Traveling South and Returning North

"Traveling to the South and Returning to the North" (classic three volumes) is divided into three parts: "Crossing to the South", "Returning to the North" and "Farewell". It tells the story of a large number of intellectuals in the last century who braved the artillery fire of the Anti-Japanese War and moved from the Central Plains to the southwest, and then returned to the Central Plains. The entire work spans nearly a century, and the characters involved include most of the masters in the field of humanities in the 20th century, such as Cai Yuanpei, Wang Guowei, Liang Qichao, Mei Yiqi, Chen Yinke, Qian Zhongshu, etc. The work makes a detailed exploration and disclosure of the fate of these intellectual groups, and provides a reasonable and well-founded explanation of various karma, love, and hatred. It makes people feel enlightened and at the same time sighing and sighing. ★"Traveling to the South and Returning to the North." Is the first part of "Crossing to the South and Returning to the North". It describes the lives of Chinese intellectuals and national elites before and after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, as well as the story of their exile in the southwest from enemy-occupied areas. The time begins with the July 7 Marco Polo Bridge Incident in 1937, followed by the fall of Pingjin, and universities such as Peking University, Tsinghua University, and Nankai University moved southward and westward. It started in Changsha, then Kunming, and the years of running schools in Mengzi. It also involves the Institute of History and Philology of the Academia Sinica, Tongji University, and the China Construction Society as they trudged through the flames of the Anti-Japanese War. It prominently describes the life, academic, spirit and sentiments of great intellectuals such as Cai Yuanpei, Hu Shi, Chen Yinke, Fu Sinian, Liang Sicheng, Li Ji, Lin Huiyin, Jin Yuelin, Mei Yiqi, Feng Youlan, etc. The collection is huge, the scale is grand, and the intention is grand. It can be called a group of Chinese intellectuals during the Anti-Japanese War. ★"Going South and Returning to the North. Returning to the North" is the second part of "Going South and Returning to the North". It focuses on describing the academic pursuits, ideological changes and different life experiences of intellectuals who fled to the southwest before and after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. The time span is from the middle and late stages of the Anti-Japanese War to the end of 1948, when the National Government rushed to transport national treasures and "rescue scholars" plans, as well as the election of the first academician of the Academia Sinica. It prominently reproduces the strong will of Dong Zuobin, Joseph Needham, Tong Dizhou, Tao Menghe, Shen Xingren, Liang Siyong, Jiang Menglin, Wen Yiduo, Liu Wendian, Luo Yong, Zheng Tianting, Wu Han and other Chinese and foreign intellectuals who were displaced and indomitable in the difficult years of national peril. It restores the truth about the Southwestern Associated University Chao and Wen Yiduo's assassination cases from different angles, and makes an in-depth and detailed exploration and revelation of the differentiation and evolution of intellectual groups in the tide of the times. ★"The Journey to the South and Return to the North. Farewell" is the third part of "The Journey to the South and Return to the North". It describes the intellectuals who were exiled in the southwest. After returning to their long-lost homeland, they had to bear the pain of leaving due to the outbreak of the war. They looked at each other from afar, and the drastic changes in fate they encountered in the different living and social environments on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. In addition to describing Zhu Jiahua, Hu Shi, Mei Yiqi, Fu Sinian, Li Ji, Dong Zuobin, Shi Zhangru, Jiang Menglin, Ye Gongchao and other masters who moved to Taiwan, it also focuses on describing Liang Sicheng and Liang Sicheng who stayed in the mainland. Yong, Lin Huiyin, Chen Yinke, Wu Jinding, Zeng Zhaoluan, Zeng Zhaoxuan, Chen Mengjia, Mu Dan, Xiang Da, Ye Qisun, Rao Yutai, Wu Mi, Qian Zhongshu and other intellectual groups have different ideal pursuits and love and hatred. While making readers sigh with regret, they can also benefit from "seeking historical knowledge in history".