That is the imagination of today's people in the context of Taiping. Walking on the small streets are all star-studded masters: Fu Sinian, Li Ji, Wu Dingliang, Dong Zuobin, Liang Sicheng, Tong Dizhou, and The famous British scholar "China expert" Dr. Joseph Needham and the American scholar Fairbank...

Starting from Yibin, a famous tourist city in southern Sichuan, we drove another 19 kilometers to Lizhuang, a suburb of the city. Lizhuang is located on the south bank of the Yangtze River. This small village has a population of only 12,000. Speaking of which, Lizhuang has a long history. It was the settlement of ancient Bo people during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and belonged to the ancient Bo Kingdom and Bohou Kingdom. In the second year of Taiqing (548), Emperor Wu of Liang Dynasty in the Southern Dynasties established Nanguang County and established the current Lizhuang County. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Xianzhong killed innocent people indiscriminately, leaving nine out of ten houses in Sichuan. Later, there was a wave of immigrants "Huguang filled Sichuan". Lizhuang is located on the riverside and should be a good immigration point. Slowly, life came back to life here.

In the autumn of 1940, the Anti-Japanese War entered its most tragic stage. The Japanese invading troops from the south forcibly crossed the Mi River, broke into Changsha and other cities, and threatened the accompanying capital Chongqing from Yichang and Changsha. The rear area was in danger. In October, Japanese planes bombed the United Nations General Assembly in Kunming, causing heavy casualties and property losses. The Institute of History and Philology, the Institute of Social Studies, and the Central Museum of Academia Sinica in Kunming were preparing to move to other places. Tongji University's plan to build a school was immediately stopped and it was planned to move. To the hinterland of Sichuan.

Tongji University first tried out Li Zhuang. After urgent discussions between local officials and the gentry (including Ge Laohui), they sent a resounding reply: "Tongda Qianchuan is welcome in Li Zhuang. All needs will be provided by the local government."

At the same time, Fu Sinian was also thinking about the relocation of the Institute of History and Linguistics, Institute of Sociology, Institute of Physical Anthropology and other units of Academia Sinica. He was looking for a "place that cannot be found on the map." Soon, Lizhuang gradually came into Fu Sinian's eyes with its mountains and rivers, people's sentiments and customs.

In the autumn of this year, higher education institutions and research institutions such as National Tongji University, Academia Sinica, Central Museum Preparatory Office, Central Construction Society, China Geodetic Institute, Peking University Institute of Liberal Arts, etc. began to move inward one after another. Lizhuang did not return to its original place until 1947 after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. It is not difficult to imagine the twists and turns of internal migration, given the steep roads, crude means of transport, the influx of refugees, and the raging war. For example, in March 1943, a truck transporting measuring instruments from Tongji University rolled over to the bottom of a ditch near Weining, Guizhou, causing heavy losses. Another example is that in November 1940, after 140 boxes of public belongings from the Institute of History and Language arrived in Yibin, they were unloaded on a Minsheng Company barge. The barge lost weight and capsized while being transferred from Luzhou to Yibin, and the books fell down the Yangtze River.

Due to the Japanese invasion of China, which led to a mass migration of Chinese intellectuals from the south to the west, Lizhuang was once highlighted as one of the four major anti-Japanese wars in China along with Chongqing, Kunming and Chengdu in modern academic history. A cultural center with a focus on humanities and academics. As Dai Jun, the "discoverer" of Lizhuang, said: The vast folk of China are always like a woodland with infinite warmth, and they can always be like a frightened bird in difficult times. steal na ㄒ瘛?brgt;

At the same time, in the past few years when "reading seeds" gathered together, Li Zhuang not only experienced the baptism of war, but also experienced the influence of Chinese culture. Since then, the society, economy, and culture of this small village have changed subtly.