There are many wonders in history.
One day in the Guangxu period of the late Qing Dynasty, a beggar was begging along the street in Tangyi County, Shandong Province. I saw him mumbling, talking and singing, sometimes dressed as a pig and dog, and sometimes learning to bark. Its vivid performance and funny aria attracted a burst of laughter from onlookers. There is such a sentence in his lyrics: I beg, I accumulate money, and I learn to be poor. Many people in the crowd shook their heads: beggars still want to learn righteousness. Isn't this an idiotic dream?
Please note that the above ordinary but thrilling scene is not the plot in a martial arts novel, and this beggar is not a beggar master like Hong Qigong, a beggar in the North. His name is Wu Xun, and he was an ordinary beggar at the bottom of China society at that time. However, it was this very ordinary beggar who was immortalized by the later generations with his extraordinary life name, and had a great influence on the cultural and educational circles in modern China. The only beggar who has been recorded in the official history
This beggar named Wu Xun relied on begging. After more than 3 years of unremitting efforts, he built three voluntary schools, purchased more than 3 acres of study fields, and accumulated a wealth of funds for running schools, which is unique in China and in the history of world education. "Draft of the History of Qing Dynasty" announces the records in this discipline, but it has not been recorded, so it is given to the historical museum to learn the facts of the martial arts training of Yi Gai in Tangyi, Shandong Province. The deeds of Wu Xun were later compiled into the section of 286 filial piety in the Draft of Qing History. In the history of China, Wu Xun was the only one who entered the official history as a beggar.
Wu Xun was a native of Wuzhuang (now guanxian), Tangyi County, Shandong Province, in the late Qing Dynasty. Like Ah Q written by Lu Xun, he was a poor man with no name, so he was named Wu Qi because he ranked seventh among his peers in the family. The name Wu Xun is actually a given name. When he was old, the court named him Xun in order to reward him for his righteous act of promoting learning.
Mr. Liang Qichao once wrote "A Brief Introduction to the Development of Learning" specially for Wu Xun, praising Wu Xun's career in Yi Shu for decades. There are countless disciples who left school, and he always ended up with two dollars a day. General Feng Yuxiang praised Wu Xun as a beggar through the ages. Feng Yuxiang also clamored for a large number of voluntary schools, which was the most urgent task. From 1932 to 1935, he founded fifteen martial arts primary schools in Shandong.
Tao Xingzhi's founding of Yucai School and Zhang Boling's founding of Nankai School are closely related to the influence of the spirit of martial arts training. Mr. Tao Xingzhi's short poem "Ode to Wu Xun" summarizes Wu Xun's life, and the poem says: Be happy all day long. I have been running around all my life. For the sake of suffering children, be willing to be a camel. It's good for people, so do cattle and horses. A man without a backrest has few friends. Without education, the top scholar overtook him. Kneel in public, turn the rudder when the stone turns. No property, no wife. Come for a great event, learn, learn, learn. Martial arts training has a high reputation not only at home, but also abroad. He was included in the Dictionary of World Education. Because he has no culture, he is called a silent educator and a civilian educator. Suffering from illiteracy, he began to think of running a voluntary school.
In the eighteenth year of Qing Daoguang (1838), Wu Xun was born in Wuzhuang, Tangyi County, Shandong Province (now guanxian). His family was poor since childhood. When he was seven years old, his father died, and his life became more difficult. As a child, he begged for a living with his mother. Although Wu Xun is young, he is very filial to his mother. Whenever he wants clean and delicious dry food, he must take it back to his mother and never refuses to eat it himself. He is very sensible.
Every time I pass by the school with my mother, the young Wuqi has to stop for a long time. He is always deeply attracted by the reading sound inside. How eager he is to study. However, at that time, as far as his family conditions were concerned, going to school was just a distant dream. One day, he got up the courage to break into the school and asked Mr. Xue to allow him to enter school for free. Instead of sympathizing with him, Mr. Xue insulted him and kicked him out of the house.
at the age of fifteen, Wu Xun came to work at his uncle's house. My rich and heartless uncle didn't give him any preferential treatment because they were relatives. Instead, he made him work harder, but never paid him. He often beat him and bullied him when he had nothing to do. All this, Xiao Wu Xun has endured. At the age of seventeen, Wu Xun went to Li Juren's house as a long-term worker. One day, my sister sent a letter with some money attached. Li Juren bullied Wu Xun and couldn't read, so she gave him the letter and swallowed the money. After Wu Xun knew to ask questions, Li Juren not only denied it, but also scolded Wu Xun. When feeding pigs once, Wu Xun accidentally spilled pig food on the ground and was beaten black and blue. On New Year's Eve, Wu Xun posted Spring Festival couplets to his master. Because he couldn't read, he posted them upside down. The master thought it was unlucky, punched and kicked, quarreled and scolded him, forbade him to eat, and punished him for staying up all night. He stood in the yard all night in the snow and cold.
Wu Xun worked as a long-term laborer in Li Juren's house for three years, and Li Juren never paid him. Once, Wu Xun's mother was ill, so she was helpless. She asked her master for wages. Unexpectedly, Li Juren took out a fake account book and insisted that he had paid the wages early. Wu Xun was illiterate, dumbfounded with anger and heartbroken, but was falsely accused by Li Juren of intentional blackmail. Finally, Wu Xun was beaten to death by Li Juren's family and was swept out of the house.
This encounter was a great blow to him. After the injury, Wu Xun fell asleep in a small temple in Zhuangzi for three days. After waking up, he learned from a bitter experience that he was humiliated because he could not read. There are still many poor people like him around. If you don't study, you will always be bullied for no reason. So he sprouted the idea of starting a voluntary school, so that people can read and write, and they will no longer be bullied. Singing while walking, begging happily to raise money
However, it is unheard of to run a voluntary school in abject poverty, and the difficulty can be imagined. But Wu Xun is very confident in this, and he is determined to realize this great dream with his lifelong asceticism and persistence. In 1859, 21-year-old Wu Xun began to beg for money and opened a new page in his life. With a copper spoon in his hand, a bag on his shoulder, and rags to cover his body, he sang while walking and begged everywhere, and traveled all over Shandong, Hebei, Henan, Jiangsu and other places. This beggar, who will be immortalized in the history of education in the future, thus kicked off the extraordinary life of begging for funds to run a school.
While begging, he sang his own ballads. The lyrics are poetic but not poetic, but they have positive content and a certain rhyme, all of which are related to the establishment of voluntary schools. No matter whether others ask questions or laugh, he always answers by singing; No matter whether he is working or resting, he sings happily. If he is bullied by others, it is better to beg with himself. Don't look at me begging, and build a righteous college sooner or later.
He sells his labor everywhere, works hard and leads an ox-horse life in order to save money for running a school. Wu Xun didn't think the coolie work done by animals was bitter, but he also sang happily:
Come out and mow the grass, and look for it, regardless of the money.
Give me money, and I'll farm. It's not difficult to build a voluntary school.
being a mule and a cow, you don't have to worry about taking a voluntary course.
who knows, the kind military training will be cheated again. A year later, Wu Xun's hard-earned money was cheated by his brother-in-law. Wu Xun was so angry that it broke his heart. A few days later, he recovered his breath and sang smartly: I saw a good man building a tall building, but no bully came to the end.
Some people laughed at him for suffering from righteousness. He sang frankly and replied: Righteousness, no fire. When you meet people, you respect them, reward them with money, live your life, and you can't move after studying righteousness for ten thousand years.
When begging for food, it is inevitable to meet people who are stingy and don't give anything. Wu Xun sings philosophically: If you don't give me anything, I won't complain, and my own good people will take care of my food. When confronted with verbal abuse, he didn't get angry either. He sang the right song: Don't get angry, uncle. When you don't get angry, I'll go out.
Wu Xun saves all the money he wants, sells all the dry food he wants, and saves it for money. I only eat coarse and moldy food, vegetable roots, sweet potato stalks, etc., and sing my own voice with a ditty: < P > Eating sundries can be a meal and save money to build a righteous college.
it's not good to eat well, but it's good to take a voluntary course.
in those years, Wu Xun suffered a lot. He enjoys doing the hard work that others refuse to do and disdain to do all the time. Such as grinding, milling rice, cutting wheat for others, etc. In addition, it also cleans the huts for others early in the morning, and makes manure after drying. Sometimes, they help people carry water to water gardens, pick food, pick heavy things, etc., and calculate the remuneration according to the distance and weight, and the income is still considerable, so the funds needed for running a voluntary school accumulate over time.
In order to earn some money to run a voluntary school, he sometimes plays tricks at temple fairs everywhere like a juggler to get rewards. Performed whole-body handstand carrying a tripod, doing scorpion climbing with hands instead of feet, turning over and jumping on wheels, kneeling on the ground to do horse riding for children, as well as programs such as stabbing the body with a cone and breaking the knife, and even eating caterpillars, snakes and scorpions, swallowing stones and rubble, etc. It's really not easy to humiliate your body like this. Everything is for the purpose of starting a voluntary school! He also cut off his braid, leaving only a small braid on his forehead and dressing up as a clown in the play to get charity from others.
In addition, he is a matchmaker, a postman, a rag picker, a cotton roller and a spinner. Wu Xun just wandered around, working, begging and drifting. At night, I sleep in other people's mills, stoves, or ruined temples. Every night in the middle of the night, he is still twisting the rope and winding the thread under the light of beans. He sang:
Pick up the thread, wrap the thread around the egg, and concentrate on building a righteous college;
don't worry about taking a course.
At the age of 29, Wu Xun had saved some savings. He used these savings to buy 45 acres of cheap low-lying saline-alkali land, and sang happily:
As long as it's my turn to learn, I'm not afraid to buy alkaline sand; After three years, there will be no alkali sand.
as long as it's my turn to learn, I'm not afraid to ask for a big hole; The water also flowed, and the soil also stopped. After three years, the pit was leveled.
when Wu Xun was thirty-eight, there was a severe drought in Shandong, and many people starved to death. Wu Xun used his own money to buy forty loads of sorghum to help the people. Wu Xun's brother is not doing his job properly, and often borrows money from him. Some relatives and friends also come to ask him for help. Wu Xun refused, and he replied positively: I have repaired several places regardless of my relatives and reasons.
A pair of widowed mother-in-law and daughter-in-law in the village make a living by begging, but the kind military training generously gave them ten acres of land, and sang:
This person is good, this person is good, and it is not enough to give her ten acres.
this person is filial, and this person is filial. Give her ten acres for old-age care.