In the early years of Yuhua District, there were noodle dishes (salty and wet), fried fruits and sesame cakes

Nowadays, there are countless gourmet restaurants and most of them are near Huaidi on both sides of Tiyu Street

Celebrities in Yuhua District

Name: Zhang Xiangtong

Born and died: November 27, 1907 ~ November 4, 2007

Description: Famous neurophysiologist and one of the founders of neuroscience in New China. He is internationally recognized as one of the pioneers in the study of dendritic physiological functions and one of the main academic leaders in the study of acupuncture anesthesia mechanisms in China.

Place of birth: Xiaoma Village, Zhengding County, Hebei Province now Xiaoma Village, Yuhua District

Special contribution: Based on the analysis of evoked potentials in the visual cortex, the theory of three-color conduction in the visual pathway was proposed and the discovery of " The phenomenon of "light enhancement" is named "Zhang's effect" by the world's physiology community.

[Edit this paragraph] Zhang Xiangtong-Personal Profile

Chinese neurophysiologist. Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Born on November 27, 1907 in Zhengding County, Hebei Province. He graduated from the Department of Physiology of Peking University in 1933. From 1943 to 1946, he was a graduate student in the Department of Physiology of Yale University School of Medicine in the United States and received a doctorate in philosophy. He has served as lecturer and assistant professor at Yale University School of Medicine, associate researcher at the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research in New York, researcher at the Shanghai Institute of Physiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, researcher and director of the Shanghai Brain Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, director of the Central Council of the International Brain Research Organization, and U.S. Health Research Fogarty resident scholar of the Academy, foreign honorary academician of the Royal Academy of Medical Sciences of Belgium, etc. Firstly, he put forward the argument that the motor area of ??the cerebral cortex represents muscles; based on the analysis of evoked potentials in the visual cortex, he proposed the theory of three-color conduction in the visual pathway and discovered the phenomenon of "light enhancement". The world's physiology community named this phenomenon the "Zhang's effect"; Discovered dendritic potential for the first time; also engaged in research on the mechanism of acupuncture analgesia, believing that acupuncture analgesia is the result of the interaction of two sensory afferents in the central nervous system. In 1991, he was elected as an honorary member of the World Association for the Study of Analgesia. His publications include "Muscle Representation of Motor Areas in the Cerebral Cortex of Macaque Monkeys", "Functional Organization of Central Visual Pathways", "Repetitive Discharges of Circulatory Circuits between Cerebral Cortex and Thalamus", "Dendrites of Cerebral Cortical Neurons", "Acupuncture Neurophysiological Basis of Analgesia" and more than 100 publications.

Outstanding member of the Communist Party of China, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, deputy to the second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth National People's Congress, honorary member of the Romanian Medical Association, foreign honorary academician of the Royal Academy of Medical Sciences of Belgium, international Director of the Central Council of the Brain Research Organization, member of the World Health Organization's Neuroscience Expert Advisory Committee, honorary member of the Panama Society of Anesthesiology, Fogarty Resident Scholar of the National Institutes of Health, and winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Neural Network Society.

Zhang Xiangtong loves science, is rigorous in scholarship, indifferent to fame and fortune, is knowledgeable, far-sighted, upholds the dignity of science, opposes unhealthy tendencies, and has made outstanding contributions to China's scientific and educational undertakings.

[Edit this paragraph] Zhang Xiangtong - Chronology of Major Events

On November 27, 1907, he was born into a poor peasant family in Xiaoma Village, Nianlipu Township, Zhengding County, Hebei Province.

In 1921, he entered a new-style primary school - Zhenlip Town Primary School in Nianlipu Township.

In 1923, he completed primary school in two years and was admitted to Zhili Provincial No. 7 Middle School in Zhengding County, which lasted four years.

In 1927, he graduated from middle school and was admitted to the preparatory course of Peking University, which lasted two years.

In 1929, he was promoted to the Department of Psychology of Peking University, which lasted four years.

In the summer of 1933, he graduated from the Psychology Department of Peking University and stayed at the school as a teaching assistant.

In 1934, he was transferred to the Institute of Psychology, National Academia Sinica as an assistant researcher. In the autumn of the same year, he moved to Shanghai with the Institute of Psychology, and then to Nanjing the next year.

In 1936, he published his first paper, "An Auditory Reflex in Hedgehogs", which was published in Volume 10 of "Chinese Journal of Physiology" in 1936.

On July 7, 1937, the Anti-Japanese War broke out. In August, he left Nanjing and traveled to Changsha, Guilin, Yangshuo, Danzhou, Liangfeng and other places in the north of Liuzhou to escort instruments and equipment. Scientific research is still not forgotten. The paper "The Descending Pathway of the Submerged Body of the Hedgehog Midbrain" was published in the "Special Issue of Physiological Research of Academia Sinica" No. 10, 1937.

In 1941, he served as an instructor at the Anshun Road Military Medical School.

At the end of 1942, he left Chongqing and went to the United States for further study.

On March 24, 1943, arrived at Yale University in New Haven, USA. From then on, he began his three-year study under Professor Fulton, a famous neurophysiologist and chairman of the Department of Physiology at Yale University School of Medicine.

In 1946, he received a doctorate in philosophy from Yale University in the United States, and then entered the Department of Physiology of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the United States for one year of postdoctoral research.

In 1947, he applied for a job and returned to the Aerospace Medicine Research Laboratory of Yale University School of Medicine, serving as a teacher and assistant professor until 1952.