Brief introduction of Li Dingming's life

Li Dingming (1881-1947), formerly known as Feng Gong, was born in Taohuamao, Mizhitao Town. Born into a peasant family, he was taught by his uncle Du Liangkui (DUZH's father) since childhood. He read some classics and medical classics, and was proficient in geography, mathematics, astronomy and meteorology. He once made his own geographer and astronomical disk to calculate solar and lunar eclipses. He is famous in the village because he is good at learning. 1903 went to Suide to take the exam and was admitted as a student. 19 13 established a primary school with Linshui Temple and served as the principal. Later, he founded a national high school in Tao Zhen and served as the principal. Mr. Li Dingming has been engaged in education for more than ten years and founded Art Light, which was well received by the masses. 194 1 in the summer of, he was elected as the speaker of the Senate of Mizhi County, the deputy speaker of the Senate of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region and the vice chairman of the border region government as a non-partisan person. In the same year, at the second meeting of the Border Region Senate, the proposal of "streamlining the army and simplifying administration" was put forward, which was supported by most members. Mao Zedong instructed: "This method is very good, and it is the right medicine to transform our opportunism, bureaucracy and formalism." After seven years in politics, regardless of his old age and infirmity, he personally questioned the supervisor's work and insisted on investigation and research. 1947 65438+February 1 1 Sudden illness and death.