Xianyang, a fertile land, has nurtured many social elites. As far as their contribution to culture is concerned, these four celebrities will go down in history and become the cultural pride of Xianyang. They are: Song Bolu from Liquan, Fan Zidong from Ganxian, Yu Youren from Sanyuan and Wu Mi from Jingyang. These four masters have made outstanding achievements in different cultural fields. Although they passed away long ago, they are household names in China and have been praised by people so far. For a long time, Xianyang people are deeply proud of having these four outstanding figures.
Song Bolu (1853- 1932) is a native of Xijie, Liquan County. He was a famous reformer in the Reform Movement of 1898, which played a great role in promoting the Reform Movement of 1898. He advocated the reform of the imperial examination system and repeatedly advised Emperor Guangxu to stop stereotyped writing. In the 24th year of Guangxu, he finally got the approval of Emperor Guangxu and banned stereotyped writing examination by decree, ending the stereotyped writing system that had been used for hundreds of years in China history. Song Bolu made great contributions to the abolition of the imperial examination system! After the failure of the Reform Movement of 1898, Song Bolu was persecuted and left the court. In his later years, he returned to Shaanxi and served as the curator of Shaanxi Tongzhi Museum, devoting himself to continuing the study of Shaanxi Tongzhi. He is versatile and good at poetry and calligraphy. His poems, books and paintings are known as "three wonders". There are few existing paintings and calligraphy works, which have become rare treasures.
Fan Zidong (1879- 1954) was born in Xiyingzhai, Lingyuan Town, Ganxian County. After the abolition of the imperial examination, he was admitted to Sanyuan College with the first place in seven counties in Guanzhong, and taught in Xi 'an after graduation. Yi Sushe was founded in Xi 'an on 19 12, and devoted himself to drama creation, "editing and performing various operas, subsidizing social education, and changing customs". He has created 7 1 kinds of dramas in his life, and is known as Shakespeare in the East and Guan Hanqing in the contemporary era. His Shaanxi opera plays Three Drops of Blood, Mo Hanyuan and Soft Jade Screen have been staged in the northwest for a long time and become widely circulated traditional plays. Fan Zidong is knowledgeable. He also studied language, archaeology, folk customs and music, and wrote a lot. He also presided over the compilation of county chronicles of Yongshou, Longxian and Ganxian.
Yu Youren (1879- 1964) is a native of Sanyuan County. He took part in the democratic revolution in his early years, and later served as the president of the National Government Supervision Institute and a veteran of the Kuomintang. Yu Youren is not only a pioneer of the democratic revolution, but also a famous poet and calligrapher. 1962, he wrote a poem on the other side of the strait: "Bury me in the high mountain and look at my mainland. The mainland has never seen it, only crying! Bury me in the high mountain and see my hometown. Hometown is intangible and can never be forgotten! The sky is gray and wild; Yamanoe is state-owned. " Yu Youren has been studying calligraphy for a long time, and his standard cursive script Yu Ti has become a masterpiece in the history of fine arts in China, leading the trend of calligraphy and being widely studied by calligraphy lovers. His ink has spread all over the world and become a treasure of contemporary calligraphy.
Wu Mi (1895- 1978) was born in Anwubao, Jianglu Township, Jingyang County. He is the founder of comparative literature research in China, a famous literary critic, educator and poet. In his early years, he studied comparative literature in the graduate school of Harvard University in the United States and obtained a master's degree in literature. After returning to China, he worked as a professor in many universities, including Tsinghua University, and founded Xue Heng magazine, which had a great influence. Wu Mi is a master, famous scholar Qian Zhongshu, dramatist Cao Yu, aesthetic master Ji Xianlin, linguist Wang Li, Lv Shuxiang and others all came from his school or studied under him. Wu Mi's greatest achievement in his life is the first research banner of A Dream of Red Mansions. He is the first Redology master in the history of China. He published many heavyweight papers on Dream of Red Mansions, which was unique, shocking and sensational, and became the source of the school of Dream of Red Mansions.