Zhu Yixin -- a courtier in the dynasty and a teacher in the opposition
Zhu Yixin (1846-1894), also known as Rongsheng and Dingfu, was a native of Zhudian Village in the Qing Dynasty.
At the age of 5, he studied under his teacher and listened to his classmates reading "Zhongyong" and "Analects", that is, he could memorize and memorize them. In the ninth year of Tongzhi (1870), he was raised. In the second year of Guangxu (1876), he was awarded the title of Shu Jishi of Hanlin Academy.
In the following year, he was ranked first class and promoted to the editor of Hanlin Academy. It took 15 years to compile the "Chronicle of Jingshifang Lane". In the summer of the ninth year of Guangxu (1883), the French army invaded Vietnam and peeked into our country, and he went to "Please Quickly Determine the Great Plan to Take Measures for The Situation of Danger" and vigorously advocated "revitalizing the regiment and practicing". He also wrote the "Coastal Defense Policy", believing that "water management division, stifling danger, storage of general talents, fine equipment, revitalizing the regiment, and opening up the source of salary" and other 6 urgent tasks. In the fourteenth year of Guangxu, he and his colleagues went to the "Peace Talks Can Not Be Deeply Neglected", opposed humiliating compromises, and suggested strengthening coastal defense. In the autumn of the eleventh year of Guangxu (1885), he served as the deputy examiner of the Hubei Township Examination, and in the winter of that year, he was appointed as the inspector of Shaanxi Province. In August of the following year, in response to Li Lianying's misdeeds during his time in Tianjin, he resolutely went to the "YuFang Eunuch Temple", Cixi was furious and demoted Yixin to the position of alternate chief, so he resigned and returned to his hometown on the grounds of his mother's illness.
"Innocent Hall Answers"
In August of the thirteenth year of Guangxu (1887), he was hired by Zhang Zhidong, the governor of Liangguang, to teach Duanxi Academy in Guangdong, and in 1889 he was appointed as the head of Guangya Academy. He died in 1894 at Guangya Academy.
He Fang, a well-known scholar of international affairs in China, said: "Jinhua has been only One person for Zhu Yixin for three hundred years." Throughout Zhu Yixin's life, his academic achievements and his way of being an official have always been praised by people. It is known as the wind of Yang (Xiong) Zuo (Si), and is known as "the last sound of Zhejiang Science".
He is the author of 16 volumes of "Manuscripts from humble temples", four volumes of "Hanshu Guan zhi", five volumes of "Answers to Questions from Innocence Hall", and two volumes of "Jingshifang Scrolls".
Zhu Yixin's former residence was built during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty. The building sits north and faces south, covers an area of 534.303 square meters, with two entrances and three bays in front and back, and six rooms in the left and right compartments, which is a front-porch courtyard structure. Hard hilltops, yin and yang tiles, paved bricks, heavy eaves. The gallery is used in the lifting beam type, and the rest are worn by buckets. Together with his brother Zhu Huaixin (who served as the chief minister, Zhixian and Zhizhou), the former residence (eighteen rooms) is collectively known as "Dafudi", also known as "About the Scripture Hall".
The eaves are exquisitely carved with ox legs, the eaves on the second floor are made of straight windows, and the inner and outer eaves are decorated with exquisite decoration. The large forehead is carved with dragon patterns and folded branches of flowers; the partition doors and windows are exquisitely made, and the patterns are carved by bas-relief and hot paint process.
The corridor of the east and west wing is equipped with floor-to-ceiling flower covers, hollowed out carved magnolia flowers and ruyi xiangyun, etc., and the study room of the west wing is carved with eight calligraphy works donated by calligraphers, painters and eunuchs at that time, which is highly artistic. There is a hexagonal well in front of the east wing of Zhu Yixin's former residence, which is well preserved.
Its style is different from the traditional houses in Yiwu. It was designed by Zhu Yixin himself, in the main style of traditional houses, obviously accepted the influence of modern Western architectural styles, and its architectural carving art also has a clear influence of Southern Fujian culture, which is a typical architectural relic of the late nineteenth century, which represents an era and reflects the fusion of multiple cultures. (Zhu Shizhi)