Modern Figures

Chinese name: Su Xianbei

Alias: Zi Ruizhuan

Nationality: Chinese

Birthplace: Da Ming Lian Chun Mu Lian Tang, Dehua, Fujian

Date of birth: 1887

Date of death: 1959

Su The life of the person who presented the cup

Su Xianbei (1887~1959) was given a biography of Rui. A native of Muliantang, Dehua City, Fujian Province. An overseas Chinese industrialist who made his fortune through hard work and thrift, he is a well-known patriotic overseas Chinese in modern times.

Su Xianbei was born in the 13th year of Guangxu's reign in the Qing Dynasty (1887). His ancestors were farmers and his family was poor. His father, Su Mao, wanted his son to become a successful actor, so he overcame difficulties and sent him to private school for several years. In the 28th year of Guangxu's reign (1902), Xianbei was 16 years old. In order to avoid banditry, he crossed the ocean and made a living in Malaya. He worked as a handyman when he first arrived, and later went to Pengzhiliang to reclaim wasteland and plant rubber and other tropical crops. He worked hard and soon became well-off. Later, he took his brother and his family to Malaya, where they worked together and made great progress. In the first year of the Republic of China (1912), Su Xianbei got married and started a family. He and his brother separated and ran their own businesses. The brothers were still committed to rubber, coffee and other planting industries. The wife of Xianbei, Chen Congniang, was born in a working-class family. She was diligent and frugal. The couple worked hard and prospered, and soon their family was quite wealthy. (History lishixinzhi.com)

At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, the country was in decline, social unrest, war and banditry, and the people suffered. The people lived in dire straits. In the southern Fujian area, Dehua suffered even more. Therefore, Xianbei's hometown and neighbors led more than 100 people from Nandu to seek help from him to help them solve their livelihoods. Xianbei tried his best to arrange employment, settle down, or provide funds to help them start a family one by one. The number of overseas Chinese increased rapidly. With the care, help and proper organization of Xianbei, they carried forward the fine traditions and entrepreneurial spirit of the Chinese people of the Yan and Huang descendants of diligence, frugality, hard work, worked together, and continued to develop, gradually reclaiming the desolate and uninhabited vast forest sea in Pengzhi. It has become a beautiful plantation, covered with dense rubber trees, coffee, ganami and other tropical crops, and built into a densely populated commercial port dominated by Chinese. At the same time, Xianbei also donated funds to establish overseas Chinese schools to inherit and promote traditional Chinese culture and cultivate overseas Chinese talents. Su Xianbei became the founder of Zhiliang Port and made outstanding contributions to the local development of the country where overseas Chinese live. The British colonial government and the local Sultan of Pahang recognized his contribution to the development of Zhiliang Port and awarded him the honor of Taiping Bureau (J·P). In the 27th year of the Republic of China (1938), in order to develop the transportation industry in Zhiliang Port, it was proposed to the British colonial government to open a road from Zhiliang to Temerloh. The British colonial government approved it and entrusted it with the construction contract. The highway was built, benefiting the whole city. Industry and commerce became more developed and prosperous, and it was praised by the overseas Chinese.

Su Xianbei used his working hands to start his own business from working part-time to reclaiming land and planting crops. After a long period of struggle, his business has reached a certain scale. By the 24th year of the Republic of China (1935), it owned more than 300 acres of rubber plantations, more than 30 acres of coffee gardens, and more than 80 acres of Ganmi interplanted gum gardens; it also had a rubber processing plant. By this time, Su Xianbei had become the richest local industrialist. The British colonial government specially elected him as the Temerloh District Senator in 1927, and later elected him as the Senator of the Temerloh Rubber Licensing Board. In 1935, the local Sultan King named him "Pahang Justice of the Peace".

Su Xianbei loves the nation, the motherland, and the Chinese culture. He cared about the interests of overseas Chinese and made unremitting efforts and great contributions to the friendship, unity and protection of overseas Chinese's interests. In addition to donating money to establish the Zhiliang Overseas Chinese School, he also donated money to advocate the establishment of overseas Chinese schools in other places, such as Mentaka Chinese School. He also established the Zhiliang Dehua Association Hall and Chinese Association Halls in other places. When conflicts arise among the overseas Chinese, he presides over fair negotiation and mediation; when there are accidents and disputes between the Chinese and other people, he comes forward to argue the case. Therefore, he was supported by the majority of overseas Chinese and was successively elected as the chairman of the Zhiliang Overseas Chinese School, the chairman of the Zhiliang Dehua Association, the chairman of the Mentakab Chinese School Construction Committee, the honorary prime minister of the Malacca Dehua Association, and the vice-president of the Temerloh Fujian Chinese Chamber of Commerce. President, Vice President of Temerloh Fujian Association, etc. He cares about the construction of his hometown, the independence, prosperity and democratic progress of the motherland, and has done a lot of work.

In the 24th year of the Republic of China (1935), the Longjin Bridge at the west gate of Dehua County was destroyed by floods. The Su Xian Cup raised more than 10,000 yuan in Nanyang. Wang Chengju, director of the Communications Construction Bridge, brought it back to Dehua and built Dehua's first new steel-frame concrete bridge with stone piers (the west half of today's Longjin Bridge, and the east half was expanded in 1977 widened).

In May of the 17th year of the Republic of China (1928), the "May 3rd Massacre" broke out in Jinan. Su Xianbei was extremely indignant at the atrocities committed by the Japanese imperialist invaders and had unlimited sympathy for the more than 5,000 innocent compatriots who were killed. He vigorously publicized and exposed the crimes of the Japanese invaders and inspired overseas Chinese to join the patriotic movement. He was elected by the overseas Chinese in Zhiliangbu as the leader of the "Jinan Tragedy" fundraising organization. He worked closely with the "Shandong Tragedy Relief Association" organized by the famous overseas Chinese leader Tan Kah Kee. Mobilize overseas Chinese to donate money to help the suffering compatriots. In the 26th year of the Republic of China (1937), the "July 7th Incident" broke out. Su Xianbei was even more indignant and mobilized the overseas Chinese to support the anti-Japanese war of the motherland. He established the "Zhiliang Overseas Chinese Relief Committee for Refugees from the Motherland" in Zhiliang Port and was elected as the President.

The following year, under the leadership of Mr. Tan Kah Kee, the overseas Chinese in Nanyang held the "Congress of Overseas Chinese in Nanyang to Raise Refugees from the Motherland". At the meeting, the "Overseas Chinese in Nanyang to Raise Refugees from the Motherland" (referred to as the Nanyang Association) Su Xian Cup was established. Elected as executive committee member of the Nanqiao Association. He himself actively took the lead in making donations, and also vigorously mobilized overseas Chinese to raise funds. He believes that “without a motherland, there would be no overseas Chinese. To protect overseas Chinese, we must first defend the motherland.” And vigorously promote 100% Japanese products.

Su Xian Cup is full of national integrity. He believes that overseas Chinese living abroad must not forget to cultivate their children's national feelings for the motherland, and they must learn both foreign languages ??and Chinese. In the 19th year of the Republic of China (1930), he sent his eldest son Weimin back to China to study at Xiamen Jimei Middle School. After graduation, he returned to Pahang, Malaya to teach. In the 28th year of the Republic of China (1939), he sent his second son Demin back to China to study at National Sun Yat-sen University, and encouraged him to stay in the motherland and participate in the anti-Japanese work.

In December of the 30th year of the Republic of China (1941), when the Japanese army invaded and occupied Malaya, he was arrested and tortured by the Japanese invaders, resulting in lifelong disability. Died in 1959 at the age of 73.

Character evaluation of Su Xianbei

Su Xianbei was diligent and hardworking throughout his life, lived a simple life, was humble, practiced everything he did, and never lost the true qualities of a working people. He often personally led his children to participate in various labors such as rubber planting with garden workers. He humbly learned from the workers and respectfully called the workers masters. Therefore, he is very familiar with a series of production technologies, knowledge and operating labor including rubber planting, management, rubber extraction and processing. In particular, he has studied deeply in the planting and management of rubber trees and has become an "expert" in rubber planting. He grafted his large rubber trees with improved varieties introduced from Brazil to achieve better yields than others. Su Xianbei has the motherland in mind, is eager for public justice, and spares no effort in the just cause of the people of the motherland.