Author's Note:
A city is brought to life and romance by the activities of some historical elite, highlighted and celebrated by certain celebrities. Historical celebrities influence a region and a city with their ideas, their creations and lifestyles.
Luoyang is a city that has never lacked celebrities, since the xia dynasty built the capital Luoyang, in the long history corridor of thousands of years, Luoyang has appeared countless outstanding figures, they have led the direction of history, or rendered the color of history, or embellished the sky of history, their love, hate and sorrow are intertwined in this fertile land of Heluo.
Taking the historical period as a clue, we have selected a hundred famous figures who have a major influence on the history of Luoyang in China and even the world, who have made great achievements in the world, who are ideological giants with insight, legendary heroes with courage and strategy, literary giants with brilliant pens and flowers, masters of art with ingenuity, and scientific elites who have forged brilliant science and technology... The time spans from the Shang Dynasty to the modern era, describing the historical process of Luoyang for more than 3,000 years. We will narrate the parts of their life journey that are closely related to Luoyang, or write about their lives, work, and struggles during their time in Luoyang, or write about their various contributions to Luoyang, or write about the important influence that Luoyang has had on the development of their thoughts and careers.
Luoyang is a famous cultural city. Historical celebrities gather here and interpret their wonderful lives, shaping the cultural temperament of Luoyang in the forest of world cities, and highlighting the humanistic splendor of Luoyang! Today launched one hundred of the 100 historical celebrity series related to Luoyang: Zhang Qi
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Zhang Xiao (1886-1966), Zi Boying, the old man of Youshi. A native of Xin'an County, Luoyang City, Henan Province, he was the elder of the Xinhai Revolution. Politician of the Republic of China and the People's Republic of China, famous patriot.
Zhang Xiao was smart and clever when he was a child, and he was also very naughty, one day in class, Zhang Xiao was late, Mr. Private School asked him the reason for being late, Zhang Xiao said that because he went up the mountain to play, he forgot to go to class. The teacher said angrily, "If you are willing to be beaten, put your hand out and beat thirty precepts; if you are willing to be punished, take advantage of a meal and write a thousand words." Zhang said he was willing to write an article. The teacher's proposition "Rotten Wood Cannot Be Carved" asked him to write, and Zhang Xiao knew that the teacher was satirizing him, so he polished the ink and spread the paper, took a pen and wrote a thousand words and handed it to the teacher. The article begins with the following words: "Those who carve decay wood, so do the mediocre craftsmen!" Seeing this sentence, the teacher felt that Zhang Xiao was not simple.
Influenced by Sun Yat-sen in his youth, Zhang Xiao abandoned literature and martial arts and aspired to republicanism. When he was young, he studied private school in his hometown of Xin'an in Luoyang, and in 1902 his father Zhang Qinghe was transferred to Qianzhou, Shaanxi, now Qianxian county, as an official, and he came to Shaanxi. In 1904, Zhang Xuan was admitted to the Shaanxi Army Primary School. In the spring of 1907, he was admitted to the Baoding Army Accelerated School artillery department. In 1908, he joined the League led by Sun Yat-sen. After graduating in the spring of 1909, he waited for the Shaanxi New Army Supervision And Training Office. In 1910, he was appointed as the right platoon leader of the Mixed Artillery Battalion of the Shaanxi Army, and was soon promoted to the rank of team officer, that is, company commander.
In the autumn of 1921, the Jingguo Army in Shaanxi was on the verge of disintegration, and Zhang Xuan returned to Xin'an in Luoyang, Henan Province, to serve as a mourner because of the death of his father. During his time in Xin'an, he founded Zhang Xiao Tiemen Primary School, funded the establishment of the Renewal County Zhi Bureau in Xin'an County, and founded Minsheng Coal Mine Co., Ltd. with his friend Wang Guangqing to mine the Guanyintang Coal Mine. In June 1923, Kang Youwei came to Luoyang at the invitation of Wu Peifu, who asked Zhang To be a guest. In the autumn of 1928, the Nationalist government in Nanjing appointed Zhang Xiao as the director of the Henan Provincial Construction Department and the chairman of the Henan Provincial Relief Committee. In the 1930s, Zhang served as the commander-in-chief of the 20th Route Army of the Kuomintang and the acting chairman of Henan Province.
Zhang Xiao was the leading brother of the black and white provinces of Shaanxi and Henan during the Republic of China, and Feng Yuxiang offered a reward of 600,000 yuan to buy his head during the Central Plains War. He was the commander-in-chief of the Twenty-Red Army, and because his subordinates were all Henan knifemen and green forest people, he was jokingly called the old thief head of the Central Plains. After liberation, he was received by Mao Zedong and was known as the "Old Military Man of the Central Plains".
In the life of Zhang Xiaorong, he was not only a brave and courageous warrior who was proficient in literary and martial strategy, a revolutionary who constantly pursued progress, but also a calligrapher.
Luoyang City north of the mountain, thick soil and low water, suitable for funeral, folk "born in Suzhou and Hangzhou, buried in the north of the mountain" said, many high-ranking officials and nobles in the past are buried in this piece of feng shui treasure land, so there are many tomb robbers, but the tomb robbers mainly looted martyrs, the late Qing Dynasty at the foot of the mountain to build the Longhai Railway, excavated some of the epitaph stone carvings were abandoned in the folk farmhouse. Zhang Xiao was an avid lover of jinshi calligraphy and was a collector and lover of calligraphy and painting at that time.
When he garrisoned Luoyang in 1933, he sent people to collect more than 1,000 ancient stone carvings such as epitaphs, steles, and stone carvings, and successively transported them to his hometown of Tiemen Town, and in 1935, he built a stone carving exhibition room in the west corner of his hometown xin'an Tiemen Town, where he lived.
Qiantang Zhizhai is the only epitaph museum in China and is part of the garden "Jinglu", where Zhang Xuan lived. In addition, Zhang Also funded the purchase of books such as "Universal Library", "Four Series", "Four Preparations" and donated them to Xin'an, Luoyang, Nanyang and other places to set up public libraries, making great contributions to the protection of cultural relics in the country. His calligraphy is vigorous, and his writing is flowing and vigorous. He has written plaques for institutions, shops, and individuals. Since 1960, Zhang has written about 300,000 words of memoirs.
On May 25, 1966, Zhang Died of Illness in Beijing. In 2008, the "Maintenance and Protection Plan for Zhang Xia's Former Residence" was officially released, and the project entered the list of local key engineering projects. In October 2010, the project was completed with an investment of 8 million yuan, and the houses, roads, greening and drainage facilities in the former residence were completely repaired. In 2011, the relevant departments of Xin'an County, Luoyang, transformed the former residence of Zhang Xiao, which had a new appearance, into the Zhang Wei Memorial Hall to welcome the 100th anniversary of the Xinhai Revolution. Covering an area of 4,200 square meters and more than 120 houses, The Zhang Wei Memorial Hall is a group of residential buildings with strict layout and unique characteristics. The memorial hall is divided into 12 exhibition halls according to zhang's life stage. Hundreds of relics donated by Zhang's descendants were scattered in several exhibition halls. Zhang Xiao's seal, the victory medal of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and Zhang Xiao's handwritten "Sun Tzu's Art of War", the large cotton jacket worn, the ivory chopsticks passed down from the family and other old objects have a historical flavor and truly restore Zhang Xiao's life.