Place of birth: Feng Yong, Dongguan city center.
Date of birth: 1855
Date of death: 1930
Number: Xianghua
Word: Gigi Lai
Year: Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty
During the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, several Chen clan relatives in Guangdong proposed to build a provincial Chen ancestral hall in Guangzhou, and people from all over the country responded enthusiastically and generously donated money. 1892 Good news came from Beijing: a child named Chen was appointed as a flower scout. This is the icing on the cake for the ancestral temple under construction. The people were surprised and overjoyed: the effect of building a temple was so effective! So a larger fund-raising activity began. 1894, the magnificent and exquisite Chen Ancestral Hall was declared completed. This ancestral temple is the famous Chenjia Temple. Chen's son, Chen, is from Dongguan. He was also one of several supporters who built the Temple of Chen Jia.
outline
Chen (1855- 1930), nicknamed Xiang Hua, changed to Yong Dao in his later years, also known as Jiulong. He was born in Feng Yong, Dongguan Hui, and explored flowers in the Qing Dynasty. At the age of 6, he worshipped Chen Li as a teacher, and at the age of 10, he read the Five Classics thoroughly, and then studied at the Su Lao Bieyuan in Luofushan. In the first year of Guangxu (1875), he was a scholar. Guangxu five years (1879), won the first place after having obtained the provincial examination (Xie Yuan), and then went to Beijing to prepare for the exam. Because grandma and dad died one after another, he went back to his hometown for mourning. In the next few years, he used the income from teaching to support his mother and brothers and sisters. In the 18th year of Guangxu (1892), palace examination won the third place in the first subject (flower exploration), and was awarded as editor of imperial academy, proofreader of Wen Yuan Pavilion and co-editor of Wu Yingtang. Later, he served as assistant editor and editor-in-chief of the National Museum of History.
political career
Guangxu twenty-one years (1895) in Yunnan, Guizhou, Shandong, after having obtained the provincial examinations as a deputy examiner. 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.