Lin's life story

On June 190 1 day (April of the lunar calendar 15), Lin was born in a small business family in Jinjiang County, Fujian Province. I have been smart and studious since I was a child, and I especially like to listen to stories like myths and legends told by adults. When I entered a private school at the age of nine, I was able to get familiar with the poems I learned. 1926 graduated from Xiamen university. 1In the autumn of 927, Lin was admitted to the Department of Anthropology of the Graduate School of the University of the Philippines, and studied anthropology under the American professor H·O· Bayer. She graduated from 1928 with a master's degree in anthropology. From 65438 to 0929, he served as a special editor of Academia Sinica, and later participated in the research work of the ethnology group of the institute. 193 1 Professor, Department of History Sociology, Xiamen University. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as the director of the history department of Xiamen University, the curator of the Anthropology Museum (the first anthropological museum in China), and the deputy director of Nanyang Research Institute (the director is also the party secretary of Xiamen University). He is engaged in archaeological excavations and ethnic surveys in Southeast Asia and China. He was the first scholar in China to investigate and study the Gaoshan people in Taiwan Province Province, and he wrote the book Primitive Culture in Fan Shi, Taiwan Province Province. He has many original views on national culture, the origin and division system of China nationalities. His book Cultural Anthropology established China's anthropological system, which was widely valued and welcomed by academic circles at that time. Another book, The Ethnic History of China, has been well received by scholars at home and abroad. He also participated in the investigation, and discovered Neolithic tools in Wuping, Longyan, Changting and Minhou successively, and wrote papers such as Neolithic Age in Taiwan Province Province, Ancient People in Fujian, and Relationship between China and Ancient People in Southeast Asia. 1929 and 1935 ventured into Taiwan Province province under Japanese occupation, investigated Gaoshan people (then called Fanren), and obtained Yuanshan Neolithic and Gaoshan cultural relics. 1934, in order to popularize anthropological knowledge, he established the preparatory office of Xiamen Anthropological Museum by using archaeological and national cultural relics collected and discovered by himself. After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, he took refuge in Southeast Asia with cultural relics and continued to engage in archaeology and ethnic studies in Southeast Asia.

Great-grandfather did business in Taiwan Province Province, and his career was developed. When his father Lin's family declined, he only ran a few small businesses. Xiang Hui lived in Taiwan with his father since childhood, and Xuantong Yuannian (1909) returned to his hometown of Hanjiang to study in a private school. In the first year of the Republic of China, he was admitted to Fuzhou Dongying School, ranking first in his class in academic performance. After graduation, I studied at home because my family was poor and I couldn't go to school. After two years of hard work, I graduated from middle school in both Chinese and English, and I can also translate English novels. In the eighth year of the Republic of China (19 19), Xiang Hui returned to Taiwan Province Province with his father, and then transferred to the Philippines to work as a clerk in a rice factory. Not interested in business, he still teaches himself poetry after work.

10 (192 1), Chen Jiageng founded Xiamen university. Xiang Hui was admitted to the Department of Humanities and Sociology of Xiamen University with the same degree, and was one of the first students enrolled by Xiamen University. During my study in Xiamen, I got excellent grades, won two first-class scholarships in succession, and worked as a history, geography and social studies teacher in Xiamen Zhonghua Middle School. /kloc-obtained a bachelor's degree in literature in 0/5, and was the first graduate of Xiamen University. First, I taught in a preparatory school for 1 year, and then I went to the anthropology department of the Graduate School of the University of the Philippines to study anthropology with Professor Baer, an American tutor. In just 1 year, I got a master's degree in anthropology.

17 (1928) returned to China in May, and first worked as a researcher at Nanjing Academia Sinica, devoted to anthropology (including archaeology, ethnology, folklore, museum science, etc.). ). In addition to writing monographs, he also went deep into Taiwan Province Province and other places to conduct field investigations on ethnology and archaeology. /kloc-in 0/8, entrusted by Cai Yuanpei, president of Academia Sinica, he risked his life to investigate the Neolithic site in Yuanshan, Taipei and the cultural heritage of Gaoshan people in Taiwan Province Province under Japanese occupation, and later wrote the book "Primitive Culture of Fanren in Taiwan Province Province", which was published by Academia Sinica, and was the first person to systematically investigate and study Gaoshan people in Taiwan Province Province in China. He brought back the Neolithic shell tomb found in Yuanshan, Keelung, Taipei, and the Neolithic cultural relics found in Gaoshan ethnic areas to the mainland, and collected them in the preparatory office of Nanjing Museum and Xiamen University Anthropology Museum respectively.

19 (1930) In September, Xiang Hui returned to Xiamen University as a professor and head of the Department of Literature, History and Sociology. In the 24th year of the Republic of China (1935), he ventured to visit the Gaoshan ethnic group in Taiwan Province Province again and brought back a batch of Gaoshan cultural relics. Archaeological and ethnic cultural relics collected in two surveys in Taiwan Province Province are displayed in the school's Anthropology Museum. During the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in the Republic of China 19 ~ 26, he devoted himself to writing and publishing anthropological monographs. Among them, the book Cultural Anthropology has an incisive exposition on anthropology's introduction, brief history, material culture, social organization, religious art, language and writing. He also had original views on primitive social organization and marriage system in China, which was published by the Commercial Press in the 23rd year of the Republic of China (1934) and listed as one of the "University Series". At the same time, he wrote the National History of China (Volumes I and II), and made many original opinions on the origin, historical development and classification system of the Chinese nation. Published by the Commercial Press in the 25th year of the Republic of China (1936), it was the most complete and detailed ethnology monograph in China at that time. Later, the book was translated into Japanese by Japanese scholars Nakamura and Dashihe, and was valued and quoted by ethnologists at home and abroad. In addition, he also published monographs such as Folklore, World Ethnography and Mythology. , has made an important contribution to lay the foundation of China's anthropology research.

In the 23rd year of the Republic of China (1934), Xiang Hui set up the preparatory office of the Anthropology Museum of Xiamen University on the second floor of Ding 'aozhai, west of Xiamen University, and displayed the archaeological, ethnic and folk cultural relics collected by himself over the years together with those donated by overseas Chinese and enthusiastic people for teachers, students and people from all walks of life outside the school to visit. It is the first anthropology museum in China.

During the summer vacation in the 26th year of the Republic of China (1937), Xiang Hui visited western Fujian at his own expense and found Neolithic stone tools and relief pottery in Wuping. This is the first Neolithic site found in southeastern China. From the study of Neolithic cultural relics in Wuping, he thinks that stone hairpin, segmented stone hairpin and printed pottery are the relics of ancient Vietnamese people and their ancestors in southeast China and are the characteristics of ancient culture in southeast China. These ideas were confirmed by his later archaeological discoveries and recognized by other archaeologists.

That year, War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression broke out and Xiang Hui came to Nanyang with cultural relics and books. In the 27th year of the Republic of China (1938) and June+10, 5438, he attended the 3rd International Conference of Far East Prehistoric Scholars in Singapore, and read the paper "Neolithic Site in Wuping, Fujian", which was highly valued by professors and experts from all over the world. During my stay in Singapore, I worked as a teacher at Nanyang Girls' Middle School in Singapore and an editor of Beyond the Stars, a bimonthly magazine. Despite the harsh living environment, I persisted in the study of archaeology and ethnic issues, and wrote papers such as Homology between Malays and Southeastern People in China, General Theory of Nanyang Ethnic Groups, and Relationship between Nanyang Ethnic Groups and Ancient Ethnic Groups in South China, and compiled monographs such as Philippine Ethnography, Borneo Ethnography and Sumatra Ethnography. At the end of the year, he accompanied Li Juncheng, the leader of overseas Chinese in the Philippines, to India, and conducted archaeological and ethnic surveys. It took more than two months to get a lot of information about Indian archaeology and national cultural relics from Ganges River valley to Nepal border.

In the winter of the 28th year of the Republic of China (1939), he served as the principal of Zhong Ling Middle School in Penang, and actively advocated and participated in the activities of donating money to raise funds to support War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. In the 30th year of the Republic of China (194 1), prehistoric cave sites were discovered in Chittagong, Malaya, and a number of paleolithic relics were excavated.

After the Japanese invaders invaded Nanyang, he took refuge in Hougang to farm, and his life was extremely difficult. He still tries his best to preserve cultural relics and books. At that time, some foreign scholars wanted to buy his cultural relics books at a high price, but he always refused, unmoved by money, fame and fortune. On one occasion, the Japanese military police searched his house unreasonably. He kept a box of ancient weapons (including Japanese swords and guns) at home. If found, his life will be in danger. During the search, he sat on the box without fear in the face of rape. As a result, he was not found and narrowly escaped the disaster.

From the autumn of 34 years (1945) to the summer of 36 years (1947), I participated in the compilation and editing of the activity materials of Nanyang Overseas Chinese Relief Association presided by Chen Jiageng, assisted in the compilation and publication of publications, and participated in the compilation and publication of Memoirs of Nanqiao. In the summer of 36 (1947), he returned to the motherland and still taught at Xiamen University as a professor of history. During his teaching, he actively supported the progressive student movement and opposed the civil war, and spread progressive publications and reported progressive student activities in the anthropological specimen exhibition held by the Department of History, which attracted the attention of Kuomintang spies. In 38 years of the Republic of China (1949), the Xiamen authorities of the Kuomintang arrested and detained Xiang Hui on the eve of their rout. Soon, the China People's Liberation Army captured Xiamen, only to be spared.

After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), Xiang Hui was appointed as a professor and head of the history department of Xiamen University, and was elected as the representative of Xiamen people and vice chairman of Xiamen Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese. He took part in socialist construction with great enthusiasm. 195 1 year, he donated precious books on anthropology to Xiamen university. At the same time, he actively advocated and presided over the establishment of the Anthropology Museum of Xiamen University, and served as the curator. 1955 Xiang Hui was elected as a member of Fujian CPPCC. 1September, 957, joined the China * * * production party.

195 1 year, Xiang Hui participated in the land reform in Hui 'an. Based on the investigation, interviews and collected material objects, he wrote The Origin of Matriarchal Custom and The Transition from Matriarchal System to Patriarchal System, and demonstrated the characteristics and origin of Hui 'an's "Matriarchal" marriage custom. At the request of relevant departments in Xiamen, he also investigated the customs of fishermen in Xiamen Port. He also often went to all parts of Fujian to carry out archaeological investigations, and successively discovered Neolithic sites in Longyan, Hui 'an, Yongchun, Minhou and Changting. In addition to writing research papers on various sites, he also wrote and published many important archaeological papers, such as Duanshi, one of the Neolithic cultural features in southeastern China, which attracted the attention of scholars at home and abroad.

In order to enrich the exhibition content of the Museum of Anthropology, Xiang Hui personally made large-scale models of primitive society and ancient humans with technicians, compiled a manual of exhibits in the Museum of Anthropology, and used archaeological discoveries, ethnic surveys and social collections to increase exhibits.

Xianghui lives very frugally. He often uses waste paper as manuscript paper, and a piece of paper should be used on both sides. In order to save public expenses, I don't take a soft berth on business trips, but a hard berth; Staying in a hotel is not a big hotel, but a small inn, where three or four people are often crowded together. He often takes his things to the library to use. 1956, Xiang Hui was entrusted by the Ministry of Higher Education to train an associate doctoral student in archaeology. He has trained students all over the world, many of whom have become professors and experts. After 10 in the same year, Xiang Hui found that he had high blood pressure, but he still kept working. She works in the Anthropology Museum during the day and insists on writing manuscripts and papers at night. 1958, he also donated his only 1 building to Xiamen University. He loves martial arts and often performs in school sports meetings, winning many awards.

He left 18 monographs, 70 ~ 80 papers and translations in his life.

1958 On the night of February, he died of a sudden cerebral hemorrhage. The ashes were buried in the campus of Xiamen University.