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In 2008, there was a news in the newspaper that Li Ruihuan donated millions of manuscript fees to support financially disadvantaged college students to complete their studies.
At the beginning of the two thousand years, one million yuan was not a small amount, and moreover, the money came from the fees of the two books written by Mr. Li Lao, "Dialectics and Discussion" and "Philosophy for Studying Philosophy", and now many people may not be familiar with this kind old man surnamed Li, but the older People of Tianjin hear this name, which is like thunder.
Because this old Mr. Li Ruihuan is the former mayor of Tianjin, the "Uncle Li" who is loved by the citizens.
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According to reports, "Uncle Li" began to spend hundreds of thousands of yuan such as his own writing fees and bonuses in the 1990s, and began his own charitable deeds to support poor college students, and the older generation is keen to learn from Lei Feng and do good deeds without leaving a name, as is the old Mr. Li Ruihuan.
He called himself "an old Communist Party member" and in that name sponsored as many as one hundred and forty-eight poor college students in his hometown, 19 ordinary colleges and universities in Tianjin.
The elderly Li Ruihuan poured great effort and enthusiasm into the funding of poor college students, perhaps feeling that his strength alone is still too weak, he raised a total of six million yuan from all walks of life in 2004 as the founding fund of the Sangzi Scholarship Foundation, and founded this foundation aimed at funding poor college students in Baodi County, Tianjin City, and has successfully distributed more than half a million yuan to hundreds of poor college students by 2008.
In 2013, the elderly Li Ruihuan, who published another of his own works "Opinions and Sayings", once again put his own writing fees into the rescue plan, this time as much as 1.5 million yuan was donated to the Sangzi Scholarship Foundation he founded, and by 2013, Li Ruihuan's personal donation amount was as high as more than 35 million yuan, and recently he had donated dozens of celebrity calligraphy and paintings that he had collected, further expanding the income area brought by the Sangzi Education Foundation in Baodi County.
As the leader of the older generation, the old man Li Ruihuan's obsession with the people is unquestionable and touching, and his dedication to supporting poor college students must also be related to his early experience.
Li Ruihuan was born in the turbulent 1930s, when the poverty and hardship of the people's life should have been familiar to everyone, Li Ruihuan lived in Baodi County, Tianjin from a young age, so he founded the foundation in his hometown, presumably due to the strong feelings for his hometown since childhood.
Now many young people's grandparents were mostly born in the 1930s, when children could not even eat enough, let alone read, and many grandparents born in the 1930s may not have been exposed to a series of cultural knowledge such as writing and writing in the literacy classes established by the government until the founding of New China.
Li Ruihuan's childhood was similar to that of his contemporaries, his parents were ordinary farmers, and li Ruihuan began to help his family do farm work since he was a child, and it was not a problem to pull plows, cultivate land, and weave fabrics.
As the saying goes, the children of the poor have long been homemakers, and Li Ruihuan is the same, he grew up and recalled his childhood, remembering that he began to learn to weave when he was 14 years old, because he was not tall, he could not reach the bottom of the sitter board of the loom, and his parents also specially customized a low-legged stool for him.
Although he helped his family to do farm work since he was a child, Li Ruihuan was very eager to go to school and study, and he went to school intermittently in his hometown for six years, during which he always had to go back to help his family, so his childhood reading career was very short.
However, when he was not busy, he loved to read, and it may be that a short school experience opened the door of knowledge for him, and if the conditions were not allowed, he went to borrow books from relatives and friends, rubbed books to read, and the yearning for knowledge did not stop.
Li Ruihuan, a little "book idiot", was also beaten by his parents because of books, and in a certain Spring Festival, in order to let his family who had worked hard for a year have a decent New Year, his mother let him carry two bundles of hawthorns to the city market to sell, and the money bought in the city to buy a few fritters and bring them back to wrap dumplings.
Fritters as a favorite snack and staple food of Tianjin people, the most common is the well-known pancake fruit sandwich "fruit", presumably in the New Year can eat a few fried fried fritters is the most enjoyable moment for the family, but Li Ruihuan will sell hawthorn money to buy a set of books.
The title of the book is "Coincidence", listening to the title of the book is probably a series of unsolved mysteries, legends, etc., and children can't walk when they see this kind of book. Li Ruihuan, who had a hot brain, took this set of books home, and what was inevitably ushered in was a beating, and his mother beat Li Ruihuan with a broom, regardless of wearing shoes, and ran out of the house barefoot.
The mother found Li Ruihuan, who was shivering with cold outside, and shed tears of pain, of course, she knew that her children liked to read, this is a seedling doing learning! But in this situation at home, where can I afford to read and buy books for Li Ruihuan?
In order to earn money independently, seventeen-year-old Li Ruihuan came to Beijing from his hometown of Tianjin Baodi in 1951, shortly after the founding of New China, and found a carpenter shop to do small work for others, while learning carpentry skills. Later, he entered the Beijing No. 3 Construction Company and became a worker, and unlike other energetic workers, Li Ruihuan liked to use his brain to think about problems that no one else had thought about. At that time, many construction companies still relied on traditional Chinese woodworking techniques when doing carpentry, such as "enlarging the sample", which can be well understood by the name, that is, the small sample on the drawing is enlarged to a larger wooden board according to the equal size, this step is usually completed by experienced teachers, young workers like Li Ruihuan only have to follow the gourd to draw the scoop. Li Ruihuan believes that "enlarging the sample" is time-consuming and occupies a place, so when others are learning from the teachers how to "enlarge the sample", he has another way and began to look for a solution that can simplify this step.
After consulting many experienced workers, an engineer he knew told him that in fact, the proportion of the "enlarged sample" shape can be calculated through formulas, but it is necessary to master the knowledge of triangles, geometry, algebra and so on above high school, which is not a big challenge for Li Ruihuan, who has not systematically taught mathematics.
At that time, many colleges and universities had related majors for incumbents, and without affecting the work, they were generally taught at night. In 1958, Li Ruihuan studied industrial and civil architecture at the Beijing JiangongYu College, and under a series of systematic knowledge training, Li Ruihuan's research strength finally had a place to play.
That year, the Great Hall of the People Engineering Headquarters urgently needed a 200-meter roof eaves template, so the crowd handed it over to the "Carpentry Youth Commando" of Li Ruihuan, the third construction company in Beijing, and asked them to deliver it within eight days.
When other workers were anxious that it was too late to "enlarge the sample", Li Ruihuan, as the leader of the commando team, used the mathematical knowledge he learned to develop a set of simple carpentry calculation methods, solved the problem of "enlarged sample" in one fell swoop, and successfully completed the task assigned to him by the Great Hall of the People on time.
So soon after, the Beijing Daily specifically reported on Li Ruihuan's pioneering deeds, and praised him as "Young Luban", and the Beijing Film Studio also used him as a prototype to shoot the film "Young Luban".
Li Ruihuan, who won the reputation of "Young Luban", was transferred to a cadre position, but he worked in the construction industry for more than ten years, still constantly thinking, innovating, and developing hundreds of innovative technologies, which greatly improved the work efficiency after being applied to the construction industry.
However, reading this, some readers may wonder why Li Ruihuan, who came from the construction industry, published all his books about philosophy in the later period?
It turned out that Li Ruihuan was most interested in the book of philosophy, and during his tenure as mayor of Tianjin in the 1980s, he also created a set of "old lady philosophy", which originated from a dialogue meeting between people's congress deputies, the CPPCC and the masses from all walks of life during his term of office, when an old lady asked a question at the meeting that her gas stove was not on fire, and the personnel of the higher department explained to the old lady through a series of scientific and mathematical reasons, but Li Ruihuan interrupted their "knowledge output". Saying that the old lady asked for a gas stove to be lit on fire, it is useless for you to talk so much.
His philosophy of seeking truth and pragmatism and not talking about empty words has been called "old lady philosophy" by everyone, and the working principle of serving the people has been implemented to the extreme.
He has been reading all kinds of philosophical books for many years, and he has also written his own impressions and published them into books, including the above-mentioned books such as "Dialectics with Talk", "Philosophy for Philosophy", "Opinions and Sayings", etc. He has widely used these philosophies in his work and life by virtue of his understanding of philosophy, and has made some complex principles better understood by the people in an approachable way.
He once lamented that it was too difficult to study in his childhood, so after he became a national leader, looking back on his life and experience when he was young, he may also regret that he did not have a good education when he was a child, and now young people have studied and entered universities since they were young, a luxury that they did not dare to think of in their time.
But Li Ruihua, who is sympathetic to the people, also knows that there were still too many people in China living in poverty at that time, and even if they were admitted to college, they could not afford to pay tuition. Li Ruihuan did not want these poor college students to drop out of school and follow his old path, so he silently and anonymously funded those children who were almost out of school with his bonuses and writing fees, hoping that they could receive a good education and enter the society in the future to contribute to the country and the people.
After retirement, the elderly Li Ruihuan was more intoxicated with reading, and he fell in love with Peking Opera, and the Peking Opera "Han Yuniang" adapted by him was greatly praised as soon as it was unveiled, and Li Ruihuan invested his income in the cause of Peking Opera into the Sangzi Scholarship Foundation. Looking back on the life of the elderly Li Ruihuan, it is simply a spiritual portrayal of the leaders of the older generation, and this spirit of indifferent fame and fortune and only fighting for knowledge and the people all his life is worthy of the admiration and gratitude of every one of us now.