The sea breeze of Gulangyu Island in Xiamen is slightly cool on people, a white jade sculpture glows warmly in the sun, and the flowers around her are blooming, and the breath of life is gathered here.
This is Lin Qiaozhi, an obstetrician and gynecologist known as the "mother of ten thousand babies", who has never been married or had children in her life, but has welcomed the arrival of thousands of lives.
Every child is the most precious gift of her parents, at the turn of the century, Lin Qiaozhi came to the human world, at this time she did not know that she would be abandoned by her mother.
Lin Qiaozhi's mother, He Jin, was more than forty years old when she gave birth to her, and she was considered an elderly mother, and she was ridiculed as an old clam, and Lin Qiaozhi was still a daughter, and she was poked in the spine.
In those days, no one cared about the mood of the mother, and every mother seemed to be a machine that gave birth to a child, and this machine even had a good point.
Lin Qiaozhi visited the doctor photo
Postpartum hormone upheavals made He Jin feel very fragile, she is a Christian, believing in children is a gift from God, but these have not been able to withstand the feudal remnants of son preference.
Even today, there are still backward places to abandon baby girls, or beat girls out, and in that era, the birth of girls is even less blessed.
Therefore, the mentally disturbed He Jin put the newborn Lin Qiaozhi aside, and in the era of extremely poor sanitary conditions, this was enough to kill a baby.
Lin Qiaozhi sculpture
Perhaps Lin Qiaozhi was destined to be an angel who came to the earth, and her father found out in time after returning home and hugged his dying daughter.
"Wait another hour, the child's life will be gone, what happened to the girl?" Boys and girls are the same. ”
This remark woke up He Jin, and she looked at her daughter who had shrunk into a ball, and her guilt was so guilty that her heart was entangled. Motherhood drives her, loving her children.
The father named his daughter Lin Qiaozhi, which means "dexterous and innocent", she is a child born on Christmas Eve, so the father loves Lin Qiaozhi as a treasure.
Therefore, Lin Qiaozhi has not experienced any patriarchal treatment since she was a child, and her parents have given her enough love, but the heavens will descend on the Si people, and they must first suffer their minds.
Photos of Lin Qiaozhi when he was a student
When Lin Qiaozhi was five years old, she just remembered that the first thing she remembered was not the happiness of the family, but her mother, who was suffering from cervical cancer.
At that time, the medical conditions were very poor, and never inclined to the mother and baby, many women were afraid of gossip and did not go to the disease, so gynecological diseases accumulated in the end into incurable diseases.
Lin Qiaozhi may not have been able to understand so much, but in her young mind, she had a deep obsession with the death of her mother.
After the death of her mother, she was sent by her father to a kindergarten run by An English missionary, and it was pitiful for a child without a mother, but the holy singing of the church healed her.
Her father told her: "Girls should be self-reliant and self-reliant, not dependent on men." Therefore, Lin Qiaozhi has understood since he was a child that women in this world should have the right to be independent and autonomous.
Lin Qiaozhi photo
This gave her a gentle and tenacious disposition, and after going to xiamen girls' school, she almost became a little saint under the guidance of the missionary Miss Mary.
Humble, hardworking, warm, Lin Qiaozhi like the sun emits the light of human love, "love others as yourself" This doctrine is deeply rooted in her heart and implements all her actions.
Having experienced such an education, she is destined not to choose a mediocre life, but to have the perseverance to complete her ideals in a very difficult time for women.
So after graduation, although Lin Qiaozhi has a good opportunity to stay in school, she does not want to hide in the ivory tower, she wants to experience the suffering of the world and save the confused soul, but to complete such an ideal makes her a little afraid.
"You are the best student I have ever met and deserve a more complete education. In the face of such a big decision, you should pray and do your best, rather than thinking about whether you can do it or not. ”
Lin Qiaozhi's teacher gave her the courage to move forward, so she chose to become a doctor, treating the sick and saving people, relieving the pain of the human body, and also making up for her regret about her mother's death.
Great ideas can only be feats if they are put into action, and Lin Qiaozhi bravely embarks on the path of his own confirmation and does better than anyone else.
Peking Union Medical College Hospital was the most advanced hospital in China at that time, there were very few Chinese doctors in it, and there was not a single Chinese female doctor, but Lin Qiaozhi wanted to choose this hospital.
At the age of 20, the girl from an ordinary family may have become a mother, and she has been circling the stove and the child all day, but Lin Qiaozhi firmly stepped into the examination room of Union Hospital.
The hard work she has been studying has been effective, she is in the exam room, the answer is like a stream, seeing that after taking the English she is best at, she can get the dream admission letter, and the accident happens unexpectedly but at an inopportune time.
A female candidate fell to the ground because of heat stroke, and the invigilators are all men, afraid of being gossiped, none of them went up to help, and the other candidates were mostly boys, all because of the "male and female defense" cold eyes.
At this time, Lin Qiaozhi was seriously doing the question, and was called by an examiner, and she looked up blankly: "I haven't finished it yet." The teacher explained that someone had suffered from heat stroke.
In an exam at China's highest medical school, someone with heat stroke could not help her, and she could only ask a 20-year-old candidate who did not understand medical skills.
Because it is a woman who suffers from heat stroke, so saving people has become filthy, just as Lu Xun said, as soon as he sees his bare arms, he naturally thinks of sex, thinks of incest...
At that time, the society was too corrupt and unfair to women, and many people died for the word "chastity", and the same was true for Lin Qiaozhi's mother.
So she did not hesitate, even if she did not finish writing the test paper, she also went to help rescue the girl, she knew that it was not easy for women to survive in the world, and they had to support each other.
Sure enough, in order to save people, she failed to finish the exam paper, such a strict exam, every point is precious, so according to common sense, Lin Qiaozhi must not be able to go to this school.
Eight years of hard reading, resolutely gave up all choices, desperate bets, Lin Qiaozhi at this time is not remorseful, saving talent is her ideal, even if she can not be a doctor, she also succeeded.
Just when she was already relieved, an admission letter was handed over to Lin Qiaozhi's hand, and it turned out that her sense of responsibility for sacrificing herself to save people was exactly what Xiehe Hospital needed, so she was admitted out of the box.
Xiehe Medical College is strict in and out, but these self-disciplined Lin Qiaozhi, who is difficult to overcome self-discipline, she not only became the recipient of the scholarship, but also the first person in the same batch to be promoted to a resident, and many departments threw olive branches for her.
Her mentor also kept her in school: "Lin, stay here you have a bright future." ”
Lin Qiaozhi and students take a group photo
But Lin Qiaozhi's heart was more determined, she just wanted to study medicine before, but she didn't know what to learn, and now, she didn't hesitate to choose obstetrics and gynecology.
This shocked many people, as such an excellent talent, Lin Qiaozhi went to other departments to give full play to her talents, and in an era when it was common to have children at home, being an obstetrician and gynecologist seemed tired and had no honor.
"In China at that time, the maternal mortality rate was as high as 1.5%, and the neonatal mortality rate was as high as 16." Later, Lin Qiaozhi explained this.
Lin Qiaozhi did not have any other ideas, but the isolation and helplessness of the girls during the exam, and the long-term illness of her mother made her understand that society needs more people to help women and save children.
"I am a Chinese, a Chinese mother and baby, who need me to go back."
The words on the letter of appointment issued by Xiehe Hospital to Lin Qiaozhi further prove this point.
"I hereby appoint Ms. Lin Qiaozhi as an assistant resident in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of Union Hospital... During the period of appointment, any person who is married, pregnant or has a child shall be automatically dismissed. ”
Getting married and having children means losing her social identity, if even if there is no guarantee of life, women will have no foothold in the human world, which is contrary to Lin Qiaozhi's concept of equality for everyone, so she has to change.
"The future of the nation is in your belly." Lin Qiaozhi fulfilled her original intention in one sentence.
Photo of Lin Qiaozhi delivering a baby
Lin Qiaozhi did not know that this decision would make her accompany the first journey of human life all her life, she just worked hard, and in a blink of an eye, she personally undertook fifty thousand lives.
Among the children she delivered, many were named "Nian Lin", "Ai Lin", "Jing Lin", "Yang Lin"... Their birth certificates all had her English signature "Lin Qiao zhi's baby.".
Therefore, Lin Qiaozhi did not have a child in his life, but he was the greatest mother in the world.
Not only love children, the existence of Lin Qiaozhi has saved many mothers, so that they can accompany their children to grow up healthily after giving birth.
Lin Qiaozhi is always the most patient and gentle one in the department, and when other doctors shout at the mother, Lin Qiaozhi is never willing to say a heavy word.
She said she couldn't let the mother grab the cold sheets alone, because it would be sick. In fact, what is the physical disease, the heart disease.
Postpartum depression can even make mothers abandon their newborn babies, Lin Qiaozhi understands the fragility of every mother after childbirth, so she wants to escort mothers.
Even all the students in Lin Qiaozhi's belt had to inherit her concern for the mother.
In one exam, she asked each student to complete a record of 10 cases of maternal delivery, and the students did not dare to slacken off, and after carefully writing it, only one copy was excellent, and the others all failed.
The students were all confused, and Lin Qiaozhi pointed out the excellent cases and said: "None of you have recorded this: the mother's forehead has beads of sweat the size of beans." ”
It is this kind of education that makes her students care more about maternity than other doctors, and the practice of medicine is more humane, and many famous doctors have been produced, which has created today's obstetrics and gynecology.
At present, China's maternal mortality rate is only 16.9 per 100,000, the infant mortality rate has been reduced to 5.4%, and the core indicators of maternal and child health rank among the top middle- and high-income countries in the world.
In 1941, when the Pacific War broke out and the hospital was forced to close, she did not hide back from school in order to be able to follow the front line, but opened a private clinic.
Private clinics, door-to-door visits, this seems to be a treatment that only the rich can enjoy today, but in Lin Qiaozhi's heart, human life is equally precious.
"Only the money of the more substantial families is charged, and it is free for many poor people." Not only that, but she often prepares some money when she goes to the doctor to subsidize very poor families.
On the day of sitting and going to the clinic, Lin Qiaozhi spent eight years and wrote thousands of cases, some of which were well preserved by the patient's family.
In 2015, Peking University People's Hospital received medical records written by Lin Qiaozhi, an elder in an old lady's family, who had been seen by Dr. Lin Qiaozhi, and that medical record caused a sensation as soon as it was born.
Because the words on the medical records, whether in English or Chinese, are neatly written, clear at a glance, and concise, they can be used as samples today.
When people focus on water, a river into the sea, a hundred turns, unswerving, Lin Qiaozhi can become a master, it is because of her strict requirements for herself, and a crystal pure heart.
She once said: "For a person, life is the most precious." And now this man says to you: I will give my life to you. So what else are you talking about? Are you cold? Are you hungry? Are you sleepy?"
This is Lin Qiaozhi's lifelong beating of her own words, since she became a doctor, most of her life has been spent in the hospital and on the way to the clinic.
In order to save more people, she lived in the hospital for 30 years, and if the hospital phone rang in the middle of the night, it must be Lin Qiaozhi who answered the phone.
She said: "I am a doctor on duty all my life.
On October 1, 1949, Lin Qiaozhi, who had bowed her head for a long time, removed her eyes from the medical record book, and she knew that this day was the big day of the founding of New China.
The corner of the red invitation card shone in Lin Qiaozhi's afterglow, but she did not lose her mind for too long, and then continued to see the doctor, which was the invitation to the founding ceremony.
"Professor Lin Qiaozhi of Union Medical College Hospital: I hereby invite you to attend the celebration of the founding of the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China in Tiananmen Square at 3 p.m. on October 1."
But the invited protagonist is sitting calmly in the clinic, seeing patients in line, there is no trace of anxiety in her eyes, nor is she unwilling to miss the founding ceremony, or write the medical records correctly and meticulously.
"I was out of the clinic that day and my patients needed me."
The opportunity that others dreamed of was flatly rejected by her, and no Chinese willing to give up such an opportunity, but for the sake of patients, Lin Qiaozhi did not hesitate.
Group photo of Premier Lin Qiaozhi Zhou
Lin Qiaozhi chose to stay in Beijing, chose to stay in Union Hospital, chose obstetrics and gynecology, chose to sit in the clinic, her every choice was strictly enforced, Lin Qiaozhi used youth and energy in exchange for the world she envisioned in her heart.
Finally, in 1956, China's first obstetrics and gynecology specialty hospital was born, and Lin Qiaozhi was the president, which was well deserved.
We sing the praises of Lin Qiaozhi's achievements today, but it is easy to ignore the price she paid for it.
In the 1940s, once a female doctor got married, she could only see an outpatient clinic, and could not be a professor, a director, an academician... If you have a child, you will lose your job.
So at that time, there were many women like Lin Qiaozhi, forced to choose celibacy for the sake of their careers, if women in that era wanted to shine, they had to pay more efforts, Lin Qiaozhi knew this well, and paid for life without complaint.
Women are deprived of the "right to choose" and forced to choose between "family" and "career", and such discrimination is undoubtedly the exploitation of women's labor.
It is precisely because of women like Lin Qiaozhi, who have taken the lead and proved that "women can stand up to half the sky", which has the status of women today.
Therefore, Lin Qiaozhi is not only the mother of all babies, but also the mother of modern women, and her light of love benefits every modern woman.
In 1983, the year Lin Qiaozhi left, she was 82 years old at this time, but she was still struggling in the front line of obstetrics and gynecology research.
"Gynecological Tumors", "Family Health Consultant", "Family Parenting Encyclopedia", and many academic papers have condensed her painstaking efforts.
"As long as I survive, the place where I exist is the ward, and the value of existence is to heal the sick."
Lin Qiaozhi's epitaph reads, this is the truest portrayal of her life, white clothes and white heads for life, sunset and sunrise to protect sentient beings.
On April 22, Lin Qiaozhi slept peacefully and left three sentences before his death: 30,000 yuan of his life savings were donated to the kindergarten and nursery of the Capital Hospital; The remains were donated to hospitals for medical research; The ashes are scattered on the sea of Gulangyu Island in their hometown.
Lin Qiaozhi's epitaph
As a life starter for a lifetime, Lin Qiaozhi left the afterglow to the children, although she was childless in her life, but the life that came to the world through her hand was not all her children?