Three years ago, on February 25, the bad news came from Tongji University, and Dai Fudong, a famous architect in the mainland, a national first-class registered builder and doctoral supervisor of Tongji University, died of illness at the age of 90.
Dai Fudong is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the director of the Institute of High-tech Building Technology Design of Tongji University, who has made outstanding contributions to the development of the mainland's construction industry, and his death is also extremely sad.
In addition to architects, Academician Dai Fudong also has a special identity, that is, the eldest son of General Dai Anlan, a famous anti-Japanese general. Therefore, if you want to understand Academician Dai Fudong, you must first understand the ups and downs of his father, Dai Anlan' life.
Dai Anlan: A famous general in Huangpu, he has made many achievements in the anti-Japanese battlefield
Dai Anlan, born in 1904 in an ordinary rural family in Wuwei City, Anhui Province, his parents attached great importance to his education, and his studies were also very hard, and he was admitted to the Anhui Public School founded by Mr. Tao Xingzhi.
Here, Dai Anlan came into contact with progressive patriotic ideas, determined to devote himself to the cause of serving the country.
He changed his name to "An Lan" to stabilize the land of China and turn the tide of the tide from the meaning of falling. Subsequently, In 1925, Dai Anlan was admitted to the third phase of the Whampoa Military Academy for military study.
There are many generals in the huangpu phase III, including Huang Gongluo, a famous general in the early days of our party, "Flying General", Zeng Zesheng, a famous general in the Liaoshen Campaign uprising, Wang Yaowu, a defender of Jinan City of the Nationalist Army in the Liberation War, and so on.
Compared with his classmates, Dai Anlan was a down-to-earth warrior on the anti-Japanese battlefield, who made outstanding military achievements, and was not only praised by the Nationalist government many times, but also greatly appreciated by allies such as Britain and the United States.
As early as the period of the Northern Expedition, Dai Anlan was the vanguard of the Northern Expeditionary Army, and was promoted from platoon commander all the way to regimental commander, and the soldiers pointed directly at Shandong and Gyeonggi.
After this, the May 3rd Massacre that shocked China and foreign countries occurred in Jinan, he personally witnessed all kinds of atrocities committed by the Japanese army against the civilian people on the mainland, and it was from this moment on that the hatred for the Japanese was deeply rooted in Dai Anlan's heart.
In 1933, Dai Anlan led his troops to participate in the Gubeikou Great Wall War of Resistance, and was awarded the Fifth Class Order of yunqi for his military merits.
When the All-Out War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression broke out in 1937, Dai Anlan was already the brigade commander of an integrated brigade of the Nationalist Army. In the first two years of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Nationalist army suffered successive defeats, and the morale of the soldiers was low, and they were more afraid of the Japanese army.
Dai Anlan said that although the Japanese army has won a lot of land in the battle, it has already made a strategy of seeking victory out of strength, and it has lost a lot compared with the initial strategy of winning without a fight and winning consecutive battles.
He used this to boost the morale of the soldiers and give them more courage to fight the enemy. Therefore, Dai Anlan's troops frequently won battles against the Japanese army, and there were countless classic examples.
In the early days of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Dai Anlan's troops achieved good results in the Battle of Taierzhuang, the Battle of Xuzhou, and the Battle of Wuhan, and he also won the trust of the military top brass with his outstanding achievements.
In 1939, at the age of 35, Dai Anlan was promoted to the rank of major general of the 200th Division, subordinate to the absolute elite of the Central Army, Du Yuming's Fifth Army.
This division is known as the first mechanized division of the Chinese army, full of American equipment, extremely strong combat effectiveness, able to command such an army, Dai Anlan's position in the national army can be seen.
Commanding such a tiger and wolf division, Dai Anlan's desire to fight a decisive battle with the Japanese army was even stronger. He led his troops to participate in many deadly battles with the Japanese army, such as the Battle of Zaoyang, the Battle of Changsha, and the Battle of Kunlun Pass.
Among them, the Battle of Kunlun Pass is the most classic, the 200th Division resisted the artillery cover of the Japanese army, conquered the tenacious defense of the Japanese army, took Kunlun Pass in one fell swoop, destroyed the Japanese 21st Brigade Regiment known as the "Steel Army", killed the brigade commander Major General Masao Nakamura, and won a lot of battles.
He led an expedition to Burma and was defeated and killed, only 40 kilometers away from returning home
Dai Anlan was a senior commander of the Central Army of the Nationalist Army and a young general who was trained in the Kuomintang military circles, and he had a characteristic that most senior generals did not have, that is, he must be a pioneer in every major war, and personally go to the front line to live and die with his soldiers and share hardships.
During the Battle of Kunlun Pass, Dai Anlan was once shot through the left back by Japanese shells, and he was seriously wounded and almost died, and then turned back to the rear to recuperate. In 1942, the Japanese army controlled the transportation line of the Burma Road in Southeast Asia, which had a great impact on the entire war situation.
In this context, at the invitation of Britain and Burma, the National Government organized an expeditionary force to fight in Burma, and the "vanguard" Dai Anlan once again put on the battlefield and led the army to the battlefield.
After coming to Burma, the 200th Division participated in the Defense of Donggua and the Defense of Tonggua, and successfully annihilated thousands of enemy troops in both battles, helping the British army to successfully retreat, and proving the strength of Chinese soldiers on the world stage.
On foreign battlefields, Dai Anlan reappeared as a tiger general, and it is rumored that he made a will on the eve of the Tonggu Defense War:
"The division commander made a will first: If the division commander dies in battle, the deputy division commander will be replaced, the deputy division commander will be killed, the chief of staff will be replaced, the regiment commander will be killed, and the battalion commander will be replaced. By analogy, this is true at all levels. ”
Seeing the division commander's determination to die, the morale of the officers and men under his command was greatly boosted, and their fighting spirit was unprecedentedly high, which led to a great victory later.
However, the victory of the defensive war did not change the situation in the Burmese battlefield where the enemy was strong and we were weak. With the loss of the Anglo-Burmese army, the Allied forces were completely defeated, and the 200th Division, which was responsible for covering tasks, gradually fell into a heavy siege.
In a moment of great urgency, Dai Anlan issued the order to disperse the breakthrough, but in the face of the japanese army's very strong encirclement, the soldiers of the 200th Division were completely lost, and Dai Anlan was also shot in the abdomen, and he barely escaped from the encirclement under the escort of the left and right guards.
However, due to poor medical conditions on the front line, the best treatment time was delayed, and Dai Anlan's injury quickly worsened. When the remnants of the 200th Division fled to the Maobang Kachin Cottage, just 40 kilometers from the border, General Dai Anlan was seriously wounded and fainted several times.
Eventually left for his wife
"Now we are fighting alone, and we are determined to sacrifice all our lives to repay the country's nurturing!" It is a glorious thing to die in battle for the country."
He died of his last words at the age of 38.
After the sacrifice of General Dai Anlan, people held solemn mourning ceremonies throughout Guangxi to commemorate our national hero.
Chairman Mao also learned of the death of General Dai Anlan and used a poem "Five Laws: General Seagulls for Eternity" to express his mourning for the general.
It is worth mentioning that Chairman Mao wrote countless poems in his lifetime, and writing poems for the Generals of the Kuomintang was the only time in Chairman Mao's life.
Bloody East Gua Shou, drive Out Tang Ji Gui. The battlefield was killed, and the ambition was not violated. The words are full of regret for the falling of the stars.
Dai Fudong: The eldest son of a famous general, he has forged a tenacious character in a difficult environment
General Dai Anlan hated the Japanese invaders the most in his life, so he named his three sons Fudong, Jingdong, and Chengdong.
In 1928, Dai Fudong, the eldest son of General Dai Anlan, was born in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province.
When Dai Fudong was a child, his parents always taught him to develop the good habit of frugality, and his father also donated most of his salary to the hardships of commoners, and the family's life was relatively poor.
This also allowed Dai Fudong to establish a tenacious character of frugality and family management from an early age.
In the spring of 1942, Dai Anlan was ordered to go to Burma, and dai Fudong, a 14-year-old teenager, met his father for the last time in Kunming, Yunnan.
Unexpectedly, this short sentence turned out to be a farewell in the life of father and son.
A few months later, the news of Dai Anlan's sacrifice for the country came from far away southeast Asia, when his third son, Dai Chengdong, was still in his infancy, and Dai Anlan, as the head of the family, was separated from the yin and yang of his beloved family, which was undoubtedly very sad.
Recalling his father, Academician Dai Fudong said this:
"It was my father's loyalty to the country and the nation. So I look at problems, think about things, and always think big.
As long as it is beneficial to the construction and development of the motherland, I must do it well and meticulously."
Between the lines, we can feel that the patriotic feelings that Dai Fudong cherished were transmitted to his heart by his father at the cost of his life.
With the death of his father, 14-year-old Dai Fudong suddenly became the eldest brother in the family. The eldest brother is like a father, and Dai Fudong must grow up quickly and shoulder the burden of the whole family.
After Dai Anlan's martyrdom, the government once issued a pension of 200,000 French yuan to the Dai family, but Dai Fudong's mother donated all this money to the Anlan School in Quanzhou, Guangxi, in order to continue to fulfill Dai Anlan's last wish to save the country and save the people before his death, and educated her children with practical actions.
Therefore, at that time, Dai Fudong's family economy was not rich, although he liked to paint very much, but the family could not support his high tuition fees, and painting could not immediately bring wealth to the family.
Considering various reasons, Dai Fudong chose to study architecture, which can not only bring an income to the family, but also use his painting talent by the way.
In 1948, Dai Fudong was admitted to the Department of Architecture of National Central University, which began a long road of hard work in the construction industry, a road that lasted for 70 years.
Four years later, in 1952, Dai Fudong finished his studies, graduated from the Department of Architecture of Nanjing University, and was assigned by the state to teach at Tongji University.
In the days of Tongji University, Dai Fudong conscientiously completed his own work, cultivated architectural talents for the country, and constantly learned the rich experience of advanced Western countries in the field of architecture, making it useful to the country.
He once designed a bedroom for Chairman Mao and presided over the design of nearly a hundred projects
Dai Fudong and his wife Wu Lusheng were college classmates, studying architecture, and the two later came to Tongji University to teach together, with similar interests, and collaborated on many design projects, the most famous of which was the bedroom designed for Chairman Mao.
In 1958, the head of the Meiling Project came to Tongji University to consult on a design plan for an architectural project, and Dai Fudong, a young teacher at the time, was also present.
Dai Fudong was just a fledgling, only when this was a normal job, so he boldly put forward some opinions.
Unexpectedly, these opinions attracted the attention of the Shanghai municipal government, which ordered Tongji University to re-produce the design plan, and the job also fell to Dai Fudong.
With the cooperation of Dai Fudong and his wife, a new design plan was finally released, the bedroom designed by this plan is 8 meters long and wide, and the height is 4.5 meters, mainly in Chinese style, the overall design sense is very simple and atmospheric, very grounded.
After the plan was adopted, Dai Fudong learned that this bedroom was provided for the residence of chairman Mao, the leader of the state, and Dai Fudong felt a sense of honor in his heart.
Years later, Dai Fudong will often tell this story to his students, inspiring them to be enthusiastic about learning architecture.
Designing a bedroom for Chairman Mao is just one part of what Dai Fudong has accomplished in his career. During the decades of teaching at Tongji University, Dai Fudong's achievements are obvious to all.
In 1983, Dai Fudong was sent to the Institute of Architecture and Planning of Columbia University in New York as a visiting scholar, and received the Chinese Scholars Scholarship in the United States established by I.M. Pei.
In 1986, Tongji University added the School of Architecture and Urban Planning, and Dai Fudong successively served as vice dean and dean, supporting the research in the field of architectural design of Tongji University. In terms of scientific research achievements, Dai Fudong has gained a lot.
He has presided over the design of more than 80 major projects, including the Chinese NationalIties Park and the Buyizhai building in the park, and the School of Architecture and Urban Planning of Tongji University.
Shanghai Jiao Tong University dormitory, Zhejiang University Zijingang Campus Center Island Complex and other well-known buildings, has also published more than 110 professional papers and 7 professional works, providing a reference for the professional learning of students.
At the same time, Dai Fudong also trained many talents in the field of architecture for the country, and contributed to the country's construction cause in various positions in society.
According to statistics, Dai Fudong has trained a total of 39 doctoral students and 53 master's degree students, which can be called the real sense of peach and plum all over the world.
In December 1999, Dai Fudong was successfully elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, elevating his scientific research career to a new height.
In 2012, Tongji University held the "Academic Lecture Meeting to Celebrate the 60th Anniversary of Academician Dai Fudong's Teaching", which fully affirmed the outstanding contributions made by the old academician to the development of mainland architecture in his lifetime.
Academician Dai Fudong's colleagues and students attended, the atmosphere was very warm, for a veteran teacher who has stuck to his post for 60 years, the happiness of this moment may only be fully understood by himself.
Heroes have been born in the chaotic world, modern China has suffered many national disasters, and countless heroic deeds that can be sung and wept have emerged, and the battle achievements made by General Dai Anlan on the battlefield of the Anti-Japanese War are worthy of eternal remembrance by all the people of our country.
Tiger father has no dog. As the eldest son of General Dai Anlan, although Academician Dai Fudong was born in the era of peace, patriotic ideas are still deeply engraved in his heart.
Under the impetus brought by this patriotic thinking, Academician Dai Fudong has been immersed in the study and research of architecture for decades, and has made great contributions to the development of the mainland's architectural cause.
We firmly believe that after the death of Academician Dai Fudong, there will be mathematicians adhering to the legacy of the old academician, continuing to fight in the construction industry and contributing more to the construction of the country.