On that winter night in 1917, the first cry of a baby sounded in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, and Li Pei was born. She was born in a typical traditional family, and it is difficult for her father Li Baoling's thinking to completely break free from the shackles of feudal etiquette. A pair of talking eyes reveal the unique stubborn personality of this baby girl. 
From an early age, Li Pei was eager to read and be exposed to new ideas, believing that knowledge could change his destiny. Although the "eldest son" expected by the family did not come, Li Baoling realized that it was no longer the old-fashioned patriarchal system that undertook the future of the Chinese nation's society, but a new force that has been upward from generation to generation. At the age of 19, Li Pei entered the Department of Economics of Peking University, and with her excellent professional knowledge and fearless critical spirit, she became one of the few female college students at that time. The traditional concept of "male superiority and female inferiority" has been challenged by her without hesitation again and again. Li Pei gradually grew into a new model of women who dared to fight. In 1937, the Lugou Bridge Incident broke out and Peking University moved south, accompanied by Li Pei's fear of imminent war or the charming beauty of the beautiful scenery of the southwestThe familiar teachers and students on campus have been scattered. 
Li Pei had no time to identify, so he went to Kunming Southwest Associated University to work and study part-time to continue his studies. Even in the hardest of times, there was not the slightest wavering or retreat in her eyes. Li Pei of the Southwest Associated University came out vigorously. She served as the vice president of the student union and organized cultural and sports activities for students with both talents and talents. In her spare time, Li Pei often goes deep into the low-level female workers, giving them literacy lectures and sharing the warmth of knowledge. What she pretends in her heart is no longer her own interests. When the country needs women's power, there is nothing more proud than standing up and taking responsibility for the future of the nation. This is the prototype of "China's most beautiful woman". Faced with a personal fate like a drop in the ocean, Li Pei chose to take on the heavy responsibility of the times without hesitation. At the age of 30, she crossed the ocean to study at Cornell in the United States. 
The magnificent voyage of life has just begun. That year, the American wind and the sun were beautiful. At Cornell University, a middle-aged professor is carefully examining students**. He is the outstanding scientist - Guo Yonghuai. There is a bookish atmosphere unique to Chinese. Occasionally looking up at the window, Guo Yonghuai couldn't help but think mishesitantly. Ten years ago, he had already made achievements in the scientific research of his motherland. However, the bleak fate of his family and country forced him to leave alone and come to a foreign land. 
Life in the U.S. isn't bad. Guo Yonghuai has been reused by the highest universities, and his scientific research funds are sufficient and his achievements are abundant. The colleagues were also very kind, and the students admired and approached the Oriental professor. His heart, however, has flown across the Pacific Ocean, in a distant homeland. Until that day, an exotic girl came to his office and asked him to guide the graduation**. Guo Yonghuai looked up and couldn't help but be stunned - the girl in front of him, with beautiful facial features and a calm demeanor, was the new Chinese woman of his dreams!It turned out that she was also a Chinese student who came all the way to the United States to study, named Li Pei. Love at first sight, love rekindles hope. Guo Yonghuai and Li Pei have similar interests and gradually fall in love. He seems to see the way out of life again, the long-lost spring flowers are blooming, and he is willing to rest in this warm land. 
When the red sun rose in the distance of New China, Guo Yonghuai and Li Pei also entered the palace of marriage hand in hand. In the tide of returning to China in 1956, Guo Yonghuai gazed at Xizi's smiling face affectionately. After 10 years of wandering, he is holding his beloved and daughter and is about to embark on the journey home. For this moment, he had a teaching position in the United States and burned an unfinished book manuscript. Scientist Guo Yonghuai is such an innocent but staunch patriotic intellectual. For the sake of the motherland, he can give up all prosperity and wealth, and be willing to be an ordinary citizen. It is precisely because of these sons and daughters, who cherish their family and country and make selfless contributions, that the Chinese nation has borne the fruits of rejuvenation. 
In the autumn of 1956, a middle-aged man and woman led their young daughter and stepped off the docked ship. Guo Yonghuai's family, who lived abroad, finally set foot on their dream homeland. A few days ago, Guo Yonghuai was a personable Cornell University professor;Today, he has shed his coat and become a member of the scientific research cause of New China. Li Pei didn't mention the high-paying and lucrative job at the beginning, and began to work as a temporary worker in a suburban firm, tired of working hard, just to earn more living expenses and take care of his young daughter. Dedication to the motherland, hard work, never complained. The party attaches great importance to tackling key scientific research problems with two bombs and one satellite. Guo Yonghuai was arranged to join an important research group and lived in the dormitory of the base with the team members. 
For the sake of confidentiality, he was unable to disclose his work to his family, and he had no time to share his family. And Li Pei is also using his own way to do his best for these selfless scientists. She traveled everywhere to secure limited resources to build a small clinic in the suburbs, and by the way, she also solved the problem of enrolling the children of returning scientists. Li Pei also often visits scientific research institutes and cares about everyone's daily life. On October 16, 1964, China's first atomic bomb test was a complete success, and Guo Yonghuai was extremely excited. He suddenly realized that he was not an ordinary person, but a witness and participant in this great era. 
He and his companions, with wisdom and sweat, have gained *** and national pride. After the reform and opening up, Guo Yonghuai was officially restored, and Li Pei also redevoted himself to language teaching and popular science. Now recalling the crumpled acceptance bill of the state back then, Li Pei just smiled indifferently. In the years of hard work, she and Guo Yonghuai never thought of returning, because love and dedication do not need a price. An ordinary couple glows with extraordinary light in their posts. They are the nameless promoters of the brilliant cause of science and education in New China, and they are also models of unremitting self-improvement and hardship. 
Without the dedication of a generation like theirs, China would not be prosperous and strong today. In October 1968, Guo Yonghuai was working at the Qinghai Thermonuclear Test Base. He found an important clue and had to rush back to Beijing immediately to report it. However, as fate would have it, the plane crashed on the way to land, killing everyone and leaving only one survivor. The bad news came too suddenly, and Li Pei was still praying for her husband's safety. When she was notified, she just sat quietly and did not speak for a long time. Li Pei refused any assistance offered by ** and endured the baptism of grief alone. She knew that Guo Yonghuai was dedicated to the motherland, and they didn't need anyone's charity and sympathy. 
Li Pei began to sort out the items left behind by Guo Yonghuai. She carefully stroked the faded tunic, which still had her husband's body temperature in it. One letter after another came into view, and the man's unpretentious character was revealed between the lines. Li Pei couldn't help but redden, and tears quietly rolled across his face. However, an even more brutal blow was yet to come, and 20 years later, Li Pei's only daughter also died of illness. The parting of her husband is still deep in her heart, and now, she is the only one left in this family to face alone. Li Pei had insomnia all night long, she lay on the bed, looking out the window at the stars, as if Guo Yonghuai was watching her gently from the sky.
Li Pei has also wanted to end his life many times and be with his beloved forever. But she realized that Guo Yonghuai didn't want to see her so weak. So Li Pei raised his head and wiped away his tears like when he was a girl. She was not completely crushed by fate, the 91-year-old Li Pei is still upright and calm, and under her immature appearance, there is a steely and tenacious will. In 2017, 100-year-old Li Pei passed away peacefully in the hospital. Before she died, she only hoped to be buried with Guo Yonghuai. We fulfilled her last little wish and let this loving couple hug each other tightly again, and stay together in history and in the sky. In January 2017, 100-year-old Li Pei passed away peacefully in a Beijing hospital. Before dying, she shyly begged like a girl, hoping to be buried with Guo Yonghuai.
We were all deeply touched by her persistent true feelings, and happily fulfilled this last wish. At Li Pei's memorial service, the last group of veteran scientists who have fought all their lives for the cause of science and education in New China came to mourn one after another, and they gave their last salute to this venerable senior. After the meeting, everyone came to Guo Yonghuai's grave with Li Pei's ashes, so that the couple who had been together for half a century snuggled tightly again. Li Pei has spent his life interpreting what temperament and elegance are. From a pure student to a mother, and then to a gray-haired old age, she has always maintained the simplicity and nobility unique to intellectuals.
Li Pei has crossed the turbulent waves of one political movement after another, and she has not been crushed by difficulties, but continues to ignite the ideal fire in her heart. In 2018, two newly discovered asteroids were named "Guo Yonghuaixing" and "Li Peixing" in honor of the model couple who dedicated their lives to the cause of modern Chinese science. They use the stars sown by hard work to light up the sky of China's science and technology to serve the country and illuminate the way forward for future generations. A hundred years of tree people, the incense behind him is sung. Li Pei has used his life to prove to the world that ordinary life trajectories can also stir up ripples. Through trials and hardships, she has always been the high-spirited female student of Peking University, the "most beautiful woman in China" who stubbornly pursues her dreams.
Each of us will have some regrets in our lives to a greater or lesser extent. But Li Pei has used 100 years of life to tell us that ordinary can also achieve extraordinary. She was not a pioneer of reform after the powerful, nor did she become famous and rewrite history in one fell swoop. Li Pei is just an ordinary woman, she thirsts for knowledge, pursues love, and in her own insignificant life, lights up the beacon for others to move forward. When the hardship came, Li Pei did not retreat and lament, but continued to move straight in the direction of what he believed in his heart. She was not bound by patriarchal etiquette and became the vanguard of the new woman;She was not deterred by the war and completed her university studies;She did not lose herself in a foreign country, but found a soulmate in life. Guo Yonghuai is the most important reliance in Li Pei's life. When the country needed scientists to build the scientific and technological strength of New China, Li Pei did not choose to spend her old age abroad with her husband.
She gave up the high salary and decent job in the United States just to support Guo Yonghuai's return to China to participate in the great cause of "two bombs and one star". And when her husband passed away one after another and faced great grief alone, Li Pei did not flinch and despair. She supports this home alone, and interprets what elegance and temperament are with practical actions. The meaning of life is not to achieve a grand cause and gain the admiration of all people;It's about whether you bring a touch of warmth and help to the lives of others. Li Pei did not aim to serve the country with science and technology in the motherland from the beginning, she was only conscientious in her own small position, but she also became an unsung hero who promoted the development of science and education in China. Today, when we look back at predecessors like Guo Yonghuai and Li Pei, their enlightenment to future generations is that we don't have to care whether our lives are as successful or legendary as ordinary people expect. What is really important is to find a career that you are passionate about and good at, and devote yourself to it with a good attitude and attitude. As long as each and every one of us does our best and is down-to-earth, the Chinese nation will surely become prosperous and strong, and the country will surely flourish day by day.