Wang Lifu

Wang Lifu

Wang Lifu, whose name is Zhicheng (1876-1950), also known as qiuran and Weng, was born in chenyingli, Longgang town. He lived here for 20 years and moved to Aojiang at the age of 21. In his later years, Wang Lifu wrote his own poem "Hai ran Shi", which was transcribed and proofread by himself. The transcripts and some deleted poems were preserved by his family until the end of the 20th century. In 1950, he died in Yongjia County (now Lucheng District, Wenzhou City) at the age of 75.

Life history

grow up

Since the age of 11, he has been learning from Liu Shaokuan and has become Liu's daughter. The 17-year-old scholar, while continuing to study, opened his own library to teach students, in order to maintain family income. In 1901, he was admitted to Shanghai Nanyang public school (the predecessor of Jiaotong University). Unable to enter the school due to poverty, he transferred to Hangzhou Wubei school. After only one year, he dropped out of school and returned to his hometown. He founded Xiaocheng college in Aojiang (later the predecessor of Aojiang public school). During this period, he sympathized with and supported Chen Daqi (later vice president of the examination institute), Tao Chengzhang (main figure of the Restoration Society) and Ji Baoquan (son-in-law of Zhang Taiyan), who had been arrested by the Qing government. On the one hand, he arranged teaching and covered their revolutionary activities. When they left, they helped them dress up and go out by sea boat. From 1903 to 1908, he was the director of Pingyang quanxue Institute and spared no effort to implement the new educational system. In particular, in 1905, he worked with Mr. Ruian sun Yirang in the general office of Wenzhou academic affairs office. Sun was strict in his requirements. He wanted to write without adding any words. Later, he recalled that it was very hard to write at that time, and it was almost difficult to cope with it. Finally, he was trained and benefited a lot. After 1908, the Qing government was preparing to establish a constitution. Advisory bureaus were set up in all provinces. Wang Lifu was elected as an advisory Councillor. Chen Fuchen (speaker), Chen Jingdi and Shen Junru (all vice speaker) were together. At the meeting, they complained about the advantages and disadvantages of Chen's provincial government, and asked questions to the governor's government. He was recognized by many people and elected as a member of the Standing Committee. Because of his outstanding achievements in running the Institute in Pingyang, he was appreciated by Yuan Jiagu, director of the provincial education department, and recruited as the head of the special section of the Institute. After the revolution of 1911, he joined the Republican Party organized by Zhang Taiyan and established a branch of the Republican Party in Pingyang. Soon after, Zhejiang declared its independence. Tang Shou? Was the governor of Zhejiang and set up the governor's office. Wang was the Secretary of the Secretary's office and was in charge of financial affairs. In dealing with the upper class, he had a deep understanding of officialdom corruption. In an election to assist the parliament, he hated the corrupt practices of some self styled revolutionaries in the election. However, he was beaten by the thugs of the bribery group. Although he was impeached later, as Wang Lifu later put it, "the gains from running the revolution are what we expect, and we deeply regret that the youth is impetuous.". He was tired of political life and yearned for Zhang Jizhi to set up industry in Nantong. In the winter of 1916, he was appointed as magistrate of Yin county. After only ten months, he decided to quit. "When the rain and snow come, it's the end of the year, and the boat will be broken again tomorrow in autumn. It's hard to get out of the boat until the current year comes.".

be in business

After returning to Aojiang from Yinxian County, he began to use his savings to set up red leather factories and bowl kilns, as well as run banks. Because he had no experience in business management, he suffered a series of failures until his second son, Wang Wenchuan, came out to uphold his father's will and founded Guangyuan business to manage the north and South goods. Later, acting as the agent of Guangji steamship of Shanghai Daxing steamship company, it opened the Aojiang Ruian Shanghai route, and gradually developed to Dalian, Yingkou, Fuzhou, Shantou, Hong Kong and other places in the south. It organized the export of tea, tobacco, rice, alum and other agricultural means of production produced in the vast mountainous areas of Northern Fujian and southern Zhejiang, and transported back to the northeast, such as bean cakes and Shanghai Feitian flour The exhibition of local agricultural production has played a good role in promoting the economic prosperity of Aojiang.

Public welfare

He has always been enthusiastic about serving local public welfare. For example, they set up schools, set up schools to encourage students, presided over the compilation of Pingyang County annals of the Republic of China, paid money to build roads, dug wells to improve drinking water conditions for residents, and so on. The development of Nanji Island is the most brilliant achievement in his life. Nanji Island is located in the East China Sea in the southeast of Cang (South) and Ping (Yang) counties (now belonging to Pingyang County). It is an isolated place for ships from north to south to stay. In Jiajing period of Ming Dynasty, in order to avoid Japanese pirates, a large number of Islanders migrated to the mainland, so it gradually became desolate. At the end of Ming Dynasty and the beginning of Qing Dynasty, Zheng Chenggong had stationed troops on this island. As a stronghold against Qing Dynasty, the Qing government never controlled and developed it, so it was not included in the territory. In 1905, ouhaiguan sent people to the island to survey and prepare to build a navigation lighthouse. Because the people on the island saw that they were all wearing suits, they falsely told the foreigners that they were trying to occupy Nanji. Wang Lansun, the magistrate of Pingyang, asked Wang Lifu to find out the matter, and then the magistrate made a mistake. In this inquiry, the motive of developing Nanji Island was inspired. In 1906, Rui'an and Pingyang counties argued repeatedly about the ownership of Nanji Island. Wang collected information and submitted it to Ouhai Daoli. According to the discussion, Pingyang was finally settled. In 1912 (the first year of the Republic of China), it raised 20000 yuan to establish Nanji fishing tenancy company and began to develop Nanji Island. The Canglang thatched cottage was built on the island and escorted by ships. At that time, there were only dozens of fishermen on the island, and the living conditions were difficult. Rice, salt and other goods were transported from the Aojiang River. When Wang Lifu first boarded Nanji in 1913, he wrote 15 characters: "Wang Hailan landed by sea in November of the Republic of China", which were engraved on the stone walls of Dasha'ao. In the future, we recruited farmers and workers and set up ships to escort, which greatly facilitated the transportation. After more than 20 years of hard work, they successively recruited immigrants and spent tens of thousands of yuan, increasing the number of residents on the island to more than 10000, officially becoming Nanji township. In 1939, Pingyang County established a county middle school, which donated all the land rights, funds and income of the company to the county middle school as a fund. In 1912, gentlemen Wang Xiaoting, Xiang Zhinong, Wang Zhicheng and Wang Zhiwen advocated the establishment of Xiqiao school. The school started in the same year with a total of 42 students from grade 1 to 4, who were divided into two compound classes. Because the school is located at the south foot of Jingshan mountain, the gate of Nanyan, it is called "Yanmen primary school"

Preface to Wang Lifu

Wang Lifu, whose name is Zhicheng (also written as "Cheng"), is also known as Rui, whose name is Jiancheng. When Nanji Island was developed, he called himself "qiuran on the sea" because he was named hairan. He was born in 1876 in chenyingli, Jiangnan District, Pingyang County (now Cangnan County), and died in 1950 in Yongjia County (now Lucheng District, Wenzhou City). He was 75 years old. In 1993, "Pingyang County annals" Volume 37 "people" has biography. As a child, Wang Lifu was poor and unable to extend his education. He began to live in Zhangjiabao (now the suburb of Longgang Town, Cangnan County) as an attached student of the Yang family at the age of 9. At the age of 11, Liu Shaokuan, a scholar from a neighboring village, was invited to teach to the Yang family in Zhangjiabao. Wang Lifu and Yang Mu became the first batch of students of the Liu family. Wang Lifu once said that he was "young and impetuous". On the other hand, this "flippancy" means the courage to practice, to venture and to do. At the age of 34 in the first year of Xuantong (1909), he was elected as a member of the Provincial Consultative Bureau. Although he had low seniority, he had the courage to speak and act, which was highly appreciated by his colleagues. He was also praised for his ability as the section chief of the academic envoy and the Secretary of the governor's office. What he learned from Liu Shaokuan is mainly some basic knowledge of literature and history, some common sense about the political situation at that time, and a little bit of experience in running a local school. Such a little capital alone is not enough to meet the new situation and new requirements. However, with a positive attitude of pioneering and enterprising, he continuously increased his talents in practice, constantly surpassed himself, and finally completed his lifelong career It's a big leap. This kind of achievement, in his generation of county students is very outstanding, more than a large number of life-long "Kong Yiji" corrupt Confucians dare to compare. In the first year of the Republic of China (1912), he raised 20000 silver dollars to reclaim Nanji Island, which was a very bold initiative. In 1949, Wenzhou poet Liu Jingchen wrote a preface to the poem "Hai ran Shi". He especially emphasized Wang's action, saying that he "can build extraordinary achievements" and "it is enough for the poet to open his eyes". Since then, he has been known as "hairbeard", which shows that he also attaches great importance to this measure. From the perspective of ideological history, this kind of meritorious service has a deep origin with Yongjia school's idea of paying attention to meritorious service in Song Dynasty, and also fits in with Yan Li's view of practice in early Qing Dynasty. Therefore, it can also be said that it is one of the major positive achievements made by Jin Hui, Liu Shaokuan and others since they jointly created a new style of study in Pingyang. Most of Wang Lifu's poems and works are written after 1916. His anthology and diary have been destroyed in the war, so we can only see some scattered words. His "wanshishan tomb list" is highly praised by Liu Shaokuan, which shows that his writing style is quite the style of his teacher. According to Professor Wang, what he said was also this kind of practical writing. But in another kind of writing, collation of the Southern Tang Dynasty and chronicle of Mr. Baisha Liu (unfinished), which he himself and his family attach great importance to, there is a different phenomenon: his determination is great, he works hard, but the result is disappointing. There are no original Lu's book, Zhou's annotation and any problems worth exploring in the history of the Southern Tang Dynasty. The unfinished chronicle can only be regarded as a preliminary attempt. If we can see the author's leisurely and free manner in the former type of works, then in the latter type of works, we can see that the author is powerless or even unwilling to fight. In the fourth year of the Republic of China (1915), when Liu Shaokuan was in charge of compiling Pingyang County annals, he hired Bao Mingshu, Zhou Gu, and Liu Shaokuan

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