Guo Songtao was a scholar in the late Qing Dynasty and the first ambassador of China to Britain and France in modern times. He actively advocated learning the western political and legal system, and was praised as the pioneer of "the first person in the world with his eyes open" by today's academic circles. However, he was also criticized by the conservatives of the present dynasty.
Speaking of Guo Songtao, Guo Daohui still admires his persistence in truth, moral integrity and uncompromising in the face of criticism. "My later experience was a bit like Guo Songtao." He said thoughtfully.
Guo Songtao objected that Guo's children were "accustomed to poetry without real words" and thought that only "pragmatism" was the first priority. Therefore, from the generation of Guo Daohui's father, Guo Dechang, most of his descendants were from engineering.
Guo Detui is a famous chemistry teacher in Hunan education. Guo Daohui recalled that at that time, the food and clothing of seven children in the family depended entirely on his meager salary, and all the brothers and sisters relied on work-study programs or scholarships for further study.
Influenced by family education, Guo Daohui's integrity and Geng Jie's character, sense of justice, independent thinking and the spirit of pursuing truth were cultivated.
/kloc-in the summer of 0/944, Guo Daohui and his younger brother fled to Guangxi with their families. In order not to interrupt their studies, but also to "find a place to eat", they were both admitted to Guilin National Hanmin Middle School.
1in the autumn of 944, Guo Daohui had just studied in Hanzhong for a month, and the Japanese invaders advanced and Guilin was evacuated. Guo Daohui's parents and sister rushed to Guiyang by train, suffering from panic and illness along the way. He and his younger brother followed the school to Guangxi for a hundred years.
At that time, Guilin station was crowded and chaotic. The car is full of people, up and down, left and right, three floors inside and two floors outside (on the roof, between the wheels and the bottom of the car). Guo Daohui and his brother found a place on the roof and sat on the luggage. In order to prevent them from dozing off at night, when they get off the train, they put "tiger balm" around their eyes to refresh themselves, and sang in their mouths: "Where to exile, where to escape ..."
Not far away, Guo Daohui, a young man, not only exercised his life, but also made him see the sufferings of the common people and the corruption of the Kuomintang government, and he was greatly honed ideologically. From then on, he was determined to "save the people from fire and water".
"My thoughts changed at that time, hoping to see a free and democratic new China." Guo Daohui recalled that he was the editor-in-chief of the wall newspaper in middle school, criticizing the current situation and exposing the ugliness of the old society. Won the championship in the school wall newspaper competition and won the banner of "sweeping the army with one pen" /kloc-at the age of 0/7, he began to write essays and political essays for newspapers with "Dou Fei" (homophonic with "Dao Hui"). Participated in planning 1947 anti-civil war and anti-hunger parade in Hunan No.1 middle school with my younger brother.
Because Guo Jiachong is still "practical learning", that is, the family motto of applying what he has learned, although he likes and is good at writing since he was a child, he still insists on studying science and engineering, and was admitted to the Department of Electrical Engineering in Tsinghua University to realize his ambition of "saving the country through industry". 1947 After being admitted to Tsinghua University in the summer, Guo Daohui worked hard and didn't dare to neglect it. In class, he always likes to sit in the front row and listen carefully.
Before liberation, Tsinghua University implemented "liberal education" with equal emphasis on arts and sciences. Guo Daohui remembered a passage in the works of Liang Sicheng, a professor of architecture-he only knows science and engineering, but not humanities, so he can only be regarded as "half man" and should "oppose the half man world". Here, Guo Daohui strives to lay a solid foundation for his "learning" and "being a man". However, after entering Tsinghua, a university with a strong atmosphere of democracy and freedom, Guo Daohui began another life journey.
As soon as he arrived in Tsinghua, Guo Daohui took an active part in the student movement and participated in every parade and assembly. He joined the Tsinghua people, a progressive wall newspaper led by the * * * production party, published a paper on awakening, and co-edited the mimeographed newspaper Lu Xiao with Hunan students, which was intended to moisten the flowers before the grass, but after the sun came out (meaning liberation), he completed the historical task and disappeared on his own.
"The fantasy of saving the country by industry seemed impossible in that stormy era of revolution, and only revolution could save the country", and Guo Daohui's thought gradually changed. At the same time, Guo Daohui's class seat moved back step by step, and finally he hid in a corner, listening to the teacher's lecture as if listening, while peeking at Engels' Theory of Anti-Turin, Lenin's Two Strategies in the Bourgeois Democratic Revolution and Mao Zedong's Theory of China Revolution and China's * * * Production Party and New Democracy.
From 65438 to 0948, Guo Daohui successively joined the New Democratic Youth League and the underground party organization in China, and served as one of the leaders of the Party organization of the Department of Electrical Engineering and the branch secretary of the New Youth Federation. After liberation, he served as the first member of the Party branch of Tsinghua University Institute of Technology and deputy secretary of the Party branch of the Department of Electrical Engineering.
In the anti-rightist movement of 1957, Guo Daohui, then member of the Standing Committee of Tsinghua University Party Committee, Minister of Propaganda Department and editor-in-chief of the school newspaper, was included in another book because he insisted on resisting "conspiracy" and opposing "anti-rightism" and became an "untouchable".
This grievance lasted until 1979. Half a century later, Guo Daohui ushered in a new turning point in life and the second vigorous spring of its career. Halfway through the "exercise"
1April, 979, the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) Law Committee was just established, lacking cadres. Wang Hanbin, then the director of the office, asked Guo Daohui for work many times.
At first, Guo Daohui was "not interested" in studying law at the age of 300.
Finally, Guo Daohui couldn't stand repeated persuasion and personally felt the pain caused by China's undemocratic and incorrigible, so he made up his mind to give it a try and "see how the state machine works."
"He can drill a line just by turning a line." Guo Daohui's wife Zhang Jingxian commented on him.
Guo Daohui even vowed to recover the youth that has been delayed for 20 years in the coming years and spare no effort to do something really beneficial to the people.
In the Law Committee, Guo Daohui has served as the director of the Theory Group, the director of the Office of State Law and Civil Law, and the deputy director of the Research Office. "At the meeting, I will write down interesting ideas and cases on the card, ponder them carefully and save them later." He said.
Working in the Political and Legal Committee for more than 8 years, Guo Daohui "engaged in official business during the day and wrote and studied at night", day and night. While participating in legislative practice, he paid close attention to and deeply studied some basic theoretical and practical issues related to democracy and the rule of law, and wrote and published two monographs.
1September 1987, Guo Daohui was transferred to china law society as the director of the research department. 1989 After his retirement, he was immediately rehired as the editor-in-chief and editor-in-chief of China Law magazine, and worked for another 9 years. In these 20 years, 7 personal monographs and 10 books edited or co-authored by others are all from Yu Ben. Around the age of 80, he also published two independent works-Jurisprudence and Social Power Essentials and Civil Society.
"I am a brain-loving, hands-on, fidgeting, unwilling to muddle along, worrying about things, and complaining. He still holds some academic posts and work, and continues to do some academic research, trying to' write constantly and manage without disorder'. When you are old, you can still follow the fashion. Writing is no longer' crawling the grid', but' tapping the keyboard' and learning to gallop on the Internet. " Guo Daohui said of himself. There is only one central idea in Guo Daohui's argumentative essay: "The people's interests are the supreme law", and we should try our best to cheer for the people's power and rights. Take "fighting for people's rights, implementing the rule of law for the country and seeking justice for the society" as their unremitting pursuit.
In the early days of reform and opening up, there were many forbidden areas in law. However, during his tenure as editor-in-chief of China Law, Guo Daohui dared to break through the academic forbidden zone with his maverick spirit and launched a series of pragmatic but sensitive discussions.
Therefore, China Law is known as "shouldering the heavy responsibility of guiding the legal research direction of a big eastern country" and "forming its own unique academic style and publishing style".
Professor Li Buyun, a famous jurist, commented on Guo Daohui: "First, his thoughts are full of humanistic care; Second, his thoughts always strive to keep pace with the times; Third, most of his views come from the observation, analysis and generalization of social life and legal practice, and there are few local dogmas and foreign dogmas; Fourth, his opinions are often realistic, and he will never moan without illness; Often targeted, never targeted. "
And dare to tell the truth, dare to tell the simple truth, white-haired Guo Daohui is still a hardcore of the legal profession. "I have such a sense of historical mission and believe that I have been insisting."
His wife, Professor Zhang Jingxian, has been the first reader of Guo Daohui's articles and "gave him a check". Zhang Jingxian's stability and delicacy complement Guo Daohui's liveliness and sharpness.
Guo Daohui said in the preface of "The Spirit of the Times of Law": "When you are old, you will have strength, and you will not seek ambition up and down; The mulberry is not too late, and there is still no silk left in the spring silkworm. " He said that since it is the year of "doing whatever you want", a leopard cannot change its spots, and this ambition will not change.