When it comes to "Internet celebrities", people will think of those handsome men and women who are gorgeously dressed, spend a lot of money, and have strong traffic, and these people are in a similar situation.
But there are also some people who do not rely on their appearance, but rely on their true talents and learning, and appear in the public's field of vision, such as Dong Yuhui.
In 2014, a photo on the Internet sparked heated discussions among netizens, the old man in the photo, with white temples, dressed plainly, and stepping on a pair of old Beijing cloth shoes, so netizens speculated who took his grandfather to class when he was in class.
Attentive netizens found that behind this photo were the five big characters of "Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences", and they reacted for a while, this is Academician Li Xiaowen, the founder of China's remote sensing technology.
It stands to reason that a person with such outstanding achievements should be a top student when he was a child, with high scores in various subjects, and become a child of someone else's family.
Long live sixty points, every extra point is wasted, which is vividly reflected in Li Xiaowen's body.
A student who goes to school to control his score is far more terrible than a student who gets a high score, because a student who controls his score can ensure that he does every question correctly and does not seek results.
Who doesn't want to get a good score when they go to school and get praise from teachers and parents, what I want to talk about today is that he can get a high score, but he is stuck at 60 points.
He is known as the sweeping monk in "Dragon Babu", he is indifferent to fame and fortune all his life, has no desires, likes to read martial arts novels when he is in school, and spends his days in a muddy nightmare after graduation, but he unexpectedly awakens to change China's remote sensing technology.
This person is Li Xiaowen, the teacher who is still holding a wine jug in class.
The content of this article is based on official and reliable sources, which are summarized at the end of this article.
Bohemian character
In 1947, Li Xiaowen was born in a family of intellectuals in Sichuan, his father was an engineer and his mother was an accountant, both of them were busy with work and had no time to take care of him, so he sent him to school at the age of 4.
Originally, with the teacher's supervision, Li Xiaowen's naughtiness would be a little more restrained, but he still went his own way, he didn't listen carefully in class, and when he was caught by the teacher, he still went his own way, hippie smiley, this reason of reaching out and not hitting a smiling person was thoroughly touched by this 4-year-old child.
Li Xiaowen has been used to being free-range since he was a child, and his parents are intellectuals and have a certain social status, so as long as he is not too excessive in school, the teacher will not lecture him.
When he took the exam, he always finished the test paper early and ran out, and just when the teacher was ready to educate him, the test paper turned out to be 60 points, just past the passing line.
At that time, parents and teachers didn't care too much about their children's grades, and they were happy when the grades were good, and it didn't matter if they were bad.
Li Xiaowen believes that the score is just a form of assessment, and when he first scored 60 points, he would also worry about his parents' blame, and he would take a few more points, but later found that his worries were superfluous.
Every day in class, he will also listen to the lecture carefully, and whenever he finishes the content of the teacher's lecture, he begins to give up listening to the lecture and go to his own business, so he has been exposed to many things that are not in the classroom since he was a child.
When he was in high school, his classmates were studying day and night, hoping to have a good grade, but he still maintained: the principle of passing long live, and his grades have always been at the "upper average" level.
Li Xiaowen has liked to read martial arts novels since he was a child, and his favorite is "Smiling Proud Jianghu", Ling Hu Chong has always been his role model, he often wants to ask that he can be as free and uninhibited as Ling Hu Chong.
In real life, he did.
After the college entrance examination, he was successfully admitted to Chengdu Telecommunications Engineering College, and after entering the university, Li Xiaowen still insisted on the principle of "long live sixty points, one more waste", which attracted the dissatisfaction of the teacher.
Li Xiaowen's state of "messing around" every day made the teacher feel that he didn't care about studying, so he suggested that he join the extracurricular training group to improve his grades and get rid of 60 points.
For Li Xiaowen, this is simply a waste of his time reading novels, in order to prove to the teacher that he does not need to participate in the training group, he asked the teacher to answer the questions and answered them on the spot.
When the teacher just finished writing the question on the blackboard, he also wrote out the answer, and the teacher here no longer worries about his study.
The genius of remote sensing is beginning to emerge
After graduating from university, Li Xiaowen was assigned to work in a farm, in the fifties and sixties of the last century, when there were not many college students, and the Chengdu Telecommunications Engineering College he studied at that time was also regarded as a 985 college at that time.
Li Xiaowen, who has been pampered since childhood, where can he do farm work, at that time, the technology of the farmland was not developed, mainly relying on manpower, and the only tractor was not used, mainly because he was afraid that no one would repair it if it was broken, so he was always supplied.
Li Xiaowen, who learned the news, began to learn about machine maintenance, and once there was a problem with the equipment in the farm, he rushed over to repair it as soon as possible.
In order to speed up the process of the workers' farm work, Li Xiaowen ran to the fields every day to repair the machines, and the leaders above also saw this enthusiastic teenager, so they transferred him to a radio factory in Mianyang as a technician.
Li Xiaowen entered the power plant, and returned to his previous rotten appearance, just messing around every day, as if he was not the one who was running back and forth in the fields before.
At that time, the country began the postgraduate examination, so it was rumored that Li Xiaowen was going to take the postgraduate examination.
As soon as it was passed on to ten, ten to hundred, hatred soon reached his ears, and he had never thought of explaining it, nor did he plan to go. But as soon as I heard others say that I was still tossing things when I was old, I couldn't pass the test.
The young and vigorous Li Xiaowen's rebellious psychology came up, not only to take the exam, but also to pass the exam, so he began to read and review books and dates, and finally not only achieved excellent results, but also got the opportunity to study abroad.
Returning from school for the benefit of the country
In 1979, Li Xiaowen was sent to the United States to further his studies in remote sensing as one of the first batch of publicly-funded students in China.
After arriving in the United States, he saw a world different from his home, and in order to live up to the country's funding, he began to change his normal behavior, immersed himself in hard study, and soaked himself in the library every day.
Li Xiaowen often in the early hours of the morning, with the bright starlight on his head, carrying his own baby in his bag, humming the community all the way back to the dormitory.
While studying remote sensing at the University of California, Santa Barbara, he also enrolled in his favorite geography major, and in 1981 he received a master's degree in field engineering.
During his studies in the United States, Li Xiaowen profoundly realized that the world is ever-changing, and computer network technology will occupy most of human life in the future.
In 1985, he received his Ph.D. in geography and his master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
At that time, Li Xiaowen's outstanding professional achievements attracted many large companies in the United States, with favorable treatment conditions and good development prospects, but Li Xiaowen rejected them, and he wanted to use what he learned to contribute to China's science and technology industry.
In 1986, after Li Xiaowen returned to China, he joined the Institute of Remote Sensing of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he successively established the groundbreaking "Li-Strahler Geometric Optical Model" and "Planck's Law Scale Correction in Non-Isothermal Blackbody Planes" and other conceptual models.
Li Xiaowen's invention has opened up a new horizon for the Institute of Remote Sensing, and he is also deservedly known as "one of the two or three most outstanding scientists in the field of remote sensing".
In 1995, Li Xiaowen made a name for himself in the international research on remote sensing in the past few years, and he also became a researcher at the Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Information Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
In 2001, Li Xiaowen became an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences for his outstanding contributions to remote sensing, and in 2002, he was elected director of the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a position he held until five years later.
Li Xiaowen did not leave the field of remote sensing he loved because of this, but became a chic teacher who dressed strangely, even if he was simple, and he still carried a second pot head in class, but despite this, everyone still likes to listen to him in class, because he knows what is in the textbook, and he knows what is outside the textbook.
When Li Xiaowen is in class, he often disagrees with students on research theories, and he will encourage students to do experiments, and if they fail, they will treat it as accumulating experience, and if they succeed, I will invite you to dinner.
With the popularity of that photo in 2014, Li Xiaowen also became an Internet celebrity, so a merchant of an electronic technology brand wanted to invite him to be an endorsement.
When he heard this, he refused, he was just a reader doing research and did not mix with the media, but when he heard that the merchant was Huawei, he not only agreed, but also refused the sky-high endorsement fee.
This is mainly because Li Xiaowen is a scientific research worker, he hates and admires Huawei's bold innovation, insists on his own ideas, and is committed to being a national enterprise.
Since he was a child, he regarded money as something outside his body, as long as it was enough, and often funded the children in poor mountainous areas with the rewards he received, which has been as high as several million, and donated 1.2 million yuan to his alma mater.
In 2015, Li Xiaowen passed away in Beijing at the age of 68.
People on the Internet affectionately call him "Academician Buyi", Li Xiaowen has practiced the road to simplicity to the end in his life, simply come, simply walk, a simple but charming "fairy spirit", as if he does not belong to this world, he has dedicated his life's work to China's remote sensing cause, I wish him all the way!
Resources:
People's Daily Online: ""Cloth Shoes Academician" Li Xiaowen died of illness and eulogy: There is no more sweeping monk in the world".
China.com: "Li Xiaowen: Maverick "Cloth Shoes Academician"".