Luo Xianglin

Luo Xianglin

Luo Xianglin

(1906-1978) character one, No. Yi Tang, born in 1906 in Ningxin Town, Xingning County, Guangdong Province. In the summer of 1924, he graduated from Xingmin middle school and went to Chengtian English school in Shanghai. In the summer of 1926, he was admitted to the Department of history of Beijing National Tsinghua University from Shanghai Chengchi University, majoring in social anthropology. In the summer of 1930, after graduating from Tsinghua University, he was promoted to the Research Institute of his alma mater, specializing in the history of Tang Dynasty and the origin of Baiyue, and also studied in the Research Institute of Yanjing University. In 1936, he was the director of Guangzhou Zhongshan Library and an associate professor of Sun Yat sen University. He taught history and founded the Quarterly Journal of Guangzhou and the semimonthly Journal of Shulin with his colleagues in the library. From November 1, 1945 to July 1, 1946, he was the president of Guangdong Provincial College of Arts and Sciences. In 1949, the whole family moved to Hong Kong and taught in New Asia College and the University of Hong Kong. Mr. Luo Xianglin is a famous historian, expert in overseas Chinese history, ethnologist and founder of Hakka Studies in modern China. He is an outstanding figure in the academic circle of modern humanities and society and one of the eight sages in Meizhou.

Luo Xianglin's life is rich in works, involving a wide range of fields. According to incomplete statistics, the general history of his works include Chinese national history, general history of China, Yitang Wencun, cultural history of Tang Dynasty, cliff Buddha statues of Guilin in Tang Dynasty, Tibetan historical materials in Ming and Qing Dynasties, and historical knowledge. His works on religious and cultural history include Nestorianism of Tang and Yuan Dynasties, research on Chinese genealogy, and chronicle of youshanfujun (Volume I)《 Liang Cheng's diplomatic mission to the United States, Fu bingchang and modern China, the vacuum religion popular in Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong and Malaya, the origin and culture of Baiyue, the research on the general system of Lan Fang University in kundian, Borneo established by Luo Fangbo, the research on the Republic established by Luo Fangbo and others in West Borneo, the research on Pu shougeng, the study style of Chen Lanfu and Guangdong, and the annals of Yan shigu.

Personal profile

Luo Xianglin, with the character yuan 1, is a native of shuilou village, Xingning new town, Guangdong Province. He is a famous historian and pioneer of Hakka studies. In his early years, he graduated from the Department of history of Tsinghua University and studied with Liang Qichao, Wang Guowei and other famous scholars. He has successively served as professor of Sun Yat sen University, University of Hong Kong and Zhuhai College, and won the title of honorary professor of the University of Hong Kong. He is erudite and rigorous. He has written 41 books and published nearly 300 academic papers. He pioneered genealogy, which opened up a new field of historical research after Jiagu study, Dunhuang study and Jiandu study. His pioneering works, such as introduction to Hakka study, research on the origin and development of Hakka, and collection of Hakka historical materials, laid the foundation for Hakka study. During the Anti Japanese War, Luo Xianglin was the director of Guangzhou Zhongshan Library. He made great efforts to ship rare books and important books to Shilong, Liuzhou, to avoid the war. Luo Xianglin devoted his whole life to learning, devoted himself to education, and promoted Chinese culture. He is well-known in the literary and historical circles at home and abroad.

After graduating from Xingmin middle school in the summer of 1924, he went to Shanghai Political University to study. Two years later, he was admitted to the Department of history of Tsinghua University. He studied history from Wang Guowei, Liang Qichao, Zhu Xizu, Chen Yinke, Gu Jiegang and American Han tingdun. He imitated the academic spirit and attitude of the teachers all his life and made great achievements. During the semester, he was elected as the general manager of Tsinghua weekly.

In the summer of 1930, after graduating from Tsinghua University, he studied the history of Tang Dynasty and the origin of Baiyue. In the spring of the next year, I was also studying in the Graduate School of Yanjing University. He won a scholarship from Harvard Yanjing society and went to South China to investigate the folk problems and the origin of Hakka. He got a lot of first-hand information. After returning to Beijing, he took classes in Tsinghua University and Yanjing University. In 1932, he was appointed as the Secretary of the president's office of Guangzhou Sun Yat sen University and the editor of Guangdong Tongzhi library. In the spring of the next year, he became an associate professor of Sun Yat sen University. At the end of the year, he sorted out the Hakka historical materials he had collected over the years, wrote and published an introduction to Hakka studies. Later, the book was translated into Japanese by Japanese Yuan Gang and published. Later, he wrote a study of the origin and development of Hakka, a collection of historical materials of Hakka and a map of the migration and distribution of Hakka to further explore the origin and development, migration and specific distribution of Hakka. He is the first Chinese scholar who systematically studies Hakka issues and is known as an expert on Hakka issues in academic circles.

In the autumn of 1934, he resigned from Sun Yat sen University and taught at Nanjing National Central University. He was also examined by the Central Committee for the preservation of antiquities. In March of the next year, he married Zhu e, Zhu Xizu's daughter, in Nanjing. In September, he also served as professor of Shanghai Jinan University.

Two years later, he returned to Guangdong and became the director of Guangzhou Zhongshan Library. He and his colleagues founded the Quarterly Journal of Guangzhou and the semimonthly Journal of Shulin. When Luo Xianglin was sorting out the books in his collection, he found Lin Fengchao's kundian history and the annals of Lanfang company. After careful reading, he realized that the grand system established by Luo Fangbo in West Borneo was actually the government of the Republic, while Luo Fangbo was actually a member of Shifan family in Meixian County. Luo Xianglin believes that Hakka people with such pioneering spirit and advanced ideas should write a special book, which is "a study of the Republic founded by Luo Fangbo in West Borneo". This general system is known as the republic system of government. Shortly after the Anti Japanese War, the Japanese aggressors landed in Daya Bay, and Guangzhou was in urgent need. He picked up rare books and valuable books day and night and shipped them to Guangxi. As soon as he arrived in Cangwu, Guangzhou was occupied. He hired a boat to go back to Liujiang to transport the books to Guiping for storage. The precious books survived the war. At this time, the departments of Sun Yat sen University have moved to the rear areas. Luo Xianglin lived in the family of Zhu Xizu, his father-in-law in Chongqing for a short time, and jointly suggested that the KMT authorities should set up a National Museum of history and draw up regulations for the museum.

In the spring of 1940, Luo Xianglin went to Chongqing to serve as a special member of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang. He planned academic conferences and carried out regular academic research, and completed the publication of the cultural history of the Tang Dynasty. At the end of the year, he went back to Ruyuan University of Chinese Arts in northern Guangdong to teach. In May of the next year, sun Guixiang's family in Zhongba, Zijin County asked for the old copy of sun's genealogy. It was known that Sun Yat Sen originally lived in Zijin, Guangdong Province (Hakka area) in his last life. In order to resist the defeat of the Qing Dynasty, he moved to Zengcheng and then to Xiangshan. He was not an official in the Qing Dynasty, so he encouraged himself by farming and reading. Therefore, Luo xianglinte wrote a study of the origin of the father of the nation, which was affirmed by Sun Ke, the successor of Dr. Sun Yat Sen and the former president of the Legislative Yuan of the national government. In September, CUHK moved back from Yunnan to northern Guangdong. Luo Xianglin once led some researchers of the Institute of arts to Guilin to investigate the cultural relics and historic sites. He discovered the statue of a fo and its related stone carvings in 679, the first year of Tiaolu, Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, in guanyinfeng, western mountain of Guilin. Later, he translated the relics of the previous generation in Guangxiao temple in Guangzhou, such as the classics, the exchange of eminent monks, the iron tower and the Buddha statue. And now still growing good Kohler tree and Bodhi tree combined with dedicated research. It is found that Buddhism introduced from Haidao into Guangdong and Guangdong, regardless of its sects and artistic development, has a different system and unique status from those introduced from the western regions, and the relationship between Buddhism and the development of maritime transportation between China and India can be seen from this. He specially wrote his research results into a monograph "Guangxiao temple in Tang Dynasty and the cliff Buddha statues in Guilin", which is highly valued by the Buddhist circles and Japanese historians.

After the victory of the Anti Japanese War, the Guangdong provincial government was reorganized. Luo Xianglin became a member of the Guangdong provincial government and the president of the Provincial College of Arts and Sciences, and founded the quarterly of Guangdong construction research. At the beginning of the next year, Guangdong literature museum was proposed. In September, the Guangdong literature museum was established. As a member of the nine Member Council, he made remarkable achievements in maintaining and developing the literature cause in Guangzhou.

Soon after, he resigned as a member of the Guangdong provincial government and a full-time professor of Sun Yat sen University. Later, he served as the chief editor of Hong Kong's "Xingdao daily" and "cultural and historical supplement" and director of the History Department of the Institute of Guangzhou University of culture. In June 1949, he resigned and moved his family to Hong Kong. He taught in the Hong Kong Academy of culture, the General Academy, the New Asia academy, the official Chinese evening school and the University of Hong Kong.

From the autumn of 1956 to the end of 1963, he was invited to Europe, Japan, America, Taiwan and other places to make academic speeches and investigate, which had a great impact on Sinology and historiography.

In October 1965, he published a series of lectures on the Chinese Department of the University of Hong Kong. He delivered a speech entitled "Research on Chinese Genealogy" in English. This is his first research topic, which can be said to be a new discipline after the nail osteology. In addition to the relevant monographs and papers on the materials in genealogy, he also expressed his own unique views on the historical significance of Genealogy Research, the origin and characteristics of Chinese genealogy, the spread and preservation of Chinese genealogy. Later, he supplemented and wrote the book "Research on Chinese Genealogy". From then on, he established the academic status of Chinese genealogy and became an important branch of history. This is one of Luo Xianglin's outstanding contributions to academic research.

In 1967, he became Vice Chairman of the Management Committee of the Hong Kong Centre for greater Asian Studies, contributing to the promotion of Asian academic and cultural studies. At that time, various research institutions and universities in Hong Kong employed him. He was only the dean of the school of Arts of Zhuhai academy. He focused on the doctoral program of the Research Institute and the publication of the University. In his spare time, he participated in guest conferences, Chinese and foreign academic and cultural activities, as well as Xingning hometown literature.

At the end of 1968, he retired after his term of office. The University of Hong Kong gave him the title of honorary professor for life. During the 10 years after his retirement, he traveled to Taiwan and the United States, gave lectures, and worked hard for local culture and Hakka literature. In his later years, he suffered from diabetes and liver cirrhosis. Although the medical effect was not good, he died on April 29, 1978. He was 73 years old.

Life of the characters

-In 1906, he was born in Ningxin Town, Xingning County, Guangdong Province.

-In 1924, he graduated from Xingmin middle school.

-From 1926 to 1930, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Tsinghua University.

-In 1931, he joined the Institute of history, Yanjing University.

-In 1932, he won the Harvard Yenching society scholarship.

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