Former residence of Chen Wangdao

Former residence of Chen Wangdao

Chen Wangdao's former residence is located in fenshuitang village, Chengxi street, Yiwu City. It is a courtyard building built in the Xuantong period of the Qing Dynasty. It has five rooms in one room and two rooms in the left and right wing rooms respectively. The front eaves of the rooms have a patio and a light wall.

On October 7, 2019, it will be included in the list of the eighth batch of national key cultural relics protection units.

Former residence of Chen Wangdao

Fenshuitang, the former residence of Chen Wangdao, is a small remote village in yixixia Yan township. The surrounding mountains overlap, adjacent to Pujiang County. Because the water flows into Yiwu and Pujiang respectively, it is called fenshuitang. On January 18, 1891, Chen Wangdao, a famous thinker, social activist, educator, linguist and one of the founders of the Communist Party, was born in this village.

Not far from the right corner of the ancient residence is Chen's firewood house. In 1919, when Chen Wangdao returned from studying in Japan and was investigated by the authorities for advocating ideological emancipation, he returned to his hometown and translated the Chinese version of the Manifesto of the Communist Party for the first time. Later, the firewood house was burned in the fire, but his translation of classic works "stole" the "sky fire" for the Chinese revolution, illuminating the path of revolutionaries.

Chen Wangdao's former residence displays his life story, photos and some precious books, which are excellent teaching materials for people to understand the revolution.

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Chen Wangdao (1891.01.18-1977.10.29), Chinese educator, rhetorician and linguist. His original name is Shen Yi, and his pen names are Chen futu, Chen xuefan, Nanshan, Zhang Hua, Yijie, Jiao Feng, Xiao Feng, long Gonggong, etc. He is from Yiwu, Zhejiang Province. Born in a peasant family on January 18, 1891 (the ninth day of the twelfth lunar month in the 16th year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty), he graduated from Jinhua middle school in his early years. He went to Japan to study literature, philosophy, law and read Marxist books. He wrote essays such as ramble on Ma Shi Wen Tong and monographs such as rhetoric FA fan. In 1977, he finished the final work of his last book, a brief introduction to Grammar (1978). This book is divided into seven chapters, many of which are the further development of some ideas in the late 1930s and early 1940s. The book uses a lot of pen and ink on the part of speech, which not only talks about the basis for the division of parts of speech, but also talks about the Chinese part of speech system. He divides Chinese notional words into four categories: aspect words, usage words, punctuation words and adverbs. Body words include nouns and pronouns; words include verbs, adjectives, Duan words and Heng words; punctuation words include numerals and demonstratives; adverbs are added to form 9 types. Function words include prepositions, conjunctions and auxiliary words. Besides notional words and function words, there are 13 kinds of sense words. The syntactic part is relatively simple. He divides compound predicates into four types: juxtaposition, sequential, conjunctional and syntagmatic. This book is another important academic work after his rhetoric Fanfan.

In addition, he has many papers. His works have been included in the four volume collection of Chen Wangdao's works, or in the collection of Chen Wangdao's language and rhetoric, respectively. Chen Wangdao has been a professor in Shanghai University, Fudan University, Anhui University and Guangxi University.

On October 29, 1977, Chen Wangdao died at the age of 86. On January 23, 1980, the Organization Department of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) solemnly held a ceremony to cover the party flag with Comrade Chen Wangdao's urn at the Shanghai Revolutionary Cemetery in accordance with the spirit of the instructions of the CPC Central Committee.

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