林语堂探望修道士陆徵祥1938年春,林语堂一家离开纽约前往巴黎,酝酿写一部宣传抗战的长篇小说———就是一年后出版的轰动海内外的《京华烟云》。在8月8日动笔前,他携家人游历了西欧多国的名胜古迹。他们听说有一位民国初年的总理陆徵祥,十二年前看破红尘,皈依了天主教,如今正在比利时的布鲁日城圣安德诺修道院潜心修行,苦度余生。对于陆徵祥林语堂是熟悉的,轰轰烈烈的五四运动爆发时,林语堂正在清华学校任英文教师,他是五四新文化运动的坚定支 Lin Yutang visit Monk Lu Zhengxiang The spring of 1938, Lin Yutang left New York to Paris, brewing to write a novel to promote anti-Japanese war --- is published a year later, “Beijing-China smoke cloud.” Prior to his August 8 hand-writing, he traveled with his family to places of interest in many Western European countries. They heard that Lu Zhengxiang, the prime minister of the early Republic of China, saw the red dust two decades ago and converted to Catholicism. He is now devoting his life to the monastery of San Andrno, Bruges, Belgium. For Famine Lin Yutang, who was familiar with the vigorous May Fourth Movement, Lin Yutang was an English teacher at Tsinghua University. He was a firm supporter of the May Fourth New Culture Movement