Who knows how many Chinese languages Gu Hongming can speak?

Gu Hongming is fluent in nine Chinese languages.

I seem to remember that I know 7 languages.

People's Daily Online "Crazy Confucian Gu Hongming.

From this unique perspective, Gu Hongming compares the Chinese with the Americans, the British, the Germans, and the French, highlighting the characteristics of the Chinese

Americans are broad and simple, but not deep; The British are deep and simple, but not broad; The Germans are broad and deep, not simple; The French do not have the natural depth of the Germans, and are not as broad-minded as the Americans and the simple-hearted English, but they possess a sensitivity that these three peoples lack;

Only the Chinese have these four excellent spiritual traits in a comprehensive way. It is precisely for this reason that Gu Hongming said that the overall impression left by the Chinese on the nuclear celebration is "gentle" and "the gentleness that the state of the stove is difficult to pretend to be good."

Main Achievements:

The significance and importance of Koo's career lies in the communication between Chinese and Western cultures and the appeal to the translation industry. In order to let Westerners understand the Chinese philosophy of Confucius and Mencius, spiritual morality, he was diligent in writing. Koo wrote prolifically, many of them in fluent English, with the aim of making Chinese culture known to Westerners and, through understanding, to respect Chinese culture.

He translated three of China's "Four Books"—The Analects, The Mean, and The University—and made great achievements. He is also the author of "The Oxford Movement in China" (formerly known as "Qing Chuan").

and The Spirit of the Chinese

Formerly known as "Spring and Autumn Righteousness".

and other English books, keen to promote the culture and spirit of the East to Westerners, and have had a significant impact.

From a unique perspective, Gu Hongming compares Chinese with Americans, British, Germans, and French, highlighting the characteristics of Chinese: Americans are broad and simple, but not deep; The British are deep and simple, but not broad; The Germans are broad and deep, not simple;

The French do not have the natural depth of the Germans, and the unfilial piety is as broad-minded as the Americans and the English are simple-minded, but they have the sensitivity that these three peoples lack; Only the Chinese have these four excellent spiritual traits in a comprehensive way. It is precisely for this reason that Gu Hongming said that the general impression left by Chinese people is "gentleness" and "indescribable gentleness."

Anecdote of Gu Hongming's character:

At the beginning of the century, Mr. Gu Hongming attended the Washington Conference on behalf of Beiyang**. At a cocktail party, a shallow American lady sat next to Gu Hongming. Looking at this strange Chinese old man, she couldn't find a topic for a while.

When he came on the stage, he finally couldn't help it, learned the broken English of the Chinatown dialect, and asked word by word: "Then you like soup?" (Do you like this soup?)

Gu Hongming nodded politely and smiled.

The lady thought that this chinaman could not understand even the lightest English, so she stopped talking to him. After three rounds of drinking, Gu Hongming stood up and delivered a speech, speaking fluent and elegant English, and Sun Shen was amazed by it. Gu Hongming sat down, followed the lady's tone, and asked the lady who was already blushing with shame in a low voice

likespeech?(Like my presentation?) ）

2. Gu Hongming once said to his students: "There are only two good people in China now, one is Mr. Cai Yuanpei, and the other is me. Why?

Because Mr. Cai refused to be an official after ordering Hanlin and wanted to go to the revolution, he is still in the revolution. And me. Since he became an official of the former Qing Dynasty with Zhang Wenxiang (Zhang Zhidong), he is still protecting the emperor.

One year, Yuan Shikai's subordinate Zhang Xun celebrated his birthday, and Gu Hongming sent a couplet, which was: "There is no rain cover for the lotus; The next link is: "The remnant chrysanthemum still has proud frost branches." Afterwards, Gu Hongming pretended to ask Hu Shi mysteriously what the meaning of this couplet was.

Hu Shi replied with a smile: "'The remnant chrysanthemum still has proud frost branches', of course, it refers to Zhang Dashuai and your old braids." But I don't know what 'rain cover' means? Gu Hongming replied: "'Qingyu cover' is the big hat of the Qing Dynasty. So the two of them clapped their hands and laughed.

Zhang Zhongxing commented on Gu Hongming: I think that if this strange man still has some contributions, his greatest contribution is that when the whole world is rushing to power and profit, he is willing to stand next to him and shout: Danger! Dangerous!

Wen Yuanning, a professor of English at Peking University, commented on Gu Hongming in "A Thinking Layman": During his lifetime, Gu Hongming had become a legend; After his death, he may become a mythical figure. In fact, he is not very different from the many people you meet every day, he is just a natural rebel.

Gu Hongming's biography:

Gu Hongming, whose name is Tang Sheng, whose name is Hongming, whose name is Licheng, calls himself a lazy person, a native of the east, west, north and south, and is also signed as Mr. Hanbin Reading Yi and Mr. Dong Yan, and his English name is Tomson. Originally from Hui'an County, Fujian Province, he was born in Penang, British Malaysia, Nanyang.

He is proficient in 9 languages, including English, French, German, Latin, Greek, and Malaysian, and has obtained 13 doctorates.

He translated three of China's "Four Books"—The Analects, The Mean, and The University—and made great achievements. He also wrote English books such as "The Oxford Movement in China" and "The Spirit of the Chinese", and was keen to promote the culture and spirit of the East to Westerners, and had a major impact.

I still have a good impression of this person.

There are many ways to evaluate a person, many people say that he is not good, but I think many of his words are right, as small as a person, as big as a nation, should adhere to their own integrity, he feels that after China and Germany become allies, treachery, is the sorrow of the Chinese nation, so he turned his nose up at China Baba's participation in the "Paris Peace Conference" and even the "May Fourth Movement" caused by the insult at the meeting, feeling that this is a self-inflicted evil result of betraying the national concept.

It is said that there are only interests between countries, but since ancient times, China has been ranked before the country, as long as you identify with Chinese culture and become a member of the Chinese nation, China will never discriminate, even if it is North Korea, Japan and the like in the past.

This is the self-confidence and mind of a strong nation.

In what he did, he advocated that every nation should follow its own path, proceed from its own merits, and take the road of self-improvement.

In this regard, Mr. Gu is remarkable, because the Chinese people of that era, even Mr. Lu Xun, were inferior, for example, Lu Xun's description of blood steamed buns, criticizing the onlookers of the countrymen, feeling that the Chinese could not do anything; In fact, when the king of France was killed, the people were no different from the Chinese people, and they even had to cut meat to eat, which was more disgusting than blood steamed buns.

How talented is Gu Hongming? Literary titan Leo Tolstoy once wrote a letter to pay his respects.