Qing Guangxu Feng Xichuan

Feng Xi, also known as Zihe, is from Northwest Street in Daixian City. Born into a declining scholarly family in 1881 (the seventh year of the Guangxu reign of the Qing Dynasty). When he was young, he was quick and eager to learn. He read classics and books, and was unable to participate in scientific examinations because of his poor family. He was awarded as a candidate Supervisor of the County of Shaanxi Province with excellent tribute.
After the Xinhai Revolution, he devoted himself to new learning and enrolled in the excellent teacher training program in Taiyuan, Shanxi. After completing his term, he stayed at the school to teach and often taught his students the importance of "doing great things, not becoming high-ranking officials". Later, he was transferred to the posts of Secretary General of the Shanxi Provincial Assembly, Chief of the Six Politics Assessment Division, Deputy Director and Chief of the Department of Industry and Construction of Suiyuan Province, and he went to Japan to investigate village politics.
During his tenure in Suiyuan Province, Feng Xi made every effort to engage in industrial, forestry, water conservancy and other construction projects in order to achieve the grand goal of "saving the country through industry". At that time, the industrial backwardness in the Suiyuan area led to the establishment of the first batch of public-private joint ventures in factories such as electric lamps, flour, and woolen weaving; Promoting tree planting and afforestation has played a significant role in greening the entire province of Suiyuan. In 1929 (the 18th year of the Republic of China), there was a severe drought in Suiyuan. Feng Xi advocated using work as a substitute for relief and digging livelihood canals. Although this was not fully successful, it still irrigated many fields, allowing some disaster victims in certain areas to survive for three years. He also summarized his experience and wrote a 100000 word water conservancy monograph. Feng served in ethnic minority areas for a long time and deeply understood the importance of ethnic harmony. He opposed warlords driving Manchu people out of Guisui New City. He also put forward the proposition of "suitable for forests, suitable for grazing, suitable for agriculture" and opposed the levying of land reclamation tax. Resigned from the position of Land Reclamation Bureau due to political differences with superiors.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, he was deeply concerned about the current situation and extremely dissatisfied with Jiang and Yan's passive resistance. In addition, due to his advanced age, he resigned from all political positions and took his family to live in Sichuan. The Japanese puppet government seized his property in Shanxi as "reverse property". He often said to his descendants, "National affairs are paramount, and national righteousness is of utmost importance. I am willing to leave a clean slate for future generations
Feng Xi is knowledgeable, knowledgeable in classics and history, and has excellent poetry and articles. After the liberation of the whole country, he praised the leadership of the Communist Party, saying that China now has hope, and once wrote poems to praise it. Later, he was hired as a cultural and historical curator in Suiyuan Province (later Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region), focusing on his works. He died of illness in Beijing in 1961 at the age of eighty and was buried in the Babaoshan Cemetery. Later, he was buried in the ancestral tomb of Xiaoyanwang in Daixian County. At the end of his life, he sighed to himself and said, "After three generations, I was born into a prosperous era. What I did was insignificant, and I always felt that my thoughts were limited. If I could continue for a few years, I still need to keep learning