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Today in music history
Wang guangqi, China's first doctor of music, died on
January 12
The ideal practitioner
A Chinese, without a reason to be far away in a foreign
land, in the year of "standing", began to learn music from the
beginning, in order to realize their "music to save the country" ideal,
this is what kind of determination and perseverance!He
was the first Chinese scholar to receive a doctor's degree in musicology
-- Mr. Wang guangqi.
Since 1922, when he set foot on the road to study music,
he worked hard to learn the piano, violin and various music knowledge;In
order to study and write translations, he also mastered four foreign
languages: German, English, French and Latin. In addition to his music,
he also wrote and translated dozens of foreign languages, including
modern Chinese diplomatic historical materials.
Wang guangqi studied ethnomusicology and sociology of
music in the university of Berlin, Germany.His
"music of the Oriental nation" and "history of Chinese music" have
become the theoretical works with foundation significance in this field.
Under the condition of extreme poverty, he compiled
twelve kinds of music series and nineteen kinds of music treatises.On
January 12, 1936, he died in the national library of Berlin at the age
of 44 due to illness caused by overwork.He
once said, "I will ascend to the top of kunlun and blow the law of the
yellow bell, so that China will enter the blood of the inherent music
and re-boil;I
will make the 'young China' that I have dreamed of day and night emerge
before us."He
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During the May 4th movement, wang guangqi was a famous
social activist.In
1918, he published several articles and correspondences in the weekly
review and chengdu sichuan qun daily founded by Chen duxiu and li
dazhao, criticizing the crimes of Japanese aggression in shandong after
the first world war and the Paris peace conference.In
the same year, together with zhou taixuan, editor of the Beijing daily,
he proposed the establishment of the youth China society, which was
warmly supported by li dazhao.Wang
guangqi is responsible for the main affairs during the preparatory
period.In
1919, during the May 4th movement, he sent more than 50 articles to the
newspaper sichuan daily edited by li jieren, which greatly promoted the
growth of democracy in sichuan and the development of the national
student movement in chengdu.Li
jieren wrote in remembering wang guangqi: "it is impossible not to
credit wang guangqi for the timely spread of the Beijing movement to
chengdu, so that the young people could see the light in time."On
July 1, the youth China association was established in Beijing. Wang
guangqi chaired the meeting.The
purpose of this society is: "to boost the spirit of youth, to study the
real academic, to develop social undertakings, to transfer the
eschatological atmosphere."Later,
according to wang guangqi, li dazhao and others proposed to be changed
to: "the purpose of the society, the spirit of undergraduate learning,
for social activities to create juvenile China."The
credo of the society is: "one, struggle, two, practice, three,
perseverance, four, simplicity."Wang
guangqi had introduced MAO zedong, zhao shiyan, zhang wuntian, yun
daiying and others to join the association.Li
dazhao is the editorial director, kang baiqing is the deputy director,
and wang guangqi is the accountant and in charge of the news column.Beijing
is the general association of the society, in chengdu, nanjing and set
up branches.Chengdu
branch founded Sunday weekly, while nanjing branch was responsible for
editing boyhood world.On
its first anniversary, the society had 75 members. The two monthly
magazines, "youth China" and "youth world", published 5,000 copies each,
which were printed and distributed by Shanghai yadong library.
20 years ago, April, wang guangqi was the initiator and
the main person in charge of the youth China society.Wang
guangqi and zi runma, with the pen name ruoyu, were born in 1892 in
xiaohe village, yufu town, wenjiang county, sichuan province.His
father died a few months before he was born, and the family was on the
wane, living on his mother's meager income from manual labor and renting
out a "pot factory".When
I was in middle school in chengdu, I often discussed current affairs and
politics with zhou wu (too xuan), wei sichuang (shi zhen), guo moruo,
zeng qi, meng wentong and so on.After
he graduated from middle school, he was out of school and unemployed. He
went back to his hometown and lived a hard life in the countryside.In
1914, he became a clerk of the qing shi guan. In the same year, he was
admitted to a Chinese university to study law.Wang
Guang qi youth need bumpy, deep understanding to the evils of the old
society and decay: "the lack of all political parties and promising
characters and make people desperate", determined to "joint peers, fight
a road, the old corrupt, moaning hanging off the oppressed exploitation
state changes for a young independent wealthy nation."How?Wang
guangqi is vague in political thought.When
he was in middle school, he liked idyllic poems and tao yuanming's the
land of peach blossoms. Later, he went to Shanghai and Beijing. Among
the new thoughts, he liked the works of cropotkin, Owen, saint-simon and
Fourier, and worshipped utopian socialism.In
order to "isolate" from the old society and create a world of great
harmony, he initiated and organized the youth China society.
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