Moss plant taxonomist Li Xingjiang died as the daughter of an anti-Japanese hero

According to the Chinese Society of Bacteria, Li Xingjiang, a retired employee of the
Kunming Plant Research Institute in China, died at 1:3 a.m. on November 4, 2020 at the age of 88.
made an important contribution to the development of moss botany and the compilation of spore plants, and we mourn her tragic death," the official obituary said.
public information shows that Li Xingjiang was born in Lingling in September 1932, graduated from the Department of Biology of Sichuan University in 1954, and was transferred to the
Plant Research Institute of China with honors. From 1992 to 1998, she was the deputy director of the "China Plant Society Moss Professional
Society" and from 1973 to 2007 she was the editorial board member of the Chinese Spore Plant Book, the Chinese editorial board of the English edition of the Chinese Moss Plant Book.For more than
years, Li Xingjiang has devoted himself to the study of moss plant taxonomy, regional studies and moss plant geography, and has lectured in Germany, France, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Russia, Japan, Finland and other countries.
Li Xingjiang has been invited by the European Plant Society to visit the Arctic region for botany, she has also won the China
Steal Progress Award (collective award), the second prize of the National Natural Science.
According to the Science Times, the study of china's moss plant classification area, chaired by Li Xingjiang, conducted an in-depth and systematic study of the classification and department of Chinese moss plants, creating a moss specimen room with more than 80,000 specimens and data. She has completed a number of moss book monograph editor-in-chief and compilation work, for China's development and utilization of moss plant resources to provide basic information.
it is worth mentioning that Li Xingjiang is also the daughter of the anti-Japanese hero Li Chuni.
According to the Bayu Metropolis Daily, in October 1897, Li Chuni was born in Hejiawan ( present-day Shijiang County, Chongqing) in his hometown of Shaoling Bao, a family that made a living from both breeding and weaving. In January 1917, Li Chun was admitted to Peking University, during which time he met Li Dazhao. Two years later, after passing the exam, he was identified as one of the first to go to France after the First World War to work hard
after the Lugou Bridge Incident in 1937, Li Chuni left his wife and daughter Li Xingjiang, who was less than 4 years old, at his home in Lingling and went to Nanjing alone. On the way, Nanjing fell, he had to go through Anqing to the northeast, into the anti-Japanese rescue movement. Shortly after arriving in the northeast, Li Chunye took over as county chief and led a series of anti-Japanese activities in the county.
the summer of 1943, Li Chunying was secretly sent back to Chengdu for treatment after being seriously injured in a battle against Japan. He died two months later at Chengdu Wanguo Hospital at the age of 46 due to his injuries. His body was quietly returned to Chongqing's Lingling, where he was buried on a hillside at the goose's neck on the outskirts of the city, where little was known.