Wuxing historical celebrity - Lu Xinyuan

Lu Xinyuan (1834-1894), also spelled Gangfu, no. Cunzhai, late Qianyuan Old Man, Gui'an (present-day Huzhou) Yuehe Street people. Xinyuan is talented and intelligent, can read books at a glance, never forget, 30 years old through the Nine Classics, especially fine: f Zheng, Xu Zhixue. He successively worshiped the famous Confucian Wan Qingquan, Wu Shifang, and Zhang Xigeng as teachers, and was introduced as a forgotten friend for the predecessors Xu Youren and Zhu Xuzeng. He also often studied with his fellow villagers Yao Zongkan, Dai Wang, Shi Shuhua, Yu Jinshu, Wang Zhulu, and Ling Xia, and was known as the Seven Talents of Amaranth.

In the ninth year of Qing Xianfeng (1859), Xinyuan Township was selected in the examination, and according to the custom, he distributed Guangdong to the prefect, and accompanied the general Liu Changyou to suppress the Taiping Army, which was appreciated by Liu Changyou and recommended as a Taoist. In the fourth year of Tongzhi (1865), he served as the military reserve of Nanshao in Guangdong and participated in the suppression of the remnants of the Taiping Army. Six years, raise the integrity. In the eleventh year, Li Henian, the governor of Fujian, with his talent for George, was transferred to Fujian, serving as an envoy for the transportation of salt in Fujian, and generally handling the affairs of taxation, trade, trade, and aftermath and coastal defense. Because of his disagreement with his superiors, he was framed and persecuted many times, and asked to return home on the grounds that his mother was old, but two years later, his superiors still participated in the crime of large salt wear and tear, and finally he was stripped of his official position. After returning to his hometown, Xinyuan opened a small garden next to the Lotus Village in the east of the city, named The Hidden Garden, which has 16 scenes such as the Four Plum Jingshe and the Five Stone Grass Hall, which are famous for their elegance. He also solely funded the construction of the Shengshan Bridge, the restoration of the Two Colleges of Anding and Aishan, the construction of the Renji Charity Hall, and the holding of righteous studies, which were praised by all.

In the ninth year of Guangxu (1883), Zhang Yao, the governor of Shandong, recommended him to the imperial court with "talent can be saved" and "profound knowledge". Li Hongzhang, who was then the governor of Zhili (present-day Hebei Province), also entered the imperial court, saying that Xinyuan was "far-sighted in the qi situation" and "saw righteousness and courage". Soon, he was reinstated to his original post and handed over to the Military Aircraft Department for a record. In the nineteenth year, he was summoned by the Guangxu Emperor and praised him in person for "many works and excellent learning". On his way back through Tianjin, he contracted an illness; he died in Huzhou on November 9 of the following year and was buried in Wucheng Yicunbu (in the area of present-day Lushan Forest Farm in Huzhou).

Love to collect books, see different books, will pour money to buy. There are more than 100 boxes of books shipped back to Huzhou from Nanshao in Guangdong alone, especially during his period of cutting his job, taking advantage of the mutinies in the north and south of the river and the sale of many private books, he acquired a large number of precious books, including more than 100 kinds of Song engravings and more than 400 kinds of Yuan engravings. Three library buildings were built to collect each: a Sweet Song Building, a Collection of Song and Yuan engravings and celebrity banknotes; a Shouxian Pavilion, a Collection of Ming and Qing Engravings; and a 100,000-volume Building, which contains ordinary books. In the fourteenth year of Guangxu, the Qing court built the Yuanmingyuan, and the source of the heart was specially imported into 150 kinds of ancient books and 2400 volumes. The imperial court issued a decree to praise the son for this. He was very knowledgeable and well-written. Among them, the main ones belonging to the source of ancient books and the examination of jinshi are: 20 volumes of Yigutang Anthology, 16 volumes of Yigutang Inscription, 12 volumes of "Continuation", 200 volumes of "JinshiZhi Compilation", and 4 volumes of "JinshiXue Supplement"; those belonging to the identification of the collected calligraphy and paintings are: 120 volumes of the Yu song Lou Collection of Books, 4 volumes of "Continuation Zhi", 40 volumes of "Yong Li Guan Guan Eye Record", 16 volumes of "Continuation Record"; 80 volumes of "Tang Wen Collection" and "Tang Wen Zhi , "Small Biography Supplement" 4 volumes, "Qunshu School Supplement" 100 volumes, "Wu Xing Shicun" 40 volumes, "Wu Xing Jinshi Record" 16 volumes, "Gui'an County Chronicle" 48 volumes; belonging to the examination of the history of the Song Dynasty and the beginning and end of the party prohibition are: "Song Shiyi" 40 volumes, "Yuanhu Party Biography" lo volume, and "Three Continuations of doubtful annals" 10 volumes. Co-signed the "Hidden Garden Collection", a total of more than 940 volumes. The "Huzhou Series" and "100,000 Volumes of Lou Series" that he published also had a certain influence on the history of modern Chinese publishing.

Source: Wuxing District People's Government

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