There are many people in this world who are born with great ambitions. Obviously, you can eat by your face, but you have to rely on your talent to survive, and you can obviously rely on your talent to be good at yourself, but you have to help the world with your own strength. Song Xiaolian is like this.
From the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, the handover work of Heilongjiang Province was completed by one person - he handed over to himself, and this person was Song Xiaolian, the last inspector of Heilongjiang in the Qing Dynasty, and the first governor and civil administrator of Heilongjiang in the Republic of China. When this longjiang parent official of the two dynasties was in office, he was in charge of internal chaos, foreign power struggle, practical persuasion, pension for orphans and the poor, fame hunting, and spirit, and it can almost be said that he was a famous frontier minister with complete achievements in history.
Song Xiaolian
Song Xiaolian was a famous scholar and calligrapher in Jilin during the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, and was known as the "Three Masters of Jilin" together with Cheng Duolu and Xu Nailin. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Zhang Xiluan, the governor of Zhili, said that he was a three-hard gentleman who wrote hard poems, wrote hard kung fu characters, and did hard things.
Song Xiaolian's calligraphy is quite profound, taking the various bodies of France and Europe, Yan, Su and Weng, gathering the beauty of all, not falling behind, self-reliant and independent, and becoming a family. His calligraphy is vigorous and strong, and his forms and gods are both powerful, and the inkblots are extraordinary, whether it is a real book, a line book, a Wei stele, as well as a rare cursive and seal book. Regardless of its size, the font can be used freely. The inscriptions on plaques and links are highly respected in Beijing, Jilin, Shenyang, Harbin and other places.
Cultural relics in the collection of the Harbin City History And Cultural Relics Museum: Song Xiaolian Xinzha
Cultural relics in the collection of the Harbin City History and Cultural Relics Museum: Song Xiaolian calligraphy
Eight years of Longsha's frequent transfers, the general Absolute Shuo Jianqixun.
Tianwei is far beyond the southern barbarian suit, and the boundary painting is far away from the North Pole.
Hundreds of battles have been fought in vain to restore the Song dynasty, and the two rivers are still full of gold people.
The cannon stones of the West Mountain are clearly distinguished, and the clouds lie in the blue sky.
--Song Xiaolian, "Yaksa Huaigu"
Song Xiaolian's poetry is strict and orderly, deeply rooted in the Tang and Song dynasties, the ancient style, the five or seven words are in line with the ancient, the early wounds are sad, the momentum is magnificent, the iron riding dragon city, the side plugs the beacon, the desolate ancient height, one singing and three sighs; in the later years, the landscape is talking, the flowers and birds are affectionate, but they are depressed in the indifference.
At the age of twenty-six, Song Xiaolian went to the Mohe Gold Mining Bureau, a bitter and cold place, to accompany the copywriter and negotiate foreign affairs, and since then," half of his life has been on the side of the fundraising, black water and yellow sand for twenty years." "The two most revered things in his life are enough to make him famous in history."
One is the repeal of two contracts privately signed between Zhou Mian and the Middle East Railway Company in the 30th year of Guangxu. The negotiations lasted two years and 140 meetings, preserved the forests, land and coal mines that were almost lost along the Middle East railway line, and stopped the Russians from trying to enter the Hulan and Nomin River valleys.
The second was his dismissal. Song Xiaolian had been dealing with Tsarist Russia, and his hard-line style made Tsarist Russia resentful, and in 1913 he used force to intimidate the Beiyang government to remove him from his post, and succeeded. Song Xiaolian was transferred to Beijing as an adviser to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other idle posts, and for a time the officials complained and the people sighed.
In 1912, the new governor of Heilongjiang Province, Song Xiaolian, arrived in Kazakhstan.
I met with Holwat, director of the Eastern Provincial Railways Administration
In 1920 he was recommended to Harbin as a railway inspector in the Middle East. During his tenure, he signed the Provisional Regulations on The Transport of the Eastern Provincial Railway and the Baikal Railway in Russia. At that time, The Daosheng Bank and Citibank in Harbin issued paper money without authorization, which seriously affected Harbin's finances and finances, and he fought against this, and called the Ministry of Communications of the Beijing government to demand that all foreign banks be banned from issuing banknotes in Kazakhstan. During this period, there was a plague epidemic in various places along the Middle East Railway, and he rushed to this end, working with the epidemic prevention offices of the three eastern provinces to formulate epidemic prevention measures, so that the plague was quickly eliminated.
In 1922, Song Xiaolian returned to hermitage, died in 1926, and was buried in Jilin according to his will. In his life, Yu Sanjian, the name of Danqing, from a cloth to a feudal official, the family country and the world and finally grew old in poetry and wine. As the saying goes: Thirty years of fundraising, two heavens of the earth, weak countries can be self-assured, and there are no good officials in the former Dynasty of Mo Dao.
Harbin City History Museum