The Feng family, which comes from Qiyi Town, Tanghe County, at the foot of Tongbai Mountain, has always been known as the "Shuxiang Mendi". The Feng family ancestors have been passed down from generation to generation, and successive generations have paid attention to education and attached importance to the cultivation of talents for future generations, and there are talents in the middle generation of Feng's children.
Among the descendants of the Feng clan, the three brothers and sisters of Feng Youlan, Feng Jinglan and Feng Yuanjun are the most famous, and they are called "TangHe Sanjie" by the people of the time.
Feng Youlan (1895-1990)
Feng Youlan, zizhisheng, is a well-known thinker, philosopher and educator in modern China, known as the "modern neo-Confucian".
Feng Youlan received a good enlightenment education due to family factors in his childhood, and studied in the preparatory department of Tanghe County Higher Primary School, kaifeng Zhongzhou Public High School, Wuchang Zhonghua School, and Shanghai No. 2 Middle School High School Preparatory Class, and achieved excellent results during the school period, ranking among the best.
While studying in Shanghai, Feng Youlan developed a keen interest in philosophy, and in 1915, he was admitted to the Department of Philosophy of Peking University and devoted himself to his in-depth study of philosophy. After graduating in 1918, Feng Youlan once taught at the Henan First Industrial School.
In 1919, Feng Youlan went to the United States to study, studied in the Philosophy Department of Columbia University, and returned to China in 1923 with a doctorate. After returning to China, Feng Youlan taught at Zhongzhou University in Kaifeng, Guangdong University, and Yenching University, teaching on the history of Chinese philosophy.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Feng Youlan served as a professor in the Department of Philosophy and dean of the Faculty of Letters at Southwest United University, and cultivated a large number of philosophical talents. During this period, Feng Youlan published a number of philosophical books and founded a new theoretical system of thought, and was the most influential philosopher at that time.
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Feng Youlan was invited to the University of Pennsylvania in the United States as a visiting professor. In 1948, Feng Youlan returned to China and was elected as an academician of the Academia Sinica in Nanjing. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Feng Youlan served as a professor in the Department of Philosophy of Peking University, a standing committee member of the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and received honorary doctorates in literature from Princeton University in the United States, Delhi University in India, and Columbia University in the United States.
In 1990, Feng Youlan died of illness at the age of 95 in Beijing Friendship Hospital.
Feng Jinglan (1898-1976)
Feng Jinglan, zi Huaixi, is a well-known geological educator, mineral depositist and geomorphologist in modern China, and one of the important founders of mineral deposits in China.
Feng Jinglan, who studied in a private school in the township in his childhood, studied at the No. 2 Provincial Middle School in Kaifeng, Henan. In 1916, Feng Jinglan was admitted to the preparatory department of Peking University, and because of his excellent grades, two years later, he was admitted to study in the United States at public expense.
In 1918, Feng Jinglan entered the Colorado Institute of Mines in the United States, and in 1921, he was admitted to the Columbia University Research Institute in the United States, studying mineral deposits and petrology, and obtained a master's degree in 1923 and returned to China.
After returning to China, Feng Jinglan served as a lecturer professor at Henan Zhongzhou University and the head of the Department of Mineral Geology. During this period, he conducted in-depth research and investigation of mineral deposit geology in various parts of China, and was one of the earliest modern mineral deposit geologists. After that, he also served as a technical director of the Liangguang Geological Survey, a professor at Beiyang University, and the head of the Department of Geosciences of Tsinghua University, where he conducted in-depth investigations of geology and minerals in Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong and other places in addition to teaching courses such as mineral deposits, mineralogy and petrology.
Pictured: Mr. Feng Jinglan's family
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Feng Jinglan served as a professor at Southwest United University, and after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he still returned to Tsinghua University to teach.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Feng Jinglan taught at Tsinghua University and Beijing School of Geology, and was later appointed as a member of the Steering Committee of the China Geological Work Program and a member of the Faculty of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and fully participated in the geological survey work of New China, and made great contributions to this end.
In 1976, Feng Jinglan died of illness at the age of 78.
Feng Yuanjun (1900-1974)
Feng Yuanjun, formerly known as Feng Gonglan, changed her name to Shulan, the character Defu, the pen name Ms. Gan, is a historian of modern Chinese classical literature, a pioneer female writer in the May Fourth period, and the first female first-class professor in New China.
Feng Yuanjun, who studied private school at home in his childhood, was influenced by his two older brothers, loved to read, and was called "talented girl" by the township because of his intelligence and studiousness. In his early years, he attended the county Duanben Girls' Primary School, and was later admitted to the liberal arts specialty class of the Beijing Women's Higher Normal School.
After graduating from the Women's Higher Normal School in 1922, Feng Yuanjun was admitted to the graduate school of peking university research institute, during which time she began to use Ms. Gan as a pen name to create and publish works. After 1925, Feng Yuanjun taught at many well-known universities in China, such as Fudan University, Sun Yat-sen University, Peking University, and Jinling University.
In 1932, Feng Yuanjun went to France to study at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Paris. After receiving his doctorate in 1935, Feng Yuanjun returned to China and continued his teaching career in China.
Pictured: Feng Yuanjun and Lu Kanru
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Feng Yuanjun was appointed as a professor in the Department of Chinese of Shandong University, and later, she served as vice president of Shandong University, vice chairman of the Shandong Provincial Women's Federation, vice chairman of the Shandong Provincial Federation of Literature and Literature, and member of the Shandong Provincial People's Committee.
In 1974, Feng Yuanjun died of illness at the age of 74.
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