On Lin Zexu's Changji Poetry

When Lin Zexu went to Jichang, he wrote a poem, "If the country lives or dies, why not avoid every cloud has a silver lining?" .

Lin Zexu, a native of Houguan County, Fujian Province, was a politician, writer, thinker and national hero in China in the late Qing Dynasty. Lin Zexu traveled all over his life, governed the country well and wrote many patriotic poems. Although fighting against western invasion in Guangdong and Guangxi, they are open to western culture, science and technology and trade, and advocate taking advantage of their strengths and using them. The Annals of Sizhou compiled by him and the Annals of the Sea compiled by Wei Yuan inspired the Westernization Movement in the late Qing Dynasty and even the Meiji Restoration in Japan.

Changji city means "prosperity and good luck". The name "Changji" began in the Yuan Dynasty. According to the Xinjiang local chronicles, Ji Yun: Does the appendix of Yuan local chronicles have a good reputation? Reporter: Are Yangji and Changji close? Mongolian? "Therefore," Changji "is transformed from Mongolian" Yangji ". Lin Zexu's memory of staying here is still fresh-in the Xinjiang Post Culture Museum in Letu Post, a statue of Lin Zexu in a cloak stands in the square, and the wax figure in the museum is a scene of father and son guarding the border. In the memorial hall of Lin Zexu in Yili, the glass fiber reinforced plastic statue of Lin Zexu, about 3 meters high, was created by Li Weisi, a professor at Xiamen University. On the bronze statue of Changji Hui snack street, Lin tasted "nine bowls and three rows" with Hui compatriots.