As we all know, today's unnamed Lakeside Peking University is the former site of Yenching University in the Republic of China era, and the last wish of Situ Leiden, the founder of Yenching University in the Republic of China, is to bury his ashes in Yanyuan, which lasted for decades and went through several twists and turns, and this simple will was finally not realized, until 2008, his ashes were buried in an ordinary cemetery outside Hangzhou. If Yenching University in the Republic of China has disappeared into the depths of history before nearly a jiazi, the unnamed lake is the location of Peking University, and the "father of Peking University" and the president of the world-respected President Cai Yuanpei returned to Peking University and chose a piece of land on the shore of the unnamed lake, there should be no problem. Unfortunately, for many years, many Peking University alumni, intellectuals, and journalists have repeatedly appealed, but they have also failed to materialize so far.
Rover called for Cai Yuanpei to return to Peking University
In the spring of 1940, Mr. Cai Yuanpei died of illness in Hong Kong. At that time, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party unanimously gave him the highest evaluation. Mao Zedong's telegram of condolences from Yan'an called him "a great scholar and a model for the world." In the fierce War of Resistance Against Japan, North China had already fallen, and Peking University moved to Kunming to form the National Southwest United University with Tsinghua and Nankai. In the chaos, Mr. Choi had to be buried in Hong Kong, the cemetery of the "Chinese Forever Cemetery" in the southwest corner of Hong Kong Island.
Since the 1980s, Rover, who was deputy editor-in-chief of Ta Kung Pao and editor-in-chief of The New Evening News, has been calling for Peking University President Mr. Cai to be annexed to Peking University. In 1985, he said in the article "Cai Yuanpei's Grave", "The whole hillside, from bottom to top, and from top to bottom, is full of graves, and it is not arranged in rows and rows and rows; The pattern is messy. ...... Ten thousand graves are like a sea, and Cai Yuanpei's grave is submerged in such a sea of graves. The article was published in the People's Daily supplement and went unheeded.
More than ten years apart, Professor Wu Ningkun, a translator from the Department of Foreign Languages of Southwest United University, visited Chinese University in Hong Kong, learned that Mr. Cai's tomb was still in the cemetery in Hong Kong, the scene was very depressed, and wrote a letter to Peking University: "I implore my alma mater to welcome the soul of Mr. Cai Xiaomin to be buried on the campus of Peking University as soon as possible for generations of xinxin students to visit." If the required funds are difficult, you can mobilize alumni donations, and I should take the lead..." This time, the office of the president of Peking University replied, and Rover, who had seen a copy of the letter, quoted the following in the article "On Cai Yuanpei's Grave": "The current campus of Peking University is the former site of Yenching University, and after the adjustment of the national colleges and universities in 1952, Peking University moved here from the beach." The main part of the campus has been listed by the Beijing Municipal Government as a cultural relics protection area in March 1994, which must preserve the existing pattern, and all renovation and reconstruction matters must be approved in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Cultural Relics Protection Law before they can be implemented, and the school has no right to move the land. Campuses that are not included in the cultural relics protection area, such as student dormitories, canteens, cultural and sports centers, etc., have a narrow distance between buildings, noisy noise, and are not suitable places to arrange Mr. Cai's tomb. The elderly Rover questioned this, Mr. Cai's tomb itself is a cultural relic, for Peking University, this is a particularly precious cultural relic. If you really attach importance to this matter, why not make a request to the relevant parties to relocate Cai's tomb to Peking University from the perspective of cultural relics protection, which is itself the protection of cultural relics. Excerpt from Rover's "Colorful Garden"
The same appeal from Peking University alumni has not been broken. In January 2003, Rover published a book entitled Jin Yong Novel, Revolutionary Literature? Literary revolution? The article mentions this matter again, "Mr. Cai Yuanpei is the old president of Peking University. But his skeleton was buried in Hong Kong, among the tens of millions of graves on the hillside of the Aberdeen Chinese Forever Cemetery. It is crowded and makes people feel like living people living in the wooden house area by the mountain. In Hong Kong and later in Beijing, I published articles in the newspapers advocating the relocation of this grave back to the mainland, back to Beijing, and back to Peking University, so as to eliminate people's uneasiness about this crowding. After ten years in Beijing, I returned to Hong Kong and appealed in the newspaper again, but there was no response once. He said bitterly: "I am a natural person who speaks softly. In the eyes of some adults who do not learn and have no skills, Mr. Cai does not seem to be heavy enough. (Excerpt from "Wenyuan Colorful")
After Mr. Roefer's death in Hong Kong, his eight-volume RoeffEr Anthology was published in Beijing. At least four of the articles called on Peking University President Mr. Cai to return to Peking University. Consider Mr. Cai's deep relationship with Peking University, and the Peking University tradition he has established has long since disappeared. Even if he wants to go back to Peking University, he can't go back, so why not let the people in the world who love Teacher Cai and admire Teacher Cai be speechless.
Peking University is not what it used to be, and Cai Yuanpei can't return to his bones
Today's Peking University is really ashamed of Mr. Cai, such a Peking University, in fact, Mr. Cai's remains will not return. On the occasion of the centenary celebration of Peking University in 1998, Mr. Shao Yanxiang, a poet and essayist, published an article in Guangdong Magazine entitled "Let Mr. Xiaomin Rest in Peace" magazine, saying that Mr. Cai's return to Peking University could not be concluded, and there was no need to regret, "Even if he is buried on the shore of the unnamed lake, for Mr. Cai, it is only 'Yan Garden'; and Mr. Cai's peking university, where he was once in charge of the school, he died in exile in the war of resistance, and it should be in the Red Chamber on the beach." The red building of the past has long been used for other purposes, and the campus behind the building has long been filled with simple buildings, and the 'Xiaomin Hall' belongs to the ministry of culture: the old site of the Old Peking University, but it is even more 'the distance between the buildings is very narrow, the noise is noisy, and it is not the appropriate place to arrange Mr. Cai's tomb'. He said it would be better to let Mr. Cai rest in peace at the "Chinese Forever Cemetery" in Hong Kong.
Mr. Cai can't go back to Peking University, which doesn't hurt Mr. Cai at all, but will cause great harm to today's Peking University. A Peking University that cannot hold Mr. Cai's bones, will it be an inclusive Peking University created by Mr. Cai? Will it be a tolerant university? In this superficial and impetuous materialistic age, these question marks are destined to be ignored. Or let Mr. Tsai think of the distant Aberdeen hillside, facing the sea day and night, or listening to the gossip of the sea, or smelling the waves lapping at the shore.