Zhou Hexuan (March 17, 1898 - August 8, 2015), whose name is Mingcheng, was born in Hebei, grew up in the South Seas, and swam in the West.

He is a famous modern and contemporary Chinese writer, historian, musician, political commentator, calligrapher, orator, educator, diplomat, philanthropist, inventor, anthropologist, sociologist, linguist, patriot, and red capitalist. He is the author of the novels "Black Soil" and "The Goddess", the novella "Human City", the poem "Praise", and the historical monograph "The Rise of Great Powers", "Guns, Bacteria and Steel" and other works.

【Basic Information】

Chinese name: Zhou Hexuan

English name: Charles · Chou

Nationality: Chinese

Nationality: Han nationality

Place of birth: Hebei

Date of birth: 1898

Date of death: 2015

Profession: Writer and historian

Names: Far Eastern Wizard,

【Biography】

Early life –

On March 17, 1898, Zhou Hexuan was born in a rural gentry family in Hebei.

In 1900, the Eight-Nation Coalition invaded China, and the Zhou family was destroyed in the war.

In 1906, the Malayan aborigines rioted, and Zhou Hexuan's parents and uncle died.

Between 1906 and 1908, the young Zhou Hexuan struggled to survive by begging and stealing.

In 1908, Zhou Hexuan was taken in by an American missionary and went with him to the United States. After the missionary's death, Zhou Hexuan wandered around the United States, often pretending to be an Asian student and infiltrating American colleges and universities to audit.

In 1918, at the age of 20, Zhou Hexuan traveled to Europe, traveled to more than ten countries in Europe, and mastered many Chinese.

In 1925, Zhou Hexuan sailed to Japan and returned to China half a year later.

The situation of the Republic of China——

In 1926, Zhou Hexuan settled in Tianjin.

In April, Zhou Hexuan used "Jin Yong" as his pen name to serialize "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" in the "New Tianjin Evening News", creating a precedent for modern martial arts. The sequels include "The Condor Heroes" and "Heaven and Dragon Slayer", and are called the "Condor Trilogy". In the Beijing-Tianjin area, everyone rushed to circulate, and for a time "Luoyang paper is expensive". Because the serialization speed was too slow, the warlord Chu Yupu put Zhou Hexuan under house arrest, urged him to change by force, and admired his talent, and recruited Zhou Hexuan as a foreign secretary.

In May, Zhou Hexuan began to write the masterpiece of historiography "The Rise of Great Powers", which was serialized in "Zilin Xibao" and "Beijing-Tianjin Times", creating "modern historiography", known as "the founder of modern historiography", and deeply influencing the development of international historiography.

In June, Zhou Hexuan, with the financial support of Zhang Xueliang, invited Hu Zhengzhi and Zhang Jiluan to re-run the "Ta Kung Pao", and put forward the eight-character policy of "no party, no selling, no selfishness, and no blindness".

In July, Zhou Hexuan, together with Zhang Xueliang and Feng Yong, founded the "China Hope Education Foundation", and built more than 600 "Hope Primary Schools" in Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shandong, Sichuan, Hong Kong and other places in the past decades, making great contributions to the development of China's basic education. At the end of the same month, Zhou Hexuan gave a speech on the train "I Have a Dream", which caused a sensation throughout the country and inspired generations of enthusiastic young people to work hard for the prosperity and strength of the country.

In September, Zhou Hexuan was assassinated by the reactionary warlord Chu Yufeng, was shot and wounded, and survived.

In October, Zhou Hexuan's literary masterpiece "The Goddess" was serialized in "Monthly", causing a sensation in the world literary circle. "The Goddess", together with "The Dog Official" and "The Legend of the Dog Official", is known as the "Magic Trilogy", which created the trend of "magical realism" and is known as "the pinnacle of the May Fourth New Literary Issue", "the final work of the New Literary Movement", and "the beginning of the wave of magical realism in the world", which has a profound impact on the traditional literature of the East and the West in the coming decades.

In November, Zhang Zuolin sent troops to besiege Peking University, and professors resigned one after another and went south. Zhou Hexuan was ordered to serve as the president of Peking University, used his personal savings to pay the salaries of faculty and staff, and cooperated with professors from Peking University and Tsinghua University to form a "Chinese University Textbook Compilation Group" to compile a series of science and engineering textbooks that are in line with China's actual conditions.

In February 1927, Zhou Hexuan responded to the vigorous women's movement and improved women's underwear. After decades of development, "Meikou" underwear has become an internationally renowned brand, and the "Victoria's Secret" series occupies the Eastern and Western markets.

In May of that year, there was a catastrophe in Shandong. Zhou Hexuan founded the charitable organization "Jimin Association" in Tianjin, and went to the disaster area to carry out disaster relief activities. Mr. Zhou Hexuan is a famous philanthropist in modern and contemporary China, he has been helping disaster victims, helping the poor, donating to the country for decades, and the donated assets have been countless, known as "Zhou Bodhisattva", "Zhou Immortal", "Good Man Zhou", and "Zhou Hexuan Ancestral Hall" appeared in Sichuan in the 40s.

In March 1928, the masterpiece of historical anthropology, Guns, Bacteria and Steel, was published, which was later selected as a textbook by 100 universities in the world, and Zhou Hexuan was praised as the "founder of historical anthropology". The French historian Lucien Fèvre believes that Zhou Hexuan is the guide of the "Annals School", and he bluntly said in the "Annals" magazine: "The Rise of Great Powers and Guns, Bacteria and Steel undoubtedly lead the trend of world historical research, like a lighthouse in the vast sea, guiding the direction of world historiography." Mr. Zhou Hexuan is undoubtedly the greatest historian, anthropologist and sociologist in the world today, and his works are irreplaceable and groundbreaking. ”

In April, he founded China Radio Station, and Zhou Hexuan personally anchored "Gossip at 7 O'Clock in the Night", praising and deprecating current politics, commenting on celebrities, and calling it "electroacoustic essays" at the time, creating a precedent for TV and radio interview programs in China.

In May, Zhou Hexuan moved into Tianjin Sanle Hall.

In June, "Chrysanthemum and Knife" was published, and in the same month, Dai Jitao published "On Japan", and the two were called "Southern Dai and Northern Zhou".

In September, Zhou Hexuan was invited by Luo Jialun to give a lecture on "The History of Human Civilization" at Tsinghua University. Later, this book was co-published with the British historian Toynbee, namely Historical Research, which broke the Western-centric theory and the linear development of a single historical concept, and has a lofty position in the historical and philosophical works of the East and the West.

In April 1929, Zhou Hexuan was invited to serve as the deputy director of the Tianjin Guoshu Museum. In June, Zhou Hexuan and Lu Xun met by chance in Tianjin, and the two went to Beiping together and had a very happy conversation.

In October, Zhou Hexuan joined the "Wuzhou Hongmen" and "Zhi Gong Dang" and served as the "Hongmen Xinfu". In the same month, "The Goddess" was awarded the French Goncourt Literary Scholar, and Zhou Hexuan became the first Asian to win this award.

In November, Zhou Hexuan funded the construction of the "World War I Aid to France Chinese Workers Cemetery", which set off the attention of French society to Chinese workers, and the French media called the Chinese workers "sons of heaven".

In January 1930, Zhou Hexuan met with Albert Einstein and proposed a famous experiment in the field of quantum physics, Zhou Hexuan's cat.

In February, "Titanic" was published in the United States and became popular in the United States, and was adapted into a movie twice, both of which won the global box office champion of the year.

In March, Zhou Hexuan founded the Study Abroad Foundation, and in the past 20 years, he has sponsored more than 600 students to study in Europe and the United States, including the "Father and Child of Chinese Clones".

In April, the Pulitzer Prize for history became vacant for the first time after two finalists objected to "Guns, Germs and Steel" for winning.

In March 1930, the General History of the World was published, redefining world history. The book has been adopted as a textbook by hundreds of universities at home and abroad, and the "global view of history" has been widely disseminated and has had a far-reaching impact on international political relations in later generations.

In September 1931, Zhou Hexuan cooperated with teachers and students in Beijing to develop a method of unearthed grenades, and the manufacturing equipment was named "Seven People's Back". From 1931 to 1945, during the entire Anti-Japanese War, the "Seven Bearers" were active in the vast frontal battlefields and behind enemy lines, causing heavy casualties among the Japanese invaders. In October, Zhou Hexuan began to publish a large number of international and domestic commentaries on current affairs, and these articles were included in the "Sanle Tang Anthology", which is an important document for the study of the history before and after World War II.

In May 1932, Zhou Hexuan was invited to participate in the International Non-War Conference, initiated the establishment of the "International Anti-Fasc-X-Si Alliance", and subsequently founded the magazine "Non-Offensive" in China. By the end of World War II, the league had grown to more than 200,000 full members. In August, Zhou Hexuan founded "Cognitive Linguistics", and based on this, the "London School", "Paris School" and "New York School" in linguistics were formed. In the same month, he participated in the discovery of the medical value of sulfonamides and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1939. In September, "The Legend of the Galactic Heroes" was serialized in the British magazine "Scientology", influencing generations of science fiction literary creation.

In July 1933, "Black Soil" was serialized in the magazine "Non-Attack", which is a magnificent epic of Northeast China, showing the social changes of modern Northeast China for more than half a century, and is a monument in the history of Chinese literature.

In 1934, when the "Silver Crisis" broke out in China, Zhou Hexuan traveled to Britain and the British lobby, which greatly helped the Nationalist Government to carry out currency reform. During this period, he founded a private flying club in the United States and trained a large number of aviation personnel for the Anti-Japanese War.

In April 1935, it invested in the construction of China's first bridge across the Yangtze River, "Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge". In May, he co-founded "Libao" with Zhang Hatshui and Cheng She.

In October, Zhou Hexuan was assassinated in London, and the assailant was a Japanese student. A year later, Zhou Hexuan was assassinated again, and the Japanese government wanted to get rid of him as soon as possible.

In 1936, Zhou Hexuan and Wang Zhengting led Chinese athletes to compete in the Berlin Olympic Games, winning 6 golds, 3 silvers and 2 bronzes, and the athletes broke the world record many times. In July of the same year, Zhou Hexuan moved to Chongqing and spent a huge amount of money to help the victims in Sichuan. In the same year, Zhou Hexuan won the Nobel Prize in Literature.

The years of the Anti-Japanese War——

At a time when the country was in crisis, Zhou Hexuan stepped forward and successively sent envoys to the United States and Britain to help the national government negotiate a "tung oil loan" and let the closed Yunnan-Burma Highway be opened ahead of schedule. He also donated nearly 100 aircraft at one time, was awarded the "Lion Awakening Sword", and served as the vice chairman of the China Aviation Commission.

From 1936 to 1937, Zhou Hexuan vigorously built factories and mines to provide many materials and commodities for the rear. Among them, the pharmaceutical factory built in Hechuan County supplies a large number of medicines to the military and civilians every year, and has contributed greatly to the victory of the Anti-Japanese War.

In 1938, Zhou Hexuan collected and sorted out a large amount of information and co-edited "Nanjing Massacre" with Rabe. After the end of World War II, these materials were presented to the Tokyo International Tribunal as important evidence in the trial of Japanese war criminals.

In 1939, when the Southwest Associated University faced many difficulties, Zhou Hexuan donated a large number of materials and invented a scientific method of raising chickens. This method was soon spread to the whole country and even the world, and has been used until the 21st century for small and medium-sized chicken farms.

In 1941, Zhou Hexuan went to Dunhuang in person to prevent Zhang Daqian from destroying the murals and preserved a large number of mural treasures for our country.

In 1942, "The Little Prince" was published, which sold well all over the world and became the world's best-selling literary work.

In 1943, Zhou Hexuan wrote the novella "Human City", but was placed under house arrest for half a year for reflecting the tragic situation of the victims in Henan and exposing the dark rule of the Kuomintang. While under house arrest, Zhou Hexuan published a historical treatise, The Fifteenth Year of Wanli, which became a classic in the study of Ming history. In the same year, Zhou Hexuan and Joseph Needham co-founded the "Sino-British Science Cooperation Museum", which promoted the connection between China and the world's academic circles during the war, and provided a large number of materials, documents and scientific equipment for the Chinese academic community.

The Hong Kong Era –

In 1945, Zhou Hexuan purchased a villa on the top of the hill in Hong Kong, and the following year his family settled here, cooperating with his father-in-law Zhang Mouzhi to buy land and build factories in Hong Kong, laying a solid industrial and commercial foundation.

In 1946, Zhou Hexuan secretly donated the assets of the mainland to our party, and took advantage of the split of the Japanese consortium to buy shares in dozens of Japanese companies in one go.

In 1947, Zhou Hexuan was awarded the title of Fellow of the Royal Academy of Arts and the Order of the Garter by King George VI of the United Kingdom.

In the 50s, the Korean War broke out, and the British government in Hong Kong imposed an embargo on the mainland. Zhou Hexuan secretly smuggled and transported materials for New China for 26 years, and was praised by the central leadership as a "close comrade-in-arms of the Communist Party".

In 1954, the library of Hong Kong Yonghua Film Company caught fire and was on the verge of bankruptcy. Zhou Hexuan invested 1 million yuan to buy 90% of the shares, and personally wrote the script "A Chinese Ghost Story", which broke the box office record of Hong Kong films. Since then, Chow has entered the film and television industry and founded Hong Kong TVB in the 70s.

In the 50s and 70s, a crisis broke out in the American film industry. Zhou Hexuan successively bought Luen Mei Pictures and MGM Pictures, and combined them into "MGM-Luen Mei Film Company", which was managed by Vivien Leigh.

In the 80s, Zhou Hexuan created the "Ultimate Fighting Championship" (UFC), which has been popular all over the world for more than 30 years and is known as the "father of mixed martial arts".

In 1981, Zhou Hexuan was invited to return to the mainland to invest, and his industries involved finance, real estate, manufacturing, tourism, shipping, Internet and many other fields.

Curtain call –

At ten o'clock in the evening of August 8, 2015, Zhou Hexuan passed away peacefully at the age of 117.

【Character anecdotes】

About music –

Zhou Hexuan is widely regarded as the "father of rock and roll" and composed the world's first rock song during World War II. He has also composed "On the Songhua River", "Hong Yan", "The Great Wall Will Never Arrive", "My Motherland", "My Heart is Eternal" and other popular excellent songs.

About the opera –

Zhou Hexuan has a deep study of Peking Opera and Cantonese Opera, and once co-created the classic Peking Opera repertoire "Madame Blossom" with Li Shoumin.

About Poetry –

Zhou Hexuan is the originator of Chinese modernist poetry, and his representative works include "One Generation", "Answer", "I Love This Land", "Praise" and other classic chapters.

About Inventions –

Zhou Hexuan once improved women's underwear, invented a manpower rice harvester, invented a "seven-person back" grenade maker, and so on.

The Feminist Movement –

Zhou Hexuan once put forward the "big grandmotherism" during the Northern Expedition, calling on women to open their breasts, and put forward the four-character principle of "self-esteem, self-improvement, self-love, and self-reliance", which was absorbed by the Shanghai Chinese and Western Girls' School as the second school motto.

Auspicious Rune Society——

The poet Xu Zhimo was once trapped by love and became a monk in Xiangfu Temple. Zhou Hexuan skillfully used tactics to create the most sensational literary event in the Republic of China era, and Xu Zhimo's idea of becoming a monk was not discouraged.

Wisdom Fighting Stick -

The demon Liu Congyun propagated superstition in Sichuan, took the opportunity to collect money, and hundreds of people went bankrupt. Zhou Hexuan printed "life preservation charms" in batches, broke Liu Congyun's prestige, and executed him in public trial.

Celebrity calligraphy and painting reapers——

Zhou Hexuan has a well-known hobby, that is, collecting celebrity calligraphy and paintings. From scholars and celebrities to warlords and politicians, Zhou Hexuan collected more than 300 calligraphy and paintings of famous people in the Republic of China in his lifetime, all of which are stored in the "Mingcheng Museum".

【Spouse】

Zhang Leyi: The daughter of the Zhang family, she has been in charge of China Radio and Hong Kong TVB.

Meng Xiaodong: A famous actor in Peking Opera, a disciple of Yu Shuyan, known as the "Winter Emperor".

Guo Wanrong: Former Empress of the Qing Dynasty, a famous female painter.

Liao Yaquan: A female entrepreneur who owns a large number of industries in Japan.

Yu Peichen: An underground party member, after a famous family, he took charge of Hong Kong's "Ta Kung Pao" in his later years.

Ruan Lingyu: Famous movie star, queen of the Republic of China.

Zhou Xuan: A famous singer, known as the "golden voice".

Ma Jue: The school flower of Peking University, the daughter of Ma Yuzao, and a doctor from the School of Economics and Political Science of the University of London.

Cui Huifu: A celebrity in the Republic of China, proficient in music, painting, and embroidery, and Lu Bicheng is known as "Tianjin's second talented woman".

Vivien Leigh: A famous Hollywood movie star, she served as the president of MGM in the 70s.

【Children】

Eldest son: Zhou Weilie (born to Zhang Leyi), mathematician, computer expert, Internet expert, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Second son: Zhou Shuoming (born by Wanrong), a famous Hong Kong movie star.

Third son: Zhou Yangqi (born to Liao Yaquan), an entrepreneur, settled in Japan all the year round.

Four sons: Zhou Guoxing (born to Liao Yaquan), a martial artist, has been in charge of UFC events for more than 20 years.

Five sons: Zhou Shengguang (born to Zhang Leyi), entrepreneur, Hong Kong real estate king, king of manufacturing.

Sixth son: Zhou Deyang (born to Zhou Xuan), an entrepreneur, settled in the United States all the year round.

Seventh son: Zhou Zhenyi (born to Zhou Xuan), entrepreneur, Chinese Internet tycoon.

Eight sons: Zhou Yuyu (born to Ma Jue), politician, naturalized in Singapore.

Nine sons: Zhou Zhanghua (born in Yu Peichen), entrepreneur, Hong Kong film and television media tycoon.

Eldest daughter: Zhou Lingjun (born by Meng Xiaodong), writer, painter, calligrapher, musician, Ph.D. from the Royal Academy of Arts.

Second daughter: Zhou Chunxi (born to Vivien Leigh), Queen of Medicine of the United Kingdom, Queen of Belgium.

Three daughters: Zhou Nan (born in Yu Peichen), fashion designer, owner of the "Meikou" brand.

Four daughters: Zhou Ning (born in Yu Peichen), dancer, naturalized in the United States.

Five daughters: Zhou Tong (born by Wanrong), cartoonist, Japanese girl comic master.

Sixth daughter: Zhou Qingyi (born by Ruan Lingyu), writer, actor, director, producer.

Seven daughters: Zhou Xinyan (born to Zhou Xuan), singer, Asian diva.