Ren Xifen

Ren Xifen

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Ren Xifen? He was born in Yixing, Jiangsu Province. In 1876, the second year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty, Bingzi moved to Sichuan Province. There is a poem of the humble old man.

Life of the characters

Ren Xifen is not only praised for being diligent, honest and virtuous because he is good at government affairs, but also very keen on philanthropy and loving the people.

In 1876, Ren Xifen, who had just been elected, appealed to the people with spare power to save money and help the local people to raise tens of thousands of money in order to save the poor people who suffered from successive years of famine in Shanxi.

In 1879, there was a flood in the capital area. Ren Xifen tried to raise more than 100000 liang of silver and went to the disaster area to provide rice, food, clothing and quilt for the famine stricken people. In order to avoid false claim of relief materials, Ren Xifen also verified the identity information of the victims one by one. Since then, he set up a medical bureau to provide medical treatment for the refugees.

In 1888, Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces suffered from floods. Zeng Guoquan, then governor of the two rivers, was known as a "good relief man" in Xifen, and appointed him to take charge of flood rescue. After Ren Xifen took the order, he immediately launched a charity campaign, tried his best to raise money, and finally raised millions of money to go to the disaster area to rescue many victims.

Ren Xifen's benevolent deeds were highly appreciated by Zeng Guoquan. He went to the imperial court for a reward. The Qing government soon sent him to Hangzhou, Jiaxing and Huzhou as a Taoist priest twice, and then sent him to Sichuan as a Taoist priest in the east of Sichuan to take charge of the administrative affairs of Chongqing.

After Ren Xifen took office, he introduced measures to stabilize food prices and build water conservancy projects, which made the territory under his jurisdiction Da'an. When Ren Xifen was ready to carry out the new deal, he was dismissed by the Qing government because he was too soft hearted to deal with the conflicts between the local people and foreign missionaries in time.

At the end of his official career, Ren Xifen devoted himself to charity. At this time, the war of aggression against China broke out, and he met the Red Cross for the first time.

In 1900, the Allied forces of eight countries invaded China. Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu fled to Xi'an, but the officials, businessmen and people who did not escape from Beijing and Tianjin had no way to survive and were in urgent need of humanitarian assistance.

In order to help the refugees in the north, Yan xinhou, Shi Zejing and other relief leaders, inspired by Lu Shufan's creation of the China Relief Society by "imitating the constitution of the Taixi Red Cross", also set up the relief Bureau (soon renamed southeast Relief Society) by "imitating the will of the red cross". As a well-known relief expert, Ren Xifen was invited to join in and work with Shi Zejing in Shanghai to plan the rescue operations of the society.

With the efforts of Ren Xifen and others, Jiji Charity Association finally raised more than 500000 liang of charity funds to escort the refugees from the South back to their places of origin, at the same time, they scattered rice and porridge to the refugees from the north to help them. Ren Xifen's experience in handling the emergency relief and Charity Association gave him a better understanding of the "Red Cross", which was an important opportunity for him to participate in the establishment of Shanghai International Red Cross Society in the future.

At the beginning of 1904, the war between Japan and Russia started in Northeast China. The corrupt and incompetent Qing government was not only unable to prevent the local people from suffering from the havoc of the war, but even declared "external neutrality" under the intervention of foreign powers, and designated the area east of Liaohe River as a war zone, which was trampled by Japan and Russia.

They could not bear to see their compatriots suffer from this catastrophe. The Shanghai gentry and merchants headed by Shen Dunhe and Shi Zejing quickly took action. Drawing on the rescue experience of the gengzi years, "they planned to aid the Red Cross Society of all nations" and created the "Red Cross Charity Association of the three Eastern provinces" to prepare to go to the northeast to rescue the victims. However, Japan and Russia, which have yet to decide the outcome, do not recognize the "Red Cross Charity" as an informal organization, so the rescue work can not be carried out. Finally, with the help of the missionary Timothy Lee, Shen Dunhe, together with the representatives of China, Britain, France and Germany, held a meeting in the Department of industry of the British concession in Shanghai on March 10, 1904, announcing the establishment of the Shanghai International Red Cross Society and the birth of the Red Cross Society of China.

In order to highlight the characteristics of "joint operation of China and the west", Shanghai Wanguo Red Cross Society adopts the board system, which is composed of 45 Chinese and foreign directors, and nine "managing directors" are elected from among them to be responsible for the specific implementation of various affairs of Shanghai Wanguo Red Cross Society, including seven Western directors, and the Chinese directors are Shen Dunhe and Shi Zejing. Shi Zejing, as one of the Chinese directors, felt that there was a lack of Chinese power in the meeting. He strongly invited Ren Xifen to join in as the third Chinese director.

Ren Xifen took over this important task and went all out to handle the affairs of the meeting. Moreover, he recommended his son Ren Fengbao to be the general secretary of Shanghai International Red Cross Society, responsible for all kinds of documents and daily meeting affairs, and sharing the work pressure of Shen Dunhe and others. Ren Fengbao lived up to people's expectations and arranged the affairs in an orderly way, which won the unanimous approval of Chinese and foreign directors.

After the end of the Japanese Russian war, Ren Xifen and his son, Shen Dunhe, Shi Zejing and other 12 Chinese, and Li Timothy and other 30 Westerners, as "founders and clerks", were commended by the imperial court for their diligence and ability, and won the "first-class gold medal of the Red Cross Society of China".

Since then, the Red Cross Society of China has embarked on the road of independent development. In order to lay the foundation for career development, Shen Dunhe set up hospitals and schools, and Ren Xifen actively assisted.

After the outbreak of the revolution of 1911 in October 1911, Shen Dunhe initiated the establishment of the "board of directors of the Red Cross Society of China" in Shanghai. Ren Xifen was elected as a director to raise funds and provide support for the rescue of 1911. During the period of the Republic of China, Ren Xifen gradually faded out of the Red Cross because of his old age. His son Ren Fengbao took over his father's mantle and continued to engage in the cause of the Red Cross.

Character evaluation

In 1918, Ren Xifen died of illness in Shanghai. The people in Yixing, his hometown, expressed their gratitude for his good deeds all his life. They actively raised funds to build a special ancestral hall for him. Then president Xu Shichang presented a plaque to praise him.

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