Lin Baishui

Lin Baishui

Lin Baishui (January 17, 1874 - August 6, 1926), male, from Minhou County, Fujian Province. Han nationality, formerly known as Yao, also known as Wanli, with the word Shaoquan, is a native of Qingpu village, Fujian Province. He is a famous journalist, journalist and journalist in modern Chinese history.

On August 6, 1926, Zhang Zongchang was arrested and killed for repeatedly criticizing the warlord zhang Zongchang in the editorial. When she was killed, she was nearly 100 days away from Shao Piaoping, a famous journalist who was killed in the same place. Therefore, after Lin Baishui was killed, the Beijing independence Evening News published a report with the title of "meeting by chance for a hundred days". In 1985, he was recognized as a martyr by the Ministry of civil affairs.

Life of the characters

Guangxu period

He inherited his family's learning and worshipped the famous scholar Gao Xiaotong as his teacher.

In 1898, at the invitation of Lin Qizhi, he went to Hangzhou to participate in the establishment of four new schools, namely, Qiushi Academy (now Zhejiang University), YangZheng Shushu school (now Hangzhou high school), Dongcheng lecture house and silkworm school (now Zhejiang University of Technology).

In June of the 27th year of Guangxu (1901), he was the chief writer of Hangzhou vernacular newspaper, advocating the prohibition of smoking and the elimination of superstition.

In January 1902, when he returned to Fuzhou, he and his cousins Huang Yiyun and Huang Zhanyun founded the first new school in the province, Fuzhou Mongolian school, and secretly organized the "inspirational society". After the founding of "patriotic society" and "patriotic education society of China", "Zhang Binglin" and other magazines, they went to Shanghai to publish. The next year, he went to study in Japan, participated in the patriotic anti Russian activities of Chinese students, and joined the "military National Education Association". In the summer of the same year, he returned to Shanghai and founded "Russian police news" with Cai Yuanpei. In December, China vernacular daily, under the pseudonym of "vernacular Taoist", openly advocated the overthrow of the monarchy by violence.

Guangxu 30 years (1904), as the "alarm daily" editor in chief.

In July 1905, he entered Waseda University in Tokyo, majoring in law and politics and journalism. Some people said that he was "the first Chinese to study journalism abroad.". He got acquainted with Song Jiaoren and Sun Yat Sen successively and began to publicize Sun Yat Sen and his revolution. Sun Yat Sen wrote the word "fraternity" as a gift. Later, he entered the restoration society. After the victory of the Wuchang Uprising in 1911, Wan Li returned to China and served as the director of the Legislative Affairs Bureau of the Fujian governor's office and the Minister of the Fujian Branch of the Republican Party. In 1913, he was elected a member of the house of Representatives and was employed as secretary of the presidential office and Secretary General of the Zhili provincial military supervision department. The next year, Yuan Shikai dissolved the Parliament and Wanli returned to Fujian.

the Republic of China era

In 1915, he entered Beijing again and joined Yuan Shikai as emperor.

In 1917, when the monarchy was abolished, Lin returned to his old career and co founded the "Gongyan Bao" with his friends. He was the main writer, daring to tell the truth and expose the truth, which had a great influence on the society.

In 1919, Pinghe journal was founded in Shanghai.

In the spring of 1921, new society daily was founded in Beijing. As its president, it published political articles under the pseudonym of Baishui, exposing the shady scandal of warlords and politicians. He was seized the following year and sentenced to three months' imprisonment. After being released from prison, the new society daily was changed to society daily.

In October 1923, because of the publication of an article exposing Cao Kun's bribery scandal, the newspaper was closed again, and Lin Baishui was jailed again. When Feng Yuxiang's national army was forced to withdraw from Beijing in April, the society daily wrote an article praising the national army.

After the Fenglu army entered Beijing in 1926, it suppressed the patriotic movement in the name of "fighting for the Red Army". On April 21, it published the commentary of Hefei political closing in the society daily. He once confessed in the newspaper that "my remarks are focused on the national interests and social security, and have nothing to do with the warlords or the political parties.".

The article "the luck of bureaucrats" published on August 5, 1926 revealed the scandal of collusion and collusion between Pan Fu and Zhang Zongchang. He was arrested by warlord zhang Zongchang that night and killed in Tianqiao the next morning. After the success of the northern expedition, Lin Sen and others supported the coffin to return home for burial. There is "the remains of Mr. Lin Baishui" handed down.

A pioneer in the press

Chief writer of Hangzhou vernacular newspaper

In 1901, he was the chief writer of Hangzhou vernacular newspaper, advocating the establishment of schools and universal education, and the establishment of newspapers all over the country. He was also one of the earliest advocates of vernacular. Because he thinks: "there are more and more people reading vernacular, that is, new customs, new knowledge and new knowledge will surely appear in China." In the notice published by Hangzhou vernacular daily on the first day, he wrote a paragraph: "because I am a civilian, I speak vernacular, which is the language of ordinary people, not the wordy or stereotyped articles of ordinary literati and bureaucrats. I am not satisfied with romantic and snowy weather, nor like other newspapers, I praise the beautiful coquettes of actors or prostitutes. I just report the big and small things that happened at home and abroad to the ordinary people. " In the second half of 1903, Hangzhou vernacular newspaper gradually lost its vitality because of its advocacy of reform. Unable to sustain, it was closed in January 1904.

Founding newspapers

In 1903, at the invitation of Cai Yuanpei, Lin Baishui came to Shanghai and founded "Russian police news" with him, which was later changed into "alarm daily". At the same time, Lin Baishui founded China vernacular daily independently, and gave himself a pseudonym of "vernacular Taoist". At that time, newspapers and periodicals were called "newspaper", which was actually a periodical. First it was a semi monthly periodical, then it was a ten day periodical. The circulation of China vernacular newspaper increased from hundreds when it was first published to thousands later. Almost all the columns in the newspaper were written by Lin Baishui alone.

When he ran his own newspaper, he was less involved and restricted in his work. He devoted himself to it without any scruple. He adhered to his independent and uninhibited press stance and advocated the freedom of speech that few people had heard of at that time. On the column of "argumentation" in the first issue of China vernacular, the author said to those officials who are domineering: "these officials, he was working for our people The world is our people's world, and all those things are our people's things If we take our hard-earned money to 3721, we can share it with each other and use it blindly If we don't open up an account to show the people, we can't do it if the people still provide them with happiness! "

In February 1904, he published "opinions of citizens" in the column of "comments" in the seventh issue, which pointed out: "all citizens who have rent tax should enjoy various rights, which are called freedom rights, such as freedom of thought, freedom of speech, freedom of the press..." These words against corrupt officials openly challenge the obscene authority of officials. If you don't have the courage to put life and death beyond your control, I'm afraid you can't write a word. One hundred years ago, he even put forward the idea of "taxpayers' rights" in vernacular, which is even more impressive.

Congratulations to Cixi

In the same year, the Qing government organized a "longevity celebration" to celebrate the 70th birthday of Empress Dowager Cixi. Lin Baishui angrily wrote a couplet: today I am lucky in Xiyuan, tomorrow I am lucky in Yihe, when will I be lucky in Yuanmingyuan? Four hundred trillion of bone marrow is dead. How lucky is there only one person left?

50 lost Ryukyu, 60 lost the Taiwan Strait, 70 lost the three eastern provinces! Fifty thousand li territory, every longevity will be boundless!

This couplet has been published, and the words are spicy, which makes people clap and recite for a while.

After the Republic of China, Lin Baishui also had a short official experience. In the spring of 1913, he came to Beijing as a member of the house of Representatives, but he also presided over the writing of the new China Daily. Three years later, Lin Baishui was tired of the ups and downs in the political arena, and he knew that he could not adapt to the life of politicians. So he decided to say goodbye to politics and concentrate on his beloved old profession: journalism.

Founded Gongyan Bao and new society daily with others

In August 1916, he resigned as a member of Parliament. In September, he founded Gongyan Bao with Liang Hongzhi and Huang Qiuyue in Beijing, starting the tragic journey of the last ten years of his life. During these ten years, he devoted all his energy, time and wisdom to the newspaper industry of the Republic of China.

His early friend Lin Shu helped him a lot. Gong Yan Bao's capital came from Lin Shu's student Xu Shuzheng. This newspaper was quite independent at that time. Lin Baishui also has a place to use. From this time on, he published a large number of reviews under the pseudonym of "Baishui". His writing style is spicy and humorous.

In 1918, Lin Baishui broke a lot of amazing scenes.

In Gongyan Bao, he published an opinion review entitled "seven Fujian roads in green mountains", which publicized the corruption cases of Chen Jintao, the chief financial officer, and Xu Shiying, the chief traffic officer, to the world, causing an uproar in Beijing. After a short time, another politician cheated in the car rental case in Jinpu, which was exclusively exposed by Lin Baishui in the review of "Jin cabinet's chronicle is like this", causing another uproar. As a result, some of these politicians were dismissed and jailed, and some of them resigned, making Prime Minister Duan Qirui embarrassed. Lin Baishui is also quite complacent about this, saying: "within one year after the publication of Gongyan Bao, it subverts the three cabinet members and raises two booty cases. For a time, it is known as the executioner, which can be said to be very serious."

Gongyan Bao is the first newspaper published in vernacular in the history of Beijing. Around 1921, Gongyan Bao was closed by the direct government for exposing the government's arrears of wages, payment delays, private enrichment and cheating.

On March 1, 1921, Lin Baishui cooperated with Hu Zhengzhi and founded the new society daily, with four opposite editions. He served as the president and Hu Zhengzhi as the general manager. We should run newspapers,

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