In 1948, he was admitted to Lixing Middle School (now Qianyang No.2 Middle School). At that time, his family was poor and he was likely to drop out of school at any time. However, his parents did not hesitate to borrow money and tried their best to support him to finish junior high school. In the summer of 1951, after graduating from junior high school, I couldn't afford to attend an ordinary high school, and I didn't want to finish my studies, so I applied for the forestry major of Hunan Anjiang Agricultural School, which had low tuition fees and could also work part-time. In the spring of 1954, due to the adjustment of the school, all forestry students moved to Changsha Forestry School in Hunan. In 1954, after graduating from forestry school, he was sent to the Forestry Department of Huazhong Agricultural University (now Huazhong Agricultural University) for further study because of his excellent academic performance. In the autumn of 1955, due to the adjustment of departments, he entered Nanjing Forestry College (now Nanjing Forestry University) to study.
The excellent study conditions in the university have greatly broadened his horizons. Especially, a group of famous scholars and professors, such as Zheng Wanjun, Ye Peizhong and Chen Zhi, have gathered here. Their outstanding achievements in teaching and scientific research have greatly inspired this young man who came out of the ravine. Therefore, he devoted himself to his studies, worked hard, eagerly absorbed knowledge and nutrition from the experts of the older generation, and strictly exercised himself in all aspects of morality, intelligence and physique.
In p>1958, he graduated from Nanjing Forestry College with a bachelor's degree and studied under Academician Zheng Wanjun, a leading figure in the plant field. After graduation, he was kept as a teacher. In 1961, he was recommended to study in the Soviet Union as a graduate student majoring in plant physiology and biochemistry, and studied Russian in the preparatory department of Beijing Foreign Studies University for one year. Later, due to the breakdown of Sino-Soviet relations, after returning to school, I applied for postgraduate studies in dendrology guided by domestic experts again, and received the cordial guidance of Professor Zheng Wanjun.
during his postgraduate study in p>1962-1964, he worked hard for three years, fully absorbed the wisdom of his predecessors, went deep into the mountains again and again, collected plant specimens, observed the ecological variation and diversity of plants, and finally completed the excellent paper "Study on Woody Flora in Longyan Mountain and Tianmu Mountain Area of Zhejiang Province".
After completing the postgraduate study in p>1964, I have been teaching in this school and engaged in scientific research of forest botany.
in p>1965, he participated in an investigation in Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou organized by the Natural Resources Comprehensive Investigation Committee of China Academy of Sciences, and served as the leader of the forestry group. From Qujing Zhaotong in eastern Yunnan, through central Yunnan, northwest Yunnan, to Xichang in Sichuan, each area was summarized in stages, and finally the investigation summary was completed in Chengdu. All the contents of the forestry part in the stage summary and the final summary report are completed by writing to him. The results of this comprehensive investigation provide basic materials for the later third-line construction and the economic construction of Dukou City, Panzhihua City and Xichang City, Sichuan Province.
Since p>1974, he has served as the deputy director of the Forestry Department of Nanjing Forestry College, in charge of teaching. From February to October 198, he studied in the French class of the International Students Department of Shanghai International Studies University. In 1981, he was sent by the Ministry of Education to the Institute of Botany, Paris Museum of Natural History, French Academy of Sciences for further study. In June 1983, he returned to China as a teaching task, and served as the deputy director and director of the dendrology teaching and research section. He was promoted to associate professor in 1986 and professor in 1988. From 199 to 1994, he was concurrently the director of graduate department of Nanjing Forestry University and the deputy director of the academic degree committee. In 1993, he was approved as a doctoral supervisor. Since 1984, he has been the executive director of Jiangsu Botanical Society and the director of China Forestry Flower Association. Since 1993, he has served as the 11th director of botanical society of china. In 1994, he enjoyed special government allowance.
He has been engaged in the research of Araliaceae classification for a long time. Araliaceae is a relatively large and important family, and its plants are widely distributed in China, which is also an important medicinal plant resource. Since the monograph of Araliaceae was published by De Candolle in 183, many scholars have done research on Araliaceae, but before the 197s, the research level of Araliaceae in China mainly stayed in morphological classification and species investigation.
In p>1974, he took on the task of compiling Araliaceae in China Tree Records, went deep into the reality, collected and investigated, and his footprints were all over the mountainous areas of East China, Central China and Southwest China. At the same time, he went to many botanical research institutes and university herbarium all over the country to consult Araliaceae specimens, with a total of more than 4, copies. After years of careful study, he found nine new species and varieties, which were published in the Journal of Plant Taxonomy in 198. More importantly, he found that there were many problems in the study of Araliaceae, such as unclear boundaries of genera, confusion in the classification of species, many foreign bodies with the same name or foreign bodies with the same name, and long-term copying of some species. How to solve these problems? Thinking about it, plant taxonomy is a traditional and ancient discipline, and new research approaches and methods must be sought for innovation and development. Need to rush out of regional boundaries, cross national boundaries, and conduct intercontinental or worldwide exclusive research.
From 1981 to 1983, he engaged in the research of Araliaceae in the Institute of Botany, Museum of Natural Sciences, French Academy of Sciences, and took the lead in the intercontinental and worldwide exclusive research of Araliaceae, and conducted comprehensive research in many disciplines. Make full use of the superior conditions there, work selflessly, work for more than 12 hours every day, and carefully check the wax leaf specimens and precious model specimens from all over the world; Reading an extremely rich collection of literature. France also funded him to go to the Kew Botanical Garden in London, the Kew Botanical Garden in Edinburgh, the Geneva Botanical Garden in Switzerland and other herbarium to consult all the Araliaceae specimens, totaling more than 5,. From a large number of materials and phenomena, the internal relations and essential things of Araliaceae genera and species are sorted out, so that the boundaries of genera are clearer, the classification of species is clearer and the conclusions are more reliable. Since 1983, he has published research papers of nearly 1 genera in French, Swiss and domestic botanical newspapers. More than 8 papers have been published in important academic journals at home and abroad, more than 7 new species of plants have been published, and a new genus has been established, which has revised and corrected a lot of mistakes made by predecessors in this field. The plant resources of Oleaceae were identified, and a new classification system of plum varieties was established. Editor-in-chief of Araliaceae in China Tree Records, Flora of China and Flore du Cambodge, du Laoset du Vietnam (that is, Chinese, English and French editions) raised the research of Araliaceae in China and Southeast Asia to a new level of modern plant taxonomy. For example, important achievements have been made in the revision of the genus Evergreen, which is endemic to the eastern Himalayas. Although there are only three species, it is widely distributed in China, western Yunnan, Tibet, Nepal, Sikkim, India, Myanmar and other countries. Before the revision, these three plants were never correctly identified, and one of them was placed in four different genera, which was very confusing. After revision and arrangement, not only the boundaries of genus are clear, but also the mistakes of species classification are all corrected. Because of his transnational monographic research on most of Araliaceae in China (except endemic genera in China), he made many revisions and additions to Volume 54 of Flora of China and Araliaceae in Flora of zhina. As a result, more than 6 identical plant names in China and Southeast Asia have been cancelled or merged, more than 3 plant names have been readjusted or changed, and the concepts and taxonomic characteristics of 1 genera have been supplemented and redefined; One genus was merged and one was reconfirmed. Therefore, the classification of Araliaceae in China and Southeast Asia is more reasonable, systematic and scientific.
He also thinks that in order to raise the research of Araliaceae to a new level and adapt to the development of modern science and technology, it is necessary to learn new branches and conduct interdisciplinary comprehensive research. When he realized that plant palynology was of great significance in plant taxonomy, he always studied hard and was good at practical work, overcame all kinds of difficulties, and seized the opportunity to go to the University of Paris VII to listen to the palynology class of famous French plant palynologists and Umbelliferae experts, Sesso and Lacheva. Go to the University of Paris XI to listen to the plant systematics of the famous botanist Jean-F. Leroy; Learn from Dr. D. Callen about the experimental operation techniques of palynology. Then, the pollen of Araliaceae was studied by scanning electron microscope and ultrasonic vibration crushing method. In 1988, he published the paper "Study on the Pollen Morphology of Araliaceae in China". For the first time, the pollen of 21 genera and nearly 4 species in China was observed and studied in detail, revealing the pollen morphological characteristics of each genus, and verifying the reliability of the genus from another branch. Combined with other morphological and anatomical data, this paper comprehensively discussed the taxonomic position, their genetic relationship and evolution trend of Araliaceae, which became the most comprehensive and in-depth theoretical treatise on the morphological classification and systematic evolution of Araliaceae in China so far, and put forward a new viewpoint and evolution diagram of systematic evolution, reasonably explaining the genetic relationship of each genus. His unique opinions were highly praised by experts in the same field.
As another example, Cynanchum japonicum, a single genus, is a national second-class rare protected tree species, which has been placed in Araliaceae for a long time. Later, people questioned its taxonomic status and systematic position, but they all lacked sufficient basis. Led by its graduate students, Qibai made a comprehensive study on the plant in morphology, plant anatomy, wood anatomy, palynology, phytochemistry, paleobotany and other disciplines. With a large number of detailed materials, it was proved that this genus should be placed in the family of Monochamus cornus, but form a family with the genus Monochamus cornus, and be independent from the families of Araliaceae and Cornaceae respectively, thus making a clear result of this debate.
In interdisciplinary comprehensive research, he paid special attention to the analysis of chemical constituents of Araliaceae plants, which not only has important development value, but also has important significance for the systematic classification of Araliaceae. He was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation twice, and extracted and analyzed the medicinal chemical components (ginsenoside and syringin) of Araliaceae, such as Aralia elata, Acanthopanax senticosus, Acanthopanax Evodia and Panax ginseng. Nearly 1 papers were published, which were reprinted and published by foreign chemical and chemical analysis abstracts, accumulating important basic information for the chemical classification research and resource development and utilization of Araliaceae.
Xiangqibai is famous for its extensive knowledge and interests, and has a deep study on the classification of many families and genera. For example, he has made new achievements in the classification of Lauraceae and Oleaceae plants, and the Lauraceae plants named and published by him-Phoebe chekiangensis, and the Oleaceae plants published by him and his colleague * * *-are the best examples of Fraxinus chinensis. These two plants are rare and endangered species, and they are important timber and ornamental trees in gardens. The naming of these two plants is not only a contribution to plant taxonomy and flora, but also of great significance to forestry and garden production. He also led young teachers to study the pollen morphology and classification of Lauraceae plants, and achieved remarkable results. He first revealed the diversity of pollen in Lauraceae and the existence of small perforations, divided the pollen into seven types, and put forward the idea of establishing a new race-laurel. In 1995, the paper was published in the Journal of Plant Taxonomy and Cathaya, a foreign academic publication, which attracted great attention from Chinese and foreign counterparts.
He attaches great importance to international scientific and technological cooperation and exchanges. His name has long been recorded in botanical dictionaries or handbooks published in Britain, the United States and France, and his published works have been cited in a large number of botanical documents at home and abroad. He was hired as a special professor by the Paris Museum of Natural History of French Academy of Sciences for three times, and undertook the task of revising and compiling Araliaceae in the flora of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. In 1996, at the invitation of Institute of Biology, Vietnamese Academy of Sciences, he visited the Araliaceae plants in Hanoi and identified nearly 3, Araliaceae specimens, which was warmly received and highly praised by Vietnamese scientists. As the leader of the institute said, "We have never seen a foreigner identify specimens for us so seriously". In 1997, D. Bastien, a French expert in the development of new drugs who cooperated with Vietnam in science and technology, wrote twice, saying, "Professor Xiang, I saw the specimen you identified in Hanoi, which was of great help to me, and I sincerely thank you." At the same time, he also agreed to meet Professor Xiang in Paris and ask some questions. At the end of May, 1998, a colleague from Germany, Dr. H. Esser, made a special trip to meet in Paris on the eve of returning to China, and asked him for guidance on the classification of Araliaceae plants in Thailand. From September to December, 1997, at the invitation of the American side of the Sino-American Flora Editorial Committee, Xiang Baibo went to Missouri Botanical Garden and Harvard University Herbarium for research and investigation, and completed the compilation and finalization of Flora of China (English version) of Araliaceae. This record includes 24 genera and 175 species. This is the most complete and systematic summary of Araliaceae in China. Its publication will have a far-reaching impact on promoting scientific and technological exchanges between China and other countries in the world. From March to June, 1998, Xiang Bo went to Paris for the fifth time at the invitation of France. In May, he was interviewed by France's third TV station.
Xiang Qibai has been fighting on the front of forestry education, and his contribution to forestry science and technology is well known. For decades, he has taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses in dendrology, landscape dendrology, advanced dendrology, plant palynology and landscape dendrology. In 1985, the course of plant palynology was first offered for graduate students in national forestry colleges, guiding young teachers and graduate students to engage in palynology research. His teaching has always been serious and responsible, meticulous, hard-working, lively and rich in content, which is deeply loved by students. Six graduate students and four doctoral students have been trained in Qibai. From 1975 to 1979, he participated in the compilation of relevant chapters of two great books, namely, Tree Records of China and Afforestation Techniques of Main Tree Species in China. As the head of the editorial team in East China and Central China, he worked very hard for him. He fought day and night regardless of his personal fame and fortune. The manuscript he reviewed and revised reached more than 6, words, and he paid great hardships for these two works. In 1978, the book Afforestation Techniques of Main Tree Species in China was published. The Tree Records of China has been published in three volumes. The previous book has won the first prize of scientific and technological achievements of the Ministry of Forestry in 1979-198.
Xiang Qibai is the editorial board member and one of the main contributors of China Flower Classic. The book Indoor foliage plants edited by him is an important reference book for garden and flower lovers, and is used as a reference material by many gardens and interior decoration majors in agricultural and forestry colleges.
Apart from the cultivation of the Party and the people and the support of his family, Xiang's excellent quality and consistent spirit of struggle are the keys to his career success. In the long and arduous research work, he knew that there was no end to learning. In his cooperation with scholars from Britain, the United States and France for many times, he deeply felt the importance of computer technology in scientific research and information exchange. Although he was over the age of sixty, he still bought a computer, was not ashamed to ask questions, humbly asked for advice, worked hard, and finally was able to operate independently. At the beginning of 1997, a manuscript of Araliaceae flora in English and French was completed.