Hero of the restoration: Tong Di Zhou has a deep relationship with Shanda

Peninsula All-American Sports Reporter Zhang Wenyan

Recently, the reporter came to the Professor's Compound at No. 36 Yushan Road, where Tong Di Zhou's former residence is located at the east end of Building 1, "a two-story Japanese-style small building with several toon trees planted in front of the door" ("Tong Di Zhou: The Sea and Sky of the Father of Clones"). This is a place to remember, and Bi Xianying (79), who lived in Building 5, will still come back from time to time to see it although he has moved out for many years. "At that time, every family was downstairs and upstairs, a living room below a room, two rooms upstairs, three of our brothers slept in one room, the room was not large, three beds and one swing, barely able to walk," Tong Zhou's son told reporters during his childhood.

Tong Washu was engaged in research abroad.

After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, in August 1946, Shandong University was re-established in Qingdao, and Zhao Taiyou continued to serve as the president, and he urged Tong to return to the school to teach in the first week. As a result, Tong Dizhou's family moved back to Qingdao, and at the same time, the two sons who were fostered in their hometown were also taken to them. Tong Di zhou was one of the first professors to come to the school, restored and founded the Department of Zoology, served as the head of the department, and together with Zeng Chengkui founded the Institute of Oceanography of Shandong University. In addition, Zhao Taiyou also gave him a task, that is, to hire a professor, because at that time, Shandong University established the Department of Fisheries, there was no department head, they locked the candidate on Zhu Shuping", Yang Hongxun said, Tong Di zhou rushed to Chongqing with the task, "At that time, Zhu Shuping was in the United States, Tong Di Zhou lobbied Zhu Shuping's wife Wang Zhiping and conveyed the school's wishes", and finally, Zhu Shuping agreed to take over.

Why does Tong Di Zhou have such deep feelings for Shanda? Why did you repeatedly accept Zhao Taiyou's invitation? When he was a child, he told reporters that in the context of the chaotic world, the atmosphere of the school was not pure, "there are many schools controlled by the Kuomintang, and even the school's academic affairs office is a secret service organ, but his father worked at Shanda University before the War of Resistance, and he had a good impression of Zhao Taiyou, thinking that he attached more importance to academics." Although marine research continues, but forced to make a living, "the father of this period is still mainly teaching". However, he would still stay in the laboratory for a day whenever he had time.

Under the efforts of Tong Di Zhou, many famous biologists and oceanographers gathered in one place, such as Zhang Xi, Lou Kanghou, Liu Ruiyu, Qin Yunshan and so on. After He Chongben promised to return from the United States, Tong Dizhou's first thought was to make him "live and work in peace and contentment", so he took Professor He's wife and children to Qingdao in advance and arranged a good residence, eliminating He Chongben's worries. Outside of work, Tong Di Zhou is such a reassuring and comfortable person who does things. As a child, my father said, "A person cannot always be someone else's teacher, because times are moving forward, but he can always be someone else's friend." It is reported that even after being transferred to Beijing, in 1973, the wife of Liu Ruiyu, then a researcher at the Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, fell ill and went to Beijing for treatment. After Tong Di Zhou found out, he immediately asked Ye Yufen to stew two chickens to send to visit his wife, and the chicken was a very precious tonic at that time.

When he was a child, he said that when his father was not busy, he would take their sisters and brothers out to play together, and on weekends, he would lead them to work together, showing his father's kindness and responsibility for education. However, unlike when he first came to Qingdao, due to the internal corruption of the Kuomintang rule, the domestic market was chaotic, and prices soared, the life of the Tong family was once again in trouble. "My father was not grumpy and very polite to people and things, but his attitude towards some bad phenomena was very clear", he was right in his childhood, during the War of Resistance Against Japan, he supported the students to resist Japan and stood up for the unfair phenomena in the school. When prices soared, university teachers could not even pay their salaries, and Tong Dizhou, as the chairman of the Teaching Committee of Shanda University, bravely stood up in order to protect the legitimate rights and interests of the majority of teachers and proposed that everyone strike and protest. The boycott lasted for a full month, and in the end, the Nanjing Ministry of Education had to pay the teachers according to the standard.

In February 1948, Tong Di zhou was invited by the Rockefeller Foundation to the United States to investigate, and left Qingdao briefly. In March, he received news that he was elected an academician of academia sinica.