"Four sides of lotus flowers, three sides of willows, a city of mountains and half a city lake", such a Daming Lake who does not love? But when it comes to the love for Daming Lake, the late Qing scholar Song Shu can be described as "obsessed", he stayed in Jinan for a total of four years, but he visited Daming Lake hundreds of times, and also praised Daming Lake in his letters and works.
Song Shu (1862-1910), originally known as Cun Li, later changed his name to Shu, the character Pingzi, the number Liuzhai, Zhejiang Pingyang people. Modern scholar, Enlightenment thinker, reformist.
Song Shu studied under the famous Confucians Sun Zhenming, Sun Yirang, and Yu Yu. In the sixteenth year of qing guangxu (1990), he paid homage to Zhang Zhidong, the governor of Huguang, to try to change the law, but Zhang Zhidong did not accept his suggestion. In the eighteenth year of Guangxu, Song Shu went to Tianjin to serve Li Hongzhang, the governor directly under him, and presented the "Six ZhaiBei Discussions", advocating the restoration and reform of the law, and proposing measures such as establishing a parliament, opening a newspaper hall, establishing a school, and revitalizing industry and commerce. Li Hongzhang praised him as a "wizard in the sea" and entrusted him with the teaching of Chinese at the Beiyang Marine Teachers' School.
After the defeat of the Sino-Japanese War, Song Shu left Tianjin and lived in Shanghai, where he successively came into contact with Kang Youwei, Liang Qichao, Tan Sitong, Zhang Binglin and a large number of reformers, becoming the theoretical core of the Shanghai Restoration School. Sun Baoxuan praised him as the "Great Confucian of the World" and honored him as a teacher; Tan Sitong praised him as "Hou Wangshi" in his gift poems to him. In the autumn of the twenty-seventh year of Guangxu, he taught at Qiushi Academy in Hangzhou. In the twenty-ninth year of Guangxu, Song Shu traveled east to Japan again. The following year, he returned to China. Later, he was hired by Yang Shijun, the inspector of Shandong, and served as a member of the Shandong Academic Affairs Office and a copywriter.
Song Shu's speech was fierce and bold, and his thoughts were unique, and he was praised by the people of the time as one of the "Monsters of Dong'ou", "One Day After Lizhou" and "Three Masters of Eastern Zhejiang". He wrote more than twenty kinds of books in his lifetime, including "Jin Tan", "Song Pingzi New Characters", "Liuzhai Youyun Anthology", "Liuzhai No Rhyme Collection", "Song Shu Diary", "Miscellaneous Poems under the Calendar", "History of Zhejiang Studies", "Memorabilia of Joseon", etc., but most of them have been scattered.
In the 28th year of the Qing Dynasty (1902), Zhou Fu was appointed as the inspector of Shandong, and Zhang Shiheng (Li Hongzhang's nephew) was appointed as the general office of the Shandong Academic Affairs Office, and also managed the Staff Office, and handled the Wubei Academy. In September 1931, at the invitation of Zhang Shiheng, Song Shu left Hangzhou and went to Jinan Shandong Academic Affairs Office. He arrived in Jinan by train from Qingdao at 7:30 p.m. on the second night of October and entered the city the next day, while Zhang Shiheng left for Beijing on the fifth night of the first month. Yang Shijun, the inspector of Shandong at the time, treated Song Shu very well, and entrusted him with the post of member of the Shandong Academic Affairs Office and a copywriter, and reinstated as the chief teacher of Chinese in the Army Primary School.
After that, Song Shu spent four years in Jinan, devoted himself to promoting school education and social education in Shandong, and put forward many valuable ideas, such as he once suggested that Yang Shijun, the governor of Shandong, build a provincial newspaper reading office, build branches in various places, set up small branches in the private sector and The Haidai Grand Library on the shores of Daming Lake, create the Shandong Pure Chemistry Hall, the General Bureau of Agricultural Affairs, the Propaganda and Training Institute, the Compilation Bureau, the Minghu Park, etc., and compile and review a variety of textbooks, which contributed to the development of Shandong's cultural and educational undertakings.
At that time, the school office was close to Daming Lake, and at the beginning of Jinan, Song Shu took his servants to live and drink in the Yan Gong Ancestral Hall on the shore of Daming Lake, plus he was very fond of the scenery of Daming Lake, so during his four years in Jinan, he had visited Daming Lake hundreds of times, and there were dozens of poems inscribed on Daming Lake in his "Miscellaneous Poems". In his diary and letters to his wife, Song Shu also made many accounts and descriptions of the scenery of Daming Lake and his travels in Daming Lake. It can be seen that he loves Daming Lake and Jinan.