Let's talk about Zhang Zhidong

It's autumn again, and the heat has not yet receded, "half a day in autumn" is just a matter of morning and morning. Going out to run errands, detouring the Dragon Lantern Causeway, separated by elevated and green shade, far away to see Zhang Zhidong and the roof of the Wuhan Museum, stretching upwards with curvature, the elements of the ancient Chinese cornices are faintly visible, look at it a few times, it seems to be a bit like the shape of a boat. The exterior of the museum is unique and distinctive, with a strange personality.

The museum in front of you is the former site of the Hanyang Arsenal prepared by Zhang Zhidong, and the car was just about to enter the gate, and the security guard ran out from the inside and shook his hand at the front of the car: the interior decoration, temporarily closed. Obviously, the Internet said that you can visit, how can this be decorated? Who is wrong and can't figure it out.

A person and a city can have many connections, people are different, and the location of the city's life code is naturally different. Zhang Zhidong oversaw E'e for 18 years, painted several extremely important strokes for the greater Wuhan, and painted the original background color for the modern industrial civilization of Jiangcheng.

The first time I realized zhang zhidong's profound influence on Wuhan was the "bragging rights" from my fathers. In the early years, the "bamboo bed array" was popular on summer nights, three or five elders, sitting in a circle, shaking the banana fan, talking about the gods of the South China Sea, Zhang Zhidong never forgot, and the story of the New Year's Pass was heard while standing on the side and enjoying the coolness.

It is said that Zhang Zhidong had the ability to never forget, he walked through the street in a palanquin, and when he returned to the mansion, he could say which shop was next door and what was the name, and the entourage was all impressed.

One year at the end of the year, the Governor's Palace carried out four or five good large wooden boxes, four strong men carried a box, all the way to the largest pawnshop in Wuchang City, followed by the master told the pawnshop owner: Governor Zhang wants to borrow some money, these boxes are collateral, which contain valuables in the palace, can not be opened, must be properly kept. The confused boss saw that each box was tightly sealed and covered with the governor of Huguang, and immediately asked his men to be very careful to carry the box to the warehouse, according to the number of the master's request, 1510 points of silver. Zhang Zhidong sent the messengers with the silver and asked them to take the silver home for the New Year. In March of the following year, the silver pulled out by the imperial court arrived, the box was renewed, and the people were ordered to carry it to the riverside, and directly sank the box into the Yangtze River, and the box was full of stones.

Folk oral stories do not know whether they are true or false, but the Hanyang Iron Works at the foot of Heshan Mountain and the bustling Zhongshan Avenue in Hankou were originally built under the auspices of Zhang Zhidong, and Wuhan University in Luojia Mountain, Wuchang, and Huazhong Agricultural University on the banks of Yezhi Lake can be traced back to the self-improvement school and agricultural school he founded. In the 18 years of Zhang Zhidong's supervision, Wuhan became an important industrial and commercial port after Shanghai, and "Oriental Chicago" was not a wasted reputation.

A series of "foreign affairs" such as rejuvenating industry, running education, training new army, and repairing railways are related to his ideological habit of "taking middle school as the body and Western learning as the use".

In the 1998 Wuhan flood, Zhanggong Causeway was hotly discussed for a while, which is also a legacy left by Zhang Zhidong to wuhan municipal government, and in previous years it has been the last flood control levee to protect the main urban area of Hankou.

For many Wuhan people, Zhang Zhidong is a living existence.