When Li Shuchang was on a mission to Japan, Wenyou Fujino Masaki died, and Li Shuchang wrote the full text of his epitaph for him. The full text of the epitaph. Length 1 meter, width 60 cm.
Li Shuchang (1837–1898), courtesy name Shu zhai, was a self-signed Qian man from Yumen, Dongxiang, Zunyi County, Guizhou Province. Li Hao's fourth son. Diplomat and essayist in the late Qing Dynasty.
Li Shuchang learned from Zheng Zhen in the early days and emphasized the study of the scriptures. In the eleventh year of Xianfeng (1861), Guizhou stopped the township test due to local wars, and Li Shuchang went north to the township test of Suncheonfu. At that time, the British and French allies attacked Beijing, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom occupied Nanjing, and the Qing court was trapped in internal and external affairs.
In the first year of Tongzhi (1862), Empress Dowager Cixi issued an edict asking for advice. Li Shuchang was born in the "Book of Ten Thousand Words" with a tribute, painfully chen shiyi, and did his best to improve his ideas. The imperial court demoted the order to Zhi County for replenishment, and handed over to Zeng Guofan's Jiangnan camp for dispatch. Entering the zengguo curtain and gaining deep trust, Li Shuchang followed the camp for 6 years, intersected with Zhang Yuzhao, Wu Rulun, and Xue Fucheng in writing, and was called "the four disciples of Zengmen". Zeng Guofan was transferred, Li Shuchang stayed in Jiangsu as an alternate, and served as the acting wujiangzhi county, Qingpuzhi county, Yangzhou lotus pond and other positions.
From the second year of Guangxu (1876), China sent envoys to various countries. Li Shuchang was recommended and successively accompanied Guo Songtao, Zeng Jize, Chen Lanbin, and other envoys to Europe, and successively served as counselors of the embassies in England, Germany, France, and Spain. Begin his life's diplomatic activities.
In 5 years in Europe, he traveled to 10 countries such as Belgium, Switzerland, Portugal, and Austria, paying attention to the political, economic, military, cultural, geographical and folk customs of various countries, and wrote a book called "Western Magazine", becoming the first person in the Qing Dynasty to walk out of the closed "open eyes to see the world".
In the seventh year of Guangxu (1881), he was promoted to the rank of Taoist, given the second pin to wear, and was appointed minister in Japan. Li Shuchang was 44 years old at the time. Three years later, he returned to China to worry about his mother. After thirteen years of service, he was stationed in Japan again. Guangxu was sixteen years old, after returning to China after completing his term of office.
In his spare time, Li Shuchang made friends with Japanese court and opposition scribes, and during the Spring and Autumn Festival, he set up a literary cocktail party and led the poems to be sung. The poems are compiled into a total of six episodes, including more than 90 Japanese friendly people, More than 20 Chinese embassy personnel and domestic people have been paid to sing hundreds of poems and dozens of articles. Li Shuchang's virtuous articles are deeply admired by Japanese people. Li Shuchang once wrote an epitaph for the Japanese sinologist Masaki Fujino. After the death of Lady Zhao of The Later Dawn, Mako Fujino, daughter of Fujino, made an epitaph in the 24th year of Meiji in Japan. The inscription is now in Zunyi County.
In the seventeenth year of Guangxu (1891), Li Shuchang returned to China after serving as a sichuan eastern officer and chongqing customs supervisor. He once funded the establishment of yungui guild hall, held a western affairs school, and cultivated talents to study abroad. Three years later, the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War broke out, and Li Shuchang asked Dongdu to eliminate the difficulties, but he failed to do so. Every time I heard of a defeat in a war, or wept bitterly, or did not eat all day, I could not afford to fall ill. Donate ten thousand dollars to repay the wishes of the country.
In the twenty-first year of Guangxu (1895), when there was a severe drought in his hometown, Li Shuchang would gather in Yutong Township to donate 20,000 taels of silver to buy rice and transport Zunyi to relieve the disaster. The following year, zunyi returned to drought, when Li Shuchang had returned to his hometown from illness, he broke the news and sent a telegram to the governor of Yungui to provide disaster relief, and he was given 20,000 taels of silver for relief.
In the winter of the twenty-third year of Guangxu (1897), Li Shu died in the old house on the beach, at the age of 61.