章太炎以国学大师之名享誉海内外,鲁迅、黄侃、钱玄同等人都曾对他执弟子礼。早年在台湾当记者时,有一次与同事李书闲聊,颇为自负地说,自己所读之书,百分之九十五可以背诵。李书不信,搬出自己所学的经书欲考倒章太炎。谁知章太炎不假思索,如数家珍地一一作答,甚至哪一句在哪一部书第几页都说得一点不差。苏步青读小学,天天背诵《左传》、《唐诗三百首》,到毕业时,这两部书已能背诵如流;刚进中学,老师不信他能写出作文《读〈曹刿论战〉》,顺口举出一篇《子产不毁乡校》让他背,他一口气背完,说:“整部《左 Zhang Taiyan is famous both at home and abroad in the name of a master of national studies. Lu Xun, Huang Wei, and Qian Xuan have all given him his dedication. In his early years as a reporter in Taiwan, he once chatted with his colleague Li Shu and was quite conceited that 95 percent of the books he read could be recited. Li Shuxin does not believe that moving out of the scriptures he has learned is going to test Zhang Taiyan. Who knows that Zhang Taiyan does not give any thoughts, and when several households answer one by one, even one of the few pages on which the book says is not bad. Su Buqing read primary school, reciting ”Zuo Zhuan“ and ”300 poems of Tang poetry“ every day. When he graduated, these two books were able to memorize. When he first entered secondary school, the teacher did not believe that he could write a composition ”read Cao Pi Controversy.“ He confided that “the child is not destroyed by the township school” let him carry it back. He finished his breath and said: ”The whole" left