At the beginning of the 20th century, there was a saying in the west: You don't have to go to the Three Great Halls to go to China, but you must go to Gu Hongming.
Who is Gu Hongming? He was born in Nanyang, studied in the West, married in the East and served as an official in Beiyang. Proficient in English, French, German, Latin, Greek, Malaya and other 9 languages, and obtained the doctorate of 13. He read English newspapers backwards and laughed at the British, saying that Americans have no culture. He was the first person to translate China's The Analects of Confucius and The Doctrine of the Mean into the West in English and German. He has a glib tongue, telling Japanese Prime Minister Ito Bowen about Confucius, and exchanging letters with literary master Leo Tolstoy to discuss the world cultural and political situation. He was called "the most outstanding China" by Indian Mahatma Gandhi.
Gu Hongming (1857-1928), whose real name is Tang Sheng and Gu Hongming, is an easy-to-read and easy-to-read old man in Hanbin, followed by word and line. When studying in Europe, Gu Hongming was renamed Koh (Kaw) Hong Beng. After returning to China, Gu Hongming's pronunciation in Minnan was changed to Ku Hongming's pronunciation. Gu Zu was born in Tongan, Fujian, and 1857 was born in an overseas Chinese family in Penang, Malaysia. His great-grandfather Ku Li Huan was the first Chinese leader in British Malay Peninsula. Father Gu Ziyun works as a manager in a British rubber plantation in Penang, and his mother is Portuguese. Mr. Brown, the owner of rubber plantation, has a deep friendship with Gu Ziyun and recognizes Gu Hongming as his adopted son. When Gu Hongming 13 years old, the Browns returned to their hometown in Scotland and took him to study in the UK. In Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, Gu Hongming began to receive systematic and formal western education. First, I studied in the local English school, and then 1873 to 1874 was admitted to the Faculty of Arts of Edinburgh University to study western literature. /kloc-in the spring of 0/877, he passed the examinations of Latin, Greek, mathematics, day school, moral philosophy, natural philosophy and rhetoric with excellent results, and obtained a master's degree in literature from Edinburgh University. Then, he went to Germany to study, entered Leipzig University, studied civil engineering and got a diploma in engineering. Then I went to Paris and studied French at the University of Paris. 1880, he returned to Penang after completing his studies, and soon worked as an assistant secretary of the British Strait colonial government in Singapore.
Three years later, Gu Hongming happened to meet Ma Jianzhong who returned to Singapore. They hit it off and talked for three days. Encouraged by Ma Jianzhong's persuasion, Gu Hongming decided to be a real China native, immediately resigned from the colonial government, returned to his hometown in Penang, shaved his hair, braided his hair, and started the first step of "China", starting to study Chinese and China culture.
1885, Gu Hongming officially returned to China and was invited to be a foreign copywriter in the shogunate of Zhang Zhidong. He is highly valued and has lived with Fujian and Guangdong for 20 years. 1905, Shanghai "Huangpu Military Bureau" was established, and Gu Hongming was hired as a supervisor for three years. After the restoration of Xuantong, he served as assistant minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, became a doctor, and later became Zuo Cheng. 1910/month, the Qing court listed it as "the first class in studying abroad" and awarded it to the top liberal arts scholar, ranking second only to Yan Fu. In the same year, he resigned from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and became a supervisor of Shanghai Nanyang Public School.
After the Revolution of 1911, he expressed his loyalty to the Qing Dynasty, resigned from public office and went to Beijing. 19 15, Peking University hired him as a professor to teach English literature. Zhang xun restoration, 19 17, became vice minister of foreign affairs. After the restoration failed, he returned to Peking University to teach. Before and after the May 4th Movement, like Lin Shu, he was a conservative, advocating respect for Taoism in Kong Jing and writing in English against the New Culture Movement. 1924 He went to Japan to give lectures on oriental culture for three years at the invitation of Japan's Dadong Cultural Association, during which he was invited to give lectures in Taiwan. 1In the autumn of 927, Gu Hongming returned from Japan. 1928 died in Beijing on April 30th at the age of 72.