Portrait of Hu Xueyan
"For officials, you need to see Zeng Guofan, and for business, you need to read Hu Xueyan."
As one of China's most legendary businessmen,
Hu Xueyan's name is absolutely thunderous in the entire business,
There are also a large number of businessmen who regard Hu Xueyan's way of doing business as a guideline.
The long history of Chinese civilization has long proved that
No matter how powerful anyone's ability is,
After all, personal strength can't resist the torrent of the times,
From the smash hit "red-top businessman",
to be labeled as a "comprador capitalist",
and now it is sought after by the world,
Hu Xueyan's life and afterlife,
Like a magnificent picture,
On his deathbed, he warned future generations "Do not approach the white tiger",
Have all future generations done it now?
What is the development of Hu Xueyan's descendants now?
Relationship diagram of Hu Xueyan's descendants
After the decay of Hu Xueyan,
The Hu family's money bank also closed down one after another,
Hu Qingyutang had to be sold to the Wen family.
Wen Yu, who took over Hu Qingyutang,
did not "exterminate the descendants of the Hu family",
Divided Hu Qingyutang into 120 shares,
18 of them were given to Hu Xueyan's descendants.
Hu Xueyan had three sons and five daughters.
However, the eldest son died young when he was 19 years old.
The second son, Hu Xuansan, had three sons.
The third son, Hu Pinsan, had a total of four sons.
Although Hu Xueyan died in decay,
After all, the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse,
The descendants of the Hu family still live in Hangzhou's top mansion "Zhiyuan".
The savings he had saved before were much richer than those of the average rich man.
What bothers the descendants of the Hu family is that
Bankruptcy of own property, transfer of transfer,
Although the family's savings are still very solid,
And Wen Yu gave the Hu family 18 "signature shares",
But there is only this one meager Hu family,
It's not enough to sustain the huge expenses on a daily basis.
Shiba Garden
Poor husband and wife mourn,
The same is true for a large family,
After there is no economic income,
Conflicts between small families are frequent,
According to Hu Xueyan's granddaughter-in-law Dai Yongni's later recollections,
The conflict at home has reached the point of burning down the house.
At that time, the entire descendants of the Hu family lived in Zhiyuan,
I didn't expect a fire that night,
burned down the orchard,
Dai Yongni clearly remembers,
At that time, "the fire seemed to be mixed with oil",
This should be related to the brothers' fight over the family property.
Rats leave a sinking ship
After the Shiba Garden was destroyed by a fire,
The descendants of the Hu family took their own small family as a "unit".
They went to other places to earn a living.
Dai Yongni is Hu Caoqing's wife,
Hu Caoqing is Hu Pinsan's eldest son,
At the same time, he is also the eldest grandson of Hu Xueyan,
Hu Xueyan's eldest son Hu Chusan died young,
In addition, Hu Caoqing was admitted to the late Qing Dynasty.
So he has a lot of prestige among Hu Xueyan's grandchildren,
Wen Yu's 18 "signature stocks" to the Hu family,
Naturally, it fell into the hands of the eldest grandson Hu Caoqing when they split up.
Hu Caoqing's branch has 30 people,
His family moved to No. 30, Yaoyuansi Lane, Hangzhou.
Although not as grand as Shibayuan,
But in terms of land area, it is larger than Shibayuan,
At this time, Hu Xiaomei has grown up and remembered,
In her impression,
Grandma Dai Yongni is very good at managing money,
will be left in an empty house that is unused at home,
Sublet to other Hu family members who had not found a place to live.
After taking charge of the 18 "signature stocks",
Dai Yongni actually wants to go back into business,
can hinder her grandfather Hu Xueyan's deathbed will,
After all, the Hu family was no longer able to carry forward.
When Hu Xueyan was dying,
The last words left to his children and grandchildren are "Don't approach the white tiger",
The "white tiger" here refers to silver.
From his own magnificent experience,
I have clearly recognized that it is not a good thing to have more silver,
"Silver is like a white tiger, too much will eat people",
So after Hu Xueyan left,
The Hu family never had a businessman again.
Because Hu Xueyan's son Hu Pinsan is very good at calligraphy and painting,
So he has a strong artistic talent in this vein,
Hu Pinsan's grandson,
is Hu Yaguang, Hu Xiaoqing's son and Hu Xiaomei's father,
inherited the artistic cells of his grandfather Hu Pinsan,
The paintings he made were very famous in the local area,
He gave birth to four children.
On weekdays, he mainly relies on selling paintings to support this family.
Because Hu Yaguang is a famous local painter,
So a lot of children from large families,
He learned to paint under his disciples,
This has also become an important source of income for his lineage.
It's quite impressive to say,
A generation of super-rich Hu Xueyan has been in the officialdom of shopping malls for half his life.
In the vein of his son Hu Pinsan,
But he has made great achievements in the field of art.
These seem to be two completely unrelated fields.
It is intertwined in Hu Xueyan's last words to posterity.
Hu Xueyan's descendant Yang Guangyu
When Hu Pinsan was not in danger of Hu Xueyan,
With a good hand painting, he has become a well-known local painter.
His son Hu Caoqing holds the book of sages every day,
Pacing in the study and reciting poems,
grandson Hu Yaguang inherited the mantle of Hu Pinsan,
not only sells paintings to support his family,
It also accepted many students who came to learn to paint.
Hu Yaguang
As for his great-granddaughter Hu Xiaomei,
After the founding of New China,
Became a nationally renowned educator.
"I would like to have a head full of gray hair,
In exchange for the pillars of the motherland into a forest",
This is Hu Xiaomei's motto,
She has always worked hard to realize this sentence all her life,
She also relied on her achievements in education,
Won the "First Excellent Teacher of Shanghai" issued by Mayor Chen Yi,
It was also awarded the title of "The First 38 Red Flag Bearer of Shanghai".
And Hu Yaguang's grandson Yang Guangyu,
became a famous painting and calligraphy artist today,
He serves as the executive vice president of Zhejiang Yixian Painting and Calligraphy Institute.
It perfectly inherited the artistic mantle of Hu Pinsanyi.
According to Hu Xiaomei's self-report,
Grandma Dai Yongni often when she was young,
will tell herself the story of her grandfather Hu Xueyan,
Especially often admonished Hu Xiaomei,
Hu Xueyan instructed the descendants of the Hu family before his death,
In addition to "don't approach the white tiger",
It is also required that the descendants of the Hu family shall not be an official and shall not intermarry with the surname Li.
Hu Xueyan's descendants participated in clan friendship activities
The reason why he can't intermarry with the surname Li,
is because the Hu family was not surnamed Hu at the earliest.
but surnamed Li,
This is what grandmother Dai Yongni told Hu Xiaomei.
His ancestors used to be great officials,
Because he was framed by traitors in the officialdom,
That's why I escaped to settle in Anhui.
survived after being rescued by a family surnamed Hu in Anhui,
In order to be grateful to this family surnamed Hu,
That's why he changed his "surname Li" to "surname Hu",
Therefore, the ancestors of the family are actually the same as the surname Li.
This has also been confirmed by many scholars.
Including Hu Weiping of the Hu family in Anhui,
Hu Xueyan belongs to the branch of Anhui's "Ming Jing Hu Clan",
and Hu Shi can be regarded as close relatives.
After a special period of criticism and evacuation,
The Hu family eventually conducted a genealogical investigation,
Now there are more than 200 direct descendants,
Most of them live in seven countries overseas,
The direct descendants of the country occupy a minority,
But even if it's far away,
The descendants of the Hu family always remember Hu Xueyan's deathbed advice,
Basically, all of them are "from literature to teaching, from natural science",
There are no people who are in business or in office.
Especially the descendants of Hu Xueyan who live in China,
Basically, they are active in the field of education in various places.
Others have made achievements in the field of art.
Although it did not continue the business legend of the Hu family,
But each of them shines in different fields,
did not bury the good name of the ancestor Hu Xueyan.
Hu Qingyutang
Information source: Sanlian Life Weekly "Hu Xueyan's Descendants: What a Shame on the Past"