In his later years, Wang Xufu
Pages of Wang Xufu's deeds
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the imperial examination was abolished and the new school was revived, and the enlightened people in Weixian County established the Zhiqun Society, a modern education group, which was originally borrowed from the site of Wang Xufu's residence in the south of Zengfutang Street Road. Wang Xufu is a well-known local person, who went to Japan to study textile machinery in order to save the country through industry, and has been working in the domestic industrial field for more than ten years.
Established the Zhiqun Society, an educational group, in the Wang Xufu Residence on Zengfutang Street
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the imperial examination was abolished and the new learning was revived. People of insight in Weixian County believe that the purpose of Xingxin Learning is to maintain a new tuqiang, without explanation and study, everyone will not understand the truth of the restoration of the new tuqiang, and there is no group consciousness that cannot maintain the new tuqiang. To guide everyone to join the community, we must first cultivate and improve everyone's moral standards, and this requires the opening of the people's wisdom, which is the meaning of the wisdom group. To this end, in the 29th year of Guangxu (1903), Many enlightened people such as Guo Enshiki and Du Zuochen established the Zhiqun Society, the first local modern education group operating in the mode of free research. Wang Xufu, who lives in Wang Baoya Hall on Zengfutang Street Road, is also an active participant.
At that time, Wang Xufu was studying in Japan, but he still supported the establishment of the Chiqun Society in his house. The society borrowed his family's hall and two courtyards for three years. In the 32nd year of Guangxu (1906), the Zhiqun Society moved to the Old Guandi Temple in the north of Hujiapaifang Street in Weixian County (Guandi Temple in the Shiwat Garden Cultural Block of Weicheng District, the original site still exists). In the same year, the society set up a Chi Qun Elementary School with 13 students.
While studying the new Western-style studies, the Zhiqun Society also studied the traditional Two Han Schools. After the establishment of the society, the main social activities were the purchase of books, newspapers and periodicals for the public to freely read, in order to learn more about the wider external world and broaden their horizons. Weixian Zhixian Yuan Tong was very appreciative and donated 170 yuan to buy books, Pingdu Zhizhou Zhaolan donated 50 yuan, Weixian Telegraph Bureau member Yan Zhengpo donated 20 yuan, and the members of the society also actively raised funds, and purchased more than 300 kinds of books, newspapers and periodicals before and after.
At its peak, the Chiqun Society had more than 30 members. In the third year of xuanun (1911), because most of the members were no longer in Weixian County, coupled with insufficient funds, the Zhiqun Society and the attached Zhiqun Primary School stopped operating, and all the new books and related instruments were transferred to the Weixian Education Association, an official social organization, for storage.
Wang Xufu, a textile machinery major who went to Japan to study, practiced industry to save the country
Wang Xufu's family and the Zengfutang Street mansion where he lived were named Wang Bao yatang, which showed that the Wang family also had a certain influence in the local area, but the relevant situation of Wang Baoyatang did not see more records.
It is recorded that before the demolition, there were four parallel north-south, long, single-headed aisles running in parallel from east to west, south of Zengfutang Street Road and west of the original site of the Chen Family Courtyard. The original site of Wang Bao Ya Tang is located in the first aisle. There are independent courtyards on both sides of the aisle, and the residents are still mostly surnamed Wang, but also live with other surnames. Wang Xufu (王旭夫), also known as Shan Mo (善谟), is a well-known enlightened person in the local area. As early as the end of the Qing Dynasty, he accepted the idea of restoration and actively sought the way to save the country and strive for strength.
At that time, the Qing court changed to the New Deal, first running schools and then abolishing the imperial examination. In the 28th year of Guangxu (1902), he founded the Shandong Normal Hall, also known as the Shandong Normal School, with a long-term class and three years of study. In the second year of Xuanun (1910), it was named Shandong Excellent Normal School, which was an officially established higher normal school for training teachers from secondary schools and junior normal schools. After Wang Xufu was admitted to the academy, he went to Japan to study as one of the 32 honor students selected in guangxu in 1903.
After arriving in Japan, Wang Xufu first accepted the arrangement of the Qing Court's Coordination Agency for Studying in Japan and went to the Hongwen Academy attached to the Tokyo Higher Normal School to study Japanese and other subjects. Later, he was admitted to the Mechanical Department of Tokyo Higher Technical School, majoring in textile machinery, and looked forward to returning to China to devote himself to industry. This is because he believes that after the Meiji Restoration, Japan has changed from weak to strong and entered the forest of world powers, and industrial revitalization is the key. He had no doubt about the salvation of industry.
When Wang Xufu returned to China, the country was already in the era after the Xinhai Revolution. Since then, he has successively served as the technical director of Shanghai Hengfeng Spinning Factory, the chief engineer of Shandong Renfeng Spinning Factory, the director of the Model Industrial Training Institute, the director of the Craft Bureau, etc., and has been working in the domestic industrial field for more than ten years, practicing his own ideal of industrial salvation.
The purpose of the Homecoming Propaganda League led to the participation of many progressive people
In the thirty-first year of Guangxu (1905), Sun Yat-sen, the forerunner of china's revolution, went to Tokyo, Japan, to propagate the republic, and Chinese students, overseas Chinese and Japanese friends held a general meeting to welcome Sun Yat-sen. At that time, Wang Xufu was studying abroad to study his studies, and he participated in the conference by chance and listened to Sun Yat-sen's speech full of revolutionary passion.
In the autumn of that year, the Chinese League was established in Tokyo, Japan. Through the introduction of revolutionaries Xu Jingxin and Xie Hongtao, Wang Xufu joined the League. The league created and led a revolutionary group for Sun Yat-sen, which the Qing court called the Revolutionary Party.
The following year, Shandong league members Ding Weifen, Jiang Zhizhi and others founded the weekly "Morning Bell" in Tokyo, Japan, and Wang Xufu participated in and served as an editor. This is the only propaganda publication founded by the Shandong revolutionaries in Japan, and it has had a great influence on china's progressive students.
During the holidays and returning to China, Wang Xufu spread the purpose, program and propositions of the League in various ways in his hometown of Weixian. Driven and influenced by Wang Xufu, Weixian progressives Liu Jindi, Zhang Shudi, Yu Dongzhou, Li Xiansheng and others joined the League.
Three years after the declaration of reunification (1911), the Xinhai Revolution broke out in China. Wang Xufu resolutely returned to China from school and actively participated. Sun Yat-sen, the provisional president of Nanjing, sent Hu Ying to serve as the governor of yantai military government. Wang Xufu went to Yantai to assist Hu Ying. Wang Xufu participated in the establishment of the Shandong Unification Promotion Association and was supported by revolutionaries Xu Jingxin and Ding Weifen. Wang Xufu also went to Jinan to carry out revolutionary work.
After another year, Wang Xufu went to Japan to resume his studies.
Actively participate in local affairs
Advocate the establishment of Zengfutang Primary School
Wang Xufu returned to Weixian in 1928 and settled in his family's house on Zengfutang Street. Since then, he has continued to be actively involved in local affairs.
It is recorded that from 1932 to 1934, the mayors of the southwest town of the first district of Weixian County were Ding Shuyan and Wang Xufu. The town office in the southwest of the city is located in the Zengfutang Temple in the north of the middle section of Zengfutang Street.
In 1934, at the initiative of Wang Xufu, Zengfutang Primary School was founded as a primary school with four teaching classes and more than 100 students, and the school site was also Zengfutang Temple, with Wang Xufu as the principal. Later, Zengfutang Primary School was renamed Zengfutang Primary School in the southwest town of the city, and an advanced class was added, and the number of students increased to more than 200, with Zhang Hanzhou as the principal. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the school was merged with the model primary school located in Taiping Street (now the area of Taiping Street in Weicheng District) and renamed the National School in the southwest of the city, with the principal Chen Weiru.
After the liberation of Weixian County, the school was renamed Weifang Special City No. 3 Primary School and Weifang No. 3 Primary School. Later, the school moved to Taiping Street and was renamed Weifang Taiping Street Primary School. During the Cultural Revolution, the school was renamed with Taiping Street and renamed Anti-XiuJie Primary School, and later renamed Taiping Street Primary School. The school is now a Furong Primary School in Weicheng District with more than 1,000 students.
After liberation, Wang Xufu successively served as a member of the Weifang Municipal People's Committee, a member of the Standing Committee of the Weifang Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, a librarian of the Shandong Provincial Museum of Literature and History, and the director of the Preparatory Committee of Weifang City of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang (hereinafter referred to as the Kuomintang Revolutionary Committee), and made positive contributions to the construction of Weifang City, the establishment and development of the Kuomintang Revolutionary Organization, and the collection and writing of local literary and historical materials.