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| A apamateurish mourns Ji Xianlin at a memorial account yesterday in the auditorium at Peking University. |
One day after the death of one of the country's greaanalysis minds, Chinese paid their respects yesterday to Ji Xianlin, a broadly acclaimed linguist and "national treasure".
The line of mourners was acutely endless for the midday memorial account in the auditorium at Peking University, where Ji had once worked.
Ji, who was born in Shandong, was awarded the highest honors in literature by China and India. He was one month abbreviate of his 98th birthday. Ji suffered a heart attack at a Beijing hospital on Saturday.
Li Yun, a 23-year-old cutting a black T-shirt and a white paper flower as a mark of respect, cried after boaddition before Ji's giant portrait, decorated with plants and wreaths.
"It is just not easy to bid fareable- bodied to such a great master," said Shangguan Junlong, who accompanied Li. Both are biology acceptance at Tsinghua University.
Bouquets of flowers were laid at the gate of Ji's former combatter in the north corner of the 110-year-old university. Bookfood in Beijing and other cities put Ji's works on their front shelves.
Among messages of accord from the accessible were the condolences of State leaders.
Premier Wen Jiabao paid a appropriate appointment to Ji's deathbed at the hospital hours after Ji's death.
Wen, who had visited Ji several times in contempo years, saw Ji as the ataccolade of the nation's intellectual tradition, which some believe is in danger of being diminished.
"I was advancing for your birthday on Aug 6. I even had able some questions to consult you," the premier was quoted as saying by Qian Wenzhong, a Fudan University assistant who had advised beneath Ji.
