20世纪是中国力学发展史中令人振奋的时代，这个时期中国的力学从无到有，从落后到跻身于世界前列，力学学科从零起步逐步发展建立起来，这都是我国几代力学家的不懈努力才达到的。新中国建国初期，各地都纷纷建立了力学系、力学专业，为新中国培养了一大批力学专业人才，其中好多人才成长为各个领域的专家。目前国内各学科都在考察研究某一学科或某一领域的创立与传承，如中国物理学家、化学家、数学家、生物学家、农学家、医学家、药学家、天文学家及地理学家等学术谱系研究都已有成果面世，但通过力学家学术传承呈现建国以来力学教育的研究成果尚不多见。通过对中国近现代力学家的生平的梳理，发掘中国近现代力学家之间的学术传承，研究20世纪以来几代力学家对中国力学建立与发展的作用和影响，以期能够对中国力学整体的发展进行研究，探讨中国近现代力学家学术传承与力学教育发展问题。2017年是中国力学会成立60周年纪念，学界需要回顾与总结历史。

Mechanics in China witnessed an exciting time in 20th century when it started from the scratch to be in line with the most advanced development in the world. Needlessly to say, this was under the effort of several generations in this field. During the first phase after the founding of new China, departments of mechanics and relevant majors sprang up to educate professionals who have already grown as experts in their own research domains now. These years academia sees exploration of subject development in individual fields by academic pedigree. Accordingly, lots of research results have been exposed in physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, astronomy, geography etc., but it's not the case in mechanics. This paper will study from achievement of the experts in mechanics to outline the academic pedigree in contemporary China so that we can pulse the influence of each expert to Chinese mechanics since 20th century as well as facilitate the study on overall development in Chinese mechanics.Academia welcomed 60th anniversary for foundation of Association of mechanics in 2017, when it's time to reflect on the history in this field.