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Spring and fire are the most precious treasures.
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In May 1995, Jia Zhangke, who was a sophomore at the Beijing Film Academy, finished his debut, “Going Home.”
The film premiered at the North Shadow Hostel. Twenty or thirty people came. After 15 minutes, someone left. There was only Jia Zhangke and the assistant director. Jia Zhangke was not willing to take the film to Peking University. At the time of the screening, hundreds of people poured into the small classroom, leaving no one left.
He recalled that after the screening, North University students began to discuss the Chinese economy and migrant workers. The humming sounds converge into a sound, and Jia Zhangke is slightly stunned in the sound. After many years, he repeatedly told reporters: That is the unique recognition of Peking University.
PKU has saved too much idealism, and those emotional thoughts seem to have a spark to ignite.
In 1981, the Chinese men’s volleyball team defeated the South Korean team and entered the World Cup. When the night is boiling, the country is boiling. More than 4,000 North University students took a broom as a torch and took to the streets, shouting: unite and revitalize China.
After three years, the National Day military parade, several Peking University biology students secretly made the sheets into banners, used mosquito nets as poles, and took them to the military parade. When the team passed by Tiananmen Square, the banner opened and the words were written: Xiao Ping. It is the sensation of an era, and it is also the unique romance of Peking University.
Peking University in the 1980s belongs to poets and rock singers.
Haizi, Xichuan, Luo Yihe, known as the campus three Musketeers, is the recital star. In the 3,000-person dining room, one read poetry and even the window sill was full. Here was the birth of China’s first fan organization, Peking University Cui Jian support club. Cui Jian fiddled with the guitar in the big dining room, and there was a sea of thousands of people cheering outside the door.
From the East Gate of Peking University, 500 meters to the north, it is the West Gate of Tsinghua. Compared to the freedom of Peking University, the style here is more calm and pragmatic.
The slogan of Tsinghua at that time was “starting from me, starting from now”, full of urgency, like a clockwork full of clockwork.
In 1981, the young Zhang Chaoyang was admitted to Tsinghua. He started running early every day and took the seat in the classroom in advance. “I just want to learn mathematics and physics.””Welcome to the Spring of Science.” At lunch, he went to the cafeteria to take a hoe and went to study.
In that year, the goal of the Tsinghua Chinese Department was to train the first generation of science journalists and editors for China. Mr. Baifa’s seriousness said that electronic technology is developing too fast. The country needs people who have a foundation of science and engineering and are good at word expression and engage in related work.
Everything rushes forward in silence.
On the red brick wall of the Tsinghua Science Museum, the vines spread, there is no sculpture in front of the building, there is no monument, only a small square. The small square people came and went, and the lines were rushing, and they accumulated a little bit of China’s electronic and industrialized family.
At the turn of the century, the state commended the “two bombs and one star” feat, a total of 23 people, 14 people from Tsinghua University. From a more grand latitude to pull out the list, all aspects of China’s high-precision technology can see Tsinghua people.
Among the first Atomic Bomb site workers, there were 26 Tsinghua graduates, Malan Nuclear Test Base, and three base commanders from Tsinghua University. In 1998, Li Fang, a graduate of the Chinese Department of Peking University, wrote an article entitled “Peking University is Spring Water and Tsinghua University is Magma.”
Beida, the upper one becomes a lonely prophet, the middle one becomes a gentleman who is not understood by others, and the next one becomes a tramp. Tsinghua people, the former became a firm leader, the middle became a stable bureaucrat, and the next became a reliable soldier.
Magma can be forged steel, and the spring can be used to moisten mountains and rivers. The young people who have emerged from Peking University and Tsinghua have influenced the direction of the Chinese story in different ways.
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The different temperament of Peking University and Tsinghua University has been brewing for a long time.
The free opening of Peking University is derived from Cai Yuanpei. On January 4, 1917, Cai Yuanpei took the post of President of Peking University. The first thing he did on the day of his appointment was to pay attention to the school. At that time, the team was welcomed, and the status of teachers was varied. There was a long-standing gown of the old man, Hong Ming, Hu Shi, who praised westernization, Chen Duxiu, who had a forged resume, and Peking University was inclusive.
After three years, Cai Yuanpei took the lead and approved nine girls to attend the school.
Peking University’s original listening system, paying two yuan a year for students. After Cai Yuanpei came, all fees were cancelled. Later, there were later Ding Ling, Mao Dun and Shen Congwen. Cai Yuanpei also asked Lu Xun to design the Peking University School badge. The two characters of Peking University are like those who bear the burden, which means that “the people of Peking University shoulder the heavy responsibility of opening up the people’s wisdom.”
The Peking University has been continuing for many years.
In 1984, the 57-year-old Ding Shisun was the principal of Peking University. He always wears a whitewashed cloth, rides an old bicycle, and walks through the campus. Someone wants to talk to the principal and stop the bicycle.
He disclosed his phone number to the students. One time the student called and angered the food in the cafeteria. Ding Shisun made a move and let the meal tickets be used in all canteens. Under the pressure of competition, the quality of the canteen gradually increased. Peking University people are proud of this small thing, and eventually those prides are merged into the spring.
In 1988, Li Yanhong, who was a sophomore at Peking University, first read the “Charm of Spirit” published by the school. He never missed a paragraph written by Xie Zhen in the book:
This is really a holy place. For nearly a hundred years, there have been generations of the best scholars of China, Fengbo’s knowledge, brilliant wisdom, solemn and fearless independent thoughts, all of which are related to the integrity of the people. Combined with resistance, it constitutes a unique spiritual charm value. Science and democracy have become the immortal soul of this holy place.
Corresponding to Peking University’s idealism, Tsinghua’s pragmatic spirit also originated from the time of school.
Tsinghua University was born in the United States to return the “Gengzi Indemnity”, the school site was selected in the Tsinghua Park looted by the British and French coalition forces. Tsinghua students witnessed the ruin of the ruins on a daily basis and understood that reading was a gift of national humiliation and naturally gave birth to special ambitions.
In the winter of 1914, Liang Qichao came to Tsinghua University to give a speech on the theme “To the Gentleman”. The definition of the gentleman was finally reduced to two sentences: self-improvement, and morality. The Tsinghua people used these two sentences as school mottos. In 1920, Tsinghua graduates gave their alma mater a sundial, and the inscription on the base was engraved with the words “Well is better than words.” From this moment, it is pragmatic to enter Tsinghua’s annual ring.
In 1931, Mei Yiqi took office as the president of Tsinghua University. At the inauguration ceremony, he bluntly said, “The so-called university people are not the same as the building, but also the masters.”
He is a man who speaks less and speaks more. The professors proposed a school management strategy, and Mei Qiqi usually only has three words: I am in the crowd. There are more and more ignorant gentlemen, and Tsinghua people are paying more and more attention to the rules.
In 1946, three girls applied for Tsinghua University, Liang Zaicing, the daughter of Liang Sicheng, the director of the Tsinghua Department of Architecture, Feng Zhonglan, the daughter of Feng Youlan, the dean of the College of Liberal Arts, and Mei Zufen, the daughter of the president, Mei Yuqi.
Three girls are on the list, no back door to open. In 1947, Tsinghua held its first celebration after the resumption of school. The school has a banquet in the gym, and the faculty members toast to the principal. Mei Yiqi honestly toasted and drank more than 40 cups.
The wine has been poured over for more than 70 years. The silent Tsinghua people from generation to generation may not drink well, but they have their own pride.
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After a hundred years, the two universities lived next to each other. They went to the national disaster and eventually passed through the rising sun of Xishan. They mentioned each other and often called the next door, as Oxford and Cambridge called each other “there”.
Tsinghua people often laugh: There are countless sports confrontations between the two schools. How many times have you won? Peking University people back to ridicule: even running, shouting the number, there is no more boring people than you.
Tsinghua tweeted Peking University, the next door is weak, and there is no use for it; Peking University is sacred to Tsinghua University, no poetry, no wine, no understanding. However, at more times, the young people of the two universities are friends, and they attract each other like magnetic poles.
Every summer night, on the lawn of Peking University Library, young people often sing, but sitting in the center, often Tsinghua guitarists, they are more skilled. They sang in their songs. Peking University has “a beautiful girl, a white-haired gentleman.” Gao Xiaosong, who wrote this lyric, is a Tsinghua native.
In some major historical nodes, the responses of the two schools are always the same.
In March 1993, Peking University pushed down the south wall of more than 600 meters on both sides of the south gate and built a commercial street of 25,000 square meters. The commercial street opened a bookstore called Fengjinsong, which was dubbed the “Second Library of Peking University”. There are many small restaurants on the side of the bookstore. In the small restaurant, the first-time Peking University is drunk and then set off with passion.
The neighboring Tsinghua established the Entrepreneur Association a few years later, and the beginning of the declaration was a series of sentences: