The answer of the last great man of the Qing Dynasty

The last number one scholar in the history of the Qing Dynasty was also the last number one scholar in the history of China-Liu Chunlin

Liu Chunlin (1872-1942), whose courtesy name was Runqin and his nickname was Shiyun, was from Suning. In 1904, he passed the Jiachen Enke examination and became the last number one scholar in Chinese history.

Liu Chunlin was born in Beishibao Village, Suning County, Zhili in 1872. His father, Liu Kuishu, was a simple and honest farmer. Due to the pressure of life, his father took the whole family to live with a relative in Baoding Prefecture. According to someone's introduction, my father went to the government office as an errand and became a Zaoli.

In 1903, the Liu Chunlin brothers took part in the palace examination together. As a result, Liu Chuntang was admitted to the Jinshi Examination, but Chunlin unexpectedly failed. The imperial examination generally takes one subject every three years. Since the following year coincided with the 70th birthday of Empress Dowager Cixi, the Jiachen subject was added and called Jiachen Enke. On July 4 of this year, Liu Chunlin took part in the palace examination again, and won the top prize in one fell swoop, winning the top prize. In 1905, Cixi, under pressure from public opinion, announced the suspension of imperial examinations and promoted schools. The abolition of the imperial examination system made Liu Chunlin the last number one scholar in Chinese history. In 1907, Liu Chunlin was selected to study at Tokyo University of Political Science and Law in Japan. In 1909, Liu Chunlin completed two years of studies and returned to his motherland.

After the Revolution of 1911, Yuan Shikai stole the fruits of the revolution. In order to realize his ambition to restore the monarchy, he recruited old men from the Qing Dynasty to strengthen his momentum. In 1914, Yuan Shikai invited Liu Chunlin into the Presidential Palace to serve as the president's internal historian. Every day, Liu had to compile a record of the words and deeds of previous emperors for Yuan to read. After 1927, Liu Chunlin resigned from public office and stayed at home, masturbating with poems and books every day.

In 1933, the Yellow River flooded and many people became homeless. Liu Chunlin, Duan Shengwu and other celebrities initiated the Hebei Immigration Association, with Liu Chunlin serving as director. In the third lunar month of 1934, Zheng Xiaoxu, the prime minister of the puppet government of Manchukuo, specially invited Liu Chunlin to go there in the name of Manchukuo, but he sternly refused. Soon, Wang Yitang, who was a Jinshi in the same field as Liu Chunlin and went to Japan to study together, also strongly invited him to serve in the North China Political Affairs Commission. This committee was a puppet government established in Peiping by traitors such as Wang Yitang, Jiang Chaozong, and Wang Kemin to serve the Japanese invaders. When Wang Yitang personally went to Liu Chunlin's apartment to invite him to help maintain government affairs, Liu Chunlin immediately threw a cup of tea on the ground angrily and said sternly: "I must not rely on foreigners!" Wang Yitang had to return angrily. Liu Chunlin angrily denounced the traitors and his patriotic act of not becoming a slave to the country's subjugation was widely praised.

On January 18, 1942, Liu Chunlin died of a heart attack at the age of 71.