Recently, four generations of descendants of Lin Erjia, taiwan's richest man, reunited on Gulangyu Island, with more than 60 people from four continents. Although they are a family, many people come from different continents, and it is necessary to rely on complex family trees to sort out each other's names. Lin Erjia's father, Lin Weiyuan, was the richest man in Taiwan, equivalent to Taiwan's Gou today. After the Sino-Japanese War in 1895, Lin Weiyuan and his family took refuge in Gulangyu Island from Taipei. In 1945, Lin Erjia returned to Taiwan with his family. And Lin Erjia's huge family has spread out, and now the descendants have fallen around the world. Pictured: The descendants of the Lin family simply draw a family tree on the wall to introduce each other's names to the descendants.
Since the 1990s, the lin family's first and second gatherings have been in the United States, and this gathering is the third and first time the Lin family has returned to the mainland. The family members who attended the gathering, from the seventh to the tenth generation, included white-haired elderly people and infants, and four generations of the same family commemorated the 142nd anniversary of the birth of the ancestor Lin Erjia. Pictured: Mr. Lin Daoguo, a descendant of the Lin Erjia family, sits in the garden of the Lin family's mansion, which is the Lin family's property in Gulangyu Island, which was later sold by the Lin family and converted into a high-end hotel.
During his tenure as president of the Xiamen General Chamber of Commerce and president of the Xiamen Municipal Council, Lin Erjia made great contributions to the first wave of urban transformation and construction in Xiamen, and the old urban area of Xiamen was formed when he was president, and is still benefiting the people of Xiamen; he has been very generous and outstanding in building the Xizhang embankment for the land sale and purchase of Land in Xiamen, the Sino-Foreign Trade, the installation of electric lights and telephones, the supervision of the Shenzhen-Xiamen Railway, the deliberation of the national finances, the editing and publication of the "Shuzhuang Cong Carving", the donation to the construction of the Chinese Navy, the relief of the Flood Disaster in Zhangzhou, and the construction of the Xizhang Levee.
The left is a member of the Lin family living in Tianjin, China, and the right is the descendants of the Lin family living in California, USA, and this family gathering crosses the Pacific Ocean and meets Gulangyu Island, which is not easy.
Lin Erjia is the owner of Shuzhuang Garden in Gulangyu Island, Xiamen, and a famous patriotic industrialist in the history of Xiamen and even in the history of China. He was not afraid of foreign powers and had a lofty national spirit; he advocated industry to save the country, served the villagers, was willing to be charitable, and made outstanding contributions to the economic development and urban construction of Xiamen in the early days. The picture shows the octagonal tower of the main building of Lin's Mansion.
Lin's Mansion is the former residence of the Lin family in Banqiao, Taiwan, on Gulangyu Island, commonly known as "Funei". Its position in the hearts of the people of old Gulangyu island is like that of the Forbidden City in Beijing. The picture shows the garden of Lin's House.