Lin Zexu (1785, August 30th-1850165438+1October 22nd), an official of the post-Chao Dynasty in Fujian, was also known as Mu, Gu, an old man in the village, an old man who retired from the village and an old man who returned bottles at the 72nd peak. Because he advocated banning opium, he enjoyed the reputation of a national hero in China.
1839 When smoking was banned in Guangdong, Lin Zexu sent an unannounced visit to force foreign opium dealers to hand over opium, and the confiscated opium was destroyed in Humen on June 3. The destruction of opium in Humen put Sino-British relations in a state of extreme tension, which became an excuse for British aggression against China during the First Opium War. Although Lin Zexu struggled against western invasion all his life, he was open to western culture, science and technology and trade, and advocated learning and using it. According to the literature, he knows at least a little English and Portuguese, and is committed to translating western newspapers and books. Wei Yuan, a thinker in the late Qing Dynasty, compiled the documents translated by Lin Zexu and his aides into "Seaside Map", which inspired the Westernization Movement in the late Qing Dynasty and even the Meiji Restoration in Japan. 1850165438+1On October 22nd, Lin Zexu died in the old county town of Puning.
Lin Zexu's father, Lin Binri, whose original name was Lin Tianhan, whose real name was Yang Meng and whose real name was Yang Gu, was a local teacher and opened a bookstore near Roche. Lin Zexu's mother, Chen Biao, is the fifth daughter of Chen Shengling, a year-old tribute student in Min County. Lin Binri and Chen Lin gave birth to eleven children: the eldest son Lin (who died young), the second son Lin Zexu, the third son Lin Yulin and eight daughters.
Although Lin Binri is a private school teacher, he can receive public grain after winning a scholar. But the family has a large population and not enough porridge, and even three meals are unsustainable. Chen Lin, Lin's mother, secretly helped her family with needlework without telling her husband, and passed this paper-cutting skill on to her daughter to maintain her family life. Later, Lin Zexu recalled in his article "A Brief Introduction to the First Life": "After the Chinese New Year, Jia Jun entered the school, and he ate and ate. Since then, although the pavilion valley is slightly full, the index finger has gradually become poor. First of all, the work is made of needles, and the color is as good as the flowers of vegetation. The big ones become trees, and the small ones are stems and leaves, all of which have business. /kloc-you can easily earn tens of dollars at the age of 0/0, and you can use it to support your family. Eight unfilial sisters, all of whom are the first to be taught, are ready to make great contributions. Unfilial young people follow their families to school, and every night when they go home, they are surrounded by walls, ranging from a few miles short to studying in Sri Lanka and sewing in Sri Lanka. Filial piety goes to bed at night, and Xian Yan leads her sisters to do their own things diligently, often missing the crowing of chickens and not sleeping. Other difficulties are beyond the reach of perseverance. If you feel sad when you are unfilial, please work hard or give up eating and drinking for you, and say with a straight face,' Men's affairs are big and far away, and trivial matters are unfilial! It's not worth my trouble to study hard. ""I don't have to do family planning, but before going to the bookstore every day, Lin Zexu will take the handicrafts made for his mother and sisters to the store for consignment, and then go to the store to collect money and return them to his mother after school. His poor childhood and strict family education enabled him to keep the habit of thrift and observe the sufferings of the people when he was promoted in the future.