Chapter 17 The first section is a long way to the Union University

In mid-January 1938, according to the instructions of the national government, Changsha Temporary University was moved to Kunming, and the National Southwest Associated University was established separately.At that time, several scholars including Xu Teli from the Changsha Office of the Communist Party of China heard the news and rushed to Changsha Temporary University to give lectures.But the situation is stronger than people, and history can only choose people who follow the trend of the times and move forward for the righteousness of the nation.In the face of the national crisis, the overall situation has been decided. The teachers and students of the temporary university packed their bags, held their heads high and held their chests high, resolutely took the step of moving westward with a tragic heroic attitude.Almost at the same time, Academia Sinica decided to immediately retreat to Chongqing, Guilin, Kunming and other different areas after a debate between benevolent people and wise men in various research institutes in Changsha.The head office of the Academia Sinica issued an instruction in Chongqing, ordering the Institute of History and Philology, the Institute of Social Sciences, and the Institute of Astronomy in Changsha to try to transfer to Kunming.

In the spring of 1938, the Academia Sinica set out from Changsha to Kunming one after another.According to the article in December 1937 of the "Records of Major Events of the Institute of History and Philology": "It is proposed to move to Kunming, 365 boxes of book specimens are moved to Kunming, 300 boxes are shipped to Chongqing, 34 boxes are shipped to Guilin, and 2 boxes are waiting to be shipped to Hankou. There are 52 boxes waiting to be shipped to Hong Kong, and the remaining 60 boxes are sealed in Changsha." After all the arrangements were made, the personnel of the Institute of History and Philology escorted more than 300 boxes of utensils, first took a boat to Guilin, and then arrived in Kunming via Haiphong, Vietnam. They temporarily rented a building at No. 3, Dihua Lane, Qingyun Street, next to Yunnan University.At this time, Liang Sicheng's family had arrived in Kunming early and settled down in a large mansion by the green lake.It can be said that they met thousands of miles away by fate. The colleagues of the Institute of History and Philology and the Liang family met again in this strange frontier Spring City, and everyone talked to each other about the hardships of the journey.

Many years later, Liang Congjie had the following recollection of the escape of the Liang family from Changsha to Kunming: "The car stayed overnight at Xiaoxing. Huangxian County at the junction. On both sides of the muddy road, there are several rows of board houses and pavements, and dim candles flicker in the stars. In order to stay, my parents hugged our siblings and grandma, and asked hotels along the street. My mother kept I couldn’t walk a few steps, so I put me on the ground to breathe. But we walked a few streets and alleys, but we didn’t find a bed. It turned out that the road in front of me had collapsed, and several groups of passengers had been stranded here, and it was full of people. My mother shivered, broke into a teahouse, and couldn't walk anymore. Her cheeks were flushed, and her forehead was burning hot. But the tea shop owner wouldn't even let her sleep on the floor. The whole family surrounded her mother, not knowing what to do That’s good.” Later, thanks to meeting a group of cadets from the Air Force Flight Academy, he squeezed a room into their residence and settled down.At this time, Lin Huiyin was suffering from acute pneumonia and had a fever of 40 degrees. As soon as he entered the door, he fell into a coma. Thanks to a female doctor who had studied in Japan in the same car, he prescribed some traditional Chinese medicine for treatment, and he recovered after two weeks.

After more than 40 days of turbulence and turmoil, the Liang family traveled through mountains and mountains, and finally arrived in Kunming in January 1938 after going through hardships and hardships.A few months later, the staff of the Institute of History and Philology came one after another, and the surprise after meeting can be imagined. After being out of breath, Liu Zhiping, Mo Zongjiang, Chen Mingda and others from the former China Construction Society rushed to Kunming from different places after getting in touch with Liang Sicheng.Although the front line was still roaring with guns and wars, Liang Sicheng at this time felt the need to reorganize the disintegrated China Construction Society.To carry out a large-scale survey of ancient buildings in the southwest region, only in this way can we live up to the youthful years of myself and my colleagues, as well as the parting entrustment of the old president Zhu Qiqian.He began to send a letter to the board of directors of the China Education and Culture Foundation, the original funding organization of the Construction Society, explaining the general situation and asking whether the other party would be willing to continue to provide funding if the work of the Society was resumed in Kunming.The China Foundation quickly responded: As long as Liang Sicheng and Liu Dunzhen work together, they will recognize it as the China Academy of Architecture and provide funding.Liang Sicheng quickly wrote a letter to get in touch with Liu Dunzhen in his hometown in Xinning, Hunan, and got a promise from the other party to come to Kunming to work together.As a result, the signboard of the China Construction Society was hung up in the rainy and misty southwest.

At the same time when academic institutions such as the Institute of History and Philology of the Academia Sinica retreated to Kunming, Changsha Temporary University also began to migrate. Teachers and students rushed to Kunming in three ways.According to the "History of Southwest Associated University": The first batch of people who traveled by water, led by Professors Fan Jichang, Mei Guande and Zhong Shuzhen, included teachers and family members, boys and girls who were infirm and not suitable for walking, a total of more than 600 people, went to Guangzhou by the Guangdong-Han Railway in batches, and passed through Hong Kong , Take a sea boat to Annan (Vietnam) Haiphong, and take the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway to Mengzi and Kunming.

The second group of more than 10 professors, including Chen Daisun, Zhu Ziqing, Feng Youlan, Zheng Xin, Qian Mu, etc., took a car, passed through Guilin, Liuzhou, Nanning, entered Hanoi via Zhennan Pass (now Friendship Pass), and transferred to Yunnan-Vietnam Railway to arrive in Mengzi. ,Kunming. The third batch is the "Xianggui Yunnan Travel Group", consisting of 290 students and 11 teachers. The 11 teachers who accompanied the team formed a counseling group, led by Professor Huang Yusheng, including Wen Yiduo, professor of Chinese Department, Xu Weiyu, and Li Jiayan, assistant professor; Li Jitong, professor of biology department, Wu Zhengyi, Mao Yingdou, Guo Haifeng, professor of chemistry department; Zhao Lun; Professor Yuan Fuli of the Department of Geology, Assistant Professor Wang Zhongshan and others.At the request of the Provisional University, the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government and the Hunan Provincial Government appointed Huang Shiyue, a general stationed in Hunan, as the head of the "Hunan, Guizhou and Yunnan Tour Group", and Colonel Mao Hong, a military training instructor, as the chief of staff to implement militarized management of the tour group.The teachers and students wore brand-new khaki uniforms presented by the Hunan Provincial Government, wrapped in leggings, carrying dry food bags, water bottles, a black cotton coat, and an umbrella, just like a regular army sent out for conscripts.The regiment is divided into 2 brigades, 6 squadrons, and 18 small teams.The captains of the squadron are the instructors Zou Zhenhua and Zhuo Chao, and the squadron captains and small captains are the students.

On February 20th, the tour group left Changsha and traveled all the way through Guizhou through Xiangxi, crossing mountains and ridges, staying overnight in Xiaoxing, trekking for more than 1,600 kilometers, traveling day and night for 68 days. About 1300 kilometers.At that time, bandits were rampant in Hunan and Guizhou.There are often rumors of looting property, killing people and stealing goods from mountain villages.The rampant banditry in Xiangxi is well known to the world. There are thousands of bandits in the big group. They not only have new rifles, pistols, and box guns, but also have heavy machine guns and small steel cannons.During the war between warlords, the bandits often fought with the local garrison in order to fight for territory and money. Sometimes a shed of bandits dared to fight against the troops of a division.One of the important reasons why the tour group formed by the Temporary University is escorted by heavily armed soldiers is that they are afraid of encountering bandits on the way and causing accidents.Before departure, Zhang Zhizhong, chairman of the Hunan Provincial Government, sent someone to greet the "Xiangxi King" in the underworld, and told a group of poor students that they would "take the route" of Xiangxi and Guizhou to study in Yunnan. , "earth shed" and "douban stool feet", the national righteousness is the most important thing, so don't harass them.

Perhaps it was Zhang Zhizhong's greeting that played a role; perhaps the "King of Xiangxi" really put the national righteousness first, and issued a hand order to the underworld brothers densely covered in the mountains and jungles; perhaps it was because the poor teachers and students themselves did not have much property to plunder.Along the way, the tour group did not encounter bandits.Only once, when I went to a place very close to the bandits' den and stayed overnight, spies reported that bandits might come to rob that night. Everyone was extremely nervous and made special precautions and prepared for the worst.However, at night, only a few gunshots were heard in the distance, and no bandits were seen coming. Everyone had a false alarm, and it was regarded as a catastrophe.

The tour group entered the junction of Hunan and Guizhou, and was warmly taken care of by the local government and people.When the brigade entered the gateway of eastern Guizhou, Yuping County, where the Dong people are the main body, the government specially posted a notice signed by the county magistrate Liu Kaiyi on March 16, informing the merchants and people that the temporary university tour group will arrive in this county for accommodation, and " There are no large hotels in this county, and hereby designate residences for business people inside and outside the city, which will be the lodging places for all college students. The businessmen and people in the county are facing serious national disasters. For this, the leaders of revitalizing the nation—all college students, must take good care of them and borrow the houses. Make room, clean up, welcome to stay temporarily, and provide various conveniences. Hereby make an announcement. It is important to look up to the unity of businessmen and people." On March 17, the tour group arrived in Yuping County and was welcomed by the county magistrate Liu Kaiyi, representatives from all walks of life and boy scouts The warm welcome, board and lodging and other aspects have been taken care of to the greatest extent.

When the tour group entered the hinterland of Guizhou, there were continuous village guards beating gongs to remind merchants and people not to raise prices so as to facilitate the passing tour group.Since then, the tour group has been unimpeded all the way, and some counties even sent middle school students to line up on the outskirts of the city to welcome them.A pair of sisters surnamed Zheng specially invited a group member with the same surname to their home for dinner to recognize relatives.The flute produced in Yuping is well-known throughout the country, and is known as "Suzhou Dizi Yuping Xiao". The sisters surnamed Zheng gave a pair of jade flutes to students with the same surname as souvenirs, which left a good story.

The lively scene reached its climax in Guiyang, the provincial capital. It was raining heavily on this day. The members of the tour group braved the rain and marched neatly in order to see the grandeur. Applause and cheer, brave the rain to shake hands and hug the team members.Such a warm scene made the teachers and students deeply grateful, and it only added to the sacred mission on their shoulders.Wen Yiduo, who accompanied him, later said: "At that time, the whole country was in the tension of resisting Japan, and the people in the remote villages knew that Japan was going to be attacked, so there was no need to do any propaganda along the way. It was better to be close to the people." A common occurrence. But most people pay attention to the customs, clothing, language, and places of interest in the Miao District.” He also said: “During the journey, the students were in a good mood, as if everyone felt that there was a wise man above them. As the leader of the Communist Party, there are five million brave and dedicated soldiers to fight against the war, so there is no problem anyway.” During the 68-day trek, the teachers and students of the tour group really walked out of the ivory tower.Enter the vast world of all kinds outside the book.Along the way, teachers and students visited Miao villages, investigated the society and people's lives, and felt the backwardness of the country's economy and the hardships of the people's lives, especially the background of local opium cultivation and the harm this drug brought to society. Deep understanding and awareness.The teachers of the tutoring group took this opportunity to conduct practical teaching. The famous geologist Professor Yuan Fuli, who worked with Li Ji on the field archaeological excavation of Xiyin Village, Xia County, Shanxi, explained the structure of rivers and rocks in combination with the topography and landforms in western Hunan and eastern Guizhou Formation, and the theory of karst landform and geological development in western Guizhou.Wen Yiduo guided students to collect local folk songs and folk songs, study different ethnic languages, and sketch local customs.Wen himself used pencils to sketch dozens of paintings from life, with unique materials and vigorous brushstrokes. When they were exhibited in Mengzi, many professors were shocked and regarded them as immortal works.The Yunnan-Guizhou folk songs collected by the teachers and students are mostly about the love and admiration of men and women, which are extremely rare in the mainland and in books. The hidden beauty in the subtlety makes the teachers and students very novel, such as "the parrot cries in the middle of the night in front of the corridor. "Lang plays Yueqin and sister blows flute" is a wonderful ballad. In the tour group, different from Wen Yiduo's impassioned personality and poetic romantic temperament, the story of Zeng Zhaolun, a professor of chemistry at Peking University, was even more talked about by teachers and students.This descendant of Zeng Guofan, a famous official in the late Qing Dynasty, was taciturn and seldom communicated with others. He just concentrated on his studies, sometimes to the point of fascination.Although Zeng studied at the Changsha American Missionary School since he was a teenager, was born in Tsinghua University, and has a doctorate in the United States, he is quite different from other scholars who have studied in the East and West.Generally speaking, all the students studying abroad are always dressed in suits and leather shoes, stylishly dressed, imposing, and their hair is combed shiny and not messy.Zeng Zhaolun did the opposite. In terms of dressing and dressing, he has a strong "celebrity" spirit of a Chinese rural school teacher.Most of the coats he wears are blue cloth coats, which are always crumpled and not well-fitting to outsiders, and are somewhat tattered and rustic. Sometimes the third button has to be buttoned into the second buttonhole to form a Large slanted placket.His face didn't look very clean, his hair was disheveled, and his beard hadn't been shaved for several days. He looked like a small vendor selling fried dough sticks or pancakes in the streets and alleys.The socks on the feet seem to have no sock, and only reach the heel.The shoes are even more mysterious and dizzying, always a pair of blue or black cloth shoes with holes in the front and back, similar to later plastic slippers or sandals, which can only be dragged for walking.The front of the socks in the shoes are always pierced by the toes and are not repaired, forming the appearance of the ancient traveling monk Jigong with bare toes in front of the shoes and socks and even heels in the back.Teachers and students got used to this kind of attire after seeing it a lot, and every time they saw it on the road, they just murmured "unprecedented and unprecedented" and laughed it off.But people who don't know what's inside often have some misunderstandings, which makes both parties very embarrassed.According to He Zhaowu, a student of the Lianhe University, "When Zhu Jiahua was the president of Central University, he once called a meeting with the heads of departments. Zeng Zhaolun came. Zhu Jiahua didn't recognize him and asked him which department he was from. Zeng Zhaolun replied that he was from the Department of Chemistry. Zhu Jiahua saw that he was in tatters, so he said, "Go get your dean for a meeting." Zeng Zhaolun didn't answer, turned his head and walked out. After returning to the dormitory, he packed up his bedding and left. Head of Department." Although Zeng Zhaolun is low-key, dressed in rags, and usually doesn't hum, there is still a little bit of the temper of "hardship, endurance, and domineering" in Xianghu culture.Because of Zhu Jiahua's recklessness this time, Zeng Zhaolun felt humiliated.Unlike many bureaucrats, he does not explain and refute, and thinks that explaining to such high-ranking bureaucrats and politicians is superfluous and detrimental to his personality and dignity. .This style is quite a bit of the stubborn and unruly style of the "Xiangxiang barbarians". The story He Zhaowu told should have happened in 1931.In this year, Zeng Zhaolun was invited by Jiang Menglin, President of Peking University, to serve as the professor and director of the Chemistry Department of Peking University.After Zeng Zhaolun took office at Peking University, the "three fires" he put on fire were to add equipment, buy medicines, and expand the laboratory.According to Fei Xiaotong's recollection: "He devoted himself to this subject, just like a mother to her child. It is said that he was the first to set up a laboratory in a university in our country. Through practical acquisition of scientific knowledge, he solved We have solved this very basic problem and grasped the key points.” On this basis, Zeng Zhaolun used all the tricks he had learned abroad for many years, and played them with genius, making a complete revolution in various affairs, The Department of Chemistry of Peking University has become the strongest department in the industry in terms of talents and equipment, and has attracted the attention and praise of the national education circle. According to Zeng’s student, Su Mianzeng, who graduated from the Department of Chemistry of Peking University in 1948 and later became a professor of the School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Peking University, Zeng Zhaolun’s achievements in revitalizing the Department of Chemistry of Peking University can be compared with President Cai Yuanpei’s achievements in reforming and revitalizing Peking University. Compared with that." This may be a bit harsh, but Zeng's achievements in the construction of Peking University's Department of Chemistry were indeed famous for a while. After Peking University moved to the south, Zeng Zhaolun led a group of teachers and students from the Department of Chemistry to Changsha, and then traveled to Kunming on foot with the "Hunan, Guizhou and Yunnan Tour Group".From early morning to evening every day, Mrs. Zeng does not take shortcuts, but walks along the winding mountain gravel road. Whenever she takes a break, she sits down and writes in her diary.According to Tang Aoqing, a student who was studying in the Department of Chemistry of Peking University and went to Yunnan with a tour group, recalled: "Every morning, when we walked for twenty or thirty miles under the stars, the genius was shining. At this time, we saw Professor Zeng Zhaolun from a distance. Sitting on the roadside mile marker stone and writing a diary. After we caught up, he drove with us again. Mr. Zeng does this every day. It seems that he wakes up at least an hour or two earlier than us.” Everywhere, Taking the opportunity of rest, Zeng Zhaolun and Wen Yiduo and other professors gave lectures on political and cultural aspects to local military and political officials, gentry and people, analyzing China's national strength, army and weapons, and how to solve the steel, iron and steel needed in the long-term war of resistance. Issues such as the supply of cotton, acid and alkali, rubber and other materials, and at the same time demonstrate that the Anti-Japanese War must be won and that a large number of talents will be needed after victory, and hope is placed on local youth and Southwest Associated University students and other issues.During the whole journey, the teachers and students of the tour group wrote one diary after another, observation experience and paintings. After the student Qian Nengxin arrived in Kunming, he organized his travel diary into "Three Thousand and Five Hundred Miles to the Southwest" Book, published by the Commercial Press.Liu Zhaoji, a student of the ballad interview group, compiled more than 2,000 folk songs collected on the way into the book "Southwest Collection of Wind Records", leaving rich historical materials for the local history and culture.Zha Liangzheng, a student of the Department of Foreign Languages ​​and Literature of Tsinghua University and a "school nurse" of the Hunan-Guizhou-Yunnan tour group, and later the famous poet Mu Dan, created the famous "Departure" and "The Wilderness" with surging passion and spirituality. "Walk Up" and other "Three Thousand Miles Walk" series of poems: Departure—one of the 3,000-mile walks. The clear Yuanjiang River pours into the heart of the motherland. The dense tung trees, masson pine, and rich hilly areas are cheering and silent, running on both sides of the river. Thousands of miles away, the spring breeze blows and flows past the foot of a city. Outside the city where peaches and plums are flying, it takes a picture: At dusk, dark and cold, a group of Robinson Crusoe standing on the island lost everything, and looked into the distance with their blank eyes, the dangerous waves were surging, reflecting the ashes of the past. (Hey! If there is a guitar, let us show our feelings quietly!) With a wave of hands, we left like this, we are a group of young people. And the river rushes away, cutting into the dark night, and a trembling silver chain resounds the joy of the earth. In Qingshuitan, I saw an old boatman crossing the rapids, laughing... Walking on the field—two thousand miles after walking, we finally left the city like a fishing net, and the suffocated, dry, and empty grid was constantly Take us to the city of despair! But today, this free and vast wilderness embraces us from the boundless sky, and we can literally swim in the rich green sea. We are walking on the road that our beloved ancestors have walked, and it has been the same endless wilderness for many years, (Oh!, blue sea, orange sea, brown red sea...) For many years, it has been surging with rich harvests Wilderness, it is you now, unfolding the same seductive pattern waiting for our wild power to roll.So how can we resist as we walk?Europe!We cannot resist the hope that has burned in the hearts of countless generations of our ancestors. How persistent and long-lasting is this unfathomable hope, and how free and far away is the road in China... On the morning of April 28, the teachers and students of the tour group arrived at Xianyuan in the eastern suburbs of Kunming, covered in dust and exhaustion.Jiang Menglin and Mei Yiqi, members of the Standing Committee of the Southwest Associated University, Yang Shixian from Nankai, Pan Guangdan and Ma Yuehan from Tsinghua University, and some students who came to Kunming from Haidao stood to welcome them.Afterwards, the brigade marched into the city. When the team passed the Tuodong Road dormitory temporarily rented by the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, the staff of the Institute of History and Philology unfurled a banner reading "Welcome to Kunming on foot" as a token of encouragement.Yang Buwei, wife of Zhao Yuanren, Director of the Institute of History and Philology, Tao Zenggu, wife of Jiang Menglin, president of Peking University, and Mei Meide, wife of Nankai University Secretary-General Huang Yusheng, brought their daughters and a group of local children to greet them at roadside booths.As soon as the forward of the team arrived, everyone immediately brought tea, water, towels, and flowers to teachers and students.The welcoming crowd also sang a song for this team that has gone through all kinds of trials and tribulations. This song was specially composed by Zhao Yuanren, a famous linguist and musician, for the teachers and students overnight. The lyrics read: A long way to get to Union University, a long way to walk. It is a long way to go to the Union University, and I am not afraid of danger and hardship. Goodbye to the foot of Yuelu Mountain, and goodbye to Guiyang City. After a long journey of more than three thousand li, I arrived in Kunming today. The singing sounded like a turbulent river and a turbulent sea. The generous and tragic melody conveyed the country's difficulties and the belief that the War of Resistance will be won to every teacher and student on the march. Many teachers, students and the people present were moved to tears.The team entered Yuantong Park in Kunming, and held a grand welcome ceremony in front of Tang Jiyao's tomb. Huang Shiyue, the head of the tour group, stood in front of the team and finished roll call one by one, and handed over the roster to Mei Yiqi.This simple and sacred ceremony marks that a student tour group that has never been seen in history has successfully completed the thousands of miles from Hunan to Yunnan, and all members have arrived at the destination safely. glorious mission.Since then, thousands of teachers and students have formally established Southwest Associated University in Kunming, which is enough to flaunt its history and last forever.The national government appointed Jiang Menglin, Mei Yiqi, and Zhang Boling as members of the Standing Committee of the Southwest Associated University to jointly preside over school affairs. In order to encourage the spirit of teachers and students, adhere to the determination of cultural resistance, and express the unyielding will of the Chinese nation, Southwest Associated University established a special committee to collect warnings and lyrics from all teachers and students of the alliance, and formulate a new school motto and school song.From the many submissions, after repeated screening and discussion by the special committee, the four characters of "Fortitude and Perseverance" were finally adopted as the motto of UNU.At the same time, the lyrics written by Feng Youlan, dean of the Faculty of Liberal Arts of the United Nations University, with the lyrics of "Man Jianghong", and the lyrics and music composed by Zhang Qingchang, a teacher from Tsinghua University, were selected as the school song. The lyrics are: The long march of thousands of miles, the resignation is over, the palace of the Five Dynasties.Stop temporarily, Hengshan and Xiangshui, and parting again.Absolutely transplanted Zhenqianzhi, and sprinkled Li Yuan's blood all over Kyushu.Blowing all the way, reciting strings in the mountain city, full of love. Shame for thousands of years will eventually be snow.Zhongxingye needs outstanding people.It will become three households, and it is hard to break a strong heart.How difficult it is to worry about the new national movement, and to be patient and hopeful for the former philosophers.Waiting to drive out the enemies, restore Shenjing, and return Yanjie. This is a swan song of the school anthem of Chinese universities in the 20th century. It condenses the most tragic cry of Chinese literati, scholars and students at the moment of national crisis, and condenses the noble emotions and sentiments of the teachers and students of the United Nations when the country is in danger and the family is in distress. strong will.Since then, the singing of Southwest Associated University began to sound, and the passionate melody shook the campus, infected teachers and students, and inspired Chinese sons and daughters of different professions to face the national disaster and strive for self-improvement. At the beginning of the establishment of the Southwest Associated University, the head office with Jiang Menglin as the director was located at No. 46, Chongren Street.Not long after, with the support and help of people from all walks of life, the Kunhua Agricultural School outside Daximen was rented as the school building of the School of Science, the Yixi Guild Hall, Jiangxi Guild Hall, and Quanshu Guild Hall on Tuodong Road were rented as the school buildings of the Engineering College, and the Yanhang Warehouse was used as the School of Engineering In the student dormitory, some houses need to be slightly repaired, and classes can start after buying some tables and chairs.Wooden beds cannot be made in time, so each student is given a few small wooden boxes for outer packaging, which can be put together to replace the couch, and books can also be placed in the box, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone, and one box can be used for two purposes.As soon as the order was established, Zhang Xiruo, Jin Yuelin, Qian Duansheng and other professors of the Lianda University who were close to the Liang family were able to get together with Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin. Back to the warmth of the past and the memory of the dream.It's just that the peaceful and comfortable days are not long, and the heavy pressure of life comes one after another.Yunnan, which is located in the southwestern border with many mountains and mountains, is not prominent in the eyes of the Chinese people. Due to the outbreak of the war and the large-scale retreat of the national army, the strategic position of this place has become more and more important. At the same time, it has also become a place of refuge for all kinds of people in the occupied areas.The influx of a large number of government and social personnel has led to skyrocketing prices in Kunming. Both locals and foreigners feel unprecedented pressure in life. When Mei Yiqi, member of the Standing Committee of the Southwest Associated University, visited Liang Sicheng, an old student of Tsinghua University several times, he talked about the near future and invited Liang and his wife to be the designers of the campus of the Associated University. Liang Lin and his wife were deeply honored to accept this task .With the support of the Yunnan Provincial Government, in July of this year, the United Nations General Assembly selected and purchased more than 120 acres of land in the Sanfen Temple outside the northwest city of Kunming as the school building.After Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin accepted the task, according to the requirements of the Architectural Design Committee of the United Nations University composed of 15 people including Huang Yusheng, it took half a month to come up with the first set of design plans, a first-class modern university building in China. superior.However, this plan was quickly rejected because the design committee did not consider the laboratories and other buildings needed by science students, and Liang and Lin's design plan was forced to be revised.After several iterations, it was delayed for several months.As the inland war continued to expand and prolong indefinitely, the Ministry of Education of the Nationalist Government drew up a "Pingjinhu War Zone School Reorganization Plan". 40% of Nankai’s original subsidy was transferred.” Even so, it was difficult to get all the funds in place, and the salaries of teaching staff could not be paid on time, so building high-rise buildings would undoubtedly become a nonsense. According to the new design plan, Liang and Lin changed the originally planned three-story brick and wood structure building into a two-story building, and soon the low building became a one-story house, and the brick walls became earthen walls.Lin Huiyin cried almost every time she revised a draft.When the final draft was handed in, Huang Yusheng, chairman of the construction committee, told them helplessly: "After the research of the school committee, in addition to the brick-wood structure and tile roofs used in the library and cafeteria, some classrooms and the principal's office can use iron roofs. All other buildings will be covered with thatch." Hearing this, Liang Sicheng felt he couldn't bear it anymore, and went straight to Mei Yiqi's office, slapped the design drawings on the table, and shouted: "Change, change, change! From tall buildings to low buildings , and went to the thatched house again, how should I change it?!" Mei Yiqi looked at this old student who was always calm on weekdays and became annoyed uncharacteristically. Knowing that he was targeting the government's excessive cuts in funds and delays in arrears, he sighed and got up like he was treating a child with a temper He said kindly, "Sicheng, everyone is going to the national disaster together. With your generosity, please forgive us one last time. When the Anti-Japanese War is victorious and we return to Beiping, I will definitely ask you to build some world-class buildings for Tsinghua Park." Things, can be regarded as a taste of today, okay?" Liang Sicheng looked at Mei Yiqi's gentle and resolute gaze, recalling the difficult situation, tears slipped down from the corners of his eyes.