Mr. Wu Xun was a pioneer of mass schools in modern China, a well-known civilian educator and philanthropist at home and abroad, who practiced begging for thirty-eight years, built three righteous schools, educated the children of countless poor families, and was the only person in Chinese history who was recorded in the history of beggars. Now let's get to know this ancient stranger. Wu Xun (1838-1896), born on December 5, 1838 (the 19th day of the 19th lunar month of the 18th lunar calendar of Daoguang), was born in Tangyi County, Shandong (now part of Guan County) to a poor peasant family in Wujiazhuang, Liulin Town. Originally known as Wu Qi,(because he ranked seventh in the family, he was named "Wu Qi"), also known as Wu Dou Mo, the Qing court in recognition of his work in establishing education, taking the meaning of "training in the world", changed his name to Wu Xun for him.
During the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, in the Wujiazhuang in Shandong, seven-year-old Wu Qiqi and his mother lived by begging for food. Passing by an academy this day, Wu Qiqi looked at the students inside curiously, so he went home and asked his mother what was the use of reading, and Wu Qiniang sighed and said, "Reading can be reasonable and will not be bullied by others, but only the children of rich families can read, and poor families can't afford to pay." So Wu Qiqi secretly planted the seeds of reading in his heart, and on this day he came to the street and learned to perform in the street like others were selling art. Day after day, I finally saved up some copper plates. Wu Qiqi came to the academy and prepared to study on the copper plates he earned, but was driven out by Mr. Teaching, and said, "Roll, you are also worthy of reading, books are what poor people like you can read?" Wu Qi's humiliation was tragically inflicted, and Wu Qiniang also died of overwork. The distant eldest lady saw that Wu Qiqi was really pitiful, so she took him home to raise him, but after all, the eldest lady was only a poor family and could not give WuQi a good life.
A few years later, 13-year-old Wu Qiqi, unwilling to cause trouble for his family, left home and wandered around working as a short-term worker. After several cold and summer temperatures, when he was 17 years old, he came to the Xue family shop in Guantao County and worked here. Wu Qi, who was honest and responsible, thought that although he could not read and did not understand much, as long as he worked hard and talked about conscience, he would not mix too badly. When he was working, when someone else carried one bag of grain, he carried two packs. When someone else carries two packs, he carries three packs. This kind of stupid strength was favored by Zhang Juren of Xue Family Store. His family was lacking a person who worked like this, and when Wu Qiqi met Zhang Juren, his two knees trembled unconsciously, his legs were weak and he couldn't stand up, and he stuttered when he spoke. As soon as Zhang Juren saw Wu Qi, he decided to accept him to the Zhang family as an errand boy, and since then Wu Qi's work has been a decent job.
Wu Qiqi worked in ZhangFu for six dollars a year, and in these days of miscellaneous work, he met Zhou Da, a coachman who was righteous and heroic, and the friendship between the two was quite deep. Fuli is a small jungle society, and the most statusless person is a girl named Xiao Tao. Zhang Juren has always been eyeing Xiao Taohu, which also makes the fourth wife and his servants regard it as a thorn in the flesh in their eyes. But Xiao Tao's life is also extremely pitiful, many years ago Xiao Tao's parents signed a contract with Zhang Juren because they could not afford to raise their daughters, originally thought it was just a foster contract, who knew that Zhang Juren bullied the couple into illiteracy, and replaced it with a deed of sale. In this way, even if Xiao Tao sold to the Zhang family, Xiao Tao did not recognize it, but she was powerless to resist. The harsh reality made Wu Qiqi gradually understand why the rich did not let the poor read; he also began to feel that the poor would be bullied if they were illiterate. Slowly, the germ of establishing a righteous school was born.
Wu Qi's work was hard, and the most tiring, heaviest, and dirtiest work was always his doing. In this process, Wu Qiqi developed a feeling of seeming nothingness with Xiao Tao, who was also sick. When Wu Qiqi was in his twenties, people from his hometown brought his nephew Xiaomao, who could not open the pot at home, and also brought the news that the eldest mother was seriously ill. Wu Qiqi wanted to withdraw the wages he had accumulated for three years, and entrusted someone to bring it back to treat the eldest mother. As soon as the old man heard it, he said that he went back to the house to check the account, and the old man brushed a little on the account book and immediately forged the false account that Wu Qiqi had once paid for the work. Then the old man's expression sank, angrily rebuked Wu Qi, and spent all his wages tomorrow morning, and now he came to ask for money to do things. When Wu Qiqi saw that Zhang Ju was a squire, and he was literate and hyphenated, but did not speak of conscience, he accused him of not bullying the poor. The old man heard the anger from the heart. Beckoning thugs to beat Wu Qi, he dragged him to the backyard firewood room.
Xiao Tao pleaded, but because of the jealousy of the fourth wife, things made things worse. The fourth lady ordered the thugs to draw another seventy or thirty whips. When Zhou Da learned of this, he couldn't bear it any longer, and rushed into the firewood room to fight with the thugs, Zhou Da reacted with infinite strength, knocked everyone to the ground, and rescued Wu Qi, the simple Wu Qi, because of this matter, the world view collapsed. After waking up, he didn't eat or drink, and his mouth kept muttering, "Stealing the light or killing the light is not okay, nor can it be done with conscience." ”
Suddenly he had an idea, he thought he was going to work, he really couldn't do it, he wanted to eat, the money he earned in a day could buy ten bricks, and ten days was 100 bricks. The accumulation of small amounts will one day build a righteous school for poor children. At this time, Xiao Tao escaped from the Zhang family after several waves, and finally found Wu Qi, and before entering the door, she also specially packed up and dressed up, and even brought the head flower left by her mother, she wanted to express her heart to Wu Qi's heart to live a small life together. At this time, Zhang Fu thugs chased after the door of the broken temple and forcibly took away Xiao Tao, it turned out that the butchers in the township had already given Zhang Juren five hundred and two names to marry Xiao Tao, Wu Qiqi stepped forward to prevent him from being beaten again, and Xiao Tao was dragged away helplessly. One day Xiao Mao suddenly ran to cry out of breath, saying that Sister Xiao Tao had hanged herself in order to preserve her innocence and had been dragged out and buried in the morning. Wu Qiqi was heartbroken and vowed to avenge Xiao Tao.
Wu Qiqi, with a deep hatred for the local tycoons and inferior gentry and a deep nostalgia for Xiao Tao, wandered around, worked everywhere, begged everywhere, the accumulation of a copper plate and a copper plate, and in the tenth spring and autumn he had saved 120 copper coins, but he always felt unsafe under the bed of the broken temple. Xiao Mao suggested that it would be better to be stored in the money shop and collect some interest, but Wu Qiqi was worried that those people would deceive him, but Xiao Mao guaranteed that he had learned some words in the medicine shop, and there were words that they could still play tricks.
From that day on, Wu Qi's work every night changed from counting money to checking the documents over and over again, but the money shop owner gambled and lost money within a few days. Zhang Ju's bodyguard, who was playing cards with him, listened to it, and the 120 hanging money that Wu Qiqi had just deposited had an idea. That night, he sent a thief to sneak into the broken temple and stole the note, Wu Qiqi woke up, found that the note had been lost, and then went to the money shop owner to tell the story, wanting the other party to reopen the note, but the money shop owner pretended to be stupid.
The money he had saved was stolen, everything started from scratch, and Wu Xun gritted his teeth and continued to set up a righteous school. At the snap of a finger, Wu Qiqi was already a 50-year-old man, working around begging, coupled with the various assistance of the people, he finally saved thousands of hanging money and could build a righteous school. Ke Wuqi was just a beggar, and he could not organize such activities at all, so he could only kneel in front of the squires and ask them to organize it. The local readers were touched by Wu Qi, and began to organize the construction of the Yixue School, and the people also came to help for free. Looking at Yi Xue's house, which was being built day by day, Wu Qi's heart smiled and blossomed.
When he had a house, he went to ask the teacher to teach, and asked the poor family to send their children to study. Although he was quiet, his heart was a joy he had never felt before, and the righteous learning was established, and Wu Qi's reputation was greatly enhanced. The people throughout Shandong regarded him as a saint, but he still maintained his original habits of life, living in broken temples and eating coarse grain, and the money he had saved was used to add yixue. One year, when Shandong encountered a famine, Wu Qiqi even paid for the relief of the victims, saving the lives of many people. Since then, Wu Qi's status in the hearts of the people has also become higher and higher, and although he has begged everywhere, no one has looked down on him.
Martial training for a lifetime, until he died forever in order to eat. At that time, because of the righteous school, he was already very famous in a radius of several hundred miles, at this time to ask for food, everyone did not say to take the leftover rice to him, but to make something to eat for him, but he did not eat, since it was delicious, while it was still clean and fresh. He sold it on the side of the road immediately, and the money was still given to the school, and he always chose the worst and worst food to barely fill his hunger, which was absolutely selfless. In the end, he also died of food poisoning. After his death, Wu Xun was buried in Chongxian Yishu in Liulin Town, and he hoped that under the Nine Springs, he could still hear the sound of reading aloud.
Feng Yuxiang, a famous general of the Republic of China, called him "a thousand ancient qiqi". Zhang Xueliang wrote an inscription for his tombstone, "Xingjian Kong Mo", elevating it to the height of Confucius and Mozi. In some schools in Shandong, the statue of wuxun is worshipped side by side with the statue of Confucius, and they are called "martial saints". The deeds of martial arts training and righteous learning have also been circulated abroad, and even the World Education Dictionary has been recorded, and Guo Moruo has compared him to "China's Pestellow".
Under the inspiration of Wu Xun's deeds before his death, some advanced people in China began to establish righteous studies in various places, which were always respected and run in large quantities. Between 1932 and 1935, Feng Yuxiang, who was the most important, founded 15 martial arts primary schools in Shandong. Duan Chengze, who was also a warlord, even poured out his family property to set up a new village in Baotou, invited the refugee beggars to stay and arrange work, and at the same time, founded a martial arts training school to atone for his sins. Later, Tao Xingzhi founded the Education Talent Primary School and Zhang Boling founded the Nankai School, which had a lot to do with the influence of martial arts.
Wu Xun worked as a beggar for thirty years, never married, spent all his money and wealth to build a school, and successively set up three righteous schools. Although Wu Xun could not read all his life, he made thousands of poor children like him realize the dream of reading and literacy. And his deeds, whether in China or in the history of education in the world, are unique and worthy of being remembered by the Chinese people.