Humanistic allusions of Jinxiang Town (not historical development)

Republic of China newspaper man Xu Shikang

Xu Shikang (1911-1952), born in today's Jinxiang Town, Cangnan County, Ximen Street, graduated from Zhejiang Province, the tenth middle school (now Wenzhou High School) and Shanghai Soochow University, since his youth care about national affairs, especially love Lu Xun's essays, and from time to time to listen to the telegrams, wrote a lot of articles published in the press, revealing his talent.

After graduating from the university, Xu Shikang returned to his hometown with a large box of books and embarked on the news front. At that time, Wenzhou newspapers have "Oujiang Daily", "Wenzhou Morning Post", "Wenzhou Express", "Art Newspaper", "Wenzhou New Newspaper" and so on, the circulation is not big, can not play a big impact. Only in September 1930, the Wenzhou Republican Daily was founded in the history of the newspaper industry in Wenzhou, the first large-scale, more staff, better management of large-scale comprehensive daily newspaper, Xu Shikang to the newspaper to serve. 1934 September, the Wenzhou Republican Daily was renamed Zhejiang Ou Daily, Xu Shikang was promoted to editor-in-chief, and the following autumn also served as president, career-minded, he began the work of up to sixteen years of the presidency of the newspaper.

In order to strengthen the communication liaison, he founded the Zhejiang Ou News Agency in the city FuXue Lane, has in RuiAn, PingYang, YueQing, Taishun, Yuhuan, YongLin and so on to set up branch or sub-branch. 1935 through the examination, but also recruited two female news reporter, caused the attention of the society. According to the readers' situation, he changed the folio newspaper into a four-page tabloid, and the layout was very active, with international news, domestic telegrams, editorials, local business, news from all walks of life, advertisements of various trades and industries, as well as "advocating national products", "family knowledge", "dharma altar", "the world", "the world", "the world", "the world", and "the world". There were also special editions such as "Advocating National Products", "Common Sense for Families" and "Dharma Forum", as well as the literary supplement "Red Dust". Because of its wide coverage and enthusiasm for serving the public, the newspaper industry flourished, and from 1935 to 1936, it usually published 12 (three) or 14 (three and a half) pages a day, with a maximum of 16 pages a day, and its circulation was increasing.

As editor-in-chief, Xu Shikang was very good at writing editorials to elucidate the editorial board's views on the political, economic, social and cultural issues of the time. At that time, there were editorials or comments almost every day, and in addition to inviting social sages, connoisseurs and scholars to write them, most of them were also written by his own hand. He wrote news and editorials with a quick mind and fluent expression, and sometimes even wrote editorials before the newspaper went to print in order to closely match the trend of the times.

Opening a special issue of the album, propaganda war and salvation

l937 July 7, the Lugouqiao Incident broke out, Xu Shikang and "zhe ou daily" colleagues are fully engaged in anti-Japanese salvation work. In December of this year, elected as Yongjia County Supervisory Committee, Xu Shikang went to each district to promote the rural salvation movement, vigorously report the rural anti-Japanese salvation news. Xu Shikang's wife Xu Xiucheng was the proofreader of Zhejiang Ou Daily, and she also held lectures as the director of County Women's Association in each town of the urban area to talk about the significance of anti-Japanese resistance and mobilize women to join in the anti-Japanese salvation movement.

December 1939, the old Wen Lianli Middle School female students Mei Aiwen accused her father of traitor Mei Siping defected to the Japanese crimes of treason, issued "I do not want to be a traitor's daughter, I want to defeat my father" solemn declaration, "Zhejiang Ou Daily" also published the full text of the detailed report, a moment of sensation in the country.

Anniversary of the outbreak of the war of resistance against Japan, wenzhou all walks of life held a variety of commemorative activities: zhongshan park, zhongzheng memorial hall memorial memorial soldiers and compatriots who died in the General Assembly, the city's bells to pay tribute to the memorial monument to the fallen soldiers was held in the foundation stone-laying ceremony, the urban area held a torchlight parade of 20,000 people. Zhejiang ou daily" successive issues of commemorative guide. Xu Shikang also according to different period of time different readers object published albums, in April 1940 in the supplement "yongjia youth" in the "revolutionary outlook on life" album, encourage young people to fight against the Japanese; in the "yongjia women" in the "women want to go back to the family" album, in the supplement "outlook" in a wide range. In the supplement "Prospect" widely invited the city's late poet Ma Hua (Mo Luo), Tang Chik and other people in the literary and educational circles and anti-war cadres, serialized Mu Tianhua anti-enemy drum lyrics "bride sighs", as well as Zou Bozong and other people's anti-war songs. Zhejiang Ou Daily also hosts "Zhejiang Ou Children" weekly, with rich content and vivid form to report children's anti-enemy stories and report the situation of escaped children. Published punctually, y supported and sympathized by all walks of life. In the Japanese crazy bombing, heavy casualties, productivity declined sharply, Xu Shikang is more important to report the economic construction and protection of national traditional culture. Zhejiang Ou Daily" special "economic construction" supplement, published Zhu Fusheng "on the increase in grain production", Xiang Jinzha (son of Xiangchamp) economic articles and so on.

Eight years of war, Wenzhou fell three times. Zhejiang ou daily" moved several times, had moved to rui'an high floor, daily folio two pages, contained mostly for domestic and foreign brief telegrams and wenzhou all over the news, but also special supplement "high floor", published all over the war newsletter, talk about the recent situation in the enemy-occupied areas and life in the mountainous countryside behind the enemy, as well as serialization of the anti-Japanese prints and songs, etc., is very popular with the readers.

August 10, 1945, Japan declared unconditional surrender. Zhe'ou Daily received the telegram at 8 o'clock in the night. XuShiKang immediately organize the whole society staff and family size on the street parade, hold high written "Japan's unconditional surrender" of the big word square sign as the guide, beat gongs and drums, firecrackers, shouting slogans. Parade from South Street, five horse street until the West Gate, the public heard, some joined the parade, some in place to cheer the firecrackers.

The next day, the Zhejiang Ou Daily published a two-page column with the oversized headline: "Japan has declared that it has bowed its knee and accepted the unconditional surrender". Xu Shikang eldest son, wenzhong second grade 15-year-old student Xu Xing, in the "zhe ou daily" published "carnival night" article wrote: "many young people and children followed our team, adults bought thousands of firecrackers in the fire, in a moment, everyone is immersed in the carnival atmosphere". Xu Shikang's second son, Xu You, a l2-year-old sixth-grade student at Oujiang Elementary School, also wrote in a short article in the Zheu Ou Daily Supplement, "It was midnight when we returned home, and there were fewer people on the streets, but we still heard the sound of firecrackers, gongs and drums, and the faint sound of cheering."

Intake in ****production party members and progressives

Zheou Daily, under the auspices of Xu Shikang, took in a number of ****production party members and progressives to participate in the newspaper's activities.

Wu Mingyun, a veteran ****production party member, was arrested in 1942, and it was Xu Shikang who bailed him out and arranged for him to work at the Zheou Daily. Xu Shikang gave his wife Xu Xiuqing proofreading position to Wu Mingyun. l947, was a member of the Chinese Democratic League Wang Sixiang (Zhang Yu) returned from Taiwan, a moment to find a suitable job, found Xu Shikang, Xu let him into the "Zhejiang Ou Daily", first as a proofreader, and then as an editor, the main writer. Wang Si-xiang and others run the "democracy" periodical is also in Xu Shikang support to be able to successfully published and distributed.

After the founding of new China as the mayor of Wenzhou City, Hu Jingwei, a member of the underground party, has always been the "Zhejiang Ou Daily" as the party's link to the progress of the people, and sometimes under the pseudonym of the newspaper published articles. Xu and Hu deep personal friendship. Because some of the newspaper articles have a lot of tendency to revolution and progressive speech, the authorities had intended to arrest people, Xu Shikang to the righteousness, reasoning, full protection, so that the authors from the robbery, the progressive elements will not be implicated. In order to support the underground party in south Zhejiang to run a newspaper, after Wang Sixiang and other people precision planning, "Zhejiang Ou Daily" had a second printing press and a set of newly cast lead characters, said to the outside world how many taels of gold to auction, but in fact quietly transported to the Rui'an revolutionary guerrilla area of Zheng Jiashun, Hu Jingwei.

Ma Hua, who was y involved with Xu Shikang, once told the author, "For many years, I wanted to write a memorial article about Xu Shikang." Wu Mingyun and Wang Sixiang even believe that Xu Shikang was really a great man on the news front at that time, if not for his protection, I do not know what would have been suffered, where to have such a wonderful evening today. Contemporary new version of the Cangnan County Journal for this in the character volume for his biography.

The content is taken from the Cangnan News Network, hope to adopt, thank you.