January-February 1907: Zeng Xiaogu and Li Shu created the earliest drama club in China;

The deeds of the Sichuan people

Zeng Xiaogu and others created the earliest drama club in China

In February, Zeng Xiaogu founded the Chunliu Society in Tokyo, Japan with the famous dramatists Li Shutong, Ouyang Yuqian and others, creating the history of China's drama movement.

In 1903, Tsang studied at the Department of Western Painting at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts in Japan. Because of his love of drama, he and his japanese students Li Shutong (later Master Hongyi), Lu Jingfang, Ouyang Yuqian and others formed the first drama group founded by Chinese youth in Tokyo, the Chunliu Society.

Zeng Xiaogu (right) and Uncle Li, who is dressed in women's clothes, perform a drama in Japan

In the second year after the founding of the Harutanagi Society, Tsang Takaya adapted Hayashi's novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" translated by the American writer Mrs. Sto into a three-act drama "Black Slave Woo Tianlu", which was staged in The Hongoza (Theater) in Tokyo. The costumes and sets for this play were designed by him and Uncle Li. This was the first script of an early Chinese drama. When "Black Slaves And Heavenly Records" was staged, it caused a sensation among Chinese students studying in Japan and the Japanese public.

Zeng Xiaogu, known as Yannian and Wu, a native of Chengdu, is known as an early theater art activist in China, the first famous painter in China to integrate Chinese and Western paintings into one furnace, and a poet with unique aesthetic imagery in modern China.

After the Xinhai Revolution, Zeng Xiaogu returned to Sichuan and established the Chengdu "Chunliu Opera Society".

Sichuan Commercial

The first private power plant was started

1.17 After years of preparation and construction, the first private power plant in Sichuan, a joint venture between Liu Peizhuo, founder of Sichuan Electric Power Industry, and Li Yaoting, a giant merchant in Chongqing, officially generates electricity in Chongqing.

When Liu Peiyao, a native of BaXian County, was studying at the Nanyang Industrial School in Shanghai, he saw foreign businessmen set up an electric and optical company in Shanghai, and he germinated the idea of running his own electrical business.

In 1899, he returned to his hometown in Sichuan to sell his land and property, received 100,000 taels of silver, and after receiving 70,000 taels of silver from Yin Dejun, opened a preparatory office for the Ministry of Industry and Commerce in Chongqing. In 1903, he also invited Zhao Zisheng, president of the Chamber of Commerce, and Li Yaoting, the owner of the Yunnan Tianshunxiang label, a chongqing giant merchant who had served as a Daotai, to take shares, and after gathering enough capital, he submitted a quasi-trial power plant to Chuandong Province. The site of the power plant was selected at the boundary of the Taiping Gate Renhe Bay Pu'an Hall Jiyi Guild.

After several years of preparation and construction, the 100 kW DC diesel generator set with an installed capacity generated electricity on this day. At the beginning, it supplied Li Yaoting's 70th birthday hall and theater with electricity and trial lighting for several nearby businesses, and then expanded its scale year by year.

Sichuan government affairs

Smoking houses are prohibited for a limited period of time

In February, the Administrative Affairs Office directly under the Sichuan Provincial Governor's Office imposed a ban on smoking in the period from February to July of this year.

Subsequently, the Government Affairs Office issued a non-smoking regulation stipulating: "Sichuan is the area with the most abundant tobacco and native products, and it is now decided to ban smoking for 10 years, and the cultivation of seeds should be restricted from planting first, and the smoking can be banned for a long time, and the governors should be divided into prefectures and counties, and it is necessary to check a number of acres of land where the value of baby millet is planted in the territory, and make a detailed report." ”

In April, the governor of Sichuan, Xi Liangzhuan, set up a general directorate of smoking cessation and formulated measures for quitting smoking. In August, Zhao Erfeng, the governor of the province, set up a provincial city official paste shop in the name of smoking ban, exclusively dealing in opium. The official ointment shop is made by the official ointment, and all smokers go to the police station in advance to register and claim a license, and sell the ointment according to the license; all boiling households are prohibited from making their own ointment privately; all tobacco shops are restricted, suspended, and another livelihood is made.

memorabilia

1.16 Governor Xi Liang of Sichuan province, with the tight defense of the Sichuan border and the large amount of money needed, please postpone the regular donation of Sichuan Province for 2 years and then stop it.

1.18 Governor Xi Liang of Chuan called the Qing court that a French businessman had planned to open a mine in the arrow furnace, but after refusing to do so, he asked the Qing court to inform the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to discuss the matter with the French ambassador.

1.18 The Qing court telegraphed the governor of Sichuan to plan all the opening of the port, and once the Sichuan Provincial Railway was completed, he could ask Chengdu to open a commercial port by itself.

1.21 The Qing court sent a secret telegram to Xi Liang, the governor of Sichuan, ordering all prefectures and counties in Sichuan Province to strictly search for revolutionaries.

1.26 The branch of the department reconsidered the Governor of Sichuan, Xi Liang, and suspended the 7 permanent donations and relief donations in Sichuan Province for one year.

1.27 The Qing court sent a telegram to the governor of Sichuan to effectively rectify the patrol police of all prefectures and counties in Sichuan Province to maintain local law and order.

1.30 The Qing court proposed to tele-Chuan Governor: Another Tibetan coin was minted and engraved with a special pattern, so that the new coin was pure and profitable, which was convenient for use, in order to resist the circulation of British coins in Tibet.

2.6 The Qing court proposed to send Zhao Erfeng as the minister of reclamation in Batang and Litang, stationed in Batang, and recruited people to reclaim the land.

2.15 The War Department has repeatedly urged Sichuan Province to establish an army, and recently sichuan has received a telegram from the governor of Sichuan Province, and Sichuan Province has prepared to build 10 battalions of the army.

2.18 The Qing dynasty telegraphed and surveyed two detailed maps of the two Tibetan and two ponds, divided into two types of land and water, and together with the minister stationed in Tibet, examined in detail the customs and folk customs of the two Tibetan places.

2.20 The War Department approved the mixing of the 10 battalions of recruits who had been trained in Sichuan Province into a single association and sent Chen Eunuch to command.

2.27 Sichuan Baofu Company signed a lease with Lide for the lease of Jiangbei Longwang Copper Mine.

2.27 Du Chengshu, secretary of the Chinese Women's Association, talked about the purpose of the Sichuan Women's School, which was to promote women's rights and make people have general knowledge. Pay special attention to slimming products.

In February, Xiong Chengzao, Fang Xu and Xi Liang drafted the Statutes of the Tibetan Literature Hall.