Zhang Guangping returned to The Former Residence of Zhang Xuan in Kaifeng from Taiwan and recalled his father's past in Kaifeng.
Zhang Guangping, the son of Zhang Xiao, told reporters the story of his father.
□ Dahe Newspaper Dahe client reporter Zhang Congbo Wen Xu Junwen photography
He was a veteran of the Xinhai Revolution and a famous patriotic general; he lived in his hometown for many years but loved Sangzi, and he helped his father and fellow villagers in his hometown of Henan during the years of disaster; he loved culture all his life, promoted education and ran industry, left a lot of legacies for the development of Henan, and was regarded as a "Confucian general in the military circles" - he was Mr. Zhang Xiao.
Recently, Zhang Guangping, the son of Zhang Xiao, returned to his hometown of Henan from Taiwan with his family to reminisce about the footprints of his father. The 88-year-old Zhang Guangping, the seventh son of Mr. Zhang Xiao, moved to Taiwan with his family in 1949, and this time he set foot on the hometown land where he once lived. Zhang Guangping was interviewed by the reporter of Dahe Newspaper and Dahe Client, telling the magnificent life experience of his father Zhang Xiao, whom he witnessed.
Qiantang Zhizhai collects epitaph stone carvings
Zhang Xiao was a famous Confucian general who had a special love for traditional culture and made many contributions to the development of Henan's cultural undertakings after the Xinhai Revolution.
Zhang Xiao's hometown was in Xin'an County, Luoyang, and the Zhang family passed down poetry books, Zhang Zongtai, the great-grandfather of Zhang Zhongbo, was a Jiaqing Dingjiaoke, and his father Zhang Qinghe was a Qing Dynasty tribute. He grew up in a private school, sometimes entertained by poetry, and loved gold and stone calligraphy, which can be seen in the number of "Old Man Youshi".
Zhang Has close contacts with cultural celebrities such as Yu Youren, Zhang Binglin, Kang Youwei, and Wang Guangqing. Kang Youwei traveled to Xin'an County in the east of Xi'an, and once inscribed the title of "Sting Lu" for his hometown's hometown. And Zhang Xiao's study lintel reads "Who is not a passerby, the flower is the master", full of Zen. Zhang Guangping's daughter who was traveling with him this time was also deeply moved when she saw these eight words in her grandfather's handwriting.
Under the influence of friends in the cultural circles, Zhang Xi began to search for ancient epitaphs and stone carvings in Luoyang in 1933, and began to build a showroom "Qiantang Zhizhai", which was completed in 1936, with Zhang Binglin inscribed with ancient seals. Today, Qiantang Zhizhai has become a national key cultural relics protection unit, located in the northwest corner of Tiemen Town, Xin'an County, Luoyang, and is the only epitaph museum in China. There are 1413 epitaph stone carvings, including 1185 Tang zhi, covering the western Jin Dynasty, Northern Wei to Ming, Qing and other generations of epitaphs and stone carvings.
Donation of books for education and education
Checking the chronology of major events recorded in Zhang Xiao's memoir "Forty Years of Wind and Rain", the reporter of Dahe Newspaper and Dahe Client found that Zhang Xiao was always concerned about his hometown outside the battlefield, and opened up the people's wisdom through the development of education and book donations, and prospered Henan culture.
In terms of continuing the context and disseminating classics, in the 1920s, Zhang Xiao funded the establishment of the County Chronicle Bureau in Xin'an County to renew the county chronicle, and also served as the supervisor of the compilation office of the Henan New Chronicle. In the spring of 1934, he purchased the "Universal Library", "Four Series of Periodicals", and a batch of printed children's books, and distributed them to Tiemen, Xin'an, Luoyang, Yanshi, Nanyang and other places to set up libraries. In the spring of 1938, he funded the engraving of Zhang Zhongjing's "Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases" by Zhang Zhongjing, a famous physician of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the woodcut version is now in the Nanyang Medical Shrine.
Zhang Xiao attached great importance to education, and successively founded Tiemen Primary School and Minsheng Coal Mine Primary School, and during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he also founded the Northwest Middle School in Xi'an to resettle refugee children fleeing From Shaanxi in Henan. In 1928, when Feng Yuxiang was in charge of Henan, Zhang Xiao was appointed as the director of the Henan Provincial Construction Department and the chairman of the Relief Committee, and founded the Water Conservancy Engineering College, which is the predecessor of today's Yellow River Water Conservancy Vocational and Technical College.
Looking back at the history of Henan University during the Republic of China, whenever difficulties are encountered, Zhang Xiao's figure can often be seen. At the beginning of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Heda's economy was tight, and Zhang Xiao either gave generously or ran around to help. Later, in the face of the threat of Japanese invasion, Henan University, which was exiled in Jingziguan, western Henan, had to move west to Shaanxi. Zhang Xiao asked teachers and students to temporarily settle in Northwest Middle School and try their best to arrange accommodation in terms of food and accommodation. After Heda moved to Baoji, Zhang Xiao always tried to solve the problem of school funding. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, there was no relocation cost for the relocation of Kaifeng, and Zhang Xuan once again went out to obtain a fund from the Henan Aftermath Relief Sub-Bureau, which enabled the he masters and students to end their 8 years of exile.
Revolutionary pioneers spent their lives on horseback
On this trip to his hometown, Zhang Guangping presented his father's calligraphy "Sun Tzu's Art of War" to the former residence of Zhang Xiao in Kaifeng. Zhang Xiao had studied the book of soldiers hard in those years, especially the "Art of War of Sun Tzu".
Zhang Xiao participated in the League in his early years and was one of the main instigators of the Shaanxi New Army Uprising during the Xinhai Revolution. After the outbreak of the Wuchang Uprising, he served as the governor of the Eastern Route of the Qin Longfu Han Army to conquer dadu, and his troops went out of Tongguan to attack the Qing soldiers, and his reputation was greatly enhanced. During the Dharma Protection Movement, he was elected deputy commander-in-chief of the "Jingguo Army" in Shaanxi.
"My father experienced different periods from the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty to the War of Resistance Against Japan, and I was most impressed by the Battle of Songhu." In 1937, when the Battle of Songhu broke out, Zhang Was appointed commander of the Twelfth Army and ordered to take the Seventy-sixth Division from Jiangxi to the front, and Zhang Guangping, who was only 8 years old at the time, also moved with his father.
Zhang Xiao, who was busy with military affairs, asked Wang Youwang, a fellow villager in Luoyang, to protect zhang Guangping, the son of the army, from the safe transfer. Wang Youwang was the captain of The Big Knife Team in Zhang Xiao's army, which had more than 800 officers and men, all from Henan, who swung their big knives in the Battle of Songhu and bravely killed the Japanese. During the transfer, Wang Youwang often carried Zhang Guangping on his back, and later Wang Youwang rushed to the front line of the Battle of Songhu, and Zhang Guangping returned to Henan.
This distinction is '74. Zhang Guangping always remembered the name of his benefactor until 2011, when Wang Youwang's son Wang Hongbin went to Taiwan as an exhibitor and met Zhang Guangping in Taipei because of the opportunity of Luoyang Peony's participation in the Taipei Flower Expo. During the small talk, Zhang Guangping learned that the compatriot in front of him was actually the benefactor's child, and immediately decided to go to Luoyang to thank him in person.
On May 26, 2011, Zhang Guangping came to Wang Youwang's house. Zhang Guangping proposed to carry the benefactor of that year like the benefactor carried him back, and Wang Youwang laughed and said, "We are all old, and our backs can't move!" However, Zhang Guangping, who was over eighty years old, still tried to carry Wang Youwang. Crossing the strait and 70 years of time, this backdrop made everyone present feel their eyes moist.
During the Liberation War, Zhang Led an Uprising in Sichuan and contributed to the peaceful liberation of Sichuan. After liberation, Zhang was a member of the Second National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and died in Beijing in May 1966. In his later years, Zhang Xiao responded to Premier Zhou Enlai's call to write literary and historical materials and wrote a memoir of about 300,000 words, which provided precious historical materials for the study of modern and contemporary Chinese history.
Relief for disaster victims to develop industries
In the 1930s and 1940s, as long as Henan had difficulties, Zhang Xiao never stood idly by. Especially in the face of major disasters, Zhang Xiao did his best to provide relief. Dahe newspaper "Heavy Henan" has launched a series of reports on "Zhang Wei's Redemption - A Henan Man and Three Great Yu Disasters".
In 1942, a large number of refugees from Henan entered Xi'an, and the original shelter could no longer afford it. Zhang Xiao used his prestige to gather officials and businessmen from all walks of life, set up shelters in Xi'an, and borrowed schools to provide accommodation for the victims of the disaster, and sold their property to buy grain for disaster relief. At that time, Zhang Guangping was still in his hometown in Xin'an County, "even after eating sweet potatoes for four months, he ate anything." The relief grain collected by Zhang Xiao in Xi'an was transported to Henan through the Longhai Railway, and some grain was unloaded at each stop.
In 1944, when the Japanese invaded Henan, hundreds of thousands of Henan students and victims entered Shaanxi, and Zhang Used All His Strength to Provide Relief. When Zhang Xiao was in relief, Zhang Guangping, who was only a teenager, also participated in it, and he still remembers the scene of holding the spoon handle to give porridge to the victims. At that time, Zhang Xiao once convened a meeting of teachers and students in Shaanxi Henan in Xi'an to encourage everyone to serve the township and "never forget that you are a Henan native and make contributions to Henan."
Zhang Xiao advocated industry to save the country, and also laid the foundation for the later industrial development of Henan. In 1920, the Longhai Railway was connected to Sanmenxia Guanyintang, and the amount of coal used for locomotives increased significantly, and Zhang Xi founded the Minsheng Coal Mining Company. At that time, this was the only coal mine in Henan that belonged entirely to Chinese, and was known as the "first coal mine in the Central Plains". Today, the former site of the coal mine, which is still being mined, has been listed as a key cultural relics protection unit in Henan Province.
In 1948, Zhang Xuan purchased a full set of working mother machines from the United States for the Guanyintang Coal Mine, which was transported to Zhengzhou after liberation. In the interview, Zhang Guangping also revealed an unknown detail, "The first set of textile machines produced by Zheng Textile Machinery was made with this working mother machine."