your own mistakes, I award you another piece of candy, I don't have more candies, and our conversation can end."

Reference:

Reference: