Zhou Hexuan walked out of the classroom and bumped into Luo Jialun, the president of Tsinghua University.
Luo Jialun shook hands with a smile and said: "Mr. Zhou, I stood outside and listened to you for half an hour. You spoke really well. I invited the right person this time."
"It turns out that Principal Luo is here to test my teaching level." Zhou Hexuan joked.
Luo Jialun's words are not a compliment. He himself studied history and philosophy, and now he is also the chairman of the History Department of Tsinghua University. At the same time, Luo Jialun has traveled to many countries in Europe and the United States, minoring in literature, education, ethnogeography, anthropology, etc.
Luo Jialun probably understood what Zhou Hexuan just said in class better than those students.
Luo Jialun said with a smile: "Explaining the history of human civilization from a philosophical perspective, Zhou Hexuan's academic insights are breathtaking. It involves so many categories of knowledge that it puts me, a student of history, philosophy and anthropology, to shame."
Zhou Hexuan mentioned casually: "Just now, a student named Wu Jinding said that he discovered prehistoric remains in Shandong and is applying for archaeological excavation funds. I think this activity can be supported, and it may be a big discovery."
Luo Jialun thought for a while and said: "I will seriously consider it."
Historically, Luo Jialun never approved this archaeological funding, and it was delayed for two or three years. In the end, the Academia Sinica and the Shandong Department of Education jointly conducted the archaeological excavation.
That’s Longshan culture!
Through DNA research and comparison, later generations found that the Y chromosome of the ancient residents of the Longshan Culture was completely consistent with the theme of the modern Han people. Judging from the Y chromosome O3 alone, at least 60% to 70% of the Han humans in various parts of China came from the Longshan Culture
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In other words, most modern Han people are actually direct descendants of the ancient Longshan culture, which has not changed for more than 5,000 years.
There are a large number of flower patterns (mainly roses) in the temples and artifacts of the Longshan Culture, which are speculated by archaeologists to be related to the "Hua (Tonghua)" tribe, and are probably the "Hua" in the Chinese civilization. Follow-up
Various archaeological discoveries have shown that Longshan culture is related to the legendary Yao, Shun and Yu eras.
This kind of archaeological excavation that can reveal the origin of Chinese civilization must of course be carried out as early as possible. Many of the ruins in Longshan Town in Zhangqiu are already in the open air. Maybe local farmers brought the ancient black pottery home to make pickles.
Tank. Breaking any one of them is an unacceptable loss.
Zhou Hexuan said: "Principal Luo, I really hope that the ruins can be excavated as soon as possible. Because judging from the description of classmate Wu Jinding, there are probably ancient ruins there, and maybe they are the source of our Chinese civilization."
"Well," Luo Jialun wondered, "Shandong is still in chaos now. Bandits are everywhere and the warlords haven't wiped them out. I'm afraid it may be dangerous to do archeology in the past."
"It doesn't matter," Zhou Hexuan said, "I can help contact the Shandong Provincial Government, and Tsinghua and Shandong will jointly carry out the excavation. What do you think?"
Luo Jialun had a headache. He couldn't understand why Zhou Hexuan cared so much about archeology, so he said perfunctorily: "I'll think about it again."
"What's there to think about?" Zhou Hexuan pretended to be angry, "If Principal Luo doesn't agree, then I won't be a professor anymore."
Luo Jialun sweated furiously. Anyway, the Tsinghua thieves were rich and they were not short of those. He thought for a while and finally nodded and said: "Okay, I will allocate 3,000 yuan in archaeological funds first. If there are major discoveries, I will make additional funds at that time."
"Then it's settled!" Zhou Hexuan became happy.
If you have time during your stay, Zhou Hexuan can also go to the archaeological site and witness the excavation of the Longshan ruins with your own eyes. Thinking about it makes you a little excited.
Without any further delay, Zhou Hexuan immediately dragged Luo Jialun to Li Ji and said, "Professor Li, Principal Luo promised to allocate funds to excavate the ruins of Longshan Town in Zhangqiu!"
"Really, that's great." Li Ji was quite happy.
Of course, Li Ji had no idea at this time what a great archaeological discovery would be waiting for him.
When Zhou Hexuan came to Tsinghua for the first time, he met Liang Qichao, Wang Guowei, Chen Yanke and other masters. Unfortunately, Li Ji was doing field archeology at that time and never had the opportunity to meet him. Naturally, if he met him today, he would have a good chat.
In the evening, Wang Guowei, Chen Yinke, and Zhao Yuanren were called, and they all went to a restaurant to drink together.
Because of Zhou Hexuan's reminder, Wang Guowei's eldest son did not die of illness, and he did not fall out with his in-law Luo Zhenyu because of this. Naturally, he would not commit suicide by diving out of his mind, and he is still alive and well.
At the wine table, Wang Guowei sighed: "I still remember that back then, all my colleagues from the Institute of Chinese Studies gathered together to have a drink, but now they have gone their separate ways. Things in the world are fickle and unpredictable."
The once glorious Institute of Chinese Studies at Tsinghua University actually stopped recruiting students last year and barely managed to recruit only a few students this year.
As for the masters at the Institute of Chinese Studies, Liang Qichao resigned due to illness and lived in the Tianjin Concession for a long time; Liang Suming became the principal of Guangdong Middle School; Wu Mi was even more interesting, he stopped teaching and became the editor-in-chief of Zhou Hexuan's "Popular" supplement.
When Zhou Hexuan went south a while ago, he suffered from the fact that there was no one to manage the supplement of "Popular". Shen Congwen was talented but lacked management skills. He asked Hu Zhengzhi to help find someone to be the editor-in-chief. Who would have thought that he actually hired Wu Mi, the founder of the Tsinghua Institute of Chinese Studies?
coming.
The main reason why Wu Mi was willing to accept the appointment of the supplement of "Popular" was because he was unsuccessful in Tsinghua. The scale of the Institute of Chinese Studies that he had worked so hard to establish was shrinking again and again, and the professors went their separate ways. He felt uncomfortable staying at Tsinghua, so he simply resigned and left.
never mind.
Zhao Yuanren was also fussing at the wine table: "Our new Principal Luo is really awesome. It is stipulated that morning exercises should be held at 6:30 every morning. Students must get up at least 6 o'clock, and there are also other outdoor military activities on weekends.
Training. Several of my most popular disciples don’t even have time to go with me to collect information on weekends, so what kind of academic research are they doing? They might as well all become soldiers!"
"Haha," Li Ji smiled bitterly in sympathy, "I'm not the same. Military training takes up a lot of time, and the students can't even complete the homework I assigned."
Wang Guowei consoled him: "Be content, at least he didn't ask the teachers to recite the Three People's Principles."
As soon as this statement came out, everyone couldn't help laughing.
Luo Jialun was really disgraced. He forcefully added courses on the Three People's Principles to every student, which aroused strong resentment among teachers and students.
Well, this is the Republic of China version of ideological and political courses.
Although Feng Yong University also has military-style teaching, it is actually much more relaxed than Tsinghua University. At least there are no regulations on when to eat and sleep.
After finishing the meal, several masters took turns to complain about Luo Jialun.
Zhou Hexuan learned from them that Luo Jialun had already dismissed more than 20 faculty members in less than a week after taking office, equivalent to one-fifth of the entire Tsinghua faculty.
Although this is unkind, Zhou Hexuan admires Luo Jialun very much. His drastic reform spirit is commendable. Moreover, his reforms are reasonable and well-founded, eliminating a large number of redundant and insufficient teachers, and then recruiting outstanding talents.
professors, which will be of great benefit to the future development of Tsinghua University.
Compared with Luo Jialun's Tsinghua education reform, Li Shizeng's education reform is like child's play, which makes people laugh just thinking about it.