Born in the Qing Dynasty Tongzhi nine years (1870), when he was a teenager, his father died early, his family was poor, but he was smart and diligent, and he was subsidized by his wealthy in-laws to study and go to the examination. He was enrolled in Guangya Academy after he was awarded the honorary G.G.S. in the county school.
In the 23rd year of Guangxu (1897), he was awarded the first place in the Bugong examination and then the 11th place in the Beijing examination.
In 1897, he won the first place in the Bugong examination and the eleventh place in the first class in the Beijing examination.
In 1897, he won the first place in the Bugong examination and the eleventh place in the first class in the Beijing examination.
Guangxu twenty-ninth year (1903), the countryside examination in the lift;
Guangxu thirty years (1904), the first A second place in the Imperial College examination and the first rank, granting the South Study Hall walks, playing the Hanlin Academy editorial.
Guangxu thirty-two years (1906), was selected to read law in Japan, Tokyo University of Law and Politics,
Guangxu thirty-four years (1908), Tokyo University of Law and Politics, Japan, after graduating from the University of Japan and returned to China.
In the first year of the Xuantong reign (1909), in order to formulate a "commercial law", he was sent to various trading ports in China to investigate modern commercial practices, and submitted a report of hundreds of thousands of words.
In the second year of the Hsuan-Tung era (1910), the Qing Dynasty organized the first recruitment examination for judges, and he was sent to Guizhou to be the chief examiner. The first year of Xuantong (1909) in March of a day, just opened three years of the Suzhou railway station ushered in a group of head plume, fully draped Qing officials, headed by a refined manner of middle-aged man. Train station outside the sedan chair waiting, their party on the sedan chair through the Qian Wanli Bridge, from the Gate of Heaven into the ancient city. When the sedan chair stopped, the middle-aged official from the sedan chair slowly stepped out, the official is who? He and Suzhou and what is the origin? Through the relevant archives, the author for you to reveal.
The middle-aged official is the last imperial examination in Chinese history - Zhu Ru Zhen. Speaking of his that imperial examination, quite a legend. As it turns out, Zhu Ruzhen was supposed to be the top scorer at the end of the Qing Dynasty, but missed out on the top spot because of his name and place of origin. According to the practice, jiachen (1904) the examiner in the review of all candidates in the examination paper, from the 273 candidates to participate in the examination paper selected 10, ranked, presented to the Empress Dowager Cixi "finalized". Empress Dowager Cixi opened the examiner listed as "first place" Zhu Ruzhen's exam paper, only to see the text smooth and gorgeous, the font is a thick regular script, look at it could not help but shake his head, only because Empress Dowager Cixi usually favor sparse and fresh font. When she saw Zhu Ruzhen's place of origin for Guangdong, the heart and steeply rising a sense of disgust, Guangdong is the place she hated, is synonymous with rebellion, where out of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom leader Hong Xiuquan, the leader of the New School, Kang Youwei, Liang Qichao, held up the banner of anti-Qing Sun Yat-sen and so on. Zhu Ru Zhen name in the "Zhen" word, and let the old Buddha remember was forced to death, support the Emperor Guangxu change of law Zhenfei, "Zhu" of the "punishment" also, "" Ru Zhen "three words. Zhu Ru Zhen" three words at once touched the sensitive nerves of Cixi, so the door of the first prize on this unlucky scholar full of wisdom closed. At the same time, Cixi saw Liu Chunlin this name, he is Zhili (now Hebei Province) Suning people, she thought the name has auspicious omen, "Chunlin" two words containing spring rain, sweet rain descending meaning, that year coincided with the drought, eagerly looking forward to a spring rain; coupled with the Suning is located in the area of the capital city, so the old Buddha pen a circle, Liu Chunlin from the original The second place into the top scholar, Zhu Ruzhen had to settle for the top.
Guangxu thirty-two years (1906), Zhu Ruzhen was selected and sent to Japan to read law at the University of Law and Politics in Tokyo, two years after the completion of the study to return home. The development of commercial law is one of the important tasks of the late Qing revision of the law, Zhu Ruzhen in the first year of the Xuantong (1909) was appointed as the law museum codification, to investigate the situation of commercial ports around the world. Suzhou was a place of commercial prosperity in the Qing Dynasty, and attracted much attention, which led to the scene at the beginning of the article, Zhu Ruzhen went to Suzhou to carry out a survey of "commercial customs". Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province, the archives of the Chamber of Commerce in the collection of two Zhu Ruzhen wrote to the Suzhou Chamber of Commerce letter, one of which reads: "First engaged in the investigation, the actual consideration of this theft of the earliest commercial development in our country, your province, convenient transportation, the people lively, the trade has become prosperous, especially in the world's commercial importance of the position."
Suzhou Chamber of Commerce received Zhu Ru Zhen's letter, the second day of the letter, please ask him to come to the Chamber of Commerce, "driving a reminder". At the same time, for the Qing government's investigation, the Suzhou Chamber of Commerce seriously prepared, actively cooperate, first of all, the investigation of business habits of the questionnaire printed thousands of copies, and then through the letter and Shengze, Jiang Zhen, Pingwang, Kunxin, Meili, Changzhao, Suzhou, such as the precincts of the chapter to contact, so that they fill out the questionnaire, and timely feedback information.
"Commercial Customs Questionnaire "***5 pages, divided into the customary list of firms and a variety of words about the single bill of the constitution of the book of two categories, of which the customary list of firms and six items, the entries categorized in detail, detailed. For example, in the "first item of the firm's organization and capital of the relationship between" there are eight questions, there are "firms of the organization *** divided into a number of categories, all kinds of similarities and differences how, firms of the capital of the Lord's own business with the invitation of the business of more than one," and so on.
Because of the investigation of more industries, in line with the careful, pragmatic attitude, the Suzhou Chamber of Commerce did not complete the investigation within the six-month period Zhu Ruzhen accounted for the task. September 20, 1909, Zhu Ruzhen in the second letter to the Chamber of Commerce in Suzhou wrote: "Now the commercial law has begun to draft ...... Preparations for this year can not be slowed down ...... the deadline is already pressing, please your Chamber of Commerce in accordance with the issue of a prompt reply do not delay."
As for the Suzhou Chamber of Commerce eventually replied to this last generation of the top of the list, I looked all over the Suzhou City archives collection, but also failed to find out the truth. In 1910 after the 1911 Revolution, Zhu to "south study walk" to stay in Puyi's small court for 13 years (1912-1924), in the Forbidden City, engaged in the "Dezong Shiluju" and other library work, title to the top of the top Dai Guanglu Daifu (the first grade).
Suspended in October of the lunar calendar in 1924, from business in Tianjin and Shanghai. He opened a printing house in Tianjin. Later, he returned to the south and lived in Hong Kong.
Republic of China 18 years (1929), moved to Hong Kong, Hong Kong, the establishment of the Aiyuan College, the self-president; President of the Hong Kong Ching Yuen Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the name of the Association was changed to "Ching Yuen Association", registered as a charitable organization.
Republic of China 20 years (1931) should be employed by the University of Hong Kong College of Chinese, was briefly as a philosophy and literature two subjects and the main lecturer of the Hong Kong Xuehai book building.
In the 21st year of the Republic of China, under the manipulation of the Japanese Kwantung Army, the pseudo-"Manchukuo" was established, and Puyi, the last emperor of the abolished Qing Dynasty, was brought to power, and Zhu Zeng traveled to Changchun to have an "audience" with Puyi (who was Puyi's teacher), and Puyi instructed him to do something again. "He declined on the grounds that he was old and sickly, and returned to Hong Kong immediately.
In 1933, he became the second president of the Hong Kong Confucian Academy and the principal of the attached middle school.
During the anti-Japanese period, he actively cooperated with anti-Japanese organizations in fund-raising and charity performances, as well as providing financial assistance to anti-Japanese fighters.
In 1941, Hong Kong fell to the Japanese. He and his fellow villager Huang Wengen organized a steering committee to assist more than 30,000 villagers to evacuate to their hometowns.
In 1942, he took refuge in Beijing, where he died at the age of 72.
The Genealogy of the Zhu Clan
The Genealogy of the Zhu Clan compiled by Zhu Ruzhen: His first ancestor, Zhu Yuan, moved from Yongding County, Tingzhou Prefecture, Fujian Province, to Wengyuan County, Shaoguan Prefecture, Guangdong Province, (south of Shaoguan City) in the period of Ming Yongle (1403-1424). Zhu Yuan's father, Zhu Zhen, was a native of the Yuan Dynasty and served as a minister in the Ministry of Military Affairs. Zhu Yongtong, the second ancestor, had his descendants living in Wengyuan County for six whole generations, namely Zhu Guang, the third ancestor; Zhu Huan, the fourth ancestor; Zhu Deguang, the fifth ancestor; Zhu Xin, the sixth ancestor; Zhu Shichang, the seventh ancestor; and Zhu Yu, the eighth ancestor. Qingyuan County foundation ancestor for the ninth ancestor Zhu Wanxian, the end of the Ming Dynasty Qing eight banners south to attack the Ming Army in Wengyuan (Shaoguan military port), Chongzhen eight years (1635) Zhu Wanxian resolutely bid farewell to Wengyuan County, brothers and fathers, only to go south to Qingyuan County, the choice of the city's north of the Penjiao Mountain, a small village called "eight pieces of the village". The tenth ancestor Zhu De, eleventh ancestor Zhu Guozhang, twelfth too high ancestor Zhu Qing, thirteenth high ancestor Zhu Dayu. Zhu Li, the 14th great-grandfather, moved his family from his ancestral home in Bapian Village to Nanmen Street in Qingyuan City, laying a solid foundation for the development of his descendants. The 15th great-grandfather, Zhu Mengling, and the 16th great-grandfather, Zhu Youzhang, was a fifth-ranking military official who served as a governor, and Zhu Ruzhen was the seventh son of Zhu Youzhang. In July 1931, July 1933 and April 1935, Qingyuan County before and after repeated major floods. Zhu Ruzhen to hometown people suffering for the sake of mind, despite the age of over 60 years old, personally contacted in Hong Kong compatriots and associations in the middle of the structure to help, relief of hometown people to tide over one difficult time after another. In addition, in 1935, Qingyuan built a public teaching hall; in 1940, Qingyuan County organized a county high school with high school; in 1940, the Hong Kong Qingyuan Fellowship Help Society organized a volunteer school for the descendants of the fellowship, etc. All of them were enthusiastically received by the Qingyuan Association. All of them were warmly cared for and relieved by the Qingyuan Association. These good deeds, specifically recorded in the Pingyi State "Qingyuan County Records" or the Hong Kong Qingyuan Association Journal.
Zhu Ruzhen good education, medical and other social welfare. Compiled a "collection of hidden Xia" and presented to the Qingyuan County People's Education Museum a number of books and equipment. And successively served as "Qingyuan County Records" and "Yangshan County Records" of the compiler. For the Qingyuan wartime civilian hospital and the county secondary school to collect donations of medicines and funds; for the Hong Kong Qingyuan Fellowship Assistance Society's children volunteer school to provide year-round financial assistance; during the fall of Hong Kong, the Japanese sent him rice, want to take advantage of him, but he resolutely resisted, in 1942, he left Hong Kong, where he had been living for a long time, and avoided coming to Shanghai, to live in his daughter's home, demonstrating his national moral integrity. He later returned to his old house in Beiping. Republic of 32 years (1943) summer, one day he was playing with his grandchildren when he suffered a stroke and died at the age of 73.