In the 21st year of Guangxu (1895), he served as an assistant examiner after passing provincial examinations in Yunnan, Guizhou and Shandong. In the 26th year of Guangxu (1900), Eight-Nation Alliance captured Tianjin and returned to the south with his family. In February of the following year, he heard that Empress Dowager Cixi fled to xi 'an with Emperor Guangxu, so he set out from Dongguan and went to Xi 'an to "catch the bus". After the battle and negotiation of Gengzi, he returned to Beijing with the emperor. Later, he served as a walking scholar in the south study room and a scholar in Jiangning. Guangxu thirty-two years (1906) in June, was sent to Japan to inspect education. After returning to China, he founded a dialect school to learn foreign languages and a Jinan school to recruit overseas Chinese students to study in Nanjing. In the thirty-fourth year of Guangxu (1908), he was appointed as the ambassador of Jiangning. In the second year (19 10), he abandoned his official position and joined Li. The following year, he served as the president of Guangdong Education. In September of the same year, the revolutionary army attacked Guangzhou and he fled to Kowloon, Hong Kong. In February of the 2nd year of the Republic of China (1913), he moved to Guanfuchang, Kowloon, and has lived there ever since. Since then, he has devoted himself to writing. He claimed to be an old man in the Qing Dynasty, who lived in Kowloon and claimed to be "the true escape of Kowloon". He dabbled in ancient books since he was a child, and he has a rich collection of unofficial history, Li Guan, Yi Yi and Selected Works in Ming and Qing Dynasties. He has quite a collection. In his later years, he donated his books to Guansu Lao, so he established the Tao Tong Library in Luofu Mountain. His calligraphy is neat and good at regular script. He is the author of Gualou Wencheng, Gualou Shicheng, Records of Adherents in Dongguan in Yuan Dynasty, Records of Adherents in Guangdong in Ming Dynasty, Biography of Three Loyalties in Dongguan in Ming Dynasty, Theory of Filial Piety, Poems of Wu Meicun, and Legacy of Yuan Dynasty. , and participated in the compilation of Dongguan County Records. While living in Kowloon, he collected what Song Wangtai wrote in Kowloon. There is Song Taiqiu Singing. The publication is engraved with Judetang series.
Character experience
teenagers
Chen studied at the age of five and studied under Chen Li, a famous scholar of Guangdong history, at the age of six. He is a diligent teenager, and he is naturally clever. He could recite the Five Classics at the age of ten. One day, my father's two friends, Fang Wenbing (one of the four gentlemen in Dongguan Gonggong Temple) and Fang Yingxi, visited and drank at night. When they saw Tao Bo reading at night, they wrote a couplet called "Reading with a Light at Night" and asked Tao Bo to respond. Tao Bo replied, "The moon is very high when drinking at night." After listening, Fang Wenbing said to Xi, "This is a good husband". Fang Yingxi married the Chen family and betrothed his second daughter to Chen.
youth
2 1 year-old, the top scholar in Chen Zhong, won the first place after having obtained the provincial examination at the age of 25. Teacher Chen Li even presented Chen with couplets, encouraging him that "the article is as high as Luo Fuding, and Cody will win the first prize". Unfortunately, this statement is not "a prophecy". In the eighteenth year of Guangxu, Chen Hui took the exam, ranking first in palace examination, that is, the champion. However, in the test paper, he wrote "Fu Xuan Division" as "Xuanwei Division", so he was squeezed out of the tenth place. Fortunately, Weng Tonghe, the top scholar in Xianfeng Dynasty and the head of the household department, argued for him and called him a scholar, so he changed to the third place and became the only literary detective in Dongguan history.
middle age
Since then, 38-year-old Chen has started his miserable life. "Spring breeze is proud of horseshoe disease", followed by a sigh. No matter what changes China was facing at that time, Chen, as an individual life, was outstanding among all sentient beings: he personally picked flowers and gave them to the Hanlin Academy for editing. After that, he took the provincial examinations in Yunnan, Guizhou and Shandong, served as deputy examiner, proofreader of Wen Yuan Museum, editor of Wu Yingtang, editor of National History Museum, and first-class consultant of Constitution Editing Library. Although there are no high officials and rich people, for Chen, this person is not born to please, and he can also be called integrity. Even under the impact of the Sino-Japanese War and the Reform Movement of 1898, Chen Ye was unmoved.
old age
Boxer Movement, Eight-Nation Alliance captured the capital, Guangxu and Cixi fled in a hurry. Chen is still unmoved by the times. As early as 1898, he personally witnessed the humiliation of Li Hongzhang's signing a special article on expanding the border between Hong Kong and Britain on behalf of China in 1999. After the two palaces returned to Beijing, Chen joined the South Study Room and was sent to study in Japan. After returning to China, he became a scholar in Jiangning. Chen attaches great importance to Chinese studies, and has traveled around, lobbying and persuading Chinese at home and abroad to use Chinese capital to run schools and revitalize China. 1906, Chen assisted Duan Fang, then governor of the two rivers, in establishing the first domestic school for overseas Chinese students in Nanjing, the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, with the aim of cultivating Chinese and Putonghua for overseas Chinese students, and named it after Chen-Jinan School, the predecessor of Jinan University in Guangzhou today. As an academic consultant, Chen also serves as a supervisor of Jinan School, and personally formulates the school's articles of association and budget. This can be seen from his deep roots in China education.
achievement
Chen lived in seclusion in Hong Kong for 20 years. His greatest contribution was to set up a bookstore with Lai Jixi and others, give lectures at the altar, spread the quintessence of Chinese culture, advocate charity and save the depressed Chinese studies at that time. Lai Jixi, together with Chen, Zeng, Feng Bo 'an and Luo, lobbied Hong Kong gentry and businessmen to spend huge sums of money to buy classics. Chen and Lai Jixi gave lectures in turn every week. At first, we rented Kennedy Road. The first half was the library and the second half was the lecture. The library is open to the public every day. Soon after, the gentry merchants sponsored 40,000 to 50,000 Hong Kong dollars, and then bought a foreign building at No.8, Hantong Road/KLOC-0, Central. One floor gave lectures, the other floor was rented to others, and the rent was paid to cover expenses, with more than 40,000 books. 1963, Xue Hai Bookstore needed to be demolished, so it borrowed all the books from the library of City Hall. By 200 1, the special collection was moved to the Hong Kong Central Library for readers' reference.
Chen's contribution to Dongguan lies in his arrangement of Dongguan literature. In particular, he compiled the Dongguan County Records six years later. Chen Yisheng is knowledgeable and prolific in writing, with 98 volumes of Dongguan County Records (with 4 volumes of Shatian Records). Records of adherents of Guangdong Won Dynasty, 4 volumes; Records of adherents of Dongguan in Song Dynasty, 2 volumes; Biography of Five Loyalties in Dongguan in Ming Dynasty (2 volumes); Supplement to Chen Qinxuan's Luo Fu Zhi (Volume15); "Xiao Jing Shuo" 3 volumes; Yuan's "Manuscript" 3 volumes; "Hang Lu Wen Cheng" 4 volumes. Among his many works, the most valuable ones are "Dongguan County Records" and "The Records of the Survivors of the Victory Dynasty in East Guangdong".
During Chen's stay in Hong Kong, Dongguan County Chronicle organized dozens of people to interview and quote in detail, imitated Ruan Wenda's Guangdong Tongzhi and modern Nanfan Chronicle, and re-edited it, which took six years to compile. Dongguan County Annals is the best Dongguan Annals in history, and it is also his greatest contribution to Dongguan folks. "It is the highest in Dongguan's history". Today, it is still an important document for reference to Dongguan's past history and a rare historical document treasure.
Today, Guancheng Road, which is full of traffic and shops, is Chen's birthplace in the past. Zhengdong Road, formerly known as Dongmen Street, is named after facing the East Gate Tower. This road has existed for more than 600 years since the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, that is, the expansion of Dongguan City in the 4th century. Zhengdong Road was originally a Mashi Road with a width of 4 meters, but it was expanded to a cement road with a width of 12 meters in the late 1950s.
A section of Luxi Road was originally called "No.2 Eye Square". In the Ming Dynasty, Liu Cunye, the No.2 Eye in Dongguan, built a stone archway on the street, engraved with the words "No.2 Eye Square", hence the name of the road. The archway was destroyed in the middle of last century, and this road was also called Zhengdong Road after being widened. Now Zhengdong Road also includes the 19th Lane in the north. Speaking of 19th Lane, there are many articles in it. According to the Records of Place Names of Dongguan City, 19th Lane was built by Li Zuokun, a rich gentleman in Dongguan in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. Legend has it that Li Zuoyun built 18 houses with the same style and specifications here, and built 18 beams on the same night, forming 19 alleys, hence the name nineteen alleys. Walking in now, the characteristics of 19 lane are still visible, criss-crossing into "wells", and the width can only allow two people to pass side by side. The houses on both sides are blue bricks and red tiles. Now there are 24 and 26 Hengxiang Street, which is said to be the former residence of Chen Tanhuadi. Now Tanhuadi no longer exists. Room 24 is still rented, and room 26 is vacant. Chen Zhai on the north side of Huatan is still there. This is a courtyard with three entrances, and the innermost entrance has two floors. It is said that it is Chen's study. The wood carving under the eaves of the study room is still there, exquisite and simple. Dongguan Town Village is Chen's ancestral home. Up to now, Chen Ancestral Hall and Chen Ancestral Hall are still preserved here. From June 5, 2007 to 10, the Chen Historical Relics Exhibition Hall, as a demonstration site of Dongguan Village's history display, officially opened in the ancestral hall of Dongguan Village.