On November 3, the National Science and Technology Awards Conference was held, and Gu Shufen, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and master of new Chinese aircraft design, won the highest national science and technology award in 2020.
Gu Shufen was the founder of China's aircraft aerodynamic design and the chief designer of the J-8 and J-8II aircraft. He presided over the development of the J-8 and J-8II supersonic fighters, creating a precedent for China's independent development of fighters, and was the core main battle equipment of the Chinese army in the 20th century.
As the winner of the National High Science and Technology Award, Gu Shufen once said in an interview with the media that family education from an early age is the starting point of her lifelong aviation career.
Looking back at the life of this master of science, it is not difficult to find that like children from any family background, the words and deeds of their parents in the early years are enough to affect people's lives.
In the winter of 1935, 5-year-old Gu Xuefen and her family took a group photo on the Yanjing campus
Gu Xuefen is a native of Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, born in 1930. His name is taken from the Jin Dynasty Wenhao Lu Ji 's Wen Fu's WenFu:' "Yong Shi De's Junlie, reciting the Qing Fen of the ancestors." ”
Gu Shufen's father, Mr. Gu Tinglong, is a famous bibliographer and calligrapher in China. Her mother, Pan Chenggui, was one of the few intellectual women at that time.
The family's unique intellectual cultural background has influenced Gu Shufen from the beginning.
Family Initiation Education:
Writing, literary classics and history, human principles
Recalling the education of her childhood, What impressed Gu Xuefen was, "What my father felt was to be managed, one was to write, and he asked me to draw red from an early age. Slightly older, I read high and small, just look at the words he wrote, I wrote accordingly. This one is tightly grasped. No matter how big it is, it only requires that the winter and summer vacations must be posted. Zhongkai Linfa Ti, Xiao Kai Linqing Dynasty Examination Papers of Those Above, Poems Transcribed by Xiao Kai with a pen. Ask me every day how well I write. ”
"Some other basic, Chinese things that I have to see, Water Margin, Three Kingdoms, and Journey to the West. Afraid that I would see something bad in my eyes, I took a woodcut in large letters from the library and stipulated that I could not lie in bed and look at it."
Then there is "when I was in elementary school, especially during the winter and summer vacations, my father would urge me to read the "Outline of Easy knowledge" to have a general picture of the history of our country."
In addition, if you want to talk about what to teach seriously, the only thing you have to say is that year about Mencius. "At that time, my father admired Mencius the most and asked me to observe. So the study of Chinese studies that my father really taught me was Mencius. I talked about it for two or three months, and I didn't talk about it every day. Mencius said how to behave, he was very appreciative. ”
In addition, "my father advocated that I study independently and independently." When I first went to Shanghai Hualong Primary School, I didn't do well in the exam, and then I did well on the exam, and then I did well, and he didn't care. ”
Writing, reading literary classics and history, and teaching human principles constituted Gu Xuefen's earliest enlightenment education.
There is a complete brick carved gate tower between the hall and the hall of Gu Shufen's former residence, on which is the inscription of "Four Dynasties Elder" Pan Shien "Gong Jian Zhuang Jing"
Passion and interest cultivation
When Gu Was 5 years old, his father, Gu Tinglong, was invited to work at Yenching University, and the family moved to Beiping.
Gu Xuefen's older brother, who was studying at Chongde Middle School in Beiping City at that time, a church school run by the Germans, had a model airplane made of paper, and brought it back to teach his younger brother. In this way, Gu Shufen gradually developed a strong and lasting interest in aircraft, until decades later, she became the only "academician of the two academies" in the field of China's aviation industry.
Gu Shufen's father has always been a liberal arts background, and he had deliberately guided Gu Shufen in the direction of liberal arts, but when he found out that his son was interested in airplanes, he never interfered with his son's love of science and engineering. On the contrary, he deliberately looked for various opportunities for his son.
Gu Shufen once recalled: "My father educated me, never going to entertainment venues, only museums and factories. ”
After the July 7 Incident, Gu's family moved from Beijing to Shanghai. "For the model aircraft I like, I will take me to the only model aircraft store in Shanghai, and rarely take me to the store." In Shanghai, the museum has the Aurora Museum, the Asian Literary Association, and the factory has the Huazhong Ink Factory and the Xianhe Herb Pharmaceutical Factory — these are the places where Gu Shufen of childhood visited.
His father, Gu Tinglong, also went to the Enlightened Bookstore to buy back a batch of Soviet model aircraft for his son to make books.
"My father laid the foundation for me and bought a set of "Elementary School Library."" It also talks about how to make a model aircraft, and I have seen it. ”
There are professional books to guide, go to the factory to see the manufacturing, the teenager Gu Shufen made aircraft models by herself, so that she later embarked on the road of professional aircraft design.
Gu Has loved mechanical toys since childhood
Run a patriotic bookstore and teach by example
Don't do things that "tear down the dirt"
Shortly after Gu Shufen's family moved to Beijing, the "July 7 Incident" broke out, and the cultural relics and ancient books in the Jiangnan area were scattered during the war, and Japan, the United States and other countries plundered and searched for them.
Ye Jingkui, Zhang Yuanji, and other patriotic intellectuals advocated the establishment of the Shanghai United Public Library, and specially invited Gu Shufen's father, Gu Tinglong, to preside over the matter in Shanghai. At that time, it was difficult, "empty, empty", Gu Tinglong resolutely moved his family south, became the director general, and jointly promoted the righteous deeds.
"The main thing is that I am afraid that the precious ancient books of our country have been bought for foreigners." The memory is here, so do not hesitate, and the precious cultural deposits need to be properly placed. ”
Old shadow of the United Library
Gu Shufen still remembers the situation at that time: "The United House Library is privately run. Mr. Ye Jingkui invested 100,000 French dollars, thinking that the annual interest could be fed, but together with the Pearl Harbor incident, the rubber plantation he bought in Nanyang was gone, and he could only borrow money from Zhejiang Industrial Bank. During that time, my father struggled to support himself, and everything he could sell was sold. My mother was in charge of feeding, and the whole family ate with the workers and the people who did the work. When it was most difficult, I couldn't pay the tuition fee, or Mr. Ye Lao gave it after he knew it. Of course, we were not difficult enough to be like the real poor families in Shanghai at that time, there were still three meals a day, coarse tea and light rice, not big fish and meat, and life was passable. ”
But even so, my father was not sloppy at all when he managed the library.
My father set his own rules in the "Opinion on the Establishment of the United Library": "Concentrate on sorting, not for new works." Designed for former sages, not for individuals. ”
His disciple, Chen Xianbin, a research librarian at the Shanghai Library, can also recite Gu Lao's famous words: "Stealing means that people cannot perform themselves, or can help the grand feats of adulthood, and it can also be said that they can live up to their lives." ”
Gu Shufen said, "The most profound one I received from my father's education is to do anything that cannot be 'dismantled and dirty'. ”
"Demolition of dirt" is a Shanghainese word to the effect that it is sloppy and irresponsible.
Gu Shufen said that she was educated by her father and has been like this all her life, "One thing after another continues, nothing is done half thrown away, we must do it to the end." "Father and son are in the same heart, and they take things very seriously.
Read more and rely on yourself
In addition to how to love, how to do things, in how to learn, the biggest influence of family on Gu Shufen may be books.
Mr. XuanFen once mentioned in the CCTV program, "What to do, it is still very important to study, and you must learn to do everything yourself." I liked model airplanes when I was a child, but many materials are very expensive, and our family does not have much money. I just read from the book that bamboo sticks can also be replaced. At that time, there was no quick-drying glue, so I formulated it myself. The way to do it, think for yourself. ”
The way to make your own glue is to take the film film, dissolve it with acetone, and glue it to repair. Acetone, which was used by women to wash nail polish at that time, was easy to get. In the United Library on Changle Road, the original site was the studio of a film studio, and there were always many film film titles dug out in the yard.
In 1980, Gu Tinglong and Gu Shufen's family
It is also under the influence of such a family environment and father that "reading more and relying on yourself" can see the shadow of far-reaching influence in many things that Gu Shufen grew up to growing up.
When he was in middle school, he learned about triangles, and Gu Shufen found Xu Guangqi's translation of the original triangle in the United Library.
When I was in college, the library collected a set of university books from the Commercial Press, there was no place to put it, and it was piled up in Gu Shufen's room, "this is a good reference book that can be used for the basic courses of the first and second years of the university." There is also a set of water conservancy materials, one of which is the "Water Conservancy Engineering Calculation Manual" compiled by Wang Huzhen, so that Gu Shufen, who is learning material mechanics, the original data required for a large number of exercises after each class can be found in the manual, without looking everywhere, which greatly saves time...
Gu Shufen in the manipulation system laboratory
When I first started working, "We built the aviation industry, and a lot of them were lacking." At that time, the Soviet Union was a planned economy, and if you had a plan in advance, you would only be able to produce, and it would always take a long time to come and go. Plus often give sets of drawings, but don't tell you how to design. After all, these things must be done by yourself. At that time, the call for 'marching toward science', the superiors decided to let me participate in the construction of the aircraft design room, and the information was scarce. Although we also tracked how people designed it, the one we learned at that time was all British and American textbooks from the 1940s, and they were all propeller planes. To make jets, you have to learn it yourself. I remember that Xu Shunshou, the director of the design office, gave me a privilege, every time I went to Beijing for business, I could go to the foreign language bookstore in Wangfujing Bamian Trough to buy books and periodicals, and go in with my work permit, mainly photocopying, and the original version absolutely could not afford to buy. "Looking back, Mr. Shufen sighed that in the end, everything had to be done by himself."
Many years later, the books gu shufen bought back are still in play.
Gu Shufen Lao Ji FuTuo
After years, now 91-year-old Gu Shufen was asked what she most wanted to say to young people, and blurted out that she was reading: "To read." People's knowledge is limited, we must continue to learn, read more books. ”
Today, he still lives in a dormitory building, close to the office. An online search revealed media reporting a detail of his visit to the office: "Gu Shufen, who is an elderly person, appears here at 8 o'clock every day. ”
When Mr. Shufen heard this, he immediately subconsciously said, "It's not all about 8 o'clock on time." ”