Fengcheng friend Zhang Zhaohong recalled Fang Lizhi: The Fang Lizhi I have seen

Fengcheng friend Zhang Zhaohong recalled Fang Lizhi: the Fang Lizhi I have seen About seven or eight years ago, one day I received a call from a young man named Fang, asking me to come to Tucson (…

About seven or eight years ago, one day I received a call from a young man named Fang, asking me to go to Tucson to install a Chinese CCTV 4 satellite TV for his father. He didn't give me a specific address, he just said that the place was difficult to find. He asked me to meet at a certain place on Sunday, and then we took my car to his parents' residence. So on Sunday, we met at the appointed location and drove to Tucson. The young man's name is Fang Zhe, a tall man from Beijing who now holds an administrative position in a university. Along the way, he asked some things about the Chinese community in Phoenix, and we also talked about real estate topics that were hot at the time. Soon we arrived in downtown Tucson. The road ahead was guided by Fang Zhe. The car walked through a section of ups and downs and came to a two-story house. Fang Zhe said. After entering the door, an old gentleman came down from the second floor. He was dressed simply and looked kind-hearted, but he couldn't remember where he had seen him before. When the old gentleman learned that I was here to install a satellite TV, he told me that he now has the equipment to watch the free CCTV4 channel. However, there is news that the CCTV4 channel will be transferred from a free channel to a paid channel. Is it true? I replied that as far as I know, the news about this is just rumors and unconfirmed. The old gentleman said, since it has not been confirmed, should we consider the installation again after some time? I came all the way and was told that they would not install it for the time being. Of course I was a little disappointed, but I had no choice but to go back home. On the way back, Fang Zhe said he was sorry. He had also heard that CCTV4 might enter a code-locked and paid combination channel. Since his parents watched domestic news every day, in order to prevent them from interrupting their viewing, he wanted to pay for it himself and installed a set of paid channel equipment at home to ensure viewing. However, he did not inform his father in advance, so there was such a misunderstanding. I suddenly thought of something and asked, what does your father do? He said he was a university professor. I asked, is he Professor Fang Lizhi? He said yes. I said that I might have seen your father’s photo in reports about the June 4th Incident. It looked familiar to me just now, but I didn’t recognize it. Only now did I realize it, and I lost an opportunity to talk to him. Fang Zhe told me that there might be another opportunity in the future. In order to prevent my trip from being in vain, Fang Zhe told me to go to my residence to install it first. Anyway, I just bought a new house. So, I went to his new residence to install it. The house was not big and the furnishings were not luxurious but clean. I asked him if he was married and he said not yet. We chatted while installing it, and I invited him to attend the spring banquet of our Longgang group in April to learn about the local overseas Chinese culture, and he readily agreed. After returning to Phoenix City, I sent an invitation to the Spring Banquet to Fang Zhe, and he indeed accepted the invitation. I introduced him to many good friends, including the famous writer Mr. Shaojun. I thought the matter was over, but I didn't expect that not long after, Fang Zhe really called me and said that his father had invited me to visit his home decoration TV again. So, I went to Professor Fang Lizhi’s home for the second time to serve. Their satellite TV antenna is installed at the back of the second floor, facing the southeast. Because my trip last time was in vain, Professor Fang was very polite to me this time, and I even met his wife, Ms. Li Shuxian. In fact, Chinese people in Phoenix are no strangers to Fang Lizhi, because as early as 1992, Huang Shiwei, the president of the local Arizona Chinese Newspaper, and reporters visited the University of Arizona in Tucson, interviewed him, and reported on his front page. At that time, Fang Lizhi still had to be protected and censored when he met, so it was not easy for ordinary people to get close to him. But things have changed. Now that I have arrived at their home, I feel very easy-going. I also chatted with him while installing it, saying that satellite TV signals are directly transmitted by fixed-point satellites 30,000 kilometers away. I once asked this astrophysicist about the concept of "multidimensional space" in the universe. He replied that in addition to the three-dimensional space of X, Y, and Z that we know, time is the fourth dimension, but the universe is composed of more dimensions, such as eight-dimensional, eleven-dimensional and other theories. These concepts are much more abstract than observing actual stars, and many inferences can only be expressed in mathematical form.

Time passed very quickly, the installation and commissioning of the satellite TV was completed, and it was time to say goodbye. When I left, I took a look at his home. What impressed me most was that I saw a large "COOLER" device installed outside a window downstairs. The COOLER can blow cool wind with moisture directly into the room, lowering the temperature and saving electricity bills. However, the device is usually fixed on the roof and placed on the windowsill and is installed later. Generally speaking, Professor Fang's home at that time was simple. On the way back, Fang Zhe and I had lunch at P.F Chen restaurant. Several years have passed. Maybe there was nothing wrong with the satellite TV installation, or maybe everyone was busy with their own affairs, but Fang Zhe never called me again. Until the end of October 2007, I suddenly saw a report: "On October 25, Fang Zhe, Fang Lizhi's second son who works at the University of Arizona, was hit by a small truck that suddenly turned left while driving to another campus. The driver was an old lady. After the incident, the police also dispatched a helicopter He was rescued, but his injuries were too severe and he died. Fang Zhe was only 39 years old. This made everyone sad. Fang Zhe was going to marry his fiancée this month. He had bought a house and his fiancée had moved from San Jose, but he was involved in a fatal car accident, leaving the living with endless grief. "I feel very sorry for Fang Zhe's untimely death. But what makes everyone sad is that because Fang Zhe drove a small car and the old lady who caused the accident drove a large car, some people concluded that they should buy a large car in the future to save their lives. Recently there was another report: "Fang Lizhi, a professor of astrophysics who was forced to leave China in 1989, died in his residence in Tucson, Arizona, USA on the morning of April 6, 2012. He was 76 years old. Fang Lizhi supported the democratic movement of college students in Beijing and was known as the spiritual leader of the 1989 student movement. After Fang Lizhi went to the United States, He served as a professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Arizona, and was still academically active until his death. He published several academic papers every year. In 2010, he was elected as a fellow of the American Physical Society for his important work in cosmology and the physics of the early universe. Now that he has passed away, many people around the world will mourn him. " The fate between people and the fate between people in the world are actually the same. They come and go as they come. Professor Fang Lizhi and I have an acquaintance, and now I will write down what I experienced plainly, so that everyone can have a better understanding of this famous person who is so close to us and knows so little about. http://www.paaca.us/