Liu Wendian, an Anhui native, is such a person. Famous master of Chinese studies, Professor Peking University, President of Anhui University, President of Tsinghua University. He is a scholar who is obsessed with learning. He once specialized in studying Huai Nan Zi, a wonderful book of Han Dynasty, and wrote Lie Hong Collection of Huainan. He also has a deep study of Zhuangzi, and once said something crazy like this: In our country, there are only two people who really understand Zhuangzi, one is Zhuang Zhou and the other is me. His book True and False in Zhuangzi also made him an expert in Zhuangzi.
Liu Wendian is such a person. He is brilliant and knowledgeable, but he thinks highly of himself and is arrogant. When he was teaching at National Southwest Associated University, he had a fight with Wen Yiduo because of his dismissal, and they broke up in discord. Liu Wendian, with a stubborn temper, not only treated his colleagues in the cultural circle, but also met with military and political leaders according to his own temperament. On one occasion, he also had a conflict with Chiang Kai-shek and reprimanded President Jiang face to face, which became a much-told story for a while.
This happened when Liu Wendian was the president of Anhui University. The thing is this: One day, Anhui No.1 Girls' Middle School next door to Anhui University held a celebration party. Students from Anhui University went to join in the fun, but they couldn't enter the meeting without an invitation. These young and energetic students rushed into the meeting. This caused dissatisfaction among the girls, so she turned off the switch and ended the party early.
The students of Anhui University who didn't watch the drama were unhappy. They shouted loudly and made fights among girls, which not only broke the equipment of many schools, but also injured the teachers and students in girls' middle schools. It was not until the police arrived after the alarm that the situation was calmed down.
Of course, women who have suffered a big loss are not reconciled. Aren't you bullying from door to door in Anhui University? Just then, Chiang Kai-shek was inspecting Anqing, and the matter came to President Jiang. Hearing this, Chiang Kai-shek got into a fight with a group of intellectuals, which was new, so he sent the heads of schools on both sides to the office to prepare to talk.
At first, Liu Wendian expressed his willingness to compensate all the losses of the girls' middle school, and apologized to the girls' middle school on behalf of Anhui University, but he opposed the expulsion of the students involved, because he thought there might be an unknown "black hand" behind this matter.
Chiang Kai-shek's original intention was to make an example of a few students by dealing with them seriously. When Chiang Kai-shek saw that Liu Wendian never understood, he became angry and angered. "Look at you, you are simply a local tyrant and evil gentry." When Liu Wendian heard this, this guy dared to scold me and replied, "I think you look like a new warlord."
Chiang Kai-shek was angry and scolded, "I'm sorry I didn't investigate you today." Liu replied, "Speaking of the Prime Minister, I had a revolution with him. You don't know where it is?" In fact, Liu Wendian followed Sun Yat-sen in his early years and served as his secretary. Repeated confrontation with Chiang Kai-shek really made him angry. He gave instructions on the spot, asking the guards to tie up Liu Wendian and put him away for a few days.
Later, when I met Teacher Zhang Taiyan, I was also highly praised by Teacher Zhang. Because Zhang Taiyan himself was a person who once made a scene in the presidential palace and lambasted the president, but he scolded Yuan Shikai and Liu Wendian scolded Chiang Kai-shek. Zhang Taiyan was very happy. He wrote a couplet for Liu Wendian to show his praise!
The couplet reads like this: "It is really fair to get rid of diseases and evils in health preservation."