Zheng Yuxiu Mbth
Nickname: Koh Samui
Nationality: China.
Ethnic group: Han nationality
Place of birth: Xin 'an County, Guangzhou.
Date of birth:1891March 20th.
Date of death: A.D.1959 65438+February 16.
Occupation: politician, judge, lawyer
Main achievements: promoting legal system construction and feminist movement.
Zheng Yuxiu, the first female doctor in China, and Zheng Yuxiu, the first female doctor in China.
Zheng Yuxiu (1891-1959) was a famous social activist, an outstanding revolutionary and an advocate of women's rights movement during the Republic of China. Born in Wuxia Village, Xixiang Town, Xin 'an County, Fushi City, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province (now Lequn Village, Xixiang Town, Baoan District, Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province), he was a feudal official family. Grandfather Yao Zheng, born in poverty, made a fortune in Hong Kong, became a big businessman, helped the Yellow River fight floods, and later joined the League of Bourgeois Revolutionary Parties led by Sun Yat-sen. She is the first female doctor, the first female lawyer, the first female administrative officer at the provincial level, the first female president of the local court and the director of the two departments of trial and prosecution in the history of China.
In the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, China was in an eventful autumn. Great changes have taken place not only in its political system, but also in the status of women in traditional China. The propaganda and practice of modern enlightenment thinkers and revolutionaries in liberating women, like a breeze and clear water, injected vitality into the slender and dreary female world. The advent of girls' schools and the emergence of various reform newspapers and periodicals have opened the eyes of some women with advanced ideas and flying literary talents, and their thoughts have changed greatly.
So, they walked out of the boudoir and devoted themselves to the fiery sports. During this period, women's rights movements opposed to the superiority of men over women, advocated equality between men and women, and safeguarded women's rights. A large number of outstanding women, such as Qiu Jin, Chen Xiefen and He Xiangning, emerged. Among many outstanding women, there is a woman who combines many "firsts", which is particularly eye-catching.
She was the first provincial female administrative officer in the Republic of China; The first female president of the local court and the director of the trial and inspection department; The first unofficial female diplomatic envoy; The first woman to participate in drafting the draft civil code of the Republic of China; The first female lawyer in China to get a doctor's degree ... This woman has many firsts, which can be said to be the first among women. It is Zheng Yuxiu, a famous social activist, an outstanding revolutionary and an advocate of women's rights movement during the Republic of China.
Rebellious teenager
Father Zheng was an official in the late Qing Dynasty. Zheng Yuxiu was very clever since she was a child, and her mother often taught her to read scripture in order to give her a skill. She was rebellious by nature and forgot the commandment of "three obedience and four virtues". At that time, the wind of foot binding still existed, and the family worried that Bigfoot would be difficult to get married in the future. However, regardless of his family's carrot and stick, Yu Xiu, who was only five or six years old, refused to bind his feet, so his family had to give up.
study abroad
Zheng Yuxiu 13 years old, not familiar with personnel. Knowing that my grandmother was young, she was engaged to the son of the then Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. She is very dissatisfied. Yu Xiu personally wrote to this man and broke off the engagement without his consent, so she caused a storm and had to run away from home. In the 31st year of Guangxu (1905), Zheng Yuxiu entered Tianjin "Shi Chong Girls' School" and received western-style education. In the thirty-third year of Guangxu (1907), she went to Fusang with her sister. During his stay in Japan, Zheng Yuxiu was influenced by Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary thought against Qing Dynasty, and realized that the only way to save the country was against Qing Dynasty. The following year, introduced by Liao, he joined the bourgeois revolutionary party led by Sun Yat-sen-the League. Soon, Zheng Yuxiu returned to China to engage in revolutionary activities.
"19 14 Zheng Yuxiu was forced to study abroad. Because she was chased by Yuan Shikai. " After arriving in France, she entered the Sorbonne University, the predecessor of Paris University. 1924, Zheng Yuxiu obtained the doctor of law degree from Paris University, becoming the first woman in China to receive this honor. After returning to China, she founded a law firm in Shanghai and became the first female lawyer in China. "This law firm was founded by her husband, Wei Daoming (190 1~ 1978), and Wei Daoming obtained a doctorate in law from the University of Paris on 1926. After the marriage, the couple's husband and wife shop created great wealth for them. " Later, Zheng Yuxiu served as the director of Shanghai local judicial office, the director of supervision office, the president of Shanghai temporary court, and later as the president of Shanghai University of Political Science and Law and the vice minister of education. Her husband, Wei Daoming, has served as the ambassador of many countries, and her identity has also become the ambassador's wife.