On 20 12 1 1.2, Tsinghua University Library celebrated its centenary. Yang Zhenning, a 90-year-old Nobel Prize winner in physics, attended the meeting with pleasure. He recalled fondly that whenever friends from other places came to Tsinghua, they always went to see the most exquisite library in China.

This is the old library that Tsinghua people is proud of. Completed for the first time in March 2009 1965438+. 1928, after Tsinghua University was changed to National Tsinghua University, the collection increased year by year. 193 1 year 1 1 month, the expansion of the building was completed, adding two buildings, the middle and the west, and integrating with the east. The library area has increased to 7,700 square meters, with 300,000 books and more than 700 reading seats. Soon after, Professor Zhu Ziqing became the chairman of the Library Committee.

Although it was greatly impacted during the period of "War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression", after the school was restored, the library also got rapid recovery and development. 1952 During the adjustment of departments, in addition to retaining precious ancient books and a number of precious cultural relics such as Oracle Bone Inscriptions and bronzes, we began to focus on collecting engineering books and progressive literary works. The collection of 1966 has reached over1350,000 volumes.

Spacious and bright hall, deep and quiet stacks, imitating the new fire prevention methods in Europe and America, thick frosted glass transparent floor on the ground, and the architectural style is still fashionable and avant-garde.

In 1930s, Bubble Library was dubbed as "mining" by Tsinghua students. Before opening the door every day, there are always many eager young people waiting in line, ready to rush into the library to explore this treasure house full of knowledge.

Among them, Qian Zhongshu, a wizard who has made the ambition of "sweeping the Tsinghua Library" since the day he entered school, is a master who integrates Chinese and Western cultures and runs through ancient and modern times. Mr. Jiang Yang, his wife who met and fell in love with him in Tsinghua campus, once said: "I study in many schools, and Tsinghua is my favorite; In Tsinghua, I love Tsinghua Library best. "

This is a long table on the northeast side of the lobby of the western language reading room. It was on this ordinary long table that Cao Yu, who was still studying at his desk in 1933, wrote the immortal Thunderstorm in the history of modern drama in China.

Walking on the circular staircase on the east side of the old museum is like walking in the long corridor of history. Now it is the research center of unearthed documents in Tsinghua University, where a number of precious bamboo slips dating back two thousand years are preserved. Lines of quaint words are silently telling the distant and mysterious source of Chinese civilization.

After several storms and a hundred years of change, what remains unchanged is the rigor and diligence of Tsinghua students.

It stands here quietly and will always be the home of Tsinghua people spirit.