Yan Yangchu

In the spring of 1926, Yan Yangchu, director general of the China Association for the Promotion of Civilian Education and a Ph.D. In order to solve the current situation of ignorance, poverty, weakness and selfishness common in old China. Midigang, a squire in Ding County in Beijing, had carried out autonomous reform in his village after returning from studying abroad. He strongly invited Yan Yangchu to come to his hometown of Ding County to engage in civilian education. At that time, officials of the military government in Beijing saw the huge influence of the Ping Church in China and wanted to use 8 million yuan as an exchange for Yan Yangchu to leave the Ping Church and serve in the military and government. Yan Yangchu, who was committed to helping the peasants get rid of ignorance, poverty, illness, selfishness and laxity, flatly rejected the invitation of military and political officials. Yan Yangchu and his party came to Dingzhou to conduct social surveys to lay the foundation for the next comprehensive work. They saw with their own eyes the real situation of farmers in Dingzhou at that time, and how farmers were fooled and deceived because of their illiteracy. A farmer named Qin Laoyao was illiterate when he borrowed a loan from usurers. When writing the contract, he was told that 20 yuan was written as 200 yuan. He only realized that he had been cheated when he paid back the money. He went to the county government to complain and found no way to complain. Faced with the reality that his family was ruined and his wife and children were separated, he wanted to die...