Many people are thinking, what is the cultural heritage left to the 21st century by Chen Jiageng ? Speaking of Tan Kah Kee's achievements, 90-year-old Chinese historian Wang Gungwu said: If Singaporeans can embrace Tan Kah Kee's spirit, Singapore will have more outstanding performance.
"The flag of overseas Chinese, the glory of the nation", these eight words are already . It best summarizes the lifelong contribution and extraordinaryness of this selfless great man. Here, I also want to say: If you talk about wealth and education, no one can compare with the Chen Jiageng family!
Chen Jiageng is a brilliant example of combining corporate spirit with Confucian moral and social responsibility
Chen Jiageng’s former residence in Jimeixue Village, No. 149 Jiageng Road, Jimei, Xiamen,
Chen Jiageng’s former residence, located in the center of Jimeixue Village, No. 149 Jiageng Road, Jimei, Xiamen. It is the residence of Mr. Chen Jiageng and his younger brother Chen Jingxian during their return to China.
Nowadays, both floors of Chen Jiageng’s former residence are exhibition rooms. The first floor displays the history of Jimei University, and exhibits the hardships, twists and turns and brilliant achievements of Mr. Chen Jiageng starting from 1913 and the Xiamen University. The second floor is Mr. Chen Jiageng’s studio, bedroom, dining room, conference room, relics exhibition room and his brother Mr. Chen Jingxian’s life and deeds exhibition room.
Visit Jimei Aoyuan. In addition to Aoyuan, Jiageng Park, Return Garden, Return Hall, and Chen Jiageng Memorial Hall, I suggest that you might as well learn more about the history of "Haitai", the birthplace of Chen Jiageng's Jimei school. Haidian is located between the Dashe Land Zone at the end of the southern end of Jimei Peninsula and the GuocuoShe and CentouShe Land Zones. It was Chen Jiageng who bought Haidian as the school property, so that the Jimei School was later.
1910, Chen Jiageng joined the Singapore Branch of the Tongmenghui. Inspired by Mr. Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary thoughts, he returned to Jimei's hometown in the autumn of the founding of the Republic of China in 1912 to prepare for modern education and cultivate talents for the country. Among them, Jimei Township Second Class Primary School, founded in the spring of 1913, became a new era in the history of Jimei education. At that time, it was difficult to find a suitable school site. It was initially temporarily arranged in Jimei Society and the next ancestral hall. At that time, the owner of the seabed was often soaked by the tide due to disrepair. The land of the seabed was also affected by the production. Later, after discussion, the land rights of the seabed and the embankment were sold to Chen Jiageng for 2,000 silver dollars as the school property.
In February 1921, Chen Jiageng formed a group of Jimei schools, with the main school name Jimei School. Among them, Jimei Normal School, middle school, aquatic products, business and primary school are located in "Haitai". Even at present, Jimei School, founded from "Haida", is still the core of Jimeixue Village's education at all levels, and has cultivated tens of thousands of talents.
1955, Chen Jiageng (1st from right) visited the Jimei School Games
Chen Jiageng (1874-1961), born on October 21, 1874, September 12, lunar calendar, and his ancestral home is Rendeli Jimei Society, Tong'an County, Fujian Province, which is today , Xiamen City, Jimei District. In his early years, in his hometown of Jimei, Chen Jiageng received nine years of private school education. At the age of 17, he went abroad on his father's order and learned to do business at the "Shun'an Rice Store" opened by his father Chen Qibai in Singapore.
Three years later, he returned home on his mother's order and married Zhang Baoguo. Her first wife, Zhang Baoguo, is the daughter of Zhang Jianren, a scholar from Hujing Society, Banqiao Township (now Hujing Community, Qiaoying Street, Jimei District). At that time, when making a living abroad, Chen Jiageng felt deeply that many people were suffering from "Qingming Niu" (illiterate) without culture. When Chen Jiageng was 16 years old, his mother had a younger brother, , Jingxian , that is, when Chen Jiageng returned to his hometown to get married, his younger brother, Chen Jingxian, was 5 years old.
At that time, many children in my hometown were out of school. My younger brother Jingxian was smart since childhood but also naughty and naughty, playing and playing with children in the club all day long. Mr. Chen Jiageng later recalled: "At that time, the government was corrupt, the country was weak, the people were poor, and the education was decadent, and it was unspeakable. Children in rural areas, who were over ten years old, formed groups and played naked because they were out of school. In that case, the customs were corrupted, and the future of the nation would be misleading. Whenever they thought of this, they acquiesced to themselves as much as possible. They should do their best to promote their studies and fulfill their national duties."
On the New Year's Eve of the second year of returning home, their son was already full of blessings, and Chen Jiageng was also preparing to go to Southeast Asia. At that time, the private schools in the village had been closed, and many children had to go to the neighboring village to study.Chen Jiageng decided to run a school with the money he had saved in the past few years. His wife, who was well-educated and virtuous, was very supportive. Chen Jiageng's mother, Sun, usually burned incense and worshiped Buddha. She was a great charity and even more agreed. In 1894, Chen Jiageng invested 2,000 yuan to establish the "Titzhai School" in his hometown of Jimei. This was the earliest beginning of Chen Jiageng's donation to promote his studies. He was only 20 years old that year.
What is "Tizhai"? At that time, Chen Jiageng prepared two couplets for the school: one couplet said: "Spring is full of flowers and autumn, but it is better to be filial and artistic than to be rich in literature." The other couplet is an embedded couplet, saying: "I am vigilant and humble in my duties, and I am more respectful, generous and tolerant in the school."
by the way mentioned that after returning to Singapore, Chen Jiageng returned to Jimei twice in 1898 and 1900 to deal with the funeral of his mother. By 1903, he had gone south to Singapore for the fourth time. From a certain perspective, Chen Jiageng started from scratch. His father's business failed and his family fell into ruin. It was not until 1907 that Chen Jiageng, who loved to win, paid off the debts owed by his father.
Kan Jiageng's former residence is in front of Chen Jiageng's former residence
Started from the rice industry, and in the future, the business run by Chen Jiageng gradually expanded to the pineapple planting industry, pineapple processing industry, and gum planting industry. Gum processing products industry, shipping transportation industry, etc.; in the future, he successively established biscuit factories, soap factories, traditional Chinese medicine factories and other industries.
If you talk about wealth and development, no one can compare with Chen Jiageng!
In 1925, although Tan Kah Kee's profit from various industries was as much as 8 million yuan, the huge amount he invested in education and other public welfare undertakings had already made his business kingdom stretched, and it became in decline in the future and even went bankrupt. During the Great Depression of the world economy, Tan Kah Kee's business kingdom also encountered a crisis. In addition to preparing for Jimeixue Village, Chen Jiageng founded Xiamen University in 1921.
Wang Gungwu , Professor of the National University of Singapore and former president of the University of Hong Kong, is known as the "Singapore National Treasure Scholar". In fact, he has become an Australian nationality. As a world-famous Chinese historian, Wang Gengwu, born in 1930, believes that Chen Jiageng is a model of combining corporate spirit with Confucian moral and social responsibility.
At the second Chinese Business Conference in 1993, Wang Gengwu was invited to deliver a speech at the opening ceremony and said: Chen Jiageng is not only one of the founders of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Singapore, but also the earliest Chinese businessman with a global vision in Nanyang, and is a spiritual model of Chinese businessmen. The things he produced were sold to all over the world very early, and his courage also brought him an international reputation.
Wang Gungwu also said that after the business failed, Chen Jiageng was able to withdraw from various affairs and rebuild himself into an influential community leader. His philosophy has inspired thousands of people and has a very wide range of influence.
Chen Jiageng
The struggle spirit of starting an industry overseas, and the innocent feelings of caring about his hometown, Chen Jiageng's great personality and noble qualities of "loyalty, honesty, thrifty, and innovation" are a spiritual torch that must be passed on from generation to generation.
only provides charity donations in education, charity and business, and it may not be counted clearly. Let me give you a few examples. From 1904 to 1934, Tan Kah Kee donated to Singapore about 420,000 yuan. In China, he vigorously developed Jimei School, from kindergartens, primary schools, middle schools, normal schools, and to aquatic navigation, commercial colleges, Chinese studies schools, etc. The funds he consumed must be a large amount.
opened Xiamen University, and he pledged 1 million yuan for two years of expenses; later pledged 3 million yuan for regular expenses, twelve years for expenses, 250,000 yuan per year. You should know that during the Republic of China, when Chen Jiageng handed over Xiamen University to the then Ministry of Education and Fujian Provincial Government to take over it and became a national university, Chen Jiageng had been alone for a full 16 years.
At that time, in order to make the economy of Xiamen University and Jimei School have a reliable source, he specially hired a lawyer to make a will, and arranged to transfer all the property, donating all real estate in Nanyang to Jimei School's permanent fund, and also devoted his passion to Xiamen University.
Statue of Mr. Chen Jingxian from Jingxianting, Xiamen University
Here, let’s briefly explain the situation when Chen Jiageng founded Jimei Normal School, which also shows the achievements of his brothers working together.
Chen Jingxian (1889-1936), when he was 13 years old, went to Singapore with his brother, and later worked in a store opened by his father. Back then, Chen Jiageng runs schools with one hand and operates industry with the other hand, and goes both ways. The industry is mainly in Singapore, while the school runs mainly in my hometown, especially Jimei. In fact, this is also the common cause of the two brothers, and they often work alternately in the two places.
"Chengyi" is the motto of Jimei University and was personally decided by Chen Jiageng, but many people don't know that when Jimei School started, it was announced by Chen Jingxian himself. In addition, Jimei Normal University, Jimei Middle School starts, and "Fujian Private Jimei School School Song", are all supervised by Chen Jingxian himself. Because of this, Jimei School respectfully calls Chen Jiageng the school owner and Chen Jingxian the "second school owner".
In the autumn of 1916, Chen Jiageng sent his younger brother Chen Jingxian back to his hometown to establish Jimei Normal School. At that time, when Chen Jingxian came back from Singapore, he also brought school building drawings, as well as brothers Zheng Shi and Zheng Bu who worked in Chen Jiageng's pineapple canning factory. The two brothers were from Yongchun, Fujian. At that time, the design and host of the carpentry work was Zheng Lin, who was hired by the Zheng brothers. The person who contracted the cement work was from Nan'an, and was named Lin Cang. The school site is located on the north and west side of Jimei Primary School building, and then filled with soil and raised.
In January 1918, two classrooms located in the north and west were completed, called "Juren Building" and "Shangyong Building", which cost a total of 60,000 silver dollars. At that time, a salty paddy field in Taibei was also purchased to build ancillary facilities such as kitchens, warm water rooms, bathrooms, water towers, electric light factories and ambulance teams. In addition, there were student dormitories (Ligong Building), auditoriums (now "Jingxian Building"), playgrounds, etc.
Unfortunately, the "Ju Ren Building" in two classrooms was destroyed by plane bombing in 1949. The "Shang Yong Building" later became a dangerous building. After liberation, it was demolished and turned into the sports field of Jimei Primary School today.
Jimei University’s 100th anniversary, why did Chen Jiageng’s Changsun propose to thank the brothers Chen Wenque and Chen Liuzun?
Chen Liu's statue
Mr. Chen Jiageng spent his money and learned, and made great contributions to his achievements. In fact, the people affected by him were far more than his younger brother Chen Jingxian, as well as his son-in-law Li Guangqian, as well as his relatives Chen Wenque and Chen Liu's brothers.
Wealth comes from the crystallization of wisdom and hard work, but you must do everything well and even more so when you breathe it in your mind. If a person has the truth to obtain and share wealth, he must be a wealth hero, or he can be called a saint.
A person's value and influence may not be equivalent to the rankings on Forbes or Hurun's rich list. When a person shows a sense of human nature and morality, a great sense of mission when creating wealth, and wins more followers to convey his value and spirit, the wealth he creates is always increasing in value over the long river of time, even fission-like value.
Everyone admires Chen Jiageng, and they definitely envy his wealth and wealth that "rich can rival the country", but the spirit of Jiageng. Because of his thoughts, spirit, cultivation and character, the charm of his thoughts, spirit, cultivation and character, he is far less rich than the wealth he once had, and he is more respected and talked about.
famous Singaporean overseas Chinese leader, industrialist and philanthropist Chen Liuzhi
2018 marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of Jimei University. On the 100th anniversary of the school anniversary, the descendants of Mr. Chen Jiageng were respectfully invited to the stage together with the descendants of Mr. Chen Jiageng’s relatives, Chen Wenque and Chen Liuzhi.
At that time, Mr. Chen Jiageng Changsun Liren suddenly gave a speech without a manuscript. He suggested that everyone thank Wen Que and Liu Envoy for their assistance to Chen Jiageng when they were building Jimei School Village and Jimei University.
When the full-scale war of resistance broke out, it was also the most difficult time for various schools in Jimei (the predecessor of Jimei University). At that time, in order to avoid the war, schools in Jimei moved to Anxi , Datian and other places in the mountainous areas of Fujian. During those hard years, economic problems were undoubtedly the most serious and difficult problems encountered by schools.
In August 1939, Chen Jiageng, who was working hard to invest in maintaining Jimei School's funds, published "Inspiration for the Revival of Jimei School" in Nanyang, mobilizing Jimei alumni to donate to support their alma mater. At that time, Chen Jiageng's Jimei relative Chen Liu envoy entrusted Shanghai OCBC Bank to purchase 1 million yuan of public bonds and donated them to Jimei School Revival Fund for interest of 60,000 yuan per year.
is more worth mentioning. In January 1942, the Japanese army launched a general attack on Singapore, and Singapore was in danger. In February of that year, Chen Jiageng was forced to take refuge in Indonesia , and he had no time to notify his family in a hurry. Even during that critical period, Tan Ka-kee was still actively raising funds for Jimei School. At that time, Chen Liu sent a transfer of 7 million yuan in national money. In addition, Chen Jiageng's son-in-law Li Guangqian, eldest son Chen Jimin, and second son Chen Quexiang all transferred money.
Chen Jiageng and his son-in-law Lee Guangqian (middle), nephew Chen Liuzhi (right)
Without Chen Liuzhi, there might not be Singapore's Nanyang University . The current National University of Singapore is from the merger of Nanyang University. In Singapore, almost every Chinese owes Chen Liu a favor!
Chen Liuzun, known as "the last decency of Chinese people in Southeast Asia", held high the banner of Chinese education, spared no hesitation to make money, even against the government, and lost his citizenship. However, Chen Liuzun still spoke generously back then: " China is our root, culture is our tendons, breaking bones and connecting tendons. If we can't even speak Chinese, then we will really become rootless people. "
Nanyang University, founded by Chen Liuzun, officially started classes in 1956 and was forced to be incorporated into the National University of Singapore in 1980. During these 25 years, Nanyang University has cultivated countless talents. However, because Chen Liu's firm stance of being pro-communist and loving China was unwilling tolerated by the Singapore government, he was regarded as a thorn in his eyes and a thorn in his flesh and was treated unfairly. You should know that back then, Chen Liu Envoy, a relative of the Chen Jiageng tribe who only had primary school education, led businessmen, barbers and dancers among the entire Southeast Asian Chinese to found Nanyang University, the Chinese university.
Last year, we wrote an article about Chen Liuzhi, and many people reported that, can we explain Chen Liuzhi's life experience more thoroughly?
1916, Chen Liuzhang came to Singapore from his hometown Jimei to make a living. He worked in a factory under Chen Jiageng, and later worked in Qianyi Company, a subsidiary of Chen Jiageng, for a full nine years. In 1923, he joined forces with his brothers to jointly establish Lianhe Rubber Company. Soon after, he quit his job as Qianyi, created Yihe Company by himself, and served as the general manager. He became a giant in the Xingma Gummy Industry. He successively founded Union Gummy Co., Ltd., Asian United Enterprise Company, Malaya Paper Products Factory, Hezhong Paper Mill, Asia Life Insurance Co., Ltd., Dashi Cement Co., Ltd. and other businesses.
In other words, Chen Liuzhi has two major achievements in his life, one is a giant in the rubber industry, and the other is an advocate of Nanyang University.
Nanyang University Advocate Chen Liuzhi
Chen Liuzhi (1897-1972), a fellow townsman of Chen Jiageng, is Mr. Chen Jiageng's cousin. He once studied at Jimei School founded by Chen Jiageng. At that time, the Chen family was engaged in farming and fishing, and had seven brothers, and Chen Liu envoy ranked sixth.
Among the seven brothers, only the third brother Chen Wenque, Chen Liuzun and the seventh brother Chen Weng received elementary school education. Because their family is poor, none of the other four brothers did not have the opportunity to go to school.
The population is large and the family is poor. The third brothers of the Chen family, Chen Wenqu, the fourth brother, Chen Kedou, the fifth brother, Chen Wenzhi, the sixth brother, Chen Liuzhi, and Chen Wenwen all went abroad to Singapore to develop. Among them, Chen Liuzhi was 19 years old when the "Break the Fan". Similarly, the Chen brothers initially worked in the company under the clan's relative Chen Jiageng.
1921, that is, the year that Chen Jiageng founded Xiamen University and integrated Jimei schools, Chen Liu, who was 25 years old, returned to his hometown to get married. After marriage, he brought his wife Zhang Jinluan back to Singapore to continue working in Chen Jiageng's company.
After 1949, there were two figures in the rubber giant who dominated the global rubber industry. One was the Nanyi Company founded by Chen Jiageng’s son-in-law Li Guangqian, and the other was the Yihe Gua Company founded by Chen Jiageng’s cousin Chen Liuzhi. Let’s give an example to prove Chen Liuzhi’s influence in the industry back then.On July 7, 1950, Yihe, who had more than a thousand employees, was set on fire. The news spread to the London Exchange. The price of rubber in London, which had already declined, soared sharply.
In the 1950s, Chen Liuzun was the Chinese social leader of Malaysia and Xin at that time. He served as the chairman of the Fujian Association of Singapore and the president of the China Chamber of Commerce. Chen Liu received little education when he was young, and only had primary school culture. However, like Chen Jiageng, he devoted his passion to establishing education. He benefited from Chen Jiageng and admired Chen Jiageng and refused to pay he could establish Nanyang University. From a certain perspective, he also inherited the spirit of Jiageng.
married Chen Jiageng's beloved daughter and donated huge sums of money to build Xiamen University . Chen Jiageng's son-in-law Li Guangqian
on the campus of Xiamen University Lin Wenqing statue of principal
In early 2005, Xiamen University built the "Wenqing Pavilion" by the back pool of the school library and erected the statue of principal Lin Wenqing. For a long time, in the history of Xiamen University, Lin Wenqing was a person who was deliberately avoided for a long time; history always has a certain evaluation. Perhaps, for Lin Wenqing, the former president of Xiamen University who was once in the vast ocean and repeatedly fell into whirlpools, this was a lucky result.
Lin Wenqing, whose courtesy name is Mengqin, was born in Singapore in October 1869. His ancestral home is Haicheng County, Fujian Province (now Longhai, Zhangzhou). School started in the fall of 1921. At the invitation of Mr. Chen Jiageng, the head of Xiamen University, Lin Wenqing became the president of Xiamen University and worked hard for 16 years.
In fact, when the preparations were made in 1920, Chen Jiageng's original president of Xiamen University was Wang Jingwei, but Wang refused to accept it. Later, the Xiamen Preparatory Committee temporarily recommended Deng Cuiying as the president, but Deng Cuiying was reluctant to take up the position of the Ministry of Education of the Beiyang Government, or other reasons. After taking office at the temporary campus of Xiamen University in April 1921, he resigned from his position as president shortly afterwards.
Here, we are not going to talk about the ups and downs of Lin Wenqing and Xiamen Da over the years. I want to say that Principal Lin Wenqing is also a respectable person who is deeply inspired by the spirit of Chen Jiageng and education to save the country. In that year, in order to help Tan Ka-kee improve his learning experience, Lin Wenqing gave up his career in , Malaysia, and Singapore and his assets of millions of yuan. By the way, Lin Wenqing was once Mr. Sun Yat-sen's confidential secretary.
Chen Jiageng dedicated Xiamen University to the country. Although Lin Wenqing was "forgotten" for a while, he did not forget Xiamen University. In January 1957, Lin Wenqing left a will on his dying day: donate the villa located in Bijia Mountain, Gulangyu, to Xiamen University, where he had fought for 16 years. At this time, he had been away from Xiamen University for more than 20 years.
famous patriotic overseas Chinese leader, Southeast Asian rubber king, educator and philanthropist Mr. Li Guangqian
Chen Kah Kee spent his money and studies. The most influenced by him is his most valued son-in-law, the famous patriotic overseas Chinese leader, Southeast Asian rubber king, and educator philanthropist Mr. Li Guangqian.
Xiamen University is recognized by domestic and foreign countries as "one of the most beautiful universities". Among the groups of jade buildings, there are many buildings donated by Li Guangqian himself and his descendants. For example, the Jiannan Auditorium Building Group, the landmark building of Xiamen University, was donated by Mr. Li Guangqian.
There is no doubt that Li Guangqian’s deep relationship with Xiamen University originated from his special relationship with Chen Jiageng. With his father-in-law Chen Jiageng, Li Guangqian, he has both the love of knowing each other, the relationship between father-in-law and son-in-law, and the relationship between friends. At the same time, he is one of the inheritors of Chen Jiageng's spirit.
is passed down from generation to generation and endlessly. What is even more commendable is that Chen Jiageng's grandson, the second and third generations of the Li Guangqian family, are still working hard for the development of education and public welfare.
The Jiageng Building Group on Xiamen University’s campus is a landmark project for Xiamen University to enter the 21st century. Building 2, "Chengfeng Building", was built by Singaporean overseas Chinese Wu Dingji and Li Zhixia, and was named after Ms. Li Zhixia’s father, Mr. Li Chengfeng, who is known as the “King of Singaporean Newspaper”, is Li Guangqian’s relative.Look, how many people have Jiageng’s spirit affected!
Li Guangqian's business achievements naturally do not need to be mentioned too much. If it comes to charity and charity, especially in running schools, Li Guangqian is another business figure who has made a fortune in history after Tan Ka-geng. Such a father-in-law and son-in-law's relay is unprecedented in the modern and contemporary business history of China and the history of overseas Chinese.
Li Guangqian's former residence in Meishan, Nan'an, Fujian
Li Guangqian (1893-June 2, 1967), was born in October 1893. His ancestral home is Jingfeng Village, Meishan, Nan'an, Fujian. Today's Meishan Town was called Furong Township in the past. Li Guangqian was in a poor family and relied on herding cattle for others to make up for his family. Knowing the difficulties of life early, Li Guangqian, the cowherd's will to survive in adversity.
In fact, Li Guangqian's ancestors were also wealthy families, but in the generation of his father Li Guozhuan (note: Li Guohou, whose courtesy name was Guozhuan), his family was in decline due to poor business management. When he was a primary school teacher in Singapore, Li Guangqian slept in the classroom. The student asked him why he wasn’t afraid of mosquito bites? Li Guangqian smiled and said, "I was raised by mosquitoes since I was a child."
1901, Li Guangqian's biological mother Lin Hejie died of illness. Lin Hejie was from Xiamen. Li Guozhuo married him when he was doing business in Xiamen. Because business is difficult, Li Guozhuan traveled south to Singapore to make a living. In 1903, Li Guangqian came to Singapore with his father.
Li Guangqian is ranked second at home, his original name is Li Yukun. His brother is Li Yulin and his younger brother is Li Yurong. Li Guangqian lost his mother at the age of eight. After arriving in Singapore, he studied at the English-Indian School and Yangzheng School in Singapore. In 1908, he returned to China and studied in famous schools such as Nanjing Jinan School, Tsinghua School and Tangshan Jiaotong (now Jiaotong University). When the Xinhai Revolution broke out, he responded positively and joined the Tongmenghui.
1912, Li Guangqian, who was interrupted in the country, returned to Singapore again. In 1915, Li Guangqian returned from studying in the United States and joined the Chinese goods company founded by patriotic overseas Chinese leader Zhuang Xiquan as an English secretary and foreign-related liaison work, thus starting his business career.
Li Guangqian and Chen Jiageng’s eldest daughter Chen Aili married scene
1916-1927, after repeated persuasion by Zhuang Xiquan, Li Guangqian was hired by Chen Jiageng’s Qianyi Company. He started as a small employee of the company and worked as a manager of the rubber trading department for two years, and became Chen Jiageng's most capable career assistant. At that time, Li Guangqian was only 23 years old.
According to Chen Jiageng's memoirs, from 1917 to 1920, the annual profit of Qianyi Company where Li Guangqian was located was between 800,000 and 1 million yuan; at that time, it was already an astronomical figure.
throw me felt, report the umbrella! Chen Jiageng had a "savvy eye to know a son-in-law" and was willing to entrust his eldest daughter to Li Guangqian. Because of his appreciation of Li Guangqian, Chen Jiageng quickly handed over all the company's rubber business to Li Guangqian for management. In 1920, 27-year-old Lee Guangqian married Chen Ailie, the eldest daughter of Chen Ka-kee, who was 17 years old.
1927, Li Guangqian founded a tobacco rubber factory with his friends in Muar; the following year, he left Qianyi Company founded by his father-in-law, started his own business, and established Nanyi Rubber Factory, which was later reorganized into Nanyi Rubber Company. In the 1930s, in addition to the rubber industry, Li Guangqian also engaged in the banking industry and served as chairman of OCBC Bank from 1937 to 1964. At this time, Li Guangqian had already joined the ranks of giants in the new rubber industry and financial industry.
Like his father-in-law Chen Jiageng, Li Guangqian has provided full support for education and charity. At that time, Chen Liu envoy initiated the establishment of Nanyang University, and Li Guangqian's pledges accounted for as much as 10% of the total donations received. In 1952, Li Guangqian established the Li Family Fund, and provided uncountable funding to public and private cultural and educational institutions, Chinese communities, disaster relief and poverty alleviation, construction of nursing homes, orphanages, disability centers, temples, etc., and did their best.
mentioned by the way, in 1962, the Malay University was renamed the University of Singapore, and the first president was Li Guangqian. Because of its profound impact on the education in the Singapore and Malaysia region, Li Guangqian was praised by the Singapore and Malaysia society as "the first Chinese".
On June 2, 1967, Lee Guangqian passed away. Lee Kuan Yew said in his condolence message: " Mr. Lee Guangqian is a respected member of our society. This is not only because of the wealth he gathers, but also because of his contribution to the progress of our society. "
Lu Xun
https://www.Lin Yutang.com, then dean of the National College of Xiamen University, Lu Xun taught at Xiamen University from September 4, 1926 to January 16, 1927, with a monthly salary of 400 silver dollars.
Many people don’t know that the reason why Xiamen University dared to hire famous professors in its early days was related to his abundant funds, which is mostly related to the smooth operation of Tan Kah Kee’s business in Singapore, and it is also an exhibition of his son-in-law Lee Guangqian’s extraordinary business ability.
You should know that at that time, Xiamen University stipulated that the monthly salary of professors could reach 400 oceans, 200 oceans for lecturers, and 150 oceans for assistant professors. But what was the monthly salary of the president and full-time professors at that time? The highest is only 200 oceans.
In 1964, when Li Guangqian was 71 years old, he donated 48% of his entire equity in Nanyi Group to the Li Fund. What a huge amount at that time! Even today, the dividends it receives every year are tens of millions or even the entire billion yuan.
After Li Guangqian's death in 1967, Li Guangqian's children publicly announced that the Li family's fund established by the family will never have any impact on the death of Mr. Li Guangqian. The descendants of the family still uphold the will of their ancestors and follow Li Guangqian's wishes to "take from society and use it" to continue to support scientific and technological, cultural and educational activities.
Chen Jiageng's grandson and chairman of Singapore Li's Fund, Li Chengyi, and his wife, Dr. Zhang Yehua,
Li Guangqian had 6 children during his lifetime. His eldest son, Dr. Li Chengyi, died on May 10, 2016 at the age of 95. Lee Chengyi is a very well-known corporate philanthropist and community leader in Singapore and chairman of the Lee Fund in Singapore. Like his father, Lee Kwang-qian and his grandfather Chen Ka-geng, he is also a philanthropist who is willing to give charity and benefit his hometown throughout his life. He was once rated as one of the "Top Ten Confucian Businesses in the World".
When Xiamen University was first established, Li Guangqian provided important school funding, especially when he helped his father-in-law Chen Jiageng overcome difficulties in a bad economy, and played a very important role in maintaining Xiamen University's survival and development.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Xiamen University and Jimeixue Village entered the period of expansion and reconstruction. From 1950 to 1955 alone, there were 25 new Xiamen University campuses donated by their son-in-law Li Guangqian and led by Chen Jiageng.
Among them, the Jiannan Hall of Xiamen University, the 4th floor of Nan'an, and the Nanguang Building, "jian" means Fujian, and the character "nan" means Nan'an, the ancestral land of Li Guang for the past. In addition, the former name of Meishan, Li Guangqian’s hometown, was "Furong", so there was Furong Tower; Fengting Tower's "Fengting" is the ancestral residence of the Li clan; Guoguang Tower's "Guang" was named after Li Guangqian's "Guang" and his father Li Guopin's "Guang". Jingfeng Building of Xiamen University is named after Jingmin Village and Fengting Village, where the ancestral residence of Li Guangqian Li's family; while Chengyi Building, Chengzhi Building and Chengwei Building are named after Chen Jiageng's grandson and Li Guangqian's three sons Li Chengyi, Li Chengzhi, and Li Chengwei .
In 2013, Li Guang's second son and acting chairman of Singapore Li's Fund, Li Chengzhi, and his wife Wu Cheng, returned to his hometown in Nan'an
Like his grandfather Chen Jiageng and his father Li Guangqian, Li Guangqian's three sons Li Chengyi, Li Chengzhi and Li Chengwei were also calm and dispersed money and helped the world. Now the third generation and descendants of the family have also inherited this concept and continued to donate heavily to education and charity.
It is worth mentioning that the spirit of Tan Kah Kee and Li Guangqian is not only inherited by family and grandchildren, but now in Kuala Lumpur , many wealthy businessmen such as Chen Youxin and Chen Kaixi jointly established the Malaysian Tan Kah Kee Foundation to promote it. Isn’t this the best state to inherit and carry forward the spirit of charity!
inherits Jiageng's ambitions and promotes education as one. In terms of money view, Li Guangqian has many amazing similarities with his father-in-law Chen Jiageng.
Chen Jiageng’s view of money is: money is like fertilizer, and it is suitable to be applied rather than accumulated. If it accumulates, the more poisonous it becomes; if it is used, it will not prosper without prosperity.
son-in-law Li Guangqian's view of money is: the sage does not accumulate, and since he thinks that he has more people, he has more and more people. Regarding wealth, Li Guangqian's attitude is to not accumulate money, and to scatter it, and not be a slave to keep money.
