Monument to the National Southwest Union University
At five o'clock in the morning, I woke up to the sound of rain in Yuanling. This is November 1, 2020. After a night of chaotic dreams, a group of people and horses marched through the mud of the wilderness, and the rain covered the ground. When I opened my eyes, I heard the sound of rain in my ears, and the bean-sized raindrops fell on the windows and eaves, crackling. I was so tired last night that I forgot to close the window before going to bed. Got up and closed the window to continue sleeping, and there was still a day to go.
This is the second day of "re-walking the road of the Southwest United Congress", and according to the plan, this day we will go from Yuanling to Xinhuang.
Early yesterday morning, we set off from Changsha, taking a car and walking, all the way to the west. Walking Through Yiyang, changde, stop-and-go, by the time you get to Yuanling, it's already dark. Before that, it was to the south. At least for a few friends from Beijing, all the way south, we gathered from Beijing to Changsha. The same was true of the Southwest United Congress that year. In 1937, after the Lugou Bridge Incident, North China became increasingly turbulent until the Japanese army occupied Pingjin. The Japanese army not only wanted to occupy cities, but also universities, and they knew what culture meant to China. In order to seek academic freedom and the survival of the torch, teachers and students of Peking University and Tsinghua University set out from Beijing, teachers and students of Nankai University set off from Tianjin, and the three universities gathered at the foot of Yuelu Mountain in Hunan to establish Changsha Provisional University. This day, 83 years ago, November 1, was the opening day of Changsha Temporary University. Not wanting the Japanese invasion to intensify later, Changsha could not put down a calm desk, so the temporary university decided to continue to move southwest to Kunming, Yunnan, so there was the famous National Southwest United University.
There are three routes to the new campus in Kunming: one is to take the sea route, take the train through Guangdong and Hong Kong, then take a boat to Haiphong, Vietnam, and then transfer from Hanoi to the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway train to Kunming; the other is the land route, from the Xianggui Highway, through Guilin, Liuzhou, Nanning, through Vietnam to Kunming; the third route, through xiangxi, Guizhou and eastern Yunnan to Kunming, the whole journey of 3,600 miles, on foot. Our "Southwest United General Assembly Road" is this line. Of course, today's heavy walk is not the same as the three thousand miles of crossing between the teachers and students of the three schools in that year, not to mention that we are mainly boats and cars throughout the whole process, and hiking is only a very small supplement, just looking at the road on this line, it is comparable to the wilderness and mud of that year. Yunnan in 1938 is not like today, people all over the world go sightseeing and tourism, Kunming, Dali, Lijiang, Xishuangbanna and other places, once the holidays are overcrowded, at that time Yunnan is still a very remote province, the road from the interior to Kunming is extremely circuitous and complex, the mountain is far away, the long road is long, and the hardships and dangers of the journey can be imagined. In view of this, Changsha Provisional University stipulates that only male students can sign up for this "tour group" and must pass the relevant medical examination.
The full name of this tour group is "Xiangqian Dian Tour Group", which was originally named "Xiangqian Dian Walking Group". 284 male students were selected, accounting for 30 per cent of all southward migration students. In the list of members of the regiment, there are Ren Jiyu, Ding Zeliang, Zha Liangzheng, Guo Shikang, Liu Zhaoji, Tu Shouyi, Li Yanding, etc., and after a few years, they have all become outstanding people in their fields.
My earliest interest in Southwest United University stemmed from Zha Liangzheng. When engaged in translation and learning, Zha Liangzheng used his original name and wrote poems under the pen name Mu Dan. I regarded him as one of the best poets in the history of modern literature, and when I was in college, I liked his poetry and translations liked wildly. When I was a graduate student, I also took the "Mudan Poetry Research" by Professor Sun Yushi, an expert in the study of new poetry, and the semester paper was to examine the changes of Mudan's poem, and to make a systematic comparative study of the poem from the first draft to the revised draft and final draft. Because of Mu Dan, I began to pay attention to the Southwest United University, and then because of studying Zhu Ziqing, Shen Congwen, Qian Zhongshu, Wang Zengqi and others, I gradually broadened and deepened my interest in the Southwest United University. In addition, Peking University is my alma mater, and I have seen the monument of Southwest United University countless times on campus, and I feel more and more that I have some kind of blood relationship with Southwest United University. This is also the reason why when Tencent organized this "re-walk the road of Southwest United Congress", I raised my hand to respond at the first time.
Group photo at the former site of Southwest United University
There was also a future writer in the Xiangqiandian tour group, Lu Qiao, the author of "Weiyang Song", who later went to Taiwan, and the list recorded that his original name was Wu Nesun. There is also an English expert, Mr. Xu Guozhang, who I studied his "Xu Guozhang English" when I was studying.
In the early spring of 1938, more than 300 teachers and students of the tour group set off from Changsha. In order to ensure the safety of the march, Zhang Zhizhong, the chairman of Hunan Province at the time, selected Lieutenant General Huang Shiyue as the head of the tour group, and the head of the delegation sent by the school was Professor Huang Yusheng of Nankai University. The accompanying teachers also demanded that they be young and strong and able to withstand the toss, and among these middle-aged and young professors, there were Wen Yiduo, Li Jidong, Zeng Zhaoli, Yuan Fuli and others. The members of the regiment were uniformly dressed, with earth-yellow military uniforms, leggings, dry food bags, water bottles, black cotton coats, and oil-paper umbrellas. In February, the water of Dongting Lake was vast and the wind was chilly, so the teachers and students arrived in Yiyang by boat for three days and two nights, went ashore, and officially began the three-thousand-mile trekking expedition. Before leaving, the notice of Changsha Provisional University wrote: The relocation of the school originally planned to have a walking plan, so as to learn more about the people's feelings, investigate the terroir, collect specimens, exercise the body, and ensure that the relocation itself is education.
In the southwest of China in the 1930s, the road was very difficult to walk, and the young students did not have the experience of trekking for a long time, and their feet were all blistered for the first three days. After three days, I got used to it and started striding like a fly. Fortunately, before the trip woke up, do not wear leather shoes, rubber shoes also try not to wear, cloth shoes are the best, or it is not only a problem of foaming. They walked up and found that cloth shoes were not the best, the most effective were straw shoes, not afraid of dirty and not afraid of water, the space was also large, the feet were free, and there was enough elasticity. The only drawback is that it is not worn, and it falls apart at the end of the day, but it is cheap, and a pair of copper plates is a pair. Along the way through the villages and towns, the villagers wear straw shoes, everyone is a master of making straw shoes, there are sales everywhere, teachers and students will buy a pair of upper feet, and then buy a pair of spares around the waist.
Tours are only responsible for walking and carrying simple luggage, which are placed on both cars. The car is fast, responsible for hitting the front station every day, negotiating with the people in advance, and renting empty houses for the upcoming teachers and students. Rent a house, buy enough dry straw to pave the floor, and everyone will sleep on the grass. The head of the logistics was Professor Huang Yusheng, the head of the regiment, who later became the first dean of the Southwest United University Normal College. He planned daily marching routes, camping, and food issues. The mountain is high and the road is dangerous, the speed of the march is limited, and the day goes from morning to night, it is thirty to fifty miles, and everyone can't stand it. Occasionally, it was a really urgent march, and the most day was fifty-three kilometers, one hundred and six miles. The line was long, and the vanguard troops had eaten and lay down for a long time, and the last batch came in the middle of the night.
In addition to the threat of nature, the march also encountered bandits, especially in western Hunan and the enclaves of the three provinces, which have always been rampant bandits. It is said that Zhang Zhizhong once greeted the bandits, both large and small, but it did not seem to be completely effective, and he was often targeted by the bandits. The tour group was dressed as a soldier, passing in front of them, and the people felt strange, where was the team, a group of young dolls, with black vertical behind them, not guns, but oil-paper umbrellas. The bandits will not rub to the front to see, from a distance to see a huge team, there must be a lot of oil and water, the bandit leader known as the "King of Xiangxi" mistakenly thought that they were a regular army, and stopped them in the middle of the road to buy money. Mr. Li Jidong came forward to negotiate with them, and only then did he let them go. It was not in vain, and the tour group was still forced to "mean" a little.
According to the data, the tour group also escaped bandits for one night in the town of Liangshuijing in Yuanling. On November 1st, the first point we went to was the town of Liangshuijing. This place is Zhou Fohai's hometown. The rain kept falling, the temperature plummeted, and I put on all the clothes I could put on. Departing at 8:00 a.m., the car traveled along National Highway 319 in the rain. Water vapor filled the window glass, the window was a mess, and the road was like water and the water was like a road.
The exact location is in the current Liangshuijing Town Middle School. The tour group went to the liangshui well, it was rumored that the bandits were coming, the teachers and students were stationed at the station for one night, the bandits "broke the appointment", there was no danger. When we entered the campus, it was a weekend, the students were not in class, the day was raining, and the crowd was even rarer. In the end, the school leaders are cultural people, and they attach great importance to the influence of this history on the traditions and local culture of the school, but they can only briefly introduce the situation in that year. Rice cooking is difficult to do, and the local legends left by the tour group are not many, nor can they be more, just passing by, fleeting. But that's fine, the day before we passed by two other tour groups and asked the locals about it, not knowing anything about it. One is a famous official village, and the other is the village of Mumaxi in Madiyi Township.
It is said that bandits were also encountered in Guanzhuang. This group of men and horses looked too much like an army from a distance, and the bandits carefully surrounded them, only to find that the backs of this group of uniformed people poked out not guns, but bundled umbrellas. We went out on a high speed under the sign of Guanzhuang, and The eldest grandson of Mr. Wen Yiduo and a researcher of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Mr. Wen Liming, helped us hook up this period of history. He is an expert on southwest united university, and also an academic consultant of the TV series "Our southwest united university" and the cultural tourism route of "retaking the road of southwest united university", and the story and details of the southward migration. This line he had walked through many times. The locals were dazed by our arrival, standing by the side of the road with their children in their arms.
The situation in Mumaxi Village is similar, the locals only know that the Red Army passed through here in the past, and had been stationed for some time, as for walking through a group of student dolls, there was no impression. The geese passed without a trace, leaving nothing behind. Just passed. This place is the key to rushing from the south to the north, the world is full of water, and at that time there was chaos, and every day I did not know how many strange faces I had to pass, the small people, the poor and scattered, self-care and no time, where there was leisure to ask and remember every branch of people passing by. Eighty years have passed, time has changed, and how great legends and relics have stood the screening of the vast time. In the written records of that year, the roads of Yuanshan were all earth and stone, and a group of people used to be dusty, and now they are all cement national roads, shining rainy days. People are still building on the mountain as they were in those days, and the houses are tall and magnificent. We walked this section of the road in Mumaxi Village, watching scattered people gradually light up the lights on the rainy evening, and cooking smoke wafting out of the damp roof. Because it is a circle of mountains, the road also has a circle of layers, passing vehicles are endless, and the powerful lights pull out a strip of red and white light, which makes the gloomy night in the mountains have a little magic color.
Out of Liangshuijing Town, we continued along the Yuan River, the water was huge and gushing, and we walked with us through the mountains of Mangcang. I like to call Yuanshui, about reading Mr. Shen Congwen's article, preconceived good feelings. The mountain highways are all elevated, and the concrete pillars are slender and slender, and a meandering flat road is held high in the alpine valley, and this road condition has been extended to Guizhou. It is said that the highway in Guizhou is a miracle in the world, and this section of Xiangxi is also the same. In 1938, the joint masters and students who wore straw shoes and walked on crutches and sweated like rain could not imagine that the road could be walked like this. Gone are the days when you had to climb a mountain when you saw each other.
Expressways have the efficiency of highways, and pedestrians who cross mountains and mountains also have the pleasure of walking. As the notice of Changsha Provisional University before departure said: ... The walking plan, through the practice of learning more about the people, inspecting the terroir, collecting specimens, exercising the body, so that the relocation itself is education. The 3,600-mile, sixty-eight-day trek was indeed an open classroom. A land of poverty and weakness, a vast and magnificent Chinese river and mountain, unfolded in front of the united masters and students at the same time; a majestic and complex rural China, a kind of deep and dark city folk, also began to enter the hearts of young students in the ivory tower. Lin Zhenshu, a third-year student in the Department of Foreign Languages at Peking University, wrote in his diary on the first day of walking, under the pseudonym "Lin Pu" in the Ta Kung Pao in the spring of 1938.
Our boat departed around 12 p.m. that same day. Changsha and the scattered street lamps soon fell into the black night sky.
The boat, handed over to the small motorboat, towed forward. Gong Gong pulled out and chatted with us.
He said that his ship had been detained for more than twenty days before he received two dollars for food.
"Why don't you run away?"
Gentlemen: This pier does not seal us, that pier will seal us, we have no way to do it.
Asked why he didn't take our business as his own, he narrowed his eyes and said, "Gentlemen eat meat every day, let's put a few handfuls of salt to spend the day!" ”
The heart of pain, like the night, the days were boundless and melancholy, pressing against the old man.
Mr. Wen Yiduo, who was on the road to the south, had just turned forty years old, and when he was forty years old, he felt that he had just begun to know China. On foot, he wrote a letter to a friend:
During the period of national disaster, walking thousands of miles is not a sin.
Moreover, before I was fifteen years old, bound by an ancient family, I studied in Tsinghua, studied abroad, and after returning to China, I have been teaching in major cities, living the life of a fake foreign devil, and isolated from the vast countryside. Although he is a Chinese, he knows very little about Chinese society and people's lives. It's time to get to know the motherland!
Of course, this is Mr. Wen's self-humility and self-examination, but this road fieldwork in southwest China cannot be said to have not shocked and reflected on him and the joint masters and students as never before. Mr. Wen Yiduo saw the hardships of native China, and also saw the magnificence of the great rivers and mountains. Traveling to Zhenning, Guizhou, the English song "Santa Rukia" came from the Fire Bull Cave, and the person who sang it was Wen Yiduo.
"What does the song 'Santa Rukia' mean?" Teacher Wen Liming introduced, "The lyrics are written by a long worker next to the port, welcoming guests to the boat, he rowed the boat to the sea to go around, while singing in circles, singing what? Sing my hometown, that pride. ...... Smell a lot of patriotism, this poem is also patriotic, very beautiful and lyrical. ”
On the way of the march, they not only saw the suffering of the people, insight into the reality of China, appreciated the beauty of mountains and rivers and praised it, but also made progress in their respective professions and hobbies. Depending on the profession, the way of edutainment is also different. Students in the Department of Literature collected styles, students in the Department of Biology collected specimens, students in sociology majored in social research, and people specialized in painting the window edges of houses throughout the houses. Liu Zhaoji, a student at Nankai University, collected folk songs and ballads of ethnic minorities all the way, and when he arrived in Kunming, he published a book called "Southwest CaifengLu", which collected more than two hundred songs, and Mr. Wen Yiduo wrote a preface. Mr. Wen praised this way, which was how the Poetry Sutra was made.
Mr. Wen also has a hobby and has sketched all the way to life. When we arrived in Kunming, we visited the Wen Yiduo Memorial Hall and the Southwest United University Museum, and saw some of Mr. Wen's paintings, many of which were harvested on the westbound road. He kept his sketches as a diary. Mr. Wen's beard was also grown from that time. During the rapid march, he could not shave his beard, so he met with Professor Li Jidong, and he also grew a beard for the War of Resistance, and the War of Resistance was not victorious, and the beard was not shaved.
Longxikou Town Liang Sicheng Lin Huiyin residence
Leave Liangshuijing Town Middle School and drive to Xinhuang County. The original name of The New Huang County was Huang County, and was called Huang Prefecture in ancient times. It is said that it is named because there is Huangshan Mountain in the territory, but where Huangshan Mountain is, there are frequent evidence, and there are many controversies. No matter how it is shaken, when you see the "shaking" on various sign advertisements to "shake", you really feel that there seems to be a sense of instability under your feet. Chinese characters are so peculiar. To Xinhuangbi to Longxikou Ancient Town, the tour group once stayed here, and Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin also temporarily stayed in the town.
Longxikou is upstream of the Yuanshui River, which was an important commercial town during the Ming and Qing dynasties. The remains of the large pier are visible, with the water surface at the pier open, and the confluence of the two waters creates a fan-shaped river beach. Now the water is shallow, but according to the scale of the river beach, it must have been a majestic and turbulent water flow in those years. Merchants traveled along the Yuanshui River, especially in Jiangxi, where they operated timber, oil and salt, cloth and other businesses, and set up a lot of shops and houses. Most of the ancient buildings seen are their belongings, which are still well preserved, and the lintels are still written with the words of a certain business, shop and ticket number. There are also silver buildings, guild halls, and of course, green buildings, which have all been left behind.
In March 1938, the joint masters and students arrived here. At No. 53 Wanshou Street, the former Sanyi salt shop is the site of the tour group counseling group, the shadow of the old gatehouse is mottled, moss grows from the wet stone pavement, and the sign "Tour Group Counseling Group Station" is hung next to the door (above). Unfortunately, the caretaker was not there that day, the door was locked, and the scenery and exhibition in the inner courtyard could not be seen, and could only be watched from the outside. Also unable to see is the sojourn residence of Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin. No. 8 Fushou Street, green brick white wall Dewa, originally "Linyang Public Stack", do not have to see inside, only this name should be a luxurious courtyard. Liang Lin and the two arrived early, arriving in December 1937. In order to escape the chaos of war, many people moved west from Changsha, just in response to the verse in Wen Tianxiang's "Crossing the Zero Ding Yang": The mountains and rivers are broken and the wind is fluttering, and the life is floating and raining. On the way, Lin Hui suffered from severe pneumonia and had to be treated at Longxikou. Just arrived in town, can not find a place to live, inquire around, the second floor of the Linyang Public Stack lives in the Chinese Air Force Hangzhou Jianqiao seventh phase of the cadets, is also evacuating to Kunming, they made room for the couple, Liang Lin and the two lived in this house for half a month. Local friends told us that when Lin Huiyin lived here, he often crossed the river to the other bank to grab medicine.
Xinhuang is a Dong Autonomous County, living in Dong, Miao, Hui and other twenty-seven ethnic minorities, remembering the social survey of ethnic minorities consciously conducted by the united masters and students on the road to the south, we also want to take the opportunity to expand the scope of "re-walking" and do a little "amateur" investigation. I am new to Shin Akira for the first time, and I am even more curious about the national life here.
The local friend who accompanied us on our visit was a writer who came with a female disciple, a native of Longxikou, and said that he could ask her questions. The writer is a small black and thin middle-aged man, wearing glasses, thinning hair tied into a small braid hanging behind the head, wrote several novels, when we saw us, we asked, which is Lin Zechen, who won the "Mao Award"? He got me and Lin Zexu together. He told his female disciple that he should learn more from the writers and teachers, and he had something to do at home and left first. The female disciple was sixteen years old, a white and cold little girl, wearing a school uniform printed with the word "vocational high school", specializing in clothing tailoring. The little girl didn't have a loud voice, but it was completely talkative, chatting with a group of strange uncles and aunts without fear or shyness. Her eyes were large and slightly bulging, and her eyes were curious and cold.
She said that there is a mother-in-law in the local area, who is a good hand at embroidery, and is known as the embroidery mother-in-law. The embroidered mother-in-law would put "peach blossom clams", and the jars of the clams would be placed in a coffin painted red. The little girl said that there were three colors of coffins in the local area: red coffins for girls who died before marriage; white coffins for cave flower girls; and black coffins for dead old people. For the first time, I heard of "Cave Flower Girl". The little girl explained that the cave flower girls were those women who were fascinated by the mountain gods, who lived alone in the cave and had white hair. Why is the hair also white, and there is no sunlight for many years? She didn't say. She said that she had accepted two disciples, both from Sichuan, one in his thirties and one in his twenties, both men, studying history and writing with her. Turning around, she said her dream was not to become a writer, but to open a liquor store and sell only the wine her daughter's family drank.
When he spoke, his expression was silent, his eyes swept over with a cool touch, and the whole person was almost smokeless. This girl with an "old soul", the Dong ethnic group, took her own online name "Medicine Lady". When a little girl, sixteen years old, said that her name was "Medicine Lady", my heart was cold.
In 1938, the Xiangqian dian tour group took a boat from Changsha to Yiyang, landed and began to walk, often to Taoyuan, then by boat to Yuanling, and then by car to Huang County, which is now Xinhuang. Xinhuang then walked all over, through Guiyang and Yongning (in present-day Guanling) in Guizhou, and then through Pingyi (present-day Fuyuan) in Yunnan to reach its destination, Kunming.
In many memories, those who witnessed it mentioned the experience of traveling through Guizhou, although the trip was arduous, giving teachers and students a deeper feeling of the backwardness of the southwest and the withering of the people's livelihood. There is a saying that describes Guizhou at that time: the sky is not sunny, the earth is not three feet flat, and people do not have three points of silver. The harsh natural environment, Guiyang is far from the "refreshing Guiyang" that the people of the whole country envy now, and the economy is even more irresponsible, veritable poor mountains and bad waters, and the only rich and beautiful is the poppy.
After the Opium War, Chinese were no strangers to poppies, and the milky white slurry flowing from the immature poppy fruit was opium after it was dried. In Guizhou at that time, this was an important source of income for many local farmers. The poppies are plump and colorful, and the opposite is the yellow-faced and thin guizhou people, and the men are hungry and sloppy, like addicts who smoke a lot. Of course, there are not a few opium smokers, and the poorer they are, the more often they are self-anesthetized, so the flood of opium in the southwest is both indiscriminate cultivation and uncontrollable consumption. March and April is the time when poppies are blooming, the mountains are full of rich and colorful, exuding a vigorous and mighty atmosphere of enchantment and evil, and the young proud son of heaven walks on the bank of the poppy field, hating the gums with sore teeth: today it is still possible to move west, to a corner of Yunnan, but if you are intoxicated with opium, in the long run, people will have no independent strength, and the country will not be strong enough to resist enemies, afraid that there is no place to move, there is no place to escape. They did not expect that soon Yunnan would not be able to put down a calm desk, and the enemy planes of the Japanese Kou would soon be chased to Kunming.
Some of them waved their canes and struggled to sweep away the enchanting poppies. But what a crime for poppies. The livelihood of the village depends on this, is there anything more important than subsistence? In the final analysis, it is not the fault of the people, and it is also the sin of the real country. They lowered their canes again. The life of the people of the southwest is indeed miserable, but how hard and forbearing the people of the southwest are. Because of the lack of iodine in the salt, many women suffer from big neck disease, and they drag their children and daughters, running between huts and fields with a thick head and neck. The scene of women's labor has made many students think about women's survival and rights, and has also given them a new perspective of investigation and reflection on local China.
Unfortunately, since Xinhuang, we have mainly taken a car through Qiandian, cars, trains, high-speed railways, and the southwest land of November outside the window is fleeting. At this moment, the north where I live has long been withered, the earth is miserable, and the eyes are full of depression, while in the southwest, the green mountains and rivers are happy to flourish, especially the green on the 100,000 mountains, and the rain has washed more and more ink, and it is ready to flow down the hillside at any time. The car traveled between the mountains and the wilderness, and we often walked for an hour or two through the ten days of the tour group.
On April 23, 1938, the Xiangqiandian Tour Group arrived in Kunming, and there were no students left behind. This day coincides with the anniversary of Tsinghua University. Three famous photographs are often seen in the relevant materials, all of which are taken of the tour group's arrival in Kunming. First, the tour group arrived in Kunming and lined up in Yuantong Park to take a roll call. In the second photo, Mr. Mei Yiqi, member of the Standing Committee of the United Nations General Assembly and president of Tsinghua University, and Lieutenant General Huang Shiyue, head of the tour group, cordially shook hands, and Lieutenant General Huang handed over the joint masters and students to Mr. Mei intact. The third is Mr. Mei Yiqi's welcome speech, behind which are teachers, students and guests who have arrived in advance, and in front of the members of the tour group who are still wearing military uniforms. In order to welcome the tour group, Professor Zhao Yuanren also composed the song "Long Road to Union University":
It's a long way to union university
It's a long way
Go to the best school I know
Goodbye Bible College
Goodbye Leek Garden
It's a long way to Kunming
That's where my heart is
Since then, for the next eight years, Kunming people have often hung up on one sentence: the streets are full of gentlemen in long shirts. Of course, for four or five months, the Mengzi people would also put this sentence on their lips, because the Faculty of Letters and the School of Law of Southwest United University were first located in Mengzi, merged into the Grammar School, and only moved back to Kunming at the end of August and the beginning of September 1938.
Southwest United University Kunming and Mengzi two campuses we have gone, line and line again, and the history and relics related to them have also tried their best to do intellectual archaeology and emotional closeness and understanding, some are warm, more is to know the new. This is a history that is very different from the three thousand miles long distance, and it is even longer and more abundant, and the arduous struggles involved in the struggle, the patriotic war of resistance, the survival of the people, scientific democracy, academic freedom, and the brilliant achievements of the Southwest United University are clearly stated. I am shallow and do not dare to act rashly, so I do not press the table. However, during the period of visits in Kunming and Mengzi, one more thing was done, that is, I finished watching the two films "Southwest United Congress" and "The Eight Years of Southwest United Congress", in addition to watching part of the chapters of a TV series that had just been completed, "Our Southwest United Congress".
The first two are documentaries, mainly based on first-hand images and written materials, interspersed with current fieldwork and interviews, in an effort to maximize the restoration of history, and in the context of the new era, to carry out necessary discussions on how to understand the Southwest United Congress. The selection of historical materials is precise, the awareness of the problem is deep, and then realized after "re-walking", it is like looking back alone, wandering in the tunnel of time, and the pertinence of history and the causes and consequences are suddenly enlightened. Watching "Our Southwest United Congress" produced by Tencent is a different feeling. The play takes the perspective of students to see the Southwest United University and the great history behind it, from Pingjin to Kunming and Mengzi, just like our "re-walk", to the south, to the west, to the southwest, until the eight years of life of the United Nations University, meticulously depicting how their enthusiastic growth and ideal responsibility reached a water and milk fusion with the spirit of the Southwest United University. If the first two documentaries focus on macroscopic and homeland, then this drama focuses on details and individuals, and with abundant stories and details, it finally realizes the establishment of a legend for the cultural war of resistance, the erection of statues for intellectuals, and the erection of monuments for the national spirit.
The illustrations in this article are provided by the author
The past is over, and what can be condensed and preserved is the spirit, tradition and culture. It is expected that this is also the original intention of Tencent's motion to "re-go". It is important to revisit, and it is even more important to relive; what is revisited is a piece of history, and what is revisited is a spirit and a heritage. What kind of spirit and inheritance? Come to think of it, or the motto of Southwest United University is the most concise and powerful, everything is in it, that is:
Tough and strong.
April 5, 2021, Mudan's birthday, Anhe Garden
Author: Xu Zechen
Editor: Xie Juan