Turning over the dusty past, this is an old thing that has been forgotten by Long Shi. Looking back at the history of Chinese sinology, this is an old thing that should not be forgotten. Tang Yongtong and Tang Yijie, who had already passed away, were inextricably linked to Longshang. Tang Yongtong, a master of traditional Chinese studies, even regarded Longyuan as his hometown.
Why are the masters inextricably linked to Longyuan, and what secrets are hidden in this past? After months of excavation, a little-known past gradually surfaced. This secret has to start with Tang Lin.
Tang Lin, zi Chongdao, no. 3 Yusan, a native of Huangmei County, Hubei Province. In 1890, enke would take the examination, pass the examination for the jinshi, distributed to Gansu, that is, to use Zhi County, successively serving as Weiyuan, Nianbo, Pingfan and other Zhixian counties, plus the same title of Zhi, the calendar Ding You (1897), Nong Yin (1902), and 癸卯 (1903) Ke Gansu Township Examination with the examiner.
Portrait of Tang Lin
This is Tang Lin's simple resume, which seems very ordinary and nothing special. However, what people don't know is that Tang Lin is the father of the master of traditional Chinese studies, Tang Yongtong, the grandfather of Tang Yijie, who was born in Weiyuan, Gansu.
What kind of past is this? Liu Yongming, a doctor of history at Lanzhou University, has figured out the general context of Tang Lin in Gansu after a long period of excavation, and today, let us listen to a story that should not be forgotten, commemorating the masters who have walked through Longshang.
Fighting the evil mother-in-law, Tang Lin's changing customs in Weiyuan
When I learned the news of the death of Tang Yijie, a master of traditional Chinese studies, I was in Huangmei, Hubei Province, attending the opening ceremony and academic activities of the Tang Yongtong Memorial Hall held on September 10. In this academic exchange, my paper was "Tang Lin in Gansu". Before going to Huangmei, I brought some Weiyuan specialties and prepared to visit Mr. Tang Yijie. After arriving at Huangmei, I learned that Mr. Tang could not attend the meeting due to physical reasons. At about 9 o'clock in the evening of September 9, we received the news of his death, and the scholars present were very sad.
Tang Lin, Tang Yongtong, and Tang Yijie have a very deep relationship with Longyuan, and this relationship began with Tang Lin.
In 1890, after Tang Lin was admitted to the Jinshi, he was included in the instant Zhi County. What is Zhixian County? In the Qing Dynasty, there were many redundant personnel, and many people had the identity of Zhi County, and it could be known that county posts were scarce. It is necessary to wait for vacancies, and to use Zhi County, there is no need to wait for the vacancies to be filled. This is a recognition of the ability and knowledge of officials. Although Tang Lin received the treatment of zhixian county, it took a lot of trouble to really take office.
Weiyuan Baling Bridge
There are many theories about the time when Tang LinWeiyuan County took office. Some say it was in 1894, some say it was in 1897. After reviewing a great deal of information, we consider 1897 to be more credible. According to the records, Tang Lin came to Gansu relatively early, and arrived in Gansu shortly after he passed the entrance examination, which should be before June 1893. Although Tang Lin is a zhixian county, he still has to wait for the predecessor Zhixian to leave before he can take over. His successor was Yang Zhenmo, a Hubei Yunmeng man, who signed Zhi County, Weiyuan County in the twenty-second year of Guangxu (1896). The next Zhixian was taken over in the twenty-fourth year of Guangxu (1898). It can be seen that Tang Lin's real appointment to Zhixian County was only one year, which is consistent with the records in his family tree.
During his tenure in Weiyuanzhi County, Tang Lin did a lot of things, but due to its age, many accounts were blurred. There is a story that still circulates in the local area. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the phenomenon of mother-in-law abusing child adopted daughters-in-law was widespread in Weiyuan. The methods of this kind of evil mother-in-law are very bad, and the child brides-in-law live a life inferior to that of cattle and horses. Tang Lin strictly grasped several cases after a private visit by micro-service, and in his own way, he also treated his body, and applied the means of abusing his mother-in-law to his daughter-in-law to the evil mother-in-law. In this way, the atmosphere of the evil mother-in-law's cruel daughter-in-law has been curbed.
Although Tang Lin did not hold office for a long time, he was more resolute in his attitude of eliminating shortcomings and changing customs and customs, and won the praise of the people and was called "Tang Qingtian". It should be said that this is the highest evaluation of Tang Lin by the people, and it is extremely difficult.
The "Weiyuan Terroir Survey" commented that Tang Lin was "famous and popular, and the government was still peaceful". That is to say, while paying attention to the fairness of political affairs, he attaches great importance to the Confucian way of loyalty and forgiveness, and does not impose on others what he does not want to bear.
Weiyuan was enlightened, and the foundation of the master was rooted in Longshang
On the one hand, Tang Lin used administrative means to correct local bad habits. On the one hand, education is promoted. In addition to his administration, he opened a library to teach and educate students. It was under this kind of education that Tang Yongtong, a master of traditional Chinese studies, began his initial enlightenment.
Tang Yongtong was born in Weiyuan in the sixth month of the lunar calendar in 1893. Tang Yongtong's resume said that he followed his father's hair in office, and was enlightened by the academy where his father taught, and received a strict traditional education. (Another: Some people once recalled that in the 1930s, there was a professor from Gansu at Peking University, which refers to Mr. Tang Yongtong, and Mr. Tang's place of origin at that time was written as: Weiyuan, Gansu)
There is a very important feature in the inheritance of traditional Chinese culture, "family learning", which is what the origin of family learning means. The learning of tang Lin's three generations of grandchildren has a relatively strong characteristic of family learning. At this time, it was around 1900, and the modern education system in the West was gradually unfolding throughout the country, and they were also affected by the new type of education, and Tang Lin was also very supportive of the new type of education. Tang Lin has a set of methods in teaching and educating people, emphasizing the moral cultivation of the self, and using the words and deeds of previous people as an example to exhort and admonish students. This kind of education has the effect of spring rain and moisturizing things, and plays a very good role in cultivating students' interest in learning.
Mr. Tang Yijie once said that his father was very intelligent and studious when he was a child, and he entered the teaching hall opened by his grandfather very early to study, and at the age of three, he memorized "Lamentations in the South of the Jiangnan". Later, Mr. Tang Yongtong also said that he undertook the training of the court at an early age and read the books early. It can be seen that the childhood time in Weiyuan also left a very deep memory for Tang Yongtong.
Soup with a statue
After studying Mr. Tang Yongtong's experience, we found that he did not spend much time in Huangmei in his lifetime. Instead, he was born in Weiyuan, grew up in Gansu, and spent the most memorable childhood time of his life in Longshang. Therefore, Mr. Tang Yongtong has a very deep affection for Longshang. According to some people's recollections, whenever Tang Yongtong met a Person from Weiyuan, he would always inquire about his childhood partner and inquire about the situation of his neighbors. It can be said that although Mr. Tang Yongtong's ancestral home is Huangmei, Hubei Province, in his heart, Longshang is undoubtedly his hometown.
Before the Xinhai Revolution, Tang Yongtong left his father's teaching hall and went to the Shuntianfu Academy in Beijing. This school is the predecessor of today's Hebei Normal University. At this school, Tang received a new education and read Indian philosophy and Buddhist texts with Liang Shuming. In 1912, he was admitted to Tsinghua University, and in 1918, he was admitted to study in the United States with the financial support of the Gengzi Indemnity Fund. It should be said that the foundation of the master's sinology was laid on the long.
To our regret, this past of the master's starting from Longshang has been forgotten by people, leaving only a few words of account.
Angered by the dismissal of his superiors, he opened a museum in Lan to educate people and founded a new-style school
Tang Lin has the characteristics of a Chinese traditional knowledge molecule, who is good at both the world and the poor. Although he was an official in ZhiXian County, he was honest and self-sustaining. This is very rare in the late Qing society of "three years of Qing prefect, 100,000 snowflake silver".
For more than a decade from 1893 to 1908, Tang Lin spent most of his time in Longshang teaching and educating people. During this time, while focusing on traditional education, he also actively participated in the establishment of new schools. Since Tang Lin arrived in Weiyuan, Weiyuan has walked out of a number of people to enter the army, among which Shi Huaizhang, who was admitted to the Guangxu 癸卯 (1903) Keju. And when he was the same examiner, he even admitted Deng Long and others as people. 、
Night view of Lanzhou today
In fact, Tang Lin's Zhixian did not last long. In the twenty-fourth year of Guangxu (1898), Tang Lin was deposed for being angry with Shangguan for being unsociable. After leaving his post, Tang Lin came to Lanzhou to set up a museum to teach apprentices. According to the official customs of the late Qing Dynasty, after leaving office, officials often take the looted property with them, or return to their hometowns, or hide in a big city, and they are at ease, and they will never stay in the place of office. This also confirms from one side that Tang Lin is very clean as an official.
After arriving in Lanzhou, Tang Lin quickly participated in the creation of a new school. In 1905, the Qing Dynasty abolished the imperial examination system and the academy and introduced a new style of academy education. In 1906, Lanshan Academy, the largest provincial academy in Gansu, was rebuilt as the Gansu Excellent Normal School.
Most of the students in this school are tribute students, students, invigilators, etc., and the students are selected by the provinces, states and counties. The academic system is divided into two subjects: preparatory (also known as public subjects) and undergraduate (also known as elective subjects). The fundamental purpose of the establishment of this school was to train teachers, which was equivalent to the higher normal school in the future. The school offers courses in ethics (self-cultivation), scripture, Chinese, arithmetic, natural history, physics and chemistry, Japanese, and English. The supervision of the school (equivalent to the principal) is concurrently held by the provincial official in charge of education, Xuezheng, and the specific responsibility for school affairs is mainly the provost and the provost. Tang Lin is the chief secretary. The provost is Zhang Linyan, a local leader in Lanzhou. Zhang Linyan was one of the only five Hanlins in Lanzhou in the Qing Dynasty, who served as the director of the Gansu Consultative Council at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the deputy speaker of the Provisional Provincial Council of Gansu after the founding of the Republic of China. As a non-Gansu national with no background, Tang Lin can work with local leaders, indicating that he has a great influence on Gansu's educational circles. Although this school has not existed for a long time, it has created a group of new talents for Gansu's educational circles and other industries in society.
In 1908, Tang Lin left Gansu for Beijing. In his 15 years in Gansu, he "did not take refuge in things, did not evade responsibility for righteousness, walked in a good position, and went with the flow of the times" to teach and educate people, changed customs and customs, and did many things with his own strength. And longshang's life also left Tang Lin and Tang Yongtong with unforgettable memories for a lifetime.
Narrator: Liu Yongming, Ph.D. in History, Associate Professor, School of History and Culture, Lanzhou University (when 2105)
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