Editor's note: After 70 years of glorious years, Central China has come from the storm and rain. After several changes, it is about to usher in its 70th birthday. We have specially opened the [History of the Central China University of China University of China] column to follow

Editor's note : Through 70 years of glorious years, Zhonghua University has come from the wind and rain, and after several changes, it is about to usher in its 70th birthday. We have specially opened the [History of the Central China University of China University of China] column to follow the school's development trajectory, review the school history stories, and enter the Central China University of China in time.

[History of the Central Chinese University]

In the same boat through storms and woes, the couple has a deep love

A foreign relationship spanning more than 60 years

Qiu Fazu , Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a famous surgeon, born on December 6, 1914 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, and passed away on June 14, 2008. Qiu Fazu is the pioneer of modern general surgery in China, one of the main founders of hepatobiliary surgery and organ transplant surgery, and the pioneer of surgical treatment of advanced schistosomiasis. He is known as the "father of Chinese surgery". From 1981 to 1983, he served as the dean of Wuhan Medical College (the predecessor of Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology), and from 1984, he served as the honorary president of Wuhan Medical College. From 1985 to 2000, he served as the honorary president of Tongji Medical University. From 2000 to 2008, he served as the honorary president of Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology. In 1985, he won the Federal German Medal of Cross Merit, in 1993, was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Department of Biology), in 2000, he won the Chinese Medical Science Award, in 2001, and in 2019, he was awarded the title of "The Most Beautiful Struggler in New China".

Qiu Luoyi (formerly known as Loni K nig), was born in Germany on June 15, 1922, and died on June 19, 2013. In 1958, he was signed and approved by Premier Zhou Enlai and became a Chinese citizen. Qiu Luoyi is proficient in German , proficient in English, and familiar with medical Latin . From 1956 to 1958, he served as a teacher in German at Shanghai Foreign Languages ​​College. Since 1958, he has served as a lecturer in the Foreign Language Teaching and Research Department of Wuhan Medical College. He was promoted to associate professor in 1978 and in 1983.

Qu Fazu and Qiu Luoyi met in 1940, held a secret family wedding in 1942, and a public wedding in 1945. In 1946, Qiu Luoyi came to China with Qiu Fazu and walked through more than 60 years of ups and downs.

Qu Luoyi and Qiu Fazu in their youth

Aspired to be a medical practitioner to help the people

1914, Qiu Fazu was born on the bank of Xizi Lake in Hangzhou. His father was a scholar in the Qing Dynasty . Qiu Fazu studied hard since childhood and was admitted to the Tongji University preparatory medicine at the age of 18, and studied German for two years. In the summer of 1933, Qiu Fazu's mother suddenly had severe pain in her abdomen and swollen belly. The doctors were helpless. After suffering more than 40 days of torture, Qiu Fazu's mother passed away in pain at the age of 62. Qiu Fa's grandmother's condition is a typical appendicitis symptom. This common disease that can be cured quickly in the West has caused her mother to lose her life in old China, which lacks medical treatment. Since then, Qiu Fazu has become more determined to relieve the pain of the people and change the backward medical situation in China. In 1937, Qiu Fazu went to Germany to study and studied at the School of Medicine of the University of Munich. In 1938, he studied under Professor Max Borst. Professor Max Borst is knowledgeable and was awarded the title of "National Policy Advisor" by the German government. In 1939, Qiu Fazu passed the national examination with first-class outstanding results, and the following year, he obtained a doctorate in medicine. In December 1939, Qiu Fazu began to work as a volunteer doctor at Schwabing Hospital in Munich, under the guidance of the famous surgeon Professor H. Bronner. In the summer of 1940, Qiu Fazu was hired as a formal employee and served as Professor H. Bronner's personal assistant.

1937, Qiu Fazu took a photo with his classmates on the eve of studying in Germany

1922, Qiu Luoyi was born in a family of engineers on the banks of the Isha River in Germany, and graduated from high school in 1940. During the World War II period, German high school graduates must serve in the military or work for one year before they can register for college. After graduating from high school, Juroyi worked in Schwabing Hospital in Munich. During this period, Qiu Fazu worked as a resident in the hospital. Qiu Fazu fell in love with the beautiful and elegant Qiu Luoyi at first sight, and his two young hearts gradually moved closer in their common aspirations. During the Nazi period, the German government did not allow Aryans to intermarry with other races, but Qiu Luoyi still bravely chose Qiu Fazu and held a secret family wedding on Christmas 1942.It was not until 1945 after the end of World War II that the two held an open wedding. In the same year, the eldest son, , Qiu Huade, was born.

Photography of Qiu Fazu and Qiu Luoyi in youth

1945, Qiu Fazu obtained the qualification of a German specialist surgeon. After resigning from the wartime branch of the Swabian Hospital in Munich, Tlz, he was hired as the director of surgery from Tlz Municipal Hospital. The Chinese served as the director of surgery, which was unprecedented in Germany at that time. Although his work in Germany was stable and the family lived a comfortable life, Qiu Fazu never forgot his motherland and was a Chinese. Qiu Fazu often said: "I have three mothers, one is the mother who gave birth to me, the other is Tongji who educated me, and the other is the motherland I love." When the motherland was in need, he resolutely chose to return to the embrace of the motherland.

Take your wife and children to serve the motherland

The news of China's victory in the War of Resistance Against Japan reached Germany. Although China suffered from wars and was devastated for many years, Qiu Fazu still firmly wanted to return to the embrace of the motherland. When Qiu Fazu told his wife Qiu Luoyi about her idea of ​​returning to China, Qiu Luoyi said: "China is your motherland. Now she needs you, you should go back. No matter where you go, no matter what China is like now, I will follow you." Qiu Luoyi, with great courage, left her comfortable and familiar environment, left her hometown and relatives, and followed her husband to a country with a language-spreading and completely unfamiliar world - China.

1946, Qiu Fazu and his wife returned to China from Germany with their son

1946, Qiu Fazu and Qiu Luoyi and their eldest son Qiu Huade boarded the ship to their return home. On the return ship, two passengers clashed, one of whom stabbed another passenger and ruptured his liver. At a critical moment, Qiu Fazu successfully rescued the injured passenger. As soon as the ship arrived in Shanghai, several reporters boarded the ship to interview Qiu Fazu's details of rescuing the injured passengers. Qiu Fazu became famous for a time and became a legendary figure. Many hospitals hired him to serve. The then Minister of Education Zhu Jiahua suggested that he return to his alma mater Tongji University. Qiu Fazu listened to Minister Zhu's advice and was hired as a professor of surgery at the School of Medicine of Tongji University.

Shortly after returning to China, his daughter Qiu Huaying and second son Qiu Hualai were also born one after another. Qiu Luoyi silently took care of the family's daily life and fully supported her husband's work.

After Qiu Fazu returned to China and settled down, he devoted himself to the research and practice of medical surgery. Qiu Fazu advocated that "medicine belongs to the public", and he was not only an outstanding medical scientist, but also an outstanding educator. In 1948, Qiu Fazu and his colleagues founded my country's first popular medical journal "Popular Medicine" in Shanghai. Qiu Fazu also organized the compilation of the trial textbook for "Surgery" in higher medical institutions across the country, and developed it into a national planned textbook on this basis. During his 22 years as chairman of the National Professional Textbook Editorial and Review Committee of Higher Medical Colleges, he has presided over the compilation of more than 50 medical textbooks, and also recommended and organized seven-year, eight-year and bilingual medical textbooks, making indelible contributions to the development of my country's medical education.

responded to the call to move inward to Wuhan

1949, at the beginning of liberation, Wuhan had very backward sanitation conditions, very few hospitals, and extremely lack of medical talents. The medical services it can provide are far from adapting to the development of the economy and the medical needs of the people in the central and southern regions. In 1950, the Ministry of Education decided to make a large-scale adjustment of the department nationwide, and planned to move Tongji University School of Medicine and its affiliated Sino-US hospitals to Wuhan as a whole, and select the site at the abandoned Chinese-Shanghai Racecourse in Hankou .

0 Wuhan new site of Tongji University Medical College - Hankou Huashang Racecourse

Most of the teachers at Tongji University Medical College are unwilling to move to Wuhan. When recalling this history, Qiu Fazu wrote: "The news that Tongji Hospital has been moved to Wuhan as a whole has been uproaring, and the whole hospital has been in an uproar. My German wife has become accustomed to life in Shanghai and is unwilling to move to Wuhan, which is very different from Shanghai." At that time, in addition to being a professor of surgery at the School of Medicine of Tongji University, Qiu Fazu also served as the director of the Department of System Surgery of Shanghai Second Military Medical University, director of the Department of Surgery of Shanghai Sixth Hospital, consultant of the Shanghai Health Bureau, and editor-in-chief of "Popular Medicine". Her life in Shanghai was very stable.But he knew very well that Tongji moved to Wuhan inwardly shouldering the important task of laying out the medical and health map of New China, and the transfer of medical supplies alone is not the real relocation of the school. In order to take into account the overall situation, Qiu Fazu left his wife and children in Shanghai and started traveling between Shanghai and Wuhan for four years (1954-1958).

During these days, Qiu Luoyi held up the burden of the family alone and relieved her husband's worries. From 1956 to 1958, Qiu Luoyi also worked as a German teacher at Shanghai Foreign Languages ​​College. She was serious and responsible in her work, loved by students, and was named a model teacher. Qiu Luoyi saw that her husband had a hard time running around, and also considered that the children could not have their fathers around for a long time, so she discussed with Qiu Fazu, giving up the better living environment and living conditions in Shanghai, and moved her family to Wuhan. In the summer of 1958, the family reunited in Wuhan. It was also in this year that Qiu Luoyi took the initiative to become a Chinese citizen, work and live as a Chinese, and according to German customs, he named his husband's surname in front of his name and changed his name to Qiu Luoyi. On September 4, 1958, with the signing and approval of Premier Zhou Enlai, Qiu Luoyi became a Chinese citizen.

Since 1958, Qiu Luoyi has served as a German teacher in the Foreign Language Teaching and Research Department of Wuhan Medical College. She is proficient in German language, literature and medicine knowledge, and has a solid theoretical foundation and practical application ability of German. Whether it is teaching research, writing textbook dictionaries, editing journals, she has shown an extremely high professional level. Qiu Luoyi also attached great importance to the teaching and guidance of young teachers, and enthusiastically helped them prepare lessons, revise speeches, answer questions and answer questions, which received unanimous praise from colleagues.

In May 1966, the Cultural Revolution began. The Cultural Revolution Working Group was stationed in the school and the school was closed. The directors and professors of all departments of the hospital became reactionary academic authorities of bourgeois , and Qiu Fazu was also dismissed from the position of director of surgery. In addition to participating in labor, he was often arranged to write submission materials, and it was not until the late period of the Cultural Revolution that normal work was restored. In the early days of the Cultural Revolution, Qiu Luoyi was arranged to organize books in the library reading hall, and the library was closed and no longer open later. Qiu Luoyi took the initiative to process dressings for the hospital operating room - making gauze blocks, cotton balls, drainage tubes, , and repairing damaged rubber gloves. During that special day, Qiu Luoyi tried every means to build a warm home for Qiu Fazu. Their home is in the dormitory area of ​​the medical school, located in a corner of a three-story building. The two-bedroom and one-living house is not large in size, but it is always full of a happy and joyful atmosphere. It is a fortress of love. Many experts from Wuhan Medical College collapsed during the Cultural Revolution. Qiu Fazu also experienced two criticism meetings and one house search during the Cultural Revolution. He fell into the whirlpool of "fighting, criticizing, and reforming". Recalling the experience of the Cultural Revolution, Qiu Fazu said: "My wife's attitude towards life infected me. Not only did she not leave me, she also taught me to face life optimistically. The harmony of the family and the love between husband and wife have allowed me to overcome all difficulties, relax my spirit, and survived the catastrophe of this decade."

China-German Exchange to enhance friendship

While engaged in teaching, Qiu Fazu and his wife are also committed to restoring, consolidating and developing the traditional friendship between Wuhan Medical College and the German medical community for a long time, and have made outstanding contributions to strengthening Sino-German friendship and the exchanges and cooperation between China and Germany. In 1979, Qiu Fazu led a Chinese organ transplantation inspection team composed of five experts from Wuhan Medical College to visit Germany, and started a long-severe "ice-breaking journey" between Wuhan Medical College and the German medical community. During this period, Qiu Luoyi was visiting relatives in Germany. Qiu Luoyi participated in a series of visits and inspection activities with the delegation and played an important role in it.

1979, Qiu Fazu and his wife visited

During their inspection in Germany, Qiu Fazu and his wife contacted people from the German medical community, introduced the current development status of Wuhan Medical College, and opened up channels for contact with the German medical science community. Wuhan Medical College has successively established cooperative relationships with Heidelberg University, Essen University, Saar State University, Ulm University and Qiu Fazu's alma mater, University of Munich .

1979, the Chinese organ transplantation inspection team went to West Germany for

work report

During the visit to Germany, the mayor of Munich said at the reception banquet: "Madam Qiu, you have made a lot of contributions to the Sino-Germany friendly work. We are willing to restore your German nationality. You can have dual nationality for easy work." But Qiu Luoyi politely refused, and she said: "I am very grateful to the mayor for his care. I live a good life in China and it is very pleasant!" Later, she also maintained Chinese nationality for life.

1982, a friend from Heidelberg University wrote a letter to inform the school of the decision to award the honorary doctorate of Qiu Fazu and affirmed Qiu Luoyi's contribution to the cooperation and exchanges between the two schools in

1984, the Sino-German Medical Association and the German Traditional Chinese Medicine Association were successively established in China and Germany, and Qiu Fazu served as the first chairman of the Sino-German Medical Association. In 1985, German Chancellor Kohl visited the school and shook hands with Qiu Fazu and thanked him for his righteous act of rescuing German civilians during World War II. In the same year, the German government awarded Qiu Fazu the German Medal of Merit, commending his outstanding contributions to promoting the friendship between the peoples of China and Germany and enhancing Sino-German medical exchanges. This is the first time that the German government has awarded a national medal to our scientists.

1985, the Federal Republic of Germany awarded the Grand Cross to Qiu Fazu and Wu Zhongbi

1988 In accordance with the instructions of the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Health, the only German teacher class in Wuhan, the German Training Center of Tongji Medical University of the Ministry of Health, was established at Tongji Medical University, and the center hired Qiu Luoyi as a consultant. Without textbooks, Qiu Luoyi relied on solid German skills and solid medical theoretical foundation to write textbooks while teaching. She has also served as the editor of the foreign language version of Journal of Wuhan Medical College and the Journal of Tongji Medical University, and has participated in the compilation of large-scale reference books such as the "Dehan Medical Dictionary", filling the gap in the reference books of Dehan Medical in my country. At the same time, Qiu Luoyi has also made important contributions to the training of the Sino-German Medical Association and German Teachers, and has cultivated many high-level medical foreign language talents.

1988, Tongji Medical University hired Qiu Luoyi

as consultant of the German training center

Love and companionship

What is love? Qiu Fazu said: "We have never quarreled, never once. I only love the old lady, and the old lady loves me alone. We respect and understand each other, and this is the secret of our lifelong companionship."

For more than sixty years, Qiu Fazu and Qiu Luoyi fell in love and supported each other, and wrote this exotic love story into a good story of love on earth. Qiu Fazu is busy with work all year round and feels deeply guilty about his wife. He often says, "Our marriage is the most beautiful marriage in the world! Over the past few decades, the wife has given me so much help and support! All I can compensate is to go home early after going out, watch TV with her, and listen to music together." During the difficult period of life, Qiu Luoyi always stayed by her husband, supported her husband unconditionally, and expressed many times: "My position is always by her husband's side!" In his late years, Qiu Luoyi developed consciousness disorder. No matter how busy Qiu Fazu was in business, he personally took care of his wife wash and bed every day, and often stayed by the bed to tell his wife about the past. On sunny days, teachers and students of Tongji Medical College can also see Qiu Fazu, who is over 90 years old, pushing a wheelchair to accompany his wife to relax on campus.

A photo of Qiu Fazu and Qiu Luoyi in old age

"Those who are not close to the Buddha cannot be a doctor, and those who are not close to the immortal cannot be a doctor." Qiu Fazu devoted his life to promoting the development of China's medical and health industry. He not only has superb medical skills, but also has the great love of doctors. He always obeys the call of the motherland, charges ahead, and creates miracles after miracles in the history of Chinese medicine. Qiu Fazu often said: "You must be content in life, know your shortcomings in your work, and be unsatisfied in your knowledge." This sentence is written in the conspicuous location of the History Museum of Central China University of Central China and is also engraved in the minds of many Central China University teachers and students, inspiring teachers and students to move forward firmly on the road of seeking truth and truth.

In Qiu Fazu's long medical career, Qiu Luoyi has always given Qiu Fazu great support and comfort with her actions. She has achieved the marriage legend between the Chinese and the Germans with her ordinary and great love.

This year marks the 450th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Germany in . At this special time point, let us recall the love story of this foreign couple in central China, feel their firm love for their partners, sincere love for the motherland, and broad love for mankind!

(This article has completed the later revision under the careful guidance of Dr. Qiu Hualai, thank you hereby express your gratitude)

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Text: Shen Mudan, Dong Qing

Source: Huazhong University of Science and Technology Archives