Li Ju

Li Ju

Li Ju (1900-1982), a famous horticulturist, was born in Shanghai in 1900. He was admitted to the French higher horticultural school in 1917. After graduating in 1921 and obtaining the qualification of horticultural engineer, he was admitted to the Higher Institute of Tropical Botany in France and won the title of agricultural engineer.

Pioneer of park construction

During his study in France, due to the school's emphasis on teaching practice and practical operation training, and his frequent on-the-spot investigation, he mastered the gardening design and plant cultivation techniques, and improved the management skills of horticultural farms and farms. In 1923, he gave up the opportunity to work in France and returned to the motherland with the enthusiasm of saving the country scientifically. Since 1926, he has been a professor of National Central University, Chongqing University and Sichuan University, director of Department of horticulture, and a senior technician of urban park design and management departments or horticultural farms and farms in Shanghai, Beijing, Kaifeng, Nanjing and Chongqing. Li Ju, a famous horticulturist, horticultural educator and flower expert, is one of the pioneers of modern park construction in China. In 1928, when he was a professor and head of the Department of horticulture in the Agricultural College of CUHK, he initiated the establishment of the Chinese horticultural society with Professor Guo Xujing and others, and served as the president of the society. Since 1932, Li Ju has been employed as a senior horticulturist in the agricultural improvement general field of Zhejiang Provincial Department of construction, and as a professor and director of Horticulture Department in Chongqing University, Sichuan University and other universities. During this period, he mainly taught gardening, nursery science, floriculture, ornamental dendrology, Latin scientific name of plants, and teaching practice. In addition to compiling teaching handouts and reference materials, he also investigated fruit trees in Zhejiang, and compiled the investigation report of Zhejiang Red Bayberry and loquat, which was published in the special issue of Zhejiang agricultural improvement general field in 1933. In 1935, he edited and published nursery science, which played an important role in guiding the establishment of nursery and the propagation, cultivation and management of seedlings. In 1938, it was reprinted four times. He also compiled the Latin scientific names of plants, the planting method of street trees, and the improvement of Chengdu landscape architecture. In addition to teaching, he is also engaged in landscape design and renovation of cultural relics. Especially in 1938-1948, when he was also a member of Chengdu Park Design Committee, he successively designed Chengdu Shaocheng Park, Nanjiao Park, Xindu Guihu Park, Boji hospital and other parks, private gardens, cemeteries and campuses. Combined with park design practice, he explored the subject content needed to cultivate landscape professionals. After the founding of new China, Li Ju was still a professor in the Agricultural College of Sichuan University. In 1951, he was also a member of Chengdu Construction Planning Committee and Chengdu cultural relics renovation Committee. Besides teaching, he presided over the design and renovation of Chengdu people's Park, people's Cultural Palace, Du Fu thatched cottage and Zhaojue temple. after returning to China, Li Ju has been engaged in teaching and long-term undertaking heavy landscape design work. In Nanjing, he took part in the design of Zhongshan cemetery, using the Western regular layout method, using the tall evergreen coniferous tree cedar as the keynote tree species to set off the grand, solemn and solemn atmosphere of the cemetery. When he was the director of Nanjing Park Management Bureau, he put forward the concept of Green Street, realized this idea in the implementation of road greening in Nanjing, and became one of the advocates of urban road greening in modern China. Li Ju used foreign theories and combined with domestic reality to design Kaifeng's Longting Park and Fantasi Park, Nanjing's Xuanwu Lake Park, Qinhuai River Park, Central University campus, Chongqing University campus, Chongqing Institute of education campus, Hangzhou's Lakeside Park, Chengdu's Shaocheng Park, Xindu Guihu Park, etc. In the design, he absorbed the techniques of western national parks and the pattern of recreation and rest for the masses, and established the open Hangzhou Lakeside Park and Nanjing Xuanwu Lake Park. These parks still maintain the original design prototype. The design of Kaifeng Longting Park was praised by general Feng Yuxiang. Later, he was recommended to design miaogaotai garden in Xikou, Zhejiang Province, Wufu garden in Zhejiang Province by He Xiangning, and gardens and cemeteries of other famous people for Chiang Kai Shek. after liberation, the landscape industry has been valued and developed. In the construction of modern parks and green space, he combined the design of our country and used the western garden layout earlier and more. He was one of the pioneers of modern park construction in China.

Li Ju is a landscape architect, horticultural educator and flower expert. He planned and designed many famous gardens and scenic spots for our country, and was one of the pioneers of modern park construction in our country. He has been engaged in the collection, collation and compilation of Latin scientific names of plants for a long time, and has written nursery science, etc. He was the director of Horticulture Department and Landscape Architecture Department of several universities. He is one of the founders of Chinese horticultural society.

Personage introduction

Li Ju is detached. Born in 1900 in a small business family in Shanghai. In 1912, his elder brother, Li Jun, got the chance to study in France at public expense. He went to France to study with his elder brother. In 1914, he studied French in Paris and laons preparatory school, and finished junior and senior high school courses. After the outbreak of the first World War, the preparatory school was occupied by the German army. After that, he went to Berlin and Switzerland, visited the parks and scenic spots in Berlin and Switzerland, and was very interested in gardening, which confirmed his ambition to study horticulture. In 1915, he was admitted to the agricultural school in the south of France. In the autumn of 1917, he was admitted to the French higher horticultural school for further study. He assiduously studied gardening and ornamental botany, and won the title of horticultural engineer after graduation. In order to further master the cultivation techniques of tropical and subtropical plants, he was admitted to the National Institute of Tropical Botany of nagent Sul Marne in France in 1921 for one year's further study and won the title of agricultural engineer. From the autumn of 1922 to the beginning of 1923, he went to Lyon, France with his classmate sun Fuxi and others. Along the way, he inspected the parks, scenic spots, horticultural fields and farms in the coastal towns of northern France. during his study in France, the school paid attention to teaching practice and practical operation training. In addition, he often made field visits, which enabled him to master garden design and plant cultivation techniques, and improved the management skills of horticultural farms and farms. He is keen on gardening and is eager to build parks for rest and activities for the people of his motherland and cultivate horticultural fields of fine varieties. For this reason, he gave up the opportunity to work in France by taking advantage of his brother's relationship as secretary of the Chinese Embassy in France and Consul in Paris. He declined the high paid employment of many parks and horticultural farms. In early 1923, he returned to his motherland with the enthusiasm of saving the country by science. After returning home, he immediately studied Chinese and began to investigate the gardening and horticulture of his motherland. Since 1926, he has been teaching in Universities in Henan, Nanjing, Shanghai, Chongqing and Chengdu, and has been a senior technician in the design and management departments of urban parks or horticultural farms in Shanghai, Beijing, Kaifeng, Nanjing and Chongqing. While teaching, he participated in the local garden design and technical management of horticulture farm, striving to change the backward situation of Chinese garden and horticulture. At that time, civil wars were frequent, and this desire could not be realized. However, his determination to save the country by science remains unchanged. When he was employed as a professor and head of the Department of horticulture at Nanjing Central University, he extensively contacted experts and professors in the field of landscape architecture and horticulture to exchange academic experience and explore ways for the development of Chinese landscape architecture and horticulture. In 1928, Professor Guo Xujing, Professor Hu Changchi and Professor Zhang Wencai, the director of the Department of Horticulture of Jinling University, initiated the establishment of the Chinese horticultural society and served as the president of the society. After 1932, he was employed as a senior horticulturist in the agricultural improvement general field of Zhejiang Provincial Department of construction, and as a professor and director of Horticulture Department in Chongqing University, Sichuan University and other colleges and universities. During this period, he mainly taught gardening, nursery science, floriculture, ornamental dendrology, Latin scientific name of plants, and teaching practice. In addition to compiling teaching handouts and reference materials, he also investigated fruit trees in Zhejiang Province, and compiled the investigation report of Yangmei and its handle in eastern Zhejiang Province, which was published in No. 3 Special School of agricultural improvement general field of Zhejiang Provincial Department of construction in 1933 In the journal. In 1935, he edited and published the book nursery science, which detailed the propagation, cultivation and pruning techniques of seedlings and nursery management, and played an important role in guiding the establishment of nursery and propagation, cultivation and management of seedlings. In 1938, he reprinted it four times. He also edited the interpretation of Latin scientific names of plants, the planting method of roadside trees, and the history of landscape architecture in Chengdu They are published in school journals or newspapers. In 1938, he wrote to the national government, proposing that urban parks and green spaces should be included in the scope of urban construction; that parks should be set up for people to rest and play; that parks should be set up in combination with the protection of cultural relics and historic sites; that national, provincial, municipal, county-level and even rural parks should be set up to form a park system and improve the living environment of urban and rural people; that schools should be set up to train gardening professionals and that schools should be set up in various areas However, these suggestions could not be realized at that time. in the hopeless situation, he not only taught, but also engaged in landscape design and renovation design of cultural relics. Especially in 1938-1948, when he was also a member of Chengdu Park Design Committee, he successively designed Chengdu Shaocheng Park, Nanjiao Park, Xindu Guihu Park, Boji hospital and other parks, private gardens, cemeteries and campuses; combined with park design practice, he explored the necessary settings for cultivating landscape professionals