In the eastern part of Cixi, under the mountain, there is a combination of Chinese and Western buildings sit west to east, covering an area of more than 10 acres, spectacular; pavilions, garden patio, a unique style. This house was originally called "Tianxiutang", is Yu Qiaqing's former residence, called [Longshan Yu's old house complex].
Born on the 19th day of the 6th month of the lunar calendar in 1867, Yu Qiaqing was born into a poor tailor's family at the bottom of the Fulong Mountain, and when he was 6 years old, his father died of illness, leaving him with his mother and 3-year-old brother. Yu Qiaqing's poor family lost the opportunity to study, but fortunately, there was a tutor in the village, Yu Minshi, who saw that Yu Qiaqing was smart and clever, and took him as a student for free. Whenever it rains and can not go out to work, Yu Qiaqing went to the old Mr. Sook Hall reading, which is called reading "rain book", is the poor people in the three north of the creation of the persistence of the school. It is this capital, Yu Qiaqing later in Shanghai, laying the foundation for a great deal of power.
In 1881, at the age of 15, Yu Qiaqing was already a young man. With the help of his uncle Yu Qingyao, he went to Shanghai Ruikang Pigment House to study. It is said that when he first arrived in Shanghai, it was raining, so he put his mother's carefully sewn pair of cloth shoes in his arms, and was later known as the "Barefoot God of Wealth" by the people of Shanghai. Yu Qiaqing in Ruikang 12 years, many times for the boss of the advice, so that the small Ruikang pigment firm in the Shanghai Bund in the fierce competition in the commodities from the danger, stood firm, very much for the later to follow the example of and praised.
Yu Qiaqing, in order to seek further development, worked successively in the German Lulin Bank, the Chinese and Russian Daosheng Bank, and finally chose the position of the Dutch Bank as a buyer.
In the lunar month of 1905, a Cantonese woman, Lai Huang, who was traveling through Shanghai with more than 10 maidservants, was falsely arrested by the British constable as a human trafficker. During the trial in the light house, the British vice-consul, Mr. De Weimen, turned black and white upside down and made arbitrary judgments, which provoked the public's indignation. Witnessing this, Yu Qiaqing stood up and argued for the dignity of the Chinese people in the courtroom, which was highly praised by all walks of life. He also mobilized the industrial and commercial circles to carry out the anti-British struggle, and promote the national righteousness. 1906 spring, Yu Qiaqing had the opportunity to Duanfang, Dazhi, Dai Hongci, Li Shengduo, Shang Qifang and other five ministers went to Japan to study, so that he had a further understanding of foreign industry and commerce. After returning, he was dedicated to the revitalization of China's industrial efforts, the Empress Dowager Cixi, pointed out that foreign powers to use the bank to exploit China, and constraints on the development of China's industrial shortcomings, and put forward the idea of founding China's own bank. This idea is pertinent and soon adopted, in 1908, China's first private bank - Bank of Simei announced its establishment in Shanghai, Yu Qiaqing was elected as director. In the following year, he initiated the establishment of the Ningshao Shipping Company based on the transportation and sale of local specialties in his hometown and the actual passenger transportation between Shanghai and Ningbo, and was appointed as the general manager of the company. Simei Bank and Ning Shao Shipping Company was established, immediately ostracized by foreign businessmen. In order not to make these two new things die, Yu Qiaqing and organized the Ningbo Fellowship Shipping Maintenance Association, with extremely limited funds to help these two units through difficult times. Three years later, he purchased "Ningbo Xing ship" and Ning Shao company contradictions, then quit Ning Shao, sole proprietor founded the three north shipping company, and on this basis, and successively founded the Ningxing shipping company and Hongan shipping company, for the development of China's national shipping industry has made contributions. On the eve of Xinhai, the Qing Dynasty was in turmoil, internal affairs were more corrupt, and external surrenderism was practiced, Yu Qiaqing founded the "Nanyang Persuasive Association", which was opened on schedule after much maneuvering in the sinister environment. The meeting lasted three months, from all over the country and the Nanyang region to observe the exchange of more than 200,000 people, the exchange of Chinese and foreign materials played a role.
Yu Qiaqing supported the Xinhai Revolution during that period. He had vacated his house for the secret activities of the League, sent people to protect the safety of Chen Qimei, the head of the Shanghai branch of the League, and made donations to solve the financial difficulties of the Provisional Government, etc. In 1915, in order to oppose the twenty-one articles proposed by Japan, he organized the Salvation Reserve Corps in Shanghai, which was used to expand his strength, defend national industries and fight against Japanese goods. However, in the early 1920s, Yu Qiaqing was involved in the vortex of warlordism. Because he supported Duan Qirui's Beiyang government, he was subjected to difficulties by Sun Chuanfang, a warlord in the direct line, who recruited him to be the president of the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce and vice president of the National Chamber of Commerce in 1924, but he had to resign from his post in October of the following year after being forced to do so by Sun Chuanfang. During the Northern Expedition, he supported Chiang Kai-shek's April 12 coup. Yu Qiaqing cared about the public welfare of his hometown, had funded the founding of the school, dredging Fengpu Lake, the construction of Zhensheng, Zhenda, Zhenluo and other highways, so y appreciated by the people of his hometown and the Ningbo fellow townsmen in Shanghai. When July 2, 1931, the Japanese military in Korea incited anti-China wave, he took the lead in Shanghai to organize anti-Japanese Aid Committee, and public speeches, denouncing the atrocities of Japanese militarism. On the 14th of the same month, he also announced that he broke off diplomatic relations with the Japanese economy, showing the patriotic position of a national capitalist. After the outbreak of the war, Yu Qiaqing refused to be the mayor of Shanghai pseudo-government, and risked his life to organize the Sino-Italian shipping company with Italian businessman Taiminazi to transport rice to Saigon, Yangon and other places to solve the crisis of overcrowding of refugees in the rented area and the lack of food. 1941 spring, he left Shanghai, transferred to Hong Kong to go to Chongqing, and with Wang Xiaolai, etc., he organized the Sannmin Transportation Company, and accumulated capital to buy 300 cars with three-ton Dodge in Hong Kong, and transported 300 cars from Burma, Yangon and other places to Chongqing. On April 26, 1945, Yu Qiaqing died in Chongqing at the age of 79 due to acute lymphadenitis. In November of the same year, the coffin was sent to Sanbei by a special ship and was buried on Mount Fulong.
Orthodox
Yu Qiaqing was also one of the very few Chinese Orthodox, under the name of Anriel Pavlovich Yu, president of the Chinese Orthodox Association in Shanghai, founded in 1935. （
Anecdotes
When Yu Qiaqing first came to Shanghai as an apprentice, he disembarked from the 16th store pier in a heavy downpour, and, fearing that his cloth shoes would get wet, he went barefoot to Ruikang Pigment Company, where the owner thought he was the "God of Barefoot Prosperity". It is said that the boss dreamed the night before that a man of honor would come to help him, and then Yu Qiaqing arrived and the boss looked at him in a different light.
He had 15 children, seven sons and eight daughters.
Yu Qiaqing Road
On October 1, 1936, for the first time, a Chinese named a road in Shanghai's public ****tenement: the dividing line between the central and western districts, the north-south artery Xizang Road, was renamed Yu Qiaqing Road, and a huge celebration was held (in 1943, when the Wang Ching-wei government took over the tenement, it reverted to its original name, Xizang Road).