On March 18th, as Mr. Sheheed's 100th birthday was approaching, the "Beloved Zhide - Centennial Birthday Commemorative Exhibition" jointly launched by Jiefang Daily and Shangguan News and Fudan University was unveiled at Jiefang Daily. Hundreds of precious physical exhibits record the life of this famous physicist, educator and social activist.
"Many things, I also saw for the first time," the exhibition site, Mr. Xie Xide's son Cao Wei is thanking all parties who are busy for the exhibition, he walked slowly in the corridor, slowly watched, more memories came to mind: "68 years ago, on March 19, 1953, my mother returned to Shanghai from studying abroad for her first birthday, and my father gave the German version of "Theoretical Mechanics" as a birthday gift to my mother who had just come to Fudan to teach. Dad wrote on the title page of the book: 'Virtue: Be a model people's teacher', which is what Dad expects of Mom, and what the people expect of Mom, and Mom has done it with her life. ”
At the exhibition site, Cao Wei is telling the visitors about the precious bits and pieces of his mother. Photo by Haysal
A report card from 75 years ago
She is known as the "Mother of Semiconductors"; during her tenure as president of Fudan University in the 1980s, she led teachers, students and staff to devote themselves to the development and construction of the school and achieved outstanding results, which was deeply loved by Fudan teachers and students; she also served as the chairman of the Shanghai Association for Science and Technology, the chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and other leadership positions, and has made important contributions in the fields of science, education, Sino-foreign exchanges, and women's work.
Among the exhibits, the two items that impressed Cao Weizheng the most were her transcripts from her studies at Xiamen University, with more than 90 points in basic physics, theoretical physics, thermodynamics, optics and other subjects. The other was her master's thesis in the summer of 1949 entitled "Analysis of Hydrogen Bond Information in the Absorption Spectra of Hydrocarbons," which was awarded "Merit" at Smith College.
When the visitors who watched the exhibition together saw this, they couldn't help but blurt out: "Mr. Xie has always been a bully!" Cao Weizheng quickly waved his hand and said, "This can't let the uncle who came together today hear, the old man is old-fashioned, unfamiliar with new words, doesn't like this word, once heard someone say this, directly retorted', 'She has never been overbearing.' ’”
"This time, I had the opportunity to systematically sort out my mother's belongings, and I had the opportunity to deeply understand my mother's past from my mother's colleagues and students, so that I had a deeper and more comprehensive understanding of my mother." He said that in the manuscripts compiled, a postcard-sized "Shanghai Foreign Bookstore Book Order Notice" made childhood memories flood his mind again. "Mom and Dad almost every Sunday have to go to the foreign language bookstore on the second floor of the department to buy photocopied foreign periodicals and books, first look up the required books in the reservation catalog, and after the photocopy arrives, the foreign language bookstore will send the notice to the home. Sometimes we go with the whole family, they buy the books, I take care of carrying them home. Sometimes they were busy, and the task of fetching the book was given to me. After a while, everyone in the bookstore got to know me...", Cao Weizheng said, and the scene of his parents sitting opposite each other across the desk and reading books will be remembered forever.
A booklet full of ticks
Among the exhibits, there are also cao Weizheng providing. It was a notebook smaller than a palm, with a long period of time mottled with a black cover and yellowed pages, unfolding it, and after a line of handwriting, one by one.
A booklet with special memories of returning home. Photo by Haysal
"When sorting out, I don't know what it is, open it and look carefully, it is the list of luggage affairs that my parents sorted out before returning to China, completed one item, and ticked a check." He said. Behind this pamphlet, in 1952, Xie Xide and Cao Tianqin, who had studied overseas, broke through many obstacles and traveled to many places to finally return to China.
In September 1999, the Liberation Daily launched the "My Motherland and Me" National Day essay, and Xie Xide wrote "Five-Star Red Flag Calls Me back to China" to submit: "In the past 5 years of study abroad experience, I feel like a big goose: in the harsh winter when the cold wind and the wind are withering, I have to leave my homeland; now that spring is back on the earth, I want to fly back to the motherland's hometown with my wings, to cultivate and struggle." At that time, the newspaper page also spoke silently on the exhibition wall.
Cao Weizheng also can't forget that in October 1942, his mother, who had just entered college, wrote the last sentence of her self-introduction: "In the great changes of the country, the history of mankind is being rewritten, and the future of China depends on the efforts of this generation of young people." ”
"When I was four months old, my mother went to Beijing to work, but my mother's education never slackened," Cao Weizheng said, "She taught me to assemble semiconductor radios, from single tube machines to four-tube and eight-tube transistor radios, and I still cherish the schematic drawings she drew by hand." Later, he was admitted to the physics department of Fudan University, and his mother's requirements were very strict. He has never been specialized in Fudan because he is Shahid's son, and when he comes home on weekends, he always rides his bicycle back and forth, even if he has something to ask his mother to help carry things from home, he is contacted by the paid public telephone at the school gate.
One is now used in the wok
At the exhibition site, Zhang Qiangji and Cai Songyi, who had gray hair, were both students of Mr. Xie and later became her colleagues. When Cao Wei was going to the United States to study, the couple who were preparing to return to China left their own wok for their teacher's son. "Thank you for coming today, and thank you, I used that stir-frying pot until now," Cao Weizheng said, holding the hands of the two old men.
He remembers that when he was a child, his mother was busy with work, and during his tenure as president of Fudan University, the president's office was rarely used, mainly in the office of the physics department. After work, colleagues are also very welcome to come to the house to talk about work. "In this exhibition, some of the elderly mother's deceased descendants, I dare not tell, for fear that they will be tired on the road," Cao Weizheng said.
Cao Weizheng took a group photo with the descendants of his mother's deceased who had come from all over the world. Photo by Haysal
In his heart, his mother was a person who did not want to trouble others all her life. He worked in the United States, and his mother, in the last period of her stay at the bedside, always said that she hoped that he would go back and not delay his work. In 2000, the year his mother left, he returned to Shanghai three times: once in January, once in February, and once in March, to bid farewell to his mother.
"My parents both signed the body donation agreement, and they signed it on the same day," he said, adding that mom and dad had supported each other for more than four decades. In 1952, they married and returned to China hand in hand; in May 1956, they joined the Communist Party of China on the same day; and in November 1980, they were elected academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Source: Author: Peng Deqian