Tomb of Lin Xiumei

Tomb of Lin Xiumei

Changsha cultural relics protection unit. Located at the foot of Yuelu Mountain, on the back slope of Zhixin village of Hunan University. He was moved here from Guangzhou in November 1928. The tomb is a semicircle, with rubble on the ground and granite on the top. The main stele is engraved with "the tomb of Lin Gong Yufan", the attached stele is engraved with "state funeral under orders" on the left and "Gu Dan in November of the 17th year of the Republic of China" on the right. The original facilities and tombs were destroyed along with the tombs in 1967, but they do not exist today. The cemetery was restored in 1987. In 1988, it was listed as a cultural relic protection unit in Changsha City.

Life of the characters

Lin Xiumei (1880-1921), a modern democratic revolutionary, was born in Anfu (now linli), Hunan Province. In his early years, he entered Hunan Military School in Changsha. In 1906, he studied in Japan and joined the alliance. He once served as chief of staff of the national defense army, commander in chief of the Xiangxi Yasukuni army, and lieutenant general of the army. In 1921, he served as an adviser to the Guangzhou military government, a member of the national assembly, and an acting chief of the army in the presidential palace. He died of illness.

Historical data

Lin Xiumei's tomb is at the back of Zhixin village at the junction of Hunan University and Hunan Normal University. Through some low houses, you can reach it by walking a few meters to the right along a small road. Because this area is relatively small, few people come here. Many people don't know Lin Xiumei's tomb or who Lin Xiumei is.

But looking back about a century, Lin Xiumei is very famous. Lin Xiumei's tomb is the third state funeral on Yuelu Mountain after Cai E and Huang Xing. Lin Xiumei was a valiant and influential general in the early Republic of China. He was the first to declare an uprising to protect the law and oppose the Northern Warlords. At that time, he was a household name in Hunan. Later, many military families in Hunan, including Mao Zedong, were influenced by Lin Xiumei. If Cai E is the first hero to openly oppose yuan Huguo and become famous, then Lin Xiumei is the first hero to openly oppose the Northern Warlord Duan Qirui's government and protect the law. In 1921, Lin Xiumei, 41 years old, died of dental disease. She was misdiagnosed and died in Guangzhou Sino French Taomei hospital (the predecessor of the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical College). Before his death, Lin served as the acting chief of the army in Sun Yat Sen's presidential palace, and was Sun Yat Sen's right-hand military assistant. After Lin died, Sun Yat Sen was very distressed. He immediately applied to the Congress for a state funeral, and pursued him as an army general. In November 1928, Lin Xiumei's coffin arrived in Changsha via Shanghai and was buried behind the Quzi temple in Yuelu Mountain. On the tombstone, it was engraved with the words "funerary state funeral, the tomb of Lin Gong bathing in fan".

Life experience

In his early years, he advocated martial arts. Most of the military policies of Hunan local government in the Republic of China came from him

On March 1, 1880, Lin Xiumei was born in Liangshuijing village, more than ten kilometers north of Anfu county (now linli County), Hunan Province.

His great grandfather and grandfather were county magistrate, and his father was a teacher. Lin studied with his father when he was young. When he was 16 years old, his uncle Lin Hongyi became the head of daoshui college in the county. He went to study with his uncle. Lin Hongyi is a very enlightened local scholar. He is the father of Lin Boqu (that is, Lin Zuhan), one of the earliest members of the Communist Party of China. Lin Xiumei is six years older than Lin Boqu. They are cousins. In this small place, there will be two powerful figures in the future.

During his stay in daoshui academy, Lin Xiumei not only studied traditional classics such as classics, history, books and collections, but also read Huang Zongxi's "on the original monarch", which gave rise to his dissatisfaction with the rule of the Qing Dynasty. He often read "Shenbao" and "Wan Guo Bao Bao" to learn about major events at home and abroad.

There was a story about Lin Xiumei when she was a child. She heard that her neighbor's farm cattle had been stolen. She chased the thief with a knife and finally recovered the cattle. Unlike Lin Boqu, a cousin who loves reading and is good at writing, Lin Xiumei has shown a warrior personality since she was a child.

Xiumei was gifted and intelligent. At the age of 21, he took part in the state examination as "the first student to become a doctor (the first scholar)", but he felt that there was no way to serve the country as an official, so he chose to practice martial arts to save the country.

Xiumei was admitted to Hunan Military Academy in 1903. It was a new military academy founded by Yu Lian, governor of Hunan Province. Lin Xiumei was the first student. Two years later, Lin graduated with excellent results and successively served as the district leader, speaker and artillery battalion commander of Hunan new army. In 1906, he studied in the Japanese army sergeant school at public expense, met Sun Yat Sen, Huang Xing and others, and joined the alliance.

In 1908, Lin graduated and returned to China. He was sent to serve in the Sichuan new army. The next year, he was ordered to train Tibetan soldiers in Tibet.

Together with Lin Xiumei, Chen Quzhen, who later became the "king of Western Hunan", went to Tibet. Lin was in charge of the Third Battalion, and Chen was in charge of the team. At that time, the situation was strange, and the local authorities of Tibet, who turned from anti British to pro British, sent nearly ten thousand Tibetan soldiers to prevent the Sichuan army from entering Tibet.

After Chen Quzhen asked Lin Xiumei for permission, she went to the Tibetan Garrison for reconnaissance and was captured by the other party. Although she was later released, Zhao Erfeng, Minister of border affairs, dismissed Lin Xiumei and let Chen Quzhen take over. Later, in his book a dream of dust in the wild, which is a personal love story, Chen mentioned the story. Lin and Chen had different personalities. In his book, Chen complained about Lin, saying that Lin was good at eating and robbed the soldiers of food.

After Lin Xiumei was removed from his post, he still did his duty. He wrote two books, travel notes to Tibet and the policy of governing Tibet, and admonished his superiors. He was also responsible for drafting the brief chapter of the Tibet governor's office, which put forward the plan of governing the army in Tibet, but none of them was adopted. So Lin Ci's team went back to the mainland via India and Myanmar.

Later, a minister of the Qing Dynasty took a fancy to the strategy of governing Tibet, and Lin Xiumei was transferred to Baoding, Hebei Province to participate in the preparation of military exercises.

On the eve of the revolution of 1911, Lin Xiumei returned to Hunan, followed Jiao Dafeng and other members of the alliance to recover Changsha, and then worked in the general staff of the Hunan governor's office. According to Cheng Qian, a classmate of Lin Xiumei's in Hunan military preparation school and former chief of staff of the governor's office, during the initial period of Hunan local government in the Republic of China, military policies and structures were mostly made by Lin Xiumei.

Address: at the foot of Yuelu Mountain, Yuelu District, Changsha, on the hillside behind Zhixin village, Hunan University

Longitude: 112.943227

Latitude: 28.184012

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