introduction
Many of my peers this year attended the 30th anniversary party of college. Thinking about the source of drinking water, I miss my alma mater, Tianmen Middle School, even more. With this article, I would like to commemorate Mr. Hu Ziming and Mr. Shen Zhaonian, and pay tribute to the gentlemen of his alma mater who are highly educated and respectable.
History of Tianmen Middle School
Beard Ming chuan
Hu Ziming (1868-1946), also spelled Boyin, was a native of Hulijiatai , Baihu Township , Tianmen County ( now part of Hefengdian Village , Lushi Township ) . His father was Born in lanting, at the end of the Qing Dynasty, teaching for his profession. Ziming studied with his father since childhood and was diligent and studious. At the age of 18, he was admitted to the prefectural school and was a good student. In the twenty-first year of the Qing Dynasty (1895), Guangxu was promoted to a tribute, and Guangxu went to Beijing for twenty-five years to study at the Beijing Normal University (the predecessor of the current Peking University), and after graduation, he served as a member of the Ministry of Agriculture, Industry and Commerce. In the twenty-eighth year of Guangxu (1902), Nong Yinke was promoted in the Examination of Suncheon Province, and was awarded the title of Zhongxian Dafu (1) and succeeded to the Jin Dynasty (2).
After the Xinhai Revolution, Ziming left Beijing and returned to his hometown. In the autumn of 1912, he and Shen Zhaonian founded Tianmen Middle School, served as the principal, raised funds from various sources, and personally taught Chinese. In the spring of 1913, he was hired by the Financial Department of the Hubei Provincial Government as the chief of the section. In the same year, he took the county governor examination (3), successively acted or served as the governor of Youxi (now part of Sanming City), Pucheng (now part of Nanping City), Jianyang (now Jianyang District of Nanping City), Jinjiang (now part of Quanzhou City) and other counties in Fujian Province.
Mr. Hu Ziming
Ziming initially acted as governor of Youxi County in Fujian, but was transferred to Pucheng County in September 1915 after the expiration of his term. At that time, Pucheng society was in chaos, thieves were swarming, gambling was prevalent, smoke houses and gambling houses spread throughout urban and rural areas, Ziming went deep into the grass-roots level to investigate and study, punishment and reformation were carried out at the same time, gambling style gradually disappeared, and drug addicts were greatly reduced. In 1916, the squire Li Dihu founded the first private junior high school in Pucheng, and Ziming strongly supported it, donating 3-5 silver dollars a month and volunteering as a Chinese language teacher. In 1917, he majored in "Pucheng County Chronicle". In September 1919, Ziming stepped down from office and bid farewell to Pucheng, the people beat gongs and drums, and the "umbrellas of the people" filled the inside and outside of the yamen, and in the streets they passed, a mirror and a bowl of water were hung at the entrance of every household, indicating that Governor Hu was "as bright as a mirror and as clear as water" when he was in office. There was a commoner in Pucheng who sued a wealthy businessman for many years, and the county official changed several times, and the case could not be adjudicated fairly. After Ziming took office, through private visits, he found out the origin of the case and adjudicated the case according to law, so that the right and wrong could be immediately distinguished and the injustice would be snowed. When Ziming left office, this commoner sent a gift from his family to the ancestral "Green Jade Golden Hoop Yantai", ziming repeatedly refused, really could not be pushed back, had to give back sixty silver yuan to thank each other. Hu Ziming's achievements have been passed down from generation to generation in Pucheng, and the "Qingguan Pavilion" in the western suburbs is said to have been built for him and still exists (4).
The "Jianyang Literature and History Materials" records that Hu Ziming served as the governor of Jianyang County from 1919 to 1920, during which time he attached great importance to the establishment of schools. In view of the importance of women's education as important as that of men, he founded the first girls' higher primary school in the urban area, followed by several national schools for girls. In the "Second Anecdotes of Hu Ziming, Governor of Jianyang County in the Early Years of the Republic of China", It is said that Ziming once came to the Jianyang First Higher Primary School to proctor the mathematics examination of graduates, and found that a student named Lian Ying answered the questionnaire quickly and accurately, and he was very appreciative, and specially explained to the principal that he must mobilize the student to apply for the Nanping Normal School in order to further his studies and educate talents for the country. Knowing that Lian Ying's family was poor, I was afraid that he could not afford to read it again, and ZiMing was silent for a long time. After returning to the county, Ziming personally wrote a letter to the principal of Nanping Normal School, pleading for permission to waive all fees for Lian Ying. After receiving the reply, he personally went to Lian Ying's home with the principal to mobilize. Lian Ying later graduated from Nanping Normal School and served as a mathematics teacher in Jianyang County Junior High School and First Primary School (5).
There was once a group of pirates who occupied jinjiang and were evil for many years. After Ziming arrived as the governor of Jinjiang County, he sent troops to capture the bandit leader, and after repeated education, he was inspired, swore to change his former wrongs, and also took the initiative to sacrifice ancestral medical secrets to atone for his former sins, and the local bandits have since been traced.
In 1924, Ziming returned to Hubei and taught in schools in Hankou, Tianmen and other places. In 1932, Shen Zhaonian became the director of the Hubei Provincial Department of Finance and hired him as the section chief. In March of the following year, Shen Zhaonian was dismissed from his post for refusing to raise military funds for the National Government to "encircle and suppress", and Ziming was extremely unfair, and he wrote a poem "I don't want to add a green robe to my body, I don't want to wrap my waist around a golden hoop", and resigned and returned to my hometown. Since then, the library has been teaching for more than ten years, benefiting thousands of students. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the "Tianhan County Literary and Art School" was opened to disseminate progressive books and newspapers.
Zi Ming worked in calligraphy and painting, especially good at freehand plum, orchid, bamboo, and authored the "Collection of Poems of retreating from the temple", "Commentary on Zuo's Interpretation", "Commentary on the Ancient Classics of the Wang Family", "Ancient Interpretation" and so on. In 1946, Ziming died of illness in Wuhan at the age of 79 (6).
Tongyi poet Wu Bingyan has two poems entitled "Mr. Min of Banghu Province", the second of which is (7):
Flute plum blossoms mayday, Wen Xing suddenly fell by the river.
The eight Fujian political achievements are praised as good, and the three Chu officials are like sages.
An Shi Dream Chicken mourned this day, causing Wei HuaHe to ask what year.
The old people in the tomb withered away, and the old man was weeping with tears.
(1) Zhongxian Dafu: Qing Dynasty Wenshan official rank, Zheng Sipin, no real position. Nong Yinke, Wu Bingyan's "Mr. Min of BangHu Province" poem prologue as "Xin Ugly Keju Shun Tianxiang Test", left here for examination.
(2) General Discussion Doctor: Qing Dynasty Wenshan official rank, Zheng Sanpin, no real position.
(3) County Governor: Official name, known as Zhi County in the Qing Dynasty, abolished the government and prefecture after the Xinhai Revolution, only set up a county, and the county governor was the chief executive of a county.
(4) Ziming Pucheng Zhizhi, according to "Pucheng "Ten Thousand People's Umbrella" Farewell to leave the county governor" (written by Jiang Ren, published in "Fujian History", No. 05, 2017).
(5) Quoted from "Overview of Running Schools in Jianyang of the Republic of China" and Lin Bo's "Two Anecdotes of Hu Ziming, Governor of Jianyang County in the Early Years of the Republic of China", published in "Jianyang Literature and History Materials" Eleventh Series, pages 15 and 23, 1990.
(6) Unless otherwise noted, it is mainly compiled with reference to the 2012 "History and Character History of Tianmen Middle School in Hubei Province" and the 1989 "Tianmen County Chronicle" on page 922.
(7) Selected from "Di Xin Zhai Poetry Grass". Wu Bingyan (1877-1951), zi Yusan, nansan, also known as the master of Di Xin Zhai, Tianmen County Huangtan Qiwuling Village, late Qing Dynasty Xiucai, graduated from Hubei Provincial Normal School after the abolition of keju, lifelong teaching, in the early years of the Republic of China, served as a senator of Tianmen County, authored "Di Xin Zhai Poetry Grass", "Xiangdi Submission Case" and so on. The chronological order of Hu Ziming acting or serving as the governor of Youxi and other counties, the preface of the "Sending Hu Province Mr. Min Mr. Pucheng" of the "Di Xin Zhai Shicao" reads: "Mr. Youxi County, Fujian Province, has a political voice, rank man, and adjusts Pu City, that is, ancient Wu Xingdi." "The remainder is based on the year of the information noted above.
Shen Zhaonian biography
Shen Zhaonian (1879-1973), formerly known as Zhaolian, Zi Bifang, Pì (甓) Lu (pì) Lu, nicknamed Yong Gong, a native of ShenjiajiaoYuantai (now Chengjiamen Village, Jingtan Township), Tianmen County, entered a private school at the age of ten, and at the age of nineteen, he was admitted to an Anlu Fuxue School, and later entered the Mingda Academy in Tianmen County. In the 29th year of Qing Guangxu (1903), he transferred to Xiangyang Dao Middle School (later changed to Teacher Training), graduated in 1906, served as the administrator and teacher of the Higher Primary School Affiliated to Xiangyang Normal School, and in 1908 became the superintendent and teacher of The Anlufu Middle School, became acquainted with Bai Yuhuan and Zeng Jianjiang, members of the League who had studied in Japan, and accepted the bourgeois democratic revolutionary ideas.
When the Xinhai Uprising broke out, Shen Zhaonian rushed to Wuhan, joined the League, and served as the secretary of the First Police Station of the Uprising Gate. In August 1912, he joined the Chinese Kuomintang, and in the autumn of the same year, together with Hu Ziming, he founded Tianmen Middle School, which was appointed by the Provincial Department of Education as a superintendent. In the spring of the second year of the Republic of China, he succeeded him as the principal, and in the autumn of the same year, he went to the Financial Department of the Hubei Provincial Government to serve in the Financial Department, successively serving as the chief of the recording, the chief of the system and use section, the secretary and other positions, and at the same time, he was admitted to the private Hubei Law and Politics School, graduating in 1916. During his tenure as the head of the system and use section, he tried his best to provide funds for the private Wuchang Gongjin Middle School founded by Dong Biwu (where Lin Biao had studied).
Mr. Shen Zhaonian
In 1926, the Northern Expeditionary Army captured Wuhan, the Ministry of Finance was established in Han, and in the first year he served as the chief and acting director of the Treasury Bureau of the Ministry of Finance of the National Government. In 1932, he was appointed as a member of the Hubei Provincial Government and the director of the Department of Finance, with good financial management, good financial management, evidence for receipt and payment, spotless, and outstanding expectations. In March 1933, Chiang Kai-shek planned to carry out the fifth encirclement and suppression of the Red Army, and sent an edict to Shen Zhaonian to raise 2 million yuan in military expenses (hubei provincial bank issued bonds), and Zhaonian openly disobeyed: "I am in charge of the money of the people of Hubei, and I must be responsible for tens of millions of people in Hubei. So he was removed. Since then, he has closed his doors and devoted himself to the study of Buddhist scriptures, making a living from Han Mo. Later, he was hired as a director and a member of the Supervision Committee of hubei provincial banks, the director of the farmers' bank of The four provinces of Henan, Anhui and Gansu and the public treasury of hubei provincial banks, and a member of the hubei provincial tax supervision committee. In 1939, he became a member of the Provisional Senate of Hubei and later the Speaker. In 1946, he was elected as the supervisor of the Bank of Hubei Province, the "representative of the National Congress" who made the constitution, and served as the chairman of the Xingfu Trading Company run by the Hubei Provincial Bank and a member of the deliberation committee of the Hubei Aftermath Relief Sub-bureau. In 1948, he served as a member of the "Anti-Disorder Construction Committee", the chairman of the "Military Service Association" of Hubei Province, and the chairman of the Hubei Provincial Aftermath Relief Branch.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zhaonian successively served as a member of the Financial and Economic Committee of the Central and Southern Regions and Hubei Province, a member of the Hubei Provincial People's Government and the first chairman of the Provincial Cultural Relics Sorting and Storage Committee, the director of the Provincial Research Museum of Culture and History, a member of the Hubei Provincial Branch Preparatory Committee of the Kuomintang Revolutionary Committee, a member of the Central Unity Committee of the Kuomintang Revolutionary Committee, and a member of the Second National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
After hubei province suffered a huge flood in 1954, the librarians of the Museum of Culture and History were organized to examine the history and local history of Hubei Province and compiled a book called "Historical Materials of Natural Disasters in Hubei Province". In 1955, Hubei Province set up the Fang Zhi Revision Committee, zhaonian led the librarians to devote themselves to the work of revision, and at the same time sorted out the "Hubei Wenzheng", until 1966, it had compiled and published the Jianzhi of xianning, Xiaogan, Guangji (now Wuxue City), Yingcheng, Haoshui, Huangmei, Hanchuan and other seven counties.
Zhaonian was diligent in his studies, proficient in calligraphy, fond of collecting gold stones, especially devoted to the study of stone drum texts, and there are works such as "Stone Drum Literature Interpretation Supplement", "Inscription of The Golden Stone Hidden by Yonglu", "Yizhen Chuji" and other works. He died in Wuhan in April 1973 at the age of 95(1).
(1) Compiled according to page 930 of the Chronicle of Tianmen County, page 963 of the Chronicle of Hubei Province, Volume II, and page 276 of the History of Tianmen Middle School in Hubei Province, 2012.