Anecdotes about Yu Youren

1. Hospitality and Wishes

Yu Youren’s son found a girlfriend, and the two hit it off. They were a perfect match. However, the Yu family is a family that inherits calligraphy and etiquette, and everything must be done according to the rules. If the father is not at home, it is absolutely impossible to make a private life decision.

As a pair of lovers come and go, as time goes by, some trouble will inevitably occur. When the girl found out that she was pregnant, she panicked. The two of them were in a hurry and there was nothing they could do. Fortunately, after three months of pregnancy, Yu Youren returned to Sanyuan.

The son hurriedly asked the matchmaker to find a match. Yu Youren was a cheerful person. As long as the child agreed, he would not object, and the wedding was quickly held. In ten months of pregnancy, the child was born. Everyone knows that this is a child born out of wedlock. Doesn’t this completely ruin the Yu family’s family tradition?

How to explain this to your husband? The whole family was frightened. Everyone discussed it over and over again, and felt that if they could hide from the first year of junior high school, they would not be able to hide from the fifteenth day. Sooner or later, the husband would find out, so they had no choice but to bite the bullet and ask the housekeeper to go to Nanjing to "report the good news."

After the housekeeper arrived in Nanjing, he was so frightened when he saw Yu Youren that he didn't know where to start. He was speechless for a long time. Yu Youren asked anxiously: "What on earth do you want to say?" The more anxious Yu Youren became, the more frightened the housekeeper became, and the less he could say anything.

At this moment, the secretary came, and Yu Youren knew that he had business to attend to. He thought something big must have happened at home, otherwise the housekeeper wouldn't be so frightened. He felt that no matter what happened in the family, it was always a private matter. Since there were official matters to be handled, one could not neglect official matters for personal reasons.

So, I left the housekeeper and left. When the housekeeper saw that his husband was angry with him, he thought, wouldn't this add fuel to the fire? The more he thought about it, the more frightened he became, and soon he broke out in a cold sweat. It wasn't until Youren came back from doing business that the housekeeper explained the matter again in a hesitant manner.

Then he stood aside shivering and waited for his resignation. Yu Youren patted the butler on the shoulder and laughed loudly and said: "You didn't tell me about such a big happy event earlier! Get ready. I want to entertain guests in Nanjing and have a good celebration. We have a new member of the Yu family. ”

When the family saw that the housekeeper left for many days and did not come back, they knew that something bad was going to happen. Some people advocate divorcing the daughter-in-law who corrupts the family tradition, while others say that both people are responsible for this kind of thing, and the woman cannot be blamed only. Everyone argued over it, but couldn't come up with a good idea.

At this time, a car came. The butler walked respectfully beside the car. There was no doubt that the man sitting in the car was Mr. My husband was busy with official duties, and if he came back in person, something bad would happen. The whole family was frightened. The son was frightened. The daughter-in-law was so frightened that she cried.

As soon as the car arrived, the whole family ran away. The butler opened the curtains but there was no one there. But what was in the car was that the husband put a longevity lock on the child. Before leaving, he wrote a letter to his son and wife. Let the butler take the letter.

The housekeeper went to Sanyuan and hired a car, and respectfully handed Yu Youren's gifts and letters to the young master. The young master opened them and found out that the letter encouraged his husband and wife to love each other, told his daughter-in-law to take care of herself, and gave her best wishes. The grandson grows up healthily.

2. Special students

Mr. Yu Youren is going to inspect Sanyuan Minzhi School. In order to welcome Mr. Yu's arrival, the school organized an honor guard and organized a general cleaning for the students when they got up early in the morning. For safety reasons, the police station also sent police guards.

Among the students who were cleaning, there was a student who was not wearing school uniform who worked the most energetically. After finishing his work, he stood aside and watched the honor guard rehearse while wiping his sweat. At this time, a child from a wealthy family came over and cursed: "Shameless thief, get out of here."

"I also want to hear Mr. Yu speak." The poor child whispered. "What, you eavesdropped on our class, and you also wanted to listen to Mr. Yu's speech. The thief is getting bolder and bolder!" The police chief heard the noise and came over to the poor boy and asked: "Why don't you wear a school uniform?"

"He is not a student, he is an eavesdropper. He eavesdrops on our lecture hall every day. Today I want to hear Mr. Yu speak." The police chief glared at the poor boy and said, "Get out, don't make trouble." "If I don't make trouble, I will Just stand far away and listen. ""Stop talking and get out!"

The police chief pushed the poor child forward roughly, and the child fell to the ground, bleeding from his mouth. The child got up and rushed towards the police chief. The police chief raised his fist and tried to hit him, but someone grabbed his hand from behind.

He looked back and saw that it was an old man with a big beard.

The police chief scolded him rudely: "Old man, Mr. Yu Youren came to inspect today, and you are looking for death!" The old man said: "Yu Youren came to the school to visit, what does it have to do with you?" The police chief sneered and said: "We are here to protect Mr. Yu's safety. If you dare to cause trouble.

Come here, get it for me!" The police heard this and pounced on him. At this moment, the police chief and principal arrived. The chief hurriedly shouted: "Let go, this is Mr. Yu Youren." The police chief was frightened. Yu Youzhi wiped the blood of the poor child.

Ask: "What is your name?" "Xiang Guangming." The child replied. "What a great name." Yu Youren turned to the director and the principal and said, "I have seen everything today clearly. I, Yu Youren, do not need the protection of so many police officers with live ammunition.

This is rare. He is such a child who is ambitious and willing to learn. Curing ignorance is one of the best ways to govern a country. It is our fault that children like this cannot receive education. "Mr. Principal, can we accept this special student for free?" Accept this special student."

The principal replied. Yu Youren shook his head: "Free is not good." The principal immediately understood what Mr. Yu meant and said: "The school happens to be looking for a bell ringer, so let this special student ring the bell and do some chores. In addition to free schooling, some living expenses will be given. ”

3. Make an endorsement

Yu Xinsan teaches his son well. There is a legend about family training in Sanyuan: when Yu Youren was ten years old, his father Yu Xinsan supervised his son's homework, and the father and son endorsed it under the lamp together. The son bowed to his father before endorsing the letter.

When my father was reciting, he placed the book upright on his desk, bowed respectfully to the book, and then began to recite. Endorsements are always memorized until they are thoroughly memorized. The story of "Under a lamp like a bean, with painstaking efforts, father and son bowed to each other and recited the articles" became a favorite for a while.

Making a bow is a kind of salute, a etiquette and a ritual. In fact, reading needs ritual to support it. After bathing and burning incense and then reading the scriptures, one's mind will respect the scriptures. Although this is form, and form contains content.

What Yu Xinsan taught Yu Youren was not only knowledge, but also an attitude of respect for knowledge. Nowadays, we call parent-child reading and emphasize equality, but it is not as serious and effective as court training.

Yu Youren has never forgotten his father’s court training. In 1939, Yu Youren spent 3,500 silver dollars to build a middle school in Tuguan Temple outside the west gate of Yuechi County, Sichuan, where his father was doing business.

The school was named after his father's name "Xin San", which also means "Three People's Principles", and he appointed himself as the chairman of the school. He personally gave the school motto "Serve the Country with Learning" to Xinsan Middle School and wrote the school song himself. This school is the predecessor of today's Yuechi County No. 1 Middle School.

4. Run for Vice President

In May 1948, the Kuomintang held the National Convention in Nanjing to elect the president and vice president. Mr. Yu Youren, a veteran of the Kuomintang, participated in the vice presidential election. The main opponent in the election is Li Zongren, the Guangxi warlord. Before the election, in order to let representatives know their thoughts and plans.

Yu Youren set up a desk in the house every day, equipped with the four treasures of the study: pen, ink, paper, and inkstone. Every representative sent a banner "creating peace for all generations". At the same time, a long table was set up on which 2,000 photos signed by him were placed. Each photo was signed with the name of each representative.

They are arranged by province, city, county or occupation, and the representatives will pick them up when they come to the door. The number of people who visit Yu Youren every day is at most 100 or 200 per hour. Most people realize that Mr. Youren uses his reputation and a pen as the power of his campaign.

Those involved in the vice presidential campaign have a very different approach from Yu Youren. For example, Li Zongren provided each representative with a car, with a driver serving him morning and evening, and rented several large hotels and hotels. As long as he was a representative, he could stay there regardless of whether he knew him or not.

Breakfast and dinner are served every day for free. Sun Ke, the executive director, and Cheng Qian, director of the Wuhan office, entertained guests with wine every day, distributed souvenirs to representatives, made promises, and built relationships. Representatives from all over the country are overwhelmed with invitations every day.

Representatives are God, and vice-presidential candidates try to win votes for themselves by recruiting colleagues, rural parties, classmates, relatives, and fellow clansmen...

But Yu Youren relied on a pen and a piece of paper to campaign at home. Someone advised Yu Youren not to "just sit back and wait" at home.

If you want to go out and walk around, you can ask a consortium to borrow money for activities, but Yu Youren declined. He told Friendly: I believe in the people and I believe in myself. Whether it succeeds or not depends on public opinion. There will be a vote tomorrow, and Yu Youren suddenly sent someone to send an invitation to each representative.

I gave an impromptu speech to the arriving representatives at the hotel: My family doesn’t have any money, so it’s difficult to be kind to the representatives. Today, it was my old friend Feng Ziyi and 20 other people who raised funds, so they could prepare a small amount of wine to treat them. I just borrowed the wine to toast the guests...

The National Government election has begun. Voting is by elimination system. On the first day of voting, Mr. Yu Youren received 493 votes and was eliminated. At the end of the election, several representatives came to Yu Youren to comfort him. Feng Ziyi said with emotion: "You are penniless and campaigned on the basis of personality, prestige and pen and ink.

Can this be successful? Paper bullets are no match for money. , In this society of political corruption, relying on money, beautiful women, red wine, and cars to canvass votes, how could Mr. Yu not fail? The reason for this failure is all caused by our ignorance of the world."

The next day, Continue to vote and Yu Youren will attend on time. As soon as he entered the venue, he had an elegant and open-minded demeanor. All the representatives stood up and applauded for 10 minutes to express their admiration for him. In the end, Sun Ke, Cheng Qian and others were eliminated one after another, and Li Zongren was elected vice president.

Chiang Kai-shek was elected president. On May 20, 1948, the inauguration ceremony was held at the Nanjing Presidential Palace. Although Yu Youren did not become the vice president, his image of being poor, honest, upright, elegant, and open-minded left people with an indelible example of life. ?

5. Northwest Wizard

In 1895, Yu Youren was admitted to the county school with first place and became a scholar. In 1898, he participated in the annual examination and ranked first as a supplementary student. He was hailed as a "Northwestern Wizard" by Ye Erkai, the governor of Shaanxi Province.

The admiral lent him a copy of "Diary of a Mission to Four Countries", which was written by Xue Fucheng, a famous diplomat in the late Qing Dynasty, who was ordered to go on a mission to four European countries from the first month of the sixteenth year of Guangxu (1890) to February of the seventeenth year. The diary written during this period is named after the travelogue.

Compare Chinese and Western cultures, discuss China's problems, and express their reform ideas. These patriots in the late Qing Dynasty tried to find China's development model in the West. This book opened the young talent's horizons, looked at the world, and allowed him to recognize the reality clearly.

It paved the way for him to join the anti-Qing ranks, and for him to meet Sun Yat-sen and join the Tongmenghui in 1906. In 1900, the Eight-Power Allied Forces captured Beijing, and Empress Dowager Cixi fled to Shaanxi, making a grand and powerful journey. Yu Youren participated in the "Kneeling to Welcome".

Wrote poems and compiled them into "Half Crying and Half Smiling Poems". Friends printed it in the winter of 1903 and circulated it in Miyuan. At the beginning of 1904, his poems were criticized by the Qing court for publication. Yu Youren fled to Shanghai, changed his name to Liu Xueyu, and studied at Aurora College.

In 1905, the principal Ma Xiangbo resigned, and Yu Youren provided money, connections, and hired Ma Xiangbo, Ye Zhongyu, Shao Lizi and other colleagues to organize a separate Fudan Public School (now Fudan University).