The characters involved in the book basically include the most famous intellectuals of that era, such as,, Chen Yinque, Wu Mi, Liang Sicheng, Liang Siyong, Lin and Jin.
The book is vivid in content, rich in historical materials and rigorous in textual research. After reading it, people felt a lot, so I remembered it.
The first feeling is that during the Anti-Japanese War, the life of these intellectuals was really hard.
If they lived a decent life before the war, with the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, these senior intellectuals suffered unprecedented hardships. They drifted from place to place, and tried their best to retreat to the rear area by car, boat or even on foot. In the process of retreating, all the money was lost. Worse still, like Chen Yinque, he stubbornly stole more than half of a batch of materials and manuscripts from Tsinghua University, which was about to be occupied by the Japanese army. The rest were also blown up in the Changsha air raid, and all the efforts of more than ten years were destroyed.
When they finally arrived in Kunming, they had to face the crazy bombing of Japanese planes almost every day. Running an air raid has become their daily life, and Kim's manuscript has also been lost in the air raid, not to mention the death threats they face all the time.
Poverty and disease also come together. Chen Yinque is blind in one eye, but she can't get treatment. Lin and Liang Siyong were seriously ill in Lizhuang, lacking medical care and medicine. Among them, Lin had a high fever for a long time and could not find a thermometer. Li Ji's two daughters have died of illness.
The second feeling is that these intellectuals really have feelings for the country and the nation.
Most of them studied in famous universities in Europe and America, but they all chose to return to their weak motherland. In the face of Japanese aggression, they chose to go to national disaster. People like Chen Yinque, Wu Mi and Hu Shi were skeptical about China's victory, but they never chose to surrender. When Chen Yinque was trapped in Hong Kong, she had no income and made a living by selling some personal belongings. Wang puppet sent someone to ask him to teach in a Japanese-controlled university, but he refused, risking his life to sneak into Macau and then transfer to Yunnan.
They never stopped studying and teaching during the war. Li Ji, Liang Siyong and others from the Institute of History and Linguistics of Academia Sinica have been conducting archaeological excavations in the field and have achieved fruitful results. They used strong evidence to overthrow the internationally popular theory that Chinese civilization was an alien. The National Southwest Associated University has trained a group of outstanding talents in the future.
The third feeling is that these talented people are actually very cute.
Chen Yinque will drive people away because of a nap; Wu Mi, lover and Mao Yanwen even named people in the newspaper to send love poems; Jin foolishly tried to persuade Wu Mi, but he was scolded, blushed and admitted that he had said something wrong. Lin gave her a bottle of vinegar because Bing Xin wrote "The Lady's Living Room". In the war, as long as their lives are a little more stable, they will try to make their lives richer and more interesting.
Note: The poem in the title of this article comes from The Scene of the South Lake written by Mr. Chen Yinke from Mengzi, Yunnan: