Modern celebrity in Yunnan - Zhou Zhongyue

Zhou Zhongyue (1876–1955 CE), courtesy name Shengfu (字生甫), was a Bai native of Jinhua Zhongyi Lane, Jianchuan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province. Zhong Yue was born poor and worked hard to encourage himself. In the twenty-ninth year of Guangxu (1903), he was the first in the township examination of The Imperial Household Examination, called Xie Yuan. In 1904, he went to Japan to study at The Faculty of Literature and became a teacher. In 1905, he re-entered Waseda University and studied law and government. He compiled 10 volumes of the Teachers' Series and translated 1 volume of Matsumura's General Theory of Changes in the Chinese Education System. Yunnan students founded the "Yunnan Magazine Agency", and Zhong Yue served as the editor-in-chief: he wrote papers such as "On the Status of Yunnan for China" and "The Timing and Methods of Redemption of the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway". He formed the magazine "New Translation Circle" with Fan Xiren, Zhang Yaozeng, Xi Pingchen, etc., and engaged in translation. He collected Chinese and foreign pictures and wrote the book "The Beginning and End of Fa Zhan Annan".

In February of the first year of the Republic of China (1912), Sun Yat-sen resigned as president and recommended Yuan Shikai as the provisional president. After Yunnan learned of the situation, the uncertainty was uncertain. Zhou Zhongyue, then secretary general of the Governor's Office, pointed out that once Yuan Shikai came to power, he would be a scourge for China. Cai Yi also thought so, and Yunnan did not express his position.

At the end of 1914, Zhong Yue entered Beijing with Cai Yi as the secretary general of the National Economic and Boundary Bureau, wrote a book entitled "Draft Economic And Regulations", and edited two pieces: "Minutes of China's Economic Boundaries" and "Minutes of Economic Boundaries of Various Countries". Assist Cai Yi to go to Tianjin to secretly plot to beg Yuan.

In 1917, Zhang Xun was restored, and Zhou Zhongyue actively advocated Tang Jiyao's response to Sun Yat-sen's protection of the law: the Dianqian Jingguo Coalition Army was established, and Zhou Zhongyue served as the secretary general of the General Headquarters of the Jingguo Coalition Army.

In 1919, Zhong Yue acted as governor and presided over the Government of Yunnan, wanting to repair the internal affairs and make the people a little difficult. However, due to the undecided overall situation, the coup d'état took place suddenly, the warriors used things, and everything was hampered, and they could not do anything, and they could not get their words, and they had every regret.

On April 4, 1921, the military government officially appointed Zhou Zhongyue as the governor of Yunnan Province, but still resigned, and on April 20, he was dismissed as scheduled, and returned to Jianchuan after a month.

In 1927, the "February 6" coup d'état, Tang Jiyao fell, Zhou Zhongyue was elected as one of the nine members of the provincial government, and vigorously advocated eliminating the scourge of war, going with the trend, reconciling the gaps, and advocating automatically joining the National Government and urgently seeking national reunification.

After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Zhou Zhongyue was paid attention to by the Kuomintang Central Committee, and during his tenure as Minister of the Interior of the Nationalist Government, member of the State Council, vice president of the Examination Institute, and senior administrator of the Presidential Office, after Chiang Kai-shek launched a civil war in violation of public opinion, Zhong Yue felt deeply powerless to return to heaven, so he retreated bravely and kept the festival late. In November 1949, when Li Zongren, acting president of the Kuomintang, arrived in Kunming, Lu Han entrusted Zhou Zhongyue to preside over the welcoming meeting. Lu Han, with the cooperation of Zhou Zhongyue and Li Gengen, took advantage of the contradiction between Chiang Kai-shek and Li Zongren to take the opportunity to demand that Li Zongren release the "Nine-Nine" rectification of the arrested people. Since then, Lu Han has released in batches more than 400 underground party members, democrats, workers, and students arrested during the "99" crackdown.

In 1931, the Yunnan Tongzhi Museum was established, with Zhou Zhongyue as its director. The re-editing and collation of the yunnan local tongzhi has attracted the attention of the whole province and the expectations of the people, and Zhong Yue has carefully painted it. In the 28th year of the Republic of China (1939), Zhou Zhongyue served as the Minister of the Interior of the National Government, and still consulted the Tongzhi Museum from time to time, contributing to the compilation and publication of the "New Yunnan Tongzhi" as soon as possible, and died into the 266 volumes of the "New Yunnan Tongzhi", which was collected and submitted, collected 17 revisions of the old chronicles of the past dynasties, and was supplemented by the fact that Guangxu twenty-seven years (1901) was promoted for three years (1911). The deeds after the founding of the Republic of China are not to be regarded as the "Long Compilation", so that the cultural relics in the history of Dianyun are huge and meticulous, and the magnificent works are illuminated by the ancient and the present, and the Xun is a complete local general history.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zhou Zhongyue was elected as a member of the First National Committee of the Consultative Conference of the Chinese Government and a librarian of the Yunnan Museum of Culture and History, standing in the ranks of the people. Before his death in 1955, he instructed his family to distribute tens of thousands of volumes of private books to Yunnan University and the Yunnan Provincial Library, and left a last word: "Those I hope, China will be unified from Here, the sun will be bright, the world will ensure peace, and the disaster of war will never end!" ”

Statue of Zhou Zhongyue