Qingpu Wenlian has done a good thing, the story of Xia Ruifang and Dong Jianwu, the historical celebrities of modern Qingpu, is vividly displayed in the form of hand-drawn books, which makes many book lovers fall in love. Qingpu is a historical town on the outskirts of Shanghai, and before the birth of the magic capital shanghai, there was Qingpu. The earliest shanghai sea trade was from Qinglong Town in Qingpu. Qingpu people are brilliant and rich in products. With the change of light, there is no shortage of people. However, the former bustling place was gradually replaced by the urban Shanghai. In modern times, Qingpu celebrities are still emerging, but their careers and lives are all associated with Shanghai's urban life. Taking the "Xia Ruifang Childhood Story" and "Dong Jianwu Childhood Story" launched by Qingpu Literary Association as an example, we can feel how Qingpu people have gone out of the rural world in modern times and received education in modern cities, thus starting their own life career.
Xia Ruifang may be unfamiliar to many readers today, but few people will be unfamiliar with the Commercial Press. The Xinhua Dictionary and Modern Chinese Dictionary, which are most used by children, are published by the Commercial Press. Before 1949, the largest publishing institution in China was the Commercial Press. One of the founders of the Commercial Press is Xia Ruifang. Xia Ruifang was born in 1871 to a poor family in Zhangxiang Village, Zhujiajiao, Qingpu, where her mother worked as a nanny for the church's pastor's family in Dongjiadu, Shanghai. Xia Ruifang grew up in the water town and has been smart and smart since childhood. It is said that when he was 11 years old, one day his mother wanted to go back to Shanghai, and Xia Ruifang accompanied him all the way, and he must go to Shanghai with his mother, but how could a person who worked as a nanny in someone else's house take his children with him? Xia Ruifang said that she would go with her mother, and when she arrived at the ferry, she even committed suicide by diving to show her determination to go to Shanghai. The mother was stubborn but her son, so she took the child to the pastor's house where she was working, and the pastor saw that Xia Ruifang was very spirited, so he let him study at the Qingxin Academy run by the church, where he met the children born in the pastor's family, Bao Xian'en and Bao Xianchang' brothers. According to their classmate Gao Fengchi, after graduating from Qingxin College, Xia Ruifang and the Bao brothers went to the British-run Jiebao Hall to do English typography. Xia Ruifang is often taken out by her boss to pursue advertising and business because she is very bright. This experience cultivated his business vision. Xia Ruifang married the sister of the Bao brothers. In 1897, Xia Ruifang and the Bao brothers jointly set up a printing workshop, named the Commercial Press, mainly to help Shanghai merchants print advertising bills, etc., is a veritable commercial press, the business is mainly printing. However, Xia Ruifang, who is very market-conscious, found that there are many people seeking jobs in places such as Shanghai Ocean Line, and English teaching materials for training English are extremely scarce. He used his own English textbook for the Training of Indians in the British when he was studying at Pure Heart College, paired with Chinese re-typeset and published, unexpectedly selling very well, and more importantly, the income was much higher than that of printed commercials. As a result, Xia Ruifang was determined to change her business from printing to publishing, and started with the publication of textbooks. In the process of publishing textbooks, he also encountered many ups and downs, and finally met Zhang Yuanji, who worked at Nanyang Public School, so that Xia Ruifang's career life had a fundamental turnaround, and the Commercial Press later hired Zhang Yuanji to serve, and only then did he really embark on the road of publishing. Xia Ruifang's career life, one is from Qingpu to Shanghai, received a church education; the other is to found the Commercial Press, get to know Zhang Yuanji, and embark on the road of cultural undertakings. Without such an opportunity, there may not be Xia Ruifang, a modern Chinese celebrity.
Dong Jianwu was born in Qingpu County in 1891, with a solid family and a wealthy family. From an early age, he went to private school and entered Suzhou Taowu Middle School to study. Taowu Middle School is a religious school. He later went to the Affiliated High School of St. John's University in Shanghai. After graduating from secondary school, he was admitted to St. John's University. After graduating from university, he engaged in the profession of pastor and also served as Feng Yuxiang's English secretary. After the May Thirtieth Incident in 1925, Dong Jianwu gradually turned to the left and joined the CCP, becoming a member of the special branch led by Chen Geng in 1928. He used his legal status as a priest to engage in secret work, known as the "Red Priest". He used his status as a priest to escort the American journalist Snow to Xi'an. Dong Jianwu founded the "Datong Kindergarten" in 1931, which took in the descendants of many revolutionary martyrs and made contributions to the Chinese revolution.
Xia Ruifang and Dong Jianwu, as local celebrities in Qingpu, started their first steps in life from Qingpu. He went to Shanghai to study and seek development, stepped onto the broad stage of life, and played an important role in the process of Chinese history. By their upbringing, people today may have a lot of emotions. They are first and foremost the pride of Qingpu, because they, today, when people trace these celebrities, pay special attention to the place of Qingpu. The cultural continuation of a place requires some cultural celebrities who have grown up locally as a symbol. Xia Ruifang and Dong Jianwu are modern celebrities who came out of Qingpu, and their achievements have been circulated in the local area to this day and have become valuable historical wealth that inspires people's spirits. Whether a place has cultural celebrities or not, sometimes the cultural impact on a place is enormous. Celebrity effect is not only a fashion chase, but also sometimes plays a role in cultural accumulation and cultural motivation. We see that some local cultures are often particularly highlighted by the emergence of celebrities. Like shaoxing in modern times, a number of celebrities such as Qiu Jin, Cai Yuanpei, Zhou Enlai, and Lu Xun were produced in a concentrated manner, and a number of cultural celebrities such as Lu Simian and Zhao Yuanren were produced in the Changzhou area of Jiangsu Province. This has not only greatly enhanced people's attention to the culture of these places, but also greatly promoted the emphasis on cultural education and cultural inheritance in these places. Cultural inheritance requires universal education, and the use of historical celebrity resources to carry out the popularization and inheritance of local culture is a very effective way and means. Perhaps, Qingpu Wenlian has noticed this, they are probably combining local cultural and educational resources, using the hometown and former residence of Xia Ruifang and Dong Jianwu as a base for student education practice, and using these local resources to educate today's children. Introduce a historical celebrity with the help of a hand-drawn book, and inspire today's children by a historical celebrity. I think that the friends of Qingpu Wenlian have indeed used their brains and spent a lot of effort in excavating local cultural resources. From the perspective of the form and function of this hand-drawn book alone, it is different, open the page, and you are greeted by the binding of the stereoscopic book, which is extremely beautiful, not only children like it, adult readers will also be happy for such a creativity, it is a rare edition of the book worthy of the name. The last few pages of the book are miniature editions that allow children to cut them by themselves and bind them into volumes. That is to say, let the children bind the book themselves to understand the origin of the book and cherish the fruits of their labor. Finally, the back cover of the book has a two-dimensional code that can scan the code to listen to the audio, with the help of high-tech means, to meet the various reading needs of today's children and readers, and obtain a richer reading experience.
In short, the two painting books triggered me to have a lot of reading feelings, and I took this opportunity to recommend these two books to everyone. (Yang Yang)