When mentioning Professor Jin Zhiqiang in Dayun, everyone will think of the packed Northeast Forum and his well-informed, humorous "famous mouth" style.

The name of "Donglu Forum" comes from Donglu University, the predecessor of Yunnan University. Yunnan University, which has experienced more than 80 years of ups and downs, not only has the elegance and beauty of Huize Academy and Ginkgo Garden, but also has a group of master experts such as Wang Guowei, Xiong Qinglai and Hua, and has ten years of ups and downs of scientific thought and humanistic spirit. The "Donglu Forum" was born under this powerful cultural accumulation.

Professor Jin, as the planner and speaker of "Donglu Forum", has always insisted that the characteristics of a university are the ideal of a big library, a big playground, a big lecture and a small salon. Lecture is a cultural landscape in colleges and universities. Setting up a forum in colleges and universities is to make it a second classroom for students and form a cultural atmosphere in colleges and universities.

In the growth process of "Donglu", it encountered many setbacks. Regarding the venue, the "Donglu Forum" once stayed in the amphitheatre of Beixue Building, the Supreme Court, the Science Museum and other places, and finally settled in Jinwen Building. As for the speaker, people are impetuous under the tide of market economy. What is commendable is that in today's era when the whole people are pursuing material interests, it is not easy for some scholars who take academic exchanges as their own responsibility, provide free lectures for their classmates and uphold humanistic care. As the founder of "Donglu Forum", Professor Jin has been working hard with his own ideals, so that college students can not only learn professional knowledge well, but also share the success of leading figures in various industries, expand their knowledge level, create an academic atmosphere on campus and promote students' enthusiasm for learning. Professor Jin said with emotion, "It's not so easy to persist for one year, five years and ten years."

Professor Jin's "Donglu Forum" reflects his understanding of the forum from beginning to end. The Donglu Forum is a platform for "letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend", involving culture, ideology, education, society, law and other aspects. There are conflicts of different views here, which always make people gain something. As Professor Jin said in a lecture, "You got something from listening, but nothing."

At different times, Professor Jin told the audience different topics. Over the years, he has talked about many wonderful topics, such as the theory of university study, human body communication and body language, love, love and youth, diet and health culture, Kunming as a famous historical city, and the century-old historical trend of China. When I asked Professor Jin about the relationship between these topics, I realized that he had done a thorough research before opening each topic. These topics are all his research results at a certain stage without exception. For example, learning theory, Professor Jin has read no less than 50 books, from The Analects of Confucius to Mencius, from A Dream of Red Mansions to Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and from Lu Xun's essays to Riptide Trilogy. Two hours on stage, maybe two years of accumulation and thinking off stage. So when the author asked others that lectures were a kind of fast food culture, Professor Jin showed an indignant look. He said seriously, "How can a lecture be a fast food? What is fast food? Fast food is not nutritious enough, and it is limited to the consumption of hunger. This lecture was a cultural shock. No matter from the content structure, language expression, ideological accumulation, cultural shock, viewpoint, it can be called a big meal. Whoever wants to treat a big meal as a fast food is stupid. "

Kunming has a long history. Similarly, the history of Kunming Forum is ahead of other cities in China. As early as the Republic of China, large-scale speeches and gatherings were commonplace. Celebrity bachelors were impassioned, and Wen Yiduo's speech touched many people's hearts. 1993, under the painstaking planning of Professor Jin, Donglu Forum began to become a beautiful landscape in the eyes of Yunnan University students. Nowadays, when people listen to Lecture Room on TV, many Kunming people still linger on the lectures held in their city. In Professor Jin's view, Lecture Room has many advantages. He believes that "Lecture Room" has made more people understand the lecture through modern media. Specifically, there are three points: first, the speaker is everyone; The second is the big theme; The third is exquisite production. However, he also believes that the Lecture Room needs to be improved in some places. First, the theme is outdated and has little connection with reality. Second, the capacity is small. A traditional lecture can produce 10 episode of Lecture Room. Speaking of "Lecture Room", Professor Jin said that he was very sorry, because the media in Kunming was very numb and dull, turned a blind eye to the culture of "Lecture Room" and even lacked cultural conscience.

You can't choose your life, but you can choose what kind of life.

Jin Zhiqiang's generation has mixed feelings about the word "Cultural Revolution". Professor Jin said: "I just entered the Cultural Revolution as an adult and just entered the university after thinking." Professor Jin, who experienced the catastrophe personally, had the most say in the Cultural Revolution. Professor Jin held a negative attitude towards the "Cultural Revolution", but he believed that the "Cultural Revolution" had an undeniable advantage: he pushed everything to extremes, thus promoting the arrival of reform. From 1968 to 1978, Professor Jin worked as a smelter in Kunming Smelter for ten years. Recalling that experience, Professor Jin said this: "A person can't choose life, but he can choose how to live. It doesn't matter what you do, what matters is to do it well. " It is because of this idea that Professor Jin became a good worker in the factory that year. Steel mill is a kind of heavy manual work, and you need to get up in the middle of the night to go to work, but Professor Jin never complains under such difficult conditions. Their generation can bear hardships more than ours.

Speaking of his generation, Professor Jin thinks they are collectivists. He thinks it is a prejudice to overemphasize collectivism and individualism. It is precisely their generation that can strike a good balance between the two stressed individuals in collectivism. Professor Jin also believes that they also hold idealistic beliefs. People can't live without faith, but idealism is not a fantasy. We need to do things down-to-earth and do things well step by step. 1978 Professor Jin was admitted to the History Department of Yunnan University. In the 1970s, when there were few historical books, choosing history was purely a personal interest. In this way, Professor Jin was admitted to Yunnan University with high marks. Professor Jin, who had just turned 30 at that time, had rich social experience and fully understood the importance of reading. In that era of poor knowledge, Jin Qiang was hungry for knowledge. He cherishes this hard-won learning opportunity. Soak in the library every day, and sometimes study tirelessly under the street lamp when the lights are turned off. This is the difference between their generation and ours, and it is also worth learning.

Kunming people.

Professor Jin is a native of Kunming, and his understanding of Kunming is both emotional and rational. The sunshine and customs of Kunming give him more time and space to meditate. He thinks that the character of Kunming people is not as heroic as that of Shandong people, but as smart as that of Shanghai people, and they are more peaceful and warmer, and they can distinguish right from wrong with a quiet mind and plenty of time. This peaceful character makes Kunming people too aloof and arrogant, showing excessive peace and lacking the spirit of competition and enterprising. Since the Ming Dynasty, talents from Kunming have gradually entered with a large number of Han Chinese, resulting in the phenomenon of multi-ethnic cultural integration. At first, most of the aborigines in Kunming were ethnic minorities. After the arrival of the Han nationality, it accepted the Han nationality with its tolerance and simplicity, and continued to integrate with the Han nationality in culture, economy and marriage. Generations of Kunming people have also been influenced by this culture, which is different from other regions in tolerance. All foreign things are tolerated by Kunming people and gradually form their own unique culture.

Due to historical reasons, Kunming people's mentality of "small town" and "hometown treasure" is very prominent. Professor Jin believes that only by breaking the narrow geographical boundaries and expanding the small town in Kunming into a "big city" can Kunming people break through the sense of a small town and completely change it, and Kunming can no longer be intoxicated with the romance of the "small town story".

Text: Qi Xiangyi