Former residence of Xu Guangping

Former residence of Xu Guangping

Xu Guangping's former residence is located in xudi (No. 33 and 34), Gaodi street, Beijing Road, Guangzhou. It covers an area of about 100 square meters. It is a two-story building. It is the only former residence of famous people in Guangzhou, represented by women. It has been listed as a municipal cultural relic protection unit in 1994.

Introduction to former residence

The former residence is a two room courtyard with Lingnan characteristics, which is inhabited by Xu Guangping's nephew and descendants. Xu Guangping is the seventh house of the Xu family. Her former residence has been built for more than 160 years. It is of brick and wood structure. The original mansion was divided into families. The carving and relief decorations on the four wooden doors outside the halls on both sides are mottled. The patio is occupied by three illegal kitchens. Because of years of disrepair, we can only vaguely see the four color mottled wooden doors standing outside the halls on both sides. Most of the supports of the wooden structure have been peeled off and cracked. Only from the hanging beast decoration on the ridge of the big blue brick house can we see the glory of the Xu family.

Life of the characters

Xu Guangping (1898-1968), pseudonym Jing Song, was born in Panyu, Guangdong Province. He was born on February 12, 1898 in a declining bureaucratic family in Guangzhou. In 1918, Xu Guangping entered Tianjin Zhili provincial first women's normal school as an undergraduate. In 1919, Xu Guangping participated in the May 4th Movement and served as the Journal of Tianjin Women's patriotic comrades Association, Xingshi weekly, which published many articles on women's issues. In 1923, he was admitted to the Department of Chinese language of National Beijing Women's normal university. Under Lu Xun's education and inspiration, her thoughts are constantly improving. As the director general of the student union, she became the backbone of the student movement in women's normal university. She once fought side by side with Liu Hezhen and others, and wrote a lot of fighting speeches to expose and criticize the dark rule of Duan Qirui's government. At this time, Xu Guangping also enthusiastically supported Lu Xun's creation and research work, often helped Lu Xun proofread and transcribe his manuscripts, and actively contributed to the mangyuan weekly founded by Lu Xun. On October 12, 1925, under the pseudonym of "Pinglin", Xu Guangping published the article "fellow traveler" in the supplement B of national news edited by Lu Xun, praising Lu Xun's "giving light and strength to mankind with warm love and great work" and making "the future world bright and brilliant", and expressing that she would not be afraid of the indifference and oppression of the human world, and the fierceness of the defenders of the old society Attack, go hand in hand with Lu Xun, wholeheartedly toward the direction of love. In August 1926, Lu Xun left Beijing to teach at Xiamen University. Xu Guangping went south with his car to work as the training director of Guangdong Provincial Women's normal school in Guangzhou. In January 1927, Lu Xun also went to Guangzhou, where he served as Dean of academic affairs and director of Literature Department of Guangzhou Sun Yat sen University, and Xu Guangping served as his teaching assistant. On April 15, the reactionaries in Guangzhou carried out a counter revolutionary massacre. The city of Guangzhou was shrouded in blood. Lu Xun angrily resigned from Sun Yat sen University. On October 3, he and Xu Guangping arrived in Shanghai to concentrate on writing. In order to support and help Lu Xun, Xu Guangping resolutely decided not to go out to work. After that, she not only took good care of Lu Xun's daily life, but also searched relevant materials for Lu Xun, copied manuscripts, proofread and translated works with Lu Xun. Thanks to Xu Guangping's support, Lu Xun's achievements in his later ten years exceeded those of the previous twenty years. In memory of Xu Guangping's hard work, Lu Xun sometimes used the pseudonyms of "Xu Xia" and "Xu Ya" when he published his translation. In 1930, Lu Xun was wanted by the Zhejiang provincial Party Department of the Kuomintang for launching the great League of Chinese freedom movement and participating in the founding meeting of the "left wing League". Xu Guangping accompanied Lu Xun to seek refuge many times. On October 19, 1936, Lu Xun died. Xu Guangping is determined to accomplish Lu Xun's unfinished business. She compiled Lu Xun's 13 essays from 1934 to 1936 into night records, which was published in April 1937. In the name of "Sanxian bookstore", he published at his own expense copies of Lu Xun's slips and the last edition of qijieting's essays. After the fall of Shanghai in November 1937, Xu Guangping stayed in Shanghai to protect all Lu Xun's manuscripts and other relics. In April 1938, she compiled a collection of the collection. In August of the same year, initiated by Hu Yuzhi, Xu Guangping, Zheng Zhenduo and other 20 people formed the "Fu She", in the name of "Lu Xun Memorial committee", and under the leadership and support of the Communist Party of China, the complete works of Lu Xun (20 volumes) with six million words was published. At the same time, Xu Guangping bravely participated in the Anti Japanese struggle. She actively raised daily necessities, medicines and other comforts for the Anti Japanese soldiers. Xu Guangping wrote articles for Shanghai women, women's circles, Shanghai weekly, Shen Bao supplement free talk, Wen Wei Po supplement century wind, and published a large number of articles commemorating Lu Xun in order to break the enslavement propaganda of Japanese imperialism. After the Pacific War broke out in 1941, the Japanese occupied the Shanghai concession. In order to find the clues of Shanghai Anti Japanese intellectuals and publishing circles, the Japanese gendarmerie arrested Xu Guangping in the early morning of December 15, and tortured her to extort a confession, but got nothing. On March 1, 1942, Xu Guangping had to be released. Xu Guangping suffered from this persecution, his legs were not easy to move, and his hair was much gray. In the autumn of 1946, with the care and support of the Communist Party of China, Xu Guangping sorted out and published Lu Xun's letters, manuscripts and transcripts of more than 800 letters he had collected. Then Xu Guangping secretly went north to sort out Lu Xun's manuscripts and books in his former residence in Beiping, and met with Ye Jianying and others from the CPC office in Beiping. In 1947, Xu Guangping was the chairman of Shanghai women's Association and actively contributed to democracy weekly. At that time, she maintained close contact with the underground Party organizations of the Communist Party of China of the Shanghai Federation of students. She not only expressed moral support for the students' anti hunger, anti civil war and anti persecution movements, but also made many donations. In October 1948, Xu Guangping was secretly transferred to the liberated area through Hong Kong under the arrangement of the underground Party of the Communist Party of China. In September 1949, Xu Guangping was elected a member of the CPPCC. On October 19, he was appointed Deputy Secretary General of the Central People's government. She has been a member of the Standing Committee of the first National People's Congress since it was held in 1954. In addition, she also served as vice chairman of the all China Women's Federation, member of the Standing Committee of the Central Committee of the Democratic League, director of the women's Committee, and vice chairman of the Democratic Promotion Association. Shortly after the founding of new China, Xu Guangping handed over the publishing rights of Lu Xun's works to the State General Administration of publishing, and donated all Lu Xun's books, manuscripts and other relics to the relevant state departments. In October 1959, she completed nearly 100000 words of Lu Xun's memoirs. In October 1960, Xu Guangping joined the Communist Party of China. He died of illness in Beijing on March 3, 1968.

Address: xudi (33, 34), Gaodi street, Beijing Road, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou

Longitude: 113.2667492834

Latitude: 23.118851601689

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