This patriotic democrat is very powerful, he was a 26-year-old man, the next year he was a soldier, after the Xinhai Revolution, the founding of the Republic of China, he was elected as a member of the first National Assembly, after the founding of New China, he served as a member of the Central People's Government, vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and other positions, so who is he, how is his life, let's review it together.
His name is Chen Shutong, a native of Hangzhou, Zhejiang, who has a high degree of achievement in poetry and ancient texts, a 26-year-old high school scholar, a 27-year-old middle school scholar, and a mid-level examination, and a hanlin academy editor. At the age of 28, he traveled to Japan, was admitted to Hosei University, and returned to China at the age of 30, where he was enthusiastic about social change and advocated women's liberation.
After the Xinhai Revolution, the Republic of China was founded, he was elected by Zhejiang Province as the first member of the National Assembly, after Yuan Shikai stole the achievements of the revolution, he and Liang Qichao, Cai Yi and others launched an anti-Yuan struggle, and then at the invitation of Zhang Yuanji, he left Beijing to go south to the commercial printing management work, he established and improved a set of scientific management system, so that the commercial press publishing speed, quality and sales service, etc., are in the leading position in the domestic industry, for China's cultural education to make great contributions.
After the outbreak of the Songhu War of Resistance, he actively participated in the activities of collecting donations for the labor army, and after the July 7 Incident, he wrote a poem condemning the shameful acts of the Japanese Kou, when the situation in Shanghai was dangerous, he closed his doors and sternly refused to let the Japanese puppets attend the puppet post. After the surrender of the Japanese Kou, he discovered that the Communist Party was the hope of the Chinese nation, so he made a comeback in his ancient form and threw himself into the torrent of anti-civil war, peace, dictatorship, and democracy.
In the summer of 1947, the Kuomintang government issued the so-called "General Mobilization Order for The Investigation of Chaos" to intensify the suppression of the Communists and revolutionary people in the Kuomintang areas; he remained in Shanghai, persisted in the struggle, and often wrote down the situation of the anti-Chiang Kai-shek struggle in Shanghai and his opinions and suggestions on various issues in secret letters and brought them to Hong Kong to maintain close contact with the CCP. After the founding of New China, he successively served as a member of the Central People's Government Committee, vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and vice chairman of the Chinese Committee for the Defense of World Peace.
It is worth mentioning that he donated all his collection of Hundred Meitu and other precious cultural relics to the country, the leaders of our party also have great respect for him, the chairman also called him "Uncle Lao", he experienced the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the Republic of China, new China in his life, and finally found the light, we want to learn from his continuous learning, continuous progress, to the noble quality of the old and tireless, unfortunately, he died in Beijing on February 17, 1966, at the age of 90.