Lizhuang is a riverside town in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. If you had asked me before: "What does Lizhuang have?" I would blurt out: "Lizhuang has one flower, two yellows and three whites..." Looking at you With a puzzled look in his eyes, he will even tell you very smoothly like the name of a dish in a cross talk: "Peanuts, yellow pepper diced, yellow cake, white cake, white meat, white wine." If you ask me now: "Li Zhuang has "What?" I will say to you without hesitation: "There is love in Lizhuang..."
When you walk in the "Nine Palaces and Eighteen Temples" in Lizhuang, a thousand-year-old town, you will always be impressed by the antique charm. I am deeply attracted by the Ming and Qing Dynasty architecture and the long stone road on the ground. Looking back at the road under your feet, have you ever thought: The footprints of teachers and students of Tongji University, as well as staff of the Institute of History and Linguistics of Academia Sinica, the Academy of Social Sciences, and the Central Construction Society were left here.
It was a war-torn era. After the "July 7th Incident" broke out, large areas of the country were devastated and the people were in dire straits. In the summer of 1940, National Shanghai Tongji University, which had moved for the fifth time, entered Yunnan from Hanoi, Vietnam, and arrived in Kunming. At this time, Kunming not only had skyrocketing prices, but was also frequently intruded by Japanese aircraft. When the safety of teachers and students at the school could not be guaranteed, Tongji University had to consider relocating again. They set their sights on Sichuan Province in the rear. Southern Sichuan area.
The news spread throughout southern Sichuan Province as if it had wings. At this time, after Li Zhuang got the news, it aroused strong repercussions among the people, squires and people of insight. After everyone reached a consensus, they recommended Zhang Guanzhou and Li Qingquan to go to Nanxi County as representatives of Li Zhuang to meet with representatives of Tongji University and state the favorable conditions for Li Zhuang to accept them. At the same time, the Lizhuang government also sent a telegram to Tongji University, warmly inviting them to "move to Sichuan together with Da Qian. Lizhuang welcomes you. All needs will be provided by the local government." These sixteen short words contained the great love of Lizhuang and infiltrated the heart. In the face of disaster, everyone has a responsibility, which also became a good story during the Anti-Japanese War in Lizhuang. At the same time, the Institute of History and Linguistics of Academia Sinica, the Academy of Social Sciences and the Central Architecture Society also moved to Lizhuang.
Wu Mengchao, who was born in Minqing, Fujian Province, came to Nanyang with his mother when he was 5 years old. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he returned to China from Malaysia and studied at Tongji High School Affiliated to Kunming. The continuous bombing of Kunming by the Japanese army forced Wu Mengchao to move to Lizhuang with Tongji University and its affiliated high school.
Lizhuang - the first ancient town along the Yangtze River, is rich in products. Since ancient times, it has been a distribution center for water transportation and trade. It has a history of more than 1,400 years. Wu Mengchao, who was still a student at Tongji University at the time, never expected that he would find his first love here, build his own happy family, and lay the foundation for his second love here.
Wu Mengchao enrolled in the School of Engineering at Tongji University. A female classmate named Wu Peiyu suggested that he study at Tongji Medical College and told him that after completing his studies, he could become a doctor without asking for help. After hearing this, Wu Mengchao thought that it would be good if he could master a skill to make a living, so he readily agreed to study at Tongji Medical College. In this way, Wu Mengchao and Wu Peiyu became classmates at Tongji Medical College.
The Patriarch Hall in Lizhuang was built in the Qing Dynasty and is dedicated to Patriarch Xuanwu. With the relocation of Tongji University, it has also become the location of Tongji Medical College. The school buildings here are simple, and although the lives of teachers and students at Tongji University are secure, they are equally miserable. However, the teaching quality of Tongji Medical College is still guaranteed. Physiology, anatomy and biochemistry courses are called the three passes by students at Tongji Medical College. Among them, the most troublesome is anatomy.
The professor who teaches anatomy is named Fang Zhao. He has good skills and has strict requirements on his classmates. After students have learned the knowledge of anatomy, they will practice cadaver dissection. In order to ensure that students have practice specimens, the school first selects unowned corpses, and then spends money to purchase the corpses. Once, when a local mason was flipping over the roof of the Patriarch's Hall, he accidentally saw students dissecting corpses from among the uncovered tiles. As a result, the news that Tongji students were "eating people" spread like wildfire, and people in Lizhuang were panicked. Everyone called for the teachers and students of Tongji Medical College to be driven out of Lizhuang. Tongji University discussed with the local government to hold a science exhibition to clear up misunderstandings among local people. After the misunderstanding was cleared, Wu Mengchao and his classmates could finally return to the dissecting table and practice autopsy.
During the days of studying in Li Zhuang, the same ideals brought the two young hearts closer and closer, and the relationship between Wu Mengchao and Wu Peiyu became deeper and deeper.
Sometimes in order to take care of Wu Peiyu, Wu Mengchao would use his small privilege as a monitor to put Wu Peiyu, who has poor vision, in the first row so that she can listen and take notes. In that special era, there were no flowers in front of the moon, no vows of eternal love, and rowing of seats became a special way for Wu Mengchao to express his love to his beloved. The riverside, the playground... witnessed the footprints of love they left behind.
The several years of studying in Li Zhuang undoubtedly were of great help to Wu Mengchao's academic and professional studies. To this day, Wu Mengchao treats every operation and every detail almost harshly. At the operation site, Wu Mengchao is always as serious, rigorous and meticulous as if he picked up the scalpel for the first time. He treats every patient with respect and enthusiasm.
Wu Mengchao said that he had only been in love twice in his life, once with his wife Wu Peiyu, and once with his patient. In his love affair with these patients, every handshake between Wu Mengchao and the patients warmed their hearts; every support between Wu Mengchao and the patients aroused their hope of rebirth. Wu Mengchao's considerate hands solved many problems for patients, especially financial problems. Even Wu Mengchao, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, generally does not use machines when performing operations on patients to save money on the basis of ensuring the therapeutic effect. Instead, he uses his own hands to sew the patient's wounds.
In 1963, Wu Mengchao performed the world's first mid-hepatectomy, which was successful.
In 1983, Wu Mengchao removed a liver mass from a 4-month-old baby girl. This was also the youngest liver mass removal case in the world.
These successful medical cases are just a few moments in Wu Mengchao’s career. The relationship between Wu Mengchao and Li Zhuang will forever be engraved on him as the lifelong honorary president of Tongji Hospital in Li Zhuang.
There is love in Li Zhuang. At the moment of national crisis, Li Zhuang’s "Nine Palaces and Eighteen Temples" arranged the Institute of History and Linguistics, the Institute of Social Sciences of the National Academia Sinica, and the Institute of Liberal Arts of Peking University. Tongji University and other domestic first-class academic institutions have gathered a large number of well-known scholars with international influence, such as Li Ji, Fu Sinian, Liang Sicheng, Tong Dizhou, etc., providing them with a superior environment to devote themselves to research and cultivate talents.
There is love in Lizhuang. In the difficult years of material scarcity, a warm family relationship was established between the people of Lizhuang and experts and scholars. Scholars integrated joy, anger, sorrow and joy into the common people. They supported each other and overcame difficulties, allowing the national culture to be passed down from generation to generation. These important institutions and famous scholars accepted by Lizhuang actually carry the simple folk customs and traditions of Lizhuang.
There is love in Lizhuang, and experts and scholars also use their knowledge to repay the folks in Lizhuang. At that time, there was no electricity in Lizhuang. Tongji University School of Engineering used DC motors to generate electricity to supply lighting to the town and machines to grind rice. Tongda Medical College, through scientific research, eradicated the prevalent numbness of the feet (soft disease) at that time, and also enriched the Folk scientific knowledge; the exhibitions of prehistoric stone tools, bronzes, Miao costumes in Guizhou, Naxi culture in Lijiang, Yunnan, thirteen types of Han Dynasty car-making, ancient bronze mirrors, etc. organized by the Central Museum, the people of Lizhuang gained a lot after watching the exhibition It has also provided relevant knowledge and injected new era cognition into the simple folk customs of Lizhuang. The literati who moved inland used their practical actions to compose a patriotic symphony.
Li Zhuang’s love reveals strong traditional Chinese culture; Li Zhuang’s love is integrated with the Anti-Japanese War culture. Today in the new century, Lizhuang people are inheriting and developing the spirit of accepting and supporting cultural people during the Anti-Japanese War; today in the new century, Lizhuang people will continue to "accommodate all rivers", support and accept various advanced cultures, and promote the common good Advance human civilization.