Xu Teli's instructions when his granddaughter Xu Yuqiang joined the army.
The summer sun is like a fire, and the Liangxiang campus of Beijing Institute of Technology is already lined with trees and flowers. Surrounded by greenery, Xu Teli Library stands tall, and since its inauguration and use in 2008, the library has welcomed thousands of students every day. On this day, the library welcomed a special guest, she is Xu Teli's only granddaughter Xu Yuqiang.
In front of the statue of Mr. Xu Teli in the hall on the first floor of the library, Xu Yuqiang gazed affectionately and was silent for a long time, recalling his grandfather's life again. At the beginning of the twentieth century, China suffered from the aggression of the great powers, political darkness, and the people's livelihood, and a large number of people with lofty ideals actively explored the road to saving the country and the people, and Xu Teli chose to "reform people's hearts with education."
Students of Xu Teli College of Beijing Polytechnic University visited the "Light of the People, the Glory of our Party - The Memorial Exhibition of Xu Teli, The Old Dean".
Xu Teli once told Xu Yuqiang about his early experience of running a school: "In 1905, He Yunong and Jiang Jihuan, I, he Yunong, and Jiang Jihuan set up a Lijiang High School in Lili Town, 30 miles away from Changsha City, and accepted the children of peasants to enroll. I set myself a rule of 'no salary, only eat' and taught several courses. At that time, the school was 50 miles away from home, Xu Teli ate and lived in the school, and even when his son was born, his wife did not tell him for fear of his distraction, until he returned home from the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday. Xu Teli said: "I have not missed a minute of class because of my own private affairs, although I have suffered hard, but my spirit is very comforting and happy!" Because I have decided to serve the society, I hope that the difficulties of the family will be improved as the whole society solves them. ”
In November 1937, Xu Teli, who was in an interview with reporters in Changsha, was the year of Hua Jia.
In 1962, Xu Teli took a group photo with his granddaughter Xu Yuqiang.
The "Old Dean Xu Teli Memorial Exhibition" in Xu Teli Library is open to students all year round, Xu Yuqiang is accompanied by students of Xu Teli College of Beijing Polytechnic University to watch carefully, Xu Lao's used noodle bowls, heard records and other physical objects and materials, let her sigh. After the outbreak of the Xinhai Revolution in 1911, Xu Teli briefly served as the deputy speaker of the Provisional Parliament of Hunan Province, but he saw that the parliament was fighting for power and profit and betraying the people, so he resigned indignantly.
Xu Teli was with the students.
Xu Yuqiang held the "Xu Teli Memorial Album" in his hand and told the story of his grandfather Xu Teli to the young students.
In 1912, Xu Teli founded the Changsha Normal School, and later he wrote in the "Sixty Autobiography": "The education in Changsha County (including the present-day Changsha County and Changsha City) was almost all done by me before the eighth year of the Republic of China (1919). Xu Teli has trekked and pioneered the road of education to save the country, and has educated and cultivated a large number of outstanding talents, such as Mao Zedong, He Shuheng, Cai Hesen, Tian Han and others are his students.
From the winter of 1926 to the spring of 1927, with the advancement of the Northern Expedition, the peasant movement led by the Communist Party of China quickly rose throughout the country, and Xu Teli recognized the great strength of the masses of the people under the leadership of the Communist Party, and from then on, he firmly believed that Marxism was the hope of saving the country. In 1927, the Kuomintang reactionaries betrayed the revolution, frantically suppressed the Communists and the revolutionary masses, and faced with the bloody white terror, in May 1927, Xu Teli, who was half a hundred years old, resolutely joined the Communist Party of China, and since then he has established a lifelong faith.
According to Xu Yuqiang's recollection, my grandfather mentioned joining the party at that time, saying, "I didn't think that the Communist Party wanted such an old antique as me, and I was really very happy!" After joining the party, Xu Teli felt that he had "truly gained a new life" and threw all his body and mind into the great cause of national independence and people's liberation. With xu Teli's encouragement, his two sons successively joined the revolution and gave their precious lives.
In the hall on the first floor of Xu Teli Library in the Liangxiang Campus of Beijing Institute of Technology, Xu Yuqiang sat quietly in front of the statue of his grandfather Xu Teli and meditated, recalling his grandfather's earnest teachings to him.
The new era has created a superior learning environment and learning opportunities for the students of Xu Teli College of Beijing Polytechnic Institute.
In October 1934, at the age of 57, Xu Teli participated in the Long March, recalling: "In the twenty-five thousand miles of the Long March... Since arriving in Drokki, my clothes, from the shoes on my feet to the hat on my head, have been sewn by myself. In grasslands that lack food, I also eat grass in general. ”
After arriving in northern Shaanxi, Xu Teli devoted all his energy to the education cause in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region. In August 1940, Xu Teli was appointed president of the Yan'an Academy of Natural Sciences, which was the first polytechnic and agricultural university in the history of our party. At that time, in the face of various difficulties in running a school, he mobilized everyone to dig caves to make classrooms, build bricks and wood to make stools, use the land as paper, and use branches and chicken feathers as pens... He experimented with the idea of "three-in-one" education, scientific research, and production in the academy, and trained the first batch of red and specialized scientific and technological talents for the anti-Japanese base areas and the whole party. The school continued to evolve and eventually became today's Beijing Institute of Technology.
Today, in front of the library named after Mr. Xu Teli at the Beijing Institute of Technology, Xu Yuqiang read to the students a letter written by Mao Zedong on The 60th birthday of Xu Lao: "You are my husband twenty years ago, you are still my husband, and you will definitely be my husband in the future... You are the first of the revolution, the first of the work, the first of others... I admire you in all these respects..."
(Original title: Mr. Forever)
Source: Beijing Daily Reporter: He Guanxin
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