The Li family began to make a fortune in Li. On April 25th, 20 13, the memorial hall of the Li family in Xiaogang, Beilun was opened to witness the centenary prosperity of a family.
The only statue in the museum belongs to a woman. She is Mrs Zhang, Li's daughter-in-law.
Mrs Zhang attaches great importance to children's education. She doesn't want her children and grandchildren to live on their laurels, nor does she advocate that they be officials. She also resolutely opposes studying hard and encourages the younger generation to go abroad to see the world.
To this end, she not only moved her family to Shanghai, but also personally sent 19 descendants to study abroad and learn advanced western scientific knowledge.
It is under her influence that the descendants of the Li family are full of talented people, including scientists, engineers, architects and medical experts from all over the world, as well as nuclear physics experts and piano master. Now there are many outstanding experts in the fields of finance, culture and film.
Mrs. Zhang is also charitable and has done countless good things. She raised 42,000 silver and redeemed 450 female workers who had never met and were trafficked to Nanyang.
Wang Guowei, a master of Chinese studies, heard of her righteous act and once praised in a poem: "One move is sold as a slave, and life is not for the people. Wei Zhangzai Taijun saved 500 people alone. " Before and after entering the 20th century, the Li family in Xiaogang was in full swing in Shanghai. Li's third generation of talents came forth in large numbers, among which Li, former president of Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce, Li, president of Shanghai Ningbo Association, and Li Weizhuang, the man of the hour in Shanghai during the Revolution of 1911, were the most elegant. In addition to their ancestral business, they also invest extensively in new businesses, such as shipping, banking, insurance, silk weaving and so on. , making the Li family a famous industrial and commercial family in Shanghai and dominating the industrial and commercial circles.
Known as "the earliest tycoon in Shanghai", Li has close contacts with Sun Yat-sen, Huang Xing and Chen. Before the Revolution of 1911, he joined the League and donated millions of private money to form the Guangfu Army, supporting the Guangfu and interim President Sun Yat-sen in191. ..
In addition, in the third generation of the Li family, Li Shanxiang (1880 ~ 1954) was influenced by the anti-Japanese national salvation movement, and most of his children defected to the * * * production party. The second daughter, Li Youlan, became the wife of Zhang Aiping, the general of the New Fourth Army.
After the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, especially since the Republic of China, the sons of Li in Xiaogang Village, who took the lead in leading the trend, went abroad to study in Europe, America and Japan, and the sons of Li worked hard and achieved something. Li Zuen (1890 ~ 1937), who graduated from the Department of Political Economy of University of London, is the first of many brothers studying abroad. Shortly after his return to China, he was entrusted with an important task by Sheng Xuanhuai, the "northern chaebol", who successively served as the director of the postal department, the director of the treasury department of the Ministry of Finance, the director of the printing bureau and the director of the currency bureau, and was known as the "little god of wealth".
Li Zuxian (1894 ~ 198 1), who graduated from Rensley Institute of Engineering in the United States, founded Liuhe Engineering Company after returning to China. As we all know, a number of famous buildings in China, such as Shanghai Customs Building, Shanghai Library, Nanjing Palace Museum, Academia Sinica and Wuhan University Library, all come from Liuhe.
In addition, many people in the fourth generation of the Li family set foot in the art field, and the famous painter Zhang Daqian has a completely different relationship with the Li family.
Unusual, among which Zhang Daqian's brother and sister Li Qiujun (1899 ~ 197 1 year) is famous for his artistic achievements.
Chinese painting circle. She is good at landscape painting and lady painting. She is one of the earliest female painters in China who gained a reputation in the international art world. She is the president of China Women's Calligraphy and Painting Association. She is the first female painter in China to win the world gold medal, and the first confidant of the famous painter Zhang Daqian.
Today, the fifth generation of "famous" Li lives all over the mainland, as well as in Europe, America, Japan, Hongkong and Taiwan Province. Relying on their own advantages and the pioneering spirit of their ancestors, they have created remarkable achievements and written a new chapter in a century-old family. Ming Cho Lee, for example, graduated from the University of Southern California and has been engaged in stage art design for a long time. He won numerous honors. In the early 1980s, when President Reagan was in office, he awarded the Qingyun Award to ethnic minorities who made outstanding contributions. Ming Cho Lee and computer expert Wang An are the only two China winners. Li Mingyi is known as "Little I.M. Pei" in American architecture. According to statistics, there were more than 1 100 people in the fifth generation of the Li family, which created their own achievements at home and abroad. It can be said that by the generation of "Ming", the Li family in Xiaogang Village has successfully transformed from an industrial and commercial family to a scientific and cultural family.