Huang Shiheng

Huang Shiheng

Chen County, Hunan Province (now Suxian District, Chenzhou City), was born in 1889. After graduating from Chenjun United middle school, he was admitted to Hunan high school and Guangyi middle school, with a matriculation. In 1913, he was admitted to the United States as a government funded student, and went to the University of uropleeu, the University of Iowa and Columbia University for further study, obtaining a master's degree. He was the president of Hunan University and made great contribution to the education of his hometown.

brief introduction

Huang Shiheng (1889-1978) was born in changchong village, Yongfeng Township, Chen County, Hunan Province. His father Ruhu was a scholar of the former Qing Dynasty. He lived in private schools and died young. His brother tigui accepted the new trend of thought earlier. He graduated from Yuelu college in Hunan Province in the late Qing Dynasty and participated in the revolution of 1911. Due to his poor family, relying on his mother's hard work and frugality, Huang Shiheng left a deep imprint on his mind, which made him always maintain the style of plain living, honest and loyal to his duty. Under the influence of his family and his father and brother, he developed the habit of loving labor and insisting on self-study, which laid a strong foundation of traditional Chinese culture. During his youth, he was in the turbulent era of domestic and foreign troubles. His social practice from poor rural areas to prosperous big cities made him realize clearly that we must improve the level of education for all as the foundation of our country. In his academic thoughts and academic career, he highly praised Liang rengong (Qi chao) and highly appreciated his collection of essays on drinking ice room. He imitated Zeng Guofan in his official way and life style. On the other hand, Wang Fuzhi, a thinker of Ming and Qing Dynasties who insisted on patriotism and materialism all his life, emphasized that action was the basis of knowledge. With his brother's support, he studied in Hunan Provincial No.1 Middle School (now Changsha No.1 Middle School) and Guangyi middle school (now Hunan Normal University Affiliated Middle School) before going abroad.

In the summer of 1920, he returned home and worked as the director of the Department of literature and history in Chengdu Normal University for two years. He once made a speech on population in the student union, believing that if China does not control population, it will be overcrowded. In 1923, he was a professor of Hunan commercial school and industrial school. In 1924, he was the president of the commercial college. At the beginning of 1926, Hunan Business College, engineering college and law college merged to form Hunan University, and served as the executive member and head of business department of Hunan University. He was president of Hunan University in 1932. He served as a member of Hunan provincial government and director of education department twice. He made great achievements in enriching Hunan University, developing vocational education, restoring Zhongshan Library, building public stadiums, and preparing for the construction of county libraries. At the same time, it puts forward the idea of "all can run a school when Mao Ci goes out of the stage", which is hard to start a school. In 1932, he resigned as the director of the Provincial Department of education because of his efforts to make education funds independent and to appoint people on merit. In 1937, he was elected to the National Congress of the people's Republic of China, and was invited to participate in the Anti Japanese military consultative conference established by Zhang Zhizhong as a senator.

In 1938, the national government appointed the director of the Department of etiquette of the Ministry of the interior, and in 1939, the Hunan Provincial Council appointed the Secretary General. From 1940 to 1942, he was the principal of private Chuanshan middle school. In 1946, he was elected as a senator of Hunan Province and a representative of the National Congress.

After the founding of new China, he first taught in Hunan University and was a researcher of Hunan Normal University in 1953. He is a member of the Hunan Provincial People's government, the first, second, third and fourth Standing Committee of the Hunan Provincial People's Political Consultative Conference, and the Standing Committee of the Hunan Provincial Committee of the democratic revolution. In 1959, he served as deputy director of Hunan Literature and History Research Institute. He sincerely trusted the leadership of the Communist Party and cared about the cause of socialist construction. Although he was over 60 years old, he still worked hard and led a delegation to inspect the grassroots units for many times. With his own learning experience, he often inspired and educated the members of the democratic revolution to improve their political and ideological awareness and contributed to the development and consolidation of the United Front under the leadership of the Communist Party of China. He paid more attention to agricultural production and farmers' living conditions. At the beginning of 1973, he learned that some areas of Zhuzhou County suffered from disasters, and immediately sent money to 3000 counties for disaster relief.

achievement

He is particularly concerned about the development of culture and education in his hometown. In 1931, he purchased more than 1000 copies of the universal library published by the commercial press and donated them to his alma mater, CHENXIAN United middle school CHENXIAN people's library. During the Anti Japanese War, he made a speech at the schools in his hometown, advocating the hard running of schools and the development of education according to the existing conditions.

He is strict in self-discipline and indifferent in ambition. He was a senior official in the old society and insisted on living with coarse tea, light rice and cloth clothes. When he was president of Hunan University, he donated all the Dai Lu, who had been a member of the provincial government for two years, to Hunan University and built an office building in the city. He was not afraid of power, but he was very considerate of the staff. He is rigorous in his studies and careful in his writing. His posthumous works include explanation of Chinese difficult words and dictionary of Chinese English idioms. His noble moral character, optimistic spirit and open mind can be regarded as a model for future generations.

He died on June 12, 1978 at the age of 89.

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