Research On The Rural Reconstruction Movement Of The Christian Church Of Hebei In The Republican Period(1920——1937)

During the period of the Republican Period, the research in academic about the Rural Reconstruction Movement to has focused on representative personages of the secular Rural Reconstruction, Yan Yangchu and Liang Shuming. In fact, Christianity is one of the important strengths, it is not only a pioneer of rural reconstruction, and in aspects such as the Mass Education, agriculture improvement has made outstanding contributions. As a representative province of the Christian church in north China rural reconstruction, during the period of the Republican Period in Hebei province the Rural Reconstruction Movement of the Christian church has its unique developmental progress.Christian church in the rise and development of the Rural Reconstruction Movement in Hebei province, is not an accidental event, but many international factors of external and internal conditions, including the Christian Social Gospel spread of ideological trend in China, the agriculture incoming missionary movement, the "indigenization" of the church movement and the status of the Hebei rural condition, etc. The Rural Reconstruction of the Christian church is divided into the Christian church carried out the rural reconstruction activities, the social organizations of the church carried out the rural construction and student organization of church carried out the rural construction activities. These three organizations focus on the activities are different, but focused on the Mass Education, agriculture improvement, to carry out the rural construction activities complement each other, complement each other. Out of the church inevitable religious motives, its activities to some extent, remitted the degree of poor farmers, improved the lives of farmers, improved the rural handicraft, has played a positive role in promoting in Hebei rural development.The Rural Reconstruction Movement of the Christian church gained great progress, has made remarkable achievement. But with the civilians on the breadth of the popularity and development council for the promotion of the Chinese National Association of the Mass Education and the Chun Hua rural experiment town, there is a certain gap.The Rural Reconstruction Movement of the Christian church in Hebei, it is a great event in the history of the development of Christianity in Hebei and China, is also an integral part of the world agricultural missionary movement. The development of the Christian church in Hebei rural construction and the church in the spread of Christianity in Hebei the realization of the independence of autotrophic localization is of great significance. in the process of the Rural Reconstruction Movement, Christian church made various ministries, to promote the development of Hebei province rural area made a positive contribution. But the Christian church itself factors and the limitation of social and historical conditions, the Christian church’s rural reconstruction inevitable with some limitations.