Cai Jikun's Destroying Family and Promoting Learning

From 65438 to 0983, Professor Cai Jikun, who had been away from the motherland for more than 30 years, returned to his native land and began to give lectures all over the country and perform in various places. He has been hired as honorary visiting professor by Xiamen University, Huaqiao University, Fujian Normal University, Anhui Normal University and Jilin Art College, and honorary music director and chief guest conductor of the changchun film studio Philharmonic Orchestra and Fujian Song and Dance Theatre. Professor Cai Jikun is deeply educated by Mr. Chen Jiageng's patriotism, and he is deeply concerned about the situation of the domestic music industry. He keenly observed that music education in China is still very weak, and there are no formal music universities except some universities with music departments that mainly train music teachers. He felt a great responsibility and came up with the idea of establishing a music university. He believes that it is a practical way to fully mobilize social forces at home and abroad to run schools and develop higher music colleges in the form of adult education in order to train music professionals at different levels when there are certain difficulties in reinvesting in the education of the national team at that time. Therefore, adhering to the ideal of developing social music education and further strengthening the training of music talents, he practiced a hard and pioneering road of establishing higher music colleges in Fujian with great foresight.

Previously, Cai Jikun had established two conservatories of music, namely Fujian Provincial Conservatory of Music and China Conservatory of Music Education. Fujian Provincial College was established in February 1940. At that time, Cai Jikun was ordered by General Chen Yi, Chairman of Fujian Provincial Government, to establish the school in Yong 'an, the then provincial capital of Fujian, as the first president. Later, it was renamed the National Conservatory of Music, which was one of the three higher music colleges in the Kuomintang-controlled areas during the Anti-Japanese War, and trained a large number of music talents for the country. After liberation, the school was merged into the East China Branch of the Central Conservatory of Music, which is now the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. 1942, when Cai Jikun was transferred to Chongqing to work in the Ministry of Education, he and Gu Yuxiu, then Minister of Government Affairs of the Ministry of Education, founded China Conservatory of Music, which was an institution of higher learning specializing in training music professionals during the Anti-Japanese War. The trained students become musical elites active in various fronts in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, and some even become internationally influential composers, singers and conductors.

During the period of 1988, Cai Jikun, who had settled in Fuzhou, immediately devoted himself to the preparation of Fujian Social Conservatory of Music. After repeated consultations, he finally decided that Fujian Social Conservatory of Music should jointly run schools with Fujian Normal University, Xiamen College of Art Education and other institutions, and carry out flexible and diverse teaching methods such as correspondence teaching, and began enrolling students in the second half of the year 1988. However, at this time, Fujian Social Conservatory of Music was only a transitional form and did not have its own independent school building. In order to improve the Conservatory as soon as possible, regardless of his age, he ran around and personally surveyed the school site. Approved by the provincial government, it finally settled in Shoushan Village, Cangshan, Fuzhou. In order to raise funds, on the one hand, he sold his villa, vehicles, precious paintings and calligraphy in the Philippines and returned to Fuzhou with eleven boxes of precious music scores, materials and all his savings; On the other hand, he went to the United States, Southeast Asia and other places to lobby and encourage overseas Chinese to donate money and materials to contribute to the music industry of the motherland. Under his inspiration, many overseas Chinese donated money to help each other.

1993, Fujian Social Conservatory of Music was founded in Shoushan Village, Cangshan, Fuzhou. At the beginning of 1994, after a year of intense construction, an office building, a teaching building, a comprehensive building, a dormitory building and a piano building with a donor's name were built, ending the nearly half-century history that there was no specialized music institute in Fujian. 1994, Fujian Provincial Government approved the establishment of Fujian Conservatory of Music, with Cai Jikun as the chairman and dean of the Institute, and retained the name of "Fujian Social Conservatory of Music". In September, the college enrolled the first batch of more than 60 students, offering three majors: vocal music (Bel Canto and folk singing), keyboard (piano, accordion) and orchestral music (including folk instruments), with famous musicians Lang, Zhu Yafen and Shao as the department heads respectively, and Cai Jikun personally taking the teaching task, becoming the oldest and most experienced "full-time professor" in the college. The College adopts the mode of "open running and closed teaching", with the motto of "Xiu De cultivates art and strives for self-improvement" and the direction of "patriotism first, moral character second and specialty third", aiming at cultivating all-round advanced musical talents for the country.

When Mr. Cai Jikun was over eighty years old, he spared no effort to destroy his family and promote his studies, which attracted great attention from the state, the Ministry of Education and provincial leaders and was unanimously affirmed by them. From June 5438 to 10, 2003, in recognition of Mr. Cai Jikun's outstanding contribution to music education and the establishment of the Conservatory of Music, Wang Yifu, then vice governor of Fujian Provincial People's Government, presented Mr. Cai Jikun with a plaque and certificate of "educating people through music".