吴觉农任教芜湖师友交谊考述

A Study on Social Intercourse of Wu Juenong as a Teacher in Wuhu

著名茶学家,复旦大学农学院茶叶系首任系主任吴觉农留日学茶归国后的第一份工作是在安徽芜湖的省立第二甲种农业学校担任教师,从1922年下半年至1923年末,为时一年有余。限于史料,吴觉农的这段经历,诸种传记资料皆语焉不详,多仅述及其因校方拖欠工资,依靠投稿补贴家用。本文梳理了吴觉农任教芜湖期间的师友交谊,透过其与师长同事吴庶晨、卢仲农、佘小宋,与学生俞海清、戴啸洲的交往,考述了吴觉农任教芜湖的原委、开课教授的内容、在芜生活的点滴,以及芜湖一段经历与其茶业生涯之间的关系,充实了吴觉农生平的这一薄弱环节。吴觉农任教芜湖,正是五四余波犹在,国民革命初启之时,德先生、赛先生是为当时青年追寻强国之梦最重要的两条路径。吴觉农及其师友的活动,亦生动反映了传统士人向新式知识分子过渡过程中,因应时代潮流、社会责任与读书治学分合进退的多歧取向。

Wu Juenong,a famous tea scholar and the first dean of Department of Tea Science,College of Agriculture,Fudan University later,returned to China after completing his tea courses in Japan in 1922.He got his first job to be a teacher at Anhui Province No.2 Vocational School of Agriculture in Wuhu.His work there lasted from the second half of 1922 to the end of 1923,a little more than one year.Limited by historical materials,biography descriptions of Wu Juenong's experience in Wuhu are short and vague,and most of them merely described Wu Juenong had to contribute to journals to subsidize his family because of school's arrears of wages.This paper uncovers more Wu Juenong's social intercourse there,and studies the reason he got this job,the courses he gave,his life anecdotes there and impacts on his tea career later,enriching the vague section of the study on Wu Juenong's life.At that time,the May 4th Movement still had some implications,and the Nationalist Revolution was just unveiled.Democracy and science were most important two ways for Chinese youth to make China great then.Wu Juenong and his friends' activities demonstrate traditional scholar gentry's multiple performances of swing between social responsibilities and scholarly research to follow the trend of times when they became modern intellectuals.