source: China economic network
1924 April Tagore (right three) Lin Whei-yin (right two) Xu Zhimo (right first) Liang Sicheng (left first) Shadow
Tagore Ji'nan adventure
and said in April 22, 1924, Ji'nan Tianjin railway railway station, night falls, the station is brightly lit, crowds, people are saving, people are waiting for the arrival of India poetry and philosophy.
welcome to the station to meet the social celebrities and cultural and educational circles from all walks of life in the station, the Buddhist monks, the school principals and the teachers and students, as well as the men and women, as well as more than 200 people at Ying Tai.
around 7:40 in the evening, with the sound of a whistle, an ordinary express train from Nanjing to Ji'nan slowly entered the platform. The express train has two boxes of flowers. After the car stopped, Tagore's crew walked out of the box accompanied by two gentlemen, Wang Tongzhao and Wang Zhuchen. The two gentlemen, as representatives of the Ji'nan reception group, arrived in Qufu to welcome Tagore. Tagore, with a long coat of white, and a brown red gown, appeared in the door of the box. He saw only half a foot of a half length of some curly white beard, a long shawl with long silver hair and a cap on his head.
at this time, we welcome the crowd to find that there are also famous poets Xu Zhimo and Lin Huiyin in Tagore's line. The young students who saw the floating poets in the sky and the Miss Lin of the jade tree were suddenly cheering. The scene was so hot that they almost lost control. Because Tagore is a humanitarian, insisted on not sitting in the human car, Wang Zhuchen and Wang Tongzhao have to hurry to transfer the foreign car, accompanied by Tai on walking half a Li, to the stone Tai Rock Hotel, arrange them to stay.
second days, the news headline of the Ji'nan newspaper is "the Oriental poetry God with the golden girl!" he said: "the world famous long beard poet Tagore and the thin poet Xu Zhimo of the robe and the beautiful Miss Lin Hui Yin like a beautiful picture of the pine plum"
his post Tagore was invited to make three public speeches. . Shandong Legislative Building (the "bird cage" on the east side of the building and the next "Ji'nan provincial one middle" on the side of the Daming Lake on the side of the Daming Lake), which is entitled "the exchange of Chinese and Indian culture", and the first teacher Hall of the Ji'nan Province, which is located in the original site of the original "Yuan Yuan academy" in the West Street of the inner courtyard of the city, is entitled "a literary revolution". "Self confession of the family"; Kang Mutang, Qilu University (the Great Hall of the campus of the southern Wei school), entitled "comparison between eastern and Western cultures".
Tagore's public speech in Ji'nan, the golden boy and the long bearded Tai Long are inseparable. Xu Zhimo followed Tagore on the stage, while Lin Whei-yin, who was sitting on the side of the platform, watched from the side. Sometimes Lin disagreed with Xu's translation. Emei Wei Chao, Xu Zhimo hurriedly came over to discuss with Miss Lin, and immediately returned to Taiwan to correct it. However, although Xu Da poets and Miss Lin Jia, accompanied by this robe of white rosewood and poetry, had enough to catch up with the scenes, they had enough to catch the wind and exploded the eyeballs. But in fact, the real behind the scenes heroes, Tagore's high mountains and rivers, and intimate friends, are unknown to the "great immortals".
on the way to meet Tai on the road, Tao Quan was assigned to be temporarily translated by the reception group.
during his activities in Ji'nan, Tagore was always accompanied by Tao Quan, the talk of all the informal occasions, the chat between the rest, the visit and so on. All of his translation work was carried out by him. An important activity of Tagore in Ji'nan is to communicate with religious people. At the University of Qilu and a provincial division, Tagore was amazed at Tao Quan, who once told him, "Sir, you are the first person we've come to China to have such a strong interest in the culture and language of India!" and the explanation of the circulation of the Buddhist Sutra in the city made him feel the 23 year old "the great immortal". It is not the name of the waves.
"Ji'nan Buddhist Scripture circulation place" was located in the northern part of Town God's Temple, a Buddhist temple in the county school.
the head of the Buddhist circulation department is a student from the father of Mingquan in Dao Quan. Yu Daoquan led Tai Lung and others to see the Lotus Society, listened to the Buddhist scriptures, and saw the Buddhist scriptures. In the meantime, he used his fluent spoken English, the India language mixed with Sanskrit, and the profound Buddhist knowledge that he did not know when to come from. It not only introduced the history of Buddhism to China and the great influence on Chinese culture, but also told the history of the millennial Buddhist history of Ji'nan in Shandong. Avenue。 "You followed me to India to go to the international university I started, to study Sanskrit, to learn Buddhism." Tagore, who had been with Mr. Tagore for two or three days, had been very devoted to his knowledge, conversation and demeanor. He did not hesitate to promise to come down.
in fact, at this time, Tao Quan has been admitted to the United States with second outstanding achievements in Shandong. He took all the official fees. It was said that there were 200 subsidies for the ocean every month. It was the celebration of the whole family and the joy of the neighbourhood.
when he came home in Dao Quan to announce that he was going to India with Tagore, his father became angry after his letter and heard the words. He scolded his disobedient and unfilial piety, and said he wanted to drive him out of his family and cut off his father and son relationship. The whole family is also persuasion. However, the father's threat and the family's dissuade seemed to have nothing to do with the whole family. He went to Beijing with Tagore.