The Life of Dong's Characters

Dong 1900 and 10 were born in Dong's old house in Tianxingqiao, Wu 'an Township, Dianjiang County, Sichuan Province. Dong's father Dong and his mother Xiong went through hardships and got rich by hard work. They bought fields and houses in Dianjiang County, Sichuan Province (now Chongqing). But because he was rich and uneducated, he suffered a big loss and a lot of "dumb losses." So he was very angry and determined to let all his four sons go to college. Later, their sons Dong, Dong and Dong studied in the United States at public expense, and Dong Shimin graduated from Chaoyang Law School in Beiping.

Before the Revolution of 1911, Dong entered Guixi High School, then went to Chongqing and was admitted to Shanghai Nanyang Public School (Shanghai Industrial School, now the predecessor of Jiaotong University). After graduation, he abandoned his job and went to the Agricultural College of Shi Jing University 19 17. During his study, he was excellent in character and learning and loved sports. 1920 After graduation, he was admitted to Tsinghua University to study in the United States at public expense and went to Cornell University to specialize in agricultural economy. 1924 received a doctorate in agricultural economics and was elected as an honorary member of the American Schgammarsey Society. He also did academic research in London University and visited European countries for one year.

1925 After returning to China, he served as honorary president of Chongqing Southwest Sports Special School, dean of Peking University Agricultural College and dean of Sichuan University Agricultural College, and taught for many years. 1929, He, Zhu Kezhen and Weng * * * represented China in the Pacific Science Conference; 1934 Dean of Jiangxi Agricultural College and Director of Sichuan Agricultural Improvement Institute. During this period, he founded the China Agricultural Association, which was accepted by the International Agricultural Association on 1940. He also founded the "Modern Farmers' Society" and edited the monthly magazine "Modern Farmers" with self-raised funds, which was publicly distributed throughout the country. 1940 A Daxin farm was established in Jingkou Town, Shapingba, Chongqing to plant fruit trees. Raising cattle, he personally participated in pruning, grafting and other labor. 1945 The family went to Shanghai. 1945 10 is a member of the Central Committee of China Democratic League. From 65438 to 0947, he founded the Chinese Peasant Party and served as its chairman. Two years later, due to opposition to land reform, the peasant party was forced to dissolve.

From 65438 to 0950, Dong moved to the United States and became an American citizen. He taught at California State University and worked as an agricultural consultant in the State Council. After retirement, I continued to write and wrote a lot; He has given more than 300 lectures in clubs and universities in major cities in the United States and Canada. In his later years, he ran across the Taiwan Strait for the peaceful reunification of China, and finally 1984 died of intestinal cancer at the age of 84.

Dong's first wife was a woman surnamed Hu in the rural area of Dianjiang County. Shortly after their marriage, Dong went to Peiping to study. His wife is filial to her in-laws and good to her brother-in-law. She was very virtuous and died a few years later. On the second day after Dong 1925 returned to her hometown, she went to his wife's grave and offered candles, expressing her deep regret and condolences. 1926, after Dong arrived in Beiping, he married a woman named Zhu, who was the niece of Xiong Xiling, the former prime minister of Xiange. Zhu is two years older than Dong. He is good at western painting and Chinese painting. He has two boys and two girls, both of whom have succeeded.

Dong is the eldest of the four brothers. His second brother, Dong Shimin, wrote a book after graduating from college, declined the high-paying position of director of Dianjiang County Taxation Bureau, and lived in seclusion in the village, entertaining himself with reading, playing the piano and singing, which was cynical. 1949 died in his 40 s. Third brother Dong, a lifelong university teacher, taught graduate students, studied the history of sports, translated many works, and served as the deputy editor of the entry of Encyclopedia of China, Sports Volume and Sports History. Dong Shiguang, the fourth brother, was deported by the American authorities in the early 1950s on charges of being pro-China. After returning to Chongqing, I taught in Southwest Normal University. 1957 was wrongly classified as a rightist for opposing bureaucracy and falsely accusing and framing. 196 1 year, died in labor camp at the age of 48. 1984 may 13 officially rehabilitated. People call him a patriotic, upright, democratic and scientific intellectual. Dong is good at learning and quick-thinking. No matter whether he studies literature, martial arts, engineering or agriculture, he must be successful in learning and doing things. He believes that China is a big agricultural country, and the country's prosperity must be based on agriculture. He takes the development of agriculture as his own responsibility and will never change his life. Even after living in the United States for 34 years, he still remembers the revitalization of agriculture in China.

Dong is interested in agriculture. Throughout his life, he had an indissoluble bond with the word "agriculture". He worked as an agricultural teacher, an agricultural official, published agricultural periodicals, established an agricultural association, established an agricultural party, founded a farm and wrote books. Many words must be called "agriculture". 1986, the government compensated Daxin Farm for 26,000 yuan. He has a will and donated it to Southwest Agricultural College as a scholarship. Dong is really a "farmer" all his life.

When Dong started his own Daxin farm, he owned 75 mu of land and planted pears, peaches, apples, oranges and a lot of lemons. There are more than 2,900 fruit trees with an annual output of 65,438+4,000 kilograms. The lemons produced are not only sold in the province, but also sold to Shanghai and other places. The farm also raises cattle, pigs, chickens, ducks and other livestock and poultry. He also often works in agricultural technology.

Modern farmers were founded by Dong Yu in Chengdu in 1938 and moved to Mihua Street in Chongqing in 1939. During the Japanese plane bombing, it was moved and bombed three times and the manuscript was destroyed. Dong never gave in and insisted on finding another address for publication. On April 26th, 1945, after reading the manuscript in the editorial department of the city, I overturned on the way back to Ciqikou by bus, broke three ribs, and was feverish all over after recovery. He shuttles between the city and the countryside in shorts and an umbrella, and runs a farm and a monthly magazine. People who don't know him call him "bookworm" and "stupid"

"Modern Farmers" declared in its publication that one is to pass on knowledge beneficial to farmers, and the other is to be the mouthpiece of farmers. The monthly content is divided into three parts: political theory, agricultural science and technology, farmers' voices, and popular literature and art. 1939 published articles such as Sichuan Citrus Industry, Hope of Grapefruit, Liangshan Grapefruit, Citrus Longevity, Shatian Grapefruit in Guangxi, and Eight Immortals Citrus, which systematically introduced how to develop the citrus industry in Sichuan. He also published articles in Milk and the Chinese Nation and the First Step of the Founding of the People's Republic-Developing Dairy Industry, stressing that "the establishment of new China needs the development of dairy industry", and he advocated that drinking more milk is conducive to enhancing the national physique and intelligence. It also widely introduced the cultivation of watermelon and auricularia auricula, the cultivation methods of red sugarcane and walnut trees, and the science and technology of raising pigs, cattle, sheep and fish, which were welcomed by farmers and made certain contributions to the development of agriculture, forestry and animal husbandry in Sichuan.

Dong has published many monographs, such as Agricultural Economics, Farmers and the State, National Defense and Agriculture, Rural Cooperatives, Food and Population, and Diary of Farmers. He advocated popularizing improved varieties, building water conservancy projects, draining paddy fields in winter, raising multiple cropping index, popularizing American farms and realizing mechanization and chemistry. He was one of the earliest scholars who proposed birth control and prenatal and postnatal care.

After Dong settled in the United States, he wrote two novels, Two Families and A Bao Save the Cow, with rural life as the theme. "Two Families" is about the family history of Dong family in Dianjiang. Two close relatives live in a yard. A large family always bullies orphans and widows, who struggle to survive. Later, soldiers and bandits followed, old and new ideas conflicted, and marriage disputes could not be mediated. It lasted for four generations and the history spanned a hundred years. People in Taiwan Province's publishing industry commented: "If A Dream of Red Mansions is a description of an ancient bureaucratic family, Saving Cattle by Bao is a description of a shepherd boy's deep affection for cattle in the south of the Yangtze River. Suddenly, he heard that cattle were mainly sold to cattle slaughterhouses. Bao felt pity and could not bear to part with it. He started with two eggs, worked hard, and finally earned 20 yuan and bought the cow. People in the publishing industry in Taiwan Province Province commented that "this is an epic history of poor children's struggle", and this book has been included in "Everyone's Library" by Taiwan Province Commercial Press. When Dong was young, he worshipped Dr. Sun Yat-sen very much. Anyone who calls Dr. Sun Yat-sen "Sun Cannon" will argue fiercely with him until he blushes and will never stop until he convinces the other side. 19 19, I participated in the may 4th movement when I was studying in the agricultural college of Shi Jing university. On June 3, he was arrested by Beiyang warlords. At that time, about 800 students were arrested and detained in Peking University Law Department. Seven days later, he was released and returned to school.

1944 When the NLD was reorganized into the NLD, Dong joined and served as a member of the NLD Central Committee, and then withdrew.

During the old meeting from 65438 to 0946, Dong contacted some members of peasant associations and established the Chinese Peasant Party in Chongqing, which developed more than 800 people in party member. Party member is mainly a university professor and an agricultural technology expert. 1 The platform revised by the Third Plenary Session of the Party in May 1948 mainly includes the following four items:1.Establishing democratic politics; Second, promote economic development; Third, the rational distribution of wealth; Fourth, eliminate all wars. 1946, the Kuomintang authorities unilaterally forcibly convened the national congress. The People's Socialist Party and the Youth Party, which were separated from NLD, both took refuge in the Kuomintang and participated in the unpopular "National Congress", but the Peasant Party refused to participate. Dong wrote an article accusing "the National Congress does not represent farmers". Later, his monthly "Modern Farmers" was repeatedly suppressed by the authorities. He published an article saying: "Criticize the government as a farmer. In the same year, publicly wrote an article against the land reform policy of Dong * * * Production Party.

1949, 1 In June, the Peasant Party issued a declaration expressing its support for the eight peace conditions put forward by the China * * * Production Party. In April, Dong sent representatives to Hong Kong to Beiping, seeking the new possibility of taking the peasant party as the unit. On May 6th, 2007, Dong arrived in Beiping from Hong Kong and wrote to ask for a meeting. On June 5, Li, Minister of the United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee, pointed out when meeting with Dong that "the Peasant Party does not represent farmers, but represents the interests of landlords and rich peasants, and it cannot participate in new activities as a political party unit. As for the agricultural technicians in this organization, they can contribute to the new China. "Dong criticized this, and published the Declaration of the Chinese Peasants' Party on Stopping Party Activities and Committed to Production and Construction in Peiping on June 25th, declaring:" The Party is always. Call on all party member to contribute their knowledge, skills and all their strength under the leadership of China and the democratic Coalition government to help build a new democratic new China to succeed. "

Modern Farmers, a monthly magazine founded by Dong, boasts itself as the mouthpiece of farmers, and also exposes and criticizes the corruption of the Kuomintang grass-roots regime. For example, his articles such as Bowing Down to Chang Bao's Power and prestige, Horrible Township Head, A Tenant Farmer Suffered from the Landlord, Engaging in malpractice in serving politics, and Requisition of Grain Fraud to Death have aroused strong repercussions among readers. He also criticized Chiang Kai-shek by name and wrote the article "Please stop the government's appeal and live forever". He wrote: "The Kuomintang called for long live the president, which was originally called the emperor in the imperial era." "Grandpa rode on the people's heads for long live, and the people organized the government to hire officials. As a result, it seems that they have found some ancestors." He asked, "Who is older, Chairman Lin Sen or Chairman Jiang Zemin?" Accused that all units at that time only hung the portrait of Chiang Kai-shek, not the portrait of Lin Sen, chairman of the National Government.

He praised China's * * * production party as "youthful, pragmatic and clean, and free from corrupt officials' habits", especially the "three-thirds system" regime in the Shensi-Gansu-Ningxia border region. While criticizing the dictatorship of the Kuomintang government, rampant corruption, inflation and people's poverty, it also criticizes the "idolization" of the * * * production party. He opposed the civil war and naively advocated asking Marshall to be a notary. Both parties in the country cut off the army, and China only kept the police. Without the army, the civil war would not have started. Americans also think that this discussion will not work. Wei Demai once wrote to him: "A country cannot live without an army" and advised him to "follow Mr. Jiang" and have his own "way out". However, he refused to get close to the Kuomintang, did not understand the * * * production party, and wanted to take the third way based on the American model. Dong's political proposition of "the third way" is unrealistic, but he is a scholar of politics and a mistake in exploration.

194965438+In February, Dong wrote an open letter to the Chairman entitled "Dong's Letter to Chairman Mao", which was printed at his own expense and distributed everywhere, putting forward the theory that there was no feudalism in the south of the Yangtze River and disapproved of land reform in the south of the Yangtze River. The United Front Work Department of the East China Bureau then sent someone to talk to Dong and criticized him for stopping his violation of the "same program". It is said that this open letter was sent to Wu 'an Township, Dianjiang County, his hometown, and it was also criticized by cadres of peasant associations and poor farm labourers. Laugh at "Dr. Dong doesn't understand the actual situation".

1April, 950, Dong went to Hong Kong and went to the United States. In his later years, Dong devoted himself to the peaceful reunification of China, put forward his own ideas, traveled across the Taiwan Strait and met with dignitaries. He believes that China should be peacefully reunified, and China after reunification should give Taiwan Province a high degree of autonomy; He opposed the US arms sales to Taiwan Province Province, accusing it of undermining China's policy of peaceful reunification. He spoke highly of Deng Xiaoping's seeking truth from facts and emancipating his mind, and fully affirmed China's reform and opening-up policy. Although Dong Jin Shi later became an American citizen, he still lingered on his old country and hometown. At present, he still has two families, his second sister-in-law and third brother, and his cousin Professor Dong (president and famous professor of Southwest Agricultural College, who died in April 1975). There are about fifty or sixty descendants of the old man. On the mainland, there are many his colleagues and friends. Nostalgia, affection and friendship all prompted him to visit China, so he went to China three times at 1979, 198 1 and 1983.

1June, 979, Dong went to Beijing, accompanied by his younger brother Professor Dong, visited the Forbidden City, the Great Wall, the Ming Tombs and other places, and visited his old friend. Mr. Hu Ziang, a good friend, also visited the Overseas Chinese Building where he stayed and talked about his past friendship. Then I flew to Chongqing, visited the campuses of Chongqing University and Nankai Middle School, and visited the northern hot springs and Jinyun Mountain. He also visited Daxin Farm in Qianjingkou and visited Dong Keqing, a farm worker. He was glad to see that the yard was still full of fruit trees. He visited Dai Yongfu, Xiong and other old friends in Chongqing. He also visited his student, Professor Hou Guangjiong, in Southwest Agricultural College, but failed to meet him on the business trip. He had planned to go back to his hometown in Dianjiang, but because Dianjiang was closed to foreigners at that time, he returned to the United States with regret.

198 1 year, Dianjiang county is open, and Dong is full of passion. He went to China for the second time. He first flew to Chengdu to visit relatives and friends and was warmly received by the government. He visited places of interest such as Wuhou Temple and Dujiangyan, and visited Kang, Vice Governor of Sichuan Province, Professor Pan Dakui, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Provincial Democratic League, Professor Zhang Hongyuan, former President of Chongqing University, Chen, Wei Shizhen and Ren. On the way back to Dianjiang County, the old man pointed out the mountains and rivers, talked and laughed, and reiterated his idea of building water conservancy, releasing winter paddy fields and improving multiple cropping index. Every time you meet an elevated water tank, you must stop and go on a field trip to see if there is water in the water tank.

1In May, 983, Dong returned to China as a consultant with Mr. Weng Shaoqiu's "delegation of the Association for the Promotion of Peaceful Reunification across the Taiwan Strait", flying first to Chengdu and then to Chongqing, and visited No.50 Zhougongguan in Zengjiayan. He said that without Zhou's mediation, China didn't know what it would be like.

After Dong returned to the United States, he wrote an article on his trip to the mainland, returning to the mainland and going to the mainland again, which was published in the American Overseas Chinese News. It truly reflected the real situation in China's urban and rural areas, especially in his hometown of Dianjiang County, sincerely hoped for the peaceful reunification of China, and criticized the wrong attitude of the Taiwan Province provincial authorities in refusing to contact and negotiate.