Yujiashan was baptized by the cultural storm. When Huazhong University of Science and Technology was South China University of Technology (Huazhong University of Science and Technology), some students once compared the campus with a crosswalk to a piece of square paper. After more than 20 years, the reporter walked into the shady university of China University of Science and Technology from Huazhong University of Science and Technology. It's like walking into a neat metrical poem, because the street trees on campus not only add rings, but also witness a "cultural storm" that lasted for nearly 20 years. On February 16, the interview was for nothing but to find the source of this humanistic storm-Yang Shuzi, an academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences who "paid for poetry but never dreamed of becoming famous". Principal for four and a half years, 14 years, director of the academic committee of the school, and Yang Shuzi worked in the third floor of Jianjian South 18 and a half years. Last year, I stopped being the director of the academic Committee of the school and moved my office to a brand-new mechanical building. The academician, who is nearly 80 years old, personally made tea for reporters and made them feel like a spring breeze. "You see, my office space has doubled. It used to be only about 20 square meters. Now, the secretary and the principal are still on the third floor of the south, and the office is still about 20 square meters. They use the secretarial office, which is also about 20 square meters. They worked hard, worked together and set a good example in the whole school. " This year marks the 60th anniversary of the founding of the University of Science and Technology of China. The academician told reporters that he was planning to write a poem for Yujiashan, the South Third Floor, the campus forest and the campus youth park, and he also conceived to write his first poem with tens of thousands of osmanthus flowers on campus. Yang Shuzi's poetic talent was "discovered" at 199 1 when he was elected as an academician of China Academy of Sciences at the age of 58, thus achieving a "zero breakthrough" for an academician of South China University of Technology. At the celebration, he recited his favorite seven-rhyme poem: Tears of joy * * * communication, but he meditated for 38 autumn nights. Planting big trees and exploring high-rise buildings everywhere; Dare to admire the book history with lofty aspirations and make the flowers regret it? ! Drinking water should know the distance from the source, and the journey begins with a leap. In fact, Yang Shuzi's first poem "Looking at the Rain" was written at the age of 65,438+03: thousands of lines hung in the air, and it was rainy and boundless. Surrounded by green mountains and clouds, pedestrians are extinct and birds are gone. Since then, his poems have continuously recorded unforgettable moments in his life: he joined the League in Nanchang No.1 Middle School from 65438 to 0950. 1952 was admitted to the mechanical department of Wuhan university, and the department was adjusted to the newly established Huazhong institute of technology the following year. /kloc-0 joined China * * * in February, 1956, and became an outstanding graduate of the school who stayed in advance to teach in April of the same year; 1980 10 was promoted to one of the youngest professors in Wuhan ... why does an academician with engineering background advocate "poetry first" humanistic education? Academician said that this is related to his childhood experience. 1933, Yang Shuzi was born in Hukou, Jiangxi, which is the mouth of Poyang Lake, and Shi Zhongshan stood on the shore of the lake. His father, Yang Gengsheng, is a patriotic celebrity with a deep family background and one of the earliest members of Jiangxi League. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Yang Shuzi was under five years old and fled with his family. His father told him seriously, "We are from China and will never be a conquered nation. If the devils catch up with us, our family will throw themselves into the river. " On the flight, his father dictated 300 Tang Poems to him, the first of which was Li Bai's Thoughts on a Quiet Night. Father said, "Son, when you see the moon, you must think of the mouth of Shi Zhongshan, the Japanese occupation of your hometown and national humiliation." In primary school, Yang Shuzi's knowledge of science and technology was poor, especially mathematics became a big problem for him. It was the pre-school "poetry teaching" that made him understand that "teenagers don't work hard, they are sad when they are old" and "don't wait, teenagers are sad for nothing". Soon, he developed mathematics into a strong point. The poetic soul of cultural heritage is the soul of China. 1In June, 1993, Yang Shuzi became the president of South China University of Technology. He said that the school has strong unity and knows how to educate. "Education is educating people, not making tools!" "Since then, this university, which is dominated by science and engineering, has set off one well-known humanistic storm after another: all students, including science and engineering, have to take a China Chinese exam every year, and if they fail, they will not be issued a degree certificate. All undergraduates must get two points in humanities and science every year, otherwise they cannot graduate. By 2007, the school has listed China Chinese as a compulsory course for undergraduates, and those who fail can't graduate. 1997 When he was about to step down as president, Yang Shuzi began to ask his doctoral students to recite the first seven articles of Laozi and The Analects. If they do not choose not to recite, they will not accept the thesis defense. This is still his iron law. " Science and humanities are different and harmonious. Yang Shuzi repeatedly stressed to reporters that "genes will be inherited and culture will be passed on. A nation, without modern science and technology, will fall behind when it hits, and will collapse when it hits; Without national culture, there will be alienation and no self-struggle. "In the humanities and culture, poetry is the diamond in the crown of China national literature", "Do you know whether the soul of poetry is the soul of China" and "Is the soul of China the soul of poetry". At the end of 1990s, with the strong support of Yang Shuzi, the school's Yoga Poetry Club launched the China Poetry Creation Class in HKUST. He often quotes the poems of the great American poet Whitman and warns his students: "The highest proof of a nation is the poems it produces. "In view of the phenomenon that college students should learn to be a normal person in makeup kindergartens, Yang Shuzi also proposed that China's poems should enter primary and secondary schools, kindergartens and thousands of households." There are poems everywhere in Jiangcheng Wuhan. Academicians earnestly hope that children in Wuhan will learn to feel the poetic flavor of their hometown from an early age: go to Guqintai to taste the "mountains and rivers" and know what the world wants; Go to the Yellow Crane Tower to see Jiangbei-Although the general trend of the Yangtze River is to flow eastward into the sea, this section of Wuhan is not a "river of no return", but from south to north. The river flows eastward, with backflow, twists and turns, eddies and sediment, but "the green hills can't cover it, after all, it flows eastward." "There are both outlook on life and history. ,? Campus poetry