Recently, a film depicting Tsinghua students in different eras pursuing their ideals, "No Questions Asked", has been screened, which is called Tsinghua's version of "Fanghua".
The title of the film, "No Question West East", comes from tsinghua school grid: "Instrument knowledge is the first, literature and art are subordinate, Li De Li Yan, no question West East." ”
In 1924, Tagore visited China and gave a speech on the Tsinghua campus, warning the students: Don't forget your sincerity and authenticity... The film uses the stories of the four eras to show the continuous persistence and struggle of the students of Tsinghua University in the pursuit of ideals in the tide of history.
In the movie, a heroic pilot who abandoned his pen and turned his pen from Rong made countless people cry.
At a time of national crisis, is it to obey the mother's orders, to listen to things outside the window with both ears, and to read only the books of the sages, or whether the country is in difficulty, and the husband is responsible. Shen Guangyao, a rich son played by Wang Lihong, chose the latter. The prototype is Shen Chongzhi, a student of the Department of Civil Engineering of Tsinghua University. He is a famous pilot in the Chinese Air Force and the first person to be hit by the Chinese Air Force during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression!
On August 19, 1937, Shen Chongjie, commander of the 9th Detachment of the Second Brigade of the Chinese Air Force, and Chen Xichun, a bomber, piloted the Northrop Gamma 2ec light bomber No. 904 to bomb the Japanese warships in the sea of Sheshan. When the plane malfunctioned, they could parachute or force a landing, but Shen Chongzhi killed the enemy with a heart, and piloted the plane dragging green smoke at an altitude of 2000 meters to collide with an enemy ship, hoping to die with the enemy ship, and finally became heroic.
In fact, shen Chongzhi was not the only one, after the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in 1937, a large number of Tsinghua students practiced the school spirit of "deeds are better than words" with blood, and used youth to compose the tragic battle book of intellectual youth.
Liang Sizhong, colonel of artillery of the 19th Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army
Liang Sizhong (1907-1932), Liang Qichao's third son, born in Japan in 1907, studied in the United States after graduating from Tsinghua University, and studied at the Virginia Military Academy and the West Point Military Academy. After graduating and returning to China, he enlisted in the army, and because of his seniority and outstanding talents, he was soon promoted to colonel of the artillery of the 19th Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army. In the 1932 Songhu War of Resistance, the 19th Route Army stationed in Shanghai fought a bloody battle and died young, at the age of 25.
Ji Yuxiu, one of the "pioneers of the Chinese women's movement" and one of the "three major women leaders in Shanxi"
Ji Yuxiu (1917-1939), female, member of the Communist Party of China. In 1935, he was admitted to the Department of Electrical Engineering at Tsinghua University, and later transferred to the Department of Foreign Languages. At the beginning of 1937, Ji Yuxiu left his alma mater and went to Taiyuan to join the Shanxi anti-Japanese organization "Sacrifice to Save the Nation" led by Bo Yibo, and was ordered to organize the "Youth Anti-Enemy Salvation Vanguard" to mobilize and organize young people to participate in anti-Japanese rescue activities. He died in 1939 at the age of 22.
Consul General of Manila, Philippines Yang Guangjing
Yang Guangxing (1900-1942), at the age of 16, was admitted to the Higher Education Department of Tsinghua Xuetang (the predecessor of Tsinghua University). In 1920, he was sent to the United States by Tsinghua Xuetang and studied at the University of Colorado and Princeton University, and obtained bachelor's and master's degrees. He received his Doctor of Philosophy degree in Public International Law in 1924. In October 1937, he became the Consul General of China in Manila, the capital of the Philippines. During his term of office, he actively publicized the anti-Japanese struggle to save the country, collected donations, and supported the anti-Japanese resistance. On April 17, 1942, when the Japanese army opened fire on the Chinese diplomatic envoys in the Philippines, he turned around, pointed to his heart and said, "Aim here!" He was only 43 years old at the time of his death.
Chen Sancai, a businessman who assassinated Wang Jingwei
Chen Sancai (1902-1940), who was sent to Tsinghua University in 1916, graduated in 1920 and studied at Worcester Institute of Technology in the United States. After returning to China in 1926. Operated an Arctic company at 989 Jing'an Temple Road (now Maoming North Road Junction) in Shanghai, selling Frigidare refrigerators in the United States. In that era, the refrigerator was a novel high-tech product, many rich families have bought the refrigerator of the Arctic company, Chen Sancai's business is very prosperous, his living conditions have also been greatly improved, cars, bungalows, everything is available.
Although he is a businessman, he is usually particularly concerned about state affairs, keen on charity, and has served as the president of the Tsinghua Alumni Association and the president of the United Youth Club. In 1931, he initiated the organization of the Chinese Society of Engineers. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he actively invested, contributed money and strength, and personally went to the anti-Japanese front to assist the army in building fortifications. Later, he was arrested by Agent No. 76 for participating in the assassination of the traitor Wang Jingwei. In prison, the agents tortured him in all kinds, whipping him, pouring pepper water, sitting on a tiger stool, electrocuting him, and so on. Although Chen Sancai was seriously injured, he was unyielding.
A rich man born into a famous and prestigious family, who is not only an American student with a long history, but also an industrialist who enjoys a certain reputation at home and abroad, and is a "rich man" with a prosperous style and a bright future, who risked his life to devote himself to the anti-Japanese national salvation movement at the critical juncture of the nation's survival touched every Chinese.
He was killed on October 2, 1940 at Yuhuatai in Nanjing. In 2001, when Tsinghua University celebrated its 90th anniversary, Chen Sancai's name was inscribed on the Tsinghua Heroic Martyrs Monument.
Zeng Xijue, chief liaison officer of the headquarters of the Chinese Expeditionary Force and military secretary of General Stilwell
Zeng Xijue (1901-1966), was admitted to Tsinghua University by the National Government of Hubei Province in 1916, and after graduating in 1922, he studied military affairs at menovich University. In September of the following year, he transferred to virginia officer school as a third-year student. In 1925, he went to Long Island to learn aircraft piloting techniques and obtained the American Junior Pilot Certificate. In the fall of the same year, he entered the graduate school of Columbia University, specializing in history, majoring in modern war history, and obtained a master's degree. In 1940, Zeng Xijue served as the chief liaison officer of the headquarters of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, and the military secretary of General Stilwell, the commander of the U.S. Military in China, engaged in the affairs of the translator, assisted General Stilwell in coordinating the armies of China, India and the United States, and accompanied General Stilwell to supervise the front. Zeng Xijue's courageous deeds in previous battles have won a "Medal of Merit of the American Legion" and a "Certificate of Merit" awarded by the President of the United States.
Lieutenant Colonel of the 5th Army, translator and famous poet Mudan
Mu Dan (1918-1977), formerly known as Zha Liangzheng, used the pen name Liang Zhen, was admitted to the Geology Department of Tsinghua University in 1935, and changed to the Department of Foreign Languages half a year later. In February 1942, the 24-year-old Mu Dan responded to the call of the Nationalist government to "enlist young intellectuals" and signed up for the Chinese Expeditionary Force into Burma as an assistant teacher, and entered the Burmese anti-Japanese battlefield as a lieutenant colonel in the headquarters of the 5th Army, where deputy commander-in-chief Du Yuming was also the commander. From May to September of the same year, he personally experienced the great retreat of Yunnan and Burma, experienced the Battle of Savage Mountain, which shocked China and foreign countries, crossed the mountains and mountains in the tropical rainforest that covered the sky, helped the sick forward, and escaped from Savage Mountain by stepping on piles of white bones. In September 1945, based on the experience of fighting in Burma, he created a famous poem in the history of Chinese modernist poetry, "The Charm of the Forest - Sacrifice to the White Bones on the Hukang River".
Sun Liren, commander of the New Thirty-eighth Division and commander of the New First Army
Sun Liren (1900-1990), in 1914 Sun Liren officially entered tsinghua school, and in 1920, Sun Liren was promoted to Tsinghua higher education. During his time at the school, he also served as the captain of tsinghua basketball, football, volleyball, handball, baseball and five major teams, and also represented the Chinese team in the Fifth Far East Games, defeating Japan and the Philippines to win the championship. In 1923, Sun Liren graduated from the Department of Civil Engineering of Tsinghua University, and went to the United States with his classmates Qi Xueqi, Wen Yiduo, Wu Wenzao, Liang Shiqiu, Gu Yuxiu, Shi Jiajiong, Pan Guangdan and others, and went straight to Purdue University (where Deng Jiaxian later studied) to study civil engineering in the third year, and then was admitted to the Virginia Military Academy to study military.
In 1942, Sun Liren served as the commander of the New Thirty-eighth Division, led the New Thirty-eighth Division on an expedition to Burma, won the great victory of Ren'an Qiang, repelled the enemy several times his own with less than 1,000 troops, and rescued more than 500 people such as the Anglo-Burmese army, missionaries, and reporters who were nearly 7 times larger than himself. In the Second Burmese War, the New First Army led by Sun Liren fought on foot for more than 15,000 miles, and experienced more than 700 battles, attacking and winning everything. During this period, 60,000 square kilometers of land were restored, and 74,000 Officers and Men of the Japanese Army were killed, and the wounded were doubled. No Chinese military-level combat formation can compare with the new First Army. At that time, the international public opinion circles praised Sun Liren as the "Rommel of the East", and the New First Army was even more known as the "First Army under the Heavens".
In August 1949, Sun Liren became the commander of taiwan defense, and in March of the following year, he was promoted to commander-in-chief of the army. However, Sun Liren was placed under house arrest for 33 years from 1955 to 1988 and died of illness at his Taichung apartment on November 19, 1990, at the age of 90.
Qi Xueqi, deputy commander of the New Thirty-eighth Division
Qi Xueqi (1900-1945), graduated from Tsinghua University in 1923, was a close friend of General Sun Liren, and later went to the United States to study at the Norwich Military School. In 1942, when the Chinese Expeditionary Force entered Burma to aid Britain, Qi Xueqi served as the deputy commander of the new 38th Division, assisting The Division Commander Sun Liren in achieving a great victory in Ren'anqiang. Unfortunately, Qi Xueqi was wounded and captured in battle, and when he was trapped in the enemy camp, he angrily rebuked the enemy and refused to change medicine and eat in order to die quickly. Before the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he was severely wounded by a rebel stab in prison, and after ineffective medical treatment, he was martyred, and then the army major general was posthumously promoted to the rank of lieutenant general. In 1947, the Qi Xueqi Cemetery was completed, and Sun Liren personally presided over the burial ceremony and read the sacrifice text. In the bang lian, Sun Liren wrote that they were "nine years of the same window" and "ten years of working together", and the two were brothers and sisters. Together with Qinghua, and together with the expedition to Yunnan and Burma, the common ambition, the beacon of the times, so that Sun Liren and Qi Xueqi's life trajectory always coincide together.