Contemporary cultural figure Hu Qiuyuan first visited the mainland with Jia Yibin (right) at the ancestral house of Hujiawan in Huangpi, Hubei Province' 1988.10
Cultivate and read heirlooms for a long time; educate and rejuvenate the township chief. "Cultivating and reading heirlooms", a traditional Chinese family style tutor, has penetrated the hearts of thousands of families for thousands of years, and the Hu Qiuyuan family, a giant of contemporary culture, has written into the Hu family tree and continued through the generations. Hu Jiashan, Hu Kangmin, Hu Qiuyuan and Hu Yeyu, who are well-known in modern and contemporary education, all came from the same family - Hujia Dawan in Shikesong Village, at the northern foot of Mulan Mountain in Huangpi County, Hubei Province (now Huangpi District, Wuhan City). Today, the two old houses here are physical evidence of this cultural imprint.
Hu Kangmin and Hu Qiuyuan's descendants at home and abroad are looking for roots
Standing on the ancient Hubei to Henan Post Road, the main road from Huangpi to Dawu, the Huang (Pi) Tu (Gang) Highway (i.e. the 107 National Highway Old Road), overlooks Hujiawan, which is a Ming Dynasty village that follows the "negative yin and embrace the yang" - building feng shui on the mountain and water. Then, we walked through the fields and ponds in front of the village, and then followed the sheep gut trail to the east of the mountain behind the village, and the Mulan Mountain in honor of General Mulan was covered with water, across the Xian River (a section of the Water River).
Overlooking Hu Qiuyuan's former residence, Hujiawan
Descend down the mountain and look closely at the former residence of Hu Qiuyuan, a two-story house of a traditional civil building. That is, the foot of the gable wall is laid by mountain stone, and the wall surface is first earthen wall and earthen brick, which was built by Hu Kang in the eighth year of the Republic of China (1919). The inner room is a leather partition fan, and the main house has two floors above and below, and the light is three and the dark is six. The second floor is a wooden building, composed of stairs, beams, railings and floor slabs, where the Hu family packs books, clothes, quilts and important objects to avoid moisture.
Brothers Hu Qiuyuan and Hu Youmin personally told them that there was a large courtyard and a well in front of the ancestral house, and there were many ear rooms on both sides of the courtyard, the left side was the kitchen and the maid's food and accommodation room, and the right side was the agricultural tools and firewood room. Therefore, in the first complete biography of Hu Qiuyuan, "Hu Qiuyuan: From the Giant Pen of the War of Resistance to the "Icebreakers" on both sides of the strait," the author introduced this ancient mansion.
From left, Yan Chanjuan, Cai Jiayuan, Tian Tian, Fan Xing, Hu Bukai, Pei Gaocai, Chen Dakang and Taipei compatriots discuss "Hu Qiuyuan"
The front of the courtyard is made of stone, the main entrance is quite exquisite, the gate and the front wall are not on the same plane, that is, two steps back to "open the door", showing a "concave" character. It seems to have the meaning of "taking a step back from the sea and the sky". The arches are made of stone, and the standing doors and mahogany gates are red and white, which is spectacular. Due to the rain in the south, there is a corridor built on the inside of the gate, known as the corridor. It is connected to the porch of the main room and the wing room to facilitate passage on rainy days. After the land reform, the courtyard was gradually demolished and converted into a civil residence.
According to Huangpi's "Genealogy of the Hu Clan", in the second year of Ming Hongwu (1329), Hu Linchang was ordered to move from The Chopsticks Lane of Wadudun in Nanchang County, Nanchang Province, Jiangxi Province, to Hubei, and first lived in Macheng and relocated to Ziqiang Village, North Chongyi Township, Huangpi County. His descendants spread between Gwangju in Henan and Huangpi in Hubei, forming more than a dozen villages surnamed Hu. Among them, Hujia Dawan is located in the northern foothills of Mulan Mountain, southeast of the ten pines where the Huanshui River and Taoyuan River meet. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the early Min educators Hu Kangmin and Hu Qiuyuan grew up in Si.
From left, Hu Qiuyuan's eldest son Hu Bukai and the principal of Huangpi No. 3 Middle School are in front of the statue of Hu Kangmin in the school history room
As a modern educator, Hu Jiashan's greatest contribution was to cultivate two high-ranking people: Dong Biwu, the elder of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party and the founder of Wuhan Middle School; and Hu Kangmin, a famous rural educator and a scholar of Xinhai. In addition to donating funds to build the Hu Family School, founding the Daoming Academy and the private Qianchuan Middle School (the first middle school in Huangpi), Hu Kangmin also served as the director of the Huangpi Persuasion School (now the director of the Education Bureau) and the president of the Education Society for six years, and his performance was well-known throughout the province.
From left, Pei Gaocai and Hu Qiu's nephew and nieces and granddaughters took photos in front of Hu Kangmin's founding of Qianchuan Middle School, now "Kangmin Building"
In the winter of 1920, Hu Kangmin, together with Lei Zunwu, the head of the Daoming Primary School, and Zhao Nanshan, Li Shu, Yu Zihe, and others of Xinhai Zhishi, founded Qianchuan Middle School in the county seat, and hired Li Yuanhong, president of the Republic of China, as chairman and Tu Jiu'an as honorary principal. Hu Qiuyuan was one of the university's first graduates and was admitted to Wuchang University (now Wuhan University). The school also trained Pan Zhongru, commander-in-chief of the jute uprising, Wu Guanghao, deputy commander-in-chief, and Xiong Botao, the founding major general of New China.
Hu Qiuyuan wrote an inscription for the Wuchang Uprising Memorial Hall of the Xinhai Revolution in 1988.10
Hu Qiuyuan returned to his hometown in February 1946 to restore Qianchuan Middle School and served as the principal (until the end of 1949), and was also a professor at Fudan University and Jinan University. At the end of 1947, he ran for the qianchuan middle school campaign headquarters and was elected as a legislator of the first legislative yuan of the National Government in Nanjing. During his tenure as principal, Qianchuan Middle School trained the famous calligraphy and painting master Feng Jinsong and the famous scientist Li Changgeng.
Hu Moran (1897-1979), sent the name YeYu
Hu Qiuyuan's brother and famous rural educator Hu Moran (1897-1979), who sent the famous Yeyu, participated in the revolution in his early years under the leadership of Yun Daiying and Cai Minchen. After the defeat of the Great Revolution, he devoted himself to rural education, and successively served as the principal of the first department of Huangpi Middle School, the chief of the education section of the anti-Japanese democratic government in Huangpi County, Eyu Border District, the chief of the education section of the Eyu-Anhui Su Border District of the Edong Special Office of the Eyu Border Region, and the deputy principal of the Huang'an (now Hong'an) Middle School.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he successively served as the principal of Hankou Rotary Middle School (renamed Hankou Railway Workers' Children's Middle School in 1950, now Hantie High School) and the chief of the education section of Zhengzhou Railway Bureau. In 1954, as the principal of the middle school, he was elected as a deputy to the First People's Congress of Hubei Province.