From 65438 to 0902, under the leadership of Zhang Zhidong, the leader of Westernization School and governor of Huguang, Hubei began to build a large number of new primary and secondary schools, teaching students not only traditional classics, but also scientific and technological knowledge. The news soon spread to Huanggang, and Zhong Yi was anxious to go to Wuchang and fill in the registration form in Hubei Academic Affairs Office. Maybe he is too nervous. He mistakenly wrote his age "fourteen" in the name column. After discovering the mistake, he was reluctant to spend money to buy another form because his family was poor. He was puzzled. He looked up and saw the words "just four watches" on the horizontal plaque hanging in the middle of the front hall. Zhong Yan's eyes lit up. He added a few strokes of "Li" to "10" in the name column, and added the word "light" after "four". After correction, he said with satisfaction: "Four lights, bright on all sides, and the future is boundless." From then on, he changed his name to Li Siguang. 1952 One day, Mao Zedong met Li Siguang at a meeting in the midst of intense work at home and abroad and inside and outside the Party. That day, Li Siguang came home full of energy and talked about the happy scene in the interview: Mao Zedong was a big shot. Red face, approachable, amiable. Mao Zedong asked him: What is the "herringbone structure"? Can you tell me something about it? "Li Siguang was very moved. Mao Zedong read widely and paid so much attention to the development of geological science that even the special concept of gabled structure in geomechanics was noticed.
1955, according to Mao Zedong's instructions, Premier Zhou Enlai supported the Ministry of Geology to establish a geomechanics laboratory. Mao Zedong is extremely concerned about China's oil prospects. As early as the beginning of the first five-year plan, one day, Mao Zedong met Li Siguang in a living room in Zhongnanhai. At that time, Zhou Enlai was present. During the conversation, Mao Zedong asked about the prospect of natural oil in China, and Li Siguang replied to Mao Zedong that the prospect of natural oil in China is promising. He analyzed the geological conditions of China to Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, and thought that China has a vast territory and should be rich in natural oil resources. Songliao Plain and North China Plain include Bohai Bay, Jianghan Plain and Beibu Gulf, and the Yellow Sea, East China Sea and South China Sea have economically valuable sediments. Because this sentence was written in English in the past, it was deliberately vague. Hearing this, Zhou Enlai said with a smile: "Our geological minister is very optimistic!" Mao Zedong also smiled happily, and immediately made a strategic decision to conduct oil survey and exploration.
1964, during the third session of the national people's congress, Mao Zedong met with Li Siguang alone in the Beijing hall. Mao Zedong said humorously to Li Siguang, "Li Siguang, you played Tai Ji Chuan well." Li Siguang didn't understand Mao Zedong for a moment and replied, "I'm in poor health. I just learned a little. " Mao Zedong smiled and said, "Your geomechanics Tai Ji Chuan." At this time, Li Siguang realized that Mao Zedong's words spoke highly of him and the vast number of petroleum geologists using the Cathaysian neotectonic system to find oil.
/kloc-one day in 0/964, Mao Zedong met Li Siguang again. That was after a meeting in Huairentang. Mao Zedong invited Li Siguang to watch the Henan Opera Chaoyanggou, which was performed in Beijing for the first time, and invited Li Siguang to sit beside him and chat while watching the drama. When talking about petroleum, Mao Zedong spoke highly of the contributions made by the Ministry of Geology and the Ministry of Petroleum in petroleum exploration. After the performance, Mao Zedong took Li Siguang onto the stage and took photos with the actors.
1964 at noon on February 6, Li Siguang received a phone call saying that he would go to Zhongnanhai at once. Li Siguang hurried to Zhongnanhai after lunch, and a comrade waiting for him at the door led him into Mao Zedong's bedroom. Zhu Kezhen and Qian Xuesen also arrived. They talked extensively for three or four hours about astronomy, geology, frontier science and many other major scientific issues.
On May 19, 2009, Mao Zedong met with the delegates who came to Beijing to attend the study class, and Li Siguang was among them. Seeing Li Siguang on the rostrum, he immediately took Li's hand and affectionately called "Li". The distance between them is so close, however, because the slogan of "Long live Chairman Mao" in the meeting room is so loud, I can't hear the opposite speech clearly. Mao Zedong had to lie prone on Li Siguang's ear and ask him about his health and work. The chairman took Li Siguang's hand and went ahead to meet the comrades present. Then, they left the podium together and walked into the lounge. Mao Zedong and Li Siguang talked in the lounge for over an hour. Tell Li that he really wants to read the books written by Li Siguang, hope Li can find some books for him, and ask Li Siguang to help him collect some scientific materials at home and abroad. Li Siguang is not only a geologist, but also a music lover. He composed the earliest violin music "Difficult to Walk" in China.
Ma, a researcher at the Institute of Geomechanics of the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, said that Li Siguang became fascinated with the violin when he was studying in Britain. Li Siguang studied hard in England for seven years, and wrote the violin Hard to Walk before returning to China from 65438 to 0920. According to the research of Modern Music Room of Shanghai Conservatory of Music, this is the earliest violin music with music score as evidence in China. In 1930s, Li Siguang built the new campus of Luojiashan of Wuhan University, which condensed his ideal of saving the country through education. After on-the-spot investigation, Li Siguang found that the shore of East Lake is really a good place to run a school. Therefore, in 1928+0 1 month, the Luojiashan area of East Lake in Wuchang was officially confirmed as the new campus of National Wuhan University. Li Siguang invited an American engineer, Kells, to plan and design a new school building, which took more than a year to complete.
However, the construction process of Wuhan University was not smooth sailing. Through the efforts of Li Siguang and Wang Shijie, the problems of applying for building a school, building roads and moving graves, and funds were finally solved.
On May 26th, 1932, Wuhan University held a grand inauguration ceremony for the new teaching building. As a representative of the Ministry of Education, Li Siguang congratulated the teachers and students of Wuhan University and gave an academic lecture. When he finished his speech, the editor of the commemorative publication wanted him to write an inscription for the commemorative publication. He picked up pen and ink and wrote two big characters: "Seeking a way out of life with creative spirit and scientific methods". Since then, his "creative spirit and scientific method" has always inspired the teachers and students of Wuhan University to be knowledgeable, thoughtful and practical.
The solemn, elegant and magnificent school buildings left by Li Siguang not only won the reputation of "the most beautiful university campus", but also inspired and guided generations of Wuhan University students to keep forging ahead.