He is a well-known expert in the history of the Communist Party of China at home and abroad, a famous Marxist historian and educator in China in the 20th century, a "red professor" who has been recorded in the annals of Chinese Min University, and a "lamp bearer" of the red education gene of Chinese Min University. He is, Hu Hua. On the morning of May 6th, the opening ceremony of "Life is Struggle- Hu Hua's Centenary Birthday Life and Letters Exhibition" was held at the Museum of Chinese Min University.
It is understood that Hu Hua was born in 1921, the same age as the party, from the age of 16 to the Shaanxi North Public School until his death, his life and faith have been closely intertwined with Chinese min University for nearly 50 years. From 2021 to the centenary of his birth, no matter the fierce tempering of the revolutionary furnace, the wind and rain of building socialism, or the forge ahead of reform and opening up, he always adheres to the ideal and belief of Marxism and persists in unremitting struggle for the party's education cause. The rigorous study, diligent writing, happy education and selfless dedication of nearly half a century have truly interpreted his life creed of "life is struggle, death is rest".
In 2021, the Communist Party of China is about to celebrate its 100th birthday, and at this moment when the whole party and the people of the whole country are full of expectations, Chinese University will jointly commemorate and commemorate the party's peer, Professor Hu Hua, a historian of the Communist Party of China, and make a special celebration of the upcoming centennial birthday of the party.
Jin Nuo, secretary of the party committee of Chinese Min university, Qi Pengfei, deputy secretary of the party committee, and Wang Yi, vice president and director of the museum, attended the event. Xie Chuntao, vice president of the Central Party School (National Academy of Administration); Zhu Jiamu, former vice president and member of the party leading group of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Zhu Jiamu, former secretary of the party leading group and director of the Institute of Contemporary China Studies; and other external leaders; representatives of the descendants of revolutionaries of the older generation, representatives of the party history and academic circles, representatives of the cultural and artistic circles, and Hu Hua's family attended the opening ceremony.
Jin Nuo said that Professor Hu Hua is a well-known expert in the study of the history of the Communist Party of China and one of the founders of the discipline of party history of the Communist Party of China. In his nearly half-century academic career, he adhered to the spirit of "life is struggle, death is rest", "self-willingness to be poor, indifferent to fame and fortune", "modesty and rigor, and excellence", actively rescued party history historical materials, cultivated talents in party history, promoted academic exchanges in party history between China and foreign countries, made great contributions to the creation, construction and development of the discipline of party history in the whole country, and also promoted Chinese University to become an important founder and navigator of the discipline of party history in colleges and universities across the country. It is worth the serious study of generations of masters and students.
Jin Nuo stressed that at the important moment of celebrating the centenary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, as the first new type of regular university founded by the Communist Party of China, Chinese University resolutely implemented the decision-making and deployment of the Party Central Committee, and the whole school carried out in-depth party history study and education. The holding of this exhibition will not only provide rich materials for teachers, students, and party members of our school to study party history in depth, but also play an important role in promoting our study and study of the great history of the century-old party under new historical conditions, building and strengthening the discipline of CPC history, and creating a new situation in the cause of party history.
The opening ceremony of the exhibition also received congratulations from Comrade Li Jie, president of the Chinese Historical Society and former president of Qiushi Magazine, and Professor Hu Hua's close comrade-in-arms, honorary director of the Institute of Qing History of Chinese Min University, and director of the Qing History Compilation Committee.
Hu Hua's family donated to the Museum of Chinese University", such as "Chairman Mao and other party and state leaders received and attended the Fourth Enlarged Meeting of the Committee of the Ministry of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences on November 16, 1963", "China since 918", "Chinese Youth", "Proletarian Youth" and other important historical materials and revolutionary cultural relics.
The student art troupe performed the recitation of "Hu Hua's Family Book". "Be a noble and upright person, though bitter and happy!" Sonorous and powerful words echoed in the exhibition halls of the National People's Congress Museum. After the opening ceremony, the guests visited the exhibition.
Located in the adjacent exhibition hall on the second floor of the Chinese Min University Museum, the exhibition selects professor Hu Hua's precious photos, teaching materials, research documents, and hundreds of letters left behind by his death to entertain the audience. Closely following the theme of "life is struggle", the exhibition organically links Hu Hua's personal growth history, the history of education and development of Chinese University, and the history of the CPC's century-old struggle, restores historical events with historical materials and cultural relics, and concentrates on Professor Hu Hua's growth experience, teaching and research contributions, revolutionary spirit, and academic thinking. A magnificent picture of the continuous struggle for the rejuvenation of the country and the happiness of the people.
Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Liu Jing
Editor/Tan Weiping