Since ancient times, in the history of the Chinese nation, many great people have appeared, and many filial pieties have also appeared. And Sheng Xuanhuai is one of them, Sheng Xuanhuai in order to otherwise cross the ancestral tomb of the Sheng family on the railway, modified his seven years of painstaking efforts. In order not to let the railway destroy the ancient buildings in his hometown, he was under tremendous pressure to overcome public opinion.
If you want to talk about the famous filial piety in history, there must be a Sheng Xuanhuai.
11 items in China first
Sheng Xuanhuai, also spelled Xingsun, was born on November 4, 1844 and died on April 27, 1916, and was known as a famous politician, entrepreneur and philanthropist
''Father of Chinese Industry'' and ''Father of Chinese Business''
。
Sheng Xuanhuai's life can be said as a legend,
He created 11 '' China Firsts
'': The first civil joint-stock enterprise steamship China Merchants Bureau; the first telegraph bureau, the General Bureau of China Telegraph; the first inland small steamship company; the first bank, China Commerce and Commerce Bank; the first railway trunk line Beijing-Han railway; the first iron and steel joint venture Hanyeping Company; the first higher normal school Nanyang Public School; the first mining company; the first public library; the first modern university Beiyang University Hall; and the founding of the Red Cross Society of China.
Sheng Xuanhuai has made great contributions to China's economy, education, and public welfare undertakings, and can be said to be a truly great man.
A lifetime for the country
Sheng Xuanhuai was born into a bureaucratic landlord family in the 24th year of Emperor Xuanzong's reign, and when Sheng Xuanhuai was 16 years old, the Taiping army attacked Changzhou, which was Sheng Xuanhuai's hometown. Sheng Xuanhuai fled with his parents to Changjing Town, Jiangyin, then to Yancheng, and finally to Hubei. A special escape experience was destined for Sheng Xuanhuai's extraordinary life.
The road to escape was destined to be bumpy, and in such a difficult environment, Sheng Xuanhuai did not give up his path of study. What he saw and heard along the way seemed to make Sheng Xuanhuai understand the importance of the road and communication to mankind, so he began to devote himself to the railway industry and communication cause.
When Sheng Xuanhuai was 22 years old,
He returned to Wujin County with his second brother to take the boy exam
。 The following year, Sheng Xuan Huaixiang tried to fall in the first place. However, he did not give up for this, still enthusiastic about learning and public welfare undertakings, and later joined Li Hongzhang to assist Li Hongzhang in foreign affairs, and began his own business road.
Sheng Xuanhuai's success is not accidental, but relies on his tenacious faith and loyalty to the country and the people. Sheng Xuanhuai's whole life has been dedicated to the country, and his life is worth learning and commemorating for future generations.
Sheng Xuanhuai has held many positions, including the inspector of the Steamship Merchants Bureau, the general office of the China Telegraph Bureau, the supervision of The Huasheng Textile Factory and the China Railway Corporation. From each of his positions, it is not difficult for us to see that Sheng Xuanhuai's efforts in Chinese business have been rewarded with all their efforts.
In these foreign affairs activities,
Sheng Xuanhuai deeply felt the importance of being familiar with foreign languages and technologies
He put forward the proposition that "the head of self-improvement is in The Reserve Talent, and the Chu Talent Must First Develop and Learn", so he began his road to running the school, and actually established the Nanyang Public School after the establishment of the Tianjin Chinese and Western Academy. During his education, he sent 58 outstanding students to Germany to study abroad, laying the foundation for the establishment of a modern engineering university.
He is also enthusiastic about public welfare undertakings and actively participates in disaster relief. With his own ability to help those refugees who were struggling in the disaster, when the flood in Hebei was infested, Sheng Xuanhuai and his father went to the disaster site to provide disaster relief for the people. He also set up a charity for orphans and widows left over from the severe drought in Hebei.
This was his first time involved in a public welfare undertaking. From this beginning, his public welfare work never stopped. thereafter
Sheng Xuanhuai also founded the Red Cross Society of China,
He has been a host of charity activities for decades, and his great love will be preserved forever by history.
14 km filial piety
More than 100 years ago, China's railways were extremely backward, and due to the social reasons at that time, internal and external troubles were worried. It is extremely difficult to develop the railway industry in China, but Sheng Xuanhuai firmly believes that only by repairing the road can the people have hope.
The Luning Railway is a railway from Shanghai to Nanjing in China. In 1989, the British government requested the Luning Railway from the Qing government on the grounds of most-favored-nation treatment. At that time, the Qing government, which was in a weak implementation, could only agree to commercial operations. Sheng Xuanhuai was the inspector of the Railway Corporation at that time.
He signed the "Luning Railway Loan Contract" with the foreign bank, so he officially began to build the Luning Railway.
Sheng Xuanhuai spent seven years planning, deliberating the railway route again and again, but in
Changzhou
This terrain is difficult. Changzhou, through which the Luning Railway passes, is Sheng Xuanhuai's hometown. Sheng Xuanhuai was undecided about this railway and pondered repeatedly. Because the ancestral grave of the Sheng family happened to be on the planned railway hill, Sheng Xuanhuai did not want to let his ancestors be disturbed, and this section of the railway would not only be destroyed
Sheng family ancestral grave
still
It will destroy the integrity of changzhou's capital YaxueFu and many ancient buildings.
Sheng Xuanhuai thought twice and decided to go around the bend and avoid moving the soil on the ancestral grave.
At the same time, it has also preserved the integrity of the Changzhou Capital YaxueFu and many ancient buildings.
Because the Luning Railway is borrowed from the United Kingdom, in order to save costs, the entire line is close to the household in a straight line, but it is 14 kilometers around the bay in Changzhou. The story behind this has to be pondered. Everyone should know how difficult Sheng Xuanhuai's decision was, and everyone should know that once the railway is planned, it is extremely difficult to modify it, and it is conceivable that Sheng Hua has experienced how much pressure to make such a decision.
Filial piety has always been a traditional virtue of Chinese culture. However, from ancient times to the present, there are several people who can really achieve filial piety.
I think Sheng Xuanhuai is one of them, since ancient times, loyalty and filial piety are difficult to complete, but Sheng Xuanhuai has done it.
The 14 kilometers preserved are not only the ancestral tombs of the Sheng family, but also the filial piety of Sheng Xuanhuai. And many of the ancient buildings that have been preserved have also created conditions for us to feel history and touch history. A decision by Sheng Xuanhuai made me see the culture and civilization left behind, and also let us see a great man who loved the country and loved his family.
Sheng Xuanhuai's filial piety will always be the traditional Chinese culture we should remember, in this era of information explosion, we accept more and more new things, disdain for the culture left behind by their ancestors, those great people use their lives to tell us a truth, to create a better civilization for us, we should not abandon these civilizations and cultures.
Only when we remember the lives of these great people, learn from their excellent qualities, and inspire them, can our nation have a future. From Sheng Xuanhuai's body, we see that it is not only him as a person, but also what he has done, what he has done and said, which we should admire, and at the same time, we are proud, proud that we have such a great ancestor.
The 14-kilometer filial piety is a warning to us that a person should love his family and love the country, which is our belief.
In filial piety the priceless article says: "Some things, when we are young, cannot be understood. When we understand, we are no longer young. There are things in the world that can be made up, and some things that never make up. 'Yes, we don't have to wait for the loss to regret, at that time we regret it is useless, no matter how sorry we can not go back to the past time, no matter how regret can not see the voice of our parents, so do filial piety! Before you have time.