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Extreme Things:
The most "bold" university will take you to feel the temperament of southern Fujian.
There is such a university, which is both 211 and 985.
In the past 103 years, this university has never changed its name and surname, and a "Xiamen University" is a lifetime.
The president of Xiamen University joked that he had been "scared" since he was a child, but he didn't expect them to be really "bold".
Bold enough to "catch the moon in nine days"——
In only 7 months, the jointly developed "Jiageng-1" rocket was successfully launched; The following year, it sent the "Haisi 1" to space, becoming the world's first C-band light and small SAR satellite.
Figure | Xiamen University official account
Bold enough to "catch turtles in the five oceans"——
The "Jiageng" marine research vessel, which has reached the top level of similar scientific research ships in the world, has successfully launched into the sea and set a number of firsts.
Figure | Jiageng oceanographic research vessel
Bold enough to "shoulder national responsibility" -
49 days of research and development of new coronavirus antibody detection kits, more than 80 countries and regions applied.
Bold enough to "go deep into the development of people's livelihood"——
The first cervical cancer vaccine jointly developed in China has been certified by the WHO PQ, and the counterpart has achieved high-quality poverty alleviation in Longde County, Ningxia, and Zhao'an County, Fujian......
Figure | Screenshot of the announcement on the official website of the World Health Organization
Such a "bold" Xiamen University was born in China and grew up in southern Fujian. Now 103 years old, the elegance has not diminished, and it is better than at the beginning.
Over the past 100 years, it has not only attracted many masters to stop and delivered a large number of talents to all walks of life in China, but also has an inextricable connection with the customs and food of southern Fujian.
Today, Jiwujun will tell you about the stories and delicacies of Xiamen University in those years, and see how this No. 1 university in southern Fujian became a "strong south".
Photo: Siming Campus of Xiamen University
On April 5, 1921, Fujian Province, with a population of more than 10 million, did not have a single university.
And just one day later, China has a university that allows "foreign 10,000-ton ships to see the new atmosphere of China as soon as they approach Xiamen."
Everything started with a patriotic overseas Chinese - Tan Kah Kee.
Figure | Tan Kah Kee
This self-made poor boy who paid off his father's debts was praised in the first half of his life, and he became the first "rubber king" in Nanyang in only 20 years.
In the second half of his life, he was preached for the sake of "scattering his family wealth".
"The people's will is not dead, and the national vein still exists. With a nation of 40,000,000, there is no reason to be willing to live under people."
With the motherland in mind, he bravely stood up when China was facing internal and external troubles. In 1919, it was equivalent to donating all the family property to prepare for the establishment of Xiamen University, just to cultivate good talents to serve the motherland.
Figure 1 | Old photos of Xiamen University's martial arts arena
Figure 2 | Xiamen University martial arts arena
The university was completed in 1921, but the challenges had only just begun.
In the turbulent times, Chen Jiageng's career has been injured several times, but he "would rather Xiamen University than a building". In order to support the expenses of teaching and other expenses, he had to sell his property, including the house that was originally transferred to his son, and even borrowed money from the bank.
From a well-known "rich man" in Nanyang to a debtor living in a dark and narrow room, Chen Jiageng is happy.
Figure | Screenshot of the documentary "Glory of the Nation".
The owner of the school, who once had a million properties, followed the teachers and students of Xiamen to live the days of "eating and drinking, short brown and coarse clothes, and candles and dawning windows at night", and his heart was all about saving the world.
His favorite diet at the time was even just a simple bowl of sweet potato porridge with peanuts.
"I eat gruel and peanut kernels, and I can live, so why worry about it", "If I spend less money, I will save more for my country, accumulate a lot, and use it to study"
In southern Fujian, sweet potatoes and peanuts are very warm foods.
In the poor years, the sweet potato seedlings grown in the barren mountain fields have raised generations of Hokkien people.
Sweet potato wedges are used to boil porridge, so that the warmth and stomach can be properly carried through hunger.
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Sweet potato flour is used to make dumplings, so that the shiny slurry wraps the deliciousness, so that the oysters are fried, and the noodles are slippery; The stir-fried sweet potato leaves are the favorite fresh taste of the Hokkien people in the mountains and seas.
Sweet potatoes are also known as sweet potatoes in southern Fujian, with the same vitality as southern Fujian people, and can be planted in the land of "self-improvement" to the slopes. Until now, it is still the most nostalgic taste of the hometown of the children of Fujian who have returned to their hometown.
And peanuts, which have firmly rooted themselves in the soil, like sweet potatoes, endure the darkness but have a heart for the light.
I spent a lifetime working silently until it turned into the most fragrant taste, which amazed everyone.
Hokkien people are the best at making ordinary and simple food into delicious, peanut soup, peanut stuffed Lantern Festival, and peanut milk have tasted unforgettable.
The seemingly ordinary sweet potatoes and peanuts have raised the most touching feelings of serving the country and loving the country in the difficult era.
The people of southern Fujian have moved from hardship to prosperity by not admitting defeat and sticking to their original intentions. This kind of self-improvement and perseverance has been passed down from generation to generation.
Figure | Statue of Chen Jiageng of Xiamen University
Before his death, Mr. Tan Kah Kee donated all his property to his education, "without leaving a penny to his children and grandchildren, but it has become a wealth of China".
Now, his descendants are also doing their best to inherit this heart, donating bit by bit to support education.
"I can't do it as big as my grandfather, but I will do my best to do my best."
Figure 1 | Old photograph of Xiamen University Library
Figure 2 | Xiamen University Library
Xiamen University, which was deeply influenced by Mr. Chen, has also continued this sentiment to this day:
In difficult times, in order to keep the exiled and poor students from starving, the school squeezed out funds to provide free rice to every student. Just to protect the flame in their hearts for self-improvement.
Nowadays, in addition to free rice, there is also free mineral water and free ginger soup on typhoon days. Xiamen University uses the most affectionate care and the most practical gift to teach students gratitude and responsibility.
As the school motto says, "self-improvement, stop at perfection".
For more than 100 years, this pursuit has not changed. In such a simple and gentle nourishment, Xiamen University has cultivated the soul of self-improvement and perseverance from generation to generation.
Picture from then on tomorrow ©
Located on the coast, southern Fujian has been an open place since ancient times.
The open-mindedness of the sea and rivers has attracted famous scholars and masters such as Cai Yuanpei, Lu Xun, Lin Yutang, and Gu Jiegang to teach in Nandu, and some people even say that "half of Peking University has come to Xiamen".
Figure | Screenshot of the documentary "Glory of the Nation".
Masters with their own strengths have gradually formed the academic context of Xiamen University. Since then, he has both arts and sciences, and is glorious everywhere.
Scholars from all over the world have brought a collision of diverse thinking, and in addition to studying, they have deeply experienced a handful of regional folk customs and indulged in the diverse cuisine of southern Fujian.
Photo: haibiana24 ©
In the Mid-Autumn Festival in 1926, Lu Xun, Gu Jiegang and others were invited by Lin Yutang to taste moon cakes and play with southern Fujian folk customs-Bo cakes.
This kind of small game of throwing dice to compare the size of the dice to win a good fortune and exchange for prizes has its own "sense of tolerance".
No matter where you are from the north and south, you can easily participate in it, and many numbers hide the blessings of Hokkien people, and the guests and hosts are happy.
In addition to festivals, Lin Yutang will also invite friends to eat at home, and his wife is a big family in Gulangyu, the Liao family, especially good at southern Fujian food.
The lo noodles and noodles that are popular in southern Fujian make the fresh fragrance to the extreme. And the crispy soul vinegar meat is made with Yongchun vinegar, which is irresistible.
There are also pancakes in the "Lin Family Recipe", which is also known as Runbi, which is a southern Fujian snack that integrates "tolerance".
The crust made of glutinous rice is light and translucent, and according to personal preference, diced pork, shrimp, winter bamboo shoots, shredded radish, oysters, bean sprouts, etc. are involved. Wrapped in snow white, as soon as you bite down, rich flavors follow one after another, and a mouthful of fresh fragrance envelops thousands.
The abundant ingredients make the pancakes as colorful and wonderful as the diverse southern Fujian.
And another dessert that represents diversity even makes the historian Gu Jiegang never forget it in his dreams.
Four-fruit soup, a delicious summer delicacy that cannot be ignored in southern Fujian snacks. It is made with red beans, mung beans, white fungus and other ingredients, with shaved ice and sugar water.
A spoonful of scooping, all kinds of sweet gathering, so that the heart of the flower is satisfied, cool and greasy.
It is made differently even in southern Fujian.
Quanzhou uses gypsum, and Zhangxia likes to use burnt fairy grass. But the smooth and sweet taste, no one loses to whom, and each has its own characteristics in diversity.
The colorful southern Fujian will be broad-minded and integrated into the food and drink of all kinds of flavors.
In such an environment, the master cultivates inspiration and concentrates on learning. In the end, many talents have been cultivated for Xiamen University.
And this group of open and progressive students of Xiamen University also keep the idea of tolerance in their hearts in a diversified diet.
On the list of the most memorable for students of Xiamen University, the sea and the beach must be among them.
There is no one who does not indulge in the romance of the sea breeze, with the trees behind and the blue expanse in front of them.
A romantic place is destined to attract people who are romantic by nature, and the famous poet Yu Guangzhong is one of them.
He wrote romantic love poems that are still celebrated today:
"Between the moonlight and the snow, you are the third color"
"Don't ask me if I have you in my heart, I have you in my spare light"
And the nostalgia in his pen, a few shallow strokes, wrote the wanderer's longing for his homeland:
"Homesickness is a shallow strait, I am at this end, and the mainland is at that end"
图｜YANG ZHOU©
In 2014, Yu Guangzhong, who had lived in Taiwan for a long time, returned to his alma mater, and when he wrote an inscription for the alumni, he wrote another "nostalgia" about Xiamen University——
"Sixty years later, I still remember the oyster omelette of Xiamen University."
Picture: Xiamen University official account
Oyster omelette is a famous oyster fried in southern Fujian.
Fresh oysters are washed and mixed with slightly sweet potato powder, and the fragrance begins to brew under the crystal. Add garlic sprouts or green onions, mix with egg wash and fry in a pan.
As soon as the oil is hot, the aroma of seafood, powder, eggs and green onions is awakened. As the egg jumps and wraps around each oyster, it eventually becomes a whole "delicious map".
Whoever bites down at this moment, the deliciousness is reproduced on the tip of the tongue. It can also be eaten with sauce, which is another fresh fragrance. No wonder I can't forget it for 60 years.
The oyster pan-fried seems to be a random egg mixture, but in the free flow, waiting for the most delicious oysters and eggs.
Just like the temperament of Xiamen people, it seems to be casual and casual, but in fact, it is persistent and enterprising, free and moderate, and it is inadvertently amazing.
The food of southern Fujian is also like a mirror of water, soil and humanity. When you miss a taste, you miss a place.
In Taiwan, Yu Guangzhong not only misses the food, but also often misses the coastline of Xiamen University:
"In the six months I was in Xiamen, on the way to school by bicycle, there were two or three miles along the seaside, with yellow sand and clear water, and flywheels, which made me enjoy every inch of the journey."
That is, in the free sea breeze and the delicious company of oyster omelette, he continued to study and explore, and eventually became a generation of literary masters.
The scenery and delicious food here also make everyone who comes to study excited.
Some people say that in order to prepare for the college entrance examination, he gave up many joys of life in three years of preparation. After coming to Xiamen University for four years, I not only found the colorfulness of life again, but also understood what romance is.
In the dormitory facing the sea, with the green mountains in the back; Adjacent to the thousand-year-old temple Nanputuo Temple, it has a "five-star" library, where Zen and books are shared.
Walking on the road, the mangoes on the trees are waiting for teachers and students to taste; Walking along the lakeside, the fish of Furong Lake will be on the table of the left-behind students on Chinese New Year's Eve.
Fig. NEC ©
In the laboratory, advanced scientific talents are conducting precise and rigorous tests; The Furong Tunnel belongs to the most wanton depiction of youth, allowing art to sprout freely......
At Xiamen University, live a life. In the sea breeze, the phoenix flowers are in full bloom, welcoming generations of students. In addition to rigorous study, they can also extend their boundaries and cultivate a free and romantic heart.
Many students who come to Xiamen University from Tiannan and Haibei to study at Xiamen University fall in love with it before graduation.
For them, the charm of Xiamen University lies not only in the names of "the strength of the south", "the most beautiful university" and "the most favored university", but also in the temperament rooted in the terroir of southern Fujian.
Figure 2 | Zhang Xiaowang's micro ©
Now when you go to the canteen of Xiamen University, you can still encourage self-improvement in a bowl of sweet potato porridge with the pursuit of Mr. Tan Kah Kee;
In a variety of Hokkien snacks, feel diversity and learn to be tolerant;
In the "Oyster Omelette" course, which can be used for optional credits, you can experience the joy and freedom of hands-on;
Finally, in the vast sea and the fiery red phoenix flowers, the romance of life and the taste of life are restored.
The temperament of Xiamen University is hidden in the scenery and humanities of southern Fujian, which has remained unchanged for a hundred years and has lasted for a long time.
As a Xiamen University graduate said:
"I never regret coming to Xiamen University, the knowledge I learned here gives me confidence, and the life here is my healing. It has given me the optimism, romance and courage to start again every time until I reach my desired destination."
The reason why Xiamen University is "bold" is that it hides the self-improvement, freedom, diversity and romantic temperament of southern Fujian in the scenery, in the diet, and in every minute and every minute of the teacher and student who immerses themselves in research and forges ahead.
After a hundred years of preaching, I finally heard a long echo.