Xu Chuncao's resume

His former residence is still preserved on Gulangyu Island. In terms of identity, he was only an unknown mud worker when he was young. Later, although he had a successful career and became the "Commander-in-Chief of the Fujian Thief Corps", he still devoted himself to his architectural career.

Xu Chuncao was born in poverty. When he was a child, due to the hardships of his family, nine-year-old Xu Chuncao began to work as an apprentice in a shoe shop. Once, he ate sweet potatoes at a fellow villager's house on a holiday, which was too fragrant, but he could not eat as much as he wanted. So at a young age, he made a wish: "In the future, let everyone eat sweet potatoes as they please!" At the age of twelve, he turned to be a mud worker. Thus began his architectural career. Xu Chuncao was promoted from a small worker to a big worker and a master. By middle age, he had become a leader in Xiamen's construction industry. Although his identity has changed, his grassroots nature has not changed. Xu Chuncao became brothers with more than 1 construction workers. In 1918, the Architectural Association was established in Xiamen, and Xu Chuncao was elected as its president. By 1925, Xiamen Architectural Association had nine sub-committees with more than 8, members. The motto of the guild is Xu Chuncao's famous sentence: "There is public anger but no personal enmity." Members of Xiamen Architectural Association are like brothers, working together for people, doing things for society, regardless of personal enmity.

why does a builder have such noble sentiments? This can be traced back to Xu Chuncao's youth, which was in the late Qing Dynasty. One night, while walking home, Xu Chuncao suddenly saw a group of people stuck in the church window, and there was a blunt Minnan dialect with a foreign accent, so he stepped forward and saw a church priest, who invited him in to listen. In the sermon, the priest somehow suddenly mentioned that there was a reformer in China, Sun Yixian (that is, Dr. Sun Yat-sen). Later, Xu Chuncao learned from various aspects that Sun Yat-sen was a revolutionary. He saw that the Qing government was corrupt and the country was weak, and he was repeatedly bullied and humiliated by the powers, so he launched an innovation movement. But at that time, Sun Yat-sen was one of the "four bandits" wanted by the Qing Dynasty.

Xu Chuncao admired Dr. Sun Yat-sen from then on, thinking that China was on the verge of national subjugation at that time, and people like Dr. Sun Yat-sen were the ideal leaders to save the country and the people. He admired him very much and secretly made up his mind that if the opportunity came, he would follow Mr. Sun and join the group he led.

In this way, in 197, Xu Chuncao was introduced by Wong Nai Siong, a good friend of Sun Yat-sen, and Lin Wenqing, who later served as president of Xiamen University, officially joined the League, becoming one of the earliest members of the League, and actually presided over the meeting of the League in southern Fujian. After the outbreak of the Revolution of 1911, Xu Chuncao personally led the revolutionary troops and attacked the "prefect yamen" of the Qing government in Xiamen, occupying the power center of the Qing government in Xiamen. At the same time, his friendship with Mr. Zhongshan is deepening day by day. Later, there was a coup in Guangzhou, and Dr. Sun Yat-sen took refuge on a warship on the Pearl River. He wrote a power of attorney in his own handwriting and appointed Xu Chuncao as the commander-in-chief of the Fujian thief-fighting army.

after the death of Mr. Zhongshan, Xu Chuncao stopped engaging in actual political activities and returned to the construction industry to set up Chuncao Construction Company. He built many buildings in Gulangyu and Xiamen, and personally designed and built the "Chuncao Hall" in Gulangyu. His concern for the country and Xiamen and his hard work will remain in our hearts forever.