In April 2007, the Hunan People's Publishing House launched a documentary novel "Giant Clan" (by Li Quan'an), which recounted the story of the Long family in Youxian (Changsha), Hunan, especially Long Zhang, Long Furui and others who sympathized, funded and even participated in the activities of the democratic revolution in the late Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the People's Republic, and recorded the exchanges and friendships between Tan Sitong, Cai Yi, Huang Xing, Sun Wen, Song Jiaoren, Zhang Shizhao, Yang Yulin, Chen Tianhua, etc.
The Long family in Youxian County is a giant clan in Xiang Province, and has been born since ancient times, and in modern times alone, there are Long Zhanlin, Long Rulin, Long Pulin, Long Zhang, Long Qiqi, Long Qirui, etc., one of whom has been the principal of the railway school and the director of the railway bureau, he is Long Yujun.
Long Yujun (1882 ~ unknown), character Tieyuan, self-signed Jieguang, late name Jie, Hunan Youxian people, Qing Guangxu seven years Xin Wei first december day (January 20, 1882) was born in Changsha Longjia - a scholarly door, official eunuch family. The Long family of Changsha lived in YouXian County, and settled in Changsha since Gao Zu led Long Youkui (Long Yujun's great-grandfather) to the Yuelu Academy. Long Yujun's grandfather Long Pulin, Guangxu Bingzi, an official to Guilin, Guangxi, The prefect of Pingle, was killed in the line of duty in the Sino-French Vietnam War, and was given the Guanglu Temple, the Ancestral Hall of Zhaozhong. Long Yujun's father, Long Fuqi, served as a Yueyang scholar, the director of the Shanghai Wusongguan Taxation Bureau, and the general judge of Anqing Province.
Among Long Yujun's many officials, in terms of position and reputation, especially his uncle Long Zhanlin was the most important. Long Zhanlin (1837~1905), Xianfeng Juren, Tongzhi First Year (1862) Erjia Jinshi, Xuan Hanlin Yuan Shu Jishi, Scattered Library Teaching. He has successively served as the examiner of the Shuntianxiang Examination, the examiner of the Yunnan Township Examination, the Bachelor of Attendants, the Scholar of Jiangxi Xuezheng, the Zhan Shifu Zhan Shi, the Cabinet Bachelor, the Examiner of the Fujian Township Examination, the Right Attendant of the Punishment Department, and the Jiangsu Xuezheng.
Since the generation of Long Zhanlin, the plaque of "Shuxiang Mendi" has been hanging on the top of the gate of the Dragon Palace. At that time, there was a saying in the Literary Circles of Shilin in Xiang Province: "The reason why Hunan was able to develop and reach the whole country was that Zhang Baixi (a native of Changsha, Hunan From 1847 to 1907, a jinshi of the Tongzhi Year, an editor of the Hanlin Academy, an official to the Ministry of Works, a bureaucrat, a household department, a Shangshu of the Ministry of Posts and Communications, and a minister of management at Beijing Normal University) ran and promoted, and long Zhanlin of the inner province was conceived and born, and the atmosphere of the province was unique." Even though Hanlin Gong was bedridden, he was still out with the order of his son Long Furui. Shanhua Huangxing, Ningxiang Zhou Zhenlin, Tan Yanmin of Chaling, and Hu Zijing of Xiangtan were all disciples of his generation. The legacy of Chu Sao, Yu Yan Si Xiang. ”
Long Yujun was intelligent since childhood, and at the age of three or four, he was able to identify the words on the seal screen, which attracted the amazement of the elders. Hard reading the cold window and taking the exam have long become the goals he pursues in life.
Long Yujun successively studied under Baling Zhou Zhifu, Long Rulin (Long Yujun's grandfather, juren, who served as the Eight Banners Official, Shanxi Gaoping, Jiangxi Leadshan ZhiXian and other positions), Xiangyin Guo Lishan. At the age of 16, Long Yujun was a middle school xiucai, although he was intoxicated with the imperial examination, he did not like the eight strands of literature, at this time, at this time, when the west wind was gradually moving east, under the influence of the elder Long Zhang (Long Yujuntang's uncle, Guangxu Bingzi, who successively served as Jiangsu Rugao, Shuyang, Jiangning, Shangyuan, Taixingzhi County) and Long Yurui (Long Yujun's cousin, who had served as the general office of Foreign Affairs in Sichuan and the director of the Hunan Transportation Department), he began to accept the new ideas of political reform.
During the years of Gengzi and Xin Ugly (1900~1901), Long Yujun worshiped Yang Yulin (1871~1911, also known as Shouren, Zi Dusheng, a native of Changsha, Hunan, who studied in Japan and participated in the founding of "Youxue Translation", "New Hunan", an allied member, because of the failure of the Guangzhou Uprising, jumped into the sea and committed suicide in Liverpool, England) as a teacher, thus not only benefiting a lot from traditional Chinese studies and Western studies, but also initially knowing what science, nationality, democracy, freedom, and revolution are. Getting to know Mr. Yulin was a major turning point in Long Yujun's life, and his new outlook on life and world outlook was gradually established.
In February 1902, with the support and financial support of Long Zhang(tang uncle), Long Yujun and his cousin Hu Zijing (1872-1940 Hunan Xiangtan people, modern educators, Changsha Mingde, founder of Jingzheng Xuetang), brother-in-law Zhou Yanrong, Ding Wenjiang (1887~1936 Jiangsu Taixing people, famous geologists, successively studied in Japan and Britain, successively served as professor of Peking University, director general of the Academia Sinica) went to Japan with Mr. Yang Yulin to study, first entered the Tsinghua School in Tokyo, Hongxiang, First, Entering the Tsinghua School in Tokyo. So he became acquainted with Huang Xing, a fellow hunan resident who was studying teacher training at the Hongwen College in his neighborhood. In the spring of 1903, Long Yujun was responsible for entertaining more than 20 self-funded students from Hunan, and became acquainted with Chen Tianhua (1875~1905 Hunan Xinhuan, bourgeois revolutionary, author of "Turning Back" and "Alarm Clock"), Zeng Kunhua (1882~1925 Zi Bo Jiu), Hunan Xinhua people, official fees to stay in Japan, entered the private Iwakura Railway Institute to study, after returning to China, successively served as the director of the Xiang'e and Beijing-Han Railway Bureau, the director of the Road Administration Department of the Ministry of Communications, and other positions, and became a friend of Mo Rebellion.
In the early summer of 1903, Long Yujun returned to China to visit his relatives, visited his father Long Qiqi and his uncle Long Zhanlin, and became acquainted with Zhou Zhenlin (1875-1965 Hunan Ningxiang people, huaxinghui elders), Zhang Ji (1883~1947 hebei Cangxian people, Huaxinghui, league backbone, Kuomintang elders) and others. In the early autumn of 1903, Long Yujun and his fifth uncle Liu Junong and eighth uncle Liu Pingnong went to Japan and entered the Tokyo Sports Association. At the beginning of 1904, Long Yujun returned to China to visit his relatives and became acquainted with Song Jiaoren (1882-1913 Zi Yuanchu), a fisherman father, a native of Taoyuan, Hunan, an elder of the Huaxing Society, who successively served as the president of the Legislative Yuan of the Provisional Government of Nanjing, the acting chairman of the Kuomintang, and was later assassinated by Yuan Shikai), Liu Yiyi (a native of Hengshan, Hunan, a member of the Huaxing Association and the League, and a former member of the Senate of the Nanjing Government), during which he successively served as a house supervisor and taught physical education in the "Eastern Chinese Cram School". Later, he went to Japan together with Song Jiaoren, Liu Yiyi, Yang Yulin, Liu Pingnong, and Zhang Shizhao (1881~1973 Zi Yan, Hunan Shanhuaren, who studied in Japan and England in his early years, and was the minister of justice and education of the Beiyang government).
In 1905, Long Yujun studied at the civil engineering department of the Tsukiji Craftsman School in Tokyo, and in September of the same year, through the introduction of Liu Yuheng and Wang Yanzhizhi, in Tokyo, dr. Sun Yat-sen personally led the alliance, Long Yujun joined the newly established League and directly threw himself into the democratic revolution. In 1908, Long Yujun graduated from the Civil Engineering Department of the Tsukiji Craftsman School in Tokyo, returned to China and returned to Changsha, where he was appointed director of the Civil Engineering Department of Hunan Higher Industrial School and honorary consultant of Xianglu Company.
In 1909, the members of the Xiang League who stayed in Japan returned to their hometowns one after another, and Long Yujun and Long Zhang discussed that the Xianglu Company should open a railway school, first, to cultivate railway professionals, and second, to serve as an activity place for the Alliance. After preparations, Gengshu (1910), the Railway Academy was opened, Long Zhang was the superintendent, Yu Zhaokang was the premier, Long Yujun was the provost, the faculty was Zeng Jie (1886~1941 Hunan Xinhuaren, the first member of the League, successively served as a teacher of the Hunan Railway Academy, the chief of staff and secretary of the Hunan Governor's Office, etc.), Wen Fei (1872 ~1943 Hunan Liling people, in his early years studied at Changsha Chengnan Academy, Hunan Middle Road Normal School, later went to Japan to study, entered the Tokyo Railway School, returned to China to serve as the provost of the Hunan Railway School, Associate of Xianglu Company, Director of the Guangdong-Han Railway Bureau, etc.), Long Diying (brother of Long Yujun, who studied in Japan and was an early member of the League) and others. The Hunan Branch of the China League Association was established at the same time, and Long Yujun presided over the meeting and supervised the finances. In June of the year of Gengshu, Long Yujun took the opportunity to go to Hangzhou to inspect the internship of the students of the Railway Academy, and Zeng Jie took the opportunity to bring bombs and explosives back to Changsha by means of Shanghai to meet the needs of the revolution.
In May 1911, the Qing court wanted to forcibly take back the Shang-run Sichuan-Han and Guangdong-Han railways to "nationalize", which aroused strong opposition from the Chinese people, and various places organized Baolu Comrades' Associations, and the "Baolu Movement" surged up, especially in Sichuan. In order to protect the right of way, Long Yujun, Wen Fei and Wen Jingwei (1874~1913 Hunan Shanhuaren, who studied in Japan to study policing, were members of the Alliance, initiated the organization of the "Xianglu Association Praise Association" and served as an officer, and served as the director of the Hunan Police Bureau), Long Zhang, Zeng Jie, etc. initiated the establishment of the "Railway Association Praise Association".
On October 10, 1911 (August 19, 1911), the Wuchang Uprising broke out, and on the first day of September in the xinhai year, Changsha Guangfu, Jiao Dafeng (1887~1911 Liuyang, Hunan, who studied in Japan, first entered the East Asian Railway School in Tokyo, and then entered the Dongbin Army Infantry School to study military affairs. ~1911 Zi Zhenmin, a native of Liuyang, Hunan, was the deputy governor of the 25th Mixed Formation Association of the Qing Dynasty), Tan Yanmin (1880 ~1930 Hunan Chalingren, Qing Guangxu Jinshi, zhi Hanlin Academy editor, successively served as the governor of Hunan, the chairman of the Nanjing National Government, the chief executive and other positions) as the chief of staff, Long Yujun as the governor of the governor's office, and the chief of the bureau, and managed the treasury, and soon became the chief of the road administration section of the Department of Communications. In 1912, the Republic of China and the Kuomintang were established successively, and Long Yujun joined the Kuomintang as a member of the League. After the Republic of China, Long Yujun, on the grounds that the Railway Academy was one of the main sources of the revolution, vigorously advocated that it could not be abandoned, and after consulting with the authorities, it was renamed "Hunan Railway Specialized School" and recognized by the education department, Long Yujun was appointed as the principal, and at the same time resigned from the post of chief of the road administration section of the Department of Transportation and the industrial school, and specialized in running the road school, hoping to cultivate his own railway talents, so as to revitalize the railway transportation cause and contribute to the construction of the country.
In addition to taking charge of the railway school, Long Yujun also took the time to write a monograph "The First Volume of Civil Surveying" (Changsha Nanyang Printing Bureau, September 1911) and the papers "Opinion on the Cantonese-Han Railway" and "Opinion on the Suping Railway" (Industrial Magazine, 1912).
In 1913, the Second Revolution broke out, and in November Yuan Shikai appointed Tang Qianming to replace Tan Yanmin as the governor of Hunan, and long Yujun's brothers were accused of being "the leader of the chaotic party in Central Hunan" because they accommodated Huang Xing several times, and Long Yujun escaped from Changsha under the protection of Long Zhang. In 1914, Tang Qianming ordered the suspension of the railway special school funds and ordered the dissolution of the road school.
In the autumn of 1916, Long Yujun was working in the Baoqing Guangdong Salt Special Bureau to handle taxes, but he was ostracized because he opposed the phenomenon of fraud in the bureau and resigned in anger. Later, at the invitation of a friend, he went to Beijing, and was introduced by Shou Fengbiao to serve as a teacher at the Railway Management School under the Ministry of Communications of the Beiyang Government (formerly known as the Transportation Institute, the predecessor of today's Beijing Jiaotong University), at that time, the school was headed by Member of the National Assembly Chen Ce as the president, Shou Fengbiao was the director of academic affairs, and among the first 45 teachers hired, in addition to Long Yujun, who taught railway engineering, there were Zeng Kunhua, who taught statistics, and Ma Yin, who taught bookkeeping.
In the sixth year of the Republic of China (1917), Zhang Xun was restored on July 1, and Long Yujun resigned and went south. In August, zeng Kunhua, a fellow villager and close friend, was appointed as the director of the Zhuping Railway Bureau, and Long Yujun was invited to serve as the director of the general affairs department of the bureau, and later became the director of the aircraft maintenance department and the director of the accounting office.
In addition to serving in the Zhuping Railway Bureau, Long Yujun has also taught history and Chinese languages at Yifang Girls' High School, Zhounan Girls' Middle School, Young Girls' Association, Chuyi Industrial School, Literature and Art Middle School, Xiangya Medical College, Hengcui Girls' Vocational School in Changsha, Pingxiang, Anyuan, Youxian, Liling, Liuyang and other places, as well as in the Wuhan E'an Transportation Bureau. Long Yujun, who came from an engineering background, was able to teach literature and history courses that were not his bank, and relied on it many times to make a living, completely relying on the solid foundation of traditional Chinese studies laid in his early years
In 1927, when Long Yujun was serving as an executive member of the Railway Association, it coincided with the rise of the peasant movement in Hunan, because it was a proletariat, the suburban peasant association was established, and he was also elected as the captain, and received the bucket and spear distributed by the provincial agricultural association.
In 1930, Long Yujun came to Nanjing, just as the authorities set up the "Committee for the Compilation of Historical Materials of the Chinese Kuomintang Party History" (hereinafter referred to as the "Party History Society"), and at the invitation of Hu Hanmin, the first standing committee member, he served as an interviewer for the Party History Association and concurrently served as the director of the personnel office. During this period, he also served as a teacher of Traditional Chinese Studies at Jinling Women's College of Arts and Sciences for 2 years. After the Lugou Bridge Incident in 1937, Long Yujun was entrusted by his old friend Zhang Ji (chairman of the Party History Society) to lead his staff to escort the historical materials of the Party History Association from Nanjing through Changsha to Chongqing in 1938. In June 1946, Long Yujun resigned from the Party History Society and moved his family from Chongqing to Nanjing. After 1949, Long Yujun and his wife moved to Qingdao and lived in the home of their fourth daughter, Long Xuan.
Regarding Long Yujun, his grandson Zhang Zugan once wrote: "Since my grandfather received the enlightenment of democratic ideology in his early years, he traveled east to Japan at the age of twenty, befriended Huang Xing, Song Jiaoren, Sun Wen and many other revolutionary volunteers, and became an early member of the alliance, determined to build a democratic, prosperous, prosperous and strong China through revolutionary struggle. However, over the past few decades, I have personally experienced a series of historical events such as the Huaxinghui, the Changsha Uprising, the Baolu Movement, the Xinhai Revolution, the Second Revolution, and the Anti-Yuan Driving Tang Movement, but what I have seen more is the struggle for power and profit, the mutual tilting, the fraud for personal gain, and the enrichment of private pockets, the country is full of devastation, the mountains and rivers are broken, and the people are even more poor. Grandpa also wanted to do something for the national railway transportation cause through what he had learned, but even this small wish could not be achieved. Sun Wen's Three People's Principles were not seen at all, and Grandpa was disappointed. What the Communist Party did was originally thought to be the act of a good man in the green forest. It was not until the 34th year of the Republic of China (1945) that the Negotiations between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of Chongqing were held, and there was a new understanding of the Communist Party, and there was a glimmer of hope for the future of the country and the nation. ”
Long Yujun was somewhat lucky, because compared with those comrades and close friends who had fought side by side and had unpaid ambitions, such as Huang Xing, Song Jiaoren, Chen Tianhua, Zeng Kunhua, etc., he witnessed the birth of new China.
Long Yujun is a little sorry, because he was a former civil engineering student, the principal of Hunan Railway College, a teacher of the Railway School of the Ministry of Communications, and the director of the general affairs, aircraft maintenance and accounting department of the Zhuping Railway Bureau, he failed to start and end well and realize his dream of revitalizing the railway and saving the country through transportation.
In what year and where Long Yujun died, the author has not yet ascertained. However, from the group photo of him and his daughter and grandson in qingdao's Wenshang Road apartment in the summer of 1967, it is inferred that he should have died in Qingdao at the age of about 90.
Today's Changsha is lined with high-rise buildings, traffic is busy, and although the Dunhou Hall and West Garden of the former Long family no longer exist, the great achievements and legends of several generations of Haojie such as Long Yujun will forever be recorded in the annals of history.
Finally, I would like to end this article by borrowing a passage from Long Yujun's good friend and famous democrat Zhang Shizhao!
"Before Xinhai, from the east of the sea to the Yangtze River, slightly to the south, thousands of miles up and down, our party's actions were deliberate, no matter how excited and hidden, there was no shortage of long clans (including Long Zhang, Long Zhanlin, Long Qirui, Long Yujun) and blood and sweat gradually immersed in it."
Hairy Dragon Yu Jun