渠本翘与山西现代工业现代教育

QU Ben-qiao:the Pioneer of Modern Industry & Education

渠本翘出身于山西祁县富商渠家大族,他读完读通了《四书》《五经》,成功走过了秀才—举人—进士的科举路子。他作过官,曾任朝廷内阁中书、驻日本横滨领事、典礼院直学士,但他作官不像"官",他把他二十多年的社会活动、他的知识、他家的巨额资本,都用在了发展近代中国所急需的现代教育和现代工业上。渠本翘是富商中少有的把资金和知识用到开启中国现代工业、现代教育的值得研究、值得纪念的人物。

Born of the noble merchant of the Qu clan in Qixian county, QU Ben - qiao read through The Five Classics （ The Book of Songs, The Book of History and The Book of Changes, The Book of Rites and The Spring and Autumn Annals ） ＆ The Four Books （ The Great Learning, The Doctrine of the Mean, The Confucian Analects , and The Works of Mencius ）. He succeeded in his imperial competitive examinations as Xiucal （one who passed the imperial examination at the county level in the Ming and Qing dynasties）, Juren （a successful candidate in the imperial examinations at the provincial level）, and Jinshi （a successful candidate in the highest imperial; examinations）. He ever served as an official for the Royal Court, from head of the secretariat, Chinese Consul in Yokohama Japan to Scholar of the Ceremony Court. But he didn＇t act as what he was, who devoted his short stretch of over 20 years of social activities, his knowledge and the immense amount of capital of his family to modem education and industry badly needed by poor and backward China. Qu Ben - qiao was one of the few heroes in the great merchants, who contributed his capital, his knowledge to founding Chinese modem industry and modem education, and was well worth studying and commemorating.