自中國實(shí)行改革開放以來,金庸先生已四次回鄉(xiāng)到嘉興、海寧探親觀光、講學(xué),每次回鄉(xiāng),他都要拜訪曾教過他書的老師,并恭恭敬敬地向老師鞠躬行禮,以表對老師教誨之恩的謝意。
金庸原名查良鏞,1924年農(nóng)歷二月初六出生于浙江省海寧縣(現(xiàn)改市)袁花鎮(zhèn)赫山房村一書香人家,排行老二,他7歲就讀本地南石橋小學(xué),10歲到袁花鎮(zhèn)龍山小學(xué)堂讀高級小學(xué)。當(dāng)時(shí)的國文老師陳未冬講課生動(dòng),學(xué)生喜愛。有次查良鏞寫作文,陳老師把查良鏞的這篇作文作范文讀給大家聽,高興地說:“查良鏞是我們班級里年齡最小的一個(gè),可寫作文全班最好!”查良鏞非常感激老師的賞識,幾十年后他在香港辦《明報(bào)》當(dāng)社長還記得這件事。此后查良鏞被全班同學(xué)推薦為級刊《喔喔啼》編輯,在陳老師的指導(dǎo)下,查良鏞把《喔喔啼》辦得圖文并茂、生動(dòng)活潑,獲得校長在“晨會(huì)”表揚(yáng)。陳未冬是浙江諸暨人,每逢寒暑假總要回老家諸暨去看望父母,查良鏞每次總到學(xué)校送行。陳老師熱愛作文寫得好的學(xué)生,他曾把查良鏞的作文簿帶到諸暨藏在家里閱讀,這本作文簿爾后一直到“文革”抄家時(shí)被燒毀。
1936年秋查良鏞以優(yōu)異成績考取浙江省立嘉興中學(xué)(現(xiàn)嘉興一中),不久爆發(fā)抗日戰(zhàn)爭,日本侵略軍的炮火隔絕了查良鏞與陳未冬老師的聯(lián)系,一別就是半個(gè)世紀(jì)。1983年,陳未冬老師因病住浙江醫(yī)學(xué)院第二附屬醫(yī)院,同住一病房的香港《大公報(bào)》編輯病好出院回香港后,把陳未冬的情況告訴了金庸。金庸獲悉恩師陳未冬患病住院,馬上寫信到浙醫(yī)二院給老師,信中說:“……生受老師教誨,五十余年來回思教誨愛護(hù)之恩,感懷良深。明年若能抽空,當(dāng)來杭州叩見。”落款是:“受業(yè)弟子查良鏞”,恭敬至極。不料,陳未冬在此信未達(dá)醫(yī)院之前就病愈出院,未收到此信。
1992年12月2日,金庸應(yīng)嘉興市人民政府的邀請前來家鄉(xiāng)探親觀光、講學(xué),第二天,金庸到小時(shí)就讀的海寧袁花鎮(zhèn)中心小學(xué)拜望老師,他在小學(xué)演講后題字:“重游母校,深感當(dāng)年教誨恩德。”還把海寧市政府落實(shí)他家祖?zhèn)鞣慨a(chǎn)的政策補(bǔ)償款1.64萬元贈(zèng)送給袁花鎮(zhèn)中心小學(xué)建立圖書室。接著金庸到海寧賓館會(huì)晤中學(xué)時(shí)代的章克標(biāo)老師,金庸步入會(huì)客廳,一見老師坐在沙發(fā)上,就高聲親切呼喚:“章老師,您好!”接著行了一個(gè)九十度的大禮!章克標(biāo)激動(dòng)得熱淚盈眶,他說:“查良鏞從小到大是好樣的,是尊師的榜樣,我活到今年93歲了,沒有一個(gè)人像今天金庸這樣向我鞠躬。”下午,金庸到中學(xué)時(shí)代母校嘉興一中拜訪老師,受到全校師生的夾道歡迎,金庸向老師們一一握手問好,并于講學(xué)后為母校題字:
當(dāng)年遭寇難,失哺意彷徨。
母校如慈母,育我厚撫養(yǎng)。
去來五十載,重瞻舊學(xué)堂。
感懷昔日情,恩德何敢忘。
為母校嘉興一中敬書金庸
一九九二.十二.三
金庸捐贈(zèng)港幣5萬元給母校嘉興一中設(shè)立“金庸獎(jiǎng)學(xué)金”,還贈(zèng)港幣1萬元在校內(nèi)綠化區(qū)建造張印通銅像。
此前,嘉興市政協(xié)文史會(huì)為緬懷人民教育家張印通,特召開紀(jì)念表彰大會(huì),出版《紀(jì)念張印通先生》一書,金庸來電文說:“張印通老師是我恩師,對我一生教導(dǎo)嘉惠良多,數(shù)十年來時(shí)時(shí)思念,不敢忘懷他的恩德。得悉六日舉行紀(jì)念會(huì),既悲且喜,泣下良久。惜為事務(wù)所羈,未克來禾在恩師遺像前鞠躬致敬。謹(jǐn)馳電深致感念之情。香港查良鏞1986年4月5日”。
這年的12月8日,金庸偕夫人林樂怡女士抵達(dá)杭州到陳未冬老師家拜望,一見面金庸就親熱叫道:“先生好,師母好!”隨即行了一個(gè)90度的大禮,時(shí)年68歲的金庸行大禮后像小孩似的當(dāng)即攜著老師的手進(jìn)了客堂。師生久別重逢,感慨萬千,有說不完的話,道不盡的往事,金庸口口聲聲說:“陳老師是我立業(yè)的啟蒙恩師,我有今天離不開老師的教導(dǎo),記得當(dāng)年在袁花鎮(zhèn)龍山小學(xué)堂讀書時(shí)做作文,我把‘大都’寫成‘大多’,后來是老師拿著《辭海》給我指正的。我在香港辦報(bào)的幾十年中,常常想起這件事,這雖是一字之差,可先生教誨的恩德終身難忘。”金庸還說:“翹首期盼,自從得知先生身體不好在浙醫(yī)二院治病,我連寫了兩封信問候恩師但均未能聯(lián)系上,請恩師鑒諒。”激動(dòng)得熱淚盈眶的陳未冬老師不知如何回答,只是說:“金庸,你真不愧學(xué)生中的楷模!”
2003年10月23日至27日,金庸前來家鄉(xiāng)嘉興參加“2003年浙江嘉興金庸小說國際研討會(huì)暨金庸小說改編影視作品研討會(huì)”,會(huì)議期間金庸又赴母校嘉興一中拜望老師還特別到張印通校長銅像前三鞠躬。他回憶說:“抗日戰(zhàn)爭時(shí)全校師生頭頂日本鬼子飛機(jī)轟炸,腳穿破鞋步行千里突圍敵人封鎖線流亡讀書,那時(shí)張校長慈父般關(guān)心愛護(hù)學(xué)生。后來我升入聯(lián)高,在學(xué)校壁報(bào)上寫了一篇題為《阿麗絲漫游記》,揭露親日投降派訓(xùn)導(dǎo)主任沈乃昌阻止師生積極抗日的罪惡,于是被開除學(xué)籍。就在這緊要關(guān)頭,張印通校長伸出溫暖之手,寫了介紹信介紹我到衢州中學(xué)讀到高中畢業(yè)。這樣的師生情誼,比金子還貴重哪!”講到此時(shí),金庸情不自禁流下了熱淚,連在臺下聽報(bào)告的小師弟小師妹們眼睛也全都濕潤了!……
Novelist Honors His Teachers
By Chen Qiwen
Louis Cha, known as Jin Yong to millions of readers, enjoys a huge reputation as a kongfu novelist. His blockbuster novels as well as TV series adapted from his kongfu stories have fascinated readers nationwide for decades. Since the introduction of the reform and opening up policies, he has visited his hometown Jiaxing and Haining four times. During his visits to his hometown and his schools, Cha visited his teachers and bowed his respect and gratitude to them.
Born in 1924 into a family of scholars in Haining, Zhejiang, Cha went to a village school at 7 and Longshan School at 10 for the last two years of the primary education. Chen Weidong, his Chinese teacher, found Cha was a good writer. The teacher read Cha’s composition to the whole class. Later, Cha was elected by classmates to edit the class paper. Helped by Chen, Cha did a good job of publishing the paper. His work was recognized by the principal at the school meeting. Every time his teacher went home to another part of Zhejiang Province for winter and summer vacations, Cha came to see him off. Chen carried Cha’s compositions back home to read again. They were burned during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976).
In 1936 Cha went to Jiaxing Middle School with honors. When the Japan invaded China, Cha lost contact with Chen Weidong. It was not until 1983 that he came to know his teacher’s whereabouts. An editor at Takungpao, an influential newspaper in Hong Kong, was hospitalized in Hangzhou. And Chen Weidong happened to be in the same ward with the editor. The editor carried the news to Cha. Cha immediately wrote a letter to Chen Weidong at the hospital address. But the letter did not reach Chen, for he had left the hospital before the letter arrived. It was not until December 8th 1992 that Cha and his wife visited Chen Weidong at his home in Hangzhou. Upon entering the house, Cha made a deep bow to his teacher and his wife.
In December 1992 Jin Yong visited his hometown at the invitation of Jiaxing government. Cha visited Longshan School. After a lecture, he made an inscription expressing his gratitude for teachers at his alma mater. The local government had paid him a sum of 16,000 yuan as compensation to Cha for his family’s house. And he donated it to his alma mater for setting up a library.
After the visit to Longshan School, Cha went to a hotel to meet Zhang Kebiao, a teacher in his middle school days. Walking into a conference room, Cha saw the 93-year-old teacher and made a deep bow. Tears came to Zhang’s eyes. He says, “ha has been good all his life. And he is a model student who respects teachers. I am 93 and no one but Cha has made a bow like this to me before.”During the home trip, Cha also visited Jiaxing Number One Middle School, his alma mater, where he was warmly welcomed. Cha donated 50,000 HK dollars for a scholarship in his name and 10,000 HK dollars for erecting a bronze statue of Zhang Yintong, principal of the middle school in his days.
Cha remembers his principal for a reason. During the War of Resistance against Japanese Invasion (1937-1945), the teachers and students of the school trekked to the southern Zhejiang to flee the Japanese invaders. They were bombed on their way to safety. Acting like a father, Zhang took care of his students during the difficult years. Cha wrote an essay and published in a wall paper criticizing the capitulationist attitude of the director of discipline. Cha was kicked out of the school for his bold criticism. Zhang Yintong recommended Cha to Quzhou Middle School where Cha completed the senior high school education.
When Cha recalled the episode decades later at a lecture, he could not refrain from tears.
In 1986, a book in memory of Zhang Yintong was published by the literary history unit of the Jiaxing CPPCC. A mass meeting was held in memory of the educator who devoted his life to education of the general public. Cha was unable to attend the meeting, but sent a thank-you telegraph to the meeting in memory of his teacher.
In October 2003, Cha came to attend an international forum on movies and TV series adapted from his novels in Jiaxing. He went to the middle school to visit his teachers and paid tribute to the bronze statue of his teacher. He made three bows to the statue to show his lifelong respect.
(Translated by David)