1In the autumn of 952, Guo Yingqiu was appointed as the vice chairman of the Yunnan Provincial Government. At that time, Chen Geng was the chairman of the Yunnan provincial government and Song Renqiong was the secretary of the provincial party committee. Six months later, Guo Yingqiu was appointed as the governor and secretary of the provincial party committee. In the mid-1950s, the CPC Central Committee proposed to March into science and culture and strengthen leadership over institutions of higher learning. Some people in the society argue that "the * * * production party cannot lead colleges and universities", and some even openly ask the * * * production party to "quit colleges and universities". Guo Yingqiu volunteered to work in the education department. Starting from the sense of responsibility of a producer, he said, "I don't believe that a producer can't lead the cause of science, culture and education, and I don't believe that a producer can't become an expert in business." From June 65438 to July 0957, Ann Wen Zi, then the Organization Department of the Central Committee, talked with Guo Yingqiu, conveyed the opinions of the Political Bureau, and decided to be transferred to the President and Party Secretary of Nanjing University. Later, Premier Zhou Enlai once said to Li Genyuan, an old man of the 1911 Revolution in Yunnan, "Guo Yingqiu, the governor of your province, didn't want to be the governor, but volunteered to go to college."

The teachers and students of Nantah were delighted and surprised when they heard the news. Some people could not help wondering: "Is he coming to be the governor or the principal?" The implication is: does he want to engage in politics or education?

1957 When Guo Yingqiu came to Nantah in September, the anti-rightist struggle was the climax. Soon, the Great Leap Forward swept across the country, and smelting steel, eliminating the four evils, the "educational revolution" and work-study programs had a great impact on the teaching and scientific research of the school. Guo Yingqiu insisted on one thing: "There are classes at school. After all, schools should focus on teaching. If there are no classes, what else does the school do? " ! "In order to reduce the influence of political study, labor and various sports on teaching, he personally drafted" Three lines of defense ",emphasizing that teaching is the" main line "of colleges and universities, and we should try our best to stabilize the teaching order and ensure the normal teaching. 1March, 959, Guo Yingqiu called on the whole school to "sit down, dive in and study hard", "teaching is the overriding central task", and asked students to "be heroes not only in the sports field, but also in class". When implementing Article 60 of higher education, he also advocated that "experienced teachers should go to the front line" and "old teachers should go to the front line". These measures have alleviated the negative impact of the ultra-left ideological trend and the "educational revolution". Many professors and scholars nodded and praised: "President Guo knows education". Guo Yingqiu studied sinology in Wuxi, and studied under famous scholars such as Tang Dynasty, Tang Dynasty, Tang Dynasty and Tang Dynasty. He has great respect for scholars and professors who are good at learning and educating people. At that time, the "Left" tendency became more and more obvious, and the anti-right struggle made a wrong evaluation of the situation of intellectuals in China, which dampened the enthusiasm of a considerable number of intellectuals. Guo Yingqiu still believes that to run a university well, we must trust and rely on intellectuals, especially those scholars and experts with profound academic attainments.

1957 1 1 month, the "anti-rightist" movement has just ended, and Guo Yingqiu has only been in NTU for more than two months, which coincides with the seventieth birthdays of three respected professors of Chinese Department-Hu Xiaoshi, Chen Zhongfan and Wang Bijiang. Guo Yingqiu supported the Chinese Department to celebrate the birthday of three old people, hosted a banquet in his own home, and personally poured wine and toasted.

"President Guo celebrates the birthday of three seniors in the Chinese Department", which spread like wildfire on campus and became a beautiful talk, and also sent a spring breeze to intellectuals with doubts and uneasiness. Guo Yingqiu proposed that senior intellectuals should join the Party Committee to strengthen the Party's leadership over colleges and universities, and to show that the Party attaches importance to the work of intellectuals. Gao He, then the provost, and two professors who just joined the Party, then the deputy director of the Department of Foreign Languages, were elected as members of the Party Committee, which was regarded as an "exception" at that time and attracted considerable attention.

1On August 2nd, 962, Professor Li, a famous physical chemist and academician of China Academy of Sciences, died of illness. At that time, Guo Yingqiu was hospitalized in Shanghai Huadong Hospital due to illness. He not only sent messages of condolence and elegy, but also rushed back to Nanjing in spite of illness, and personally delivered a eulogy to express his grief and regret. After coming to work in Nanjing University, Guo Yingqiu often thought about a problem: there are many well-known professors in Nantah, many of whom are old, weak and sick. How can they give full play to their role, and how can their academic thoughts and research methods be "spread with all their money" and carried forward? Soon, he solemnly put forward the method of "sitting in the right place" at the party Committee meeting to assign assistants to the old professor as soon as possible. He stressed: "We must save the legacy! Can't wait, or it will be too late! " Later, the school successively provided academic assistants for a group of old professors. Guo Yingqiu also encouraged young and middle-aged scholars to learn from old teachers with an open mind, practice basic skills and strive for "shine on you is better than blue". The whole school has accelerated the construction of the teaching staff through "layer-by-layer linkage".

1962 In May, when Nanjing University celebrated its 60th anniversary, the school awarded prizes to the old teachers and workers who had been teaching for 20 years. Guo Yingqiu splashed ink and wrote a poem on the certificate: twenty years of training is difficult, and peaches and plums are still wet. The mighty east wind, relying on its strength, planted flowers for future generations to see.

Chronology of Li Dingguo

Guo Yingqiu attaches importance to scientific research. 1958, he put forward the slogan of "teaching first, scientific research outstanding", based on the national science and technology, economic development and the existing foundation of the school, organized a scientific research team combining full-time and part-time jobs, "pay close attention to the frontier and focus on tackling key problems". In the early 1960s, the study of granite and its metallogenic regularity in South China, the comprehensive investigation of grassland in Inner Mongolia, the study of molecular sieve, the study of metal defects, and the introduction and popularization of Spartina were the basis and characteristics of this period.

As the person in charge of a school, Guo Yingqiu not only called on teachers to study their business, write books and make statements, but also put them into practice. Although I am the principal and secretary, busy with school affairs, weak and insomnia, I can't put down my books and try my best to participate in teaching and scientific research activities. Teach political theory to teachers and students, and guide the graduation thesis of history students. He once said: "the acquisition of scientific knowledge is a very hard labor process, and any practice that is greedy for quick tricks and refuses to study hard will not get good results." He loves the study of Nanming history and spends most of his spare time on the collection, analysis and textual research of historical materials. /kloc-the light in his study has been on since 0: 00. He is not satisfied with the historical research method of "searching for chapters and abstracting sentences", but occupies as much information as possible and makes a systematic and in-depth discussion. It was in 1959 that Guo Yingqiu completed his historical research monograph "Chronicle of Li Dingguo". In the late 1950s and early 1960s, it was a three-year period of natural disasters. The supply of non-staple food was tight, and college teachers and students also faced many difficulties in life, work and study. Guo Yingqiu, in his speech to welcome New Year's Day at 1962, called on Nantah people to carry forward the spirit of "drifting" in tunnels. He said:

"The greatness of spruce is that it has contributed everything to itself. Under the overwhelming pressure, countless miners have gained freedom and the broad masses of the people have gained rich minerals ... If every party member produced by * * * is like spruce, it should push the difficulties it should resist, and every branch and party organization pushes them up, then the difficulties of the central government will be alleviated."

Guo Yingqiu was in poor health around 1960, with edema, insomnia and hepatomegaly, but he still worked overtime, shared joys and sorrows with teachers and students, and resolutely refused to specialize. He not only returned all the things sent by the school, but also often gave some of his non-staple food to cadres in poor health. He asked the United Front Work Department to hold a get-together for teaching backbones above associate professors and members of democratic parties, make an exception and entertain everyone with non-staple food produced by the school farm, and pay attention to ensuring that "each person has two meat buns". On New Year's Day and New Year's Eve, Guo Yingqiu always gets together with all the teachers and students of the school and is often invited to sing a cantata. At midnight, the New Year bell rang, and all the teachers and students in the school quietly listened to his passionate and philosophical radio speech. At the school sports meeting, Guo Yingqiu hung his camera on his chest and took pictures of athletes everywhere to show his encouragement. He is both a leader and a reporter. When Bao Renjuan, secretary of the Party Office, got married with Wu Zhipei, a teacher of Chinese Department, Guo Yingqiu copied a poem by Wu, director of Jiangsu Provincial Department of Education, on exquisite stationery, and attached two red beans as wedding gifts to encourage them to respect and love each other, cherish their youth and strive to make a difference.

In those difficult years, Guo Yingqiu infected NTU teachers and students with his unique mind, sentiment and personality charm, and struggled with difficulties. Some old teachers still miss the years of "being poor all their lives and enriching their spirit" and miss President Guo who "brought laughter and firmness to everyone". 1963 At the beginning of the year, Premier Zhou wanted to transfer Guo Yingqiu to the State Council as Deputy Secretary-General, but Guo Yingqiu wanted to stay in Nantah because he loved education. Soon, Wu, the old president of China Renmin University, urgently requested the Prime Minister to send him a right-hand man. In May, the Central Committee transferred Guo Yingqiu to the National People's Congress to assist Wu in the administration of the school.

1964 During the meeting in the Great Hall of the People, Premier Zhou saw Guo Yingqiu and pointed to him and said, "You sit next to me. Have you come to Beijing or not? " When he approached the Prime Minister and sat down, Premier Zhou asked, "Why don't you want to work in the State Council?" Guo Yingqiu replied: "It's not that I don't want to work beside the Prime Minister, but I'm really afraid of delaying your important event. You are so energetic, you sleep so little every day, and my spirit is poor. What if you miss your big event? " The Prime Minister waved his hand and said with a smile, "What is the listlessness of not being able to sleep?" ? Drink two glasses of brandy before going to bed every night to ensure a good sleep. "

Guo Yingqiu couldn't help thinking of nine years ago, when Premier Zhou and others returned to Kunming after attending the Bandung Conference, he and Qin Jiwei accompanied Premier Zhou and Vice Premier Chen Yi to drink Maotai. After drinking too much, Guo Yingqiu was too drunk to score anything, but the Prime Minister was still in high spirits as if nothing had happened. The past is like wine, and the care of the Prime Minister is stronger than wine. Guo Yingqiu couldn't help laughing. During the "Cultural Revolution", Guo Yingqiu was criticized and tortured by Kang Sheng, Qi Benyu and others as a "fake party member", "traitor" and "deep-water bomb going upstream in February". Many teachers and students of NTU spontaneously went north to Beijing to protect the old headmaster. Guo Yingqiu has also been paying attention to the development and changes of Nantah. 1982, he wrote a couplet for the 80th anniversary of Nantah:

The vast stone, changhong across; The waves swept away the romance of the Three Kingdoms, the gold powder of the Six Dynasties, the smoke of the Second Mausoleum and the half-mast flag. The situation is that the tiger is in spring, and loneliness is clearly sealed; Longpan leaves old, depression locks the sun. At the beginning of liberation, only the mountains and rivers were green and Qinhuai was cold.

Southeast universities, galloping; The famous games remain in the two rivers, the four-walled string songs, the cause of the 80 s and future generations. Qixia is warm, and the gloomy moat has become a thoroughfare; Pukou is trendy, and millions of heroes spend the night. By the end of this century, talents will be abundant and the country will be rejuvenated through science and education. [pengpeng (phonologist): Describe the lush vegetation]