What is the relationship between Xu Guangqi and Xujiahui? What is Xu Guangqi s family background?

As Xu Guangqi's hometown, and the Xu family has converted to Catholicism, Xujiahui has since become.

The convergence of Chinese and Western cultures during the Ming and Qing dynasties.

This is also the cultural representation of Xujiahui in history. Eight years after Xu Guangqi's death (1614), his family was associated with the Shanghai Catholics.

The cemetery has become a meeting center for Catholics in China. In the 18th century, the Qing court banned Western religion, and it was not until the middle of the 19th century that Catholicism resumed its spread in China through unequal treaties.

The base of the European Jesuit General Hospital in China.

Since then, the representations of the convergence of Chinese and foreign cultures established around the tomb of Xu Guangqi include the Jesuit General Hospital, the Xujiahui Library, and the Xuhui Middle School

Tushanwan Orphanage and Printing House, Notre Dame Cathedral, Museum, Observatory, Seminary and Monastery, and educational institutions such as Aurora College. Total.

Because of Xu Guangqi, Xujiahui has increasingly become the first space center in the process of cultural exchange between China and the West in modern times.

Xujiahui experienced many vicissitudes in the 20th century. Fortunately, neither the authorities nor the population have forgotten history. Xu Guangqi's tomb was listed 16 years ago.

The national key cultural relics protection unit, together with the restoration of the 29th year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty (1903) Ma Xiangbo wrote the inscription for it. Ma Xiangbo is a devout Sinicized Catholic who has founded three universities: Aurora, Fudan and Furen. He commended Xu Guangqi for his stance in Chinese culture.

The standard, it goes without saying.

This work introduces Xujiahui in Chinese history. I don't think about shallowness, I look at history, I hope people know Xujiahui.

There is Guangqi Park on Nandan Road, which is the tomb of Xu Guangqi.

According to legend, Xu Guangqi's ancestors were from Zhongzhou, which is today's Henan. His great-grandfather Xu Zhuxuan was a talented man with an innocent family background, and he moved to Shanghai from this generation. By the time his great-grandfather Xu was martyred, his family was in the middle of the road and relied on farming to make a living.

Xu Guangqi's grandfather, Xu Xu, abandoned agriculture and business, and his family became increasingly wealthy. Xu Xu died early, and the housekeeping was presided over by his grandmother Yin, and he invited his inner brother Yin to do business, and chose a son-in-law for his eldest daughter, Yu, and the industry continued to develop, expanding ten times more than Xu Xu's, so that his father Xu Sicheng could concentrate on studying. Xu Sicheng was married when he was about seventeen or eighteen years old, and his wife Qian was also the daughter of a scholar.

During the Jiajing period, the woes were very violent. Some Japanese merchants, in collusion with samurai and ronin, went to various places along the coast of China, either directly plundering or smuggling Chinese goods. As the gateway to the southeast coast, Shanghai is even more inevitable and has been repeatedly looted.

According to historical records, during the four years from the 32nd to the 35th year of Jiajing, the Japanese invaded Shanghai many times and looted on a large scale, and their condition was unspeakably miserable. In order to escape from the Japanese invaders, Xu Guangqi's grandmother and mother were displaced, and Xu Sicheng was sent as a large household to participate in the anti-Japanese armed forces of the local ** organization. The Xu family industry also suffered losses.

After several years of operation, the family business recovered. The Yin family divided the family property into three, and the Xu family, Yin and Yu each got one. Unfortunately, after the property was dissolved, the Xu family was robbed again, and Xu Sicheng was not good at financial management, and he was willing to give by nature, so the family road quickly declined, and finally reached the point of selling the farmhouse.

The birth of Xu Guangqi in 1562 brought new hope to this family in distress.

Xu Guangqi (1562-1633) was a native of Shanghai. Xu Guangqi devoted his whole life to promoting the progress of Chinese science and promoting the integration and exchange of Chinese and Western cultures. He made great achievements in the fields of astronomy, mathematics, agricultural science, mechanical engineering, and military science.

Elder Gaozu: Xu (anonymous), Zhuxuan.

Great-grandfather: Xu Xun, wife Chen, gave birth to two sons.

Grandfather: Xu Xu, named Xixi, died early, wife Yin.

Father: Xu Sicheng (1535 1607), Ziwang, Huaixi, wife Qian.

Children and sons: Xu Ji (1582 1645), the word Anyou, the number of dragons, and the birth of the county.

Children and grandchildren: Xu Erjue, Xu Erjue, Xu Erdou, Xu Ermo, Xu Erlu.