He came out of the thousand-year-old city of Qingzhou, studied Chinese and Western, and twice served as the president of Shandong University

Qingzhou, Shandong, also known as Yidu, is one of the ancient Nine Prefectures and has been the "provincial capital" of Shandong since the Han Dynasty.

With the revival of the Grand Canal, after Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, he moved the capital of Shandong Province from Qingzhou to Jinan, and Jinan gradually replaced Qingzhou and became the political, economic and cultural center of Shandong.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, after Germany occupied Qingdao, Shandong, with the opening of the Jiaoji Railway in 1904, the Shandong Peninsula was reshuffled again, and the coastal cities of Qingdao and Yantai replaced Qingzhou as the rising Twin Star Cities on the Shandong Peninsula.

Qingzhou Wuhua Tianbao, the spirit of the people. In particular, the famous thirteen sages of the Northern Song Dynasty--- Kou Zhun, Fan Zhongyan, Ouyang Xiu, Fu Yi, Wang Zeng, Zhao Yi, Wu Kui, Cao Wei, Zhang Fangping, Liu Zhi, Pang Yuan, Li Di, and Cheng Lin all left deep footprints and heavy anecdotes when they were officials in Qingzhou.

Qingzhou, the place where the famous sages of the Northern Song Dynasty gathered, was also the stage for politicians to govern, and had successively accepted nineteen prime ministers and vice prime ministers to serve here. Later generations have poems such as "Song Dynasty talents have no order, and the East is the general name of the county", "The imperial court chooses many from here", "Qingzhou famous eunuch Song Shiduo".

Although since the last century, Qingzhou has gradually been reduced from the central city of Shandong Province to a county-level city, in the turbulent years, many celebrities of the times have been born, of which Zhao Taiyou is a more representative one.

Zhao Taiyou (1889--1968), born in Qingzhou City, Dongguan Qinglong Street, a peasant family, was originally named Zhao Haiqiu, later changed his name to Zhao Qiu, the character Ishi. Zhuang Zi said that "the deformed person, the deformed person and the heavenly", this Zhao Tai is as famous as his person, it seems to be a strange person.

Liang Shiqiu, who was close to him, once said that the biggest feature of Zhao Taiyou's life was that he was reticent and smiling, and he could not say a word for a long time with his guests, making people unpredictable and profound, and the Buddha could not help him. According to Yiduo, Tai Yu was originally a fierce person, who joined the revolution when he was young, threw bombs, and later let Cheng Tao even after becoming the president of the university, Zhao Tai Yu still did not change his taciturn character.

At that time, two popular passages, one was when he was still in Jinan, when Ding Weifen, a Kuomintang elder from Shandong, came from Nanjing and specially visited this junior, who knew that Zhao Taiyou did not speak for most of the day, and the two sat silently, just smoking.

Old Ding was also very surprised after going out, and he was very puzzled by his hospitality at that time, as well as Han Fuyu, chairman of the Shandong Provincial Government, Zhao Taiyou took over as the principal of Shandong University, and Old Han inspected Qingdao several times, feeling that this Zhao Someone was too big, did not pay attention to the chairman at all, and his heart was also unhappy, so he often owed or reduced the education funds of national mountain university for reasons.

So, what kind of person is Zhao Taiyou? Zhao Taiyou began to enter a private school at the age of 7 to receive enlightenment education, and later entered The Dongguan Primary School and Yidu Middle School in Yidu County, and after graduating in 1907, he entered the Yantai Shiyi Academy founded by the American missionary Guo Xiande to learn English.

In 1914, Zhao Taiyou was admitted to the English Department of Peking University, and after graduating in 1918, he returned to Shandong to teach, serving as a teacher at Jinan Provincial No. 1 Middle School, and concurrently teaching English at the Provincial First Normal School.

At that time, Zhao Taiyou, who had not yet arrived at the age of establishment, had just graduated from a prestigious university, and it was the time when the spring breeze was triumphant, he liked to groom himself, often combed his hair shiny, a personable look, because the teaching was very serious, the requirements for students were also extremely strict, and they were deeply respected by students.

In 1919, Zhao Taiyou was admitted to the United States for graduate school with excellent results, first entering Columbia University to study Western literature, and then entering the institute of the university to specialize in Western theater. During this period, Zhao Taiyou and Wen Yiduo, Liang Shiqiu and other Chinese students studying in the United States were good friends, and they organized a public performance of Chinese Peking Opera in the United States, and Zhao Taiyou served as a costume prop preparation and stage arrangement, which was well received by overseas Chinese in the United States.

During his study in New York, Zhao Taiyou rehearsed the English drama "This Hate" with Wen Yiduo, Liang Shiqiu and Tu Shangyuanzeng, which was successful. When the versatile Gu Yuxiu adapted the traditional Chinese play "Pipa" into a drama script, translated into English by Liang Shiqiu, and performed in Boston, Gu Yuxuan, Liang Shiqiu, BingXin and others all played roles in the play, and Zhao Taiyou and Wen Yiduo also specially rushed from New York to Boston to help.

Zhao Taiyou was quite researched and innovative in stage design, he replaced the hard film set with a curtain, and also used colored light projection, which was a new thing at the time, and the performance effect was unique. This is the first appearance of ancient Chinese drama on the American theater stage with its unique situation and lingering touching plot, showing the style of Chinese students and opening the eyes of American audiences.

This cooperation also enabled these theater lovers to have a deeper understanding of each other and the idea of carrying out the National Opera Movement, and with the purpose of revitalizing Chinese drama, they established the "Chinese Drama Improvement Society" in January 1925, including Zhao Taiyou, Wen Yiduo, Tu Shangyuan, Xiong Foxi, Bing Xin, Lin Huiyin, Liang Sicheng and so on.

In the summer of 1925, Zhao Taiyou returned to China with Wen Yiduo and Yu Shangyuan to participate in the establishment of the National Beijing Art College, serving as a professor and head of the drama department, and at the same time serving as a lecturer at Peking University, teaching drama theory courses, which can be described as the founder of the modern Chinese drama school.

In order to promote Chinese drama, film and other artistic undertakings, Zhao Taiyou worked in the Beiping Art School for only one year, and then went south to Guangzhou to engage in politics due to the political turmoil in Beiping, when Guangzhou seemed to be the source of the revolution, Zhao Taiyou served as a member of the Academic Council of the Central Academy of Sciences and the secretary of the Youth Department of the Kuomintang during his stay in Guangzhou.

In July 1926, the National Revolutionary Army began the Northern Expedition, and Zhao Taiyou was stationed in Wuhan with the Northern Expeditionary Army, serving as the secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Wuhan Nationalist Government, and participating in activities such as the recovery of hankou and the foreign concessions in Jiujiang.

On April 12, 1927, the Kuomintang New Right, led by Chiang Kai-shek, launched an armed coup d'état against the Kuomintang Left and the Communist Party in Shanghai, massacring Communists, Kuomintang Leftists, and revolutionary masses.

In May 1928, the May 3rd Massacre in Jinan shocked China and foreign countries, and due to this, the provincial Shandong University was suspended. At this time, He Siyuan, who was the director of the Shandong Provincial Education Department, submitted to the Ministry of Education of the National Government in Nanjing for approval to establish the Preparatory Committee for National Shandong University, which planned to re-establish the National Shandong University.

Zhao was nominated as a member of the Preparatory Committee, and he left Beijing to return to Shandong.

In May 1930, the Ministry of Education accepted Cai Yuanpei's proposal and decided to rename the Preparatory Committee of National Shandong University to the Preparatory Committee of National Qingdao University, and Zhao Taiyou was hired as a member of the Preparatory Committee. On June 20, the Preparatory Committee held its first meeting in Jinan, with He Siyuan as the director of the Preparatory Committee.

Zhao Taiyuan and He Siyuan, then director of the Shandong Education Department, were double students of "Peking University and Columbia University", and Zhao Taiyuan was the president of the "Shandong Provincial Experimental Drama Theater" and the president of jinan's "Provincial No. 1 Middle School", as well as the secretary of the Department of Education and a member of the "Preparatory Committee of Shandong University". After the meeting, Zhao Taiyou and others went to Qingdao to accept the property of the former private Qingdao University and carry out preparatory work.

In September, National Qingdao University was established, with Zhao Taiyou as a professor at the Faculty of Letters, and in December, Zhao Taiyou succeeded Zhang Daofan as provost.

In the spring of 1932, the principal Yang Zhensheng resigned, and Zhao Taiyou temporarily took over the position of principal. In July, the Ministry of Education of the National Government of Nanjing decided to change the name of National Qingdao University to National Shandong University and adjust the faculties. In September of the same year, Zhao was officially appointed president of National Shandong University.

In that year, Zhao Taiyou's wife, Yu Shan's younger brother Yu Qiwei (Huang Jing), was studying at Shanda University, and Yu Qiwei was already a member of the Communist Party of China at the time, and he organized the "Left Wing Alliance" under the instructions of the underground party, known as the "Seagull Drama Society". The Seagull Drama Society hired Zhao Taiyou as a consultant, but he neither accepted nor refused. The drama club performs in the auditorium of the school and performs progressive drama in the society.

In December 1933, the 44-year-old Zhao Taiyou married the 25-year-old Yu Shan, which caused a huge sensation in Qingdao and even the whole country, and became the talk of people after tea and dinner.

Yu Shan is not only a drama star, she once became famous as the heroine in the drama "Salome" directed by Tian Han, and became popular all over the beach for a while, with many admirers, and also became the object of competition among celebrities.

Yu Shan also came from a prominent Yu family, and her father, Yu Mingzhen, served as the superintendent of the Jiangnan Water Teachers' Academy, and Lu Xun was his student.

Yu Mingzhen's only son, Yu Dachun, studied in Japan and Germany, served as the director of the Longhai Railway Bureau of the Ministry of Communications of the Nationalist Government, and Yu Dachun's third son, Yu Qiwei, was admitted as one of the guides in 1931 and became the first mayor of Tianjin after liberation.

In 1930, Liang Shiqiu was invited by Yang Zhensheng to become the director of the Department of Foreign Languages and the director of the Library of the National Qingdao University, and Yu Shan followed Liang Shiqiu to find a position in the library of Qingdao University.

Yu Shan's arrival stirred up a pool of spring water, attracting many suitors in the light and in the dark, and Shen Congwen's novel "Eight Juntu" was set in this context.

Yu Shan finally chose to marry Zhao Taiyou, who was the president of the National Shandong University at the time, but everyone was surprised, after all, the age difference between the two was 19 years, and Zhao Taiyuan was still a person with a family, and the reasons for this were various, but the most credible reason was that Yu Shan wanted to rescue his third brother Yu Qiwei.

In the summer of 1933, Yu Qiwei was arrested and imprisoned for betrayal by traitors, and Zhao Taiyuan promised Yu Shan that I could help you rescue your brother, but you must marry me. Yu Shan did keep her promise and married Zhao Taiyou after Zhao Taiyou's divorce.

After Yu Qiwei was released from prison, after a short illness in Shanghai, he began to actively engage in revolutionary work. Yu Shan and Zhao Taiyou had no emotional basis, and although they had children, they divorced after the victory of the War of Resistance.

After Zhao Taiyou became the president of National Shandong University, he adhered to the principle of "inclusiveness and academic democracy" put forward by Yang Zhensheng, hired outstanding teachers, and strictly managed the school, with remarkable results.

During his tenure as principal, Wen Yiduo, Liang Shiqiu, Wang Tongzhao, Hong Shen, Lao She, Ding Shan, You Guoen, Shen Congwen, Wu Boxiao, Xiao Difei, Ding Xilin, Tong Dizhou, Wang Ganchang, Li Da and others all served in the school. Although the National Shandong University is less funded, the salaries of teachers are basically the same as those of other schools, and the appointment period is generally set at two or three years, and the teaching staff is stable. Although the faculty is not as good as Tsinghua and Peking University, it is still quite strong compared with other national universities.

At that time, most of the funding sources of Shandong University were Shandong Province and Jiaoji Railway, which were very limited, and although the funds were insufficient, Zhao Taiyuan still tried his best to purchase books and instruments, build science museums and teaching buildings to improve teaching conditions.

During Zhao Taiyou's tenure as president, Shandong University built a science museum, an engineering hall, a chemistry hall, a hydraulic laboratory, a gymnasium, etc., added an aquatic products department, an agricultural college and a medical school, and also established the Qingdao Institute of Marine Biology and the College of Engineering, making National Shandong University rapidly rise to become a first-class institution of higher learning in the country.

In 1936, due to the rising patriotic movement of students to resist Japan and save the dead, national Shandong University formed the Student Anti-Japanese Salvation Congress and electrified the whole country. The Ministry of Education of the National Government issued a telegram ordering "severe measures to deal with" the tide of Mountain University. Zhao Taiyou stressed that "the school level is serious", and the school expelled 6 student leaders on the grounds of "acting beyond the norm and undermining school discipline".

As a result, Shandong students launched the "Zhao Exorcism Movement". At this time, Han Fuyu, chairman of the Kuomintang Shandong government, took this opportunity to bring the National Shandong University under his own influence, threatening to stop the allocation of cooperative funds and unreasonably interfering in the personnel adjustment of the school, for which Zhao Taiyu resigned as president in anger.

After leaving National Shandong University, Zhao Taiyou went to Beijing to serve as the principal of the Beiping Art College, and after the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in 1937, Zhao Taiyou moved south with the school to Hunan and moved to Chongqing.

From January 1939, Zhao Taiyou successively served as a member of the Editorial Committee of the Ministry of Education's Textbooks and Director of the Script Sorting Team, an editor of the National Compilation Hall, the director of the Third Division of the Central Training Commission, a suffragan of the National Committee for Political Participation, and the director of the Department of Higher Education of the Ministry of Education for 7 years.

In 1946, the Ministry of Education of the Nationalist Government approved the re-establishment of National Shandong University, and Zhao Taiyou became the president again. Because the Hill College Building was occupied by the U.S. Marines, it was used as a barracks. Zhao arrived in Qingdao in August, negotiated with Kirk, the commander of the U.S. forces stationed in Qingdao, and gradually reclaimed the school building.

After Zhao Reported to the Ministry of Education of the National Government for approval, in just two or three years, the re-established National Shandong University set up five colleges of arts, science, engineering, agriculture, and medicine, which were expanded from 5 colleges and 8 departments to 8 colleges and 16 departments.

At that time, shortly after the victory of the War of Resistance, universities were in a period of recovery, and excellent teachers were in contention. Zhao Taiyou painstakingly and through various channels, every teacher hired, will personally come to the door to please. Zhu Guangqian, Lao She, Wang Tongzhao, Shen Congwen, Lu Kanru, Feng Yuanjun, Yang Xiangkui, and Xiao Difei were hired successively.

In the enrollment work after the resumption of the school, Zhao Taiyou still adheres to the tradition of strict requirements and quality. He believes that there is no place for scholarship, and the wider the source of students, the more they can play a role in the mutual integration of various regional cultures, and the more they can cultivate outstanding talents in mutual exchanges and exchanges.

On the eve of the liberation of Qingdao, National Shandong University has formed a comprehensive university with complete disciplines, strong faculty and perfect teaching facilities, which is among the best universities in China.

In view of the kuomintang government's active civil war at that time, insufficient education funds, and difficulties in school funds, he mobilized the whole school staff to try to save themselves, teachers and students set up factories and farms by themselves, subsidized funds, made their own instruments and teaching aids for teaching and scientific research, and insisted on running schools.

During the Liberation War, the students of National Shandong University repeatedly set off the "anti-civil war", "anti-hunger", "anti-south migration" movement, Zhao Taiyou expressed sympathy for the progressive teachers and students, sincerely cared for and loved them, Zhao Taiyou actively supported the establishment of a response committee in the school, organized the school police to strengthen vigilance, extended the night shift time, and took turns on duty in the faculty dormitories. In order to oppose the southward relocation of the school and prevent the enemy from destroying it, progressive teachers and students formed a "school protection group", which he agreed.

In October 1946, the Ministry of Education sent a secret telegram to Zhao Taiyou, instructing him to find out the suspicion of "communist party" xu Zhongyu, a teacher of the Chinese Department, and dismiss Xu Zhongyu from his post. Zhao Taiyou immediately informed Xu Zhongyu of the contents of the secret telegram, asking him to hide and avoid persecution, and replied that Xu Zhongyu had no "bad deeds".

In the spring of 1947 and the autumn of 1948, the Kuomintang arrested many patriotic students twice at the National Shandong University, and Zhao Taiyou tried to negotiate bail, and through the school council, decided not to skip class and to retain their student status so as not to drop out of school in the future.

In September 1948, Jinan was liberated, Qingdao became the kuomintang's isolated city in Shandong, Zhao Taiyou's children frequently called him to persuade him to go south as soon as possible, some people advised him to abandon his post and leave Qingdao, and the National Shandong University also had proposals to move south, but he refused to accept it.

In May 1949, the Kuomintang decided to abandon Qingdao, and the Ministry of Education of the Nationalist Government in Nanjing sent a secret telegram ordering Zhao Taiyou to follow the Kuomintang troops south to Guangzhou, and Zhao Taiyou was determined not to leave. Liu Anqi, commander of the Kuomintang Tenth Appeasement District, followed Shangfeng's will and forced Zhao Taiyou to flee south on a warship. Zhao Taiyou secretly stayed in the fourth ward of the Affiliated Hospital of Shandong University Medical College, which professor Zeng Chengkui had arranged for him in advance and was not open to the public, so that Liu Anqi did not find him.

On June 2, the People's Liberation Army liberated Qingdao, and the military control team of the new regime entered Shandong University to take over and rectify the school. Zhao Taiyou handed over a complete Shandong University to the new regime, handled the handover of Shandong University, fulfilled his own responsibilities and historical mission, and bid farewell to the most brilliant september 1949 of his life.

National Shandong University opened under the leadership of the People's Government, and Zhao Taiyou was recruited as a member of the National Shandong University Council and a professor in the Department of Foreign Languages.

In 1958, after Shandong University went to Jinan, Zhao Taiyou stayed in Shandong Ocean College to teach.

In the 1970s, Mrs. Vitke, a female writer from the United States, once interviewed Jiang Qing and published a book called "Comrade Jiang Qing", and she said to Vitke: In 1929, I entered the Shandong Provincial Experimental Art Theater in Jinan, which is an art school, where I mainly studied modern drama... Even though I've only been here for a year, I've learned a lot, I've learned every aspect of my artistic path.

In 1929, li Yunhe was admitted to the Shandong Provincial Experimental Theater at the same time as Li Yunhe, and there was a middle school student from Tianjin named Wei Heling. From 1935, he transferred to the Shanghai film industry and successively participated in "Road Angel", "Children of China", "Crows and Sparrows", "Blessings", "Home" and "Burning Plains".

In addition, there is a male classmate who later became a famous actor and director in the Chinese film industry, that is, Cui Wei.

As mentioned earlier in the article, this Shandong Provincial Experimental Theater, directly under the Department of Education of Shandong Province, teaches Jingkun and drama, and the dean is Zhao Taiyou. Zhao Taiyou also served as the provost of Qingdao University and moved to Qingdao, but still held the position of director of the Shandong Experimental Theater.

Stepping into the Shandong Experimental Theater was a turning point in Li Yunhe's life. Without drama actor Li Yunhe, there would be no future film actor Lan Ping. Studying drama, Li Yunhe embarked on the road of literature and art. Getting to know Zhao Taiyou also had a profound impact on Li Yunhe's life path.

In 1931, Li Yunhe, who could not gain a foothold in Jinan, came to Qingdao and found Zhao Taiyou, who was also a fellow villager and teacher in Weifang, for help and asked to study at Qingdao University.

Zhao taiyou taught Li Yunhe at the Shandong Experimental Theater and admired her performance in "Tragedy on the Lake".

The writer Wang Suping wrote in the book "When She Was Not Yet Called Jiang Qing" that Jiang Qing came to Qingdao from Jinan, first settled down in a small hotel, and rushed straight to Qingdao University to find Zhao Taiyou on the same day.

Zhao Taiyou suddenly saw Jiang Qing without mental preparation, and when he heard that Jiang Qing had asked to go to Qingdao University, he said with a look of displeasure: "You haven't even gone to middle school, you want to go to college, can you pass the examination?" Jiang Qing knew that he had lost his word, and he was busy changing his mouth, "Either I will find a job in the university first, and there will be a chance to work and study half-time!" Please... When she said it, I cried, Principal Zhao, I have no way back..." Zhao Taiyou saw that she was so sad that she didn't want to blame her anymore, so he said to her in a relaxed tone: "Well, don't cry, you go back to the hotel to rest first, I will find a way for you to find a position in the school."

In order to give this poor and self-motivated student a chance, Zhao Taiyou interceded with Yang Zhensheng, the president of Qingdao University at the time, and sought a position for Li Yunhe in the library of Qingdao University, with a salary of 30 oceans per month, allowing her to choose a few homework in the morning, be responsible for borrowing books in the afternoon, and supervise the reading room at night.

Guo Tianyou, deputy director of the Literature and History Committee of the Shandong Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, wrote an article entitled "Jiang Qing and His Mentor Zhao Taiyou", in which one of the texts described it like this: Jiang Qing, as a student, had good luck, and when she met a teacher with real talent and practical learning like Zhao Taiyou, she suddenly changed her life path. At the beginning of the "Cultural Revolution", Jiang Qing started with model drama and claimed to be a literary and artistic standard-bearer, if there was no Zhao Taiyou's education help for her, she would probably just be an actor with rough writing and ink.

After the outbreak of the "Cultural Revolution," Jiang Qinghong was extremely popular, and her former mentor Zhao Taiyou, who was a professor at Qingdao Ocean University, had been besieged by fanatical rebels, and was paraded in the courtyard by the rebels wearing top hats, and deprived of all rights to work and live.

In the early morning of April 26, 1968, the body of an old man was found on the beach near the Pier in Qingdao. After investigation by the public security organs, the name of the deceased was Zhao Taiyou.

After smashing the "Gang of Four", Qingdao Ocean University rehabilitated Zhao Taiyou and overthrew all the false charges imposed on him, and evaluated his merits, but the mystery of Zhao Taiyou's cause of death has not yet been solved.