the two students suffered extremely harsh torture

HouRenZhi as students, scholars, professor, his life place is filled with sunshine, full of academic atmosphere, but in Japan occupied by Japanese aggressors during HouRenZhi beiping, catch, put in prison, through a difficult time his life, that is December 1941, Japanese troops occupied Peiping, because yanjing university is the American church started school, therefore also can maintain relatively calm. But Japan launched the Pacific war, yanjing university by Japanese seizure immediately, when in yan big teaching and concurrently student life counselling committee, vice chairman of the HouRenZhi and some yan big Japanese military police arrested, professor was held in pku red chamber of the Japanese troops to prison. At that time, and the HouRenZhi together held in cell is a young students - sun bright, he is becoming a famous actress of SunDaoLin later. HouRenZhi in part-time students life guidance the vice chairman of the committee, made an important work: secret assist patriotic students through various channels to the liberated areas or rear area. According to HouRenZhi memories, at the CPC as arrangements, only after his liaison to students of the liberated areas will have lots. Japanese people in prison in many times HouRenZhi HouRenZhi silent, judge not mention, asserted that oneself is Christian university professor.


Japanese later put HouRenZhi etc professor, sent to gun bureau hutong prison. Prison cruel and hard, old and frail DengZhiCheng professor for frozen hungry pathogenesis, HouRenZhi secretly exchange berth, moved to DengZhiCheng flank, took hold of his own clothes to the teacher cover from the cold, evening is tightly paste in teacher's side, with their own temperature warm teacher. HouRenZhi was sent to the prison gun bureau hutongs, Japanese still held after WuShiJu, have to check with "heart-to-heart communication, anti-japanese anti-japanese" charges sentenced to imprisonment of HouRenZhi year, probation, three years, it has been released on bail on June 1942. HouRenZhi guarantor allaying after, he went to tianjin and lady ZhangWeiYing assemble, live in tianjin, until victory in the Anti-Japanese War.


HouRenZhi live in tianjin during happened again a serious matter, yan big two students by the Japanese military police arrested, they to yan university students to the liberated areas things clearly understand, if they were arrested for this matter, it HouRenZhi is difficult to escape a dead. HouRenZhi want to escape in the japanese-occupied areas must be quickly. At this juncture, ZhangWeiYing behaved abnormal calm, said: "this event, ought to tell HongYe teacher, listen to his advice." So, she returned to Peiping, be night alone in tianjin, tell HouRenZhi his teacher's advice: one is HouRenZhi can't walk, in case things involving his, but can't catch him, must grasp his store guarantee if necessary. 2 it is arrested, even if again was sentenced to death, yan adults also will know "HouRenZhi is why die". Listen to HongYe his teacher's advice, HouRenZhi decided not to go. Soon the news said, the two students suffered extremely harsh torture, but stood firm and unyielding, Japanese eventually had to set them free. HouRenZhi the stand-in does not escape, assumes the spirit was also yan big teacher-student admiration.


After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, HouRenZhi according to the arrangement of HongYe teacher xia, 1946, Liverpool university to Britain geography study. In the university of Liverpool, HouRenZhi lucky become Liverpool university, director of contemporary historical geography, geography, one of the founders of the students than the professors. In professor darby theory and method of the guidance, HouRenZhi in research area new breakthroughs are obtained, and obtain a doctor's degree.