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He is known as the "best" president of Tsinghua University,
But he has a low diploma and no prestige,
How did you get such a high position?
There are suspicions that
Does he have some hard backstage?
He is also the "poorest" president of Tsinghua University,
so depraved that he has no money to heal,
Dying.
But after he left, people found out,
In the briefcase he carried,
There is a huge secret hidden.
And when the truth is revealed,
Everyone was silent......
Today, the world should know his name:
Plum Zhaoqin.
Tsinghua University in 1931,
caught in a deep educational crisis,
Empty fame,
No academic standing at all.
In just three years,
changed three principals as if they were looking at the flowers,
Students don't obey, professors are at ease,
The president is the leader of Tsinghua University.
It's a pity that there is no one,
can descend this "Huaguo Mountain".
At that time, there was such a sentence in Tsinghua University,
The professor is a god who doesn't ask about the world,
Students are unruly tigers,
The principal is not as good as the dog who comes and who goes.
Whoever is the principal is unlucky,
But in the bleak season of that year,
When the man named Mei Yiqi became the principal,
Everyone in Tsinghua has become well-behaved.
Mei Yiqi, with low educational qualifications,
Staying abroad for many years,
I didn't even get a graduate diploma,
口才也欠缺，平素不爱说话，
Taught for a few years,
Decent and average performance.
That's the kind of person you have,
Why can he be the president of Tsinghua University?
There is speculation that
Tsinghua University is directly under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education.
Mei Yiqi must be "someone in the DPRK",
The background is hard.
When he takes office,
And all men understood his power,
It dawned on them:
It turns out that Mei Yiqi is the hardest backer,
It was actually himself.
Mei Yiqi's temperament is tough enough.
When receiving the appointment of the president of Tsinghua University,
Relatives and friends dissuaded him from taking office,
It is a time of chaos and turmoil,
Two presidents of Tsinghua University,
Luo Jialun, Qiao Wanxuan are all such characters,
One was Chiang Kai-shek's secretary,
One went to duty with the military police,
As a result,
Didn't you get kicked out of Tsinghua in disgrace?
You go, do you want your name,
Do you want a future?
Hard as Mei Yiqi,
It's just that if I don't go to hell, who will go to hell?!
In 1931, he became president of Tsinghua University.
One sentence stunned all the teachers and students,
He said: "The so-called university scholars,
It is not said that there is a building,
There is also a master. ”
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He will be a faculty member of the university,
Unprecedented heights were raised.
And he said:
"A plan for thousands of years,
Let Tsinghua become a base for cultivating masters. ”
Such a grand ambition, deafening,
Everyone will wait and see,
梅贻琦,
What are you capable of changing the world?
Mei Yiqi is determined to be tough enough.
As soon as he took office,
Directly cut all the subsidies that belong to the principal,
What kind of material welfare, maid welfare,
Neither.
Originally, the treatment of the president of Tsinghua University was excellent.
In winter, you don't need money to burn coal or make phone calls.
Ke Mei Yiqi's family,
却要靠着妻子摆地摊生活,
Because he didn't take all of this.
He also made a rule:
Each according to his ability, do not open the back door.
Whoever intercedes,
If the student's score is not enough, it is not recorded,
If the professor is not capable, he will not be hired.
then
The daughter of Yunnan Provincial Changlong Yun's application for Tsinghua University,
didn't record it, go find Mei Yiqi,
As a result, they were turned away.
Long Yun scolded him for not being emotional,
Yelling to clean him up.
It turned out later that
Mei Yiqi's daughter,
I didn't even get into this school for a few minutes.
Long Yuncai sighed:
What a selfless man with an iron face.
Mei Yiqi is tough enough.
He never opened the door for mediocrity,
But it doesn't bury geniuses either.
Tsinghua Academy of Sinology should hire four major tutors,
He gave four names:
Dr. Zhao Yuanren in the United States,
Wang Guowei, Master of Chinese Studies,
Restoration leader Liang Qichao,
And one more,
is Chen Yinke, who does not have any diploma.
Wang Guowei and Liang Qichao are famous,
Naturally there is no objection,
Although Zhao Yuanren has no teaching experience,
But it's a doctor, that's all,
So what's going on with Chen Yinke,
I don't even have a diploma,
Still want to be a Tsinghua tutor?
Mei Yiqi tried to disagree:
Although Chen Yinke does not have a diploma,
But there has not been a master in 300 years!
Years later, Chen Yinke became a modern Chinese person.
The most prestigious set historian,
Classical literature researcher, linguist,
The poet in one,
Rare masters,
Everyone had to admire Mei Yiqi,
Discerning eyes, bright eyes!
Chen Yinke
furthermore
Mei Yiqi also recruited a bunch of strange people:
Only Hua Luogeng, who has only the first Chinese,
Yang Zhenning, who has not finished his sophomore year of high school......
He made an exception for Hua Luogeng three times,
Exceptionally hired, exceptionally sent to study abroad,
Exceptionally promoted to professor,
With support all the way,
China has Hua Luogeng, the father of modern mathematics.
Eclectic, meritocracy,
The way of running a school in a higher education institution,
It started with him.
Just ask about the courage of such a person,
Who is Shemei Yiqi?
Hua Luogeng
Because of Mei Yiqi's "backing",
Tsinghua has a once-in-a-century grand occasion,
Groups of top scholars gathered here:
Literary scholar Zhu Ziqing, poet Wen Yiduo,
Historian Lei Haizong,
Mathematician Chern Shiingshen,
Master of thermodynamics Wang Zhuxi,
Psychology Taidou Pan Guangdan,
Physicist Wu Youxun,
Physics Master Ye Qisun,
Scientific Research Master Zhou Peiyuan,
Chen Daisun, an economist,
Zhao Zhongyao, pioneer of nuclear physics,
Master of Chinese Studies Qian Zhongshu......
There are not only Dr. Liuyang, but also Chinese scholars,
There are both former Qing Hanlin and academic celebrities,
Covering the canon, covering all families,
Such a grand occasion is unprecedented,
梅贻琦,
Let Tsinghua University have the history of the university,
The most brilliant lineup of teachers competing with a hundred schools.
Just ask such the courage to recruit talents,
Who is Shemei Yiqi?
Mei Yiqi spoke hard enough.
In most people's minds,
The principal is at the helm of a school,
Its leadership lies in deeds and words.
But Mei Yiqi most of the time,
Always silent,
He advocated democratic governance.
At the beginning of the meeting, the professors vied with each other to speak,
His dignified principal brought tea and water to everyone,
Not saying a word is like air.
He doesn't like to talk eloquently,
But as soon as you open your mouth,
It must have been carefully considered.
What kind of talents do professors cultivate for the university?
How to cultivate talents and argue endlessly,
Mei Yiqi came out to speak,
Always be able to make a final decision in one sentence:
The importance of university education lies in personality.
If a student does not have a perfect personality,
Then going out into society will not be beneficial to society either.
Teachers should not only specialize in the teaching of clear knowledge,
It is also necessary to provide students with self-cultivation, will,
Emotions set an example.
There is nothing bad about the student,
Bad students are taught badly.
The school is like water, and the teachers and students are like fish.
Its action is like swimming, and the big fish leads,
The small fish trail and is from the swim also.
Mei Yiqi acted hard enough.
In 1935, North China was critical,
The authorities sent troops to Tsinghua University to arrest the students.
Mei Yiqi stood in front of everyone with righteousness and awe:
"Something happened to the student,
I can't retreat from being a principal,
I am responsible for bailing out all the arrested classmates!
Maintain Tsinghua's academic independence!"
Wen Yiduo is a professor he invited,
Because of many radical statements,
Chiang Kai-shek was very dissatisfied,
Specifically to talk to Mei Yiqi,
Questioned,
Why don't you sweep the smell out of the house.
In the face of Lao Jiang's hidden murderous machine,
How dare he talk about anything else,
One will say that Wen Yi suffers a lot,
One will say that the treatment of professors will be improved,
Every word is to keep hearing a lot,
The courage to do so,
What a boldness!
So suave,
But Mei Yiqi, who is upright and tough,
Impressed all the teachers and students.
He has worked hard for several years,
Supporting Tsinghua to move forward in the wind and rain,
Give it a complete makeover.
Originally, this university,
is considered to be empty of fame and no academics,
It's not ranked at all in the world,
It was Mei Yiqi who made it truly among the
In the forefront of domestic famous universities,
It has also become an internationally renowned top university!
Foreign countries say,
Thirty years of Middle earth, a thousand years of Sibon,
Describe the rapid development of Tsinghua University.
Without Mei Yiqi,
Without the infinite scenery of Tsinghua,
Without Mei Yiqi,
There is no later called the history of Chinese education,
The Greatest Miracle:
Southwest Associated University!
In 1937, the full-scale war of resistance broke out.
In the history of Chinese education,
The most tragic migration took place:
Tsinghua University, Nankai University, Peking University,
The three schools moved south to Kunming,
Merged into National Southwest Associated University.
At that time, Zhang Boling, the principal of Nankai,
Jiang Menglin, President of Peking University, is based in Chongqing.
Management of the Southwest Associated University,
The important task of protecting the last flame of education in China,
It fell on Mei Yiqi's shoulder.
It was a very hard time,
Mei Yiqi took the students,
With iron sheets, planks, thatch, adobe,
built the "poorest" school.
In order to fight for funding for education,
For the first time in his life, he let go of his hardness,
With a soft attitude,
Go for a small amount of money.
He put everything he had,
are filled into the cause of education,
The grant given to him above is left to the school,
The family is destitute,
Chilli bibimbap every day,
The wife had to make rice cakes,
Go to roadside stalls to sell to make a living.
No one knew that Mei Yiqi at that time,
There is a large amount of Tsinghua Geng fund in hand.
But
He didn't spend a penny on his family.
He only has the General Assembly in his heart,
There is not a bit of selfishness!
The war burned the land of China for eight years,
Japanese planes are hovering overhead and bombing,
Poverty and sickness afflict many,
But with Mei Yiqi at the helm,
Southwest Associated University,
Far from falling apart,
On the contrary, it has created a miracle of the past and the present!
From here,
Out of two Nobel laureates:
Li Zhengdao, Yang Zhenning,
out of the later New China,
8 "Two Bombs and One Star" Meritorious Service:
"Father of Mechanics" Qian Weichang,
"Father of the Atomic Bomb" Qian Sanqiang,
"Father of Satellites" Zhao Jiuzhang,
“光学之父”王大珩.....
also walked out of 172 academicians,
More than 100 masters of humanities.
The immortality of the country stems from the immortality of the soul of the country;
The immortality of the national soul stems from the prosperity of education;
The prosperity of education stems from the endless flow of talents.
World Commentary,
Hold high the torch for China's centennial plan,
Talent is boiling with such a grand occasion,
Looking at the past and present,
Only Mei Yiqi can do it!
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the Southwest Associated University disintegrated,
Mei Yiqi suddenly disappeared from the current situation.
Among them,
There is a huge secret that the world does not know.
At that time, after years of accumulation,
Tsinghua has tens of millions of dollars in funds,
Lao Chiang wants to destroy the peace,
The National Government was in a hurry to use the money.
In order not to let this money,
to be used in the cruelty of their own people,
Mei Yiqi could only go to the United States to hide.
With such a huge amount of money,
And in a foreign land,
Mei Yiqi lived very poorly.
He can't even afford to rent a decent apartment,
Feed your family by doing some menial work,
I can't eat enough and sleep well, and I'm skinny.
wife until the age of 66,
I'm still working for someone else.
Until 1955, when the dust settled,
Mei Yiqi brought back this huge amount of money,
built in the province,
Qinghua Institute of Atomic Science.
Many people asked him to change his name to Tsinghua University.
All he said was:
The real Tsinghua University is in Beijing.
He was in Taiwan Province for seven years,
exhausted efforts for the establishment of the institute,
He's in power,
But always with a breeze on his sleeves,
is so embarrassed that he can't even get the money for treatment,
It's all up to everyone to raise donations,
before he was admitted to the hospital.
In 1962, he provoked the "Tsinghua" on both sides of the strait.
For the cause of Chinese education,
Mei Yiqi, who had devoted her whole life, died of illness......
Before his death, he always had a briefcase with him.
When everyone opened it, they found that
Inside is what Mei Yiqi has mastered over the years,
Detailed accounts of the Tsinghua Fund,
Seventeen years,
Without any supervision,
Every penny,
Remember it clearly, clearly.
In those years,
Even if he is so poor that he starves to death and dies of illness,
I never thought of using the money,
Everyone sighed,
Mr. Geng Jie is hard, selfless and selfless,
It really does:
A lifetime of Tsinghua, a lifetime of innocence!
Saying goes
The names of the gentlemen are all over the world, and so is the slander.
But only Mei Yiqi,
Whether in life or after death,
No words or slanders were obtained.
Throughout his life,
High wind and bright festival, not flattering, not subservient,
Behave in the world, not greedy for fame, not profit-seeking,
For the freedom of Chinese scholarship,
The independence of thought opens up the territory,
Tsinghua University, Southwest Associated University,
sent to the pinnacle of Chinese education,
For the education of the Chinese nation,
Hold on to the last spark!
He is an impeccable man,
A man of high moral character,
A person who dedicates himself to education without distractions.
Today, December 29, 2023,
The 134th anniversary of Mei Yiqi's birth,
In memory of the eternal president of Tsinghua University,
Forever China's humble gentleman!