Feng Youlan is a famous contemporary Chinese philosopher and educator. He graduated from the Department of Philosophy of Peking University in 1918 and received his Doctor of Philosophy degree from Columbia University in 1924.
His books "History of Chinese Philosophy", "A Brief History of Chinese Philosophy", "New Edition of the History of Chinese Philosophy", "Six Books of Zhenyuan", etc. have become important classics of Chinese scholarship in the 20th century, and have had a profound impact on Modern and Contemporary Chinese scholars and even foreign scholars. It is known as "modern Neo-Confucianism".
<h1>The three brothers and sisters of the Feng family, "one door and three masters"</h1>
Feng Youlan was born in Tanghe, Henan Province, to a family of merchants but with a strong sense of books. Grandfather Feng Yuwen was knowledgeable about books and etiquette, and was deeply nourished by traditional culture, and he once wrote in his poem: "Rich and noble, how can it be rich and prosperous, and is it bitter to be poor?" Try the rich and noble, who is exempt from a piece of soil! I have no knowledge, but I have a good idea. ”
He had three sons, all of whom received a good traditional education. The two sons have successively passed the examination for xiucai. Feng Youlan's father, Feng Taiyi, was even more prominent, and was raised in the fifteenth year of Guangxu, and was later granted the Tongjinshi by the Qing court.
Feng Youlan's father, Feng Taiyi, Guangxu Tongjinshi
The Feng family has a good poetry family style, Feng Yuwen has "Meicun Poetry Manuscript", Feng Yunyi has "Zhifei Zhai Poetry Collection", Feng Taiyi has "Fuzhai Poetry Collection", Feng Yuwen's lady Jun Yishan poetry, unfortunately died of illness at the age of eighteen, the Feng family compiled her poems before her death as "Plum Blossom Window Poetry Grass". The Fung family produced four books of poetry, which is also a rare cultural wonder.
In Tanghe, Henan, the story of the "Three Brothers and Sisters of the Feng Family" can be said to be known to women and children.
Feng Youlan's younger brother Feng Jinglan was a geological educator, mineral depositist, and geomorphologist. In 1916, he was admitted to the preparatory department of Peking University, and in 1923, he graduated from the Research Institute of Columbia University in the United States with a master's degree. After returning to China, he successively served as a professor at Henan University and Tsinghua University. He has been engaged in geological education for more than 50 years and has cultivated several generations of geological talents. He is one of the important founders of Chinese mineral deposits. He proposed the concept of "Danxia landform" and made achievements in geomorphology. The name "Danxia Landform" has been used by the international geological community.
Feng Jinglan: Educator, mineral depositist, geomorphologist
Sister Feng Yuanjun (Ms. Gan) is a talented woman of a generation, a modern writer and scholar. She graduated from the Department of Chinese Literature of Beijing Women's Higher Normal School and was admitted to peking university to study classical Chinese literature. He was the Vice President of Shandong University. Feng Yuanjun is another eye-catching female writer in the literary world after Chen Hengzhe, Bing Xin, and Lu Yin, and the spirit of opposing feudal etiquette and striving for freedom and independence in her novels is enough to compete with several other writers who are well-known in the literary world before and after her. Her husband, Lu Kanru, was also a well-known scholar.
Feng Yuanjun: A famous modern female writer
Lu Kanru (1903-1978), a famous scholar. Originally from Taicang, Jiangsu Province, he was born in Haimen, Jiangsu Province, into a patriotic gentry family. In 1922, he was admitted to Peking University. In 1924, he was admitted to the Institute of Tsinghua University to specialize in classical Chinese literature. In his first year of college, he published Qu Yuan, and when he graduated from college, he published the book "Song Yu". He is a professor at China Public School in Shanghai and works part-time at Fudan University and Jinan University. He devoted his life to the research and teaching of ancient Chinese literature and wrote a lot of books.
Lu Kanru: A famous scholar of ancient literature
Lu and Feng worked together in the field of literary studies to write books and say that they flew together, which can be called a good story in the literary world. In 1931, the two of them collaborated to publish the 600,000-word "History of Chinese Poetry", which broke with traditional views and was very innovative. In 1932, the two cooperated in the publication of the book "Compendium of the History of Chinese Literature", and their works were translated into several foreign languages and published, so that the outstanding literary heritage of ancient China could be carried forward and developed around the world. Shandong University set up the "Feng Yuanjun Literature Award" with Lu Feng's pre-life savings as a fund to encourage accomplished literary teaching and research workers to strive to dedicate themselves to the cultural and academic cause of the motherland.
Lu Kanru and Feng Yuanjun: Academic heroes
Her cousin Feng Ranglan was the wife of the Chinese philosopher and historian Zhang Dainian.
Zhang Dainian (1909-2004) was a native of Xianxian County, Hebei Province. Modern Chinese philosopher and historian of philosophy. Zhang Dainian graduated from Beijing Normal University in 1933 and taught at the Department of Philosophy of Tsinghua University. After 1952, he was a professor in the Department of Philosophy of Peking University and the director of the Institute of Ideology and Culture of Tsinghua University. From the 1920s to the mid-1930s, he successively wrote important philosophical papers such as "Dialectics in Pre-Qin Philosophy" and "The Origin of Chinese Thought", and for the first time systematically sorted out the materialist thought of ancient Chinese philosophy. From 1935 to 1936, Zhang Dainian wrote a 500,000-word "Outline of Chinese Philosophy", taking philosophical issues as the outline, respectively describing its source and development, in order to show the systematic organization of Chinese philosophy, its high academic taste is recognized by the academic community, and it is still a required reading list for Chinese philosophy majors.
Zhang Dainian: Founder of Chinese philosophy
Feng Youlan's wife Ren Zaikun, the daughter of the late Qing dynasty revolutionary Ren Zhiming, graduated from the Beijing Women's Normal School and became the principal of the school after graduation. In order to let Feng Youlan concentrate on writing books and engaging in academics, Ren Zaikun gave up his hobbies and careers to specialize in housework.
Ren Zaikun
She and Feng Youlan had two sons and two daughters: Feng Zhonglian, Feng Zhongliao, Feng Zhong (Zong) Pu, and Feng Zhongyue, all of whom had achievements.
The eldest daughter, Feng Zhonglian, graduated from the Department of Foreign Languages of Southwest United University and was an excellent Chinese teacher in Beijing 31, and died in 1975.
When the second eldest, Feng Zhongliao, was studying at the Southwest United University, he joined the army to resist Japan, participated in the counter-offensive campaign in western Yunnan, and later went to the United States to become an expert in industrial boilers.
Feng Youlan's four children: from the left, Zhong Lian, Zhong Liao, Zhong Pu, and Zhong Yue
The second daughter Zong Pu, formerly known as Feng Zhongpu, has representative works such as the short story "Red Bean" and "Dream on the String", the series of novels "Wild Gourd Introduction" and the essay "Wisteria Luo Waterfall". His "Records of Eastern Tibet" won the 6th Mao Dun Literature Award. Her works are mostly written about the intellectual class, elegant, learned, and implicit.
Zong Pu, masterpiece "Wisteria Luo Waterfall"
The old fourth Feng Zhongyue, is An expert in aircraft strength in China, and his professional achievements are very prominent, but unfortunately he died at the age of 51. Feng Youlan wrote a bang for his son: "A good party member, a good cadre, a hero who has not been rewarded, who sheds tears only for the pain of the family, who can be skillful in science and technology, who can be skillful in art and literature, who is rarely encountered with all-round talents, and it is difficult to summon souls to return!" Zong Pu once had a famous prose "Crying Little Brother" to commemorate him.
Feng Zhongyue is an outstanding expert in aircraft structural strength
Zong Pu's husband Cai Zhongde (February 26, 1937 – February 13, 2004) was a Chinese music historian and philosopher, and a professor at the Central Conservatory of Music. Cai Zhongde's Annotated Translation of the History of Chinese Music Aesthetics is the first systematic collection of materials on the history of Chinese music aesthetics, collecting more than 2,000 important musical and aesthetic documents from the pre-Qin to the end of the Qing Dynasty. He has also published several monographs on the history of music and has won several awards. In addition to the history of Chinese music aesthetics, Cai Zhongde has also conducted in-depth research on Chinese philosophy, the personality of scholars, and modern Chinese culture.
Scholar of Chinese music history and philosophy
Feng Youlan's younger brother Feng Jinglan had three sons and three daughters: Feng Zhongyu, Feng Zhongyun, Feng Zhongqian, Feng Zhongguang, Feng Zhongyan, and Feng Zhongchao. In addition to zhong yu, the three sons, who are water conservancy experts, Zhong Guang and Zhong Yan both inherit their father's business, and they are geologists who study geological deposits. Zhong Yun is a professor of literature at Peking University, and her husband, Ren Jiyu, is a well-known scholar and director of the Beijing Library. Feng Zhongqian is a researcher at the Institute of High Energy Physics. Feng Zhongchao is a Tsinghua graduate and a researcher at the Institute of Metal Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The eldest son, Feng Zhongyu, a graduate of Tsinghua University, is a well-known water conservancy and hydropower expert in China, who was sent to Taiwan by the Nationalist Government on the eve of liberation, and presided over and participated in the design of Taiwan's major water conservancy projects and kaohsiung port. After the resumption of cross-strait exchanges, he contributed greatly to the construction of the Three Gorges Dam and has now passed away.
Feng Zhongyu
The eldest daughter, Feng Zhongyun (1919-2005), was a professor in the Department of Chinese of Peking University, a literary historian, and a famous language educator. In the summer of 1943, she served as a teaching assistant in the Chinese Department of Southwest United University, becoming the first female teacher of Southwest United University. He is the author of the commentary collection "Du Fu Research Papers", the biography of Zhuang Zhou, and the biography of Qu Yuan.
Feng Zhongyun's husband, Ren Jiyu (1916.4.15 – 2009.7.11), a native of Shandong Plain, was a famous philosopher, Buddhist scholar, historian, director of the National Library of China, and honorary curator. He studied under Tang Yongtong and He Lin. From 1942 to 1964, he taught at the Department of Philosophy of Peking University, and in 1964, he was responsible for the preparation of the country's first religious research institution, the Institute of World Religions of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, as its director. His monographs include "Treatise on Buddhist Thought in the Han and Tang Dynasties" and "History of the Development of Chinese Philosophy".
Feng Zhongyun and Ren Jiyu
Unfortunately, Feng Yuanjun had no children.
Zong Pu's daughter, Feng Jue, was born in Beijing in 1972 and graduated from Peking University in 1994. In his twenties, he became a vice president of Sohu. Later, she joined Li Ka-shing's Tom Group as deputy general manager of its Internet business.
Feng Yu
Feng Zhongyun and Ren Jiyue have a son and a daughter. His son Ren Zhong and daughter Ren Yuan both graduated from Peking University. Ren Zhong now works at the Graduate School of Peking University, while Ren Yuan, after graduating from Ji Xianlin, is a professor in Canada, and the female inherits her father's business, spreading traditional Chinese culture such as Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism.
<h1 class="ql-align-justify" > "Fengmen Wang"</h1>
The Feng family is one of the three major families in the Republic of China, and is also known as the "Fengmen Wang"
The connotation and role of home style cannot be underestimated. Feng Youlan once said: "Home is also a small society, and there is a family fashion, that is, the so-called family style is also." A person can be described as his family style. ”
Loyalty is passed down from generation to generation, and poetry books are long-lived!
The outstanding achievements and legendary stories of Feng's children inspire ordinary people to forge ahead. The bloodline and humanistic spirit of the "Fengmen Wang" inspire us to think.