Tianjin, 11 Sep (China News Network) Title: "Three Patriotic Questions": The Century Answer of Generations of Young People in Nankai
Reporter Zhang Daozheng
"Are you Chinese?" "Yes!" "Do you love China?" "Love!" "Would you like China to be good?" "Yes! May the motherland prosper and be strong! "The Q&A is deafening. This is a scene at the opening ceremony of nankai university's 2021 freshmen, and president Cao Xuetao led all the new students to relive the "patriotic three questions" together. Such a scene is already the norm.
86 years ago, at the opening ceremony of Nankai University in 1935, President Zhang Boling issued a famous "patriotic three questions" to all Nankai teachers and students. This is not only a question of history, but also a question of the times and the future. Generations of Nankai people have relived this simple and thick "three questions" from time to time, and used the "answer of the century" to send out the strongest sound in the new era.
At the beginning of the establishment of the school, Mr. Yan Xiu, who was respected by the Nankai people as the "father of the school", once encouraged the Nankai students: "Don't be a high-ranking official and nobleman, but a patriotic person." After the "July 7 Incident", Nankai University became the first Chinese institution of higher learning to be bombed by the Japanese after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. Before the ruins, Zhang Boling said to the students: "The enemy bombed Nankai this time, and the destroyed people are the material of Nankai, and the spirit of Nankai will become more and more energetic because of this setback." ”
"It was precisely in the same years as you that the old president Zhang Boling, after witnessing the national humiliation of the 'three easy national flags,' was determined to 'establish a new education and cultivate new talents'; it was precisely in your ordinary years that the outstanding alumnus Zhou Enlai was arrested for leading Tianjin students to patriotic petitions and still 'introduced Marx's theory' and 'methods of studying social issues' in prison; it was in the same years of your ordinary years that 834 students of Southwest United University resolutely threw themselves into the anti-Japanese battlefield, took pens with them, and went to the country for the survival of the nation and forgot about life and death." Cao Xuetao, the current president of Nankai University, said this to the new students of the class of 2021 that year.
Li Zhengming, a 90-year-old academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, is one of the first batch of "returnees" in New China, the recipient of the No. 001 graduate diploma of Nankai University, and a titan in the field of pesticide science in China.
"I got acquainted with Nankai in 1953, when I was 22 years old, I had just obtained a bachelor's degree in chemistry in the United States, and due to the drastic changes in the international situation at that time, the return of Chinese science and engineering students began to be hindered. After much deliberation, I still made up my mind to interrupt my study abroad career and strive to return to China. Li Zhengming looked back on the past, gave up the favorable conditions that year, and embarked on the twists and turns of returning, only because of his love for the motherland.
At that time, the domestic scientific research conditions were difficult, and "one poor, two white, three did not." Li Zhengming and his team went down to the field and squatted on the ground, always closely combining pesticide research and production practices, achieving one breakthrough after another, and the results filled a number of domestic technology gaps in China.
Cao Xuetao said that the founding of Nankai School originally carried the original intention and dream of a group of Chinese who did not accept defeat and self-reliance.
When establishing his belief in communism, Zhou Enlai once said: "The doctrine I recognize must be unchanged, and I am very determined to go for his propaganda." In the face of the difficulties of the situation and the cruelty of the struggle, he always believed in the firmness of his faith and devoted his life to the cause of the party and the people. In the pulpit for seventy years, holding poems in his hands for a lifetime, Mr. Ye Jiaying, although he has experienced the hardships of his home and country, he still forgets his feelings and egos, expounds traditional culture with a poem; crosses the three poles of the earth and snow, interprets the ten thousand volumes of loess books, Academician Liu Dongsheng will take "loess" as a career, record more than 300 work notes, and deeply cultivate geological science with a lifetime of obsession.
Cao Xuetao pointed out that the belief of the Nankai people is to "integrate the small self into the big self", not counting the small things, stressing the greatness of the achievements; not counting the small of the moment, and wanting the greatness of the times; not counting the smallness of the reputation, but seeking the greatness of the cause.
Nankai people in the new era also have no shortage of leaders and promoters from all walks of life, and Nankai graduates represented by Zhang Wenzhong of Wumart Group, Zhang Yiming of ByteDance, meng Xiangfei of "Tianhe No. 1", etc., have made outstanding contributions to the country's economic and social development and scientific and technological self-reliance.
"A hundred years of wind and bones, the ancestors have been cast; youth is just right, may the king live up to the time." Cao Xuetao led thousands of new students of Nankai University in 2021 to relive the famous "Patriotic Three Questions" and encouraged them to remember this sonorous and powerful answer, integrate the small self into the big self, and be a "volunteer" who cherishes the greatness of the country and bravely shoulders the great responsibilities of the times. (End)
Source: China News Network