"How young are we? Five thousand years up and down! "The sonorous and powerful declaration has been hot with the continuous broadcast of the large-scale cultural exploration program "National Treasure". Major museums across the country have successively appeared on the CCTV stage, and the program borrows the plot interpretation of past and present lives to lead the audience through time and space to dialogue with cultural relics.
After 5,000 years of time, China is still dazzling, and cultural relics are the historical precipitation of Chinese civilization. How can a thousand-year-old artifact reappear in the dark underground? How can the world know the legend of cultural relics from a thousand years ago? The thousands of cultural relics workers behind the cultural relics are not afraid of boredom, work hard, and devote their efforts to achieving this goal.
Behind each artifact is its own legendary story, either in a past life or in this life. And there is a woman who is destined to give to the world in the long river of history like a "national treasure".
She was born famous, but she worked tirelessly to devote herself to the cause of archaeology; she was prosperous and young, but she did not marry and have children; she had a successful career and was quite famous, but she committed suicide by jumping off the tower at the age of 55.
She is Zeng Zhaoyi, the eldest great-granddaughter of Zeng Guohuang, the eldest brother of Zeng Guofan, and is one of China's outstanding female museumians and archaeologists. She is full of enthusiasm and responsibility for cultural relics, and dedicates her life to the archaeology and museum cause of the motherland; she is not stingy with compassion and kindness to the world, and still leaves the last words of "my death has nothing to do with the driver" before jumping off the tower to commit suicide. Gao Cai short-lived people who regret, zeng family daughter left a name for the future generations of people pity.
The little lotus only shows its sharp corners
"One father and three resignations, four ancient articles", the legend of the three talents of the Su family has been passed down to this day. A thousand years later, the "Wanyi Hall", the zengjia family in the late Qing Dynasty, reached out to take the torch that conveyed the style of a scholar, and added firewood and fire to shine in the Republic of China.
The three sons and four daughters of the Zeng family are all elites in various industries. Among them, the eldest daughter, Zeng Zhaoyi, is the best of them. On January 27, 1909, Zeng Zhaoyi was born into a family of official eunuchs in Wanyitang, Heye Township, Xiangxiang County, and his father, Zeng Guangzuo, was an alternate Dao in Jiangsu.
When Zeng Zhaoyi was a child, it coincided with the great changes of the times and the collapse of the Qing government, but after the famous family of Zeng,000, she had a deep foundation and rigorous academic discipline, so she was sent to a private school to read and write.
Talented and hardworking, zeng Zhaoyi was admitted to Changsha Yifang Girls' School at the age of 12. The principal of the girls' school is Zeng Zhaoyi's cousin, who devoted her life to education and never got married and had children. This kind of behavior was rare in the world at that time, and the young Zeng Zhaoyi also asked his cousin, but the cousin said: "If you marry someone, you can only help a few people in every family, if you don't marry, you can serve tens of millions of people." ”
The young Zeng Zhaoyi did not understand the feelings and responsibilities in it, and only vaguely felt that her cousin was a great person, and she was doing great things. Who would have thought that the future Zeng Zhaoyi himself would never marry and dedicate his life to the cause of the country, perhaps, at this time, it has begun to appear.
In 1929, at the age of 20, Zeng Zhaoyi was admitted to the Department of Foreign Languages of Chuo University, and then transferred to the Department of Chinese for some reason. Here, she also happened to be a nobleman, and had the honor of becoming a student of Hu Xiaoshi, a master of traditional Chinese studies.
Hu Xiaoshi learned five cars, was knowledgeable, and was full of fun and interest in lectures. Under the influence of Teacher Hu, Zeng Zhaoyi was attracted by the charm of traditional culture and became deeply interested in archaeology.
The 25-year-old Zeng Zhaoyi graduated from the department of Chinese in 1934, when the domestic situation was unstable and turbulent, she decided to go abroad for further study, and at the suggestion of her second brother, Fu Si Nian, she came to England to study field archaeology.
Crossing the ocean, from the poor and backward motherland to the prosperous and developed Britain, Zeng Zhaoyi saw many Chinese cultural relics in the British museum when she was like a knife, and she was determined to return to China and develop the museum business of the motherland.
During her time studying in the UK, she met many like-minded friends and was appreciated by Li Ji, director of the Preparatory Department of the China Academy of Sciences, who went to Europe to lecture, and with his help of training, Zeng Zhaoyi went farther and farther on the road of archaeology.
Leave Dan in his heart
Mr. Lu Xun once said: "Since ancient times, we have had people who have buried their heads in hard work, people who have worked hard, people who have asked for the people's lives, and people who have sacrificed their lives to seek the law... This is the backbone of China."
In the era of foreign invasion and endless war, there are still countless benevolent people who have given up their good life abroad and resolutely returned to China with a pure heart. This is the backbone of China, the root of China's ability to stand tall after all the disasters.
In September 1938, feeling the national difficulties, Zeng Zhaoyi gave up his employment at the School of Archaeology of the British University and returned to China to serve. In January of the following year, Zeng Zhaoyi arrived in Kunming with his mother and served as a special design committee member of the Preparatory Department of the National Central Museum.
Field archaeology is very hard, and for women who are physically weaker than men, it is even more difficult to excavate cultural relics. But for Zeng Zhaoyi, running for hobbies and hobbies, working hard for the cause of the country, is a pleasure.
From March 1939 to September 1940, Zeng Zhaoyi and his colleagues excavated 5 sites, including the Malong Ruins, the Buddha Ding Jia Yi Er Ruins, and the Longquan Ruins, and after research and collation, the culture of this area in the southwest was named "Canghe Culture".
After that, she and Wu Jinding presided over the excavation of the Eastern Han Cliff Tomb in Pengshan County, Sichuan Province, climbing in the mountain cave entrance, and zeng Zhaoyi's field archaeological notes made by Zeng Zhaoyi alone, which are of great value and are considered to represent the world's advanced level of excellent achievements.
Later, in the field archaeological work, Zeng Zhaoyi summarized a lot of theoretical knowledge, and her "Yunnan Cang'er Archaeological Report" co-authored with Wu Jinding is a precious material for studying the local history of Yunnan.
After the end of the civil war, Zeng Zhaoyi, who had the opportunity to go to Taiwan, decided to stay on the mainland and vigorously opposed the Removal of cultural relics by the Kuomintang authorities, and left Behind China's heaviest bronze vessel, the Houmu Pengding, on the grounds that "cultural relics are too heavy and easy to be destroyed."
High talent short life who has pity
After the founding of New China, Zeng Zhaoyi was the president of the Nanjing Museum, taking a meager salary and devoting himself to the greatest efforts. She treats her work diligently, strictly disciplined, does not care about remuneration, although the works are equal, but almost all the manuscript fees are used to help employees.
Talented, self-reliant women have no shortage of men's pursuits, but in the era of Zeng Zhaoyi's youth, it is the era when the pursuit of women's emancipation of the mind is prevalent, she believes that if she marries, she will be busy with housework, will bury her ideal pursuits, so she has been living a single life. When someone pays attention to her lifelong event, she just laughs and says, "I've been married to the museum for many years!"
It was the tragedy of the times, and many people could hardly escape the ridicule of fate. Zeng Zhaoyi, who came from a family of official eunuchs, was always shadowed in that era when all cattle, ghosts, and snake gods were overthrown.
Female archaeologists who should have been lying at the desk writing research on cultural relics had to write various reports, explanations and proofs over and over again. She needs to participate in land reform, she needs to self-examine at the review conference, she needs to criticize people who should not be criticized, and she needs to witness all kinds of tragedies.
Complicated affairs brought great mental pressure to Zeng Zhaoyi, the second brother was put on the right hat, the younger sister became delirious, the nephew was deported and reformed, various blows came one after another, and the death of the mentor Hu Xiaoshi was a heavy blow, breaking Zeng Zhaoyi's tense nerves.
In 1964, when Zeng Zhaoyi was 55 years old, she was admitted to the Nanjing Dingshan Sanatorium because of depression. On December 22, Zeng Zhaoyi, who had returned from the hospital, told the driver that he wanted to walk around and relax, so he asked the driver to stop at Linggu Temple. Everything was normal, and when she got out of the car, Zeng Zhaoyi gave the driver a bag of apples and asked the driver to wait for her.
Half an hour later, Zeng Zhaoyi went up to the north pagoda of the Linggu Temple, and then jumped back to the earth and passed away in such a tragic way. Afterwards, only a note was found in her pocket that read, "My death has nothing to do with the driver."
Before leaving the world, she still had compassion and kindness for others, but the times did not give kindness back to her, so that a person who was committed to serving the country ended his life in such a way.
brief summary
Born in the era of alternating the old and the new, Zeng Zhaoyi did not forget to study in the chaotic and turbulent era, committed to struggle, armed herself with knowledge and wisdom, and became an outstanding woman in the Republic of China period.
When the country was in trouble, he resolutely returned to China, and Zeng Zhaoyi returned to the motherland with a pure heart. Field archaeology, hardship and turmoil can not stop her pace of progress, in the archaeological career broke out of the sky, laid the woman's name.
However, due to the limitations of the times, Zeng Zhaoyi could not end well, she repaid the motherland and the people with sincerity and blood and tears, but in her later years, she was tortured and jumped off the tower to commit suicide. This is the sorrow of the times, history owes it to her, and the motherland owes it to her.
The tragedy has already been staged, and future generations can only think bitterly and let the tragedy not be staged again. The heroic spirit after the cultural relics will live with the cultural relics for a long time and live for tens of thousands of years.