1 948165438+129 October, the Northeast Field Army, to which * * * belongs, and the main force of North China Military Region * *110,000 people jointly launched the Peiping-Tianjin Campaign in Beiping, Tianjin and Zhangjiakou, and launched a decisive battle with 600,000 people in the Fufu Department of * * *. 65438+February 65438+February, Beiping City was occupied by * * * and Nanyuan Airport, and the * * * army was exhausted, and Beiping and Tianjin were about to fall. Send a plane to airdrop a letter to the commander of the Peiping-Tianjin garrison to boost morale. At the end of the Shouyu, he said in a tragic and helpless tone: "Stick to aiding Korea, or you will die if you don't succeed. 13, the guns of Beiping West Primary School rumbled, and shrapnel fired by * * * roared over the campus of Tsinghua. The teachers, students and their families in the school were greatly frightened and fled, and Tsinghua fell into chaos. In view of this situation, the school has to announce the suspension of classes, and teachers and students have to find their own way out. & gt At the critical moment when the people of the whole country are tottering and the building is about to collapse, Zhu Jiahua, Hangzhou, Hangzhou and Shanghai are equal. He was ordered to discuss and plan the details of "the plan to rescue famous people in Ping Jin's academic and educational circles" in Nanjing, and soon drew up a list of "rescue personnel". The list includes four categories: > (1) administrative heads of institutions; & gt(2) People who have to leave for political reasons; & gt(3) Academician of Academia Sinica; & gt(4) Those who have made academic contributions and come to South voluntarily. & gt Peking University moved south? & gt Plan and implement it immediately. Nanking sent an urgent telegram to Zheng Tianting, secretary-general of Peking University, asking him to quickly organize such a heavyweight intellectual to go south. When the telegram arrived, he refused to get up on the grounds of preparing for the 50th anniversary of Peking University, and Mei Yiqi, the president of Tsinghua who received the telegram, also dawdled. At that time, there was a rumor in Beiping that Peking University would move south. As the president of Peking University, in order to stabilize the mood of teachers and students, while actively preparing for the celebration, he repeatedly denied rumors: "If Peking University leaves Beiping, he can't be called Peking University, so there is no reason to move." In fact, in the face of the invasion of * * *, Hu also had the idea of moving the university in Beiping to the south and re-establishing Changsha Temporary University or National Southwest Associated University, but it was just an idea. Before detailed planning, the * * * army came like a flood, and the * * * army turned a few somersaults in the explosion of fierce wave that vacated the city wall, becoming a little puss-head, and did not dare to stir up in the city surrounded by high walls, only occasionally. Faced with the chondropathy and unhealthy atmosphere of these turtles, Hu Shi was deeply disappointed, and there was no hope for the school to move south. In this case, He, who is known as the "anchor at sea" in education, is faced with an urgent problem-whether to go or stay? & gt& gt At this time, in view of Hu Shi's great presence in China's political and academic circles, * * * also intensified its efforts to win over and compete. According to * * * high-level instructions, several underground parties and former disciples of Hu Shi have sneaked into Peiping to do Hu's political and ideological work in various ways. Earlier, Wu Han, who had abandoned teaching and left the Tsinghua campus, sneaked into the liberated areas, waiting to be a senior official. He specially assigned his own clique to talk with Hu Shi in secret, and let Hu stay at Peking University. Don't look for it with * * *. & gt Of course, in this conversation, Wu Han's instructions no longer represent "our people" as he declared to the two parties in the past, but "we in China". But Hu Shi didn't listen to his former disciples, and now he is instructed by senior officials, so he replied coldly: "Don't believe that!" I don't believe that your disciple Wu should not dream in the yin and yang world of "between the two sides of the strait, the difference between cattle and horses" Better oil the soles of your shoes early-run away. Finally, Hu Shi clearly told Wu Han three sentences: "In Soviet Russia, there is no freedom without bread; In America, there is both bread and freedom; Here they come, no bread, no freedom. & gt& gt Hu Shi> Wu knew that Mr. Hu had made up his mind, so he gave up his efforts. But * * * top or no matter, so in other ways for psychological offensive. According to Ji Xianlin, then professor of Peking University and director of the Department of Oriental Literature, when * * * surrounded the suburbs of Beiping, he said, "I went to the principal's office to meet Hu Shi and discuss what issues. Suddenly, a man broke in-I forget who it was now. He told Hu Shi that the radio station in the liberated area had a special broadcast for Hu Shi last night, and advised him not to run away with Chiang Kai-shek Group and let him be the president of Peking University and the curator of Beijing Library in the future. All of us here are very interested in this news and want to see Hu Shi's reaction. I saw him after listening, neither excited nor happy, but unusually calm. He just smiled and said, "Do they want me?" He spoke his mind in just five words. It seems that he has a plan to escape with * * *. But it can't be said that he has a deep hatred for * * *. Otherwise, he would never be so calm, he would go on the rampage and swear to show his loyalty to * * * and Chiang Kai-shek. Am I seeking truth from facts in this reasoning? I think so, too. Lao Ji added, "So it is not realistic to say that he is a running dog of American imperialism and that he has been following * * * and Chiang Kai-shek all his life." & gt Chiang Kai-shek personally telegraphed Hu to Nanjing twice > It was not until1948 65438+February 12 that Hu Shi received a secret telegram from Nanjing Education Minister Zhu Jiahua: "Send a special plane to pick you up and Chen's family back to Beijing tomorrow", and Hu Shi had no intention of leaving. When the plane sent by * * * flew over Beiping, Nanyuan Airport had been controlled by * * *, and the plane could not land, so it had to return empty. 14, Chiang Kai-shek personally telegraphed Hu twice to Nanjing and sent a special plane to meet him. Hu got the news and decided to fly south. Before he left, he sent someone to persuade Chen Yuan, a famous historian like Chen Yinque, the president and friend of Fu Jen Catholic University, to fly to Beijing, but Chen Yuan refused. To Hu Shi's surprise, not only did Chen Yuan, an old friend, not follow him, but even his youngest son, Hu Sidu, said that he would temporarily live in a relative's house and would not go south with his parents. This refusal surprised the Hu Shi couple and made them angry. They didn't know what to do. & gt 194 1 year, Hu Sidu defected to Hu Shi, an ambassador in the United States, and returned to China in the summer of 1948. On August 30th, he reported to Beiping Library and became an employee of Beitu. According to Deng Guangming, anonymous secretary of Hu Shi's office, "Hu Sidu didn't want to fly with Hu Shinan at that time. He has just returned to Peiping from the United States, and he is not familiar with China in recent years. He said: I didn't do anything harmful. They won't do anything to me. As a result, Hu Shi and his wife left him behind. "Because of the emergency, Hu Shi can't and can't do the rebellious son's political and ideological work in a short time. Seeing that Hu Sidu was full of youthful and ignorant rebellious breath, Hu Shi and his wife felt helpless and had to suppress their anger. According to the old saying, it's going to rain, either the mother gets married or the son stays at home-whatever it is. Hu Shi told his son not to go out to eat, drink, go whoring and gamble all day, do nothing but work, and then left. Not long after, Hu Shi drove to Deng Guangming's house, eagerly asking if Chen Yinque could be found, and said that Nanjing called yesterday and said that a special plane was sent to Nanyuan Airport today to "rescue" famous professors such as Hu and Chen Yinque. Hu called Tsinghua to inquire about Chen's situation and told him that he had returned to the city, but he didn't know where to stay and asked Deng Guangming to find a way. & gt Chen Yinque is blind >1At the end of 943, Chen Yinque bid farewell to Fu Sinian's invitation and went to teach in yenching university, Chengdu, bypassing Nanxi Lizhuang with his family from Chongqing. After arriving at the school, I lived with Fang Guili's family who had been transferred from Shiyu College to Yanda University earlier, and lived in a rented house in the school. Life is hard. At that time, Chen Yinque was extremely weak and blind in his right eye. After class, he went home, still preparing lessons nervously, and studied academics with his only left eye in the dim light. 1in the spring of 944, Chen Yinque's class place was changed to the College of Literature of West China University, and the family moved to Huaxi Guangyi Dormitory, and their living conditions improved slightly. As prices are still soaring, the Chen family's daily necessities are not good, and his wife often suffers from heart disease, which can be described as both hunger and illness. In this case, Chen wears a robe and carries a schoolbag to class every week. Due to poverty and malnutrition, Chen's retinal detachment in his left eye deteriorated and eventually he became blind. 165438+ On123 this year, Chen Yinque wrote in a letter to Fu Sinian and Li Ji: "My brother's eyes suddenly dimmed on 10, and he was afraid that the omentum would fall off, so he became a waste. After examination, there is sediment in eyeball water, and surgery and drugs are ineffective. The reasons are lack of nutrition and insufficient blood transfusion (or other reasons are incomprehensible) >; > Chen Yinque > Regarding the process of Chen Yinque's blindness, Chen Yinque's daughter implored and recalled: "One morning, my father suddenly found that his eyes were dark and his eyes were blind. Let me inform him that he can't attend class that day, and then go to Cunren Hospital. Xiao Peng's Note: "My father was operated by an ophthalmologist in Cunyan Hospital. According to my father, the operation in Chengdu is not ideal, and the retina is wrinkled together. Although I have been treated in England in the future, I can't be even anymore. 1February, 945, Chen Yinque wrote "I hate books for a long time" to express my resentment and sadness. Poetry: > wasting time. I am right or wrong, sighing that Changhong wants to violate it. & gt Writing is ashamed of being willing to destroy, and his wife and children are unwilling to be hungry and cold. & gt There is a sea full of empty promises in the west, and a secluded valley in the north. & gt My late husband stayed in Beiping temporarily, waiting to be buried in the West Lake. & gt I hated it for eight years, and there was blood on Cai Weiwei's clothes. The phrase "drifting west to the sea and making empty promises" in>'s poem means that I tried to give lectures in England several times, but failed. This wish was not realized until after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. & gt/kloc-in the autumn of 0/945, the Royal Society and Oxford University once again invited Chen Yinque, who was blind, to go to London for treatment by a British doctor, hoping to stay in Oxford to give lectures after being cured. Chen accepted the invitation to start from Chengdu, pass through Kunming, transfer to India, take a seaplane to England, and enter the hospital arranged by the other party for treatment, but the operation failed in the end. On February 1946, Mrs. Chen wrote to ask for help and talked about things. She said in the letter: "Yin Ke intended to go to the United States with Guo Zijie's brother to see if there were any other ways to compensate for the blur of his left eye, but he was afraid that he didn't have enough money with him. This matter is in doubt. Please talk to Mr. Xian and Mr. Wu Li. " He added: "The manuscript of Bai Yuan's poems has been copied, and it can be printed when Yin Ke comes back to edit it. Can this copying fee be paid from the Institute of History and Language? What is the history of about 30 thousand languages (not counting in detail) Do you have any plans? The universities in Chengdu have all closed down, and the appointment of professors depends on the letters of appointment from Peiping and the university, and the candidates can only talk about peace. Beiping has written to La Yin Ke many times (Harvard Institute is only a research institution), but Yin Ke has not yet replied. What do you think, sir? I hope I can send a letter directly to Britain to help it think about it. & gt After receiving the letter, Fu Sinian, who traveled between Chongqing and Kunming to deal with The National SouthWest Associated University, made an effort to answer it. However, from the later situation, it seems that fund-raising has not achieved much. Chen Yinque, who was treated in London, was first treated by the famous ophthalmologist Sir Steward Duke-Elder. After the first operation, she made some progress, but the light absorbed by her eyes was still blurred. The second operation tried to stick on the fallen part and failed. But the situation seems to be much better than when I went abroad. The doctor told me that I don't need any more surgery. Chen Yinque still had the last glimmer of hope, so he asked Professor Xiong Shiyi, who was visiting abroad, to send the diagnosis certificate of a British doctor to Hu Shi, an old friend who is still in the United States, for help. He sent the medical certificate to Columbia Eye Institute for consultation, but the other party told him that there was no good way to operate it. Hu Shi was "very sad" and had to entrust a thousand dollars to all Chinese students who were visiting the United States to show their concern. 1946 April 16, Hu Shi wrote in his diary: "Yin Ke's inheritance is very thick, his reading is very fine, and his skills are very fine. He is an important town in the field of history in China, and losing his eyes is really a great loss for the academic community. & gt According to Xiao Peng, Chen Yinque's nutrition was poor after he arrived in England because of the end of World War II. Although electroacupuncture was applied to his retina, it could not be recovered because the retina was wrinkled together. " Since then, Chen Yinque has been completely blind, and a generation of historians will spend the rest of their lives in darkness. This is a great pity. To this end, Chen wrote the sentences of "being angry all his life, achieving today" and "being desolate for the rest of his life", expressing his pessimistic mentality. & gt On March 16 of the same year, Tang Qing wrote to Fu Sinian again, saying that Chen Yinque "originally planned to go to the United States, but now because of various inconveniences and insufficient travel expenses, he decided to wait for a boat to find a partner to return home." At the same time, it is mentioned that "Yin Ke has four boxes of books, which will be demobilized with the Institute of History and Linguistics and sent to Nanjing. I can take a ride to Chongqing from fifty factories in advance, but I don't know who I can give it to. At the discretion of Mr. Qi, designate a place where someone can contact and keep it for him. " Finally, I mentioned: "Yin Kelai said in a book: I declined politely for an important event about Yan, and wanted to go back to Tsinghua or the Institute of History and Language to specialize in books. & gt& gt Blind Chen Yinque > Fu wrote back immediately after receiving the letter. About the bookcase, I wrote to Li Zhuang and asked the librarian of Shiyu College, Na Lianjun, to handle it. At this time, Chen Yinque is on the boat returning to China. For this experience, Tsinghua-era high heel Chen Zeng had such memories: "After studying in the United States, he went to visit Mr. Wang with his brother (the most promising young scholar at that time) in April 1946, and visited Mr. Shi. His eyes were almost blind, and he only looked at people and things, only at the outline. Because the omentum fell off, I went to a famous doctor in England for treatment, and the operation failed. (Mr. Wang was hired as a lecturer by the Chinese Department of Oxford University, but he didn't go to work, but took this opportunity to see a doctor. ) set sail for home and told new york that he had planned to try medical treatment again, but after hearing about the famous American doctor, he had no good plans and decided not to go ashore. At about 3: 30 that afternoon, Mr. Wang first heard the voices of Mrs. Yun Qing and Mr. Ren Yuan calling in the cabin, and he suddenly choked with sadness. But he quickly recovered his composure and talked for nearly an hour. Please inquire about the recent situation of Yiliang and Liansheng in detail. By then, both of them have completed their doctoral studies at Harvard and will soon return to China to teach. ..... This is the only time that Mr. Lian Sheng went abroad to visit Mr. Li, and it is also the last time in his life. Zhao Yuanren's wife Yang Buwei, who went to visit, later recalled: Chen Yinque "slept in the cabin bed and said to me,' Mrs. Zhao, although I can't see you, you still look like that in front of me. "This is the last time (we) met. This scene made Zhao Yuanren and his wife burst into tears. Since then, Chen and Zhao, two mentors of the former Qing * * * College, the directors of the first and second groups of the Institute of History and Language of Academia Sinica, and Taishan Beidou and new york in the field of history and language in China have become eternal songs. This farewell also means that the fate between Chen and Zhao and the college has ended and they parted ways. To this end, Chen Yinque left a poem "Life is meaningless at the end, tears do not dry up" to show his mind. & gt 1946 At the end of May, Chen Yinque returned to Nanjing and lived in the residence of her brother-in-law Yu Dawei. Soon after, his wife Tang Qing came to Beijing from Chengdu with her three daughters, and the family was reunited briefly. At noon on June 12, the Nanjing Ministry of Education made a special trip from Kunming to visit Chen Yinque in Yu Dayou Mansion, and asked Chen to return to Tsinghua to continue teaching after demobilization. Chen said he could consider it. In August, Fu Sinian bid farewell to the demobilized Peking University and flew south. During his stay in Beijing, he made a special trip to visit Chen Yinque and his wife and advised Chen not to return to Tsinghua. While waiting for Shiyu Institute to be demobilized from Lizhuang, he stayed in Nanjing to recuperate and continued to be the team leader and full-time researcher. Everything such as life and housing is arranged by Fu. In the face of Fu's hospitality, Chen Yinque promised to consider it in detail, but she preferred to go back to Peiping and Tsinghua campus. Fu Zhibi still has feelings for her colleagues in Tsinghua campus and Tsinghua. He no longer urged them, but told Chen to think it over, leave immediately and rush. A few days later, Chen Yinque received a letter of appointment from Mei Yiqi and decided to go back to Tsinghua to teach. & gt 1946 10, Chen Yinque settled down his daughter Liu Qiu and Xiao Peng to study in Ning, took his wife and daughter Mei Yan to Shanghai, took a boat to Beiping, returned to Tsinghua campus after nine years' absence, and temporarily stayed at No.52, New Lin Yuan, Tsinghua campus. When the Anti-Japanese War broke out, the workers who left Tianjin also returned to the Chen family, and all aspects of their lives settled down. Like the pre-war courses, Chen is still an associate professor of China and history, and a mentor of the demobilized yenching university Research Institute. Hu Shi, who returned from the United States and served as the president of Peking University, visited Chen Jialai many times and tried his best to help solve the difficulties in life. Because Chen Yinque is blind, both teaching and research need assistants to consult books and materials needed for reading and copy speeches. Therefore, in consultation with Tsinghua University, he asked Zheng Tianting, Secretary-General of Peking University and head of the history department, to help him, and invited Wang Yongxing to help him. Chen Yinque wrote in a special letter to Zheng: > mr. yi: > My brother is in urgent need of a teaching assistant because of his eye disease. Xu Gao Ruan Jun, who was previously employed by Tsinghua University, can only take office in the next semester of this school year. From 1 1 month 1 day, it is planned to temporarily invite Peking University research assistant Wang Yongxing Jun to act as Xu Jun until Xu Jun takes office. I would appreciate it if you could give me an answer. Dedicated to this ode > Zhu Qi > Dear brother Chen Yinque > 35 years1October 30th > Wang Yongxing was originally a student of the Chinese Department of Tsinghua University, but later admired Chen Yinque's moral knowledge and transferred to the history department to become Chen's disciple. After graduation, National The National SouthWest Associated University was admitted to Peking University College of Literature to study Tang Shi with another student, Wang Yong. After graduation, he stayed at Peking University College of Literature to do research. He has a close relationship with his mentor Chen Yinque. Chen invited him to work as a teaching assistant in Tsinghua because of the friendship and tacit understanding between teachers and students established over the years. Zheng Tianting received this letter and submitted it to Hu Shi, president of Peking University for approval. Coming to Chen Yinque's side, Chen's mood gradually changed from anxiety to peace and tranquility. In addition to offering courses such as History of Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties and History of Sui and Tang Dynasties to the History Department at home, I am determined to do a good job in teaching and academic research, continue my unfinished business, and name my study "The Room of All Cleanliness". The so-called "invisibility", on the surface, refers to blindness (according to Wang Yongxing, Chen Yinque can still distinguish the general outline of people in front of him and see a shadow in some things), which is actually meaningful. & gt Although Chen Yinque adopted an attitude of "out of sight, out of mind" on politics and party struggles, it is impossible for him to live in a vacuum. When the civil war in China intensified, Chen was deeply worried about the future of China. By the end of 1948, guns were rumbling in the suburbs of Beiping, and the Tsinghua campus became a * * * world. The two parties in China are about to make a complete comeback in the ancient capital of Beiping. Chen Yinque and his family left the Tsinghua campus and moved to the city to escape. During the war, Chen Mei thought that at the last moment of flying south, Hu Shi thought of him. Hu believes that people like Chen Yuan can be abandoned, but a historical master like Chen Yinque, who has the integrity and character of a free intellectual and has been watched for 300 years, must be pulled anyway, and he must never be left in Peiping, which is about to fall into the hands of * * *. So eager to spark, I drove to Deng Guangming's house to ask about Chen's whereabouts. & gt& gt Because of political relations, Deng will go. After hearing this, he immediately replied that he might find it, probably at his sister-in-law's house. After seeing Hu Shi off, Deng Guangming rushed to the home of Yu Dayou (Yu Dayou's sister), a professor of western languages in Peking University, to inquire about the residence of Mrs. Chen Yinque, Chen Shiceng's widow, in the city. Upon inquiry, Deng Guangming found the Chen Yinque family in her sister-in-law's house. Deng relayed Hu Shi's entrustment to Chen and asked him if he would like to fly from Pingnan with Hu Shi. Chen Yinque answered quite simply, "go. A few days ago, Chen Xue Ping Zeng came to meet me by special plane. He's a bureaucrat. He's on a plane. I will never go with him! I am very comfortable with Mr. Hu now. & gt Chen Yinque has always had the habit of taking a lunch break. After making up his mind, he ordered Deng Guangming to go to Hu Zhai first. After a short lunch break, he hired a car to meet Hu Zhai in Dongchang Hutong. When Deng arrived, Hu Shi's plane had arrived at Nanyuan Airport, and time was pressing. Deng hurried back and advised Chen not to take a nap as usual. Deng was about to go out when Chen Yinque and his two daughters came to beg for help and came with their luggage (Southern News: begging for help has been transferred from Nanjing to Beiping). Hu Shi and his family immediately took simple luggage and flew to Nanyuan Airport by Hu Shi's car. When the bus arrives at Xuanwu Gate, the gate is closed and the gatekeeper is not allowed to travel. Hu Shi had to contact Fu, commander-in-chief of Beiping garrison, by telephone, but he was too busy negotiating with representatives of * * * to get in touch at all. There was a war outside Beiping, which caused the special plane sent by Nanjing to Beiping to fail to land. For the chaotic situation of this day, the reporter of Shenbao in Pingping sent back a set of telegrams that day: > The * * * army on the periphery of Beiping has completed centralized deployment and strengthened the defense of the city wall. At 4 o'clock in the afternoon, a fire broke out in some areas in the western suburbs. By 4: 30 pm, when the power was generated, there was fierce fighting in the suburbs outside Guang 'anmen. The new city was involved in the whirlpool of war yesterday afternoon, and there was a fierce battle in the princess grave outside Fuxingmen today. Pingjun gathered, the shops along the street in Xicheng were crowded with troops, and the streets were also crowded with troops. Officials say that the situation can be reversed after the concentration of troops of the * * * army is completed. Another telegram: "The sky was quiet this morning, and a military plane flew by in the afternoon. Officially, Wang Shuming flew flat today. At the beginning of the afternoon, a small group of bombers flew northwest through the city. At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, two civil aviation planes flew into the urban air and circled for a long time. The pilots suspected of landing at the Dongdan training ground in the city failed, but they flew back. & gt Faced with the chaotic and dangerous situation that the plane can't land and the city gate won't open, Hu and Chen had to take a bus back to Dongchang Hutong to stay temporarily and wait for the next morning. That night, Deng Guangming went to Dongchang Hutong to say goodbye to Chen Yinque. Chen said the following words to Deng meaningfully: "In fact, Mr. Hu had to leave because of political relations;" I would never have left. But I heard that everyone in the * * * ruling area eats millet, and I can't stand eating millet. Besides, I am too ill to leave America to practice medicine. So I have to go, too. "> I don't forget Peking University > On June 5438+05, the war spread in the suburbs, and the gunfire became more chaotic and urgent. Tsinghua campus has become a * * * world. Chiang Kai-shek personally ordered the plane to be sent to Beiping, and Hu and Chen rushed to the hall to wait. Fu, the commander of the guarding city, ordered the troops outside the city to organize troops to attack Nanyuan Airport and retake the airport at all costs to complete the plan to rescue the scholar. After two bloody rounds, * * * retreated, and the * * * army temporarily regained control of the airport. In the afternoon, the plane sent by Nanjing made an emergency landing at Nanyuan Airport under the gunfire of * * * *, and Fu ordered people to inform Hu Shi and others to board the plane immediately. So, Hu and Chen immediately moved from the front of the museum to the seat of Commander-in-Chief Fu and drove to Nanyuan Airport. Famous professors from Peking University, Tsinghua, Qian Siliang, Jin Ao and others arrived at the airport one after another. Due to time constraints, most of the professors rescued from Nanfei had nothing in their hands except a few pieces of luggage. Hu Shi's haste made him leave a lot of precious materials such as correspondence and diaries with friends and disciples for decades at his home in Dongchang Hutong, downtown. Seventeen or eighteen years later, some of these letters turned out to be important evidence that Wu Han, a student he helped train in his early years, "took refuge in imperialist foreign slaves, comprador and lackeys". When Hu Shi left, he left a note for Zheng Tianting and Tang Yongtong, secretary general of Peking University: > I left unprepared. Everything must be maintained by your colleagues. Although I am far away, I will never forget Peking University. & gt This is Hu Shi's final farewell to Peking University, for which he has devoted half his life. He never returned to this ancient city that troubled him. In this day's diary, Hu Shi wrote: > At eleven o'clock last night, General Fu Yisheng called himself and said that the President had a phone call and asked me to fly to the south. The plane will arrive at eight o'clock this morning. I told him on the phone that I was sorry I couldn't stay in Peiping with him, and he understood. & gt We arrived at Qin Zheng Hall at eight o'clock this morning, but the headquarters advised us to wait for news. We didn't leave until two o'clock in the afternoon and arrived at Nanyuan Airport after three o'clock. There are two planes carrying 25 people. Our plane flies directly to Nanjing and arrives at 6: 30 pm. Many friends came to meet us. & gt's son, Situ, stayed in Beiping and had no peers. & gt Hu Shi's expedition to the south left many unsolved cases for people at that time and later generations, one of which was why his youngest son, Hu Sidu, stayed in Beiping alone. There are only simple records in Hu Shi's diary, and there is no direct evidence to explain other circulated materials, which makes Hu Sidu's suicide a mystery. & gt