一被誉为“近代第一城”的南通,其初具现代城市的规划、教育、工业均始于清末状元张謇,这位从南通出发,宦游两京的实业家,在其创办的通海垦牧公司慕畴堂题有一幅颇有“自检”意味的楹联:庄周以至人自居,乃谓游逍遥之墟,食苟简之田,立不贷之圃;韩愈为天下所笑,犹将求国家之事,耕宽闲之野,钓寂寞之滨。 Nantong, hailed as “the first city in modern times”, started its planning, education and industry in modern cities starting with Zhang Zu, a champion in the late Qing dynasty. Tonghai reclamation and livestock husbandry company Muchantang problem there is a quite “self-test ” means the couplet: Zhuang Zhou and others themselves, is that the tour of the happy market, food Gou Jane of the field, stand no loan nursery; Han Yu for the world smile , Still will seek the country’s things, plowing the fields of leisure, fishing loneliness of the coast.