Li Ruiqing was born in a scholarly family and was a scholar in 1894. He was elected Jishi Shu of imperial academy. 1905, Jiangsu alternate road allocation, Jiangning as academic consultant. 1906-1911year as supervisor of liangjiang normal school. After he took office, he improved the level of teachers and recruited famous teachers. Unite colleagues, build large-scale projects and build schools extensively; Reform the educational system, acquire equipment, add subjects, and offer "public subjects" and "classified subjects"; Under the careful leadership of Li Ruiqing, Liangjiang Normal School became the first institution of higher learning in Jiangnan. Outstanding reputation, students' performance is the first in Jiangnan universities. There are many famous teachers, including Liu Yizhi, Liu, Xia Jingguan, Yao Minghui, Lei Heng, and Jiro Matsumoto. And trained many famous scholars and experts, such as biologist Bing Zhi, educator Liao Shicheng, drama historian Chen Zhongfan, art educator Lv Fengzi, master of Chinese painting Zhang Daqian, famous calligrapher Hu Xiaoshi and so on.
Li Ruiqing's school-running philosophy is: "Education is life, school is family, and students are children", and Liangjiang Normal School takes "chewing vegetable roots and doing great things" as its motto.
19 12. Li Ruiqing resigned as supervisor of Liangjiang Normal School. When I left school, I saw some students living in poverty, and their hearts were very painful. Then I sold my horses and chariots and gave the money to poor students, so I remained uncorrupted and drifted away.
Li Ruiqing lived in Shanghai in his later years and died at 1920. Because of his deep affection for Nanjing, disciple Hu Xiaoshi and Mr. Mei 'an's fellow countryman friend Zeng Nong Beard buried his body in Xuemeiling, Niushou Mountain, a suburb of Nanjing, according to his last words. 300 plums were planted next to the tomb, and several rooms were built, named "Yu Meihua Temple". After several wars after the Anti-Japanese War, Li's tomb was very dilapidated, and tombstones were scattered outside. Later, Cheng Jifu, captain of the production team in Jiangning District, found it and picked up the tombstones and incense burners scattered outside. In order to prevent others from taking them away, he carefully placed the tombstone face down.
At the beginning of 2002, Cheng Jifu donated the original monument to the archives of Nanjing University for free. According to the practice of cultural relics maintenance, the original monument has been placed in the cemetery.
At the same time, Academician Chen Hongyuan of Nanjing University proposed to repair Li Ruiqing's tomb. Sun Liuzeng Fu, a professor of Central University, one of the predecessors of Nanjing University and a professor of Chinese Department of Fudan University, also wrote to the media after seeing that the cemetery was very simple, calling on Jiangning District to take the construction as an opportunity to repair Mr. Li Ruiqing's tomb together and reproduce the grand occasion of "spring outing" outside Nanjing. Under the guidance of Nanjing Cultural Relics Bureau and the support of Jiangning District Cultural Bureau, Nanjing University invested in the design and Jiangning District Cultural Bureau organized the construction. Finally, the brand-new tomb of Mr. Li Ruiqing was officially completed and unveiled in April 2002, which made the world express its admiration for Mr. Li Ruiqing and other predecessors for laying and expanding the foundation of the school, and also expressed the firm belief that Nantah people will better inherit the fine traditions and strive to carry them forward under the new historical conditions.
On April 29th, 2002, the dedication ceremony of the tomb of Li Ruiqing, a famous educator and calligrapher in modern China and former president of "Two Rivers Normal School" of Nanjing University, was held in Niushoushan, Jiangning, Nanjing.