Edward. The sculpture of Hu Mei and Yan Fuqing was taken in the Xiangya Annex
There is a "Feifan Road" in the Hexi Campus of Xiangya Medical College, the main teaching building is named "Fuqing Building", and the teaching and research building is named "Xiaoqian Building". The Hexi campus in Hedong has statues and reliefs of Yan Fuqing, Zhang Xiaoqian and Edward Humei. But most people don't know where the names come from.
In 1901, Yale University in the United States established the China Yale-China Association, in 1905 sent Edward Humei, Gai Baonai, Xi Biyi and others to Changsha to choose a site, in 1906 in the West Arch building to establish Yale-Ind Hospital and Yale-China University Hall. In 1910, Dr. Yan Fuqing went to yale-in-China Hospital, and in 1914, he founded and served as the first president of Xiangya Medical College, and Hu Mei concurrently served as provost. In 1915, Yale-China Hospital was renamed Xiangya Hospital, and Tan Yanmin, the governor of Hunan Province, inscribed the name of the school and the hospital's front. In 1921, the American education delegation came to China to investigate, and confirmed that Xiangya and Peking Union Medical College were the best hospitals in China, and the reputation of "North Union and South Xiangya" came from this. Since its inception, Xiangya Hospital has served the people wholeheartedly and the War of Resistance, treating thousands of patients and the wounded. In the summer of 1926, Dr. Hu Mei personally extracted teeth for Chiang Kai-shek, commander-in-chief of the Northern Expedition. In 1938, kim 9, the leader of the Korean Provisional Government exiled in Changsha, was shot and assassinated by Koreans, and Dr. Xiangya actively rescued him and turned the crisis into safety. In 1941, American doctor Pei Wentan performed surgery to remove shrapnel from his beloved mount wounded in the War of Resistance against Northern Hunan Province. Yan Fuqing is also the founder of the School of Medicine and Sun Yat-sen Hospital of the Fourth National Sun Yat-sen University, and served as the vice president of Peking Union Medical College Hospital. Hu Mei worked in Xiangya for 21 years before resigning from illness and returning to the United States in 1927.
Old photo of Xiangya, courtesy of Chen Xianshu
Photographed in the first hospital of Xiangya Hospital
In 1937, when the Anti-Japanese War broke out, Zhang Xiaoqian, the first alumnus of Xiangya, served as provost and dean. Xiangya has organized a number of ambulance teams to go north to participate in field rescue, and founded the 80th Temporary Hospital in Xiangtan Yiwuhe. Due to the repeated bombing of Changsha by the Japanese army, teaching was interfered with, and in 1938 it moved to Guiyang, insisted on teaching under extremely difficult conditions, and at the same time set up two branches in Yuanling and Leiyang to save lives and the injured, prevent and treat the sick, and establish clinics in Anhua. Xiangya Academy training and courtyard song were born in the fire of war, the academy training "public courage and diligence, sincere love and humility", the courtyard song lyrics "Changsha Zhang Zhongjing, medical ancestors, Yang Yang flowing for thousands of years, Xiangya tree backbone." The beginning of the vertebral wheel, since Tan Huyan, has experienced hardships and turbulence, and has been strong and straight. Seeking truth and seeking truth will be dedicated. Macro creation, benefit people's heavens, carry forward, billions of years. ”
Zhang Xiaoqian and Yan Fuqing sculptures are taken at the Hedong Campus of Xiangya Medical College
From 1937 to 1946, Xiangya graduated a total of 170 medical undergraduates in 10 classes, becoming the backbone of the War of Resistance. Xiangya held a nurse training class, and it was here that Liu Guiying, a female soldier of the War of Resistance who was familiar to me, trained and joined the Chinese Expeditionary Force to go to the Indian-Burmese battlefield after graduation. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Xiangya teachers and students were the first to confirm and expose the germ warfare launched by the Japanese in Changde, prevented the epidemic in a timely manner, stopped the plague epidemic, and were called "saviors" by the military and people of Changde, and also became ironclad evidence for the trial of Japanese war crimes after the war. Xiangya Professor Lai Douyan was seconded to the Expeditionary Force Headquarters as an English translator for Commander Wei Lihuang. Tang Feifan, the first graduate of Xiangya, developed domestic penicillin, saving the lives of countless soldiers, he is also the discoverer of Chlamydia trachomatis and the closest medical scientist to the Nobel Prize in China. Professor Xie Taoying led six field surgical teams to participate in the reconquest of Tengchong and Longling in Yunnan, and General Sun Liren presented him with two captured Japanese military flags to express his gratitude. Jiang Qixian, a graduate of the nursing class, successively served as the minister of health of the Eighth Route Army and the deputy director of the Ministry of Agriculture and Reclamation. Zhang Xiaoqian later served as vice president of Peking Union Medical College and vice president of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, and was revered as "Xiangya Xuanyuan" and "Concord Taidou".
Yan Fuqing relief photographed at the Hexi Campus of Xiangya Medical College
Zhang Xiaoqian relief sculpture taken at the Hexi Campus of Xiangya Medical College
In the Second Battle of Changsha in 1941, the Japanese army invaded Changsha, burned and robbed, Xiangya Hospital hung the American flag on the roof, and set up a refugee income in Yali Middle School to protect more than 3,000 refugees. During the Third Battle of Changsha in January 1942, the Japanese army occupied Xiangya Hospital as a transfer station, and when it collapsed, it was set on fire, and the houses and equipment were burned together, and none of them were spared. After the Fall of Changsha in the Fourth Battle of Changsha in 1944, the Xiangya Campus was used by the Japanese as a munitions transfer station and stables. The hygiene habits of the Japanese army were extremely poor, they cooked separately, did not eat together, ate and slept in one place, and there was feces everywhere, mosquitoes and flies dancing. Xiangya Medical College was moved from Guiyang to Shapingba, Chongqing in 1944, and after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, it was moved back to Changsha via the Sichuan-Xiangjiang Highway, and Xiangya employees rebuilt the campus on the ruins. Pei Wentan, an American associate professor who made a particularly significant contribution to the protection and reconstruction of the campus, flew back to Changsha to transport supplies back to Changsha and tragically crashed, and his body was buried on the Northwest Side of the Xiangya Campus, which is now the northwest side of the outpatient building of the Xiangya Affiliated Hospital, and the tomb no longer exists.
A hundred years of Xiangya, strings and songs, rebirth, lasting, wrote a glorious page in the history of medicine and the history of the War of Resistance, and erected monuments for the land of Huxiang.
October 17, 2021