Ying Lianzhi (1867–1926) was the founder of Ta Kung Pao

Ta Kung Pao

Ta Kung Pao is the oldest active Chinese language newspaper in China. It is based in Hong Kong and has been funded by the government of the People's Republic of China since 1949...

and The Catholic University of Peking.

From the Manchu

Manchu

The Manchu people or Man are an ethnic minority of China who originated in Manchuria . During their rise in the 17th century, with the help of the Ming dynasty rebels , they came to power in China and founded the Qing Dynasty, which ruled China until the Xinhai Revolution of 1911, which...

 family of Hega, Ying received a Confucian

Confucianism

Confucianism is a Chinese ethical and philosophical system developed from the teachings of the Chinese philosopher Confucius . Confucianism originated as an "ethical-sociopolitical teaching" during the Spring and Autumn Period, but later developed metaphysical and cosmological elements in the Han...

 education. He was said to be well versed in the Confucian Classics as a child. After reading the books by a couple Confucian-turned-Christian

Christianity

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 scholars of the late Ming

Ming Dynasty

The Ming Dynasty, also Empire of the Great Ming, was the ruling dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644, following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty. The Ming, "one of the greatest eras of orderly government and social stability in human history", was the last dynasty in China ruled by ethnic...

 period, Ying Hua became interested in Christianity and convinced that Confucianism and Christianity, Chinese culture and Western culture, were essentially complementary with each other.

From then onward, Catholicism

Catholicism

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 became an important part of the Ying family tradition, and Ying Hua's son, Ying Qianli was an active lay leader in the Catholic Church during the early Republican era. One of the achievement of Ying Hua, in the area of journalism, was the founding of the Ta Kung Pao in Tianjin

Tianjin

' is a metropolis in northern China and one of the five national central cities of the People's Republic of China. It is governed as a direct-controlled municipality, one of four such designations, and is, thus, under direct administration of the central government...

in 1902.