Wu Lu

Wu Lu

Wu Lu (1845-1912), the word Sutang, and garden. At the end of Qing Dynasty, he was a political figure, educator and poet. Fujian Jinjiang Chidian qiantou village, is also the last champion in Quanzhou history. He has successively served as Shaanxi Dianshi, Anhui and Yunnan inspector, Yunnan examiner, Jilin tixue envoy, senior official. Wu Lu advocated teaching students in accordance with their aptitude, step by step, and reusing talents returned from overseas. Wu Luneng is a good calligrapher and painter. His style is solemn and majestic.

Profile

Wu Lu (1845-1912) was named Sutang, qieyuan, Laochi and Baihua nunnery. Qingquan Jinjiang Chidian qiantou village. He was born on July 21, the 25th year of Daoguang in Qing Dynasty. His grandfather was named Bi Jing, his father was named Hou Yu, and his ancestors were civilians for three generations. Tongzhi 12 years (1873) ascended extractive branch, into the Imperial Academy. In the second year, he was awarded the seven grade official of the Ministry of punishment. He was promoted to the head of the Ministry of punishment after serving as the general office of the judicial department in autumn. In 1886, Zhang Jing was examined as a military plane; in the 14th year of Guangxu, he won the Shuntian rural examination; in the 16th year of Guangxu, he was the number one scholar in the imperial examination, and he was the last number one scholar in Fujian imperial examination.

Character experience

He has successively served as the examiners in Shaanxi, the inspectors in Anhui and Yunnan, the examiners in Yunnan, and the tixue envoys in Jilin. Wu Lu took the revitalization of culture and education as his duty, and regarded the development of education as the first priority of his administration. When he was a supervisor of Anhui Taiping mansion, he donated 5000 yuan to promote the restoration of cuiluo Academy. He also wrote a note for the Academy, encouraging the later students to strive for progress. When he was appointed as Jilin tixue envoy, he donated 5000 yuan to set up the Tidu Xuezheng Office (at the beginning of Jilin tixue, Wu Lu was the first tixue envoy), and then donated 16000 yuan to rebuild the Confucian temple. When he was in charge of Yunnan, he started from the actual situation of Yunnan, and advocated that the study should not be consistent with that of other regions. He proposed the importance of this place, that is, to refine its chemistry, and to develop the source of agriculture and mining. Take the middle school as the general, take the western learning as the special, should have both, should divide. Wu Lu advocates that we should teach students according to their aptitude. If we excessively require students to take part-time Expo courses, we are afraid that they will not succeed in any field. Even if they are smart and outstanding, they can not take part-time jobs with one person.

Educational contribution

In order to revitalize education, he put forward the following suggestions: first, to raise funds and establish schools all over the country; second, to strictly supervise the government departments, prefectures and counties, to carry out the principle of strength; third, to select those who are proficient in learning and preparation, to seriously investigate; fourth, to encourage local gentlemen to work together to help. All these four ends should be put under the supervision of the governor and the manager, so as to achieve good results. When he was in charge of Jilin Province, he advocated Jilin education official newspaper, vigorously advocated teaching research and academic discussion, in order to promote education reform. At the same time, we should practice it and actively promote it. After the abolition of the imperial examination and the rise of the new trend of revitalizing schools, many people of insight went abroad to study. Wu Lu thinks that we should attach importance to these students studying in the East. He suggested that those who had passed the examination should use it out of the ordinary, or teach it according to their talents, or distribute it to provincial schools to serve as teachers, or apply for the new deal. Wu Lu became a senior official because of his outstanding achievements in education. Wu Lu is concerned about the fate of the country.

Academic works

During the Sino Japanese War of 1894, he put forward in the book of inviting the general to be dispatched to the enemy in order to divide the situation. It is pointed out in the treatise on the principle that those who can't do anything for the sake of politics will change and become more flexible that they are different from academics. It is emphasized that we should learn from history, adapt to time, and reform the old and bring forth the new. In the 26th year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty, when the eight nation allied forces invaded Beijing and Tianjin, Wu and Lu called out to arouse the patriotic spirit of the people and strengthen the joint defense of land and water. He pointed out in his book "ask the coastal navy to contact each other to boost the overall situation": it is better to take the northern ocean as the outline and the Southern Ocean as the key; take the army to guard its important areas and the navy to guard its Haikou. Unfortunately, it was not adopted. However, it was recommended by the main battle faction as the general military affairs. He advocated the management of the militia and held a unique view on the boxers and their activities. In the book "ask the Minister of the king of unification to make the boxer army brave and the officers and soldiers long and short time", he said: today's boxer army brave can be used to strengthen the military power. He suggested that the boxer army should be stationed in different places and cooperate with the officers and soldiers to achieve actual results. When the Eight Allied forces captured Tianjin, Ma Yukun retreated to BeiCang and excavated fortifications in the East and south of Beijing. He wrote to the military affairs office for commendation. Wu Lu refuted this in his "letter to Ma Yukun, acting Minister of military affairs", and then put forward the strategy of changing passivity into initiative: today's plan is to cooperate with all the armies, unite, affirm discipline, take vows in different routes, and forge ahead at the same time, encircle them with Xinyou in the south, attack them with Shengyuan in the west, and restrain them in the north, so as to overcome Jinjun and defend Jijiang.

Representative works

During the rebellion of gengzi, Wu and Lu lived in a lonely city, full of sorrow and indignation, and wrote a poem of hundred sorrows. Bai Ai Shi is divided into two volumes. It focuses on the tragic situation that the eight countries' allied forces attacked and plundered Tianjin and Beijing, the Empress Dowager Cixi took the emperor away, and the people were abused. At the same time, it strongly castigates those treacherous and sycophantic people who lost their teachers and lands, flattered foreigners and humiliated the country. Wu Lu was deeply saddened by the fact that the corrupt Qing government did not want to repent when the people were running out of money and the country was dying. In June of the third year of Xuantong (1911), he resigned and returned home. He died on October 8, 1912, the first year of the Republic of China. Wu Lu's works include the first edition of the elementary school, the lecture notes on the history of military classics, the purpose of education, miscellaneous works, the history of the state, collected works, after reading Wang Wencheng's economic works, diaries on the journey of Yunnan to the East, Zhengqi Yanzhai manuscript, Zhengqi Yanzhai poems, Baiai poems, zhitan, etc .

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